Gerrymandering

This is simply unbelievable:

This is partly down to the maths of making sure each constituency contains the same number of voters. To ensure that, many small, urban constituencies (which are more likely to vote Labour) will have to be merged, losing Labour seats. Others will be expanded to draw in suburban and rural voters from surrounding areas (more likely to vote Conservative), handing Labour seats to the Conservatives or making them more marginal.

This might seem reasonable. If we want votes to be more or less equally counted within the constraints of our current electoral system, it makes sense that constituencies should be the same size.

But there’s a catch. Constituencies will be the same size not in terms of the number of people who live in them, but in terms of the number of registered voters. And the number of voters will be based on the number of registered voters on 1 December 2015 – just after the Tories deleted hundreds of thousands of names from the electoral register by rushing through changes to the voting rules, orchestrating what Hope not Hate calls “the biggest single act of electoral disenfranchisement in our history”.

Completely illogical and wrong.