The Boundary Commission for England has today published the draft proposals for Parliamentary Boundaries.

This could signal the end of the almost 40 year relationship between the towns of Ellesmere Port and Neston as the new proposals would break up the partnership in favour of more disparate constituencies. 

Neston would join the west of Wirral and the rest of Ellesmere Port would be split putting part of the town in with Chester and the rest with wards from Wirral South, Weaver Vale and from wards across the Mersey, part of the current Halton constituency to form a new constituency they call Mersey Banks.

Andrew Miller who has been the Labour MP for Ellesmere Port & Neston since 1992 was intrigued to discover that it would be necessary to cross over into other constituencies in order to reach other parts of Mersey Banks from Ellesmere Port.

He said, “It seems that when drawing the new boundaries, the Boundary Commission failed at the first hurdle - ignoring communities and road links.... as well as completely missing the fact that the River Mersey would split the new constituency in two, these proposals cross the boundaries of three local Councils.  I believe that an East/West split across the Wirral would produce a far more sensible approach.

Perhaps the Boundary Commission will provide a Hovercraft for whoever is the MP for Mersey Banks! 

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13th september 2011