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| The beachhead: territory annexed on the mainland by Ynys Môn |
Reversing the losses it first suffered almost two millennia ago when the Roman General Caius Suetonius Paulinus invaded the Island on ships launched from Y Felinheli, Ynys Môn today retook Y Felinheli in addition to also annexing Bangor, Bethesda, Bethel, and Llanfairfechan. This will allow the Island to expand the reach of its famously incorruptible and robust governance to mainland provinces.
Full details here and here. The consultation ends on 4th April 2012 and you can make your comments known by emailing: bcomm.wales@wales.gsi.gov.uk
10 comments:
Fantastic news! Bangor extends its reach well and truly into Anglesey.
Should put all our redundant MP's, AM's and county councillors to shame!
KP
Wrong again as usual. Its the other way round.
The interesting thing here is surely that if this proposed Anglesey parliamentary constituency becomes the new Anglesey local government area then Anglesey would "own" both banks of the Menai Straits.
This should enable Anglesey to become the owner of the seabed of the Menai Straits (territory which has been ceded to the controversial - and highly-profitable - mussel fisheries.
Meanwhile, of course, Anglesey also now assumes responsibility for Bangor - the "Athens of Wales" (a misnomer if there ever was one - given the current state of that dilapidated cathedral city).
The Tories have a lot of support in Bangor but not in Maes-G. Very interesting.
RS, I think you may be jumping the gun concerning the Mussel Fishery. I know you wanted a marina and your nose was put out of joint by the Musselmen but you will find the Crown actually own the seabed and the High Court made it perfectly clear it belonged to the Crown at a huge expense to the Anglesey Taxpayer.
In the right as usual., time will tell ...
I think Bangor is already improving the University has some great plans and they will transform the centre.
Paul: A couple of questions.
Do these boundary changes affect only Parlimentary/Assembly elections?
Will these changes affect the County Council boundaries?
In other words, if they affect only the election of UK and/or Welsh representatives, then will that mean that the elected representative(s) for Menai Ac Ynys Mon have to work with two different Local Authorities (Ynys Mon and Gwynedd)? - or ...
Will it be the case that the Local Authority boundaries are changed as well so that each elected government representative only has the one Local Authority to work with?
I ask as the links you provided only mention 'parliamentary constituencies' and don't say anything about Local Authority boundaries.
Hi Promo
These proposals only effect Westminster constituency boundaries (as per the Conservative manifesto at the last general election). There will obviously now need to be a debate on what to do with Assembly and LA boundaries as it will be extremely confusing for the boundaries for Westminster, Assembly and LAs to be entirely different.
Thanks Paul.
I had assumed that all the boundaries would be set as 'unitary' so that everything would be as simple as possible. It wasn't until discussing the boundary changes with a friend that the notion that there may be different spheres of authority came up.
I had assumed that the reduction in WG seats down to 30 would be a step change in line with the Westminter changes.
Several of my friends hadn't realised that they have more than one WG representative from the regional lists system, so how people would keep track of their political and local authority representation if there are a plethora of different boundaries could well be a problem.
Promo - rather than a reduction in the number of AMs, I would be surprised if we don't end up with more...
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