The commissions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are reviewing constituency boundaries, under rules set out in theParliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act.
Tomorrow the House of Lords debates the blandly named parliamentary voting system and constituencies bill.
The other place where we will get a story is the House of Lords, where the parliamentary voting system and constituencies bill.
Only at the lowest level the municipalities is there a system of constituencies (or "wards") and then only for half the seats.
Labour's Lord Falconer has told peers that no agreement has been reached on parts of the parliamentary voting system and constituencies bill.
But the Right Honorable Lord Davies of Oldham was warming to the question of the hour: a proposal to change "may" to "should" on Page 10, Line 7, of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
There is a lot of cant being fired off on both sides of the debate raging around the parliamentary voting system and constituencies bill, but the "gerrymandering" charge is perhaps the most overblown aspect of it.
Crossbenchers expressed anger with a letter from Lord Strathclyde, the Tory leader in the lords, and Lord McNally, his Liberal Democrat deputy, which warned the crossbenchers of serious consequences if the parliamentary voting system and constituencies bill is held up by peers.
Of course, when said reader rubbed his/her eyes, they realised that Prescott's links led, instead, to live footage of the filibustering House of Lords debate on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill – also known as the "Peers' All-Nighter".
"Certainly they're going to win a majority of the votes, an overwhelming majority of the votes, but they're not going to win a majority of the seats," because of a complex system of constituencies heavily weighted in favor of pro-government candidates, said Michael DeGolyer, a Hong Kong Baptist University pollster.
