I'm concerned about the practical workability of a system where MP's votes were weighted rather than simply having roughly equal constituencies.
I do think there are genuine issues of representation to be discussed when setting the measure. Do MP's work for citizens or tax payers? Are they responsible to voters, registered voters or the wider population.
(Not that these issues don't also affect how you size constituencies but they come out into the open more).
It's not so much the updating of the measure s the timing of the update. Should you change the weighting if a large housing development is built in a constituency or a large factory closes and everyone moves away mid way through a Parliament?
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I do think there are genuine issues of representation to be discussed when setting the measure. Do MP's work for citizens or tax payers? Are they responsible to voters, registered voters or the wider population.
(Not that these issues don't also affect how you size constituencies but they come out into the open more).
It's not so much the updating of the measure s the timing of the update. Should you change the weighting if a large housing development is built in a constituency or a large factory closes and everyone moves away mid way through a Parliament?