England & Wales Constituency Boundary Proposals are here

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5. Corbyn will almost certainly find a winnable redrawn seat

He is the party leader, and party leaders tend to take priority that way.

Out where I am, it would be a contest between the deputy speaker of the house of commons, Natascha Engel and Dennis Skinner for the redrawn seat. The current state of the Labour party is such that The Beast Of Bolsover should win the nod easily over Engel as the Labour candidate as long as his health holds up.

The more you look at the proposals close up, the worse they are. The proposed Sheffield Hallam & Stocksbridge constituency is a blatant gerrymander designed to give the Tories a foothold in South Yorkshire. Most of what used to be Sheffield Hallam will now be in Sheffield Central & West, a constituency that appears to have been designed specifically to give Nick Clegg a big dose of karma for what he did during the Coalition years.

Back to the constituency I live in, it's going to be called Bolsover & Dronfield. The only problem is that nearly a third of Dronfield has been divvied up to the safe Tory seat of Derbyshire Dales. The boundaries look stupid on a map and they are not popular with folk round here because however nice Derbyshire Dales might be, it's not the area that people feel in any way part of other than occasional family trips out to the Peak District.