A good laugh on a Monday lunchtime.

G'day folks.

I had nothing to really talk about over the last half of last week. However, the post arrived (before lunchtime, for a change) and a letter addressed to myself, Mum and Dad. Intrigued, we opened it and let out the customary groan of any letter we get from our local MP.

However, this letter (jointly done with a councillor for our ward) provided me with what can be described with a sense of hilarity.

It starts off with boundary concerns - the electoral commission want to move my ward (Fairfield and Howley) from the Warrington North constituency into Warrington South. I thought "standard concern for Labour really - despite the fact the electoral boundaries have been a mess for years". However, the one that set me off in disbelief is the following (Michael Cole voice), and I quote:-

"Streets will be cut in half by constituency boundaries, residents associations will cover people in different constituencies and many of your children's schools will be in another constituency".

I lost it. Since when were there armed-guard checkpoints at the boundary of each constituency that prevent children going to school? This isn't the Berlin wall, you know!

"These changes would rip apart our communities". Absolutely astonishing. All of a sudden, just because we'll end up with a different MP, our whole community is going to disintegrate.

I've got news for Helen Jones:- generally (barring the colour of the rosette), people I know couldn't give two monkeys about who their MP is. A lot of people wouldn't even have heard of her if not for this tidbit of fine literature.

And as a final slap in the face to the readers, the letter includes a form to the councillor that states "Warrington is big enough for two parliamentary constituencies" - quite! A population of 250K would demand it! In any case, if Fairfield and Howley moved into WS, wouldn't that increase the Labour vote in a current Tory seat (as WN is a safe Labour seat)? Or can they not see the forest for the damn trees?

This isn't a Tory boy rant, for any critics - The EU course they are taking has made me a UKIP guy. I just think it's hilarious how they overstate a boundary change as if it's apocalyptic for residents in our ward when most average people probably couldn't give a monkey's anyway.

Yes, by the way - I agree with the changes to the boudaries. 650 MPs is far to many. So what if MPs have an increased workload? They can finally do something to justify all those lovely expenses that they still get. try 50-100 less and we might be getting somewhere.

If Nick Robinson is in eyeshot of this post - could I have a job please?

/political discourse.

I'll post again sometime - hopefully with a little less politics.