Talk:Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)
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[edit] Commentary on the seat
Some regard the following statement as POV and superlative:
Although more politically mixed, these too have drifted to the Tories since the implementation of former Westminster Council leader Shirley Porter's Building Stable Communities programme of the late 1980s. Even at the 1997 general election, Labour fell short by several thousand votes and the seat must now be considered safely Conservative in all circumstances.
Why? Buidling Stable Communities is a matter of public record as are the political intentions which lay behind it; the dramatic political changes it helped foster in wards like Bayswater and Churchill are clearly visible in changes in party share of the vote from 1986-1994 (http://www.election.demon.co.uk/wcc/wcc.html) a period when they Conservative share of the vote in almost all London Boroughs went into steep decline. And, short of, the complete annihilation of the British Conservative Party or a split in the English right a la the Canadian Tory meltdown, there is no prospect of CLW being lost by the Tories.
I can, of course, litter the article with references but I'd rather use a bit of common sense and keep the flow of the article and leave the reference war to university students with too much time on their hands.
- I edited these statements, as the History clearly shows. I'm afraid the statement
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- "Although more politically mixed, these too have drifted to the Tories since the implementation of former Westminster Council leader Shirley Porter's Building Stable Communities programme of the late 1980s"
needs source(s). How do you know this - where is the verifiable, secondary source to demonstrate that that these disparate facts are linked in any way? Correlation, as I am sure you are aware, is not causation.
- The statement
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- "Even at the 1997 general election, Labour fell short by several thousand votes and the seat must now be considered safely Conservative in all circumstances"
was replaced with
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- "Even at the 1997 general election, a Labour landslide, the constituency returned a Conservative MP by a majority of several thousand; it can be considered a Conservative safe seat."
which removed the incorrect assertion of superlative certainty ("must", "in all circumstances") with an indication of the balance of probability. I stand by it being a statement of a more neutral point of view. Sliggy 16:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 1950-1997
There is no article on the 1974-97 constituency, City of London and Westminster South. Having read the very detailed account of the constituency here, I'm inclined to suspect that the 1974 boundary changes probably didn't involve more than a few wards being shuffled off to Westminster North.
I'm therefore disinclined to split out the 1974-97 constituency to a separate article, so for now I have just created City of London and Westminster South (UK Parliament constituency) to redirect here. (I would have no objection if someone else wanted to create a separate article … it's just that from what I can see, it'd be a lot of work for not much gain, so I won't be the one who does it.)
I have also edited the MPs list to show the name change. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:40, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
