The return of an MP for Brixton

[MAD-T-REX]

Wouldnt have thought that Herne Hill wouldnt be that happy lumped in with Brixton. What is Thurlow Park like? Is it more upmarket than Herne Hill?

There's a map here: http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/8072E5E6-3478-41B7-B7C7-E8B103953F6C/0/ThurlowParkWardMap.pdf (which also shows Croxted Road is in two boroughs - that must make rubbish collection, etc, unnecessarily difficult).

Thurlow Park includes a large chunk of Tulse Hill, so it's not quite all yummy mummies, etc, but most of it is relatively wide and expensive terraced streets - quite similar to Herne Hill east of the railway line.

 

[lang rabbie]

The new Brixton constituency has survived unscathed in the Boundary Commission's long awaited revised proposals. (A more sensible Clapham & Streatham gets created south and west - which I assume Chuka Umunna has to go for? -while Stockwell goes into a rejigged Battersea & Vauxhall seat)

Whether this actually happens any time in the next decade is now down to political horse-trading, following the Tories' abandoning Lords reform.

 

[Gramsci]

I would of thought Chuka would like Brixton?

This new border makes Brixton more central to the constituency.

 

[colacubes]

I would of thought Chuka would like Brixton?

This new border makes Brixton more central to the constituency.

He's a Streatham boy so would want to stick to that I should think. The problem before was the overlap with Sadiq Khan in Tooting, which might have made him go for Brixton.

 

[lang rabbie]

It seems that (if the Government survives long enough to approve them) under the latest revised Boundary Commission for England plans, Brixton will remain divided - albeit it will only be split between two MPs' patches rather than the current three.

Brixton does at least get recognised in the name of both proposed constituencies: "Brixton and Vauxhall" and "Streatham and Brixton South"
For consistency, surely the former ought to be "Vauxhall and Brixton North"???