On 05/09/2015 10:42, e27002 aurora wrote:

Unlike the folks in the north of the County of Lincoln and
their Yorkshire neighbors who certainly did not like being in
Humberside.

A lot of that could probably have been solved by a name change. "East
Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire County Council" would have been no more
unwieldy than "East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Borough Council" was.
But the pro-Humberside people on the county council backed themselves in
to a bit of a corner over it, and then the pro-Yorkshire/Lincolnshire
people and some of the other councils saw an opportunity to obtain more
power through restructuring.

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A better solution might be a committee of the MPs covering the area.
Meeting as needed.

That would surely just become a room full of people saying "the Hard
Working Families of insert name of my constituency need nice things"
over and over again, creating a donkey starving between two bales of hay
situation, and/or marginal constituencies being offered atomic-powered
maglevs while safe seats gets a second-hand bike rack to share.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK