Labour in rural areas

I found this blogpost from Alexandra Kemp, Vice Chair of North West Norfolk Labour Party, about activism in rural areas.  Many similarities with our situation and something to be learnt, I think.  The full post can be found here, but the concluding paragraph deserves quoting in full here:

"The countryside is the natural home for Labour.  With low pay and low expectations in ex-farming areas, concentrations of older people increasingly reliant on social services, the NHS and public transport, children in poverty, young people looking for work, there is everything to gain."

Electoral Boundaries - Secondary Consultation

For those who don't agree with me about the desirability of leaving South Leicestershire consituency for the delights of Daventry (and I admit that is currently pretty much everybody) the Boundary Commission has announced the dates for its secondary consultation.  That means the chance to comment on all the consultations submitted in the first phase.

This may sound like unnecessary duplication but my experience with the Local Government Boundary Commission suggests that the comments-on-comments tend to be the ones that carry most weight.

The consultation runs from noon on March 6 2012 to noon on April 3 2012.  Both Branch nights, I note.  Beyond coincidence, surely?