SIR – It is interesting to compare two different local stories.
It is reported that Bradford urgently needs a number of extra schools to cope with the “soaring numbers of pupils entering the overstretched education system.”
A few days ago it was reported that the Boundary Commission plans to reduce the number of MPs in the area, there being not enough voters to justify the current five seats.
Does anyone ever plan ahead? In only a few years, all those "soaring numbers of pupils" will join the Electoral Roll, adding substantially to the total of voters in the area.
As it will take some years for those boundary changes to be implemented, what’s the betting that, by the time that happens, all those extra voters will mean it needs to be changed again?
Planning with blinkers on, as usual. You couldn’t make it up.
Graham Hoyle, Kirkbourne Grove, Baildon
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