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Re: Embra....

On 4 July, 23:11, Brian Morrison <b...@fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:35:55 +0100
>
> Yeti <y...@ayrshore.com> wrote:
> > What makes you think that Scotland is over-represented?
>
> Roughly 5 million people, 82 MPs or so.
>
> England, roughly 56 million people, far less than 900 MPs.
>
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That's because you don't get an MP for each group of people (fixed
number) - you get one for each area.

As England is more dense than Scotland, that's how it works out.
Notice you didn't bring Wales into it - I suspect using your faulty
calculations, Wales will be eve more 'over-represented' than Scotland.

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