I MUST take issue with your correspondents Peter Hollindale and Dr Campbell (February 12) about dividing York constituency into north and south of the Ouse; the proposals before the public at the inquiry were not York MP Hugh Bayley's but were drawn up by the independent Parliamentary Boundary Commission.
To accuse our MP of gerrymandering is uncalled for and blatantly untrue.
The Commission had in mind the historic nature of the city. York has always been a county in its own right and not in any of the Ridings of Yorkshire.
It is the only city that has its original walls which, in medieval times defined its boundaries for strategic and commercial purposes incorporating both sides of the Ouse.
Norwich and Plymouth cannot be compared with York in any way.
The Commission obviously had in mind the disruption and confusion among the voters that the doughnut solution avoids.
Dorothy Whiting,
Redman Close, York.
Updated: 10:32 Monday, February 17, 2003
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