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T_i_B

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4. It's pronounced "pen-is-tun"

Reply to LeftishBrit (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 01:05 AM

Sep 2018

Last edited Tue Sep 11, 2018, 03:54 AM - Edit history (1)

People round here will get VERY annoyed if you pronounce it "penis-tone".

As an aside, the seat it is joining with was one of those that Labour took of the Tories at the last election. Putting Penistone in with Colne Valley will make it more difficult for Labour to retain the seat, which is perhaps best known as the setting of Last Of The Summer Wine.

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Final recommendations for 600-seat Commons seat boundaries [View all] muriel_volestrangler Sep 2018 OP

I have moved house recently.... T_i_B Sep 2018 #1

If you don't mind me saying so... LeftishBrit Sep 2018 #3

It's pronounced "pen-is-tun" T_i_B Sep 2018 #4

The Tories are definitely using the boundary review for gerrymandering purposes. LeftishBrit Sep 2018 #5

Absolutely T_i_B Sep 2018 #6

It looks as though Oxford would go back to being one constituency (rather than East and West).. LeftishBrit Sep 2018 #2

The proposed Abingdon and Oxford North seat looks really bizarre T_i_B Sep 2018 #7

Maybe not as bizarre as East Oxfordshire, which stretches from the edge of Reading muriel_volestrangler Sep 2018 #8