I'd scrap the combined authority stuff and bring back metropolitan councils.

I'd also redraw their boundaries to correlate with travel to work data, and qulaification based travel to work data.

I've drawn new boundaries for the conurbations I believe would require a 2-tier metropolitan area authority to sit above the unitary authorities.

These conurbations are based on London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Bristol.

I was highly inspired by the Redcliffe Maud Report.

I respect the historic counties and think the government should do more to promote them for cultural purposes;

However, I also believe that government bodies should have their own seperate boundaries that are decided by data, for the purposes of local government administration. The historic counties should be kept seperate from this.

Ancient Anglo Saxon kingdoms shouldn't have any sway over local government administration in a G7 nation in the year 2025.

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  1. I love the logic of this. However, I’m not sure much of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and the Black Country would be happy with the refuse collection service provided by Birmingham City Council!

    As an aside, there also seems to be broad alignment of train operating franchises to Anglo Saxon kingdoms – Great Western Railway almost perfectly aligns to Wessex.

  2. It’s such a strange choice to move the villages of Doddinghurst and Kelvedon Hatch into ‘London’ but leave out the towns of Brentwood and Shenfield, which have the stations that take people into London.

  3. That border you made of Greater Birmingham is about to piss ALOT of people off.

    The black country is adamant they are not brummy, they even have their own flag.

    No one from the Solihull area wants to say they are brummy. They are posh.

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