Comment DBCC-4365

I'm going to write mostly about the Brecon, Radnor, Neath and Swansea East (Aberhonddu, Maesyfed, Castell-nedd a Dwyrain Abertawe), although some of this will apply to the others.

It would take you 2 hours to drive to the height of this constituency and 4 hours 40 by public transport. It's simply too big, and I fail to understand the point about well-connected roads in this case. The constituency is spread across the more urban Neath and Swansea east and the very rural Brecon and further North. I believe that having lived in both urban and rural places in the past, they have vastly very different political agendas, and it makes little sense to group them. I dislike even the current constituencies because I feel that getting to Swansea from Neath is too much of an ordeal for constituents to reach if they wish to attend a meeting with their MS.

I feel that Swansea East would best be placed in Swansea West and Gower based on geolocation, and Neath should be placed in Aberafan Maesteg, Rhondda and Ogmore. This is because Neath is very similar and has local ties to Briton Ferry and Port Talbot, who all have the same council, and I fail to understand the justification for giving them different representations.

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