The rain hadn’t stopped for days. Through the window, Jim could see the lightning and Molly was cowering from the thunder.
The big stretch was showing looped images of the devastating flooding in Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, Selby, Doncaster and York. Entire communities were being evacuated and moved to other areas..
“Have you been paying attention to these relocations because of the flooding?” Jim asked Annabel. “It’s gerrymandering.”
“What do you mean?”
“Most of these areas don’t need to be redeveloped at all. They are taking opposition votes out of marginal seats and putting them in safe seats.”
“You are such a conspiracist.”
“Look at the constituencies, Dagenham and Rainham for example.”
“It needs to be evacuated.”
“So do safe seats like Bootle, Liverpool Riverside, Tottenham
