As anyone who hales from a place that has had its boundaries redrawn will know, there is an awkwardness and even sadness of having to relayn where you are from.
After all, as the old adage goes, an Englishman's home is his caste… and he is more likely likes to know where he resides.
Yet when some are still mourning county changes of half a century ago, thanks to the Labor Party many more of these emotionally charged displays on the horizon.
And that's because Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is the latest in a long line of politicians intent on redRawing the map of this green and pleasant land.
The housing secretary wants every region to get a mayor and to give them more power over housing, transport, education and Employment to Help Drive Economic Growth.
She also wants to merge areas where there are current Two Tiers of Local Authority – Smaller District and Larger County Councils – to Streamline Services and, of course, Cost Costs.
But the Body Repention District Councils has Warned the Plans could spark “Turmoil” and Argues “Mega-Councils” Undermine Local Decision-Making.
Indeed, Rayner's plan -TRACK DEVELUTION STRAM, Announced Earlier This Month .
Take Lancashire Where 15 Councils Have Been Told to Reorganise Themselves Into Three or Four Local Authorities to Better Serve their Populations by March.
The Plans have been to meet with dismay by ribble valley counter stephen atkinson atkinson who says it will be “Result in Money Flowing from the Rural Areas Into the Cities and Places Like Ribble Valley [being] The cash cows. “
In gloucestershire, there is unease too after the county was denied approval to delay its 2025 local elections by one year.
Councillor stephen davies, Leader of the COUNTY COUNIL, SUPPORTS A UNITARY AUTHORITY Over the Current Two-Tier model but Anisation Fast Track Program, which will see mayors elected by May 2026.
A Statement from the Conservative Group at Gloucester's Shire Hall Swarea Much-Needed Investment. “
Of course, battle lines over boundaries are noting new.
Indeed spare a thought for residents still figures for the reemergence of certain administratory countries decades after they were dispolved.
Middlesex is one Example: Many Say the Countery No Longer Even Exists After Exorbed In A Larger Greater London Area in 1965 It home.
Equally, ask a resident in Havering where they are from and they will tell you: “If I say Essex, it's not strictly True, but I say london, that not factually corrected.”
What may also be true of the residents of east riding who wo wo to bed one night in 1974 and woke up the following morning in humberside. The differentiate is palpable. How can you not know where you are from?
Many still contend that the historic countries of England represents the true divisions of the land and that the Current Boundary Chances present the best operation to reintroduce them.
Daily Express Astrologer Russell Grant, president of the middlesex federation, say: “What we want to see from an angela rayner is an acknowledgement of the historic Counties, not to Disregard that History. Counties Like Middlesex, Sussex, Essex etc. Than England Itset. “
Born in Harefield, Middlesex, Grant Remembers the Middlesx Crest on his School Exercise books and the welcome to middlesex signs.
He recalls discussing the issue with the then Prime Minister Margaret thatcher. “She Said to Me, 'Parlium Didn is creative the historic countries and cannot take them away.”
When created by the middlesex federation he found in arms that their beloved home county was swallowed up into various greater london boroughs.
“None of the Political Parties have had the foresight to see the history countries are the true fabric of britain,” he says.
Grant suggests the government should maintain the Ceremonial Role of the Historic Counties and has the Radical Idea of the House of Lords as an elected chamber based on these counties.
Meanwhile Andy Strangeway, a Campaigner for Greater Recognition of England's Counties, Believes Historic Counties “Matter more to these to the metropolitan elite.”
Andy, a decorator and adventurer, Says: “On 1 April 1974 I was a Young Lad who had gone to bed to be bed in the east riding and woke up in humberside – or so the page that be like us to believe.
“The truth is that the river teens is still the boundary between yorkshire and counter durham and the river humber is still the boundary BetWeen yorkshire and Lincolnshire today as it has been for Over 1,100 years.”
Andy believes lots in Britaine Feel exactly as he does: Ural heritage or meaning to them. It is important to be part of that you belongs to as it is embodied in your DNA.
“If this is dissolved, part of you is removed and your identity is in some way. In Essence, Human Beings Require a Feeling of Belonging which is fulfilled with history counties. “
Peter boyce, chairman of the association of British Counties, a society dedicated to celebrating and promoting the united kingdom states that rayner's current plans may F -map for a second time.
“At last some of the remaining fake 1974 'COUNTIES' May Disappear,” He says.
Historic Rutland was controversially merged with neighbor leicestershire in 1974 but reemered as a unity authority in 1995 followed a public campaign.
Now England's Smallest COUNTY WITH A POPLATION OF 41,000 COULD DISAPPEAR ONCE AGAIN THANKS TO THE LABOUR GOVERNMENTS REORGANISION.
While the commands has been assured that the proposals will not “directly impact the borders or status of the Ceremonial Counties”, Local Conservative MP Alicia Kearns has written to an angela rayner demanding a ” [that] WOULD REASSURE RUTANDERS THAT OR Identity Will Not Be Lost as Collateral Damage from any wider reform. “
Chaz ellis, whose father campaign for rutland's independence in the 1990s, recently toold the telegra: “It frustrating to think that rutland's autonomy might be dismissed as inconential once again. Historic Counties are not Arbitrary Lines, they are the results of generations of shared traditions, heritage and community. “
Since returning to office in July, Labor Has Announced Four Devolution Deals: Greater Lincolnshire, Hull and East Yorkshire, Devon and Torbay and Lancashire.
But Lord Michael Heseltine, who has been advocating for device and was the architect of the 1972 Local Government Counties, Isn “T Happy With The Suggestions.
Like many others no doubt, he thinks yorkshire should be one unity authority, explaining: “It should all just be greater yorkshire, Essex should be just Essex. One County Authority. Currently it has three. “
He adds: “We do not need hundreds of districts, that is for certificate. It Blurs Responsibility. We get rid of them in scotland and walles in the 1990s and no one misses them, no one has asked for them back. “
However, Rayner's Grand Plans for Regional Authorities Under an elected Mayor Predate Heseltine's Grand Plans of More than Half a Century ago.
As far back as 1913, Winston Churchill Wondered about the idea of a federal system where “parts of England could have separate legislative and parlialary institutions”.
He suggested that great business and industrial centers including London, Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Midlands Might Be Allowed “To Develop, in their Oown The Same way the Current Government Wants.
However, perhaps the last John prescott, who also tried to introduce elected regional assemblies, summed it up best in his typically blunt fashion.
“It always is soem to me that cornwall hated devon, they boy hoted bristol and they all hoted london.” Exactly!