Stoke-on-Trent South (UK Parliament Constituency)
Stoke-on-Trent South is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat since its creation in 1950. The current MP is Robert Flello, first elected at the 2005 general election. The best-known MP in the past was Jack Ashley, the disability campaigner.
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“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)