From: "Dave Ings" 

Someone's math is way off. 1/10 of 300 million is not "roughly"
the UK population.

Neither paper caught this? That surprises me.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=6
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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> Sir,
>
> Now that the population of the United States of America has voted for
> the 435 seats at stake in the House of Representatives, and bearing in
> mind that they also have 100 Senators, is it time to ask why we, with a
> population roughly one tenth of theirs, have so many MPs ?
>
> Regards, Steve Webb
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>  Phil Payne
>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>  +44 7833 654 800
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