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pocket borough
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pocket borough
(before the Reform Act of 1832) an English borough constituency controlled by one person or family who owned the land


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They had apparently thought that the JD- U would follow the ageold tradition by fielding their relatives from their pocket boroughs.
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Passionately they acclaimed each call made both for an extension of the franchise and the redistribution of Parliamentary seats away from rotten and pocket boroughs to the manufacturing towns of the Midlands and the north of England.
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Britain does not have pocket boroughs, owned by rich individuals and - for all the excitement about the Tory operation in marginal seats, overseen by Lord Ashcroft - it shows no sign of getting them.
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