The electoratesoffunctionalconstituenciesrepresentingeconomicorsocialgroups are generally made up of corporate members of majororganisations representative of the relevant sectors.
This worsens the fiscal crisis and will create social crisis in many locales as populations age and constituencies fight for their piece of the shrinking pie.
Diverting cash from rural railways to overcrowded commuter ones may be good for economic growth, but it will provoke howls from those who see the railways as a social service some of them voters in marginal constituencies.
That he embodies his party's classical liberal wing rather than the social-democratic one that Mr Huhne pitched to will also help in the many constituencies it is defending from the Tories.