> -----Original Message-----
> It was never Int Gps OR Constituencies for me
> 
> It was Int Gps AND Constituencies - to leave all options open to members
> to organise in whatever way best meet their needs
> 

Rosemary:
It is, in fact, either-or. For better or worse you do have to make the choice.
Constituencies are inherently silo-like structures which are afforded mutually exclusive forms of representation and guaranteed seats. If you have constituencies, you fragment the NCSG into competing groups; you can't have an integrated voting structure for NCSG and you can't have interest groups. 

That's just the way it is.