Make Shipping Areas Into Parliamentary Constituencies

Anyone who's heard the Shipping Forecast will know about Finisterre, South East Iceland, Rockall, Irish Sea and Fitzroy. Some of these will inevitably straddle waters belonging to another country - Iceland and the Cod War spring to mind - so these should clearly not be considered constituencies.

Anyway, certain people will be in these sea areas when a General Election or by-election is in progress. These people presumably have a postal vote. But this is disappointing. There are naval and merchant naval personnel, air-sea rescue, lighthouse keepers and people on oil rigs, and they should be able to vote for their own MPs in the sea area they are in at the time. This should be done remotely and electronically, once only in case of moving from one sea area to another.

Clearly sea areas are very sparsely populated. I therefore propose a third aquatic house of Parliament situated next to the current one but on the river bed of the Thames next to the embankment. This will have sixteen (I think) members who have a differential voting system. If the issue has maritime consequences, each of their votes will be considered to be forty times the value of a Commons member's vote. Otherwise it will be considered to have only a sixteenth of that value, meaning that if the House votes unanimously it will act as a casting vote.