Another but similar to rejig CofE doceses

 I was interested in this thought experiment. It appears to be a 'from new' rethink, but I'm intrigued as to how similar it is to a proposal from 12 and more years ago by Gareth Miller. I have previously blogged about it and this post will guide you to the various webpages that could help understand it.
 The author of the title-linked article describes what they are doing thus:

... an exercise in visualising what the provinces and dioceses of England might look like if:
– the Leeds model of several episcopal areas one of which overseen by the diocesan were "rolled out" across England
– more, much smaller provinces were created and some of ABC's workload (long acknowledged to be too great by far) was redistributed
– dioceses and episcopal areas are usually named for current centres of population rather than nostalgia (ecclesiastical or otherwise.)County Dioceses in England:

So, you'll see some similarities in terms of distribution of areas but different groupings of areas. It'd be good to have a discussion about this. I fear that reformers would end up dissipating energy into arguments about what ways of slicing the cake would be best and so the status quo would remain by default. However, the question about the huge disparity of cover by the provinces of Canterbury and York, does begin to raise the issue.

 You'll see from these two maps that there are a lot of similarities. The main differences I can see are the place of Salisbury (in SW or south central areas), Chichester and whether Yorkshire and the North East are one entity or two (I think two would be better).

I'm beginning to think also that perhaps proposing a new Anglican British Isles with the 9 or 10 proposed provinces for England and then also the structures for Scotland, Wales and Ireland also included, should at least be talked about. (I suspect the other nations wouldn't want it but still ...)

Beyond the geographies, the issue would be about costs both of transitions and also of maintaining the polity structures. We'd probably have to consider how best to have decision making done so as not to increase overall costs. But economies of scale of province over dioceses could help.

I'd love to know what other people think and whether we should campaign about these ideas.
It might also raise questions about the CofE's democratic deficit ie. the fact that ordinary CofEers don't get to elect general synod member directly and that GS is worked in such a way as to routinely make difficult participation by lay people who are employed in regular sorts of jobs -but maybe that's another post /topic...