Guest post: Cllr Amina Lone
Election special guest post by Cllr Amina Lone from Manchester’s Hulme ward If the ghost of Christmas past has his way, Liberal Democrat nightmares in Manchester could be realised today. A year after their dangerous liaison with those blue-blooded Tories, the chickens are coming home to roost, just in time for polling day. Today’s election … Read more
In praise of…Trafford (Labour)
(This post first appeared yesterday on LabourList.) A couple of weeks ago I wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister, criticising his comparison between Manchester’s Labour council and Tory-run Trafford. It was ridiculous, I said, to compare our city with the leafy suburbs. Trafford is just more of a David Cameron kind of place. Of … Read more
Dear David Cameron…
(This post first appeared on LabourList.) Dear David Cameron, My name is Grace Fletcher-Hackwood and I’m a Labour candidate in Manchester, the greatest city in the world. You might remember Manchester as the city whose budget you slashed by 21%, causing 2000 job losses, library closures, swimming pool closures, cuts to children’s services, adult services and advice … Read more
Messing about with Storify
This week my new toy is Storify, a tool for searching out items from the social web – tweets, Facebook updates, Flickr photos, YouTube vids and more – and assembling them as a story. It seems to me the logical next step from Posterous and Tumblr – rather than just whacking up a single link … Read more
24/3/11: Help with the census in Manchester
Got back a couple of hours ago from a meeting of the Kingsbrook residents’ association, which covers some of this area here: It was only the second meeting and there were loads of people there to interrogate the councillors and so on, which is very encouraging! Aside from said interrogation, the meeting included a quick talk by … Read more
16/3/11: Cameron resigns!
I’ve been wanting to type those words for such a long time. And it’s true! Unfortunately, as you’ll probably know if you’re from Manchester, I’m only on about John Cameron, Lib Dem councillor for Burnage ward (his website bio is a hastily-done mix of present and past tense, like the Wikipedia page of someone who … Read more
A tiny taste of street homelessness
Just got time for a quick blog post before a Rusholme branch meeting. I meant to link to this yesterday: an MEN article by fellow York alumnus Raf Sanchez, on his night spent sleeping rough as part of Amnesty UK and STAR‘s ‘Sleep Out‘ campaign. Have a read. I went along on the night myself … Read more
A happy Sunday afternoon around Platt Lane…
I was out door-knocking on Sunday afternoon for a couple of hours for our Rusholme candidate Kate Chappell, and ended in an unbearably good mood for the following reasons: 1. It was so sunny. I’m such a predictable creature. A couple of hours of sunshine and I find myself wanting to nip to Sainsburys for … Read more
Bear with me…
Just making some changes to the blog (as a way of prompting myself to use it again, for the first time since August *guilty face*) – I can’t imagine anyone’s reading it much at the moment but if you are, apologies for the layout going a bit weird while I’m fiddling with it. In the … Read more
Don’t lose the Best Vintage on Oldham Street
This is never going to be a fashion blog – god, imagine – but if you follow me on Twitter you’ll probably know about my interest in (obsession with) the Northern Quarter’s vintage clothes shops. Junk specialises in reworked fashion; Oxfam Originals on Oldham Street is great for accessories; Retro Rehab did a ‘fill a … Read more
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- LabourList
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