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Caron Lindsay

Our last post on International Women’s Day Manchester deserves Better: Manchester needs April

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 8th March 2018 - 9:46 pm

Our last post for International Women’s day is a video which shows exactly why the people of Withington ward need April Preston as their councillor in May. She has experience of snow much – a care leaver, she’s been homeless, she’s a mum, she’s a carer. She gets how hard life is for those the Tories leave behind and Labour neglect.

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Iain Roberts

A straight choice? Does this squeeze message hold water?

By Iain Roberts | Sun 4th April 2010 - 6:09 pm

Under our First Past the Post voting system, the squeeze message is a legitimate one, used by all parties when it’s to their benefit.

Voting for the third (or lower) placed party in the seat is, they all argue, a wasted vote. Those lower placed parties will say otherwise, but it’s a fair tactic. Lib Dems would say that under a better voting system, tactical voting wouldn’t be needed.

But in this election we’re seeing a new twist on the theme from the Labservatives, and it’s a bit of a stretch to see how it could be honest or …

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    There is no way of stopping free movement cry a number of posters. Actually there is we chose not to take it. Easier to blame...
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    There should also be an investigation (and potentially prosecutions) for the use of British government money to attempt to influence the results of the referendum...
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    The Tories’ ‘Harold Wilson, heh? I’m waiting for her to say to her next party conference; “People ask what’s going on. Well, I’m going on!”
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