What is it with Labour city mayors?

And no way can you say the OP is a victim - if you post a thread directed at a particular party you can surely expect robust responses

Of course you can and should Riverwalk but the right to express a view should not be denied by implications that any poster copies and pastes most of her opinions
Play the ball, not the player?

Seems some of our £1,580 p.a. Council tax does go towards the Metro Mayor’s office.

Wiki:
The service is funded partly by grants from central Government and partly by council tax paid by the residents of Greater Manchester.

Blacklisted by whom, or what?

Carillion was a black-listed company. It wasn't Cameron who brought them in was it ?

Trisher it's not surprising that the company went bust " under Cameron ", it could well have been anyone else at the time since it had poured thousands into the Labour council----and for what ??

Indeed Callistemon.

GrannyGravy13

Comments directed to Urmstongran are unfounded and say more about the posters than their intended victim

Mine wasn't a comment it was a genuine query.

And no way can you say the OP is a victim - if you post a thread directed at a particular party you can surely expect robust responses.

I'm awaiting opinion poll evidence that Khan is hanging on by his fingernails, because that's quite a claim - or maybe it wasn't polling just someone's opinion?

I would have voted for him as leader of the LP - despite misgivings.

Andy Burnham as PM nooooooo.......

You forgot to mention Peter Salsbury Urmston. I am convinced he is part of the reason why Leicester has been in lockdown since the beginning. He just refused to cooperate with the government and made himself extremely unpopular. He seems to have reigned it in a little recently and hence we hopefully are in a better position.

I am with you about Andy Burnham - I think his ambition to become PM is overtaking everything else.

"^lord mayors^"

I presume you're using the term ironically, EllanVannin as these are politicians and there are Lord Mayors in addition to them.

Firecracker123

Your views growstuff are secondhand also through your daughter and her friends or am I missing something here. No different from Urmstongran views obtained from her family and friends.

Touchè!

I hope you've told them in no uncertain terms that we don't need these mayors and to get rid of them.

They are yet another layer of bureaucracy which we do not need and are forced to pay for.
Likewise the Police and Crime Commissioners.

I live in Manchester and Andy Burnam is very popular here.

Carillion poured thousands into the coffers of Anderson's mayorship, yet he had the gall to lambaste them because the work wasn't getting finished. All the spouting these " lord mayors " do is for show to the people----nothing else. It makes them feel good to think they have everyone on side.

The sooner people wake up to the fact that Labour are a poisonous combination, the better. Hasn't anyone ever noticed that where you have a Labour minister, the areas that they hold are ALL run-down with poverty-stricken families ? These ministers don't care so long as they're alright-----and they are !!

Has anyone ever seen any of them roll up their sleeves ?
Speak to anyone who appears to be down and out in appearance and I can bet they vote Labour ! There's no need to confront Conservatives in general because they know what's what as their ways of managing are a totally different ball game.

Labour continue to hoodwink their constituents and it's criminal.
I hope this debacle with Anderson opens up a can of worms.

Wouldthat be the same Carillion awarded huge amounts of government contracts under David Cameron who subsequently went bust? EllanVannin?
Chair one Philip Green big Tory supporter head of a lot of companies who have just gone bust? Sitting onhis yatch in the Med somewhere?
www.cityam.com/carillion-chairman-philip-green-number-10-adviser/

Well this plonker turned down £60 mil from the government to help out during T3 restrictions. He demanded £100 mil saying £60 mil wasn’t enough.

The Manchester Evening News reported that instead Gtr. Manchester had received £20 mil. He called it ‘a point of principle’. Nice one Burnham!

Does my council tax fund his incompetence? I’m away to check ...

BTW my husband is a Manc born & bred and can’t stand him. I’ve lived in Manchester since the age of 2 years so pretty much one I suppose!

What a load of shysters !!

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growstuff you should try watching TV it can be educational and relaxing depending on your viewing choice.

As for digging at Urmstongran all English Channels TV and radio are available in Spain as are all newspapers.

No need to be so spiteful in your comments your posts are normally above that sort of thing?

Your views growstuff are secondhand also through your daughter and her friends or am I missing something here. No different from Urmstongran views obtained from her family and friends.

Don't gaslight me MawBe. I know what's worthy of me and you have no right to judge.

GrannyGravy13

Comments directed to Urmstongran are unfounded and say more about the posters than their intended victim

What do you mean by that?

Urmstongran

Thank you Maw for that.
I’m used to the digs now. They used to hurt but I’ve toughened up a bit.

Yes you’re right growstuff I wasn’t over here at the start of lockdown but that wasn’t my point anyway. Besides which, most of my family & friends live with the Gtr. Manchester area and have kept me up to date with happenings. Plus, let’s be honest, Burnham was on tv quite a lot most mornings wasn’t he? You couldn’t miss him for a while even if you tried.
?

I didn't need to try. I don't watch TV.

MawBe

growstuff

MawBe

I assume Urmstongran is reflecting local opinion MaizieD - why assume any reference to “Tory” media?
It is her local area after all.

I doubt it. She hasn't even been in the area since the start of lockdown. My daughter and her friends have and speak very highly of Burnham and what he tried to do.

What a rude reaction growstuff !
“Who’s “ she” , the cat’s mother?” as my mum used to say.
The news about the Liverpool mayor has widely reported nationally for a start, and whether or not a Metro mayor is popular is going to be a matter of opinion.
Your daughter’s and friends’ opinion is theirs Urmstongran’s hers- both are equally valid.
Or is this a sideways snipe at someone who was initially “stuck” abroad and opted, not unreasonably to stay there?
This is childish and unworthy of you

she = Urmstongran

Sorry you found that rude.

I actually find it "rude" that somebody who has been out of the country since the beginning of lockdown has the nerve to comment on Andy Burnham.

Not only that, but she has maligned two metro mayors by associating them with Joe Anderson, who has been arrested.

Urmstongran My daughter has been in Greater Manchester throughout all the lockdowns. You haven't. Your "news" and views are second hand.

Comments directed to Urmstongran are unfounded and say more about the posters than their intended victim