Comments on: It’s Xmas – Welcome to Manchester Plc

By: Council refuse to claim back £420,000 wrongly overpaid — MULE

Council refuse to claim back £420,000 wrongly overpaid — MULE — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:32 +0000

[...] Marketing Manchester has done well from a Council giveaway. Last year they were a partner in the Christmas period promotion of Manchester as a retail centre, to which the City Council kindly donated £600,000 of public [...]

By: Sian

Sian — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:59:57 +0000

Brilliant article. Looking at the board of Directors I am appalled at the lack of diversity, which is mirrored in the Council and indeed politics as a whole. Sounds like jobs for the boys to me.

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:52 +0000

Yes,very much so. The idea that “big business knows best” has surely been exploded by this dismal recession, so why does the tail continue to wag the dog?
The fixation with ever increasing sales and ever increasing profits is what got us into this mess in the first place. We really do need to find more creative and holistic ways of building a genuinely inclusive and happy city.
Very glad to see the mental health issue flagged up as well. That’s been a huge problem in Manchester since Adam’s time really. Encouraging people to spend what they most likely haven’t got is, in my view, bordering on the irresponsible. And finally, how much of this money generated actually finds its way to the people of Manchester? Is that an issue the retail giants will concern themselves with?

By: M

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:10 +0000

The fact that this matter was not questioned in the rest of the local press shows the paucity of journalism in the region. The MEN, Crains Business, How Do, The Drum and others simply published virtually the same statement as that on the Council website. None of them looked at who exactly CityCo are and their links to the Council, never mind whether public money being spent on this is justified. Such paucity of scrutiny has profound implications for democratic accountability.

By: Betty

Betty — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:58 +0000

love the photo, where did you find it?

By: Free Movement for All

Free Movement for All — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:46:33 +0000

Doesn’t CityCo also owe the Council about £150,000?