Widespread anger over the coalition’s cuts mean the Liberal Democrats in Manchester and elsewhere are facing the prospect of important losses in today’s local elections.
Chances are that throughout Spring you’ve had dozens of election leaflets drop through your letterbox, and it’s quite likely they haven’t been very welcome – particularly if they belonged to the Liberal Democrats.
As the massive turnout for the March 26 demonstration in London proved, the cuts are proving to be extremely unpopular, even before they’ve really begun to bite. The coalition anticipated this, and have been expending a great deal of energy since they entered office in creating scapegoats. After all, people might otherwise begin to ask […]
Yesterday the Manchester Evening News published a stern warning from a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) senior officer to those attending Saturday’s protest to behave themselves – a somewhat strange intervention considering that in last year’s protests most disturbances seemed to be committed by the police. In doing this is the MEN reporting on real ‘news’ […]
The political moment for reform of the banking and shadow-banking industries seems to have passed. UK politics is in thrall to a powerful bank lobby that scores victory after victory.
The Chief of Greater Manchester Police has weighed into the propaganda war against the student protests – and he has the local media in tow.
Cracks are spreading through the far right, with Nick Griffin backing off from standing in the Oldham by-election as the BNP totters on the verge of bankruptcy.
