At the moment all the terrible decisions are made in London, leaving us with a huge deficit and debt, yet somehow allowing people locally to make decisions, some of which could be bad cannot possibly… (View Post)

Manchester has had more powers devolved than any other England region outside London and has clearly benefited. In the event everywhere else got substantially more devolution, everywhere has the same… (View Post)

It's working very well in Manchester, in fact, I would strongly argue it's the reason it's economic growth has been the strongest in the country for the last decade or so. (View Post)

Isn't Gordon Brown a very strong advocate of much stronger devolution? I honestly think that will strongly appeal, as a start, to many centre left leaning voters. (View Post)

If Burnham wants to win, my seat of Wythenshawe & Sale East still looks very viable, but this map is a very interesting view of how the politics of Greater Manchester ignores the local authoritie… (View Post)