£3 billion of taxpayer money has "gone missing" under this government, but they couldn't find £5 million to actually help people.
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£3 billion of taxpayer money has "gone missing" under this government, but they couldn't find £5 million to actually help people.
****ing joke innit. £12bn on a ‘world class’ track and trace system that was farmed out to a private company and then subcontracted to loads of other private companies, when local authorities said that they would do the work anyway.
1 in 3 kids in greater Manchester living in poverty and at risk of facing even greater pressures when their parents are told to stay at home.
And these Tory ****s can’t even find the extra £5m to support the area.
Don't be a **** all your life. The man's doing what he was elected to do - standing up for the best interests of the people he represents.
Thought you didn't believe in the virus anyway?
Just listening to Burnham on the news last few days. Such a genuine bloke, just speaks from the heart. No spin, no bollocks just saying it as it is. He looks and sounds genuinely upset for the ppl of mcr after being ****ed off by the government. Makes no sense the way they've worked out the level of support but obviously fck the north.
Not bowing down to your political persuasion doesn't make me a ****. He played politics with the situation.
You must have me mixed up with somebody else, I've never said that I don't believe in the virus.
He's a politician. So wtaf does "He played politics" even mean?
You're a **** because you pretend to be above politics, but you're a totally transparent Tory fanboy.
Or the Govt could have just given him the extra £5m which was £25m less than they were asking for in the first place.
Having done their homework, Burnham wanted £75m. Government offered £60m. Although it left GM short he was willing to cope with £65m but government wouldn't budge.
Btw this isn't just Burnham. Conservative MP and Chairman of their 1922 Committee Graham Brady MP just down the road from me supports Burnham. He wasn't the only one. Pretty much every MP in Greater Mcr area was united on this. It has fck all to do with party politics in GM, we're united here.
https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/live-...-andy-burnham-reiterates-fair-financing-call/
Good to see all the colours of Greater Manchester United on this.
Showing this Tory cabinet up for the ****ing ****ehawks that they are.
What do you mean pretend to be above politics? I've stated time after time that I vote Tory and that I used to have a membership with them. How transparent do you want people to be?
He could have taken the 60 million instead of allowing this to go on for unnecessary days when the infection was spreading. Instead he's come away with 38 million less for his people and his people could have been locked down sooner preventing undoubtedly needless deaths. He's tried to make the Conservatives look bad, though. Nice one.
So what if they've come down
They were asking for to much, that's how negotiations work. He's put people in needless harms way with his ****ing about and now he's come away with less money than he could have taken. He's done the worst job ever.
He doesn’t really need to try to make the Tories look bad. This government is an absolute ****ing shambles, everything they touch turns to ****.
Most people, of every political persuasion, were willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt over Covid back in March. Because of their incompetence, and their contempt for the British people, they’ve squandered all that goodwill.
You can just hear the convo Boris and Jenricks had ...
‘But If we give Burnham what his City needs, then other Mayors will start demanding equality for their cities and we'll have to cough up'
'We can't let that happen, let the Northern Monkey have a 1/4 of what he was asking for, and at the same time we can pin the blame on him for putting people at risk. Murdoch will lap it up and the gullible masses will swallow it'
‘But If we give Burnham what his City needs, then other Mayors will start demanding equality for their cities and we'll have to cough up'
'We can't let that happen, let the Northern Monkey have a 1/4 of what he was asking for, and at the same time we can pin the blame on him for putting people at risk. Murdoch will lap it up and the gullible masses will swallow it'
So what if they've come down
How have you arrived at the conclusion that he was asking for 'too much' ?
That's a bullshit line about him putting people in harm's way btw. He was trying to negotiate a good deal for his City. It's the ****ers at No10 who've shafted him by giving him less money that he could have taken.
Greater Manchester being handed 22m. Well played Burnham, your people could have had so much more
Clown.
So they agree to £60m, he’s holding out for £65m, so they go over his head anyway and then ride back on the £60m and say they’ll only put in £22m, yet you think that’s a bad reflection on the bloke who was trying to get what his community needs if the businesses within it are going to ride out this crisis, when the Tories are now putting in £38m less than they’d already agreed to which will see unnecessary hardship created as a result?
Who’s playing politics again? Take your blue scarf off mate, not everything is binary and dependant on what side you’ve picked.
1 in 3 kids living in poverty in Greater Manchester. 1 in ****ing 3. That is outrageous, that in a country where there is more than enough to go around, every third kid is going without a meal, can't afford shoes or has to live in a house where they can't afford the heating.
And then on top of that Boris wants to play politics and try and make an example of the one person who is rooting for these families.
What a ****ing disgrace.
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