Well we can see why the Liberal Democrats are against a Mayor in Salford they want complete control of Greater Manchester:)

Liberal Democrats in Manchester have blasted government plans for the city to have an elected mayor – and called instead for a mayor for Greater Manchester.

People in 12 major cities, including Manchester, will be asked in a referendum next May whether they want to be governed by the directly elected figureheads.

But Manchester’s Liberal Democrat leader, Coun Marc Ramsbottom, said a Manchester mayor would be a ‘red herring’ at the polls.

He said: “A mayor for Manchester is not a good idea but a mayor for Greater Manchester is. Having someone who could speak for the region as a whole would make more sense; in the same way as the mayor of London champions the whole of Greater London.”

In marketing and advertising, a target audience, is a specific group of people within the target market at which the marketing message is aimed )…

I think this is where we failed in the past,failing to target the right audience. Well this year we should have a ready made audience thanks to the Liberal Democrats.

Don’t forget the first person to steal your pension cash

David Cameron was today accused of launching a massive "attack" on women as research revealed they will lose almost £2 billion as a result of the mini-budget.

 

The Prime Minister was under pressure after the independent figures revealed that three-quarters of the latest Coalition squeeze on tax and pay will come out of women’s purses.

“Let’s be clear – this is the biggest attack on women in a generation.”

the research shows that 73 per cent of the £2.37 billion that the Chancellor said he would raise from changes to tax credits and a cap on public sector pay will come from women. They will lose £1.73 billion while men will pay only £640 million, or 27 per cent of the total, according to the figures calculated by House of Commons library researchers.

Part of an article dated 2008 fits Cameron to a tee

Words I thought I’d never write: I agree with Jeremy Clarkson.

The TV motormouth’s very pally with David Cameron and an Oxfordshire neighbour of the Tory leader.

Yet even Clarkson has found top gear and seen through his fellow right-winger.

“Look, he’s not up to it,” boomed Clarkson. “He’s only 40 and I prefer a Lord Carrington figure.”

Cameron’s actually 42 but otherwise the telly presenter’s bang on the money.

The recession’s proved a political car crash for a Tory leader who on Saturday clocks up three years in the job.

Freewheelin’ until the summer, he’s now like a drunk careering all over the road. Cameron veered to the left to hug huskies and hoodies, tilting at windmills, oozing social concern and posing as the toff with a heart.

Forced off track by Gordon Brown championing families and rescuing banks, he’s careered to the right and is humming the harsh old Tory tune of cuts in public services.

Feckless Cameron’s turned into a William Hague or Michael Howard with a posher voice.

His shameful prejudices were exposed in all their gore when a Tory born with a silver cutlery set in his mouth flew to Glasgow to blame the poor for their poverty.

Least we forget

Britain’s embattled prime minister spent his last month presiding over a lacklustre Labour election campaign, culminating in the epic gaffe of being overheard insulting an OAP. His party had fallen from a merely dismal second place in the polls to the possibility of a third place, people were sick of the pathetic in fighting with Blair and the disastrous Banking fiascos that cost this countries Billions. We witnessed a Country dragged to war through one mans ego and false claims over WMD,we witnessed civil rights abuses and MPs who through sheer greed abused a system of allowance.we witnessed billions wasted on ID schemes,and Hospital Computer systems the list goes on,that is why Labour lost.The Government of the day attacks every part of our system only the rich evade attack don’t be fooled by Labour claims that they could do better.we all have short memories

but it takes little to read about Labours Disastrous 13 year reign.

The real Labour Party and why you voted them out?You tell me,what ever you views! some of these are over the top but some make you think, their failures have left us with a Government that cares for no one but the rich.

Britain feels broken . . . and the Government is out of excuses.

Blair took office with bulging coffers, an invincible majority and weak opposition, and he and Gordon Brown could have worked miracles.

But they FAILED on law and order, their mantra “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” becoming a national joke. Knife murders are soaring. Smirking criminals routinely walk free in the name of political correctness, while decent people live in a virtual police state of snooping cameras and petty officials empowered to spy and to punish.

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Labour FAILED on schools. Yes, facilities improved — but four in 10 kids leave those shiny classrooms still unable to read, write or add up properly. We are plummeting down international league tables for maths and literacy, but every year “grade inflation” ensures record GCSE and A-level passes to fuel Government propaganda.

Labour FAILED on health — spending billions on clipboard-ticking target managers instead of on frontline care.

Labour FAILED on immigration, opening our borders without any regard to the consequences. Illegal migrants and bogus asylum seekers poured in.

Labour FAILED the children they claimed to have made their priority. After 12 years of Blair and Brown, Britain is officially the WORST country in the developed world in which to grow up.

More promises … Gordon Brown after his speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton

Most disgracefully of all, Labour FAILED our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving them to die through chronic under-funding and the shambolic leadership of dismal Defence Secretaries like Bob Ainsworth.

As our forces in two war zones suffered, the scale of Government waste at home was mind-boggling and tragic:

Billions blown employing a useless layer of public service middle-managers like those who condemned Baby P to die.

Billions more spent, insanely, making benefits more lucrative than a pay cheque — creating a huge, idle underclass for whom work is a dirty word. And all along the Government has had one overriding concern: Itself.

Blair and Brown’s puerile feud has long been a cancer at the heart of New Labour, their divisions often paralysing the country.

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Labour’s driving ambition has not been to improve Britain. It has been to retain power at all costs — with no lie judged too great in its ruthless and relentless self-promotion.

They promised a referendum on Europe. They claimed they had ended “boom and bust”. They tried to con the public with promises of endless investment, when they knew they would have to cut. .

They have had that chance and failed.

Sadly we see a Coalition of misery taking it’s place perhaps what this country needs is something different

I wonder did Mr Lewis visit Salford Labour Run Council

Former Labour minister Ivan Lewis has admitted that his government did not do enough to devolve power to local government because ministers thought councils could not be trusted.

Speaking at a Labour party conference fringe event in Liverpool today, Lewis said that Labour had failed communities by not devolving enough power to local government. “The Labour party has to think a lot more about communities and the glue that binds communities together,” he said. “If you think back to our period in office, we’re very proud of many of our achievements in government, but my own view is we didn’t devolve anywhere near enough to local government.”

Did you really vote for this?

 

He speaks of broken Britain strange we seemed  to be suffering pre election from serious injury today we are terminal.A failed Labour Government and today a Tory Government held together by a group of Liberal Democrats who crawl behind soulless hanging on for the final death throws.This Country is in desperate need of new blood and new ideas,how long can the British people carry on swapping one failed party for the Next? 

Interesting story in the Salford Star,one question i would like to ask relates to a comment from Peels security that the police are not allowed on their property unless invited.and they would remove pickets using responsible force,i wonder what do they deem as reasonable force.

PEEL HOLDINGS EJECT OFFICIAL PICKETS FROM MEDIACITYUK

Star date: 30th November 2011

A Salford Star Exclusive

UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD STRIKE PICKETS KICKED OFF MEDIACITYUK

Early this morning, as part of the Day of Action against the ConDem Government’s attack on pensions, members of the UCU – University and College Union – intended to picket staff going into the University of Salford’s new campus at MediaCityUK. Instead, they have told the Salford Star, they were met by security staff working on behalf of Peel Holdings who said they would use “reasonable force” to remove them if they didn’t leave Peel’s `private land’.

It might be Peel’s `private land’ but public money paid for it to be made into a `public piazza’

Full story here…