Democracy
Postcard From Jerry, Part Seven
‘Shabby!’ Myself, my assistant Miss Blod, and a diminutive figure in Muslim dress, who has just revealed her face with a swipe of a delicate brown arm, are at the bottom of the fire stairs [more…]
Manchester
Democracy
Postcard From Jerry, Part Six
A perspiring Prime Minister called for coffee time at Number 10 North. My companion, Miss Blod, and I circulated, made small talk and nodded. There seemed little need for any great subterfuge, despite the fact [more…]
Democracy
Postcard From Jerry, Part Five
“Hi guys, welcome to Manchester. My name’s Andy. Yes, yes, I know, the prime minister. These things ’appen. Repeat after me: Fatcher, Liz Truss crashed the economy.” Mr Burnham stood before us in a floor-tiles, [more…]
Labour
A dastardly deception
Have we all misunderestimated the Knob o’t North. There we are ridiculing him for apparently having no plan when it is possible he does have a plan but is reluctant to let on what it [more…]
Labour
No. 10 o’t North won’t cost anything
During the Knob’s first week he announced Number 10 o’t North and stated confidently it would actually cost nothing because it would come out of existing Cabinet Office budgets, around £1.75 billion. He finished off [more…]
Democracy
Manchester Mayoral Election Fiddle
Our Markerfield correspondent has been in touch again, this time regarding the Manchester mayoral election which took place yesterday. However, the count doesn’t take place until today. Based on previous Greater Manchester mayoral elections and [more…]
Elections
The Knob, a caricature of a northerner
After a week of the Andy Burnham show what have we let ourselves in for or to be more precise what has the Labour Party let us in for. True to form Labour has done [more…]
Conservatives
Burnham’s Bee Bus Bollocks
A Multi-Million Pound Illusion Funded by Tories and Paid for by You Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham never misses an opportunity to boast about his socialist transport “revolution.” To hear him tell it, the Manchester [more…]
Travel
Off We Go Again (Fingers Crossed)
Devastation struck Puffindom earlier in the year when readers heard of Mrs AWS’s Christmas present falling flat. Her once-in-a-lifetime diverted train trip from Carlisle to Preston via the scenic Settle-Carlisle railway suffered a last second [more…]