Nick Gray
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Nick Gray
@path_dependent
Fellow of things at @TeessideUni. Currently I'm a grand sounding @BritishAcademy_ innovation fellow *and* @TPIProductivity fellow with @NP_Partnership
Where did the white people go from Gorton? The silent cleansing of England means we don't hear about when individual decisions were made to ''get out''. The quiet mutterings over the dinner table that things were just getting worse. There was a time when Gorton was English, and now it isn't. But the gap between the one and the other is never the subject of conversation, let alone any empathy. What about the little hold-outs? How are they doing? Can't they afford to leave? Does anybody care?
Here’s an article by @GoodwinMJ discussing where he’s from, but when he wasn’t standing for a seat in Manchester… “My own roots are in the terrace house on the outskirts of St Albans, Hertfordshire, where I grew up.” Manchester gets a fleeting mention. dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
You know nothing about me Owen My parents divorced when I was 5 My dad moved to Manchester when I was 12 and led the local NHS I spent my weekends and holidays in Manchester I went to Salford uni I studied next to the steel factory where my grandfather worked his whole life At the same university where my grandmother worked I worked in Burnage, Didsbury, and Withington I then went back to Manchester for another 5 years I worked for the uni I lived in Castlefield I didn’t parachute into Manchester — this place made me
