Jon Drape

@NathanEvansTeam @drdavidajames @DCBMEP You do know how. As Altrincham under a conservative council had the worst retail occupancy rates in England.

@drdavidajames @DCBMEP I just don't know not know why we allow this.

An English market town in Dorset exemplifies aesthetic decline.

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

@dubpistols @JeffSmithetc

Name me one decent politician? Just one who puts its constituents first just one?

@PubMaverik en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_o…

Andy Burnham as prime minister ?? First he fucks up Manchester, now they want him to run the country...!!

Clearly not the Trafford Centre.

Jeremy Clarkson: It hurts to admit, but Manchester is brilliant thetimes.com/article/67fc62…

@Unite_NorthWest Do you realise the anxiety and stress this causes your members in the hospitality industry leading up to Christmas?

Strikes by around 320 tram drivers working for KeolisAmey Metrolink Limited later this month are back on, after workers overwhelmingly voted to reject the company’s proposals for tackling driver fatigue. 🗓️ Strike dates: 19, 20 and 31 December 🔗 unitetheunion.org/news-events/ne…

Hey @LizKershawDJ check the facts

For the record: 📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers 📈 Trainee teachers up 11% 📈 Physics up 36% 📈 Computing up 44% 📈 Maths up 16% 📈 Attendance improving 📈 Behaviour improving Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them. #PMQs

@BPete1970 Morning Pete, see you later!

@jo32192000 @NotMyDing But I and many others constituent’s use the service to Stockport on a weekly basis to connect to the Avanti service to London.

@jondrape @NotMyDing Apparently 75% of journeys made from Alty station are to Knutsford so is that Knutsford comp school kids in the morning who’ll have travel cards & Knutsford commuters using the Met in the evening, hardly making a difference to his constituents?

Absolutely zero understanding of his mainly middle class affluent constituents. Frozen tax brackets will make them poorer. Freezing prescription & rail tickets doesn’t make them cheaper. Bills going up in Jan so that’s a lie. Business rates going up not down, lie

@NotMyDing @jo32192000 There’s 2 an hour?

@jo32192000 🤣 one train per hour through your constituency, dickhead. Every 2 hours on Sundays.

@jo32192000 @AndyBurnhamGM cityam.com/booming-manche…

@AndyBurnhamGM Nearly pantomime season. Burnham’s brought growth to the long term working class of Greater Manchester, oh no he hasn’t

Today GM raises the bar on growth.

@jo32192000 @AndyBurnhamGM cityam.com/booming-manche…

@AndyBurnhamGM Keep repeating the word growth hoping we’ll believe you, the growth you’ve brought is city centre skyscrapers built by your mates & sold to Arab & Chinese money launderers & than filled with their own people, no growth in council housing or growth for Mancs in council housing.

@patkarney Glad you like this! Wythenshawe is happening. Best run of gigs since the Golden Garter!

Just Amazing. The Best Council in the Country.

@SamanthaTaghoy ipsos.com/en/london-take…

New Yorkers really saw London turning into an utter hellhole under Khan and said: “yeah, let’s do that here too”

A growing body of research shows that 20mph is making our roads safer, reducing the number of people killed & seriously injured, while have little impact on journey times & no increase in pollution etc. But still the naysayers will kick off … see predicable comments below!

This is me (Aaron) and my brother Kurt with our Mum in Wythenshawe Park, 1984 Hard to believe that next year we’ll be standing in that very same place - only this time, on stage, supporting @thecure

10 years this month since the awful images of Alan Kurdi dead on a Turkish beach went viral and - briefly - looked like they would prompt real change. But a decade later, the West is more hostile to refugees than ever before.