As promised!

Sorry, this post is going to be a bit massive. Like I said I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, and since I started it I’ve been delayed by swine flu and #freeBevaniteEllie and stuff.
In the couple of months since I was last regularly blogging, I have…
- been listening to a lot of Lily [...]

Rabnawaz Akbar on last night’s results

My local Labour candidate Rabnawaz emailed round this morning with this moving personal response to last night’s results, and was kind enough to let me re-post it here.
At about 2.00am in the morning (we were there since 7.00pm) once word was out that the BNP had won a seat in this region, I was like [...]

What Grace and friends have been up to lately (every blog post could be titled this, really, couldn’t it?)

A good friend of mine has spent part of this week arguing, over the internet, with some of the more opinionated and right-wing students at his university, which is full of opinionated and/or right wing students. (Yeah, that one.) I’m not going to go into the details of the argument because it makes me upset [...]

Donate Not Hate

Got the following email from Hope Not Hate today:
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Thanks to the expense scandals we’re in a tough spot.
Voters are turning away from the traditional political parties – and the BNP are cranking up their propaganda machine to try to take advantage.
Politicians have let every person in Britain down. Lots of people could be considering staying [...]

All you fascists are bound to lose

Over 400 people have been involved in the HOPE not hate campaign across Greater Manchester in the past week alone. So far they’ve delivered 184,000 newspapers and leaflets, covering 15 of Manchester’s 31 wards, delivering over 25,000 newspapers across Oldham, and putting out 40,000 of the 50,000 leaflets allocated to Wigan & Leigh.
This weekend they’re [...]

Going (back and) Fourth

Since it’s been a relatively quiet Bank Holiday Weekend for news – civilisation hasn’t yet descended into chaos at the hands of swine flu; no-one unusual-looking has proved unexpectedly talented at singing showtunes on telly - rather a lot of coverage has been given to various senior Labour figures bitching about the leadership, each other, and [...]

Unusual amounts of campaigning for one so lazy

Hello all, sorry for neglecting you recently…it is kinda because I have a job now!! I’ve not been doing anything too interesting at the CAB just yet though – just taking it all in – so I won’t inflict any Tales from Grace’s Job on you yet.
I will, however, do my best to impress you [...]

Moston featured in Radio 4’s The Report

The Report last night on Radio 4 was on the Nick Griffin’s chances in the Euro elections, with a feature on Moston as a ‘dress rehearsal’ for June’s vote. Interesting to hear how Sir Richard predicted the vote would go – obviously no-one predicted quite how many votes the BNP would get, but we didn’t [...]

BNP jump on bandwagon, Archdeacon tells them to truck off

Although I’m a Manchester resident and York graduate, my family mostly live in the Black Country, and so occasionally will update me on the to-ings and fro-ings of local news back in the Heart of England.
Last week my Mom mentioned that over in Lichfield a bit of a row had broken out over a local resident [...]

Excellent result for Labour in Moston

According to two out of the three versions I’ve seen so far of yesterday’s by-election result in Moston, the votes went like this:
Lab 1353
BNP 815
LD 696
Con 558
Green 74
It’s a strong result for Labour, reflecting a strong, enthusiastic and very well-organised campaign; and the extent of the Tories’ humiliation is entertaining. (Cllr Lindley says he knows [...]