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‘We don’t deserve this’: Rochdale voters left cold by byelection chaos (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Between showers a queue has formed outside one of Rochdale’s soup kitchens, in Drake Street, and Muhammad Aziz has a shopping trolley of food collected from local businesses and families to give away, offering bread, muffins and cakes to people. “I do this every day,” he said. “Rochdale has a lot of deprivation and a lot of poverty. We’re trying to make Rochdale better again, help people back on their feet.” And how will he vote? “I’m a Conservative,” he says. “The Tories are the people who can bring the money from London.”

Huh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

“The Tories are the people who can bring the money from London.”

They can, they absolutely never will to Rochdale though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

“I’m a Conservative,” he says. “The Tories are the people who can bring the money from London.”

Said by a man handing out food from a shopping trolley to his impoverished neighbours, 14 years into Tory rule…

Pressumably the money is sitting waiting to go on the first HS2 train to Manchester…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I though George Galloway was a convicted sex offender?!?!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I dunno if cosplaying as a cat is strictly illegal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Rochdale is a shithole, but deserves better.