1y ago

‘We don’t deserve this’: Rochdale voters left cold by byelection chaos

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“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…
Rochdale is a shithole, but deserves better.
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.
- “The Tories are the people who can bring the money from London.”
  They can, they absolutely never will to Rochdale though
I though George Galloway was a convicted sex offender?!?!
- I dunno if cosplaying as a cat is strictly illegal.
A general election is coming, I hope Rochdale gets better options soon.
That said, I can't help but feel situations like these are signs of greater problems with our democracy.

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