‘We don’t deserve this’: Rochdale voters left cold by byelection chaos - eviltoast
  • Jaccident@lemm.ee
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    9 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…

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    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.

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

      They can, they absolutely never will to Rochdale though

  • thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.