Mike Cordingley

When you build your house, then call me.

Walking or cycling by - stop me to chat.

BlueSky: and 'likes' do not endo

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

Was twice a councillor. Labour Party member for 40+ years - now estranged. My posts are therefore my own.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

It gets lots of investment because that's where the people who make the decisions live and work. And often then backfill some justifications about it being because they're smarter than people like me and Tracy who didn't go to the right schools. Pretty much as simple as that.

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

The Burnham buzz in Makerfield is real.

I’ve heard on countless doorsteps: “We didn’t leave Labour, Labour left us.”

Some voted Reform just weeks ago, but are backing Andy because they’ve seen what he can do in Manchester, and want him to take that to the country.

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

@DavyhulmePark @OneTrafford Not good! It's bad for the town centre. A lot of this looks to be private land. Is there a way to crack this nut?

[Survation. @Survation]

Makerfield By-Election Update:
https://t.co/1qzdOOW1SO

Survation conducted a new poll of the Makerfield constituency. Fieldwork was conducted by telephone among 518 adults in the constituency between 26th May and 1st June 2026. A combination of landline and mobile data were used.

Methodology Statement
Population Sampled: All residents aged 18+ living in the Makerfield parliamentary constituency.

Total Sample Size: 518

Data Collection Method: Telephone interview. A combination of landline and mobile data were used.

Fieldwork Dates: 26th May – 1st June 2026

Data Weighting: Data were weighted to the profile of all adults in Makerfield constituency aged 18+. Data were weighted by age, sex, ward and 2024 General Election vote.

Targets for the weighted data were derived from Office for National Statistics data and the results of the 2024 UK General Election.

Margin of Error: Because only a sample of the full population was interviewed, all results are subject to a margin of error. For example, in a question where 50% gave a particular answer, with a sample of 518 it is 95% certain that the “true” value would fall within 4.8 percentage points of the sample result.

Headline by-election voting intention - Table V2 (likelihood-weighted, undecided/refused removed, no squeeze):

Candidate / Party / Vote share

Andy Burnham - Labour 49%
Robert Kenyon - Reform UK 39%
Rebecca Shepherd - Restore Britain 8%
Sarah Wakefield - Green Party 2%
Jake Austin - Liberal Democrat 1%
Michael Winstanley - Conservative 1%
Another party <1%

Base: likely voters, factored by likelihood to vote, with undecided and refused voters removed

Data tables are available here: https://t.co/mAcxDeCGIQ

[Joe Paul Kroll @JoePKroll]

The beginning of AJP Taylor’s ‘English History 1914–1945’ famously ‘goes hard’, as the internet puts it, but part of its brilliance is surely that it was written (or rather edited) to fit a single page.

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

Just completed the audible version of game of thrones. Don't think the dothraki would have talked with country bumpkin accents, but I think giving Tyrion Lannister the voice of Mark Drakeford before even Mark Drakeford had learned to speak that accent is inspired. Overall 9/10

[Tides of History @labour_history]

#OTD 2015. Jeremy Corbyn announces that he will stand in the Labour Leadership contest to give members a "proper choice"

Corbyn argues the candidates "are not offering a clear enough alternative on the economic strategy and austerity, and our attitude to welfare expenditure".

[Shabana Mahmood MP @ShabanaMahmood]

The scenes this evening in Portswood are completely unacceptable.

The Nowak family made a powerful call to us all yesterday to not let Henry’s death be used to create further division, hatred or tension.

There can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder. Those responsible can expect to face the full force of the law.

I thank the police who have tonight shown great bravery and calm in the face of disgraceful violence directed at them.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Nazi salutes and bricks being thrown at police

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

Known far right figures at the heart of the violence in Southampton tonight.

The far right don’t care about respecting the memory of Henry Nowak, they want to promote their own agenda of violence &amp; division.

Don’t let the far right divide working class communities.

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

There are awful live streams on YouTube coming from Southampton. I don't know that not showing it is helping.

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

I just assumed Keir Starmer had gone down with cramp.

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

@forwardnotback Downside risk greater than potential upside. Not worth it.

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

Echoes of Crewe and Nantwich 2008 - playing the candidate, not the political challenge. It's just his one feels deliberate.

[Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire]

Tomorrow’s Times p1

[Rachel Sylvester @RSylvester1]

This was so shocking to research.
- A fifth of kids in YOIs went to the same 6 schools.
- 2/3 grew up in care
- 43% feel unsafe in custody
- 2/3 of young offenders go onto reoffend
- a place at a YOI costs double the fees at Eton and a Secure Training Centre as much as the Ritz

[⚡ @UTDCJ_]

GABRIEL MISSED
COULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED TO A WORSE PERSON

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

It would have taken a heart of stone not to celebrate Gabriel's miss. For one perfect moment everything seemed in harmony.

[Mike Cordingley @MikeCordingley]

@altrinchamhq Wordle 1,805 4/6

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