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[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Manchester Model. What It Actually Looks Like Up Close.

Andy Burnham is asking the country to trust him with Downing Street on the strength of what he calls the Manchester Model. Eight years of integrated public services and progressive governance that he says Britain should adopt nationally. Before the country decides, it should know what that model actually produced.

Start with the money.

£578 million in public money was lent by Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker. A tribunal found that GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending, exposing taxpayers to a risk the tribunal described as potentially wiping out the public funds. A meeting between a senior GMCA officer and Whitaker at which loan terms appear to have been agreed produced no minutes or notes. Court papers allege Renaker presented high profit figures to the GMCA when seeking loans and low profit figures to Manchester City Council when seeking exemption from affordable homes requirements. The Court of Appeal is considering judgment on whether the loans were lawful.

Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable. Less than five percent. Whitaker's personal fortune grew from £140 million to £698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. The luxury towers were marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. Hundreds of flats have been sold to Asian investors according to Telegraph analysis of Companies House filings.

Now the transparency.

In April 2026 the Information Commissioner issued a practice recommendation to the GMCA for failing to publish Freedom of Information compliance statistics. Greater Manchester Police, under Burnham's authority as Police and Crime Commissioner, was separately issued with an ICO enforcement notice for 850 overdue FOI requests, more than 800 over six months old. The oldest had been waiting two and a half years.

Now the transport flagship.

The Bee Network has absorbed a £30 council tax precept increase in two years to subsidise its operation. The £115 million Clean Air Zone was scrapped after £211 million in public funds was received and only £22.5 million returned. Burnham's own transport commissioner acknowledged the network remains twenty two years behind London. The board of Be.EV, the company holding the Bee Network's public EV charging contract, includes Burnham's wife, who joined the company six years into his mayoralty and was appointed to the board as his Westminster ambitions became increasingly visible.

Now the promises.

Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping by 2020. Rough sleeping rose. Today 18,000 people across Greater Manchester have no permanent address. He promised Platt Bridge a flood solution by 2018. The area flooded in 2015, 2021 and on New Year's Day 2025. The projected solution is now 2028. When asked on Question Time why he would not apologise, he said it was before his time. He became Mayor in 2017. The promise was made in 2018.

Now the politics.

Labour's candidate to replace Burnham as Mayor is Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, the body that accepted Renaker's low profit figures and granted the affordable homes exemption. The mayoral by-election on 30 July will be fought under the supplementary vote system rushed through the Lords two days before Burnham's Makerfield victory, designed to consolidate left of centre second preferences and lock out Reform.

108 Labour councillors lost their seats in Greater Manchester in May's local elections. The region Burnham governed for eight years delivered the most devastating local election result in Labour's history.

This is the Manchester Model. These are its documented facts. The country is being asked to implement it nationally. It should read the small print first.

Bev Craig. Labour's candidate to replace Burnham. Leader of the council that granted Renaker's affordable homes exemption.

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

One of the best films of all time

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

@ZackPolanski This post just screams mental health

1% of 0.4% of the atmosphere is allegedly attributed to man made emissions by the UK.

Let bankrupt the company to make no difference at all. Sounds logical to nobody except the mentally ill

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The police officers who handcuffed Henry Nowak took 8 minutes to realise he had been stabbed

MALE POLICE OFFICER: I’m not sure he’s breathing.

FEMALE POLICE OFFICER: (Checks for pulse in neck)

MALE OFFICER: He's not breathing.

FEMALE OFFICER: Right let's get the handcuffs off.

MALE OFFICER: Let them know he's not breathing.

FEMALE OFFICER: Yeah. (Talks on police radio). From 4-8 we don’t think he’s breathing. Could we get another unit here please? Got no pulse.

MALE POLICE OFFICER: (Unlocks handcuffs). Medic or anything. ARV.

FEMALE OFFICER: (Talks on police radio). ARV towards [us] if we’ve got them with a defib.

MALE OFFICER: (Removes handcuffs)

MALE OFFICER: He’s not unconscious mate, he’s not breathing. (Continues chest compressions). Come on mate. That’s it, that’s it. Keep breathing. Come on. (Pauses briefly). No.

FEMALE OFFICER: No? Keep going.

MALE OFFICER: Come on mate. Stay with us.

FEMALE OFFICER: Yeah, that's it mate, come on.

MALE OFFICER: That’s it. Come on, take a breath. (Continues chest compressions). That’s it bro, I got you. Come on.

FEMALE OFFICER: (Talks on radio). Go ahead? Thank you. Do you wanna swap?

MALE OFFICER: No, I’m alright.

FEMALE OFFICER: Sure?

MALE OFFICER: Come on mate. Come on. That’s it. That’s it.

FEMALE OFFICER: Have you, can you put a torch … I just wanna make sure that he hasn’t been stabbed. Are you alright to hold it? Thank you.

FEMALE OFFICER 2: (Walks into view). Do you want me to do it? Here you are.

FEMALE OFFICER: Cheers mate. (Passes torch to female police officer). Right, they’re gonna want him down to skin level for defib.

FEMALE OFFICER 2: I’ve got some … oh SCAS are here.

FEMALE OFFICER: Have you got scissors? Grab some scissors.

MALE OFFICER: (Continues chest compressions). Come on mate. (Whispers). He’s fucking gone. He’s got blood coming out his nose. (Talks quietly). He’s fucking gone.

FEMALE OFFICER: Right, if you stretch that clothing for me. Stretch it out. Perfect. (Unseen gesture/cutting of clothing). There's a lot of blood.

MALE OFFICER: Has he been stabbed there?

FEMALE OFFICER: Yeah, he's got a stab... there's a mark there.

MALE OFFICER: That makes it worse. He's got a stab... I'm pushing on a fucking stab wound. (Sound of clothing being ripped)

FEMALE OFFICER: That's okay. It's fine. It's not... it's not coming out. It's fine. Keep going. Keep going. It's not bleeding out.

MALE OFFICER: (Continues chest compressions)

At this point, a paramedic arrives and takes over. The transcript ends at 23:46. Nowak was pronounced dead at the scene at 00:37

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

Unless it’s an emergency, the NHS is just not fit for purpose or value for money anymore

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

@ThatG4m Woodgate
Owen
McManaman

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

@Rydon_lfc Without looking at replies

McManaman
Anelka
Sterling
Sturridge
Fowler

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

@Liverpool Greatest or best? Sauce is easily in the top 3 for best player.

Greatest and best are 2 debates

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

Anthony Gordon is fucking garbage. Newcastle laughing all the way to the bank

[Woosh @WooshVibe]

@GBPolitcs I expect to see at least double the amount of England flags as there otherwise would have been 🫡

[AshesOfEmpire @PabloZecone]

@GBPolitcs We’re not asking permission to fly our own flag in our own country. They can go fuck themselves.

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

The civil service seems to have decided who the next Prime Minister is.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"Stop touching your face or mouth"

> licks finger to turn the page

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

This is what 100% right wing tactical voting would return in a General Election...

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

@damzychillin Luis Garcia

[Resist CBDC 🏁 @Resist_CBDC]

The shortest serving PM in history is also the only one to oppose Agenda 2030, Digital ID and CBDC. Not a coincidence.

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

@RepLuna @Keir_Starmer Yes @RepLuna

[Common Sense Patriot @CommonSenseP1]

When Andy Burnham becomes UK PM, it will it be more fixed than when Gerald Ford was manufactured into the White House as POTUS?

Same playbook, same globalist masters

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

A liability of over £200 billion avoided thanks to Brexit. Happy 10th anniversary.