Mottram Bypass News

Mottram Bypass is finally underway. We’ve waited since 1971. Use #mottrambypass for a retweet.

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I wonder if @HighwaysNWEST might comment on our bypass now mentioning completion any time up to 2031? Five years? That seems an awful long time for a short stretch of road. #mottrambypass

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If you’re wondering why the #M67 has been closed today, it’s because “human remains” have been found near #Hyde. https://t.co/MCZn0fKyNP

[Stuart @mcrstuart]

Some thoughts on #RestoreBritain vs #ReformUK. A dose of realism.

I support Rupert Lowe’s ideas completely. But their vetting is crap and all kinds of grifters are becoming branch leads. They won’t gain critical mass before ’29.

They tanked in Makerfield (where I was door knocking for them), they tanked in the Norfolk PCC election, they’ll tank in the #ManchesterMayor election @ ~6% (my prediction). The message isn’t reaching people and/or it’s simply not resonating.

#Reform are far better organised and funded, especially with all those millions in obfuscated aristocratic and crypto cash flowing in. More MPs, more councillors, better PR, better social media game and FAR better polling.

Restore branches even have to fund their own leaflets. I’ve been involved in a local Restore branch. It’s amateur night. Full of local grudges, backstabbing and people’s personal agendas and desperation for office. Business people and even farmers are swiftly excluded if they’re not nodding dogs. @RupertLowe10 visits local branches and gets a curated version of reality. As with #Tameside recently.

This is David and Goliath. By comparison, Restore next to Reform are like a lemonade stand outside a Tesco.

Nice to see, nostalgic perhaps, even ideal to many of us. But they’re not overtaking Tesco. It’s just not happening.

Reform will have to be the vehicle for change. You might dislike #Farage’s shifty financials, you might think Tice smarmy, you might think Yusuf (who will be PM if they win) less than ideal. Actually, despite Rupertgate, I’m warming to @ZiaYusufUK a bit. He talks sense.

You might think Reform have slid into the sloppy centre, supporting the sons of Allah, etc. But Reform, or even a Reform and Conservative coalition, is the best chance we have of getting Burn ‘em out.

To imagine Restore can gain hundreds of seats by ‘29 is for the birds. What they can do is keep forcing Reform to the right. As is happening. That’s no bad thing.

Nothing will be ideal. There’s always a compromise in life. We don’t live in a perfect world.

Reform must be the vehicle we travel on. For now.

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We need a few of these around #Mottram.

[Grant @grantleighstore]

If you have #speeding traffic where you live, and want to slow it down with a sign, what can you do? Wait months for a council “feasibility study” to be then told no? Or, you could just quietly put your own #roadsign up. Job done! https://t.co/PW0x4FY8tJ

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A little delay today for #mottrambypsss traffic.

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@mcrstuart @RestoreBritain Grok broadly agrees.

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Somebody had a bad day on the #M67 yesterday.

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@thatdlh @jreynoldsMP It seems ChatGPT has their number. Doesn’t this look familiar? Our apparently elected representative seems rather quiet on the matter.

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Here’s the latest on #mottrambypass. The promised August start didn’t happen, of course. Not sure when they think summer is. If anyone sees any actual work, do holler.

#Glossop #Hollingworth #Hyde #Stalybridge #Mottram

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@thatdlh @jreynoldsMP They have form for this.

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@letsgostorm10 @_HeinzSchmidt @sheffieldtrib The latest.

[Janet 🐝❤️🏒 @letsgostorm10]

@mottrambypass @_HeinzSchmidt @sheffieldtrib Which August I wonder? 27th and no sign of a spade yet.
Oh except from the ones causing the chaos on the moor itself this morning.
Same s**t different day. 😡

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