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Andy Burnham’s Northern Redistribution Plan

Chelsea Bloom

Andy Burnham’s Northern Redistribution Plan: Ten Absurd Examples Exaggeration and irony, deployed at motorway speed, with a diversion via Rochdale. The Financial Times has argued that Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham should launch a devolution “big bang.” Under Burnham’s own interpretation of northern redistribution, this apparently means shaking Britain by the ankles until everything expensive falls out of London’s pockets and lands somewhere near the M60. Burnham has spent years telling the Lords Economic Affairs…

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Andy Burnham’s Trump Tribute Act

Violet Woolf

Andy Burnham Trump Tribute Act: 15 Ways Britain’s New PM Is Rewiring Populism By the Prat.uk Political Desk Andy Burnham has denied, repeatedly and with the wounded dignity of a man accused of enjoying golf, that his premiership bears any resemblance whatsoever to Donald Trump’s. This is a reasonable position. Trump built towers. Burnham is building a second Downing Street out of a former Greggs. The two men have almost…

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Relocate Left-Wing Newspaper to Manchester

Judi Online

Andy Burnham’s First Act of Northern Devolution: Relocate Every Left-Wing Newspaper to Manchester Labour declares Britain cannot truly rebalance the economy until every columnist is forced to complain about the rain from a different postcode. Britain’s incoming political revolution has finally identified the nation’s greatest regional inequality. It isn’t investment. It isn’t transport. It isn’t wages. It’s the embarrassing fact that almost every newspaper editorial demanding socialism is still being…

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Nicola Sturgeon Shocked

Siobhan O’Donnell

Nicola Sturgeon Shocked To Discover Husband Had Secret Life As Actual Husband EDINBURGH — Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has revealed she was devastated to learn that her husband, Peter Murrell, apparently spent years doing things without first submitting a detailed PowerPoint presentation to her. The revelation has stunned married couples throughout Britain. A man who shares a roof, a postcode, and a council tax bill with another human being turned…

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Northeast Voters Always Say “NO”!

Caitlin Moran

Northeast Celebrates 1,000 Years Of Consistently Rejecting Terrible Ideas And Voting No on Dumb Referendums is a GOOD thing! NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND — Historians, political scientists, and several confused civil servants gathered this week to celebrate the enduring legacy of the North East of England, a region whose voters have achieved something almost unheard of in modern democracy: occasionally reading government proposals before voting on them. The anniversary is being marked by…