Andy Burnham | Manchester Mayor

urban genie said:
It's Bev Craig you should be asking about.

She runs the council and ultimatelty decides what happens in Manchester

AB is GM and only involved in planni g for things that affect all 10 regions within it like transport, infrastructure etc.
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Ok, question still stands what has he done?
 
bluethrunthru said:
tell me about somewhere - anywhere - where that hasn't become the case. Govt's love ICE vehicles ( road tax, fuel tax etc ) Local Govt loves cars - ULEZ and similar charges, parking charges etc yet both do their best to make their use difficult. At the end of the day they want us in expensive ( more purchase tax ) EV's using public charge points like the one's near me where you pay to charge AND to park ( local govt approved ) and as soon as they get enough on the streets the road taxes will be adjusted to make up any perceived shortfalls. Buses should be free - train travel should be cheaper than car travel thats the way you get people onto them - when we go to Bournemouth for a week I have to go to Northallerton I will need to pay for a weeks parking - £22 - return train ticket at best is £61 return if I book really early then cab at the far end about a tenner each way. So if I can get the stars to align at best for two of us its £164 and we still have to get about when down there so in reality you can be looking at £300 travel for a week. I can do all we need to on a tank of diesel = £75. Its been like that for years with public transport as a result of privatisation
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Do EV vehicles actually have a higher purchase tax? I dont think so. The tax on ICE vehicles, especially high cost ones is surely higher. Also the road tax and fuel duty gained from ICE is much greater than EVs, where the only tax gained is VAT on commercial charge points.
 
urban genie said:
It's Bev Craig you should be asking about.

She runs the council and ultimatelty decides what happens in Manchester

AB is GM and only involved in planni g for things that affect all 10 regions within it like transport, infrastructure etc.
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Bev craig is a simpleton and is a prime example of all thats wrong with politics

She once did a whole video about how builders should use bikes to het round manchester and had a prototype of a bike with a ridiculous attachment.

Utterly no idea about how life actually works.

The fact that she rose to be number one is scary.
Shame on the labour party for elevating her.
Shame on the blind “i always vote labour (or con, delete as appropriate)” populace for voting her in by just putting a cross next to her name without looking into her background
 
Blue Llama said:
He didn't even finish that job did he? Still a lot around with just a pathetic Bee Network sticker on them. Typical Burnham performance. Get the headlines, pass it over to someone else to finish. Or not.
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Tbf to him they are expensive to paint, doesn’t matter to me what colour they are as the older ones are fazed out we will get hello electric one, where you need to be a dwarf to sit on the back seats without twatting your head.
 
While Freightliner is understood to have expressed a willingness to relocate from Trafford Park to nearby St Helens, the company is seeking around £400m for the land, with United valuing it at between £40m and £50m. Ratcliffe has made it clear United are unwilling to accept the asking price set by Freightliner’s parent company, Brookfield, and initial discussions are believed to have reached an impasse.

www.theguardian.com

Manchester United’s ‘Wembley of the North’ stadium plan hits the buffers

Plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium next to Old Trafford are facing delays due to a stand-off over the price of land for the £4.2bn project
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www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Multi-million-pound chasm emerges over Manchester United’s land valuation - Place North West

The football club's plans for the £2bn project have been thrown in doubt due to a £350m difference in the valuation of a plot of railyard owned by Freightliner.
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The freight that freight-liner handles will be transported backwards and forwards between the port of Liverpool and Manchester “on the M62” ? I’m struggling to understand how it will benefit Manchester if the terminus is in St Helens. ?
 
Kirkstall Blue said:
The freight that freight-liner handles will be transported backwards and forwards between the port of Liverpool and Manchester on the M62, I’m struggling to understand in how it will benefit Manchester if the terminus is in St Helens.
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Mayor of Manchester sends jobs to Merseyside.

So, you can take the boy out of Miseryside but, it seems, you can’t take Miseryside out of the boy.
 
Kirkstall Blue said:
The freight that freight-liner handles will be transported backwards and forwards between the port of Liverpool and Manchester “on the M62” ? I’m struggling to understand how it will benefit Manchester if the terminus is in St Helens. ?
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There's a separate Freightliner terminal in Liverpool, at Garston. Parkside would keep a lot of wagons off the roads in Trafford Park but put a lot more on the M62 between the M60 and M6 junction 22.

The land in Trafford Park is worth more than Parkside.
 
So no benefit to Manchester at all

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If the terminal is moved to St Helens onto a 221 acre site, it will cut Manchester out of the loop all the existing freight has to get from the docks in Liverpool to Manchester, and waste from Manchester back to Liverpool ?
The closure of the rail terminal will mean the freight being moved via the M6 and the M62 there has to be an alternative rail link to Manchester
 
Burnham and his Liverpool counterpart propose a new high speed train link between Liverpool and Manchester. 17bn of taxpayers money

Currently it takes 35mins from Piccadilly to Lime street in Liverpool, I’d call a high speed train link a waste of money, it takes over 4 hours to get to South Wales, we still change trains in Crewe or Birmingham, not enough attention paid to North and East Manchester.
 
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By making that statement in public so early on during the negotiations, Burnham is already forcing the hand of the freightliner company.

He is going to do whatever he has to do to railroad United's new stadium through.

Burnham is a Rag c*nt!

The Greater Manchester Mayor suggested compulsory purchase powers could be used if negotiations over land needed for Manchester United’s £2bn new stadium fail but added that reports about a stand-off between the club and Freightliner were premature.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Burnham plays down Old Trafford land dispute - Place North West

The Greater Manchester Mayor suggested compulsory purchase powers could be used if negotiations over land needed for Manchester United’s £2bn new stadium but added that reports about a stand-off between the club and Freightliner were premature.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk www.placenorthwest.co.uk
 
I'd imagine that a CPO to force Freightliner to move from a vital piece of working rail infrastructure would not be easy.
 
BMR said:
Our wonderful Mayor still devoting his time and tax payers money to helping Scruffy Jim and his mates
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39dxdvkepro
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Who pays for a new stadium?

Stadium subsidies can come in the form of tax-free municipal bonds, cash payments, long-term tax exemptions, infrastructure improvements, and operating cost subsidies. Funding for stadium subsidies can come from all levels of government and remains controversial among legislators and citizens

The stadium costs 2 billion funding is from, tax free municipal bonds ? it’s not clear where the money is coming from.
A much better option is to move United to the vacant 221 acre site in Merseyside right next to the M6 M62 save 400 million on buying freightliner and build the new homes on the vacant united land
 
jrb said:
By making that statement in public so early on during the negotiations, Burnham is already forcing the hand of the freightliner company.

He is going to do whatever he has to do to railroad United's new stadium through.

Burnham is a Rag c*nt!

The Greater Manchester Mayor suggested compulsory purchase powers could be used if negotiations over land needed for Manchester United’s £2bn new stadium fail but added that reports about a stand-off between the club and Freightliner were premature.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Burnham plays down Old Trafford land dispute - Place North West

The Greater Manchester Mayor suggested compulsory purchase powers could be used if negotiations over land needed for Manchester United’s £2bn new stadium but added that reports about a stand-off between the club and Freightliner were premature.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk www.placenorthwest.co.uk
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Correct me if i’m wrong but didn’t City have a CPO against a company to build the Stadium or training complex.
Think the owner was a Rag aswell?

I swear i was told that or read it once - I may be wrong though :-(
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
Correct me if i’m wrong but didn’t City have a CPO against a company to build the Stadium or training complex.
Think the owner was a Rag aswell?

I swear i was told that or read it once - I may be wrong though :-(
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The Council did use a CPO against a rag. (Not City) the rag was being an arsehole and refused market value plus costs to relocate. He boasted why he was doing it. He even tried to get rags to buy parts of his land for a nominal fee to make it harder for the land to be purchased
All around him had been purchased and he was stopping, with his tiny little business, a multi million pound project.
It is totally different.
 
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Blue Mist said:
The Council did use a CPO against rag. (Not City) the rag was being an arsehole and refused market value plus costs to relocate. He boasted why he was doing it. He even tried to get rags to buy parts of his land for a nominal l fee to make it harder for the land to be purchased
All around him had been purchased and he was preventing with his tiny little business, from a multi million dollars project.
It is totally different.
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Argh okay.
Typical Rags hey
 
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