I know that image is fake but is it also truthy?

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That nice wee Andy Burnham, PM, credits his pals, one at Palantir (sic) and the other in one of the royal palaces in the United Arab Emirates, with helping him make Manchester a bit great again, except, it’s a load of BS.

In the Guardian yesterday:

In 2014, Manchester city council announced a “£1bn deal” with Mansour, one of the world’s richest men, to transform a large stretch of land between the stadium and the edge of the city centre. Richard Leese, then the council leader, promised it to be “a world-class exemplar of regeneration”.

The partnership between the council and Manchester City’s owner, which was called Manchester Life, included more than 1,000 private rented apartments and 395 built-for-sale homes – but not one social or affordable home.

In a sharply critical assessment of the Manchester Life partnership published in 2024, researchers at the University of Sheffield said it appeared that the council had leased the land to Abu Dhabi at a much cheaper rate than many comparable developments – they had “sold the family silver too cheaply”, the academics said – and did not appear to be receiving any rental income or revenue from the property sales.

All of the property, with an estimated worth of £350m, is controlled by Jersey-domiciled subsidiaries and ultimately owned by Abu Dhabi interests, the researchers found.

They described it as a “transfer of public wealth to private hands that is difficult to justify as prudent”. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/01/success-manchester-city-helped-put-andy-burnham-in-power

Is that all? Is it f……….

Embrace ‘Manchesterism?’ What, for more homelessness, crime, corridor care and poverty? For less affordable housing and letting wildfires burn longer? Two Scottish profs are mad fer it clearly

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Embrace ‘Manchesterism?’ What, for more homelessness, crime, corridor care and poverty? For less affordable housing and letting wildfires burn longer? Two Scottish profs are mad fer it clearly

Says who? Prof Sir AntonMuscatelli and Iain Anderson (Jethro Tull?). Have they read anything about Manchester recently?

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