Just don’t get this. Have lived in Manchester for 35 of my 39 years but i have just never felt this ‘Manc’ thing all these white lads so earnestly feel.
Like, i love Manchester and i’m proud to be from here but any kind of performative ‘we do things differently here’ stuff just makes me vom.
At work i have to look at the Wilson quote about manc kids having the best record collections. And every day i think that’s just the most bogus thing ever said. Guess he knew what was quotable, though. It’s by the toilets, appropriately.
I had to delete my angry tweets last night about this. What a fucking insult to people living there (not the prison). There is no barrier to growth except racism that’s prevented investment and now flattening the area as if they’re dojg something altruistic and not mass displacement of poor and asian people.
Just heard from my council mole that the council is already in discussion with a resi developer and the council have tried to talk down the developer’s commitment to social housing. Unbelievable
Tbh I’m amazed it’s taken this long as soon as the brewery shut and the warehouse project happened I knew something would one day. It is the most obvious thing to happen since Ducie Bridge or the destroying of the pagoda in Chinatown. It’s due
Something that I don’t quite get is that there are so many flattened bits round there that they don’t need to get rid of Strangeways really. They’ve been building on Elizabeth Street since the 90’s.
What I’m basically gettin at isthat there motives are so clear that even me dead nan can see what is going on.
