Green Party drama and Burnham on the run, seven things you need to know from the Makerfield by-election today

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/green-party-drama-burnham-run-33991110

@ParadeGrotesque @benroyce @kinetix @FediverseSymbol

I don't know if you know the local details of UK politics but there's a June 18th election in a ReformUK/Brexit friendly parliamentary seat which is to be contested by former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as part of a particularly convulted scheme to eventually replace Keir Starmer.
The UK never does anything in a rational way. British history is mainly public relations, murder and theft.

#Makerfield #AshtonInMakerfield

New contenders and Andy Burnham's cabinet: Five things you may have missed in Makerfield by-election

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/new-contenders-andy-burnhams-cabinet-33976602

Reform UK candidate for Makerfield by-election highlights local connections in first-ever campaign video

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/reform-uk-candidate-makerfield-election-33974105

Oasis campaign track and more jogging drama - Five things you may have missed amid Burnham's Makerfield battle

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/oasis-campaign-track-more-jogging-33969698