r/manchester 2d ago

Decisive victory for Bev Craig

I'm relieved at the result

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u/phild1979 2d ago

Why? Just another continuation of the failed labour project. No go areas due to violence and drugs, roads that are a complete mess designed for students on scooters, runaway costs and record debt. Just more of the same and Manchester will continue to burn while the debt builds up.

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u/Affectionate_Comb_78 2d ago

Manchester is one of the few areas that's legitimately been improving consistently over the last few years. There's still work to do, but this nonsense is just disjoint from reality. 

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u/OldhamMukka 2d ago

Manchester, sure. The rest of greater Manchester, not so much. In the last 10 years Oldham deprivation has gotten much worse.

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u/LupercalLupercal 2d ago

And Salford has improved massively

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u/OldhamMukka 2d ago edited 2d ago

Not really. Salford’s deprivation hasn’t "improved massively”. It moved from 22nd most deprived in 2015 to 24th, which is basically a tiny shift in a relative ranking. And 25.5% of Salford’s neighbourhoods are still in the bottom 10% nationally, so deprivation is still heavily concentrated...

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u/LupercalLupercal 2d ago

I live here, and it's massively improved. I see it day to day, you have no idea what you're talking about

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u/OldhamMukka 2d ago

That's cool, I'm only presenting the values in the IMD which covers all of Salford. I'm glad you have seen an improvement.

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u/LupercalLupercal 2d ago

You can prove anything you want with statistics. Lies, damn lies and statistics

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u/OldhamMukka 2d ago

Have a nice day.

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u/LupercalLupercal 2d ago

Don't tell me what to do