Cllr Iain Lindley - Salford City Councillor for Walkden South Ward
Without wishing to invoke any further Scrooge jibes… 
Walking through Manchester yesterday I found another reason to dislike the new Santa - it looks absolutely ridiculous and completely out of place without the Christmas market to accompany it. Begone!
I met Cllr Faraz Bhatti this afternoon - I was very impressed.
He was polite, friendly and warm, and happy to talk to everyone even though he has probably spent the last few day shaking hands with most of the Greater Manchester Conservative Party!
It says a lot about the potential the Conservative Party has in Manchester when talented, ambitious and hard-working young professionals like Faraz are choosing to join us. A few years ago it simply would not have happened.
As social networking continues to attract column inches and Facebook continues to garner attention - including a double-page spread in the Advertiser a few months ago - I thought I’d do a quick run-down of a few groups that local residents in Walkden and across Salford might be interested in. I apologise in advance if I had a hand in creating a disproportionate number of them!
First of all, there’s a campaign group about creating a Salford network as well as the current Manchester one. This seems to be a roaring success and has nearly 1500 members. I hope it is successful - Salford is of course very much a City in it’s own right.
Even closer to home, the Save St George’s High School facebook group now has nearly 300 members and has gone from strength to strength. St George’s also has an alumni group, as do Walkden High, Mesne Lea and James Brindley schools. If there are any more local schools with facebook groups please let me know in the comments!
There are a plethora of Conservative groups on Facebook - locally, regionally and nationally - but rather than list them all I’ll just give a quick plug to our own City of Salford Conservatives group.
Finally for now, and not Salford-related, the political hacks amongst us will enjoy “You Know You’ve Been In Politics For Too Long When…”
If you have any Facebook groups you want to share, please leave a comment!
Apologies to those readers who do not use Facebook and don’t have the foggiest idea about what these groups mean…
It seems that the Manchester Labour Party are suffering from a strange case of selective and collective amnesia. At least two Labour Councillors (and probably several more) have demanded that new Conservative Councillor Faraz Bhatti should resign and fight a by-election following his defection from the Liberal Democrats.
Presumably they said the same thing when former Chorlton Councillor Angela Gallagher defected to Labour from the Liberal Democrats. Funnily enough, I don’t think they did.
First of all, apologies for the lack of “wish list for 2008″ - I’ve not had access to a computer for enough time to make a detailed post.I’ll update properly tomorrow.
I thought I’d make a quick post however about the good news from Manchester City Council - a Liberal Democrat Councillor tipped as a rising star has joined the Conservatives.
I welcome Cllr Bhatti to the Conservative Party and I am glad that Manchester City Council now has genuine common sense opposition to a Labour administration that has failed so many people in Manchester.
I hope also that this will end the tiresome media line of talking about Manchester City Council as if it was representative of the whole Greater Manchester region. Perhaps they might like to focus on Salford instead, another inner-city authority where we have a 30% share of the vote and ever increasing numbers of Councillors!
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