Manchester has its first proper opposition for eight years as council meeting hit by protests and barbs
Opposition motions are like buses at Manchester City Council. You wait eight years for one, and two come along at once.
Yesterday though, that changed. The two motions were passed; albeit significantly different to how they were proposed by Greens and Lib Dems after Labour amended both. The meeting was adjourned, they agreed to quieten down, then the meeting resumed… and so did the shouting. Eventually, the three people left of their own accord.
He used his six minutes to argue in favour of an amendment to the motion which somewhat watered down the original ideas, before he brought two books by David Laws and Nick Clegg. Coun Karney went after John Leech for his record in government, comically flicking through the index of each text to see a mention of him.
She was followed by Lee-Ann Igbon, who like Coun Bayunu, is a Windrush descendent. The Labour exec member had an amendment.
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