It’s an overwhelming and resounding NO. Borough after borough returned a referendum decision against the Tif money and proposed congestion charge.
The message from the electorate couldn’t have been clearer. The noisey ‘no’ campaigners cheered as each result was returned in front of the country’s media inside Manchester Central just a few minutes ago.
I set off round the room to grab some reaction below.
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Dim Sum Digital 
This is truly an excellent result for Greater Manchester. Congratulations to all those sensible enough to have seen through the propaganda & misinformation & have voted NO.
Be on your guard though, barring a change of government or a big change in policy the grand plan for national road pricing will be brought out again in yet another disguise sooner or later.
We pay enough to use the roads already. Let others pay their way too.
And to all the pro-toll trolls….commiserations & better luck next time (NOT)!
http://www.notolls.org.uk/pdfs/nopr12dec2008.pdf
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What a disaster for Greater Manchester… the luddites win again…
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What a disaster for Greater Manchester… the luddites win again…
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Er, this video doesn’t really add much 🙂 but I like the experiment, maybe you should try it in a situation with less competition from mainstream media…
(on the results: let’s recognise the plan was rubbish and move on, I’m sure that councillors and planners can do better than this.)
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Er, this video doesn’t really add much 🙂 but I like the experiment, maybe you should try it in a situation with less competition from mainstream media…
(on the results: let’s recognise the plan was rubbish and move on, I’m sure that councillors and planners can do better than this.)
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@Giacomo
Doing the live video was a bit of an experiment but I hope it gave some idea of how many cameras and journalists were crowded around every single spokesperson. It was an amazing scene and I wanted to give some sense of it. You are right though – usually I don’t have so much competition! btw, if you want to see some ‘proper’ video check out the main MEN news site for Andy Crane’s reports with Channel M.
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@Giacomo
Doing the live video was a bit of an experiment but I hope it gave some idea of how many cameras and journalists were crowded around every single spokesperson. It was an amazing scene and I wanted to give some sense of it. You are right though – usually I don’t have so much competition! btw, if you want to see some ‘proper’ video check out the main MEN news site for Andy Crane’s reports with Channel M.
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