{"id":215340,"date":"2020-10-21T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215340"},"modified":"2020-10-23T07:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:12:32","slug":"furious-local-leaders-condemn-spiteful-and-nasty-imposition-of-tier-3-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215340","title":{"rendered":"Furious local leaders condemn \u2018spiteful\u2019 and \u2018nasty\u2019 imposition of Tier 3 rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PA \u2013 Oct 20, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Local politicians have reacted angrily to the &#8220;spiteful, vindictive and nasty&#8221; way Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions are being introduced in Greater Manchester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that harsher rules would come into effect in the region from the early hours of Friday, in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus, with \u00a322 million of support for local authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said attempts to strike a deal collapsed after the Government refused to meet his demand for \u00a365m to support the livelihoods of people in the region as they face the closure of pubs, bars, bookmakers and other premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Government is yet to confirm if there will be any extra cash for businesses, which provoked anger from Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s an utter disgrace that businesses and workers in GM won\u2019t get an extra penny from government to support them in Tier 3.<br \/>Andy is right: it\u2019s utter spite.<br \/>The idea of all in this together has been totally shattered this week.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lucy Powell MP (@LucyMPowell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucyMPowell\/status\/1318587750229118979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s an utter disgrace that businesses and workers in GM won&#8217;t get an extra penny from government to support them in Tier 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Andy is right: it&#8217;s utter spite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The idea of all in this together has been totally shattered this week.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner was similarly enraged, and called the lockdown news &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; and &#8220;a punishment&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She said: &#8220;Greater Manchester been badly let down by the PM and his cronies in govt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Spiteful, Vindictive and Nasty, so many will now suffer great hardship, it will be the ones again who can least take it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disgraceful , a punishment nothing else, Greater Manchester been badly let down by the PM and his cronies in govt. Spiteful, Vindictive and Nasty, so many will now suffer great hardship, it will be the ones again who can least take it. Tories really do not care about the North. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MFs6Ud1mBQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/MFs6Ud1mBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ? Angela Rayner ? (@AngelaRayner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaRayner\/status\/1318583904748687371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She had said earlier: &#8220;The Government have failed us in Gtr Mcr and we won&#8217;t forget it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Andy Burnham is right to stand up to protect our communities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ms Rayner is the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne which will now also be moved into the Tier 3 category<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mr Burnham spoke to reporters in Manchester minutes shortly beore the Prime Ministers Downing Street address, and was informed of the \u00a322m figure when shown on a phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The shadow foreign secretary called the incident &#8220;disgraceful&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Lisa Nandy, MP for Wigan tweeted: &#8220;In 10 years in Parliament I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;MPs are on a call with the Health Secretary being told Greater Manchester is getting only \u00a322m while our mayor is at a press conference being told by the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;This is bad faith, it&#8217;s immoral \u2013 just disgraceful.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She added: &#8220;I grew up under Thatcher but I&#8217;ve honestly never seen anything like this.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.co.uk\/news\/2020\/10\/20\/furious-local-leaders-condemn-a-spitefula-and-a-nastya-imp\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger grows as Boris Johnson imposes the strictest lockdown measures on Greater Manchester, against the wishes of municipal leaders <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215342,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215340\/revisions\/215342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}