Star date: 28th September 2017
DISABLED PENDLETON COUPLE LEFT IN TINNED UP ROW OF HOUSES – IN SALFORD LABOUR'S REGENERATION NIGHTMARE
'I've had enough; I feel like topping myself...'
Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn made a much welcomed speech at the Labour Party Conference on 'regeneration' meaning 'forced gentrification and social cleansing'. He should come to Pendleton to see the sharp end of this, in Rebecca Long-Bailey's own constituency.
Here we report on an elderly, disabled couple, left on a tinned up row of houses in the soon to be demolished High Street estate, with no security, no chance of a new build property, a refused offer to go to Little Hulton, and the acceptance of a house in a shocking state just to stay in the area.
Meanwhile they live with kids chucking stones at their windows, as the Labour Council's plans for the area boasted that it "will lead to a dilution in the current concentration of economically inactive households" by "young professionals..."
Full details here...