And why housing is the biggest election issue for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
Even with a biting wind whipping down Royton high street, shopkeepers are taking their lunch breaks outside, pensioners are milling about the park and parents with small kids are dodging between the shops on Market Square.“Nah, I don’t care about all that, sorry,” one mum said, making a wide swerve towards the Boyes with her buggy.Of the dozens of people the M.E.N.
“I’ve always been a Labour voter but I have no confidence in any of them at the present time,” 69-year-old Gordon said, pausing to talk to the M.E.N. on a lunch-time stroll. “They say one thing one moment and two days later they contradict what they’ve said. “I’ll tell you what I won’t be voting,” Irene said with a grin. “Conservatives! It was when wanted the boys to go back to the armed forces - I’ve got grandsons that age - there’s just no way. Why do they want to use our children as cannon fodder?”
“Usually, I do vote. This year - it’s difficult,” Lynn said. “There’s not a lot between the two parties. She doesn’t hold much of the smaller parties and independents, who she says can make “wonderful promises” because “they know they won’t ever have to put them into action”. And Usman Ali, a 22-year-old perfume seller and aspiring perfume designer in the Spindles Centre, also said he was voting independent in his first ever General Election.
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