I wrote to our local Tory MP Mark Logan in Bolton North East on Friday and asked hm to grow a pair and join Andy Burnham, in accusing the government of repeating the same scare tactics used by ministers during Burnham’s recent fall-outs with Westminster, which will see Greater Manchester placed in tier 3 once again.

Michael Gove and his boss has “previous” for this sort of power abuse and used the identical scare tactics against Greater Manchester when they tried to intimidate Burnham into accepting their original fatally flawed tier 3 proposals. It did not work last time and it will not work now.

Our “Red Wall” towns and cities are being bullied into submission once again, and it seems to me to be a deliberate act of malicious Tory “levelling down” and not Johnson’s promised “levelling up”. One thing for certain about Boris Johnson, he is remarkably consistent in performing dishonest, deceitful behaviour. Just ask the blonde...

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London does of course escape the malevolent tier 3 measures, but how could we possibly expect anything else from our lying, disingenuous Prime Minister and his truly horrid cabal of Conservative and Unionist party, cabinet minister cretins? Levelling up my arse.