Rochdale Is My Town Too, and It Sums Up the Whole Sham of the Past 13 Years [Edition 2]
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THE real fuss that followed Gordon Brown's run-in with Gillian Duffy in Rochdale shouldn't have been about microphones or manners, but about why she said what she did.
Had he listened more carefully, the Labour leader would have realised that Mrs Duffy's concerns about immigration and employment raised fundamental questions about the real state of the British economy.See the full content of this document
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Rochdale Is My Town Too, and It Sums Up the Whole Sham of the Past 13 Years [Edition 2]
She was speaking, from experience, about life in a town - my home town - that is mired in post-industrial decline and is likely to remain so. People in Rochdale do not look at economic graphs and talk about double-dip recessions and the credit crunch. Their economy is flatlining. And it...
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