The Cock of the North struts into Downing Street

As the Cock of the North’s Socialist coup comes to fruition, he could become as prolific as Donald Trump in using social media.

Andrew Burnham is certainly no stranger to on-line propaganda. In three months between January and March this year, his Greater Manchester authority spent £4,923 on Facebook ads and £14,330 with Google.

Our glorious leader’s former fiefdom spent £854 on email marketing with Mailchimp not to mention £252 with Elon Musk’s X to ‘enhance the user experience’.

Still, it’s small beer when merely eating and drinking leads to credit card payments of £930 at Asda, £301 at Costco, £110 at McDonalds, £569 at Morrison’s, £310 at Sainsbury’s, £434 at Tesco and £279 at Waitrose.

Mind you, when Manchester firepersons went to Mozambique in January to help with flood relief, they managed to pay £473 to Kangela Maputo which would appear to be a luxury seaside resort ‘nestled in the unspoiled coastal bush of Maputaland and overlooking the breathtaking Indian Ocean’.

One of the few policies today’s Prime Minister has outlined is a cut in taxes for High Street shops paid for by an increase in taxes on warehouses. This will dismay one of Greater Manchester’s biggest suppliers, Amazon, where £6,231 was spent on 139 transactions in the first quarter of this year.

The shops might not need the help if only Mr Burnham and his staff bothered to get off their backsides and use their local shops rather than sitting at their desks waiting for yet another Amazon Prime delivery. Still, it seems Mr Burnham likes to do things the easy way.