The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful at The Malmaison Liverpool
05/02/2020
Downtown Director, Chris McKenna headed to Malmaison in Liverpool recently. Read his thoughts of his experience at this week’s ‘Venue of the Week!
NO COINS OR BONGS FOR ME
30/01/2020
As we leave the EU, Jim looks back on the opportunities missed by those that embraced the European Vision to win the hearts and minds of the British people for the project.
Lancashire – Keeping Britannia Cool
30/01/2020
Lancashire – Keeping Britannia Cool, a Guest Blog written by Marketing Lancashire’s CEO, Rachel McQueen,
Moving powers will make more difference than moving The Lords
23/01/2020
Downtown boss Frank McKenna isn’t impressed by talk of the House of Lords moving North. He tells us why in is latest blog.
Will towns be the government’s priority?
23/01/2020
Will towns be the new driving force of the Northern Powerhouse? This week Downtown held an event with one of the leading Chief Executives in local government, Wigan’s Alison McKenzie-Folan. Jim hosted the lunch and reports on her forthright views on the cities v towns debate.
Labour’s last chance saloon
16/01/2020
This week Frank McKenna suggests that the election of Rebecca Long-Bailey as leader will kill the Labour Party.
Raise your game Lisa!
16/01/2020
This week Jim gives firm backing to Lisa Nandy in the Labour leadership race. However he acknowledges that the Wigan MP has ground to make up to defeat the frontrunners.
Here’s to the next 10 years
09/01/2020
In his first blog of the new decade, Downtown boss Frank McKenna glances back at a tumultuous ten years and attempts some tentative crystal ball gazing for the next ten years.
It may be the year of the North
06/01/2020
Jim says this needs to be the year when Minister’s are held to their promises on real investment and devolution for the Northern Powerhouse.
The destabilising decade
19/12/2019
In his last blog of the year, Jim looks back on the most turbulent decade ever in British politics. It began with Gordon Brown determined to make Labour the natural party of power and ended with it looking unlikely they will ever be in power again.
Labour’s Decade of Decline
19/12/2019
This week Frank McKenna reflects on the Labour Party’s decade of decline – and warns that only a change of direction can save it from oblivion over the next ten years.
Get Powerhouse done!
17/12/2019
In his final Downtown Monthly blog for 2019, Downtown Political Editor, Jim Hancock explores what the result of the 2019 General Election might have in store.