Kevin Fitzpatrick
speaker
214 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Kevin Fitzpatrick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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of one of the scenarios in this constituency where people were saying, listen, we've got a huge problem here.
You say you're on our side as politicians, and despite the best efforts of the local councillors in some ways and the MP, Josh Simons, who has managed to get an intervention and the government to commit to clearing it,
The people who live in that direct area and on the end of that street have had two or three years of an absolute horrendous ordeal.
Similar situation with flooding down the road in a place called Platte Bridge, which was another topic.
They got flooded five years ago.
They got flooded two years ago.
All the time, the government and the Environment Agency saying, oh, we really are committed to fixing this for you.
But they were clearly further down the list than they wanted to be in terms of funding being allocated.
So, yeah, some real local, hyper-local issues, but examples people in the area felt of how the politicians talked a good game but just didn't listen to them.
Yeah, and it's been triggered already because the legalities are that you can't be a mayor where you're also a police and crime commissioner like we have here in Greater Manchester and become an MP.
And as soon as his name was read out as the victor in that contest earlier this morning, well, he had to effectively stand down as mayor.
So that by-election has now been triggered.
We've already had an email from the Greens saying that they're going to be announcing their candidate candidate.
early next week so straight from one by-election very excited about another the Greens but yeah that that would be a huge by-election a huge cost to the taxpayer and that was one of the criticisms of Andy Burnham when he when he went for for this role and it's not clear really isn't clear who would step into the hall because he's been such a big figure.
Makerfield has been given one heck of a responsibility.
We're in this sort of holding pattern until that by-election.
I don't remember a by-election like that.
Every man and his dog's going to be there.
From one newscaster to another, thank you so much for making it to the end of this episode.
You clearly do, in the words of Chris Mason, ooze stamina.
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