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Post by Admin Twaddleford on Jan 2, 2020 17:56:39 GMT
Liverpool City Region
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Post by timrollpickering on Apr 26, 2020 19:40:29 GMT
The Conservative candidate is Jade Marsden.
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 26, 2020 21:18:58 GMT
The Conservative candidate is Jade Marsden. She had a brick through her window during the 2018 local elections, and tagged the Labour group into her tweet "so they would know about it". She then deleted the tweet. |
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Post by bsjmcr on Oct 23, 2020 20:19:50 GMT
Why is it officially "Liverpool City Region" and not 'Merseyside' or even 'Greater Liverpool'? It's so long winded and I am getting fed up of hearing it all the time in the media, and it is confusing as 'Liverpool City' comes first so some would think it only covers Liverpool, and to add to that confusion they have their own elected Mayor too. Greater Manchester makes sense, concise and clear.
All I can think of is the London-centric media has to insist on including the City name every time for southerners who haven't ventured outside the M25 who may not know what 'Merseyside' is.
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 23, 2020 20:23:40 GMT
Why is it officially "Liverpool City Region" and not 'Merseyside' or even 'Greater Liverpool'? It's so long winded and I am getting fed up of hearing it all the time in the media, and it is confusing as 'Liverpool City' comes first so some would think it only covers Liverpool, and to add to that confusion they have their own elected Mayor too. Greater Manchester makes sense, concise and clear. All I can think of is the London-centric media has to insist on including the City name every time for southerners who haven't ventured outside the M25 who may not know what 'Merseyside' is. Because that's what the government called it...I would guess that avoiding Merseyside was an attempt to deny they were re-creating the Metropolitan counties. |
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Post by bsjmcr on Oct 23, 2020 20:31:41 GMT
Why is it officially "Liverpool City Region" and not 'Merseyside' or even 'Greater Liverpool'? It's so long winded and I am getting fed up of hearing it all the time in the media, and it is confusing as 'Liverpool City' comes first so some would think it only covers Liverpool, and to add to that confusion they have their own elected Mayor too. Greater Manchester makes sense, concise and clear. All I can think of is the London-centric media has to insist on including the City name every time for southerners who haven't ventured outside the M25 who may not know what 'Merseyside' is. Because that's what the government called it...I would guess that avoiding Merseyside was an attempt to deny they were re-creating the Metropolitan counties. But 'West Midlands'? This one makes slightly more sense as Greater Birmingham wouldn't have gone down well in Coventry, Solihull, etc, and above all, Sutton Coldfield... And 'Birmingham City' is a football team and a university. |
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Chris from Brum
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Post by Chris from Brum on Oct 23, 2020 20:36:03 GMT
Why is it officially "Liverpool City Region" and not 'Merseyside' or even 'Greater Liverpool'? It's so long winded and I am getting fed up of hearing it all the time in the media, and it is confusing as 'Liverpool City' comes first so some would think it only covers Liverpool, and to add to that confusion they have their own elected Mayor too. Greater Manchester makes sense, concise and clear. All I can think of is the London-centric media has to insist on including the City name every time for southerners who haven't ventured outside the M25 who may not know what 'Merseyside' is. Because that's what the government called it...I would guess that avoiding Merseyside was an attempt to deny they were re-creating the Metropolitan counties. Doesn't this region include Halton, which was not part of the county of Merseyside? |
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Post by Merseymike on Oct 23, 2020 20:58:10 GMT
Because that's what the government called it...I would guess that avoiding Merseyside was an attempt to deny they were re-creating the Metropolitan counties. Doesn't this region include Halton, which was not part of the county of Merseyside? Yes. The argument at the time was that Liverpool is internationally recognised so it made a most appropriate name for the region |
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Post by timrollpickering on Dec 4, 2020 18:34:26 GMT
The name saga was a bit complex. "Liverpool City Region" was the title of the brief Multi-Area Agreement and kicked about as a working title for what was proposed as the "Greater Merseyside Combined Authority". A preference for "Liverpool" over "Merseyside" but disagreement over the exact name led to the order being for "Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority". The constituent members finally agreed on "Liverpool City Region Combined Authority" in early 2014 and the name has been that since. And yes the name is recognisable in a way that some authorities are not (hello "West Midlands", do you include Shrewsbury?) though locally there is some confusion: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-city-region-merseyside-halton-19041897 |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Dec 4, 2020 18:56:56 GMT
The name saga was a bit complex. "Liverpool City Region" was the title of the brief Multi-Area Agreement and kicked about as a working title for what was proposed as the "Greater Merseyside Combined Authority". A preference for "Liverpool" over "Merseyside" but disagreement over the exact name led to the order being for "Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority". The constituent members finally agreed on "Liverpool City Region Combined Authority" in early 2014 and the name has been that since. And yes the name is recognisable in a way that some authorities are not (hello "West Midlands", do you include Shrewsbury?) though locally there is some confusion: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-city-region-merseyside-halton-19041897"West Midlands" is coincident with the metropolitan county of that name, which shares its name with the rather larger government region. Ideally the county would have had a different name, but Greater Birmingham, the most obvious alternative, would have gone down like a cup of cold sick outside the city. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Dec 4, 2020 19:05:31 GMT
Then Coventry and Wolverhampton can't complain when they lose out to Sefton and Wirral because the latter pair are in a more recognisable authority.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Dec 4, 2020 19:40:36 GMT
(hello "West Midlands", do you include Shrewsbury?) Which one! The region, the former metropolitan county, the combined authority (I don't know if those two are coterminus). |
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Post by greenchristian on Dec 4, 2020 19:51:40 GMT
(hello "West Midlands", do you include Shrewsbury?) Which one! The region, the former metropolitan county, the combined authority (I don't know if those two are coterminus). The latter two are. |
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