Councillor Grace on the miners and the riots

Manchester City Councillor for Fallowfield Grace Fletcher Hackwood has been writing on Labour List today about the media coverage of the South Wales mining tragedy last week.

Grace writes:

the media didn’t exactly ignore the miners - Sky even sent Kay Burley along to ask people what a colliery is – but you might have noticed that last week’s tragedy (four deaths) has now dropped off the news altogether, as compared to the riots (five deaths, six if you count Mark Duggan) which dominated the news all summer.

It's a fair point

It is though her rather tongue in cheek comments about Manchester's reaction to the riots that intrigues me:

In Manchester we did it our own way – branding the city with a cheesy recycled slogan, slapping it on tacky t-shirts, icing it on cupcakes in the Northern Quarter, encouraging people to party and businesses to offer bargains.

Now I am not saying a word