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Peter James-Robinson, from Radcliffe, heard his brother utter those fateful words as he led in a coma.

This is a sad day for Britain. We weren’t expecting – or even asking for – a revolution, but a lot of people I know were looking for some kind of change to a system with which millions feel extreme disaffection.

We’ll be keeping you bang up to date all night with the latest results and reaction from across Greater Manchester and beyond.

A new tumblr has got the whole world seeing red, re-imaging all your favourite celebrities with ginger hair, eyebrows and even freckles so here at MM we decided to give some of Manchester’s parliamentary candidates our own (incredibly amateur) makeover.

Flying under the radar in MM’s own backyard are a number of remarkable stories, one of which revolves around a man called Jeff Smith.

We might be a red city, but how green are our councillors? Manchester Friends of the Earth have reached out to all of Manchester’s prospective candidates to find out how highly they prioritise the environment.

Despite dominating politics in the 18th and 19th centuries, it has been 150 years since the Whig Party contested an election in Manchester – but now they’re back!

MM caught up with two of Manchester’s Green Party candidates, Kieran Turner-Dave and Lucy Bannister, to discuss all things Green.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 12 months, you probably don’t need reminding that the General Election takes place this Thursday, May 7th.

Spitting Image, Private Eye and That Was The Week That Was have all provided comic relief from politics and this year’s race for Number 10 has a given rise to viral satire like never before.

The struggle to get kids to eat their food is a universal problem that parents everywhere from Manchester to Montreal are able to agree on.