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Local’s website brands Moston as a ‘ghetto’


16/ 5/2008

A CONTROVERSIAL website has been launched slating the state of Moston and depicting the area as "little more than a ghetto".

The site (www.moston-martyr.blogspot.com) run by an anonymous poster called 'The Moston Martyr', features an eight minute video of boarded up houses and businesses in the district, accompanied by text lambasting the council, private landlords, asylum seekers and vandals.


 

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   the offending (or rather offensive) item on you-tube is a subtle and sly but blatant piece of covert racism. whilst attempting to capture the moral high ground, the martyr instead gives a perfect example of what doctor johnson meant when he declared "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" the martyr (or scoundrel as he is) is a good example to us that in this day and age, not all racists have swastikas tattooed on their foreheads.

dave f new moston
david fawcett, new moston
20/05/2008 at 13:43
   I entierley agree with the comments it was a lovely little village of shops and you could get anything you wanted they have lost all the atmosphere of the area including where i live in Waterloo street we are continually having building and no one cares what we think we are living in a building zone and this has been going on for years they have not give us a break and how they can say they are regenerating the are is behond me Eileen
Eileen Barker, Blackley
17/05/2008 at 14:10
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