Opposition motions are like buses at Manchester City Council. You wait eight years for one, and two come along at once.
Wednesday's full council meeting in the Town Hall’s illustrious civic chamber featured two motions from the loose pact of the Liberal Democrats and Green Party, who make up five councillors. The other 91 are Labour.
It has taken this long to get an official motion in place because it needs five councillors to submit it — one to propose, one to second, and a further three to sign it. And, with the Labour Party being an election-winning-machine in the city for decades, any opposition has struggled to make an impact.
