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643 people sent me a DM yesterday about my post exposing how Andy Burnham’s Manchester council machine secretly intercepts emails from the public. I believe this new revelation is going to trigger an even bigger shockwave. Manchester City Council is currently fighting tooth and nail to keep a massive urban regeneration contract hidden from taxpayers. The corporate partner is a Hong Kong-based developer called Far East Consortium. The funding is a staggering £120 million of public money, including £34.1 million handed over directly by Burnham’s combined authority. Here is the specific detail that exposes the absolute arrogance of the modern political class. When a local resident filed a request to read the document, the Chinese developer actually consented to its publication. It was the British council that intervened, heavily redacted the contract, and officially branded the taxpayer’s request for basic transparency as "manifestly unreasonable." We are operating in a geopolitical environment where foreign powers routinely use infrastructure and property investment to build leverage inside Western cities. Yet local Labour authorities are handing nine-figure sums of public wealth to Chinese-linked conglomerates, while deploying the full weight of their legal departments to keep British citizens in the dark. They are perfectly comfortable outsourcing the regeneration of a major UK city to foreign capital. They are just terrified of the people funding the project ever seeing the actual terms.