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Will electing new MPs more often give better choices and benefits for the voters? Like switching insurance & phone companies etc. Loyalty may be old fashion nowadays.

Voting for new MPs more often make them more competitive and will benefit the public.

Will opening the way and encouraging more independent candidates to stand for the parliamentary elections benefit the communities more than just having the parties MPs.If there are more MPs, people and communities would have better choices of MPs, more competitions and hence improve the performance of the MPs and that would benefit the people. It just likes what we see nowadays in the market. People get better prices and same or superior services from insurance, internet, mobile phone, utility companies etc. because of the competition. The principle works with having more candidates and may have new good MPs more often. The principle only works if more independent MPs in the area. Having just party candidates doesn’t work as voters vote for a party and not for the MP. Vimto heard a lot of comments about that. People say, parties MPs more dedicated to the party than the people vote for them. Some times candidates from the parties land from anywhere, maybe too far away and the voters may don’t know them, or they don’t know the area.

Probably it is the best time now to have more independent candidates if they get help and that help won't be wasted.
A lot of parties MPs not happy with where their party going,
A lot of party supporters and for the matter of the fact members not satisfied with their parties. Heard some party members intending to vote for other parties !!!!.
Party leaders are very unpopular, and they have some supporters drive members and MPs out of the party.
So what is a better time than this to have more independent parties?

In our opinion, people will benefit from more independent MPs, but the question is who will help them as they don’t usually have much support. Are the people and community ready for this and can they help? This is Vimto opinion, what is yours?

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Are you the Gentleman in front of this picture?

Every month visitorsinmanchester.com will publish a photo from our archive for someone spotted in Manchester. 

If you see your photo here, you can write to us to tell about yourself, where you from and attach your photo, 

what you think of Manchester, why you were in Manchester in not more than 500 words. visitorsinmanchester.com will publish it

and present you with a prize of 100 Pounds, one hundred pounds.

We are sorry to hear such sad news

We are devastated to hear the sad news that Piccadilly Rats star Ray Boddington is fighting for his life in hospital after being struck by a tram. As reported in Manchester Evening News  in below link:
 
Our thought with his family and his friends and we are praying for him.
 
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Ray was Praying for Manchester Arena boom victims  on May 22, 2018, Please pray for him 
Out of respect to Ray, we are stopping the activity of  ” Spotted In Manchester ” for now and hoping Ray will recover soon and we will see him bring the smiles to everyone in Manchester again.
 

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According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 Worldwide Cost of Living, Survey Manchester is the 51st most expensive city in the world. The only city ranks higher than Manchester in the UK is The Capital, London.

Manchester is moving up and up every year, and it has jumped five places since last year.

Some of the essentials items for Manchester visitor considered in the survey like to mention: food, drink, clothing, rent, transport, household supplies and personal care items, utility bills, domestic help and recreational costs.

Here are some links showing the cost of living in Manchester published by other sites if you are interested in looking at them. Probably they are not going to be very accurate, but you may use them as an indication for the cost of living in Manchester including the cost of living as a student in Manchester.

 

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Manchester

 

 

https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/manchester

 

And here is the cost of living indicator for the student

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/experience/student-life/living-costs/

 

 

 

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Not Ordering Drinks In Restaurants

Visitorsinmanchester.com Team One = VIMTO

A few weeks ago VIMTO took guests, a couple and their three children, to a restaurant in Manchester. The meal ordered and no alcoholic drinks ordered with it. For the drink, it was tape water and for the children fizzy drinks. While eating in the restaurant, the guy asked VIMTO sudden an unexpected question. Do the restaurants' owners in Manchester regret us eating in the restaurants without ordering wine and other drinks when the restaurant is fully booked and no empty tables there and they would miss the opportunity to make more money? The guy asked this because he usually drinks when he goes out without his family and knows how much the drinks cost in restaurants. The answer was, VIMTO never thought of any problem when a group of people go to a restaurant and don’t order a drink. VIMTO took so many visitors to restaurants in Manchester and no drinks ordered because the guests don’t drink alcohol. The kind hospitality, friendliness and courtesy as good as extended to the others and as you can see it. But we have to admit sometimes we try to avoid busy places on the weekends where the restaurants have a good selection of drinks and the meals usually nicer combined with drinks. Not because people who don’t drink alchohol shouldn’t be there ( not drinker ) but probably most of the guests come to Manchester with the children and take them out with them to restaurants. the atmosphere and most of the time children. t in Manchester people are free to eat what they like and drink what they like and go to where ever places they like. in Manchester there is no problem with what people eat and drink from the restaurant's menu and we never thought about it the question raised. However, because of the guest question, it is good to know some opinions. That is based on the revenue restaurant make and nothing else. As the difference in the bills for say 2 groups of people, each group has the same number of people 4, each group ordered the same meals with different drinks.

Group 1 meals cost, £100 for the meals and £ 51 for the drink ( a bottle of wine with the main course and 2 beers and two coktails on arrival ) Total £ 151

Group 2 meals cost, £ 100 for the meals ( 4 meals and tape water ) Total £ 100

or

Group 2 meal cost, £ 100 for the meals and £ 20 for the drinks ( 4 soft drinks ) Total £120

Group 1 meal cost is 31% to 51 % higher than group 2 and some restaurants have a very high margin on alcoholic drinks see Manchester Evening News articke xxxxxxxxxxx . In addition, the diffidence in the bills can be much higher during special occasions like new year, vanities day, Christmas, wedding anniversary and birthdays etc.

 Of course, restaurants won't lose money but would miss the opportunity to make more money for group 2 and that is also, applied when the guests order cheap items from the menu or if they order one course instead, 2 or 3 courses.

VIMTO assures the visitors in Manchester, they don’t have to worry about not ordering alcoholic drinks in the restaurant and only not to go to the restaurants late or when the restaurants are very busy when they have children with them to enjoy the meal better.