Rochdale is one of my towns, if not any longer my kind of town. Reflection upon prosperity turned Rochdale into an ideas factory too. These benefits derived from the “Rochdale Principles”, devised by the Pioneers as the basis of the co-operative movement, which they remain to this day. A better orator than Sunak would surely have used the Rochdale Principles to illustrate how modern politics mocks the ambitions of those who went before. Galloway has promised he will save Rochdale AFC, move Primark to the centre of town and make the market a rival to Bury.
