On Monday we reported on the “Clean and ‘Green’ Spaces” initiative of Manchester City Council’s Executive. (Scooping the Manchester Evening News by a day. Just sayin’). A Moss Side resident, Jo Campbell, has set up a petition on the “e-petitions” website. In this video below (made by MCFly editor Marc Hudson) she explains why she set up the petition, whether she is opposed to a cleaner and greener city (no), and what she wants you to do.

And today and tomorrow MCFly is running interviews conducted with Councillors Nigel Murphy (Exec Member for the Environment), Bernard Priest (Neighbourhood Services) and Simon Wheale (Lib Dem, Leader of the Opposition). These interviews were conducted before the e-petition went up, so support/rejection of this was only put as a hypothetical question to Councillor Wheale. Perhaps MCFly readers would like to put it as a “real” question to Councillor Priest and/or Murphy. And – more importantly – their own councillors…

DISCLAIMER: MCFly’s editor Marc Hudson has worked with, and will work, with Jo Campbell of the “Ask the People of Manchester” campaign. Make of this what you will. This disclaimer will appear on all stories about the Clean and ‘Green’ Initiative published on MCFly.