The Future of Greater

Manchester Arms created by the College of Arms

https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/
Preamble DRAFT

• The beginnings of a 20 year plan to get us back on track for the next 200 years

• To provide “England's last bastion of hope” for the British Noble houses in London

• Implementation date: TBD

Drop me a line if you’re into town planning. Equally if you disagree / have additions, feel free to do the same

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Objectives DRAFT

• To design and develop a city state model

➢Can we develop a self sustaining ecologically driven model?
➢Can we incorporate goods production to compete with services offered in London?
➢Can we achieve a localised balanced economy?
➢Can we have a silicon hub of major industry?
• To ensure the model is in support of the rest of the country
• To deploy the city state model
➢Would this model allow the City access to the EU?
➢What would this model look like?

• If successful, could we sell this model abroad to town planners?

• Could this model form part of the future of the UK?

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Requirements (1/2) DRAFT
• Value creation – Through industry (10 industries housed in each borough?)
➢ Ship building (homegrown?)
➢ Robotics (FDI?)
➢ Tech sector?
➢ …. Micro industries to support the needs of the city state?
• Water and energy supply
➢ Current Supply vs Future supply?
➢ Domestically supplied vs International supply?
➢ Nuclear Fusion reactors to replace fission reactors?
• Food supply – Through farming (Agricultural capacity of Greater Manchester?)
➢ Dietary requirements of populace?
➢ Capacity to produce food domestically?
➢ Shortfall to be met by imports?
• An educational system to reflect the city states aspirations
➢ Education system honed into the local industries?
➢ National Service? (ages 18-20, prior to university/ alternative to college / option to remain enlisted?)
• A transparent governance system
➢ A vision for the city state?
➢ An meritocratic honours system?
➢ An agreed framework to sociologically drive people in the direction of city state creation?
• An applied research base to support the industries and state
➢ Should this be in support of lower educational establishments?
➢ Should the researchers have active involvement with industries?
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Vital Statistics DRAFT

Area Size 1,276 km2 (493 sq mi)

• Ranked in the UK 39th of 48

Population (mid-2017 est.) 2,798,800

• Ranked in the UK 3rd of 48

Density 2,193/km2 (5,680/sq mi)

Ethnicity •White British (79.8%)
•Other White (4.0%)
•South Asian (8.1%)
•Black (2.8%)
•Mixed Race (2.3%)
•Chinese (1.0%)
•Other (2.2%

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The Principality DRAFT

Please note, there are older Coat of Arms in existence representing older boundaries and set ups of local
governments. The Coats of Arms used have been given to the Metropolitan Boroughs of Greater Manchester.
1. Manchester 6. Bury

2. Stockport 7. Bolton

3. Tameside 8. Wigan

4. Oldham 9.Salford

5. Rochdale 10. Trafford

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Governance (1/3) DRAFT

Our Deliberative Assembly:

• A meeting place for the Leaders of the boroughs?

• A meeting place for captains of industry?
• International stakeholders?
• A meeting place where anyone with vested interests in the
city state can listen to the directions of the city?
• A local law making body? – Do we need this?
➢ Central Law vs Local Law?
• Can decision making take place here, what kind of
The round Library Manchester City Centre (1) decision making?
➢ All construction projects planned for the Central Business District?
➢ Foreign Direct Investment decision making?
➢ Governance decision making?
• Can we define who the participants are and who they’d
represent to ensure all demographics are represented?
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Governance DRAFT
The Crux

Paperwork “In” Actions “Out”

Representation of all key

stakeholders during ratification
of documents.

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Governance (2/3) DRAFT

Administration and Facilitation

• To ensure the Deliberative Assembly runs as smooth as possible, a network of hubs need to be
devised to ensure regional input from the boroughs. Can this be achieved through the existing
infrastructure?

Bury Town Hall (6) Rochdale Town Hall (5) Oldham Town Hall (4)

Manchester Town Hall (1) Stockport Town Hall (7) 9

Governance (3/3) DRAFT
Roles and responsibilities
• What kind of activities would be best suited to the regionals hubs?
• Centres for regional Governance?
• Would each Central Government office/portfolio be mirrored to act locally?
• What extra activities do we need to ensure the city remains on track?
• Collect local taxes and allocate to budgets/wealth funds?

Tameside Town Hall (3) Salford Town Hall (9) Trafford Town Hall (10)

Wigan Town Hall (8) 10

Bolton Town Hall (1)
Education DRAFT
• A curriculum to support the state and industry?
• What aspirations exist in society that need supporting?
• Could “school houses” be formed from the boroughs?
• International and domestic ties to ensure a rounded education?
• Boarding / home stay?
• Supporting Military Garrison?
➢ instilling standards and discipline – drive an element of national service? (defined short period or/swiss model)*
➢ Base for the Gurkhas on home soil?
➢ Base for military ancillary services (Royal Engineers, Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, Royal Logistics, Royal
Intelligence Corps)?
➢ Local Greater Manchester Pals Battalion?

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Industry (1/4) DRAFT

1. Manchester Definition of a Borough

Defining Financial Services
Attributes: Home of the Assembly
9.Salford
Schools:
Motto: Concilio et Labore
Translation Wisdom and Effort Definition of a Borough
Defining Shipping
Attributes: Wet and Dry Docks
Media City?
Schools:
5. Rochdale Definition of a Borough
Motto:
Defining Agricultural machinery Translation

Attributes: assembly
Schools:
Motto: To Be Determined?

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Industry (2/4) DRAFT
Can we organise these industries by Borough to help define our culture?
➢ Applied Research Hub?
➢ Food Production?
➢ Create the Uk’s first silicon valley?
➢ Eco Ship building?
➢ Robotics?
➢ Mechanical and electrical Engineering?
➢ Biomedical sciences?
➢ Pharmaceuticals?
➢ Defence?
➢ Electric transportation manufacturing?
➢ Micro industries to support the needs of the populous?
➢ Joint ventures? (companies vs countries)
➢ Controversial: Power generation; Nuclear fusion?

Industries with historical ties to the area

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Industry (3/4) DRAFT
The Jewel in the Crown

Salford Docks 1924 Stolt Kittiwake on the Manchester Ship Canal

• Wider and deeper please?

• Naval base to support Prototype Ship Building?
➢ Mass manufacturing to occur in Liverpool and Hull?
• Transfer of containers through existing means or increase capacity?
• Port to support the city state and industries?
• Will this be a test of our engineering strength?
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Industry (4/4) DRAFT

Gateway to International Trade In

Goods

Gateway to India Mumbai

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Finance (1/4) DRAFT

• The Principality Bank of Greater Manchester

➢ What should the portfolio consist of?
➢ Commercial or residential portfolio?
➢ How should it build a relationship with its sister; the Coop?
➢ Should it finance the large scale infrastructure projects?
➢ Who should the shareholders be? (The state….?)
➢ Should dividends from this bank contribute to
➢ Wealth funds set up to support the state?
RBS, Mosley Street, Manchester
➢ State pensions?
➢ How much does the state cost in Greater Manchester?

• Wealth funds
➢ Can wealth funds be set up to support the state to alleviate tax burdens?

Formerly Natwest, Spring Gardens, Manchester Formerly Lloyds, King Street, Manchester Formerly HSBC, King Street, Manchester 16
Finance (2/4) DRAFT

• Our commodities exchange is currently a shopping mall

➢ Can we bring this back in support of the goods we manufacture and trade here?

• Our Royal Stock Exchange is currently a theatre

➢ Will we ever reach the point where we’d need a local stock exchange?

• Our Bank of England still has skeletal staff manning the fort
➢ Will we have enough activity in Manchester to warrant a regional hub?

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Finance (3/4) DRAFT
The currency
Main Objective: We need to be competitive in the prices we offer on the goods manufactured – Is sterling too
expensive to price in?
• New currency for Greater Manchester?
• Developing a City state and utilising the Swiss Currency Model (2 Currencies; Swiss Franc / Euro)
➢ Ties us into Europe
• Achieve the same as above, but with another currency; $Dollar?
➢ Ties us into the US
• Achieve the same as above but with our trading partners adopting another currency (Yuan / Renminbi in
China)
➢ Provides a level of risk management for the trading partner when managing their internal economy

£= Edvard Munch – ‘The Scream’

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Finance (4/4) DRAFT
Massively political areas with international observers:

• Distributed Ledger and Blockchain Technology

➢ Embedded into the money supply

• Nuclear fusion
➢ Powering the state

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Timeframe DRAFT
Phase 1: 5-10 years Phase 2: 10 - 15 years Phase 3: 15 - 25 years

➢ Mobilise a team of people ➢ Major construction comes ➢ First major shipment from
representing major to an end the North West
stakeholder
➢ Agree frameworks with ➢ Free trade deal agreed with
➢ Prepare frameworks stakeholders the Commonwealth

➢ Introduce major ➢ Begin construction of first ➢ Begin construction of the

stakeholders value adding product city to the agreed plan

➢ Engage with ➢ Eco Ship

commonwealth
➢ Engage with EU
➢ Begin construction of
infrastructure needed to ➢ Begin drafting of free trade
support frameworks deal

➢ Where and how can we accelerate time lines?

➢ Can we accelerate time lines?

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