Life in a marginal: mysterious orange buildings

Anyone care to guess why this long neglected retail unit is being painted a dazzling shade of orange?



Knowing Chorlton it is quite possibly a pop-up shop selling only vintage Tango.

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  1. SpaceSquid6 March 2015 at 11:52

    Clearly some hardline Unionists are worried about the SNP having all the fun in May, and figure if UKIP can run on kicking out all the Muslims, it might be time to re-heat the idea of dealing with the Catholics too.

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  2. Tomsk7 March 2015 at 18:00

    An alarming thought although running candidates in Britain would be a cunning way for the likes of the DUP to challenge exclusion from the TV debates.

    Thankfully the only way this place will divide society is if an argument breaks out over which brand of organic muesli is superior.

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