Where’s my map of Great Britain?
Unless I’ve completely missed something and the West Midlands County has been abolished then can someone tell me who at the Sun newspaper (I use the term guardedly) thinks that Sandwell is in Worcestershire?
Either that or they’re working on very old maps down there.
15th October 2007 in NOT politics
Matthew Revell responded on 15 Oct 2007 at 4:48 pm #
Surely it’s perfectly reasonable to use the traditional counties, isn’t it? Particularly now the West Midlands County Council no longer exists.
Having said that, I’ve no idea if Sandwell is in the traditional county of Worcestershire.
Bob Piper responded on 16 Oct 2007 at 4:59 am #
Some of it was in Worcestershire, but also parts were in Shropshire and Staffordshire.
Actually the Sun’s story was bollocks anyway. Last year a lorry brought down not only the Christmas lights, but also the lamp post they were attached to. All that is being done this year is lights which straddle the road are being replaced with lights attached to a lamp post.
tyger responded on 16 Oct 2007 at 4:06 pm #
ah!
You know it’s Christmas when the rightwing rags start peddling the “Christmas under threat” bollocks.
Everyone knows that Santa didn’t die on a cross for this.
Tim Ireland responded on 17 Oct 2007 at 3:30 pm #
It’s really hard to get your facts straight when you’re making stuff up, isn’t it?
Political Penguin responded on 22 Oct 2007 at 1:55 pm #
To Matt,
I’m not sure that the existence or not of the old West Midlands County Council has any relevance on the issue. The West Midlands is a geographically specific County. Unless for some reason for the last 20 years I’ve been mistakenly putting West Midlands on addresses. How do you write yours? You don’t put Staffordshire on it do you?
You might also argue then that because Thatcher abolished the GLA that London no longer exists but I’m sure people still describe it as London when I last checked and it is classified as an entire region.
To Bob,
Which bit used to be in Shropshire then? I know this side like Wednesbury and that used to be in Staffordshire and that your neck of the woods including Birmingham used to officially be in Worcestershire. Either way, it’s your typical pile of crap from the Sun misrepresenting the facts but who would let that get in the way of the Stalinist imposition of Winterval on us all, doesn’t quite tick the same boxes as boring sensible Council tries to stop lights falling on people’s heads by only attaching them to lampposts does it?
To Tim,
Well, what do you expect?