Liverpool- why do we need it ?

[liverbird04]

went on newsnow ,came across and article which said 'A city replies' http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/readerslet...ity_replies.php

 

and so went onto to find the article that was actually posted but 'York evening press'

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/search/display...._we_need_it.php

 

Liverpool ? why do we need it?

By Mike Bentley

 

I'VE NEVER had much time for Liverpool and its inhabitants.

 

I'm tired of their forced jocularity and their braying celebrities, all of whom flee to leafy Surrey as soon as the bank account permits. I'm tired of their whining grief addiction and their interminable minute's silences (if, indeed, a minute's silence can be interminable).

 

I'm sick to the back teeth of their self-righteous football fans demanding "Justice for the 96" when any sane person would ask: "What about Justice for the 39?", namely the dead Italians of the Heysel Stadium disaster (And what is this "justice" they demand anyway? Kelvin MacKenzie's head on a stake?).

 

I was therefore unimpressed when the place was awarded Capital of Culture status for 2008. Oh joy - a Beatles theme park, Jimmy Tarbuck's stand-up act projected on to the Liver building, and that thin, bespectacled bloke from the Scaffold reciting bad poetry in front of a tracksuit-clad audience.

 

That'll impress the Europeans.

 

It comes as no surprise then to read that they're already managing to c**k the whole thing up. Plans for a new £65million Museum of Liverpool have hit the rocks after the uber-trendy, weird-bearded curators decided that as well as a pair of Roman sandals, the first Ford Anglia built at Halewood, one of the world's oldest locomotives and Yoko Ono's All You Need Is Love counterpane from the Montreal peace bed-in, the museum will also "celebrate" the dark side of Liverpool life. And dark it is.

 

The poverty, the slave trade, here we go again bloody Hillsborough, the racist murder of Anthony Walker and the appalling saga of the Jamie Bulger case. All suitable entertainment for Japanese tourists, I'm sure you'll agree.

 

Unfortunately none of the black polo neck-clad Guardianistas bothered to mention this to Jamie Bulger's mum, Denise Fergus. They obviously take the view that such public hand-wringing is a cathartic condemnation of the Thatcher Years (even though she'd gone three years previously) and is there for all Lefties to use and abuse as it fits their political agenda.

 

We'll leave the final word to her: "I am boiling with rage. What kind of callous people would think of doing this in the name of art and culture? They must be mad if they think I am going to stand by and watch them do this to the memory of my precious son."

 

And you can't say fairer than that.

 

 

 

8:59am Friday 9th February 2007

 

 

fancy writing something like that in a local newspaper ,imagine the Liverpool echo doing that to some other city or town??

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