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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 30, 2014 17:07:39 GMT
A double defection from Conservative to Labour on Dudley Borough Council: Cllrs Glenis Simms (Wordsley ward) and Cheryl Billingham (Kingswinford North and Wall Heath ward).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 17:24:31 GMT
A double defection from Conservative to Labour on Dudley Borough Council: Cllrs Glenis Simms (Wordsley ward) and Cheryl Billingham (Kingswinford North and Wall Heath ward). Reasons? |
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Post by thirdchill on Oct 30, 2014 17:28:36 GMT
A double defection from Conservative to Labour on Dudley Borough Council: Cllrs Glenis Simms (Wordsley ward) and Cheryl Billingham (Kingswinford North and Wall Heath ward). Reasons? From the BBC News website: 'Both councillors say they've chosen to leave the Conservative party because they thought the leadership at Westminster was out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people in Dudley.' |
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Post by neilm on Oct 30, 2014 17:41:51 GMT
What exactly is going on in Dudley? Someone seems to have really set the cat amongst the pigeons there lately.
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Post by maxque on Oct 30, 2014 23:27:01 GMT
Kingswinford North and Wall Heath voted Conservative in 2011 and 2014, but Labour in 2012.
Wordsley voted Conservative in 2011, Labour in 2012 and UKIP in 2014. Both councillors are up next year.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 5, 2014 10:00:20 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 5, 2014 13:30:09 GMT
Given that a Black Country accent didn't stop Enoch Powell getting elected in Ulster, I suspect that accents were not the cause here. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 6, 2014 15:15:45 GMT
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Post by Sibboleth on Nov 6, 2014 17:10:04 GMT
Given that a Black Country accent didn't stop Enoch Powell getting elected in Ulster, I suspect that accents were not the cause here. Enoch Powell did not have a Black Country accent. Old fashioned lower middle class Birmingham. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 6, 2014 18:23:00 GMT
Given that a Black Country accent didn't stop Enoch Powell getting elected in Ulster, I suspect that accents were not the cause here. Enoch Powell did not have a Black Country accent. Old fashioned lower middle class Birmingham. Unfortunately, although I'm normally good with accents, I can't tell the difference between a Brummie accent and a Black Country accent, nor between a Geordie and a Mackem accent. I'm now going to run for cover... |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 6, 2014 20:07:36 GMT
Enoch Powell did not have a Black Country accent. Old fashioned lower middle class Birmingham. Unfortunately, although I'm normally good with accents, I can't tell the difference between a Brummie accent and a Black Country accent, nor between a Geordie and a Mackem accent. I'm now going to run for cover... This might help with the latter.. |
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Post by mrhell on Nov 6, 2014 21:02:15 GMT
Enoch Powell did not have a Black Country accent. Old fashioned lower middle class Birmingham. Unfortunately, although I'm normally good with accents, I can't tell the difference between a Brummie accent and a Black Country accent, nor between a Geordie and a Mackem accent. I knew someone from Sunderland a number of years ago. He said to some mates and me that his favourite food was "chicken cave". We eventually worked out he was saying "chicken kiev". |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Nov 6, 2014 21:08:54 GMT
Given that a Black Country accent didn't stop Enoch Powell getting elected in Ulster, I suspect that accents were not the cause here. Enoch Powell did not have a Black Country accent. Old fashioned lower middle class Birmingham. My wife's family was not "lower middle class"! |
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Post by Crimson King on Nov 6, 2014 21:32:34 GMT
Women goes into a hairdressers in Sunderland and says "I'd like a perm" so the hairdresser says "Ah wandered lonely as a cloud"
Two women on South Shields beach in 1941 hear engines "Are those war planes?" "No pet, I think its the Germans"
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 7, 2014 0:11:16 GMT
Brummie bloke walks into Tie Rack in Birmingham in the Seventies.
Shop assistant says: "Would you like a kipper tie?"
Brummie bloke says "Yes please mate, milk and two sugars"
I'll get my coat, babs.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Nov 7, 2014 0:54:48 GMT
There is a diphthong unique to the North East, a sort of 'ua' sound. Such as when you walk into a pub after last orders and the landlady tells you: 'I'm cluased, pet'.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 7, 2014 8:24:20 GMT
There is a diphthong unique to the North East, a sort of 'ua' sound. Such as when you walk into a pub after last orders and the landlady tells you: 'I'm cluased, pet'. Ah yes! You're right. I knew a bloke from Sunlun at uni who only ever drank vodka and coke, and so was known by all and sundry as "Vodka Cuak". |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2014 9:15:11 GMT
Brummie bloke walks into Tie Rack in Birmingham in the Seventies. Shop assistant says: "Would you like a kipper tie?" Brummie bloke says "Yes please mate, milk and two sugars" I'll get my coat, babs. I now feel compelled to relate the following true story. Opening day of our bookshop, late August 1994. We have just spent three weeks unpacking, scanning, and shelving nearly 100,000 books; at this point, you could blindfold me, name a book, and I could walk to the right shelf and put my finger on it. Most of us, including me, have never worked in a shop before, so we've had customer service drummed into us - do everything you can for the customer, they're always right, etc. I'm sitting at the 1st floor desk when a woman comes up. In a broad Brummie accent (go on, do it in your head) she asks, 'Excuse me, do you have any books on Eeyore?' I'm slightly doubtful, but I take her downstairs to the children's section, show her the 40-odd different Winnie-the-Pooh books, and say 'I'm not sure if there's any specifically about Eeyore, but he does feature in most of these.' She looks at me incredulously, and says 'No, not Eeyore. Eeyore. You know, the programme about the hospital? With George Clooney?' Not the only day I've felt stupid, but one of the best. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2014 17:14:29 GMT
I am reminded of the Kenneth Williams anecdote about the woman queuing up at a book signing.
"Eeer, what you signed that for?"
"Your name, madam, Elma Chizzit."
"Nah, I said 'Ow much iz it!"
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 7, 2014 17:33:23 GMT
I was under the impression, in the same vein, that people in Skegness referred to women from Leicester and Nottingham as "Emma Chisset" from their alleged habit of constantly asking what the price is.
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