Skidder Shorts No. 26 - Holiday from Hell?

It is that time of year where the fortunate among us head for the beaches. We drink too much, over-eat and are often forced into the company of ghastly people. This is certainly one couple many of us unwillingly find ourselves running into:

Skidder Shorts indeed.....

But things could be even worse. Imagine going on your travels and bumping into "The Turdmeister" himself!!!!!

The woman-bullying thug who "leads" Sandwell Council, Darren Cooper, was on the radio yesterday talking about the new "Greater Birmingham" talkshop. The raison d'etre for yet another tier of politicians is that this will help "market" the region to businesses around the world but, in an ominous sign for future unity, the local councils outside Brum are objecting to the obvious "Greater Birmingham" despite the name "Birmingham" being known across vast swathes of the globe. Cooper's new official social media spokesman, Mr Hipkiss (who, to be fair, alleges that he is suffering from unspecified mental illnesses), has been actively promoting the region as a new building society, "The Heart of England".

Dimwit Darren is not noted as a linguist and has only a tenuous grasp of basic English. His total obsession with the Baggies is worrying in a grown-man and he is risibly parochial but the moron excelled himself in front of the nation yesterday when discussing the name for the "combined authority":

"Look when I go on holiday, you go on holiday, you know people'll say to me where you from? I say, "I'm from Smethwick" er, they'll say, "where's that?". I'll say,er, "by West Bromwich - do you know West Bromwich Albion Football Club?" "Oh yeah". No, it's a brand name isn't it and I don't think calling it Birmingham is the right way to go. You need something bigger than that".

Your guess is as good as mine as to what this gibberish is meant to mean and I would love to know whether all these "people" Dunce Daz speaks to on holiday are actually, er, English but perhaps he goes all cosmopolitan when he gets the bucket and spade out.  Mind you, it seems for global brand awareness the combined authority should start calling itself "West Bromwich Albion Football Club" rather than, say, "Smethwick"! Boing, boing as they so often say in Chongqing!

(Incidentally this vicious troll made a Freudian slip on the same programme saying,  "I can go" but then adding "or whoever chairs that new authority can go" into negotiations on behalf of  four million West Midlanders when the extra level of bureaucracy is forced upon us from above. He still thinks Labour are stupid enough to permit him to "lead" the region which is why he is so anxious not to have a mayoral election wherein his many shortcomings will be cruelly exposed).

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