I was in Rigby's on Dale Street the other night and Stan Boardman was in there having a stand-up arguement with Ken Dodd (well, it kind of looked like them).
Doddy wasn't convinced about the whole Capital of Culture idea and Stan was putting him straight:
"You'd like that wouldn't you? Me, praising the great scouse diaspora; you, belittling the great strides we've made since Derek Hatton. I suppose you'd like to go back to the days of Scargill and the three day week? You hairy red.
Look at the streets now. The clumsy coblestones have been part covered with tarmac to stop people putting in tripping claims; there's only 73% of the litter there was in 1989 still on the streets of the city centre, and the docks have got real jellyfish in now, not just inflated johnnies. There's a beautiful rainbow called Capital of Culture growing over Liverpool, dropping sweet sweet joy, like in that Skittles advert.
Don't sour it all with your Maoisms. You're probably still waiting to see the results of the French Revolution. Well don't wait to see if the Liverpool Revolution has happened, cos it failed and good on us, I say."
I can only paraphrase really, as I didn't have my dictaphone handy, but I think the basic message is this: "Gather the gold while it's flowing, people, in my Liverpool home..."
Peace.
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