David Cameron has been on BBC Radio Tees – that’s the radio station for the Middlesbrough area, and the Tees is the name of the river there. Except this happened (via Buzzfeed):
Presenter: “You keep mentioning the River Tyne. That’s not our region prime minister. I’m sorry, we are the River Tees.”
Cameron: “I’m sorry, I thought I was doing….”
Tyneside is of course around 50 miles North of Middlesbrough – it’s home to Newcastle, and Gateshead, and those of us who are from that part of the world like it when people know the difference.
The Tories wonder why they don’t do well in the North East – an area where they have only two MPs. The Miner’s Strike and Thatcher’s decimation of industry/manufacturing is part of it – but so is a Tory party leadership who don’t seem to have much interest in or understanding of the area.
This is just another example…
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