Northern Soul

Recent remarks on the blog about the activities of so called 'northerners' sem to be causing a degree of annoyance amongst others from 'oop north'. They are objecting to the fact that all those residents of the village who originate from north of Spaghetti Junction are being tarred with the same brush. One person who originates from the Manchester area wishes me to state that those who have been the cause of recent controversy are in fact, 'scousers'. As it hapens this is not strictly true as I believe that one of them does hail from the Manchester area. It also has to be said that there are a number of people from Merseyside resident in the village who live entirely blameless lives amongst us and that it is not the job of this blog to become involved in the feud between Manchester and Liverpool, a feud that seems to have been going since the feud between Rome and Carthage.

At the end of the day, You cant blame troubles in the village on peoples place of birth. The plain fact is that everywhere has its share of anti social elements and given our mobile society, they can move anywhere. Its also the case that sadly, Silverton has produced its ffair share of the undesirable down the years. It may be handy to pass of f the blame for some of our troubles on 'northerners' or 'scousers', but we might find that the next outbreak of anti social behaviour comes from people born much closer to home.