You’re not from New York City, you’re from Rotherham…
The Arctic Monkeys included that pithy remark in their debut single, way back when t-shirts and scarfs seemed acceptable.
Myself, and many other Rotherham folk, have taken great glee in fooling the general public in to believing the quiff-tastic lads are one of our own…they’re not.
However, Rotherham does have famous sons and daughters that it can boast. The Chuckle Brothers hail from our small, Northern town.
The Chuckle Brothers are the second least threatening pair of siblings in ‘Show Biz’, just pipped by Phil and Grant Mitchell. The Eastend ‘hard men’ would fail to terrorise Andrew Sach’s, either in person or over the phone.
(Pic. Barry and Paul have been the proud recipients of many awards and accolades over the years. They can boast 3 TV Baftas, 4 Children’s Television Awards and 8 Hustler Magazine ‘Player of the Year’ awards, amongst many others.)
Rotherham has also hit the headlines in the past decade or so, for various reasons.
TV motor mouth Jamie Oliver, bit off more than he could chew (and that’s probably a lot), when he crossed the bulldog faced mothers of one Rotherham school in particular.
The self-righteous chef, had the audacity to remove chips and burgers from the kiddie’s lunch menu! Within a week Rotherham’s answer to ‘White Dee’ was passing turkey twizzlers and chip butty’s over the school railings, to help sustain an almost famished Chantelle and friends!
(Pic. Jamie’s Ministry of Cooking, closed in Rotherham after the government slashed funding to pay for George Osbourne’s private mandolin lessons)
This week Rotherham has kept British political journalists busy. It’s most likely the first task all of them undertook was googling the phrase, ‘Where in the world is Rotherham?”
The reason being the 10 local council seats won by Euro sceptic, nut jobs, The UK Independence Party or UKIP
for short.
It is worth noting that in previous years, the nice folk of Rotherham have shown tendencies to vote for political parties such as The British National Party or BNP for short.
There is one theory that aforementioned parties are thriving in this working class town, mainly because they are the only ones that most residents can spell. I don’t subscribe to this theory, as most of the graffiti in the town centre is grammatically perfect.
(Pic. Nigel has demanded that Indian Pale Ale is replaced with English Pale Ale, immediately, at his pub in Rotherham!)
So why have an ever increasing number of inhabitants of Rotherham, embraced UKIP and previously the BNP? (admittedly to a much lesser extent).
Perhaps there’s a genuine fear that those ‘Job thieving Romanian’s’ are en route to work for £1 an hour in the local steel factory. The fact of the matter is that those jobs no longer exist anyway.
Perhaps those ‘work hard and make us lot look bad, Poles’ are en route to grab a higher standard of living and admire the view…it’s unlikely considering the aesthetic beauty of most of Poland!
In all likelihood they are probably disillusioned with the Ox-Bridge elite that run Old Blighty. They probably feel ignored and have very little common ground with Cameron and co.
Whatever the reason I hope it’s just a ‘phase’ and the main parties take some of the points on board to help remedy the problem. My fellow Rotherhamer’s are good people on the whole (every village has an idiot…or two)
In the meantime I hope the people of Rotherham don’t live to regret handing over the shop keys to their newly elected councillors.
Perhaps Barry and Paul Chuckle would have a better chance of success? To Me…To You!
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