Southend is great compared to other "dumps", says MP (From Echo)

Stupid is as stupid does.

In a rambling radio monologue, Mr Amess said some of Southend’s competitors, which include Plymouth, Portsmouth and Leicester, “wouldn’t know culture if it was put in front of them”.

..and Southend does?????? Chav city more like!

Blinkered comment, i guess he hasn't been round certain side streets and tower block territory.(No offence to those who live there btw) . Typical tory they believe everything that passes their lips.

Thats not a classy thing to say about competitors & will probably damage the bid.

"He even claimed a successful bid for the title could be enough to bring the Brit Awards, the Baftas and even the Eurovision Song Contest to Southend in future years."

& this comment sums up just how much MP's lie about things in general, he must be so use to making stupid, fabricated statements, that he thinks he can get away with anything.

"In a rambling radio monologue"

Either the Echo & hinting that he was drunk or this guy cannot control what he says, either way he is not the type of person who should be representing southend in parliament.

Very fitting picture composition,it just about sums up this brainless parasites 'job'.

This fool only ever opens his mouth to change foot.

leighman wrote:
Very fitting picture composition,it just about sums up this brainless parasites 'job'.

You beat me to it.

First of all Southend is a town, Does no one in the council, Amess, etc, remember the thousands wasted on the embarassing failed city status bid???

Second, do they not realise this bid is for 'City of Culture' status not 'Multiculture'?

Also aiming ill informed insults at such historical places as Plymouth & Portsmouth really shows how dum Amess really is.
Here is more proof (not that its needed) that Amess is the epitomy of 'Silver-Spooned-Buff
oon' and everthing that is wrong with a upperclass tory that doesnt live in the real world.

Cake anyone????

Is he suggesting that Brits,Bafta's and Eurovision can be held in the tiny cultural centre? There is no new space available as SBC have built "affordable" flats on it...

Portsmouth has The Victory(Nelsons Flagship) It has The Mary Rose, It has a superb road network.It is known for its docks.
Plymouth has The Hoe, The Armada set sail from there
Oh, and Mr Amess, Southend has its iown dump- put at Shoebory by the Council. Better that!

alongtheway wrote:
Portsmouth has The Victory(Nelsons Flagship) It has The Mary Rose, It has a superb road network.It is known for its docks.
Plymouth has The Hoe, The Armada set sail from there
Oh, and Mr Amess, Southend has its iown dump- put at Shoebory by the Council. Better that!

bring back the Golden Hind....

In fairness Leicester is a dump. And should it not be londonderry in the article as opposed to derry.

Leighdweller wrote:

leighman wrote:
Very fitting picture composition,it just about sums up this brainless parasites 'job'.

You beat me to it.

he only likes it because it's a safe seat for him.

Any doubt that he might get re-elected and he'll run, like he did from Basildon

Cosmo Spring wrote:

alongtheway wrote: Portsmouth has The Victory(Nelsons Flagship) It has The Mary Rose, It has a superb road network.It is known for its docks. Plymouth has The Hoe, The Armada set sail from there Oh, and Mr Amess, Southend has its iown dump- put at Shoebory by the Council. Better that!

bring back the Golden Hind....

Pompy's got The Ship Anson, Keppels Head and Gun Wharf Quays. Plymouth has The Union Rooms, The Walkabout and (my favourite) The Newmarket (if you've ever been in it you'll know why I like it). Visit them Mr Amess and you get a reminder of what British culture used to be. Visit similar pubs in town (Last Post, Sutton Arms, Slug and Lettuce) and you can sometimes play spot-the-Brit. Southend a city of culture? Multi-culture more like.

Bring back The Cork and Cheese.

Quote some deluded MP: “I can see us in years to come having the Eurovision Song Contest here, and the Brit Awards, and the Baftas.
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haha.

The last thing Southend would need or want is the Eurovision Song Contest. It is an abominable waste of money and in England's case, a pointless event.

He doesn't half spout some bile at times. Having been brought up in Plymouth and still a regular visitor AND having an enormous soft spot for Southend I can tell Mr Expenses that there is no comparison.

Plymouth's seafront - Plymouth Hoe - looks out over one of the biggest natural bays anywhere. Looking past Drake's Island, on one side you have the rolling hills of south east Cornwall and on the other, the South Hams of Devon not to mention Dartmoor to the rear.

Doesn't Southend's aspect take in Sheerness docks and Coryton?

Plymouth has hundreds of years of sea-faring history under its belt and still is home to the largest operational naval base in Europe - this despite the industry being decimated over the past 30 years; Drake, Hawkins, Reynolds, Nelson, Scott, Beryl Cook, Trevor Francis, Rippon, French, Sleep, Davies and Sinden to name but a few children of Plymouth; Paul Sturrock still has a base there!

Didn't Colin Ireland once live in Southend?

How about the Pilgrim Fathers or the Spanish Armada or the task force for the Falklands? Maybe the Blitz or the Citadel or the historic Barbican; goodness even Union Street and the numerous historic old pubs of Plymouth.

Doesn't Southend have Adventure Island and Amusement arcades?

Yeah, Amess, keep chuntering on, son, keep chuntering on. Mug.

in the picture above. Amess has just been spending several hours with the big calculator putting in things like 5378008 and turning the calculator upside down. His Tory 'handlers' use it as a prop to keep him occupied and to prevent him from embarrassing the government.

Anyway.

Southend is now the most 'invested in' dump on the planet thanks to some sitcom-worthy capital investment spends and an arrogant and closed Tory council...

Amess and Duddridge make a right pair, typical Tories. They are both at it at the monent !
Pleased I am not a Tory.

Langdon Hillbilly wrote:
He doesn't half spout some bile at times. Having been brought up in Plymouth and still a regular visitor AND having an enormous soft spot for Southend I can tell Mr Expenses that there is no comparison.

Plymouth's seafront - Plymouth Hoe - looks out over one of the biggest natural bays anywhere. Looking past Drake's Island, on one side you have the rolling hills of south east Cornwall and on the other, the South Hams of Devon not to mention Dartmoor to the rear.

Doesn't Southend's aspect take in Sheerness docks and Coryton?

Plymouth has hundreds of years of sea-faring history under its belt and still is home to the largest operational naval base in Europe - this despite the industry being decimated over the past 30 years; Drake, Hawkins, Reynolds, Nelson, Scott, Beryl Cook, Trevor Francis, Rippon, French, Sleep, Davies and Sinden to name but a few children of Plymouth; Paul Sturrock still has a base there!

Didn't Colin Ireland once live in Southend?

How about the Pilgrim Fathers or the Spanish Armada or the task force for the Falklands? Maybe the Blitz or the Citadel or the historic Barbican; goodness even Union Street and the numerous historic old pubs of Plymouth.

Doesn't Southend have Adventure Island and Amusement arcades?

Yeah, Amess, keep chuntering on, son, keep chuntering on. Mug.

The pilgrim fathers may have sailed from Plymouth but they were from Billericay.

Shoebury_Cyclist wrote:

Langdon Hillbilly wrote:
He doesn't half spout some bile at times. Having been brought up in Plymouth and still a regular visitor AND having an enormous soft spot for Southend I can tell Mr Expenses that there is no comparison.

Plymouth's seafront - Plymouth Hoe - looks out over one of the biggest natural bays anywhere. Looking past Drake's Island, on one side you have the rolling hills of south east Cornwall and on the other, the South Hams of Devon not to mention Dartmoor to the rear.

Doesn't Southend's aspect take in Sheerness docks and Coryton?

Plymouth has hundreds of years of sea-faring history under its belt and still is home to the largest operational naval base in Europe - this despite the industry being decimated over the past 30 years; Drake, Hawkins, Reynolds, Nelson, Scott, Beryl Cook, Trevor Francis, Rippon, French, Sleep, Davies and Sinden to name but a few children of Plymouth; Paul Sturrock still has a base there!

Didn't Colin Ireland once live in Southend?

How about the Pilgrim Fathers or the Spanish Armada or the task force for the Falklands? Maybe the Blitz or the Citadel or the historic Barbican; goodness even Union Street and the numerous historic old pubs of Plymouth.

Doesn't Southend have Adventure Island and Amusement arcades?

Yeah, Amess, keep chuntering on, son, keep chuntering on. Mug.

The pilgrim fathers may have sailed from Plymouth but they were from Billericay.

Might have been a couple of families from the area but essentially the passengers were a mixed bunch mostly from the southern and eastern counties though there was a strong Dutch contingent aboard too. Little known fact: they were never meant to sail from Plymouth; they only did so because they had to call in en-route from Southampton to the Americas because the other ship on the voyage (the Speedwell) started taking on water (it was susequently abandoned in Plymouth).

Anyway...up the Argyle!

Maybe he meant Southend was the best dump out of all the other dumps.

He'd be correct then wouldn't he?

Oh, and will people stop bleating about the council? It was voted for by a majority of the people. It's called democracy. I think.

Get over it losers.

Sad bitter losers.

The one thing that will actually get 95%+ of echo commenter's in agreement is that southend is a bloody dump- we just differ on why.

Rochford Rob wrote:
Maybe he meant Southend was the best dump out of all the other dumps.

He'd be correct then wouldn't he?

Oh, and will people stop bleating about the council? It was voted for by a majority of the people. It's called democracy. I think.

Get over it losers.

Sad bitter losers.

Oh yes, we had a choice of corrupt politicians with blue rosettes, corrupt politicians with red rosettes, corrupt politicians with yellow rosettes and a few other corrupt politicians with multicoloured rosettes. Truly a victory for democracy.

You do seem to spend a lot of time arguing with people you term "sad bitter losers", which brings up the rather obvious point of have you nothing better to do than associate with people you despise?

Does'nt the notice board titled Money for Life along with his expenses calculator sum this individual's priorities up perfectly? He looks like he's working out how much more money he can make out of contributing nothing until the election. One things for certain, few of his constituents will be enjoying any Money for Life as his regime's tax rises wipe out the plebs.

southchurchroad wrote:

Rochford Rob wrote:
Maybe he meant Southend was the best dump out of all the other dumps.

He'd be correct then wouldn't he?

Oh, and will people stop bleating about the council? It was voted for by a majority of the people. It's called democracy. I think.

Get over it losers.

Sad bitter losers.

Oh yes, we had a choice of corrupt politicians with blue rosettes, corrupt politicians with red rosettes, corrupt politicians with yellow rosettes and a few other corrupt politicians with multicoloured rosettes. Truly a victory for democracy.

You do seem to spend a lot of time arguing with people you term "sad bitter losers", which brings up the rather obvious point of have you nothing better to do than associate with people you despise?

Show me where (in this thread) I used the word 'despise'

I have plenty of better things to do than have battles of wit with unarmed men.

But sometimes it passes spare time.

I notice you spend a lot of time here too BTW which makes you what exactly the owner, the man in charge? No? I thought not.

Another fellow loser like me I suppose. Have a nice day.

Rochford Rob wrote:

southchurchroad wrote:

Rochford Rob wrote:
Maybe he meant Southend was the best dump out of all the other dumps.

He'd be correct then wouldn't he?

Oh, and will people stop bleating about the council? It was voted for by a majority of the people. It's called democracy. I think.

Get over it losers.

Sad bitter losers.

Oh yes, we had a choice of corrupt politicians with blue rosettes, corrupt politicians with red rosettes, corrupt politicians with yellow rosettes and a few other corrupt politicians with multicoloured rosettes. Truly a victory for democracy.

You do seem to spend a lot of time arguing with people you term "sad bitter losers", which brings up the rather obvious point of have you nothing better to do than associate with people you despise?

Show me where (in this thread) I used the word 'despise'

I have plenty of better things to do than have battles of wit with unarmed men.

But sometimes it passes spare time.

I notice you spend a lot of time here too BTW which makes you what exactly the owner, the man in charge? No? I thought not.

Another fellow loser like me I suppose. Have a nice day.

If calling people "sad bitter losers" isn't despising someone, then what is?

I enjoy spending a few minutes a day provoking people on the internet while seeing how many errors the echo can manage per article- it's not a big part of my day. Trolling the daily mail comments? now, there's some sport!

Had he been drinking?

If calling people "sad bitter losers" isn't despising someone, then what is?

Well, it certainly ISN'T what you claim. You have misquoted me or lied or both.

Alleging a falsehood. Oh well, lots on here do it.

I consider visitng here akin to fishing, cast a line and see what gets hooked.

Like fishing in a barrel sometimes. So easy.

Obviously he has not been in the town long enough to have a good look around lately , away on his freebees. What is left of our culture then Mr Ames.?

Other towns may be dumps (and other commentators have expessed doubts about this) but they all have better MPs than Southend.

Mr Amess is one of the worst MPs in the country, self-regarding, self-obsessed, and completely shameless.

emcee wrote:
Quote some deluded MP: “I can see us in years to come having the Eurovision Song Contest here, and the Brit Awards, and the Baftas.
-
Hahahahahahahahahaha

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haha.

How about the Oscars, beats going all the way to canes

Southend is hardly a place of culture

wonder if other places in the running have as much dogs shiiite as we do.