Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Wot no Newport?



"A TORY MP from Surrey has written an extraordinary paean to Wales, describing the nation as an "underwired erotic coquette" and Swansea as "Britain's Bay of Naples".
Michael Gove, who represents the quintessential Home Counties constituency of Surrey Heath, also spoke of Wales' burgeoning "sexiness" and praised South Wales' innate "romantic and sensual" qualities.
"There is an undeniable strain of loucheness in the South Wales air, and one that I think is even more pronounced if one goes a little farther west, to the city that even more than Cardiff is Britain's most Mediterranean - Swansea," he said.
Swansea's Lord Mayor last night predictably welcomed the comments, although he went to point out that Swansea was, in his view, "better than Naples". "

Having seen St Mary St on a Saturday night I think I know what he means about loucheness.

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