There is a threat Binners and I will be visiting Liverpool sometime in the not too distant future….

Any dates in mind Fred ?

Nice pics Mr O

Liverpool – capital of culture 😆 😆 😆

Oh man, yeah, forgot about Swansea and Liverpool, that’s the two worst places right there. Had a few nights out in Swansea, each time there seemed to be some kind of charity fight-athon, with hordes of bleach-blond, spiked-hair yoots laying into each other.
Still nicer than Liverpool, mind.

I find it strange some of the suggestions people are coming up with. I enjoy visiting Liverpool, the architecture is interesting, the galleries are really good, there is a great concert hall, some nice cafes and restaurants. The new shopping centre is ok if you like that sort of thing. I couldn’t live there and there are areas which are beyond horrible but that’s true of most cities, Liverpool more than some perhaps.
Preston is another one mentioned and I find this very strange. The river ribble is lovely as is the whole ribble valley. The forest of Bowland is one of the most beautiful places in the country. I guess it all depends on what you want, as I wouldn’t go for a night out drinking there.

The worst thing about London is, and people are forgetting this, is that it is full of cockney w***ers.

Just saying like.

..and the best thing about London is that most of them can’t see beyond the M25 so they stay there

Liverpool has some fantastic buildings and architecture – could just do with a bit of restoration money

GlitterGary – Member
The worst thing about London is, and people are forgetting this, is that it is full of cockney w***ers.

Just saying like.

BigButSlimmerBloke – Member
..and the best thing about London is that most of them can’t see beyond the M25 so they stay there

Nice too see our country cousins ‘sharing the love’ 😀

Liverpool 😆 full of wag lookalikes!

I saw a rat with an overall on once! 😆

Cities in England
Bath Birmingham Bradford
Brighton and Hove Bristol Cambridge
Canterbury Carlisle Chester
Chichester Coventry Derby
Durham Ely Exeter
Gloucester Hereford Kingston upon Hull
Lancaster Leeds Leicester
Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool
City of London Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne
Norwich Nottingham Oxford
Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth
Preston Ripon Salford
Salisbury Sheffield Southampton
St Albans Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland
Truro Wakefield Wells
Westminster Winchester Wolverhampton
Worcester York

Cities in Wales
Bangor Cardiff Newport
St Davids Swansea

Cities in Scotland *
Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh
Glasgow Inverness Stirling

Cities in Northern Ireland
Armagh Belfast Londonderry
Lisburn Newry

I’ve been to about 70% of the cities above…

Bradford & Newport are the most grim for me, Both in desperate need of massive investment, The Like of Liverpool& Manchester have benefited from!

Saying London, Edinburgh, Liverpool are the worst, you guys need to do some travelling, clowns!

And so, the worst, most hated, most vile city in the UK is: NEWPORT.

To my mind, this is a bit of a shame as

a) Newport is not Stirling, which I nominated;

b) there’s some interesting architecture going up, esp at Old Town Dock and,

c) it’s the subject of possibly the only genuinely funny Youtube parody in recorded history:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyoDUoH7BZc[/video]

As the more attentive of you might remember, there were only three rules in the contest: “the place you’re slagging off has to be in the UK (UK of GB and NI); it has to be a city as defined here; and, err, it has to be shit”.

A surprising number of STWers were too stupid to follow even these simple rules. Consequently some attempted to vote for places which were not cities. (This was particularly true of people who nominated “London” and didn’t mean the City of London, who showed they neither know what the City of London is – and therefore what they were criticising – nor what “shit” means). Their votes were not counted and they were deemed to be honorary Newportonians.

Others couldn’t keep it succinct and rambled on about a whole lot of places without ever expressing a view as to which city they thought was worst, thus showing they don’t know the difference between singular and plural. Their votes were not counted.

Valid votes are as below.

Birmingham
Birmingham
Bradford
Bradford
Bradford
Coventry
Derry/Londonderry
Hull
Liverpool
Manchester
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Newport
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
Preston
Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Preston
Salford
Salford
Salford
Southampton
Stirling
Stirling
Sunderland
Sunderland
St Albans
Stoke
Stoke

Not cities:

Bedford
Blackpool
Bromley
Chippenham
Crewe
Holyhead
London
Luton
Middlesbrough
Milton Keynes
Reading
Swindon
Torquay

Ah, right, so London isn’t a ‘city’, then. Ok.

Metropolis then?

conurbation perhaps?

just a suggestion…

Nah, London has expanded and swallowed up small towns and villages, rather than two or more towns joining up, like Greater Manchester, Leeds/Bradford, Birmingham/Wolverhampton etc.

Funny that London has a City Hall, yet apparently isn’t a ‘city’. 🙂

Yeees, get in there! Peterborough second. So not just a sh1thole but a second class sh1thole at that 🙂

There is only one reason that Lisburn didn’t top your poll:

Its so crap that no one believes its actually a city.

It does this by not having a hotel, for example, therefore making it difficult for visitors to spend any time there. It does however have the estates of Twinbrook and Poleglass. It makes Belfast look good, which takes some doing.

There is only one reason that Lisburn didn’t top your poll:

Because it’s actually in Portugal? 😐

(It is, isn’t it? Tell me it is. Well it bloody ought to be, name like that. Come over here, take our jobs, get all the best housing next minute you’ll have all their foreign muck on the shelves in shops well I don’t know country’s gone to the dogs if you ask me.)

Elfin, if it was, then it would have a decent climate as a redeeming feature. As it is, its in good ‘ol drizzly Norn Irn. However, a quick google has revealed a Premier Inn has recently been built just inside the “city” limits, so my first point is null and void. Still wouldn’t want to go there though!

Can I put in another vote for Bradford – went to school there and now its even worse as the city centre seems to have developed a big hole where some major investment development failed to materialise.