I think it's their links to Manchester and Salford. Think Engel's old man owned factories here.
Apparently it was Hazel Blears who started the story off, telling people that she drank in the same pub as them. An MP bending the truth? Never!
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 17:41, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

She needs stabbing in the eye with a fork, her.
Annoying little shit.
Are you Salford?
I was raised in Ormskirk.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 28 Oct 2013, 17:47, Reply)

Live in Manc, boozer is is Salford.
I know where it is, never been there. Nearer Scouseland isn't it?
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 17:51, Reply)

Are they different places?
I always thought of them as part of one sprawling concrete metropoturd
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 18:15, Reply)

It is really, but people from Salford are proud of the fact for some reason, and get arsey if you call them Mancs.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 18:22, Reply)

Yer, thirteen miles out, used to be far enough.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 28 Oct 2013, 18:40, Reply)