Does he do the same to RU ('good golly Samuel, that was a delightful try') or is it just open season on those simple old northerners like everywhere else in the media?

Nothing like a bit of good old fashioned paranoia, is there...

Everyone takes the mick out of a Northern accent. It's not just in certain unsophisticated media tropes, but in everyday life when you encounter someone south of Crewe.

Even my house mate, from Peterborough has started to do the "eee, lad, by gum..." nonsense at me. I have no idea why this is, really. I really can't fathom the desire or motivation behind it. But hey, life is too short to get worked-up about it.

Even with my adopted Southern softie accent I take the out of 'Londoners', though really that should be the whole of the South East and/or anyone else that lives in a detached 'hoise'..lol

If you are really posh down here you live in a "Hice"

I'm far more offended by the fact that the only regular RL feature is a small subsection in the middle of the weekly RU programme.

Brian Moore might think he's doing us a big favour, but I'd rather have nothing than be treated like a smaller, less important cousin of RU.