I always felt that the idea of town twinning was to exchange various ideas - school visits, musical and cultural communications and the rest - in order the find out more about how other parts of the world live.
Now as an idea that is a brilliant idea until it is used in a crass, ludicrous way - which is precisely what happened in Worcester today: "Worcester may twin with war-torn Gaza"
Apart from the crassness of such an idea (the conflict is one that has been going on and off for decades and to sort out the rights and wrongs of that conflict is so complicated that it will go on and on) what bugs me is that it came from Alan Amos - a man who has only represented a Worcester ward since May last year and who has an - how can I say this? - colourful and allegedly scandalous past, who has turncoated from being a right-wing hang 'em flog 'em MP into a local labour councillor - who seems to be using this almost like a cynical publicity stunt.
Mercifully the reaction from the locals has been almost exclusively an embarrassed laughter - and in some cases outrage.
Anyway ... fancy an exchange trip to Gaza?
Reckon that some of the kids from Elgar Technology College could do more damage that the Israelis ....
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