FORMER Worcester Labour parliamentary candidate Joy Squires sent an email out to party members urging them to give the Tories some grief by packing out the Guildhall during a full council meeting on Wednesday night.

But rather than stimulate a memorable theatrical spectacle, the note was sent on to all and sundry ensuring that by early Wednesday morning not only had amused Conservatives seen it, but yours truly too.

There's nothing like a happy ship.

* THE Syria debate has stirred many emotions across Worcestershire in recent weeks, but the often terse language opted for by some readers isn't going down well with former city council leader Adrian Gregson.

On Wednesday night he called the current wave of 'anti-resettlement' letter writers "predictable little Englanders".

* TALKING about brusque, our man Alan Amos is still offering good entertainment for anyone who will listen.

The former mayor was at County Hall in the week debating with Mark Stansfield, chairman of the Local Enterprise Partnership, and told him many call centre staff employed by massive multi-national firms in cheapo, foreign destinations these days just "don't understand the language".

It's market forces, don't you know.

* LIB Dem Fran Oborski, who's just been enjoying a holiday in New York, was stopping off at an airport in Poland when we rang her to say Labour's Richard Udall was inviting Greens and Liberals to join up in a 'progressive left wing alliance' inspired by the Corbyn movement.

"What a cheek," she hissed. "Before Jeremy Corbyn became leader he told me he'd be absolutely horrified if he won, he said it'd be a disaster for Labour and that moderates like him would be totally sidelined."

This really IS the new politics!

* I WAS purchasing a coffee at County Hall's canteen this week only be accidentally handed change in Euros, with $2 in the old pocket.

Is this the start of a currency exchange bureau opening up?

If so, maybe UKIP could staff it.