New Everton Stadium

[Tom Hughes]

Why are you still going on about Kirkby Tom?

I wasn't totally against the idea, though I had reservations. The one argument that did wind me up is the "it's not in the city" bollocks. As far as I'm concerned, Kirkby is part of Liverpool. Don't care what some line drawing, vote influencing politicians say. To say Kirkby is not in Liverpool is akin to trying to tell Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea et al that they're not in London.

I only mentioned Kirkby because I was falsely accused (again) of being against anything other than redevelopment, and also to respond to the paucity/fallacy of the argument of not ever questioning "professionals".

No-one ever said that Kirkby was outside Merseyside.... however the key point was that it was a poor location on the peripheries and was clearly at the behest of third parties. Most of the same arguments would've applied to a proposal to move to Speke or Gillmoss (both within the city boundary), albeit with a slight name change to the campaign.