Piers Annoys the People of Wirral | Good Morning Britain

How many people can he offend in one day?

[@zoegenevieveperry8663]

We prefer the definite article. I am from the Wirral (peninsula). I used to live on the Wirral. When I was born it was part of Cheshire and the in 1974 a large chunk was plonked into the new county of Merseyside, which doesn’t really exist anymore. Towns and villages like Ellesmere Port, Neston, Willaston and Burton remained in Cheshire. Today the rest of the peninsula is in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Altogether about 400,000 people live on the whole peninsula. It’s piece of land with the river Mersey on one side and the river Dee on the other side. The tip looks out onto the Irish Sea.

[@jusele-ox9rc]

The fella is a massive whopper

[@KaptainKastle]

Piers thinks there is three bridges connecting the Wirral to Liverpool

[@ianstoyan]

Technically, a tunnel is a bridge. But I'm sure he wasn't meaning that.

[@KaptainKastle]

@@ianstoyan you know there's only 2 right ?

[@pumbar]

@@KaptainKastle If you use the Birkenhead one you'd probably say 1.5.

[@pow474]

@@KaptainKastlethere’s 3 tunnels. Kingsway, Queensway and a railway tunnel 👍🏻

[@KaptainKastle]

​@pow474 yes of course , you are quite right

[@garyrigby21]

It's more or less Liverpool though! It's a suburb of Liverpool

[@kt1pl2]

It's def not...although we were lumped in with them with the covid restrictions.

[@gregconway736]

To be fair who would want to be associated with that city.

[@gymnosophy]

About 500,000

[@MrMRW14]

About 50 million people in Asia, funnily enough!

[@gregconway736]

@@MrMRW14 Only the football team and not the city.. Without the Moores family buying them success in the 70s/80s they wouldn't even know about the place.

[@frank1847]

It beats Birkenhead.

[@frank1847]

Where are you from that is so great?

[@frank1847]

All Wirral people sound like scousers to me. On holiday and there was one from Gayton on the Wirral, and after five days every one including the waiters were calling him scouse! He was most annoyed,

[@iixmaii7574]

I’m from the Wirral and I get angry when people say I’m scouse

[@frank1847]

@@iixmaii7574 I’m a southerner and have worked with quite a few Liverpool and Wirral people and honestly they sound exactly alike to us southerners.

[@mirr1984]

The irony is that Gayton is considered an expensive and posh part of Wirral.

[@frank1847]

@@iixmaii7574 Calm down, calm down!😀

[@gregconway736]

Anfield has always been full of them. City centre folk in Liverpool are not football people. They jumped on the bandwagon in the 70s.

[@shuchow8364]

Brits are so cute with your regional distinctions. In the US, everyone would just consider The Wirral as a suburb of Liverpool. And everyone would call the whole area the "Greater Manchester-Liverpool Metropolitan Area" because they're so close to each other.

[@kt1pl2]

Uh...no. You're either an American that doesn't know anything about Britian OR a British person that doesn't know anything about America.

[@SimonTBam]

Wirral is in Cheshire and Liverpool is in Lancashire. Not even the same county. Merseyside was legally abolished in 1985. Check the Post Codes. Wirral is CH, not L.

[@8ballphil150]

you are wrong on every count . lol. The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of (Merseyside) . also the ch isn't Cheshire . it is a Chester postcode . also Merseyside still exists . Liverpool , Sefton, Wirral ,Knowsley and st Helens . the ch is a common mistake most people make .

[@SimonTBam]

@@8ballphil150 Only I am not remotely wrong. I am completely correct and just what county do you think Chester is in? I know the CH stands for Chester. I did not say otherwise. Merseyside was ABOLISHED in 1985. Look it up. Merseyside along with Greater London etc. was abolished, they ceased to exist, why do you think that there is no more Merseyside County Council, or Greater London Council? Oh yes... because they were abolished.

[@Disinfo321]

Wirral is not in Cheshire, you’re completely wrong. The CH postcode doesn’t mean anything other than for the nearest mail sorting office. The Wirral is in Merseyside.

[@pow474]

@@SimonTBamyou’re completely wrong! Wirral used to have a L postcode until the mid 90’s when they wanted to change to a CH postcode so their house prices would be higher. It’s still in Merseyside and Merseyside still definitely exists along with the Liverpool City Region.

[@SimonTBam]

@@pow474 1986 In 1986 in England, the Greater London Council and the six metropolitan counties were abolished, leaving the boroughs and districts to operate as single-tier units. - Office for National Statistics