Screenshot of Tory MEPs website front page.
We do normally start our day out with John’s A Look Back column, (which will make an appearance around 8 a.m. today) but we figured we couldn’t pass up this opportunity to point out something from “across the pond.”
We can thank Tom Watson for pointing out this error on this regional site for the English conservative party.
If you look closely at that screenshot (or visit their site, which as of 7:15 a.m. local time had still not been fixed) you’ll notice that the image is actually that of The Magic City. I’m finding it a little strange that the representatives in the region didn’t know enough to realize that the skyline was just a little different (though I’m assuming that we’re getting a great deal of attention online today as a city).
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Birmingham’s Dome // Jan 11, 2008 at 11:06 am
[...] the Other Birmingham thinks they can use the likeness of our beautiful town as their own, well why can’t [...]
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article671676.ece
Leer Corporation, the developer of the “Leer Tower” (formerly the Thomas Jefferson Hotel/Cabana Hotel) in Downtown Birmingham, Alabama launched their website with a handful of photos, more than half of which were from England’s second city.
Actually Tom stole the story from my blog a few days before! You would think as one of his constituents he would hat-tip me!
http://westbromblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-dont-trust-my-meps.html
Apparently this is not that uncommom. Observe:
http://twitter.com/docartemis/statuses/576156872