Hmmm, mildly disappointing.  My comments were intentionally way over the top, expecting to be slated on all sides, but it didn't happen.

I knew Margaret Thatcher had an affected accident and that many people couldn't stand her - that's why I mentioned her to wind people up, but I was very real when it came to Billy Connolly.  I genuinely can't understand two words he says when he get's excited, telling jokes.  A Birmingham accent is acceptable as is a general Welsh accent although they tend to put the emphasis on the last letter of each word.  My sister picked up the same dialect when she moved up to Bangor many years ago.  I lived spent and worked in London which has, as you say, become a mishmash of every dialect under the sun.  The east London and Essex accents tend to be sharp and unforgiving.  My accent is impossible to place because I have lived in Cyprus and everywhere else during my childhood - I hate hearing myself on tape.  The "real" me sounds nothing like what it sounds to my ear.  If you hear yourself on tape you'll not recognise yourself.

Finally it was a rather daft thing to come out with though - no Liverpudlian need apply - they've shot themselves in the foot on that one!