Couple's last day of holiday ruined by cruel 'Scouse stereotype' insults

Daily Mirror

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Catherine Kemp, 57, and her partner Stephen Rice, 56, were enjoying a weekend away in the Lake District when they popped into a pub called the Crafty Baa in Windermere for a drink
A Brit couple were left appalled when their tranquil Lake District getaway was marred by a man allegedly hurling abuse and tired stereotypes at them during a pub visit.
Catherine Kemp, 57, and her partner Stephen Rice, 56, from West Derby, had been soaking up the atmosphere in the Crafty Baa in Windermere, enjoying the final evening of their holiday, when Stephen, a former singer, decided to join in on an open mic night.
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However, their enjoyment was cut short as a Manchester United supporter allegedly began loudly berating Stephen with derogatory comments about Scousers, interrupting his performance.
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Catherine managed to capture the unpleasant incident on her phone while recording Stephen's song. She told the Liverpool Echo: "I didn't even know he was getting up and all of a sudden he was singing and then I heard this man shouting.
"I was videoing Stephen but then I heard [the man] say 'I hate Scousers.'
"He talked about Scousers robbing purses - just the stereotypes of what gives us all a bad name."
Catherine expressed her dismay, saying, "It was just not nice when you're enjoying yourself and you're having that in the background.
"When I confronted him he said it's not about Liverpool, it's about football - so he changed it from us being robbers to it was about the football."
Despite attempting to perform another song after the confrontation, Stephen was too disheartened by the heckling and stopped midway through.
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The incident put a damper on the couple's holiday, and they revealed it "took the shine off" their final night in the lakes, leaving soon after.
It comes after another British holidaymaker has told how she became "sick to death of looking at rice" after the hotel she stayed at during her picturesque island getaway came with "no English food".
Susan Edwards, from Westerhope, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has refused to book with TUI again after paying for an all-inclusive trip to Corfu where she wasn't offered English food. The mum, 69, had jetted off to the Greek island paradise with her two cousins, aged 77 and 78, 50-year-old second cousin and daughter, 30, on a TUI package holiday. But she said the vacation was "horrendous" from the minute they arrived, and that the Brits were left with "no food" they could eat.
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Speaking to the Newcastle Chronicle, Susan said the group discovered on the first morning of their stay at the Lido Corfu Sun Hotel that there was "no English food" available.
The mum, who suffers from ulcerative colitis, lamented the lack of bacon and sausage, saying she and the group were unhappy when they were presented with traditional Greek fare. She said: "On a morning you could have toast, a hard boiled egg, or something in sauce.
"There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage. We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot.
"There was fish, sardines and rice - I was sick to death of looking at rice. There was pasta and salads, none of this was marked (labelled). One night there was a Greek night and they had kebabs, I couldn't eat that. It's the worst holiday I've ever been on."