Everybody knows Backchat is always up for a party, whatever the lame excuse. But we are moved to say that the West Midlands Co-op is organising the most pointless Millennium bash we’ve heard of.
To celebrate the turn of the century, the firm is organising special boat trips on the Thames. Revellers will glide past the Millennium Dome, moor close to Big Ben and raise their glasses to the midnight chimes.
It will, Co-op has promised, “carry all the magic of New Year’s Eve 1999” – with just one exception.
It actually takes place in October. But that’s irrelevant, we are told.
“It will be just like New Year’s Eve, it just won’t be as expensive,” was the priceless comment from Co-op bookings manager Tony Cooper.
“A lot of people like to go for a Christmas meal but do it out of season.
“This will be a similar thing with all the trimmings,” he tried to assure a very sceptical Backchat.