LORRAINE Rogers, double top banana at Tranmere Rovers and The Merseyside Partnership, was guest speaker at Downtown Business in Liverpool’s annual dinner to declare in promotional terms, Merseyside is now semi- officially known as "Liverpool City Region".
She received jeers and boos (in the nicest possible way) on relating how she would like to see Liverpool "up there with the Arsenals of this world" – showing
what a dangerous mine-field football metaphors are. Her point was to highlight the desperately low budget for promoting the area. She said one council official told her more was spent on fireworks annually than its tourism promotion.
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Can someone please have a quiet word in the ear of Ms Rogers. As a guest speaker she was truly dreadful and outstayed the attention span of the audience. The host of my table sat open mouthed at her lack of finesse in the speaking arena and commented that she thanked her lucky stars she hadn't been able to book her as a guest speaker for a lunch she had been arranging. Another attendee from the professional services sector said that he had been unfortunate enough to sit through the exact same speech the following week, delivered to a room of 20 people in the same uninspired manner she delivered it the previous week. Her lack lustre approach is inevitably going to reflect negatively on the aspirations of Liverpool unless someone gives her a simple lesson in the art of presentation.
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