LEIGH MP Lawrence Cunliffe is "reet nowt!" He has joined a group of North West MPs - including Worsley's Terry Lewis - condemning moves to get rid of the Lancashire voices of Wallace and Gromit in a special production for foreign students.
Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle started the campaign to stop this "insult to all those in the North".
The motion comes after Japanese students claimed they could not understand the Oscar-winning animated figures. Now studio bosses want to remove the Lancashire dialect and put middle-class 'Oxford' voices on a special version for overseas sales.
But Mr Hoyle and his fellow MPs reckon Preston animator Nick Park's characters should keep their Lanky twang. The MPs have put down a motion saying: "We are appalled the Northern accents of the characters Wallace and Gromit are to be changed to clipped Oxford accents in order to teach English to foreign students.
"We take this action as an insult to all those in the North and to those people with Northern accents.
"We do not see any reason why their accents should be altered. The animation won two Oscars with original Northern accents."
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