This afternoon we published a poll asking if you agreed with the view that Leeds was a 'chav' town. Although intended to be lighthearted, the poll was based on a blogpost elsewhere which expressed some inflammatory views about our city and ran against our own house style. One commenter, Leedsrob, reacted thus:
"I've just had a look around at the rest of the 'chavtowns' website, and virtually the same descriptive drivel is used for every single town, even the ones I know to be nice. The whole site is therefore relatively fake and pretty much spamming really, so I'm surprised an organisation with the standing of the Guardian is resorting to making any reference to this garbage."
On reflection, Leedsrob and others who reacted to the poll were right. We have therefore withdrawn the poll and would like to apologise for any offence caused. We would like to thank Videovitch, WheatSurrender, TheSilverMachine, Cowl, Spoofoid and HeyHudson for their comments.
