That's quite a silly statement, if I came on here and said West Sussex is a sh!thole and I know because I'm a regular visitor to Burgess Hill, I'd be rightly pilloried. It doesn't give your argument much credence if you describe Derbyshire as 'awful' as I suspect very few people would agree with...
Quite - perfectly correct to post the allegation, which I hate and am embarrassed about but some of the bluster that followed is laughable. This sort of thing has probably never happened at Brighton right? I suppose the irony in generalising everyone from Derby as a 'racist neanderthal' is lost...