WORCESTERSHIRE County Council’s Labour group failed in a bid to get cross-party support over formally bashing Donald Trump yesterday, but the real burning question is this: how many residents around these parts actually care?

The proper answer is 10,441 – that’s the number of Worcestershire residents who were among the two million Brits to have signed this incredible online petition demanding the President’s UK state visit be scrapped, 2% of the county’s population.

If you really wanted to show off down your local tonight, the county’s top ‘Trump bashers’ can be found in West Worcestershire, home to MP Harriett Baldwin, where an eye-opening 2,708 people have signed the petition, outstripping even the political hotbed of Worcester.

The President will be tweeting about how much he hates the Malvern Hills in no time, the prize prat.

* TALKING about Trump, there’s surely been some entertaining conversations in the home of Mid-Worcestershire MP Nigel Huddleston these last few weeks.

For those not in the know Nigel used to live in Los Angeles, where he met and married his American wife Melissa before coming back to Blighty in 2006.

* COUNCILLOR Gordon Yarrington didn’t hide his feelings during yesterday’s County Hall debate on Trump, walking out just as it got underway and muttering to yours truly, “who gives a sh*t”.

Try saying that to the hundreds of Worcestershire residents who hold dual nationality with the likes of Iraq, Iran and Syria.

To them, it’s deadly serious - and anything but 'gesture politics'.

* FORMER Worcester general election candidate Mark Shuker, who is still unemployed, has taken to asking current city MP Robin Walker for a job via a peculiar route – Twitter.

Alas, there’s no vacancy in his office but it’s just as well – it might not have gone down well at the interview stage that Shuker has launched his own Worcester branch of Compass, a left-wing political movement that could even make Jeremy Corbyn’s acolytes blush.

* ROBIN Walker’s crazy newish life as a Brexit minister was summed up perfectly this week, with a frenzied three-day period trying to get the European Union Bill past MPs.

At one point on Tuesday, within a matter of hours he went from meeting premiers of various overseas territories to hosting kids from Worcester’s Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary School in Westminster, to a select committee debate with a French senate delegation over Brexit, to the Commons’ bear-pit to face MPs over the Bill.

A year’s supply of caffeine is on the way for his birthday next month.