I suppose it does seem like a laugh if you only read the headline, but places like Glen Affric Brewery, Liberty Coffee, Future Yard, the Woodside Independent Market and various other little green sprouts of creativity and enterprise are making themselves known in spite of the... well, spite. Probably the first time any of these things have been mentioned on this site, but I'm not too proud to be corrected.
Yes, Birkenhead and Wirral as a whole is very rich in all sorts of facilities but people still like to run them down and say "there is nothing here", perpetuating some self-destructive myth.