I was on the telephone for over an hour today on a support call with a gentlemen from the UK. His voice sounded uncannily like the "cockney" accent Australian Anthony Lapaglia affected when he played Simon Moon, Daphne Moon's brother on the TV series Frasier. He made prodigious use of glottal stops and dropped H's. I asked him if was an East Ender, but he said he was from the East Midlands a couple hundred miles north of London.
Does the East Midlands accent sound like that or was he pulling my leg?