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@Vanneau
Well yes..and no.
Listen to any of the really old boyos from Flintshire and you realise that their accent isn't that far off Scouse anyway. Even the Welsh speakers that are left have a very distinctive twang. Add a hefty dose of Irishness and scousers are the result (including half of my family).
It's true that NE Wales is the preferred retirement destination of ageing Liverpudlians (the ones who aren't able to move to the posh bits of the Wirral anyway) but many of them are only going back to their family roots.
Having said all that you do hear Flintshire style Welsh very rarely these days, which is a shame. Those barbarous harp-twanging cattle rustlers from Caernarfon always looked down on it.