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The Daily Mirror, which seems to be more comfortable with itself now Labour’s in opposition, makes the news about the MBE to the man who cuts Cameron’s hair it’s main story.
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Not being funny Mike, do you realise just how big a business hair salons/products are in the UK? I have three teenage boys, and they have more hair products between them at cost that more than matches what my friends and I used to have or spend back in the eighties! You and the Daily Mirror have called this one wrong because you are letting your own prejudices about Cameron blind you to the fact that like most normal people, our PM takes a bit of time and effort with his personal grooming. I mean, its not like he is not expected to be turned out in a reasonable manner in public in the job he does. Just think back to some of the absolute PR disasters that have afflicted party leaders over the years, Michael Foot and that duffel coat at the Cenotaph or Gordon Brown with too many gaffes to mention.
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Running against Hillary from the left on corporate money and the NSA, and a cheeky bit of triangulation on ObamaCare.
What you hope to be the "news" and what is making "the news" can be very different things. Check out the response on this on Twitter. Cameron, because of his background, has a massive image problem on relating to "ordinary people" and this just reinforces it.
Today, being frugal - I spent £75 on make-up and hair dye in Superdrug. Not exactly the Waitrose end of the market. However, not resembling a bag lady is quite important to me - so that's a trade-off I make.
If I can invest that sort of money on my church mouse grooming - why anyone thinks a haircut for the PM is excessive is letting their personal animus show. The press would be the first to jump all over him if he didn't look the part.
It's like the Mirror's expose about chocolate bars. Pathetic partisan stuff - we'd dismiss it if it appeared in the Express.
Politicians don't thrust greatness on a hairdresser. They patronise crimpers who have achieved greatness.
Lino Carbosiero works in what is claimed to be the largest hair salon in Europe. Over his thirty year career at the top of his trade, Lino's clients have included Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne, Philip Schofield, Ant and Dec, Madonna, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz, Sharon Stone, Adele, Hillary Clinton, Anna Friel, and Dustin Hoffman.
He has worked prominently in the Film, Theatre, TV and Fashion industries, being, for example, "Style Director" for the first three series of The X Factor and hairdresser to the Rolling Stones.
He has been active in promoting his industry as global spokesman for Avon's hair care product range, as Style Director for Brylcreem and - note well Mr Smithson - ambassador for Laross hair extensions. He writes a weekly column for The Sun and contributes regularly to Hilary Alexander's 'make over' columns in the Daily Telegraph.
As a leading member of his industry he has also promoted many charitable causes, including raising £25,000 personally by running the London marathon in 2005.
He fully deserves the honour bestowed upon him by Her Majesty based solely upon the advice of independent honours committees.
The Guardian, twitter and Lib Dem froth can only be explained by Lino's greatest career achievement: to move David Cameron's natural hair parting from the left to the right.
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This MBE has it all!
I know when my Dad got his OBE it was one of the proudest moments of his life. I'm sure that the same will be the case for this guy. And he will have got it for legitimate reasons. And yet, for a cheap and meaningless attempt at point-scoring, the Mirror chooses to tarnish his achievement in the eyes of the public and in doubt, many of his friends and acquaintences.
This guy didn't ask to be dragged through the mud and has done nothing to deserve it..
Mike: you should be ashamed of yourself for perpetuating this kind of nonsense. I know you have a difficult job to do keeping such a good blog active, but sometimes you should think through what you post.
Apply that to Kevin Mac at the Mirror etc. Perhaps the Costa Cameron is holed, but is this going to sink it for good?
If the Tweeters think £90 results in a bad haircut, then have they checked over Mr Ed Balls' latest style.
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2012/mar/22/a-week-in-mens-fashion
How much did Mrs Thatcher's hair styling cost?
The cost of fuel crisis theme might have hit home, but then how many Labour MPs were claiming for the costs of their heating on expenses?
'The danger for the PM is that this could resonate because it touches on what’s perhaps his biggest negative in terms of the he’s perceived, that he doesn’t relate “to people like us”'.
Any piece of trivia could resonate,whereas the economy will.
Maybe if there was a pauper instead of a multi millionaire leading the Labour party it might be a big deal.How many ''people like us''have £400,000 mortgages?
To put that in context, if the LD-Lab switchers did go home (as they would be were the yellows still in opposition), it would leave Labour on about 31%. That, in the midst of the cuts, both financial and follical.
We seem to share the same charming eccentricity as North Korea
Unless you believe that gongs should be reserved for time expired politicians and diplomats it sounds entirely justified.
I only wish that I had enough hair that I could spend £90 on getting it cut! :-(
Is it another omnishambles? Clearly not. Is it yet another incompetent PR blunder that reinforces an already very strong and damaging perception of an out of touch chumocracy? Absolutely, and no amount of after the fact whining bullsh*t about it from inept Cameroonian cheerleaders will change that.
You don't like it? Then tell CCHQ to get their act together and stop wasting everyone's time since we all know perfectly well you would be shrieking about it for weeks if it was little Ed or Farage or anyone else but Cammie.
2 hours 2 minutes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10359238/Alex-Salmonds-secrecy-battle-over-250-tartan-trews.html
Out of touch Alex Salmond models his tasteful tartan trews for Hello.
PR Spiv boy Cameron scores another own goal, whereas Eck, promotes finest Scottish tailoring.
The PB Romneys are always wrong. The PB Romneys never learn.
Rather like the Daily Mail on Ralph Milliband or The Sun on Gordon Browns letters to soldiers families I think this will back fire on the paper.
Meanwhile the Chancellor gave a major speech on welfare, that sets out both clear blue water and the respective parties manifestos, but no thread.
Salmond never out of touch in the minds of the GNats. Such a rare politician, faultless to a t.
If I were Lynton Crosby I'd ask each constituency Tory association to detail off one member to post hourly partisan comments on this blog.
Oh. I see he already has.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCovGqMiZyA
A ludicrous defence! i have worked with several of Daniel Galvin's 'crimpers' (as Avery trendily calls them) and many have worked with celebs and run marathons and some have even managed it using their own name! 'Lino Carbosiero's' only distinguishing frature is that he cuts the Prime Minister's hair.
i now look forward the long overdue honour for Samantha Cameron's waxer 'Gina (the tweezer) Girondi' from Sloane Square's well known salon 'Ouch!'
(PS By chance the girl being filmed by me in the photo was going out with DG's son)
Does anyone other than the most rabid Labour supporter believe for a minute that this man got an MBE for cutting the PM's hair? How absurd.
The contrast between the cuts Osborne was contemplating yesterday and the MPs giving themselves an 11% wage increase is frankly disgusting. MPs really must think again about that.
To describe this honour story as trivia really demeans the word.
"Methinks a mistake with UKIP, which is becoming the default choice of the disgruntled working class, being the main beneficiary"
Bit stupid to create yet more disaffected voters in the run up to the EU elections. Then again posturing on the kippers core issues isn't any smarter.
I think not.
Cammo: Hiya Lino, I need a smooth cut this morning.
Lino Carbosiero: Sure Boss, non problemo, I fix a you up.
Cammo: Thats great Lino, that was a great haircut, but i got one problem. I forgot to bring any money with me; you know how it is.
Lino Carbosiero: No, I don't know how it is
Cammo: Tell you what, Lino, I'll give you an MBE instead. You know, a nice shiny medal from the Queen.
Lino Carbosiero: Do I get a tip, too?
The Lib Dems, specifically Danny Alexander, have been fully on board with spending restraint in this Parliament and the odd cut such as the benefit cap but Clegg has calculated that this is a step too far. One might wonder how such a view is compatible with the desire to have the majority of us not paying tax on the first £10K of our income but he is opting for higher taxes rather than more cuts.
How will Labour fill the hole?
I'm prepared to believe that the chap has done lots of good things and might deserve it, and take Charles' point that the media coverage is rough on him, but really there are a lot of people who deserve honours and Cameron's common sense should have told him not to give it to someone who gives him personal grooming, for both their sakes. It's the sort of thing best reserved for resignation honours, when a fair amount of leeway for personal thanks is usually given (Harold Wilson being the case that springs to mind - he got slagged off too but didn't really care).
Osborne has had a fairly easy ride all this Parliament as Labour haven't bothered to set an alternative path and have just signed up to what he said. I mean you're getting laughed at by Osborne, the Tories weakest link - sums up how low Labour have sunk.
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Of course no one will have tape of him claiming that......will they?
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A whole 3 pages!
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Instead of having knee-jerk reactions to any change in spending Labour might be better rethinking what they want from public services since tight budgets will be with us for the foreseeable future. Contrary to what you appear to think there is no value for anyone in running public services which don't have an efficiency ethos.
No doubt UKIP JackW will bring them comfort with his ARSE.
There
is scope for restrictions on benefits by either capping benefits or by ending the universal ones such as CB
All PBers should club together to raise the £90 needed and now Roger is back from his seasonal sojourn in Villeneuve-sur-Mer, we might even get the snapper to capture for posterity a photo of the crimper at work. You will need to invent the name of a celebrity squeeze before publication though.
Add £20 to the total for Roger's services.
Basically 'pensons'.
And a Happy New Year to you and all the residents of Ludlow and may you build many new Conservative clubs in the not too distant future.
https://www.labour.org.uk/britains-double-dip-recession-deeper-than-first-thought,2012-05-24
The future is certain comrade! It's the past that keeps changing!
And if you want tape.....Guido has some.....
(Edit: Carlotta beat me to it!)
BTW the old Hillman Minx from the late 50's and early 60's was a family favourite run-around car. Sadly they tended to be something of a rust bucket.
Of these, there is some scope for privatising both pensions and NHS, but the political fallout would be great. There would also be little benefit in privatising the NHS to cut taxes if I just wound up paying more in health insurance than I did in tax (Obamacare is an interesting example of how difficult compulsory insurance is). Ditto pensions.
Welfare is the only realistic target for cuts, so the divide will be between the welfare cutters and the tax raisers. Labour tax increases will have to affect a lot of Hard Working People struggling with The Cost of Living Crisis. Lines are being drawn...
These cowboys are getting an 11% payrise, and that's what they think they should be bickering about?
Edited to add, does that mean that Nick Palmer, as a Labour candidate should be banned?
"When we've finished the eleventh one we'll invite you to open it, then we can have a river trip down the Wye and you can holler like a pig to our 6 toed banjo player orchestra."
Bootle is Redish
Ludlow is Bluish
If it wasn't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish
If Ed is still in position by the GE that may feature......
Sweet and sour pork - there, much better !!
The best analysis I've seen ( though forget where ) is that Labour's current economic policy is "pointing and tutting". So they'll randomly pick an item - gyms was the latest - and say " tsk have you seen the price of that ?".
With opposition like that he's not even having to sweat.
In future, they will be deleted
Sadly I couldn't help but notice you avoided answering the question.
How very telling. Thanks for that.
We had one too.
It's registration number was T1 M.
30 minutes
The only feature of my ARSE you need to be familiar with is that it's invariably correct.