Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

One of my sons is at home at present as his university has told the students not to come back this week. His exams have been postponed till next week. There are more storms expected this evening in Aberystwyth.

Oh he's not there is he? Gawd help him.

Hays,

I hope your son benefits from Welsh Culture.

There is a cemetery in Aberystwyth overlooking the "beach" interesting to walk around and read the the dates and the epitaphs on the stones and reason why.

There is another cemetery in Senghenydd, where there is a similarity, but the causal agents are different.

The one at Aberystwyth has better views. If you visit. do so in Spring.

David Cameron’s £90-a-cut barber awarded an MBE for 'services to hairdressing'


Jan 06, 2014 20:49
By Tom McTague



David Cameron faced fresh accusations of cronyism today after it emerged his hairdresser was awarded a gong in the New Year’s Honours list.

Celebrity crimper Lino Carbosiero was handed an MBE for “services to hairdressing” - three years after taking control of Mr Cameron’s thinning barnet.

The former X Factor “style director” is thought to be responsible for switching the Prime Minister’s side parting from left to right in 2010, sparking ridicule in the Commons.

Mr Cameron allegedly started using Mr Carbosiero on the orders of his wife Samantha shortly after becoming Prime Minister.

Mr Cameron is understood to have his hair trimmed in Downing Street.

He is just one of a long line of rich and famous celebrities who use Mr Carbosiero - who charges an eye-watering £90 a cut for men and £150 for women.

Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has described him as “the Godfather of hairdressing”.

He is pals with Jason Donovan, Philip Schofield and I’m A Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec and his clients include Sir Paul McCartney, Lily Allen and Zara Phillips.

His plush London salon Daniel Galvin is so popular appointments can be made one year in advance.

The decision to award Mr Carbosiero an MBE sparked anger.

It also emerged just days after the PM was attacked for honouring a host of other pals, allies and Tory donors in the New Year’s Honours list.

PR friend Alan Parker, who has holidayed with the Prime Minister and his family, was among those handed a knighthood.

Property developer Peter Emerson, who donated £41,600 to the Tories, was handed an OBE. And Apprentice star and Tory golden girl Karren Brady, who introduced George Osborne at the party conference, got a CBE.

Marion Helen and Simon Mort, both Tory activists in the PM’s patch in West Oxfordshire, also received OBEs.

Labour MP Steve Pound ridiculed the Prime Minister’s reliance on his celebrity hairdresser pal.

Mr Cameron has faced growing mockery for trying to cover up his bald patch with a “Cam-over” comb over.

Mr Pound said: “The bald truth is this - it must be a cover up. It may not be hair-raising but it certainly raises questions about cronyism.

“It’s a tight little circle gathering round the barber’s chair. We should make sure there’s no cover up - let alone a comb-over.”


More bullshit here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-camerons-barber-lino-carbosiero-2995453

Just goes to show how out of touch Sir Giddeon is with his speech today and future policy.

I don't believe it... That just about sums them up.

winter fuel allowance and bus passes
is DC absolutely nuts?
do i hear much agreement?
why on earth should someone with an income in excess of say £50k get a winter fuel allowance or bus pass?
these allowances were surely introduced, like free(?) tv licences, to help those who genuinely need same, not as a joke for those who patently do not


immigration
while cable is undoubtedly right that it will be next to impossible for DC to deliver on his target cap of 75,000, to ridicule the idea shows how totally out of touch he (cable) is with the strongly held opinion of the country at large
of course, one could possibly say that about the joe public's wish to bring back hanging

An MBE for a barber who has cut camerons hair? Talk about devaluing the honours system... if it did need any more devaluing that is.

excuse me, but he cuts kylie's hair too - one assumes on her head :-)

Stan,

Cameron and his cronies and bed mates are debasing politics in general. The Dishonour System is a farce. It appears to be returning to the Music Hall standards of Lloyd George.

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Sinner,

How many Old Age Pensioners having an income of say £20,000 use a bus pass?

Very few.

The bus passes enable the "poorer" to "get around" and administering a system to deny the few who can easily afford a bus season ticket off peak would probably be costly.

Besides reducing the users of buses would possibly increase the use of "cars".

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The "heating allowance" seemed "daft" at the time of introduction, but can you expect Wackey Davey to remove it.

I think it could be included in basic state pension and total income taxed at going rates.

That would reduce "costs" of administration.

ahhhhhhhhhhh this is why I disagree with all on winter fuel bus pass and free tv license.

If youve paid in..... you get it as far as Im concerned. No matter how wealthy you are.

Its them that havent paid in that should have it taken away.

Debate is futile anyway when you look at that chart for tax avoidance.

Sir Giddeon could cut the deficit at a stroke if he employed the correct people to collect tax.

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thought it was illegal to go to bed with a child
but it appears it does not include immigrants in the uk

Stan, oh ye of short memory, it was only an mbe awarded not the high reward given to Harolds coat maker.

stable

If you read Stan and Fred's post's, overtime you will soon become unstable and wish you were back in the stable .... lol

GANEX. Elland near Halifax Yorkshire.

GF

"Its them that havent paid in that should have it taken away."

Which group are you thinking of?

Many don't earn "sufficient" to pay basic tax, but "put" a lot into society in different ways.

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I would think that Basic Pensions should be based on "basic needs" and "justifiable" reward.

Many don't earn "sufficient" to pay basic tax, but "put" a lot into society in different ways.
is that so ..... would you care to be (much) more specific?