Wednesday 21 January 2015

Curiouser and curiouser at No. 10

Arturo and I have discovered where the ice cubes are! We're getting ready to stock up on them! 'Why?' do I hear you ask? Well - from now on and for the next few months, life is going to the dogs in Downing Street! That's not to say it was a bed of roses before! But now - the General Election 2015 is around the corner and it's going to be chaos. We'll need the ice cubes for our heads!

'Boy David' Cameron no longer rates 'Wailing Lad' Clegg who positively loathes the ideas from 'Georgy' Osborne's Treasury! Of course, it's politics red in tooth and claw! Me and Arturo have a front row seat!

The journalists are cutting their talons so that they can type more quickly! The TV interviewers are stocking up on 'Fisherman's Friend' to tone up their vocal cords. The spads are already in a spin! It's a great life - if they don't weaken!

Beauticians and hairdressers will be having a field day - not just here but all over Westminster. For instance, Andrew M Brown writing in the Telegraph, last year under the headline:
Why are male politicians so terrified of looking bald?
He went on to comment:
What exactly has happened to David Cameron's hair? How is that a bald patch which seemed to be expanding aggressively over the crown of his head has now apparently receded, or at least is no longer visible? The answer almost certainly lies in the brilliantly clever artistry of Lino Carbosiero, the PM's hairdresser, who has been awarded an MBE. Hair experts I've spoken to say that Mr Cameron appears to have grown his fringe longer so that there's plenty to sweep back over the sparse patch at the back. This is known as a "curtain".
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100253222/why-are-male-politicians-so-terrified-of-looking-bald/

And that was written a year ago - before the spin doctors had started twirling themselves into knots!

But it's not just our PM who has had the attention of the hairdresser, oh no! In the Guardian, last year, there was the headline:
Tory conference diary: George Osborne works on his image makeover Chancellor tries to shed his elitist image with a new haircut and a cockney man-of-the-people act
Michael White commented:
What with George Osborne’s bloke-ish new pudding basin haircut, it’s hardly surprising that even fewer people recognise the former metropolitan elitist. The man who rented the chancellor’s family the pimped-up pink campervan in which they toured the Peak District last month refused to believe that the cockney man-of-the-people in his office was that George Osborne (“We ended up having to Google it”). But the makeover remains a work in progress. When George was rehearsing yesterday’s big speech his coach was overheard trying to get him to relax more. “Be more like Dave,” she said. Osborne opened his jacket and writhed.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/29/tory-conference-diary-george-osborne-chancellor

'Be more like Dave'! I wouldn't, if I were you, Georgy!

There were other comments about the Chancellor's 'new look': Matt Chorley writing in the Mail Online under the headline:
Truth about Osborne's trendy haircut: Chancellor left in the dark about scale of cutbacks when aides took him to the salon
Chorley commented:
It was one of the most dramatic cutbacks of George Osborne’s tenure in the Treasury.

But when the Chancellor underwent his makeover in a smart London hair salon, he had ‘no idea’ how much of his mop would end up on the stylist’s floor.

At the time, Mr Osborne admitted that the new look was in part designed to disguise a bald spot.

He joked that Michael Gove had told him: ‘You have applied your economic policy to your hairstyle. You have turned it around to stop the recession.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739628/Truth-Osborne-s-trendy-haircut-Chancellor-left-dark-scale-cutbacks-aides-took-salon.html

So - 'Georgy' Osborne had the image complex well in advance of the Election race!

What about 'Wailing Lad' Clegg? Well - he has great confidence in what he thinks is his 'boyish' charm! So - he isn't cutting his hair. But he is acting like a male model. Rowena Mason and Lauren Cochrane wrote an article under the Guardian headline:
Nick Clegg liberal with his wardrobe at party conference Deputy prime minister distracts journalists with several changes of outfit in one day at Liberal Democrat conference
They went on to comment:
Nick Clegg has attracted mockery for changing into at least four different outfits in one day at the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference in Glasgow.

The party leader and deputy prime minister chose to wear casual attire for three public appearances, but wore a suit between outings.

Clegg wore a suit on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, before appearing in jeans or dark trousers and a light blue shirt to visit a primary school with his wife, Miriam González Durántez.

He later appeared on stage at the party conference for a question and answer session wearing a different, darker shirt and some blue-grey trousers. ... Clegg’s choice of clothes appeared to distract journalists from the substance of his remarks, as speculation grew over what it revealed about his attitude towards the conference.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/06/nick-clegg-liberal-democrat-conference-wardrobe

So - you can understand why me and Arturo are sweating! These hair style changes and the fashion show were just the curtain call! Can you imagine what it's going to be like now the curtain is actually rising?

We're off for a bit of spaghetti tonight - Arturo does amazing artwork with strands of pasta!

Bye

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