Cameron awards MBE to his barber

Cameron has awarded his barber Lino ­Carbosiero, an MBE.  Carbosiero who charges £90 a cut, was honoured for “services to hairdressing” by the prime minister who has used the celebrity crimper for 3 years. Can it get any worse in UK?

So he should as well, do you have any idea how hard it is to change a parting in your hair from one side to the other, it must take years to master that, every night the barber has to go home covered in hair, one wrong snip and a mistake is made that wont get covered up for at least a week until the hair grows again, just for only £90.00 a snip.

Meanwhile those ungrateful Heart surgeons and Nurse's keep on moaning about wanting higher wages, being understaffed, working in conditions that would make most people sick, while having the threat of being made redundant hanging over them due to cutbacks.

And then that other bunch, going on holiday to Afghanistan / Iraq, getting blown up, shot up,  flown home with arms / legs missing, only to be told we don't need you now because you're no good to us anymore....Incomplete.

 Can it get any worse in the UK, you ask......Yes, when we find out this Aussie barber also cuts cameron's toe-nails...…Up for a Knighthood no less for sure. Why stop here, what about his Dentist does he have to wait until next year?

Sick UK or what!

Why would any barber or hairdresser be awarded an MBE?  This is just ridiculous and a complete joke. Since when has cutting hair been of service to the British Empire?

Why just stop at a MBE.

if he was to give that waste of space a shave with an open razor and have a slight slip then he should be given a Knighthood

and if he was to do the same with messers Clegg, Miliband, Osbourne and the rest of the usless oxygen thiefs we have running the country  he should be given a small country as a reward

The first thing is that Cameron did not award the MBE to his barber.  He might be known for cutting the Prime Ministers hair but that is probably just a coincidence. He has also cut Madonna's hair, Jason Donovan and was the official hairdresser for the X Factor contestants plus Paul McCartney and loads of others. So you could say "Madonna's barber gets MBE"

The second thing is that he was awarded it for "services to hairdressing" which might seem a bit silly. However, he has set up his own, funded by him, apprentice scheme for young people taking up hairdressing and this is what he is renowned for.  He was nominated by a hairdressing association for campaigning to have young hairdressers given a proper qualification.

Thirdly, the Prime Minister may nominate people for awards, which he didn't in this case,  but he has no involvement in the awards themselves. An independent committee handles that. 

Still, it makes a good story for the press "reporters and columnists" to get their hands on. Considering the fairly high awards given to people who are sometimes good at sports (How many Sirs, Dames, CBE and OBE are given to people for wining a gold medal?) such as the England cricket team (I wonder if they''ll be asked to give them back after this last test) probably quite good to see someone a bit out of the public being recognised.

Oh, and the Queen herself bestowed a warrant on her hairdresser and the Duchess of Cornwall's hairdresser got an MBE 3 or 4 years ago.  

And any organisation that can award a peerage to the likes of John Prescott, Jeffrey Archer and Neil Kinnock has already plumbed the depths anyway.

Hi mariedav

I trust that you will forgive me for posting such outrageous suppositions on the forum – I had no idea that Mr. Carbosiero, was in such huge demand. However, he must have been nominated by someone who attends his star studded salon and whether it was Dave’stand on me gov’ Cameron, Madonna, McCartney, Donovan or any other clapped out aged popular ‘musician’, is really not important. The fact is that he has received an award for such a silly reason and only because he is connected.

I suppose his next elevation will come soon after combing the locks of the rich and famous for a few more months , and will join the ranks alongside those two chaps who were knighted for services to bikes and of course that annoying bloke who became a lord because he can run fairly quickly.

I can quite understand the Queens tonsorial surgeon being honoured, as Queenie always looks the part God bless her, but Cameron always looks a t***.

As for Madonna, Messrs McCartney and Donovan along with most of the X-factor wannabees, perhaps it may be better to charge Carbosiero with fraud or GBH or something similar – any mobile hairdresser could do it and for less than 90 quid a chop!

Heres to Kitchenmans great idea - can we find a small island where the locals still eat people?