I knew Bonio was a tax-dodger, but I didn't know he was that rich. THere really should be prize for hypocrite of the year. My choices would be: 1) Sepp Blatter, standing for a 5th term, to "complete his mission". 2)Bonio for reasons stated. 3) Sean Connery, campaigning for Scottish independence from his tax have in Barbados. 4)Tony Blair, working as a "Middle East Peace Envoy"
I am sorry earlier I said Bonio net worth is £320 Million which is grossly understated. He also owns 1.5% of facebook which has a market cap of $100 billion. He is worth over a billion dollars. And I still cannot delete his shatty album of my Itunes
I see when Geldof was confronted with what people were saying about tax evasion by Bonio and his ilk his witty response was "It's a load of bollocks". He said it twice and the interview had to be cut short.
Great story Ponders...!! Weller is a legend. I had 'You do sonething to me' as the first dance at my wedding.
Gotta admit Ponder's story has a touch of genuine class about it. Moving from the sublime to the rats, I truly loathe all the people FHB 'outed'. I'd like to add Mrs Tony Blair to the list, and a whole list of Spanish worthies who are all being processed for tax evasión now that the Spanish are starting to access Swiss bank accounts. How many pages can we fill with 'orrible celebrities?
Very cool! One of the few from the original band aid who still has credibility. A sad story from my side was seeing Paul young at wentworth - he cut a very sorry figure and was reliant on the free booze.
Well worth her place, for crying live on telly because her son was off to Bristol (in TWO flats which they had bought him) while Tony was sending young men off to die in Iraq because of his lie.
Kevin Keegan. I've never liked him. It was 1979, I was an impressionable kid and had been given an autograph book by my aunt Joan. I didn't like her much either but my mum said I had to get autographs on every page and then I could show Joan where her 25p had been spent out of the 300k she got from divorcing my favourite uncle Ken. Anyhoo, I was at some sporting event or something and it was a hot sunny day and my dad said "look there's Kevin Keegan go and get an autograph", I didn't want some shaggy haired Geordie to sign my book but reluctantly I went up and said "Oi Kev will you sign my book" he just looked at me and said "not now I'm busy" he was just standing around!! The absolute northern monkey. I then shouted at him "I was pissing my pants laughing when you fell of your bike in superstars" and everyone cheered me. Admittedly, in hindsight I should have chose my moment better and waited for him to take the corner, but he was always a twonk. Later that year I got my entire autograph book filled up when I sat next to a kid called Ian Garcia in Sherrington Juniors who had the neatest handwriting imaginable for a 9 year old and he faked the entire signatures of the England 1966 World Cup team, the Spanish Royal family and the last woman to be hanged in the UK, Ruth Ellis.
A couple to add to my prize list of hypocrites: 1. Gordon Strachan - notoriously prickly & unhelpful with the media...as a manager. Well paid by the media when not a manager. 2. Whinger Dalglish - same reasons as above. 3. Alex Salmond. Wants Scotland to break away from the hated Westminster. Now plans to stand as a candidate for the hated Westminster. 4. Any socialist, Liberal Democrat or Green. They all collapse under the weight of their own contradictions. 5. Any left wing politician who goes to the House of Lords (Prescott, Kinnock etc....) 6. Any person associated with the EU in any way, shape or form.
I heard someone say recently that we're all hypocrites. That may well be true, but it can be amusing when the great and the good are caught out, like Jonathan Aitken with his sword of truth and shield of justice. Bill Clinton (I have never had sex with that woman) Nixon (no whitewash at the White House) John Major with his back-to-basics campaign which caused journalists to unleash a stream of sex scandals by Tory MP's, with Edwina Curry topping the lot. Usually with political scandals when it's sex it's a Tory, when it's money it's labour, not forgetting notable Liberals like Jeremy Thorpe and Chris Huhne.
Phil Collins is someone who's always got my goat - though numerous have people have tried to convince me otherwise. Bono is easy, his colleague ''The Edge'' is another. Who ******* put's a ''the'' before their ''name''? And still insits on wearing a beanie hat well in to their 50's?
I supported the original Band Aid record back in the 80's. The world was woken up to the appalling crisis in Ethiopia by Michael Buerk's genuinely heart rending "Biblical Famine" report. Back then Geldoff touched the mood of the nation and gave us a way of focusing our sympathy. It was original, fresh and relevant. That cannot be said today. The charity industry relentlessly bombards us with appeals for "Just five pounds a month" (it started out as a pound, went to two pounds and has now escalated to five. At present rates of progress it should reach ten by mid 2016) with sorrowful advertisements which invariably carry an emotive piano accompaniment carefully chosen and deliberately calculated for maximum emotional impact. I have no intention of "Just giving" one, two, five or any other quantity of pounds to anything that attempts such blatant emotional blackmail. I will not be exploited by the subtle imposition of feelings of guilt. Instead, I have identified three charities that I will support. They are: The Royal British Legion, The RNLI and the NSPCC. I think these causes are worthwhile and supporting them ensures that my charity pound stays in Britain. Where it belongs. I support my chosen charities of my own free will and I feel good about that. I hope I'm doing some good for institutions I believe in. Let Geldoff and Bono feed the world if they want to. My money stays in Britain.
lol, whenever i read the word "Britain" i say it in a french accent a la Eric Cantona in the Kronenbourg advert. i agree though - "just giving £x" - it's going up faster than inflation.
I used to think Adele was a fat bird from Hackney who had a problen with glottal stops. She has gone right up in my estimation this week after telling Geldolf to do one
