It's the look of the thing.
 

It is said that much of politics is concerned with image, and in an age where Members of Parliament are chosen as much by their looks as by their political affiliations and policies, what are we to make of the couple of hundredweight of potatoes swathed in red serge and sable who paraded herself through Accrington town centre last weekend?

On what is arguably the most important day of her political career to date, the sort of day that any self-respecting woman would agonise over and plan for months in advance, this is what our new Mayor looks like.

Nobody can help being plain, or as our American cousins have it "homely", and in the ordinary everyday world it does not really matter as much as some would have us believe; you really don't have to have hollywood good looks and glamour to be effective or competant. One is not really required to spend every spare waking moment in either the gym or the beauticians salon. Nor, surprisingly, is one required to expend the equivalent of of a developing country's Gross Domestic Product on a suitable wardrobe and accessories. But I really think that when one becomes the ceremonial head of a borough as proud as ours it really is incumbent on one to make at least a bit of an effort.


The photographs are courtesy Accringon Observer and Times

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How much does a good haircut cost?

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think your being unfair A-B.i love potatoes lol

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I too love a nice King Edward or a Jersey Royal, but I don't think HBC Blue's quite cut the mustard somehow.

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you know i would be a lot kinder if she hadnt wasted all that money putting that pathetic fair on broadway just to satisfy her self indulgence at our expense

that been said


just be glad she isnt queen because royal mail would go bust due to no one been able to stomach licking a stamp

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not wishing to be unkind,just bet shes not elected carnival queen lol

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Apparently, According to Councillor Anne Scaife, "...She is like Wonder Woman..."!

Sounds to me like the councillor has need of the services of an optician. In anyone else such a comment would make one wonder which side the speaker batted for.

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I used to work with her two years back. Believe it or not she has dropped a LOT of weight - she was morbidly obese when I knew her. She has actually done something with her hair as well.
She is a really unpleasant person though. At the risk of being sued for slander I shall keep quiet, but not many people, including myself, had a lot of time for her.;)

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Who did she have to promise NOT to sleep with to get the job?:D

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go on then i'll risk it- overweight obnoxious slob lol

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jabba da hutt will be on his way to kick your ass now for insulting his woman :ninja8:


yeah i know its childish but she deserves it for not making the funfair at least FREE rides

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whos jabba da hutt chav?me no understand

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well what can one say ..................... the hairdresser should be sacked i think.

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a very earie likeness dont you think ..?

http://www.starwars.stopklatka.pl/images/jabba.jpg

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I do not know nor am I interested in knowing our latest mayor, a lot of money was wasted by a few in celebration of her gaining this position.

However I find it shameful that so many people would take these cheap shots. O.K. so she wouldn't make it as May Queen, but would you be so cruel if she was in a wheel chair for example?
I doubt it! Let's stick to calling these people for being idiots if thats the way they act, but to pick on them because of how they look? and in such a cowardly manner as this? That is not what I expect to find from fellow members of Accyweb.
Lets stick to being

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right wing Nazis racists

we do not need to go any lower than that!

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I take your point Less, but I stand by the obserations made in my original post. At a Time when we need all the help we can get, we have what may best be described as a Frump for a Mayor. And, if Pixie is to be believed, not a very friendly one at that. Hyndburn could do better. But I suppose we shall have to wait and see what she does, the proof of the pudding etc.etc.

Personally I think Councillor Parkinson should have been elected for a second term, at least he looks the part.

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I have to agree with Less on this, lets not judge a book by it's cover.

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Yes I agree--- And what is a Women doing as Mayor anyway? ;)

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Oh dear...I have to agree with Less. I do not think we should judge our politicians on the basis of their weight, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, accent, age or disability. Rather we judge them on how well they do their job.

The fact is this mayor-making weekend has been an absolute waste of money; I am not sure who is responsible, the new mayor or Britcliffe. I am pretty certain it is the latter - he is, afterall, the man with the HBC chequebook.

If a mayor-making ceremony is really neccessary (which I doubt very much), would it not be better to defer it until June so it coincides with the Accy Carnival parade weekend? (I'm thinking a bit here of the London Lord mayor's Show)

We could always show our appreciation of the new mayor by having her/him driven around the town on the back of a float and we could bombard them with garlands of flowers or rotten eggs and tomatos.

When will Councillor Jones be Mayor, I wonder?

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well i got to admit i could do with loosing a few pounds myself but then again i didnt waste thousands of council tax payers money and even if she wasnt personaly resposible for the money spent she could have said no to it

it just sickens me that OUR money was wasted this way when quite a lot of people realy do struggle to pay the extortinate amount of council tax and get threatened with jail or bailifs taking away the few possesions they own

anyone fortunate enough to be able to easily afford council tax wont underestand but there arer plenty of people in accy who have to choose some weeks between feeding their kids or paying the council tax under threat of bailifs or prison

anyway if she cant stand a bit of name calling she shouldnt have become a public figure

thats the nearest to an appology your going to get from me on this matter :death1:

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I don't know if the Mayor has the power to do as you suggest, Chav. If he/she is given a certain budget for the year, some of which must be spent on the ceremony, then there is little they can do.

However, if they are given a set amount of money to spend as they wish over their year in office, I would have assumed that any sensible mayor would cut out the ceremony. Lets face it: everybody sees this as no more than a costly exercise in flattering their vanity, with the exception of the politicians themselves.

The mayor who ignores it all, signs on for the year, goes over the road for a pint and then announces the otherwise thirty-five thousand quid cost is going back to the ratepayers is the one who gets respect.

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Don't say it like you would never have thought you could ever agree with me on anything!
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exactly

HBC is in a hell of a lot of debt so if money HAD to be spent couldnt it be spent clearing debts so that our council tax bills need not rise so much each and every year instead of pampering the vanity of the mayor

ime sure her circle of friends an aquaintances are praising her and telling her how good an idea the fair was

i hope she reads accy web so that she can see the disgust the people of accrington had for it not that i think for 1 second she would give a damn

if i was the mayor and found that i couldnt stop the money been spent i would have not turned up to the swearing in ceromony in protest and left a lot of red faced people to face the press

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is that a swastica round her neck?

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I didn't mean it like that! we will probably agree on more things in the future & disagee on others :)

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Yes, well we already know that HBC is composed of the sort of people one would not trust to sit the right way round on a lavatory (even if you gave them illustrated instructions). Criticising their lack of sense, wisdom, morality and ethics is getting a bit tedious. So I thought that I would take the opportunity presented by the new mayorality to ratchet up the flack, as it were, and go straight for the jugular. It is my hope that soon they will not dare to appear on the streets without wearing a bag over their heads.

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I've just had a look at the Mayor(ess's) uniform. Is'nt her tricorn hat of the sort that Highway Robbers once wore? Is there any significance in this?

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Although unfair to have a go at this lass for being a minger, I can't help but wonder if she will actually do a good job. I have my reservations following the debacle that was the Mayor Making 4 days worth of wasted cash. :D

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It seems that folk are missing the point here. Plain Jane(t) does not actually have any other function other than chairing full meetings of the council, which are few and far between these days thanks to the introduction of governance by cabinet, and occaisionally appearing at local charity bashes. Oh, and she gets the opportunity to hob nob with the great and the good at one of the summer garden parties at Buckingham Palace. (I wonder what H.M. will think when presented with this year's version of Hyndburn's Brightest and Best. ) Not exactly what you might describe as a taxing schedule.

I note that Plain Jane(t) describes Councillor Parkinson, the outgoing Mayor, as "A hard act to follow". As though the prospect of opening a couple of womens institute tea mornings was something which might keep her awake at nights.

It used to be that the mayorality was something that was bestowed as an acknowlegement of an outstanding contribution to public life. Nowadays they just take it in turns and, following a row about it a couple of years ago, they also alternate between conservative and labour incumbents. A devalued office of a morally and ethically bankrupt council.

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Hitler was always very smartly turned out.

The Queen Mother always a little frumpy.

Go figure.

;)

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Garinda is just peeved because the prospect of donning the Lady Mayoress's bling and picture hat is denied him for another year.

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Trust me, my bling will outshine any Mayoral bling!

This is the person who used to go to college in old mans pyjamas, no socks, espadrilles and a coat l'd made covered in photos of myself and then spashed with blood red gloss paint with the words 'Je ne suis pas un elephant' on the back. Beat that.

Still, thinks it matters not a jot what people look like to do a good job. lf she'd have had Tranny and Susanah in to do a makeover you'd have been the first to scream. :)

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If you care to read my initial post you will find that I have already admitted that.

As for T & S, I am sure that even they would throw up their expensively manicured hands in despair and run screaming from the borough. Still, if the good folk of Hyndburn are happy with an overweight, fashion atrocity as the public face of the borough for the next twelve months, then I wish them joy of her.

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Oi, l'm allowed to take the pee out of myself- l'm an open book.

But don't forget l might still have the p.m.'s you sent me when l was new. ;)

If the Mayoress's hat doesn't fit don't wear it.

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Yes, but Hitler had hair worse than the Mayor's. I'm never sure whether the QM just had terrible taste in clothes, or didn't want to waste her gin money on frocks.

I suppose we should be grateful the Mayor doesn't have a moustache - or is there something I'm missing.

Must go, it's time for my Whiskas....