Hairdryer Treatment
Venezuela is a very wealthy oil-rich country (much admired by Jeremy Corbyn, by the way), the envy of all of its neighbours in South America.
Yet the Venezuelan economy is on its knees and lurches from crisis to crisis under the 'leadership' of President Maduro who has surely alienated the country's women voters with his ridiculous advice for them to stop using hairdryers.
Read the following report from The Independent which contains some 'not-to-be-missed' advice from the Venezuelan president on how the country's women should look at their best.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-energy-crisis-president-tells-women-to-stop-using-hairdryers-and-go-with-natural-style-to-a6976246.html
Venezuela energy crisis: President tells women to stop using hairdryers and go with 'natural' style to save electricity
'I think a woman looks better when she runs her fingers through her hair and lets it dry naturally,' Nicolas Maduro said
By Lizzie Dearden - The Internet
'I think a woman looks better when she runs her fingers through her hair and lets it dry naturally,' Nicolas Maduro said
By Lizzie Dearden - The Internet
The President advised women to go for a 'natural' look Getty Images
The President of Venezuela has urged women to stop using hairdryers and offered alternative styling tips as the country’s energy crisis continues.
Nicolas Maduro has announced a decree giving state employees Fridays off for two months as part of measures to offset a crippling electricity shortage.
He urged his compatriots to increase other efforts to save power, including cutting appliance use and raising the temperature on air conditioning units.
I think Sir Alex Ferguson must have too much time on his hands at the moment - because he's switched his attention away from winning the Premier League in England - to deliver one of his 'hairdryer' rants on the subject of Scotland's independence referendum.
Playing the man rather than the ball, in my view, Sir Alex has accused the First Minister - Alex Salmond - of trying to 'silence' Scots who live in the rest of the UK - by calling for the cash they can donate to the referendum campaign to be capped at £500.
In response, Sir Alex decided to donate £501 to the Better Together, pro-Union camp - with the extra £1 being a symbol of his defiance presumably - and released a statement which said:
"Eight-hundred-thousand Scots, like me, live and work in other parts of the United Kingdom. We don’t live in a foreign country; we are just in another part of the family of the UK.
Scots living outside Scotland but inside the UK might not get a vote in the referendum, but we have a voice and we care deeply about our country.
It is quite wrong of the man who is supposed to be leader of Scotland to try and silence people like this. I played for Scotland and managed the Scotland team. No-one should question my Scottishness just because I live south of the Border."
Now this is really quite silly because no one is trying to silence people like Sir Alex who are very well placed to have their say - with or without a financial donation.
Sean Connery is another famous Scot and a long-time supporter of independence - yet no one is suggesting that the former James Bond star is unable to speak up and air his views.
The point about capping donations is to stop big organisations or weathy individuals - from exerting undue influence over the campaign.
Big private companies for example - or trade unions which are UK based in the main and have no compunction about using large sums of their members cash to influence campaign results - as they did in the recent Labour leadership elections, of course.
While most individual Labour party members voted for one candidate - the members' choice did not prevail - the deciding factor was trade union muscle and organisation - not the democratic principle of One Member One Vote.
Now that doesn't seem very fair or socialist to me - but then nor do the tax arrangements of many star football players which leave a lot to be desired as well.
The President of Venezuela has urged women to stop using hairdryers and offered alternative styling tips as the country’s energy crisis continues.
Nicolas Maduro has announced a decree giving state employees Fridays off for two months as part of measures to offset a crippling electricity shortage.
He urged his compatriots to increase other efforts to save power, including cutting appliance use and raising the temperature on air conditioning units.
Hairdryer Treatment (20/12/12)
Playing the man rather than the ball, in my view, Sir Alex has accused the First Minister - Alex Salmond - of trying to 'silence' Scots who live in the rest of the UK - by calling for the cash they can donate to the referendum campaign to be capped at £500.
In response, Sir Alex decided to donate £501 to the Better Together, pro-Union camp - with the extra £1 being a symbol of his defiance presumably - and released a statement which said:
"Eight-hundred-thousand Scots, like me, live and work in other parts of the United Kingdom. We don’t live in a foreign country; we are just in another part of the family of the UK.
Scots living outside Scotland but inside the UK might not get a vote in the referendum, but we have a voice and we care deeply about our country.
It is quite wrong of the man who is supposed to be leader of Scotland to try and silence people like this. I played for Scotland and managed the Scotland team. No-one should question my Scottishness just because I live south of the Border."
Now this is really quite silly because no one is trying to silence people like Sir Alex who are very well placed to have their say - with or without a financial donation.
Sean Connery is another famous Scot and a long-time supporter of independence - yet no one is suggesting that the former James Bond star is unable to speak up and air his views.
The point about capping donations is to stop big organisations or weathy individuals - from exerting undue influence over the campaign.
Big private companies for example - or trade unions which are UK based in the main and have no compunction about using large sums of their members cash to influence campaign results - as they did in the recent Labour leadership elections, of course.
While most individual Labour party members voted for one candidate - the members' choice did not prevail - the deciding factor was trade union muscle and organisation - not the democratic principle of One Member One Vote.
Now that doesn't seem very fair or socialist to me - but then nor do the tax arrangements of many star football players which leave a lot to be desired as well.
