First it’s Hugo Swire and Councillor Elson whose photos are changed by EDDC, now it’s David Cameron’s who has had his doctored to add a large poppy.
It seems that when Tory politicians don’t like their pictures – they just airbrush them!
Though no-one appears to have doctored the picture in this article, which accompanies a story about Mr Cameron accepting free membership of an expensive private members club:
where it also says:
“… But what kind of club has Cameron joined? It’s one where the dress code requires that men refrain from wearing such excrescences as collarless shirts and deck shoes, while women will be shown the door for sporting denim or exposing their undergarments. It’s one where the menu doesn’t have prices (according to Zagat: “Members sniff, ‘If you ask how much it costs, you can’t afford to eat here’”), but will reportedly offer Dover sole meunière at £40 and wine from £60 a bottle. It’s one where Vivienne Westwood launched her memoirs in 2014, and where Boris Johnson held his Christmas party. It’s one with which Dave and Sam Cam are familiar, since they had a lovely election victory dinner there in May.
Earlier this year, though, the owners of Mark’s decided that their club wasn’t quite exclusive enough. So they chose to cull about a third of its members. “Members will be asked if they want to join the club again,” Charles Price, the American entrepreneur who oversees the club, told Vanity Fair. “If they do, they can submit their applications.”
The idea was to make Mark’s the most exclusive club in London. “It’s going to be a global A-list, from a variety of backgrounds, old world and new world,” Price said. “You can’t just have a name or money to get in; the main qualification is you have to be interesting.” So, while Mark’s closed its doors in July and Paris-based designer Tino Zervudachi gave the club a multimillion-pound makeover, there was a kind of night of the posh knives in which membership was reduced from 2,500 to 1,500.” …
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