He says highly-paid company executives came under fire because by the afternoon of January 5 they had already earned more than the average UK salary of £27,645, although there was not a word about footballers raking in more in a single day.
He says: "Damn it, Wayne Rooney reputedly coins in £7,000 more per day that the average worker does in a year. It would not be so bad if the average player looked reasonably normal like Rooney. It must now be impossible to secure the services of hairdressers and tattooists for the queue of footballers outside.
"If we are to judge people by their appearance this crop of players is awfully common. These vain beggars are too lazy to comb their hair."
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TYCOON Donald Trump only wants to become President because "he's the ultimate ego", according to Cher, the 69-year-old singer who pulls no punches as far as the Donald is concerned.
Questioned whether Trump is serious in his bid to become President, she tells Billboard.com: "I don't like anything about Donald Trump. It's a joke at a time when you really need serious people.
"I don't think he wants the job, or I don't think he actually wants to do the work. I think he wants the job because it's the ultimate deal and he's the ultimate ego. I don't know that I've heard or seen anybody like him. And I never thought that Americans would go for someone like him."
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FORMER shadow chancellor Ed Balls once landed himself in trouble by suggesting his wife Yvette Cooper did not pull her weight at home.
"I don't think she has cooked for 15 years," he joked in an interview with the Radio Times ahead of his appearance on The Great British Bake Off.
The ex-MP, who lost his seat at the general election, said: "I always cook for Christmas and New Year but this year I had a bit of time on my hands [a rueful laugh] so I did Christmas puddings for the first time."
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BEING the longest-serving Home Secretary for more than a hundred years, Theresa May "must either be a masochist or just very good at her job", joked a diplomat before introducing the Cabinet minister to guests at an Irish Embassy function in London last week.
The top Tory is now the longest-serving Home Secretary since Henry Matthews (1886-92) who is most famous for holding the post at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders – a scandal that would almost certainly have put paid to any modern Home Secretary's career.
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IT IS famed for its potholes after The Beatles sang about the 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.Â
But the menace could become a thing of the past in parts of the Red Rose County thanks to Rossendale and Darwen MP Jake Berry.Â
He advised constituents last week: "Tomorrow, National Pothole Day, is a great day for people to download the Tell Jake app, developed with streetrepairs.co.uk, which has seen the number of potholes in my constituency reported and sorted double and the response times for repairing them slashed. It is a really good bit of technology that the Department for Communities and Local Government should encourage local authorities to embrace."