Monday, 26 October 2009

Tambourides gets touchy !!!!!!!

I heard a rather amusing little story. Don't Call Me Dave published a rather interesting blog showing a picture of Councillor Andreas Tambourides car parked illegally. Now Mr Tambourides is one of my favourate Tory Councillors. Prior to her defection to Hertsmere Council, he would always make me chuckle at Council meetings, when he'd "admire" Former Tory Councillor Caroline Margo (now known as Caroline Clapper) as she used to walk across the Council chamber (of course the Barnet Eye wishes to make clear that Caroline Margo is a very admirable person and thoroughly agrees with Councillor Tambourides in this repsect). As he looks rather like the sadly missed Sid James of  "Carry On" fame, his admiration of his fellow Councillor always reminded me of many happy days watching Carry on up at the Council.

Anyway, what you may ask is this amusing little story that I was told. Well, it seems that Tambo has taken to claiming that this picture of his car (taken from DCMD's blog) :-


has been spoofed up by Don't Call Me Dave in paintshop. It seems he's going around saying that Don't Call Me Dave is so bitter and twisted by the success of the Tambourides clan, that he will stop at nothing to discredit him. Well, as you all know, The Barnet Eye will leave no stone unturned when it comes to ensuring fair play in Barnet. I sent the photo to my good mate, Spiderpilot, who is one of the worlds leading experts in the use of Photoshop to spoof up pictures. He assures me that this picture is genuine, apart from the rather clumsy attempts to hide Tambo's number plate.

In the Barnet Eye's mission to help and educate the populace of Barnet in the wicked ways of our local politicians, Spiderpilot provided me with this picture of what a "Spoofed up photo" of Tambourides may look like -



CLICK HERE TO SEE THE UNEDITED ORIGINAL AT NOTTHEBARNETTIMES (You won't be disappointed).

Sadly, it seems that I've got old Tambo all wrong. You see, I thought he was a guy a with a sense of humour, but I found that he takes himself a tad seriously. Not so long ago he complained to OFCOM because a presenter on London Greek Radio dedicated a song to him !

Apparently the presenter played the song, entitled "Baby, Shhh" and had the audacity to say :- "Baby Shut up, I should dedicate this to Andreas Tambourides who, the day before yesterday, was telling me how much he likes it. Andreas, I dedicate this to you, with much love. Many Kisses to you".

Tambo's complaint to OFCOM said the following :-

You can read the whole story if you CLICK HERE (go to page 79).  Now of course, The Barnet Eye thinks it's terrible if our local politicians should have people ridicule them. I'd have thought that with Andreas and his wife claiming over £50,000 a year in allowances, he'd be laughing all the way to the bank. My advice to Councillor Tambourides. Lighten up, your looks and your charm are your biggest assett. Use them wisely !

3 comments:

  1. Don't Call Me Dave26 October 2009 at 20:56

    Rog

    Spiderpilot is correct that the only “alteration” to the photograph was to block out the number plate. You now have a copy of the original as proof.

    Cllr Tamourgreedy would be well advised not to repeat the utterly false suggestion that I have in some way misrepresented his blatant act of illegal parking - otherwise a trip to M’learned friends will beckon.

    The car was parked on Avondale Avenue, close to the junction with Church End Road, on the pavement and facing the wrong way. If any other Barnet resident parked in this way, they would have no grounds to complain if the council issued them with a Penalty Charge Notice.

    Do councillors think they are exempt from the rules they impose on the rest of us?

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  2. Anonymous26 October 2009 at 23:37

    And let us not forget, Tambourgreedy is an exception amongst Conservative Councillors in wanting to fuss about and dictate how others can use their cars.

    He has forced thousands and thousands of pounds to be spent to have hundreds and hundreds of concrete bollards installed in the roads outside and around his house to stop people parking on the kerb.

    Drive down his own road of Hampden Way to see the bollards that prevent people parking just how he did on Avondale Avenue. The same in Hampden Square, The Woodlands, Osidge Lane etc etc.

    Would be nice to think that a Councillor like that would follow the rules and behaviour that he demands others do, wouldn't it?

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  3. Anonymous27 October 2009 at 19:43

    Oh, and is it just me or does Greedy look like a one handed unicyclist?

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