*Chortle* Carry-On giggle over. Here’s the sensible bit:

So, David Cameron doesn’t give a waitress a tip. Later on, he returns, buys €5 worth of coffee and tell her to keep the change. I smell a PR moment in the making here. If he felt genuinely sorry about forgetting tipping, he’s have gone back and done this without any press fanfare. However, he may the the kind of person who doesn’t tip - believing that the establishment should pay their staff properly in the first place, and this is some kind of face-saving exercise laid on by Tory HQ to ensure that he’s seen to be doing the right thing by the “little people”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14442611

Either way, it's a pathetic scene that it's considered a worthwhile story.

This still means that he is a cheapskate. The fact that he has been told to do it makes him look worse. He should never have left without a tip in the first place. He does not have amnesia as an excuse. PS While I have amnesia I do remember to tip.

A tip is not a compulsory thing.

If you haven't been given service worthy of a tip then don't leave a tip.

I have left a few places without leaving a tip because either the food or the service was awful.

No if the service is bad then no I do not tip. But most occasions it is not like that so a tip is left. Sometimes the food is awful but that is not the waiter or waitresses fault, unless it is possibly cold. It is rare that happens.

And meanwhile, parts of London are on fire.

Yup, asswipe Cameron is busy worrying about Cafe PR while there are riots and financial meltdown.

Twat.

Probably why he did not get a definitive win at the election.

Well he will be jolly cross now.

According to that article he didn't get any service.

I never leave tips because it will give me less money to spend at the same cafe for the next time, so it works out better

So he delayed returning because of the riots to pay a tip top a waitress because it made him look bad. Yet ignoring the riots back home. That cannot look good either.

Look, I think I've made it clear I'm no Cameron fan but this whole story is utterly trivial and irrelevant. I don't care if he tips waitresses or not. I don't give a damn what sort of coffee he drinks. It. Doesn't. Matter. Nor, in fact, does it matter whether he's back in the country or not. What's he, realistically, going to do? Is he going to don riot gear and hand out some prime ministerial justice on the streets of London? No. He's going to make a public statement and go to a few meetings. Well, excuse me, but I don't think that's going to make a massive and immediate difference to the situation, do you?

If there's one thing I can abide less than politicians showing up in an extreme situation and making no actual contribution beyond 'being seen to do something', it's people complaining that politicians aren't showing up in an extreme situation and making no actual contribution beyond 'being seen to do something'.

He's got a sodding phone. If someone needs to speak to him, or he needs to speak to someone, it can still happen. What difference has him being in the country actually made?

Jon