Cherie Blair and her coiffured hair
Oh, come now.... why all the anger?
OK, we can understand folks getting tetchy about Labour's "So what?... we won the election!" response. (Apply this to the debacle in Iraq, the disaster that is the 'war' on terror and/or the scandal ofrendition torture, and you're not far off the full nightmare of Tony Blair's 'the people have spoken' mantra.)
But we can also understand Blair's sense of betrayal, as Murdoch's newspapers continue their refusal to soft-pedal bad news and instead go for the throat (again)...
The Times - Labour fury at Cherie's election hair stylist bill: Cherie Blair presented the cash-strapped Labour Party with a £7,700 bill for the services of her personal hair stylist during last year’s general election campaign. As Labour struggled with outgoings so large that it had to resort to secret loans from millionaires to stay afloat, Mrs Blair made the party pay £275 a day for a month to keep her hair in shape. The invoice from Andre Suard, her hairdresser, is declared by Labour as an election expense in its annual statement of accounts for 2005 submitted to the Electoral Commission last month. The Times understands that his invoice describes the services rendered to Labour’s election effort as "hair styling for Cherie Blair". He charged a daily rate of £275 between April 6 and May 6, the day after her husband won Labour’s historic third term.
Our position on the hairdressing affair is as follows...
We feel that Cherie Blair was totally justified in spending 3.08% of a peerage on her daily use of a professional hairdresser, for two reasons:
1) She was meeting the same crowd of people time and again, and could not possibly be expected to do so with the same hairstyle (or, indeed, carefully tailored outfit) day after day.
2) Nobody likes to look shagged-out.
We ask that you quell your anger, hold your tongue, and bask in her fragrance. Thank you.
Bloggage:
The Nether-World - How Labour Spends its 'Loans'
BSSC - Cherie's Hair
Guy Fawkes - Let them see hats
UPDATE - Oh, now really... there's no call for this sort of thing. Two needlessly personal comments from B3tans who should be ashamed of themselves (tut tut tut):
UPDATE - You can find even more bloggage on this subject by starting here and following your nose.
UPDATE - Telegraph - Labour anger at £7,700 for Cherie's election hairdos: Last night the suspicion at Westminster was that someone inside the Labour Party had leaked the information in a bid to undermine Mr Blair. His supporters are certain to suspect that one of Gordon Brown's allies was behind the leak.
OK, we can understand folks getting tetchy about Labour's "So what?... we won the election!" response. (Apply this to the debacle in Iraq, the disaster that is the 'war' on terror and/or the scandal of
But we can also understand Blair's sense of betrayal, as Murdoch's newspapers continue their refusal to soft-pedal bad news and instead go for the throat (again)...
The Times - Labour fury at Cherie's election hair stylist bill: Cherie Blair presented the cash-strapped Labour Party with a £7,700 bill for the services of her personal hair stylist during last year’s general election campaign. As Labour struggled with outgoings so large that it had to resort to secret loans from millionaires to stay afloat, Mrs Blair made the party pay £275 a day for a month to keep her hair in shape. The invoice from Andre Suard, her hairdresser, is declared by Labour as an election expense in its annual statement of accounts for 2005 submitted to the Electoral Commission last month. The Times understands that his invoice describes the services rendered to Labour’s election effort as "hair styling for Cherie Blair". He charged a daily rate of £275 between April 6 and May 6, the day after her husband won Labour’s historic third term.
Our position on the hairdressing affair is as follows...
We feel that Cherie Blair was totally justified in spending 3.08% of a peerage on her daily use of a professional hairdresser, for two reasons:
1) She was meeting the same crowd of people time and again, and could not possibly be expected to do so with the same hairstyle (or, indeed, carefully tailored outfit) day after day.
2) Nobody likes to look shagged-out.
We ask that you quell your anger, hold your tongue, and bask in her fragrance. Thank you.
Bloggage:
The Nether-World - How Labour Spends its 'Loans'
BSSC - Cherie's Hair
Guy Fawkes - Let them see hats
UPDATE - Oh, now really... there's no call for this sort of thing. Two needlessly personal comments from B3tans who should be ashamed of themselves (tut tut tut):
"For that amount of cash Tony could have bought a RealDoll™"UPDATE - Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (ahem) Of course, by that we mean; tut-tut-tut-tut-tut!
"Just goes to show that even with £7700 you can't polish a turd."
UPDATE - You can find even more bloggage on this subject by starting here and following your nose.
UPDATE - Telegraph - Labour anger at £7,700 for Cherie's election hairdos: Last night the suspicion at Westminster was that someone inside the Labour Party had leaked the information in a bid to undermine Mr Blair. His supporters are certain to suspect that one of Gordon Brown's allies was behind the leak.
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