1. What's the bet that these two snippets are somehow related?

Guardian - £40m spree that bought groundhogs, gurus, makeup and Mr Spock outfits: Labour spent £3,500 hiring chairs and tables for a 90-minute meeting with Tony Blair in Gloucestershire...

Bloggerheads - Popular support costs money: In 2001, shutting down entire cafes for staged meetings with the 'public' was the norm. In 2005, they actually *built* outdoor cafes so Blair could have a 'spontaneous' chats in them.

2. We still want to know how much Tony Blair spent of tanning products during the general election, but the details of election spending released to the public by the Electoral Commission do not go into this level of detail.

Copies of the relevant invoices (that do go into this level of detail) have been supplied to journalists, but - judging by the 'stand-out' items that are being recycled in most newspapers - very few journalists have actually made full use of access to this material.

3. How much money was spent keeping off-message people away from Labour rallies and 'spontaneous' gatherings... and did this come out of their election expenses or an anti-terror-slash-security fund paid for by the unwitting taxpayer?

Related news items:
BBC - Election make-up costs revealed
The Times - The price of spin
Telegraph - Parties spent a fortune on election aides and make-up