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Can Labour get a refund?

According to this BBC news report, the Labour party spent £ 7,700 on Cherie Blair’s hair during the election campaign. Not my idea of value for money. Sure they won, but still…

21 comments to Can Labour get a refund?

  • Verity

    The woman’s grotesque.

  • Shaun Bourke

    Trying to make lamb out of mutton….

  • dearieme

    Greedie Boot, Greedie Boot,
    Isn’t she a ruddy hoot?

  • It could be worse they could have spent that much on Prescott’s wife hair. That Cruella d’ Ville look costs a lot of money.

  • Rich

    Best of all is the response from the labour party when questioned about it.

    A Labour spokeswoman said: “So what? We won the election.”

    Charmers aren’t they!

  • Nick M

    Just goes to show you can’t buy it all… David Blunkett’s dog looked better groomed.

    What a stunningly unbelievable cow. I’d so love to see them nail her for some fraud or other…

  • Freeman

    Is this what they mean by a bad hair day

  • Verity

    dearieme – You are right. She is a greedie boot. That gaping mouth is the stuff of nightmares.

  • GCooper

    As a good Labourite, I can’t see why Mrs Bliar didn’t practice what she preaches – and let the local council do it.

  • adam

    I am sure that those pensioners who voted labour will be delighted that Cherie’s hair for the campaign cost only slightly more than the married couples annual pension.

  • Johnathan Pearce

    Bollocks to Cherie, it is the Queen’s 80th Birthday. Gawd bless yer mam!

  • Nick M

    Ma’am Jonathan, Ma’am. She’s not your mother from “Up North”. Show some respect or I’ll put ya in The Tower myself.

    Couldn’t NewLab’ve saved themselves GBP7699.99 by the simple expedient of obtaining a paper bag?

  • Verity

    Nick M – Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

  • Verity

    News for Cherie – that ancient Mayan “rebirthing ceremony” didn’t work.

  • Julian Taylor

    … that ancient Mayan “rebirthing ceremony” didn’t work

    Yes it did- she just mispronounced the ancient Mayan phrase for ‘make me look like Gisele Bundchen’ so it came out like ‘make me look like Anne Widdecombe’. Don’t blame the Mayans.

  • Lizzie

    My dad (who comes from Co Durham, grew up with lifelong Labour voters, and despises the Blairs with a searing passion, especially Cherie), as soon as he heard this, looked at me and said, “That money could have gone on so many other things . . . like plastic surgery for her.”

    He’s a right bitch when he wants to be, is my dad.

  • Saif

    The very first time I saw Cherie’s picture I was vaguely reminded of Cruela de Vil from the original book illustrations in 101 Dalmatians. The resemblance becomes stronger by the day.

  • Verity

    Saif – Snap! Me too!

  • Julian Taylor

    A certain Samizdata contributor has a number of Disney coffee mugs, one of which has a picture of a smiling Cruela De Vil on it. I must admit I too thought it was Cherie Blair the moment I saw it – something about the letterbox mouth and the eyes.

  • Verity

    I think that pixie haircut shot was the most alarming.

    It played up those mad eyes and that huge, greedy mouth. Perhaps her hairdresser votes Tory.

  • Verity

    Ron Liddle has a nice, mean piece about Cherieeee in today’s Times. (Link)

    On the other hand, Dave has an utterly moronic piece in The Telegraph explaining how he is going to “put Britain on a gree highway”. Those fools who voted for him must be ruing the day … (Link) Needless to say, I was among the tens of thousands who have no intention of reading it.