Posted on 04/21/2006 7:59:18 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
LONDON -- It took $13,700 to make the hair look good for a month.
A London newspaper said Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party spent almost $14,000 on hairstyling bills for Blair's wife during last year's month-long general election campaign.
The Times said the party lists the styling bills as an election expense of $490 a day for a month of campaigning.
A Labor spokeswoman responded, "So what?" She said Cherie Blair worked hard and is enormously popular, then added, "Don't forget, we won the election."
I've seen pictures. I reckon she's getting shafted.
Kind of high in my world but I figure they hired the best and this person probably had to travel with her and fix her hair before she went anywhere. The hairdresser making around 22-24 an hour?
We're talking about a different situation here. From my understanding, Mrs. Blair does not hold an official position and she is required to pay for any personal expenses herself. What disgusted me was that punk Smith tonight on Fox News who called her the 'British first lady'. Not more than 20 minutes after he covered the news about the Queen's 80th birthday celebration.
Funny coming from something called the labor party.
The real cost of Clitoon's hair cut was all the fuel wasted by planes that could not land because air force one was on the run way. And that was a lot more than $14,000.00
That's almost 2/3 yearly budget for me (everything, not hair only).
I saw some pictures of her new style, she should ask for the money back!!!!
Campaign trips are never planned far in advance. It all depend on where the polls say the campaign needs to go.
The appearances start at 7 in the morning and last until 11 oclock at night. Campaigns always have people to take care of the laundry and dry cleaning. I'll bet if you looked at that they likely spent $1,000 dollars a week on their laundry.
Just allow me to say that I doubt this. May I expand on this and say that I doubt the Hell out of this!!!
I've gone from 6am to 12 midnight some times and only had to do my hair once (in the morning). Cost me 25 cents worth of water, 10 cents worth of shampoo and about 3 cents of electricity for the hair dryer.
Does Britian have publically funded elections? I think that matters in this, cuz if not it's just the donors getting shafted.
The horror!
LET THEM EAT CAKE!
That seem incredibly high. If she paid this much, it was a ripoff. Her hair looks ordinary. Did some of the money go for kickbacks?
Happy birthday Mummy.
I saw the headline earlier at work but didn't read the article until now. I was under the impression the $14,000 was for hair styling since Tony got into office. Chaaa! I instantly let out "One month!"
"So what" sums up the libs hypocrisy - how many homeless could have been fed that month.
That being said Tony has been wrong on many an issue but I will always give him credit in regards to Iraq.
Exactly. Precisely. Couldn't have said it better in three thousand words.
That's wierd. I only spend $15 every few months when I begin to look like a bear. Maybe I should stop shaving and develop the werewolf look. No, I will look like a street bum on dope.
I think Cherie Blair has a reputation as being kind of goofy and a loose cannon. I don't believe she's that popular either. I think she's kind of an embarrassment to Tony and to England.
Nancy Pelosi lookalike contest!Are they sure it was hairdos or botox?
Cherie Blair and SNL's Rachel Dratch--separated at birth?
Good grief.
She PAID for THOSE?
She should have had plastic surgery instead! :P
Maybe it included pubes.
Hmm...how much occasion would she have had to show those off on the campaign trail?
Ironically, Cherie Blair defended the moose's "right" to wear head scarves.
Beats me, but by the sardonic grimace she sports in most of the photos, seems like they wound the curlers too tight and left them in.
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