Money for old rope

Reading a copy of the Daily Whinger which someone had left on the train to work this morning, I couldn't help but be amused in a bleak sort of way at a piece on how the Labour party had spent £7,700 of party funds - £275 a day - on Cherie Blair's hairdo during the last general election. For some reason a number of paid up members of the party seem to be taking umbrage at the way their funds had been spent - they seemed to think that Cherie's hair wasn't a good use for their subscription money.
Leaving aside the irony of spending that sort of money on haircuts for someone who works in the last profession which requires regular wearing of a wig, Labour members are (unsurprisingly) wrong - the modern Labour party is so switched on with marketing and image that they wouldn't spend thousands of their own money on something with no return*, which means that someone in central office worked out that this expenditure would result in more votes for Tony & co.
I can imagine the thought processes of a floating voter on election day...
Hmmn. £80bn black hole in pension funds caused by Gordon's removal of tax relief...constant and ongoing erosion of civil liberties...that war thingy which so many people seemed to take against...but then again, Cherie has lovely hair so I'll vote for them anyway...

As more and more people become disillusioned with Labour and Tony, it will become harder and harder for them to convince Mr. Floating Voter to tick the right box and so it's reasonable to expect that expenditure on Cherie's hair will increase exponentially from now on. In fact, thanks to highly-placed contacts within the government I can exclusively reveal her outfit for campaigning during next month's local government elections:



I'm wondering if I should make a donation to Cherie's Hair Fund - after all, with any luck doing so will result in me getting a rather fancy new wig of my own.

^{*They would, however, gleefully spend billions of other people's money on just that, and often do.}