Alastair Campbell: You're just a f****** hairdresser

Neither Fergus Shanahan in the Sun, nor Libby Purves in The Times are in the slightest bit impressed with Cherie Blair's autobiography, serialised in both papers, suggesting it does her little credit. Maybe it's time she employed Andre Suard, the stylist at Michaeljohn responsible for the £7,700 hair bill during the 2005 campaign, to defend her full time.

Here he is coming to her defence in December 2002, at the height of Cherie's dealings with conman Peter Foster. Dysfunctional does not begin to describe it:

In the afternoon I had my annual children's Christmas party. Every year children from one charity are invited for tea. Father Christmas comes and there's an entertainer. I tried to enjoy myself but I felt like a pariah. André [Cherie's hairdresser] was just getting up steam on my behalf when Alastair came storming into the bedroom.

“That's it,” Alastair said, his arms folded, looking at me via the mirror. “It's now political. The Tories are asking questions and your husband is going to have to answer them. One more time, Cherie, did you at any point have anything whatever to do with the immigration case?”

“I've told you, no. You're determined to humiliate me, aren't you? I know you've been briefing against me.”

“I don't need to. You do it all on your own.”

“Don't you dare talk to Cherie like that!” André exploded.

“You mind your own business,” Alastair retorted. “Remember you're just a f***ing hairdresser.”

“Apologise,” I said.

“I don't think so,” Alastair snorted

Comments

[machiavelli]

with that headline I was expecting his remark to be directed at Mandelson...

[Silent Hunter]

WOW!

Heady stuff! :Oo

Now can we get back to some REAL issues please?

I can't believe that I'm reading this kind of crap in the Times of all places.

Who gives a damn what that Shopaholic Harpy thinks or does.............hasn't she spent enough taxpayers money on herself when her warmonger of a husband was in power?

Please could we have some 'journalism' now!

[Paul Linford]

Absolutely typical of Campbell's attitude to people he considered to be less important than himself.