Yes, yes, we are quite as bored of the MP’s expenses row as you are, however, we couldn’t help laughing out loud when our attention was drawn to today’s latest shocking claims in the Telegraph (note we don’t actually read the Telegraph, not being 95 year old Tory grandees and all).
Anyway, it would seem that at least one of our much maligned Members of Parliament has good taste in hair care, as a claim was submitted (and sadly rejected) for £99.50 in respect of a set of ghd hair straighteners - well it is important for one to look one’s best when running the country.
Step forward Sarah McCarthy-Fry, the MP for Portsmouth North, and a junior Minister for Education. Ms McCarthy-Fry bought said ghd hair straighteners from a local salon and tried to claim the money back in May 2007, although the miserly claims department rejected the claim as not being for an item essential to help run her second home.
Says who! As anyone who has ever stayed over away from home will attest, there are few things more essential than a set of ghd hair straighteners! They let her claim for a sewing box, but not the UK’s leading brand of hair straighteners… too right the expenses system needs wholesale reform!
Of course, if she had visited us first, we’d have saved her money on the ghd hair straighteners, which might have made her less likely to try and palm the cost off on the taxpayers!
Full details, with more spittle and right-wing anger can be found here.
Meanwhile, the UK’s cheapest ghd hair straighteners deals can be found on Compare ghd.
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