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  • The sorts of people who float the idiotic and insulting implication that an army of blue-rinse ladies and stay-at-home Mums with a bit of time on their hands are going to pop down to a housing estate in Skelmersdale and change an old man's catheter.

    100 days in, Mr Miliband, you need a plan | Observer editorial 2011

  • See pictures of "the blue-rinse bachelor" and read or watch or listen, because TV and radio are deep into this game, too what any available neighbours will say about him.

    Joanna Yeates murder case puts media coverage in the spotlight 2011

  • Everywhere I go, from Bournemouth to Inverness, concert halls and opera houses resemble conventions for the blue-rinse brigade.

    Children and classical music 2009

  • Roald described her swashbuckling around America giving lectures at $4000 each! to the blue-rinse section of Alaska, Texas, Michigan etc . . .

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Fantastic news - having the Tories as the true blue unionist party ensures they are stuck in their blue-rinse enclaves.

    Roberts report supports 'No' campaign 2008

  • While there might be something to be said for a tax which penalises older people for staying in their family homes after the children are left - I am not sure that this is something which you could sell to the blue-rinse brigade, and I supect Dave would be against other forms of social engineering with the same objectives.

    The Witch Cooper Newmania 2007

  • Somehow I'd always thought they were for rich blue-rinse widows on a world tour but the offer of a free one was too good to miss.

    51 entries from August 2007 2007

  • Somehow I'd always thought they were for rich blue-rinse widows on a world tour but the offer of a free one was too good to miss.

    Life on the ocean wave 2007

  • The blue-rinse brigade would like to see the department he hopes to run folded into the Foreign Office or simply closed down.

    Mitchell takes on the pirates 2009

  • The blue-rinse brigade would like to see the department he hopes to run folded into the Foreign Office or simply closed down.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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