Guido is off to physically wage war tonight on politicians, we’ll find out if Labour are “fighters and believers”, if the Tories “will fight and Britain will win”.  The Guy News team will be impartially shooting at both sides, as always…

There has been a bit of banter and sledging on Twitter in advance (hashtag tonight is #blogwars).  Pictured above: Guido looking camp in Kampuchea with the Khmer Bleu, LabourList’s Alex Smith still searching for WMDs, ToryBear looking for @BevaniteEllie, CCHQ’s Sam Coates practising his sharp shooting and Brittany Greer demonstrating why you don’t mess with Texas.

Thanks to Jag Singh (pictured right) at MessageSpace for organising the match.  Do his Labour Party colleagues know that the former Hillary ’08 staffer is a paid up member of the NRA?  Splat!

The boss of the mighty Deutsche Bank Josef Ackermann is laughing that Downing Street and the Elysee Palace are shooting their financial centres in the foot.  He is acclaiming that Germany has a “comparative advantage” over other financial cities due to the fact that Britain and subsequently France will be taxing bonuses at penal rates.  “To strengthen the financial hub of Germany I think is a very wise move” he sarcastically mocks with that crazy German sense of humour for which they are famous.

It has come to something when boring Frankfurt, home of the European Central Bank, is rubbing its hands with glee at the prospect of London’s bankers heading towards them.  Cheers Darling…

They must be getting desperate in the Downing Street bunker.  Is Brown changing tactics from spending his last few months in power bashing Etonians?  The persistent 10% poll deficit demands desperate measures.  If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – or at least look like ‘em. Someone sent him out of the bunker in what looks remarkably like an Old Etonian tie.

He’ll be dreaming up policy on a playing field next…

Tonight sees the logical extension of online political warfare.  Teams from CCHQ, Labour, GuyNews.TV and assorted political campaigns are being extraordinarily rendered into the back of black vans with darkened windows to an undisclosed secret location for battle.

For those who want to follow the action tonight’s hashtag is #blogwars.  See also ‘Bambi-killer’ ToryBear, Shane Greer.  This is not just paintball….

*Guido extracted this old picture of him the late 80s on the frontline between freedom and Marxist dictatorship (unfortunately his freedom fighting friends are probably still classified).

The Prime Mentalist arrived in Afghanistan with hands outstretched to greet the troops. Gordon obviously doesn’t know that while standing to attention a soldier can’t play along with his photo op:

The man is a walking PR disaster…

Einy Shah, Boris staffer, Tweets…

“Ha ha Boris on his way out ‘OK, we’re off to save the planet!’ “

If you head over to the Number 10 website right now you can ask Gordon anything you want about the war in Afghanistan:

Something tells Guido his questions won’t be getting through the bunker staff.

Tim Montgomerie is asking for ideas to counter the deliberately drawn Brown/Balls 20% VAT political dividing line.  He makes five suggestions: admit VAT will rise to 20%, time limit it, ameliorate the regressiveness, promise a focus on spending cuts and launch a growth manifesto.

Guido has an alternative policy – rule a VAT hike completely out of the question.  It is regressive, it hits the poorest hardest, it punishes the many.  Labour can’t counter – they can hardly claim it is necessary if they themselves won’t do it.  Keep on the Balls/Brown side of that dividing line, then mercilessly whack them for raising taxes on jobs, taxes on small businesses and implementing anti-poor regressive taxes.

Promise to do what Obama is doing – cut payroll taxes, cut taxes on small business and get more money flowing in the economy to get it growing again.   Boosting the supply side to drive economic growth will increase government revenue from a faster growing economy and, in fact, cause overall revenue to increase.  The dynamic effects were proven during the Reagan years:

• Real economic growth averaged 3.2% during the Reagan years versus 2.8% under Ford-Carter years and 2.1% during the Bush-Clinton years.
• Real median family income grew when supply-side policies were implemented under Reagan
• Interest rates, inflation, and unemployment fell faster under Reagan than they did immediately before or after his presidency.

Either the Tories believe in the merits of a low tax, high growth economy or they don’t.  You don’t grow the economy by taxing it more.