Now Guido knows that former MP Siôn Simon, who is now editing the Labour leadership tracking website Labour-Uncut, hasn’t had the best of luck with computers and the internet in the past, but today he sinks to a new humiliating low. While pushing Twitter traffic to his site, it appears Simon has pasted the wrong link into his web link shortener.

Don’t know how long before the offending tweet is deleted but when his followers click “http://tiny.cc/ax5eg” instead of getting an informative interview with Eric Joyce MP they are taken to a Swiss website that sells and ships non-prescription Viagra to the UK:

The site states “Our specialized field of treatment is Erectile dysfunction (impotence). Therefore, we offer our customers several sexual enhancers. Alongside high-quality branded products you can purchase a wide assortment of favourably-priced generic sexual enhancers offering the very best quality.” Guido is trying to get hold of Siôn  for an innocent explanation, meantime a suggestion for him: shut your work browser when ordering for playtime. Such are the pressures on an old man of a younger mistress…

There was some speculation yesterday from hacks and EyeSpyMP what exactly former MP Lembit Opik was doing loitering around Parliament. After a brief flirt with TV punditry in those coalition negotiating days, it seems Lembit has bigger and better plans.

He told the crowd at his Montgomeryshire count “in the words of Arnie Schwarzenegger, I’ll be back…” but few would have expected where he has set his sights. Guido can exclusively reveal that Lembit was visiting Liberal Democrat MPs to take soundings on whether they would support his bid to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London. He already has an Ealing councillor in place as a campaign manager.

Though many were quick to dismiss Boris when he first mooted the idea of running, surely the curse of Lembit would kick in? Lest we forget he ran Mark Oaten’s messy bid to be Lib Dem leader, he also lost a relatively safe seat,  and that’s without the inevitable frolicking girls coming out of the woodwork. Surely he would have more fun sticking to what he is good at… riding Segways and chasing women?

Tim Yeo is Chairman of Univent plc, on the board of Eurotunnel and the non-executive chairman of both Eco City Vehicles plc and AFC Energy plc. In his spare time he is an MP.

Yeo came to Guido’s attention back in Feburary when the Parliamentary Room Bookings records were released showing how green-fingered Tim had opened up the parliamentary estate to prospective investors in green technology firms. You may remember what happened when he was confronted about his mixing of politics and business live on Newsnight:

MPs are electing the Chairman of Select Committees for the first time. These vital scrutineers must hold ministers to account. Guess who is front-runner to take Energy and Climate Change? Step forward Tim Yeo.

Yeo’s dealings with AFC Energy are particularly interesting. As Guido reported before;

At the time AFC Energy plc were raising £2 million from  environmental investors, and for each of the following five months AFC Energy paid Tim Yeo £3,750 a month (up to a total of £18,750) until in December when they succeeded in raising the £2m they were seeking from environmental investors in a share placing.  Tim also got a bonus when the shares were placed with investors of 150,000 shares for his work.  All in all he made a total of some £80,000 out of the AFC deal from July when he hosted the Environmental Investment Network event until December when they sold the shares to investors.

MPs look set to elect a man completely tied up with an industry that he would be responsible for the checks and balances on. He would need cross party support to get the job. Perhaps members might like to take another look at their favoured candidate.

It’s not just MPs who can get a bit of taxpayer cash you know. It seems two of the nations least-liked professions have joined forces. Estate agents Winkworth have been flyering exclusive homes in Pimlico, Belgravia and Westminster with their “Rent your home to an MP” plan. Guido is still trying to find out which exact MPs it is they are working with but their desire for only “exclusive” homes says it all.

Sadly for those looking for a new lover, you have to move out before the esteemed member moves in.

Forgot  to do the blog stats yesterday: 252,862 visitors made 1,313,840 visits to the blog viewing 2,218,210 pages, add in 1,147,291 views via feed readers and you have over 3.3 million hits on the blog you love and politicians hate.  Many thanks to the advertisers who make it all possible.

For comparison the blog traffic is neck and neck with the Speccie’s web traffic and double what the New Statesman gets.  The most popular stories last month were:

• Who is James Lundie?
• The Change Coalition (Part III)
• Brown Resigns
• The Sadness in Sarah Brown’s Eyes
• Yes, Prime Minister
• Ed Balls Attacked for Expense Abuses

Guido also wants to say a long overdue thanks to Juliet Samuel who started out as an intern last summer, became a Guy News staffer and “famous for Westminster” as Emily Nomates; the presenter, producer, script writer and editor of Guy News. Juliet has now been poached by City A.M. editor Allister Heath to write for them.

Guido’s loss is his gain…

In an effort to shore up the ruling Democratic Party’s faltering fortunes in an election next month, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has resigned under pressure from his party telling them “In order to revitalise our party, we need to bring back a thoroughly clean Democratic Party.”

There are parallels, Hatoyama – nicknamed “The Alien” for his quirky comments – has a reputation for indecision and broken promises to match our former PM. Many on the oppostion benches will be thinking that if only Gordon Brown had been as honourable as the Japanese PM, the Labour Party might still be in government.

Alastair Campbell modestly told a Guardian interviewer…

“Somebody sent me a text … It said she was trying to put her finger on what she found so attractive about me. She said, ‘It’s the way he looks at you as if to say, ‘I’d like to fuck you, but I just haven’t got the time.’”