Though no longer a front-bencher, or even a participating Member of Parliament, Gordon has found it necessary to recruit a PPS. Alison McGovern, newly elected MP for Wirral South, has been appointed bag-carrier-in-chief . While he sits at home in Fife, rocking, back and forth, spinning his disastrous economic record, she will be working in Westminster on his behalf. Why can’t he do it? Guido recommends  she spend more time shoring up her own ultra-marginal constituency.

It just gets worse for Liam Fox. After yesterday’s slamming from the Charity Commission for his farcical neo-con charity Atlantic Bridge, today he now learns that it is under investigation from the Inland Revenue Service. Apparently the Yanks are not overly impressed with the tax-exempt status the charity had if it was flouting the rules. This seems to have been the problem:

“Americans should look forward to May 6, after which Cameron and his government will likely assume power. He will be good for America and better for the Special Relationship.”

On the day that the Prime Minister upset supporters and many of his closest allies by describing Gaza as a “prison camp”, over in the prison yard things look a little different. Check out the new shopping mall that opened in Gaza just ten days ago:

How did that go up without building materials?

Or what about those near famine like conditions? The markets seem thriving and richer citizens can enjoy all sorts of restaurants:

Gaza offers beaches and even an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Who is running this “prison camp”, Ken Clarke?

Update : The Indy’s John Rentoul emails to say he tweeted a link to this earlier. He clearly has the same Mossad Liaison Officer as Guido.

Anyway, who fancies a beer on the beach in Gaza?

Tim Montgomerie blogs…

“This Coalition is heading for breakdown or it’s heading Leftwards. The Left of the Liberal Democrats will demand an end to the Coalition if Nick Clegg doesn’t get more and more concessions from David Cameron.”

Rumours flitted on EyeSpy.MP that Gordon was on the parliamentary estate, Twittering politicos said he was seen at the end of the chamber during questions to Culture Media Sport Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

So he was, lurking briefly by the Speaker’s chair, greeting a few TaliBrown cronies before he went off to do violence to a keyboard banging out another 10,000 words of his “I Was Right” memoir.

Guido has yet to check the record, but suspects Brown did not bother to vote late last night on the Education Bill…