Guido would like to film something similar with a group of future German school kids laughing at the Irish…

Labour’s ill-fated “Twitter Tsar” Kerry McCarthy has been found guilty and cautioned in what, as far as Guido can see, is the only recorded incident of Twitter Electoral Crime. McCarthy was reported to the police by the Sunlight Centre after being alerted by local constituent Michael Owen days before the election that she had leaked postal vote numbers in a get-out-the-vote bid. Normally a motor mouth, the Bristol East MP is surprisingly quiet today…

UPDATE : From the Bristol Evening Post website.

“Police have confirmed that they have cautioned a man and a woman – both from Bristol – following an investigation into alleged electoral fraud earlier this year under the Representation of the People Act 1983.”

Is it fair to suppose that the man was her agent.

The Honourable Tristram Julian William Hunt, son of Lord Hunt of Chesterton, was educated at Hampstead’s finest public school*, followed by Trinity College Cambridge and the University of Chicago and King’s College Cambridge. In today’s Mirror he has taken up his quill to slam his fellow toff Dave for going to Eton and employed some spectacular hyperbole, suggesting that “Tory spending cuts send us back to the misery of the Victorian workhouse”:

“Not far from where young David Cameron went to school at Eton, there used to stand a workhouse for the poor of Victorian England. Husbands were separated from wives; mothers from children. The Victorians disliked the poor.

We have civilized ourselves since the 19th century. There is no need for David Cameron to take us back to the ethos of the Eton workhouse.”

For someone who claims to be a historian, Hunt’s grasp of the past and the modern-day seems some what jaded. Just as Guido was typing up this piece and thinking of a suitable logo for a hyperbole award, he noticed that ConservativeHome have given Hunt the “Order of the OTT” for his piece. As he couldn’t put it better himself he borrowed the logo.

*The UCS, where Hunt was a pupil is a member of the Eton Group, an elite grouping of the twelve best schools in the country. But that didn’t quit fit the narrative.

The looney left is never really, really mad until it has formed a boycott of something. True to form any company supporting the coalition cuts its going to be made to really suffer. As the plan gets a nod from the CBI, comrades from across the land have signed up to boycott the evil corporations that provide millions of jobs. Viva!

However just like their objection to Osborne’s sums, looking at just a handful of the companies backing them such as Next, ASDA, Microsoft, Mothercare, Carphone Warehouse, TalkTalk, Boots, Marks & Spencer, Ocado et al, the maths really isn’t in their favour:

The High Street names that cater for almost the entire population must be shaking in their boots…