A record smashing 10th anniversary year with over 30 million visits to this site in 2014. The top ten traffic posts published this year were:

1. THE RESHUFFLE: All the Sackings as They Happen
2. WATCH: Former Tory Whip Boasts About Paedo Cover Up
3. LISTEN: Miliband’s Radio Wiltshire Clusterf**k
4. Khan Crash: Sadiq’s Rush Hour Horror
5. Islington MP’s Rochester Culture Shock
6. EXC: Gordon Brown Office Has £10,000-a-Week “Expenses” 
7. Brown Office Gives Just 1 in 4 Pounds Raised to Charity
8. WATCH: Penny Mordaunt’s Loyal Address in Full
9. Roll Call of Shame: Every MP Who Voted Against Recall
10. UKIP’s Poster Girl Quits Party Citing Racism

Here are our favourite stories of the last 12 months:

Ten hours after Guido added the word “snob” to Emily Thornberry’s now infamous “Image from Rochester“, Labour’s Islington MP had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet. ‘Snobberry’ had “never seen anything like it“, making Ed “more angry than he has ever been” and incurring the wrath of White Van Dan. According to the BBC, it was Guido wot won it. And don’t miss the tale of Lady Nugee’s walled garden… 

In the absence of a Twitter storm it took slightly longer to secure the resignation of David Ruffley. Guido had reported on Ruffley’s anger management problems before, yet the Tories were silent when he accepted a caution for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Despite Ruffers telling Guido he was “cheerful“, the people of Bury St. Edmunds demanded their MP do the decent thing, domestic violence charities called for his head and, crucially, the Dean of the local cathedral told him “your position is untenable”. In June Ruffley finally announced he would be standing down, and parliament was rid of another nasty piece of work…

2014 was a year when several Tory MPs found themselves in Guido’s crosshairs, none more so than Tim Yeo. From leadership contender to loser in nine years, this blog has been exposing Yeo’s absenteeism and conflicts of interest for the best part of a decade. In January Guido went to find troubled Tim, not in his Suffolk constituency, but in Sandwich in Kent, where he had “gone golfing“. The following month Yeo was deselected by his local party. Victory at last…

Last but not least, who can forget Brooks No-marks, the Tory women’s champion who sent a paisley-clad dick pic to our very own Sophie Wittams. Despite the wailing from the less popular parts of the press, a public service was confirmed when Brooks was revealed to have used the exact same modus operandi. Yes, yes, yes Minister. 

Despite our detractors’ weak claims of bias, we’ve had a direct hand in ending the careers of three Tory MPs who had absolutely no intention of quitting in 2015. That’s 1% of the parliamentary party. Happy New Year, roll on that election.