Obviously somebody in Victoria Street reads Guido and has a sense of humour. Key in Chris Huhne and look what you get:

Please no more Google Ads. Please.

UPDATE : Cameron’s advert has gone, possibly something to do with an organised ker-ching click-fest by LibDems.

UPDATE : A co-conspirator tells Guido that Google Ads keywords per click for Huhne cost 2p, for Ming 3p and Hughes 6p. Something to do with the Torygraph.

Ming’s campaign has a video interview on his blog where he talks about the women in his life. His mum, his wife, his junior school teacher and.. err, that’s it. Strange, no mention of any other woman.

New Labour believes that they have to define the opponent in the public mind and frame the terms of the debate to destroy him. Hague, IDS and Howard got the treatment. With Cameron they have hesitated, apparently at Blair’s behest and to the dismay of Brown. Now we are led to believe they have agreed an attack and they intend to define Cameron as an unreliable policy chameleon – a flip-flopper. The on message, loyalist Labour whip, Tom Watson MP, blogs this spin (with a very colourful graphic). Whomever wrote Prescott’s recent speech to the Labour Party Centenary Conference summarised the line neatly:

He’s like a rainbow. The Yellow Cameron. The Red Cameron. The Green Cameron. The Blue Cameron. What we’ve got, is Cameron the Chameleon. He can change the colour of his skin at will but the political animal underneath is Conservative to the core.

As much as Tom Watson and the activist core loves this line of attack, they should be self aware enough to know that Labour performed a total policy flip-flop from the pre-1996 policies advocated by Messrs Blair and Brown to reach their 2006 policies. They flipped and are still flopping.

All Cameron has to do is say “yes, it’s true, we have changed” and this line of attack is neutralised. That is after all what the voters wanted. Change. Calling Cameron a flip-flopper clearly highlights and confirms the change for him. Advertisers always like to keep the message simple – the New Tory message is “we have changed”. The details are irrelevant to most voters. Daz does not advertise Persil’s new formula, why is New Labour advertising New Tory policy changes?

The Kerry precedent is not directly comparable – Kerry flipped, flopped and flipped again and again. The man was a policy oscillator. If Cameron retreats on a future policy change Labour may have a valid charge. But he hasn’t so far, and unless he does, this line of attack won’t work.

James F an eagle-eyed co-conspirator of Guido’s, points out that the story about Huhne buying adverts on Google for search results for his rival’s names, obviously upset the Mingers. Look what they have done:

Search for Chris Huhne and you find Ming above him! They will have had to pay more than the Huhney Monster for the privilege.

Ming bidding here…

UPDATE : Mingers seem determined to boost Google’s profits. Guess what you get when you search for “David Cameron“?

“Although the race is close, the evidence is that I have a slight lead with the other two battling it out for second place.”

“I look forward to working as Leader with the brightest, best and most creative people in British liberal politics to bring forward the policies fit for the new century.”

Hat-tip : after an original idea from www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog

After less than a year in a re-education camp, Howard Flight has found his way back to Westminster. Fired by Michael Howard for thought-crimes, the former MP and City heavy-weight has taken on the chairmanship of the right-on, ultra-Cameroonie think-tank, the Globalisation Institute.

Gordon Brown’s ambiguous sexual image in his university days has long been speculated about, remember Sue Lawley on Desert Island Discs years ago: “People want to know whether you’re gay or whether there is some flaw in your personality”. It appears to Guido that despite fatherhood, the tendency is creeping back. When Gordon visited HMS Kent* last week he positively frolicked in his goggles, mincing rather than marching. Whatever has got into him? Is he just full of the joys of spring?
*Iain Dale owes Guido 10 pints for the picture on the left.

A usually reliable source whispers that some Tory MEPs have already had interviews for the A-list. Could this be a reward for the high profile ones that supported Dave and to prevent any rebelliousness on the EPP-ED split?

Guido is also told that all ex-MPs have been kicked off the candidates list. All of them.

UPDATE : By “all of them” apparently the source meant all of them, apart from the 2005 losers.

Lynne had a drink with Guido and Recess and told us the tale of the time she kissed the wrong Willy. She’s bullish on all fronts and she wants to be shadow home secretary. Hear why she couldn’t get Clegg to run and who does her hair. Whatever…

Click over to Guido & Recess Monkey to hear what she has to say on the latest pubcast.

Gordon will not be appearing at Labour’s Scottish conference in Aviemore next weekend. If his constituency MP was a Brownite acolyte instead of a LibDem who overturned an 11,500 majority, do you really think he would miss it? Gordon would be basking in the glory, instead of swerving the blame.