The deputy-chancellor Ed Balls has, despite mounting a legal challenge, seen his seat wiped out by boundary changes. Is this the end for the endogenator? The Liberati have an idea to help him get round the lost seat problem. He implausibly claims that: “This is a real disappointment for local people across our district.”

Still it will give him even more time to webmong about the place surfing political websites, like he did yesterday, when he amazingly discovered the advance publication of the Tory Tax Commission’s report. He’ll be posting on this blog next, like Dave Miliband does, maybe he does already?

The book what we bloggers wrote seems a lot more popular than the book what Balls and Brown wrote, despite Gordon’s sales tour…

The Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze – British Bloggers
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,245

Speeches, 1997-2006 – Gordon Brown
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 114,654

When Blairite lickspittles like Sion Simon and Chris Bryant with an eye on their future careers shift their allegiances to Brown the trouble is serious. But this is not the tipping point, something is missing. Brown is silent, no cabinet minister has resigned, Blair is looking into the abyss but he has not reached the tipping point.

Guido has been studying the betting markets, looking at the next Chancellor bet, the joint favourites are Ed Balls and Alastair Darling. John Reid’s price looks too long, if he stands against Brown and loses marginally he will have a strong claim to the job. The Alan Johnson price also looks to long for both Chancellor and PM. Alan Johnson seems just more human and normal than the others.

A co-conspirator emails about a recent lunch organised by sleazy lobbyists LLM. Ed Balls spoke and went completely mad about criticism of the spending review. He ended up shouting that if the CBI and the TUC didn’t like what he was doing they should get on and do their own. Is the heat getting to him?

Usual tragic-magic trick of condolences to start.

Dave makes an “answer the question” jibe, saying get used to it, because the way things are going you’ll be soon be answering Scotland Yard’s questions.

Guido cracks open the rosé.

Ming bores on about the Middle East (safely).

Michael Meacher bores on about Middle East. Takes the Hizbollah line, speaker tells him to shut up and sit down. Guido emails Mossad with details of where Meacher lives…

John Maples does a comedy turn on the PM’s holiday, suggests he stays at home and send the DPM to an Italian Palace with his diary secretary.

Back in the Daily Politics studio, Ed Balls seems to be sporting a new, sharper haircut. Have the image consultants who got Gordon to bleach his smile, told Balls to sort his haircut out and wear contact lenses? In his SpAd days Balls was far more dishevelled.

Knowing how reluctant politicians are to put their hands in their own pocket for expenses, who actually paid for Ed Balls and George Osborne to travel to Ottawa and stay in a five star spa? The Bilderberg meetings are closed to the public with the proceedings kept secret. Since this was after all a private meeting the use of taxes or party funds would be inappropriate. Guido finds it hard to believe that Ed Balls, whose tightness with money is more than prudent, would actually pay for it himself. So we can expect a full declaration in the interests register soon.

There were no signs of any lizards (or even chameleons).

*Always tip bell-boys generously.

As the post-Blair era comes ever closer, the two rival London gangs are squaring up to begin their fight for control of the one crucial piece of turf that matters, Westminster. In the West wearing blue colours it is the Notting Hill gang; hard-boy Hilton, the Govemeister, Bolesy, Georgie O and Ed Vaizey take on the Primrose Hill mob including; the Miliband bruvvers, Dougie Alexander, Ed Balls and Yvette C, all sporting red colours.

The Primrose Hill Blairites of Progress have launched their first pamphlet attack on Cameron’s Notting Hill gang. Guido can save you the bother of reading it, the Tory Clause IV moment is, they say, ‘Accept the Blair legacy’, like they accepted the Thatcherite legacy. So is that, “we’re all Thatcherites now”? Or “we’re all Blairites now”? Or just, “we’re all the same”?

Due to a misunderstanding of the new law Guido went on a 24-hour binge drinking session yesterday. So I may have imagined this – did Tony Blair accuse Michael Howard of advocating a planned economy? Did David Miliband (might have been Ed Balls, I was confused) accuse some interviewer of advocating Stalinism? Next New Labour will be attacking paternalistic Toryism as “statist”.

Lets hope those lefties don’t get back into power.

Ed balls, Gordon’s annointed amongst us, claimed after weeks of alleging that the Tories had a “secret agenda” to cut £35 billion, that by 2008 a Conservative government would be spending £15 billion a year more than Labour. The flip just flopped. The Tories will seize on this to blunt the Labour attack. Guido has this handy diagram for Ed to refer to as he revises and modifys his statement. Bet he is feeling a little endogenous now, eh? Best you ‘do a Letwin’ and disappear for the rest of the campaign.