Guido was not surprised to learn that the deficit deniers over at Left Foot Forward have gone into debt themselves, ending up £3,000 in the red this year. They’ve been forced to beg their niche readership for money:

“We’re still £3,000 short of what we need this year. We really need every Left Foot Forward reader to step up, make a small donation today and keep us successful. We now have scores of readers making small monthly payments to Left Foot Forward and hundreds making small donations every year. Can you join them and make a one off donation today?”

Turns out that magic money tree doesn’t really exist…

This week a healthy for silly season 88,114 visitors visited 270,346 times viewing 472,473 pages.

The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Boris Stuck On Zip Wire
• Twitter Spoofer Launches Legal Fight
• It’s Boris Mania!
• Wandsworth Tories Demand Guido “Desist”
• Victory For Spoof Tweeter
• Video: Jeremy Hunt Hits Woman With Bell End
• He Who Pays the IPPR Calls the Tune

This week 100,816 visitors visited 294,645 times viewing 517,466 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Breaking Video: Jeremy Hunt Hits Woman With Bell End
• Media Boss Launches Witch Hunt Over Twitter Parody 
• Picture: Compare and Contrast PMs’ Body Language
• “Philandering” Politician’s Love Child Awarded £15,000
• Naming and Shaming the “Morally Repugnant” David Gauke
• David Gauke’s Wife is Tax Avoidance Lawyer
• Twitter to Release Spoof Account Details
• Justine Greening’s Agent in Addison Lee Fraud Mess

You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…

Guido has a sore head from Political Scrapbook’s drinks last night. As revenge he has some bad news for them. They thought they were on to a winner earlier this week with a story claiming that John Prescott was the victim of a vicious Tory smear campaign. It was claimed that a series of questions over Prezza’s use of public credit cards were placed in MPs’ names without their knowledge. However, the Table Office have now conceded that the entire mess was down to a simple admin error by them, as the Tories insisted all along:

Dear Mr Elphicke,

I can confirm that the questions were wrongly recorded as being in the name of Sir Alan Beith due to an administrative error in this office. We took steps to correct this shortly after they were tabled, when we realised the error had been made. Unfortunately, when the questions were answered, some were returned under the original wrong name of Sir Alan Beith, which overwrote our correction. We have since corrected this again and I have just checked the Parliamentary records and confirmed that they all now appear correctly in your name.

I am very sorry for this error and the inconvenience it has caused you – please do get in touch if there is anything further we can do to assist.

Best wishes,

Sue Griffiths

Clerk, Table Office

House of Commons

Oh well…

This week 84,152 visitors visited 277,342 times viewing 481,704 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• The Two Faces of Polly Toynbee
• Farage Confirms Guido Eastleigh Rumours
• Ken Forced to Pay Damages and Apologise to Gilligan
• Eddie Mair’s Newsnight Heebie-Jeebies
• Guardian Comes Out for Cuts
• Michael White Owes Guido An Apology
• Exclusive: Violent Rioter ‘Voids’ Square Mile Election 

You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…

Political Scrapbook is gunning on the Beeb’s tax story this morning, going particularly hard on Paxo for apparently channelling his earnings through a service company. It’s an almost identical scheme to the one used by tax-dodger-in-chief Ken Livingstone, only for some reason Scrapbook didn’t mention it back before the election.

How odd…

This week 76,051 visitors visited 246,337 times viewing 412,334 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Video: Anne Marie Morris’ PMQs Shouty Crackers Question
• Exclusive: That Letter Signed by MPs Opposing Lords Reform
  Named Signatories Includes Not Usual Suspects
• The Delusion of Nick Clegg
• Eddie Mair’s Newsnight Heebie-Jeebies
• David Lammy’s Bus Etiquette
• Hain v Gove
• George Osborne Demands Hooker Goes Down
  Chancellor is Super-Pimp

You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…

This week 87,284 visitors visited 275,531 times viewing 458,897 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• The Shriti Hiti the Fan
• Diamond Says: ‘Hold My Dick’
• FSA’s Barclays Report:
  Staff Believed Bank of England Sanctioned LIBOR Scam
• LIBORgate: Diamond v Tucker at Treasury Select Committee
• Sons of Brown Defend Time in Office
• VIDEO: Farage Batters Van Rompuy (Again)
• Mensch on Drugs

You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…

David Cameron has taken a battering on the blogs today with both ConservativeHome and LabourList revealing damaging new statistics about the PM’s waning popularity. Polling undertaken by Lord Ashcroft has found that a staggering 43% of  ConservativeHome readers see Cameron as a vote-loser, with a paltry 36% backing his electoral prowess. ConservativeHome gunning for Dave is ominous in the long-term. He has been warned…

LabourList is pushing a Commons report that shows membership of the Conservative Party has dropped by almost a third since Cameron became leader. The slump is pretty damning even considering that membership is usually cyclical, rising before a new leader is chosen and falling afterwards – hence why Labour’s membership numbers seem relatively flattering. Holding a leadership election to boost the coffers seems a tad extreme…

After dipping his toe into the blogging world on key occasions this year, Damian McBride has created plenty of ripples. Speculation has been spreading that the disgraced Brown spinner was touting for a book deal by giving us a glimpse of what such a tome would be like. Needless to say there have already been offers, which do not come as a suprise to anyone who has read his illuminating posts.

McBride denies he is interested though and says he has rejected deals.

Guess he will have to stick to the blogging.

Guido could use the competition…