Punters still make David Miliband the favourite to win, despite increasingly boisterous noises from little brother Ed. Guido’s source in the Mili-D camp reckons they’re just about there…

Guido is chuffed that Total Politics magazine readers once again voted this blog the top political blog. Order-Order.com is still the blog that readers love and politicians hate. Guido has hopefully managed to transition from being an enemy of the last Labour government to being an enemy of this Coalition government. It didn’t take long…

Guido was one of the few political commentators who foresaw the coalition. Since the election we have hit the ground running; landing a punch on Caroline Spelman over her lobbying past in the first week of the new government and forcing the reshuffling of a junior minister in the Ministry of Defence the next week because of his links to lobbyists. Guido single-handedly reduced the budget deficit by £30,000 by forcing out William Hague’s unqualified Special Adviser. For years people people have said this blog is only successful because it is oppositionalist, they asked “who will be the next Guido?” under a new government. The good news is we’re still in opposition to the government, Guido is still Guido…

It is not a one man blog nowadays, during the run-up to the election GuyNews.TV produced weekly videos that were more popular than anything the political parties produced, Emily Nomates successfully took on Kay Burley, Gary Gibbon and the rest of the Lobby. Some classic videos were produced – Cleggmania (above) still makes Guido chuckle. The Christmas Top 10 Guy News Repeats gives you a flavour of the GuyNews.TV output. Harry, when not reporting from Libya on Al-Megrahi watch, is still busy in the Guy Newscellar, keeping an eye on Tweetdeck and putting fear into press officers. But the people above all others who really make this blog happen are the sources, the emails that start “you probably know this already…” and go on to give fantastic leads and tips. You the readers made this blog #1.

Guido always protects his sources. The proof: when Downing Street threatened a security investigation, they got nothing. Injunctions get filed in the bin, Court Orders get flouted, mole hunts end up in a hole. To quote Rick Astley, Guido is “never gonna give you up.”

You make this blog happen: sources are always anonymous (unless you want credit). If you know “the line” is a lie, ask yourself why you got into politics; was it to cover up the truth, or tell it? Guido relies on you for information, you may even get a conspiracy member T-shirt for your troubles…

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While she may be getting regular slots on Sky News and the Today program, “freelance journalist and Labour Party activist” Sally Bercow must know she has really made it when Chinese news channels are animating her colourful past…

Can anyone translate?

Do you detect the influence of the editorial values of Guy News TV in last night’s Newsnight? Laura Kuenssberg is good enough to replace Emily Nomates…

Worth watching until the end for the focus group “David Miliband Party”. Miliband is eminently mockable…

Lest we forget the 13 years before the last 100 days…

Is summer dragging on? Are you tired of shopping? As the kids get restless, where better to spend a happy afternoon than at the Crazy Water Aqua Fun Park. In Gaza.

“The landscaped water park features three swimming pools, three water slides, ponds with pedal boats, a restaurant, a cafe, and a quiet area shaded by a tent where adults can sit on carpets and listen to music.”

Don’t tell Ken Clarke, he will want to build one at Pentonville.

The Republican candidate in the Tennessee gubernatorial race seems to have got his viral campaign sorted:

Guido recommends putting the subtitles on…

In some shocking news, Ed Balls has said one thing and done another. As Guido reported earlier in the week, Balls made a bit of a blunder by promising to pay “interns and volunteers” the national minimum wage, whilst turning a blind eye to the fact that his campaign staffers are, err, unpaid interns and volunteers:

Leaving aside his unpaid brunette bag-carrying Bevanite, Balls has today even had the cheek to advertise on W4MP for unpaid stuff:

Idiocy and hypocrisy is always a toxic mix.

This whole campaign has been an utter write-off for Balls, and now YouGov reckon he will be the first knocked out of the race. If the idea all along was to secure his place as Chancellor, how is coming last going help? Political betting specialists Smarkets are running a book on who will be the humiliated loser..

Looks like it’s going to be a tight run off between Burnham and Balls.

Yesterday Ed Balls made a big song and dance about signing a pledge that all interns should be paid the minimum wage. He even released a video of him and one of his own office interns discussing it. Except that’s not quite what he said:

“It’s really important if you are interning or volunteering in a House of Commons office that you get properly paid.”

Interns and volunteers.

So what about his very own voluptuous volunteer Ellie “Stilettos” Gellard, Twitter queen and cursed backer of Gordon? Gellard has been strutting around with a pass, on the Balls campaign, yet apparently isn’t taking a penny?

A volunteer you might say… So it’s fine that all interns and volunteers must be paid, just not Ed’s campaign staff. Or if she is being paid, why hasn’t it been declared?