• + + + HUHNE WILL BE CHARGED + + + 
• Another Young Blairite Jumps Ship
• Not a Single Billion More
• Gordon Brown Doesn’t Have A Clue
• Guy News Champagne Special: Cheers Chris
• Zero GDP Growth Has Zero To Do With €urozone
• + + + Fred Shredded + + +

Those on lower earnings, e.g. the second decile (£10,853 according to ONS data) will see their post-tax earnings rise by 4.7%, those in the highest decile will see their post tax earnings rise by just 1.1%. Now some policy wonks on the left complain that middle income earners will see their post tax income rise by some 2% and that this is “a waste of money”. The squeezed middle-classes need some help as well, this is a good thing, not a flaw. The hike shouldn’t be paid for by once again shifting the higher rate threshold either. The coalition parties should stop piling on the pressure on the very demographic that voted them into office to cut taxes…

• Totty Watch: Scotland Tonight Boobs Miliband Interview
• Balls Adopts Osborne’s ‘Plan A’
• DUEMA: Strong Ed Miliband Skewers Adam Boulton
• Exclusive: Look Inside the World of Andy Coulson
• Sunday Times Drops Huhne High Court Challenge
• Totty Watch: You Ogled It Here First
• Blue on Blue

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With inflation dipping less than unemployment is rising, we are all just a little bit more miserable than we were this time last year.

Despite it looking like we were getting happier before Christmas, today’s dire economic news, as well as some hefty public sector spending, has left us in the red and feeling blue. 

N.B. Stats bods can check Guido’s adding up here

• Gordon Brown Bullying Editors Again
• Document Reveals Miliband Blundered on PMQs Fares Flap
• A Message For Gordon
• DUEMA: Miliband Relaunch Planned For Tuesday Morning
• Internal Strife at UK Uncut
• Food in Parliament is Twice as Expensive for Public as MPs
• Brillo’s Bedroom Secrets Revealed

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• Diane Abbott’s “White People” Tweet Rage
• Lee Jasper Gets Some Home Truths
• Labour Finally Comment
• Minxy Mensch is the New Iron Maiden
• Social Justice and the Housing Benefit Cap
• Watch: This Explains the New Daily Politics Mug
• Guardian Makes Thirty-Eighth News International Correction

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This week traffic has halved with everyone off work (including us). A mere 69,532 visitors made 157,783 visits to view 256,668 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Labour Membership Flatlining Under Miliband
• Happy Christmas
• UN Flies Flag at Half Mast for Dear Leader
• Second Policy Salvo Against Miliband
  Mandelson Backed Think-Tank Launches Another Broadside
• Media Analysis You Won’t Read in the Guardian
• 2011: The Year of the ‘Pilgrim’
• A Story You Won’t Get from the BBC, Guardian or The Times
  The Secret of Three of Westminster’s Media Gate-keepers

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1. Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies
2. The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy
3. Zetter’s Political Companion
4. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
5. The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze
6. The Triumph of the Political Class
7. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
8. Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11
9. Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader
10. Dirty politics, Dirty times
11. The Rise of Political Lying
12. A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999 (Mullin Diaires 3)

E-editions and books were combined. Pugnacious Mehdi Hasan really should be less chippy given how many of his books Guido helps shift…

This week a mere 89,209 visitors made 249,944 visits to view 386,450 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Leveson Questions Guido
• Vintage Christmas Card from…. ?
• Kim Gone Hell
• Heather Mills Accuses Piers Morgan of Scapegoating
• Exclusive: New Miliband Speechwriter Deletes Critique
• £250,000 Prize Christmas Cryptic Challenge
• Poll: 96% Don’t Believe Morgan Told the Truth

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This week 92,618 visitors made 309,121 visits to view 499,245 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Tweeting Labour Staffer in Nazi Hypocrisy
• After PMQs Labour Insiders Doubt Ed Miliband Will Last Out 2012
• Exclusive: Ed Miliband Sacks His PMQs Joke Writer
• Crisis Management, Guardian Style
• Farage Blows Lifeboat Raspberry in EU Parliament
• Miliband’s Media Grid Shelved After PMQs Mess
• Miliband’s Amateur Grid

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