Monday was all about Byers; cartoon, lawyers competition, over 4000 people signed a petition to have him stripped of the “right honourable” title at one point at a rate of 1 every 10 seconds and don’t forget that excruciating video.
Guido also deconstructed a typical bit of spin from Vince Cable bigging himself up in the press. Mugshots of the dirty dozen Labour figures who are either facing criminal charges for theft, have been suspended from the party, suspended from the Lords, found to be expense fiddling, offering to whore themselves out or some permutation of all of the above featured on Tuesday. Amusing bits of gossip about Balls and Michael Foot capped off the day, Guido was particularly proud of this headline.
Wednesday the blog scooped Patsy Hewitt was due to lecture on corporate morality and Thursday she cancelled. PMQs saw Dave use Guido’s Baldemort quip about Liam Byrne (Armando Iannucci says he used the line about someone else and Guido owes him a fiver, send the invoice to Dave mate). The Tory attack ad against Ed Balls moved Guido to make a donation.
Friday the blog was heavy on economics: Gordon’s debt fiddles and Brown’s Gold Bottom.
Lots of mad emails this week, Guido was invited to the New Statesman’s budget lunch with Liam Byrne, accepted and was then dis-invited for some reason. Not much of a soup fan anyway. This follows on from being invited to be a Guardian Student Journalist of the Year judge last month, agreeing to various terms and then getting dis-invited. Bemusing. What happens? Do they lose their nerve and get cold feet?
If you were not one of the 61,453 visitors viewing 431,638 pages over the last seven days, here are the seven most popular stories (in order of popularity) that you missed:
- Desperate Labour Rip off Hacks
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