While You Were Sleeping
Hypocrisy and Hyperbole
- Chris Huhne's posturing over Donorgate looks even more hollow (after we pointed out yesterday that Chrissy's honour-bound to bankrupt the LibDems if he ever becomes leader of them) as it is revealed - again - that the Durham business park had nothing to do with getting the approval of the comrades but instead that of the ... LibDems!
- Quaequam on how Huhne might pull it off. Bleddy hell, Cameron's Christmasses really are all coming at once if this is the case.
- Poor Wendy Alexander; anybody would think that she'd been accused of cash-for-questions and receiving payment in plain browns as Political Betting reports on the search for the Quisling in Scottish Labour's midst.
- Datagate more of a kick in the bollocks for the comrades than Donorgate according to poll. Oh good.
- Bodice ripper alert: Ann Treneman dismisses her women, loosens her stays, and falls swooning into the arms of Little Lord Cameron.
- A post from Vino on party funding, and the importance of political parties to representative democracy. There's a wider point for discussion here: in the era of Demos pamphlets on text message voting and the Power Inquiry, is representative democracy still important? The answer's "yes" by the way.
- MPs are to discuss party funding after the Tories force a debate on the issue. "My friend judge not me, you see I judge not thee ..."
- And Andrew Pelling, the Tory MP accused of smacking around his second wife, has announced he won't stand again.

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Whilst Huhne is being ridiculously opportunistic, doesn't the detail of the planing bid really concern the Highways Agency lifting its objections?