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.