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Labour's Latest Donor Scandal Satanic IMF Bailout
After a musing on the morality of markets and other people's money, the week began with Ed Miliband popping his beret back on and declaring his support for the collective hippy mess outside St Paul's. The satanic side of the Chancellor's IMF bailout plans costing £666 per man, woman and child was revealed and there was a fun video too. Osborne redeemed himself in Europe with his comprehensive take down of the Financial Transactions Tax, but not before Guido had the chance to poke at its most famous fan: Bill Nighy. After Derek Draper returned last week, you'll never guess who else has joined Twitter... Guido's story of the week was catching Labour MPs amending laws on the direct orders of their donors. A scandal that saw an MP make an apology to the House, and one of Ed Miliband's brightest stars dragged into the mess. This one is going to play and play, not least because the sums involved far exceed anything like Cash for Questions. And Labour are blocking Parliament from debating the said donor... James Murdoch returned to Parliament and his #1 fan Tom Watson managed to humiliate himself while interviewing him, to near universal derision from pundits. Tommy Five Dinners decided to lash out at Guido in response to this humiliation. Guido doesn't forget these things... Elsewhere the Euro crises rumbled on, and we better hope we don't get the same treatment dished out to Italy and Greece. Jonah was back and on form, the Guardian editor canceled Christmas, and we all wondered what exactly it was that first attracted Balls to his young aide Ellie Gellard... Advertisement  Week's Most Read Stories This week 100,799 visitors made 271,879 visits to 416,093 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were: |
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