A new row involving the governments advertising arm, the Central Office of Information, is brewing after it emerged pre-election spending hit a record high.

Unpublished figures reveal that central Government advertising in January 2010 was the highest ever January on record, burning through a massive £30 million of taxpayers’ cash in that month alone.

Ministers have refused to publish details of the advertising and marketing campaigns that are being run at taxpayers’ expense in the run up to the General Election – pledging only to release the data in annual accounts in August 2010.

Defending it decision not to disclose the cost of current campaigns the head of COI, Mark Lund, said it would incur “disproportionate cost” to release the details.

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When will MPs learn, threatening to sue bloggers is never a good idea.

The latest blogger to fall foul of an over sensitive parliamentarian is the owner of the ‘mannisms‘ blog, who spends his time keeping “a close eye on the spoutings of John Mann, MP.”

Apparently the MP for Bassetlaw doesn’t like being called a “wanker”:

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Yesterday I reported that freelance journalist and former Foreign Editor at Sky News Leah Borromeo, aka monstris, used Twitter to unleash a vile slur on David Cameron and CCHQ staffers:

Now it would appear that she doesn’t quite like all the attention this completely unacceptable attack has given her and has protected her Twitter updates:

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This morning Gordon Brown gave a rather poor interview, even by his standards, to Woman’s Hour. Asked whether he would resign if he did not get a majority at the election he replied: “I’ll keep going because I want a majority, I’ll keep going.”

How arrogant and or deluded is Brown to think that he can stay on as leader when the country has rejecting him at the ballot box.

Brown may have survived plots and attempted coups in the past, but for him to think that his party and, more importantly, his Cabinet colleagues will tolerate this following electoral defeat is outrageous. They will clearly be baying for his head.

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…Leah Borromeo aka monstris for posting the bellow comment during Trevor McDonald Meets David Cameron.

Totally pathetic!!!

But who is Leah Borromeo I hear you ask? Well she’s not just a random Labour Twitterer as many may think.

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If there were any doubts about how much power the trade unions wields over Gordon Brown’s Labour party, today the truth is becoming clear.

This morning The Sun splashed with some interesting statistics about Labour’s dependence on the unions.

While Labour is dependent on most unions for its continued survival, the Unite Union is rapidly emerging as the power behind Labour and its election campaign.

Not only are they bankrolling the party and undertaking its outsourced election campaign, but their political director, Charlie Whelan, is now back working as a key adviser to Gordon Brown.

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Sorry for the lack of blogging over the past day or so, I’ve been working on those things that pay the bills.

Anyway, earlier today I received a press release from LEWIS Communications, a firm which specialises in new media communications.

Apparently the PR bods at LEWIS have done a survey to investigate voters attitudes towards social media, and some are very confused when it comes to Labour’s self proclaimed Twitter Tsar.

According to their research 19 per cent of people think Kerry McCarthy is a TV presenter and 18 per cent that she is an Irish pop singer.

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So Lord Paul, one of Labour’s key donors, has said that he will give up his non-dom status and pay full UK tax. It had been reported previously that the multimillionaire would considering quitting the Lords in order keep his non-dom status, which saves him millions each year in tax, but it looks as though he has had a change of heart.

But what about Labour’s other non-dom donors such as Lakshmi Mittal?

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