So it rather looks as if the McBride scandal will put paid to Gordon's plans for an early election!
Big tip of the Bowler to Guido for exposing this disgraceful episode!
UPDATE: Tom Harris tells it like it is...
We screwed up, big time. We have no-one — absolutely no-one at all — to blame for this but ourselves. The damage the Labour Party and the government have sustained this last 24 hours has been entirely self-inflicted.
There is at least one honest man in politics.