I smell a rat @ No 10

Now - as you know Arturo and I were imported into Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street to kill off the rats! We were not for show like old Larrykins upstairs. We're the hard brigade - the ones who sniff out trouble and - Boy! Oh Boy! - have we sniffed out some stinks around here!

Some of these stinks are brought in on the shoes of the multitude of visitors - others are purely home-grown. The stink I got wind of today was a bit of both, I suppose. Are you sitting comfortably? Then, I'll begin...

You recall that not so long ago there was a real hoo-ha about Brooks aka the Red Haired Vamp and her pals at News International and the goings-on at No 10. Very embarrassing for 'Boy David' Cameron and Georgy from No 11. Well, Arturo and I thought - the storm clouds have passed - the summer break is here - by October the Downing Street link will be all but forgotten - the stink will have evaporated. Were we wrong - or were we wrong?

Today, some newspapers are full of stories raking up the old stink all over again. Even that awfully nice man, Peston, has posted a whole list of questions that need to be answered (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14624167). His questions will certainly mean that gas masks will be brought into No 10 because of the amount of dead rats that will accumulate!

So - my friends - what is the cause of all this? It seems that the man who chews his finger nails all the time and looked so very furtive - one Andrew Coulson - is at the core of all the hoo-ha. He began working for our 'Boy David' Cameron in July 2007. He became the Conservative Party's Director of Communications.

Was the poor bloke hard up coming to work for our Boy David? Was such a position badly paid? He earned:£275,000! Not a bad amount of dosh, you'll agree.

So - why did his former employer, News International, continue to pay him? It seems that, after he resigned, News International said it would pay him his full entitlement under his two-year contract as editor of the News of the World. Not bad, eh? Doubt if Arturo and I would get our daily sardines from 'Boy David' Cameron or Georgy Osborne, if we were enticed away to work for Buckingham Palace!

Now - Boy David is back in Cornwall on his jolly old fifth hol of the year - so far! That means neither Arturo nor I can find out whether he knew that - allegedly (got to be careful here - wink, wink - know what I mean!!) Andrew Coulson was getting money from his former employer, at the same time as he was working for him and being paid £275,000 for doing so!

Now the questions that the ever-so-nice Mr Peston asks are really important. How impartial could the advice given to Boy David by Coulson have been? There is a saying - 'He who pays the piper, calls the tune' - All I'd say is: 'Some Piper:Some Tune'.

So - that is why Arturo and I literally have our delicate feline noses to the ground! We're sniffing under the carpets - up the stairs - even around 'More Passion' - and into the White Room! Arturo says we need to leave 'no stone unturned' in our quest for the rats!

It's going to be a Long Day's Night for us both.

and 'Bye' from me.