OK! Who's been spiking the tea bags?

I don't know, you turn your head away for just a second and all hell breaks loose. You start to wonder to yourself, have the people in CCHQ had their tea bags spiked with LSD crystals? Hell, have I been spiked with LSD at some point? Has everything just been one giant hallucinogenic roller coaster and I'm entering the really crazy phase where an ex-Labour donor and supporter might run as a joint Lib/Con mayoral candidate against Livingstone?

As Iain has posted in his update, Dyke has been telling Sky News how he floated the idea with Cameron. So how the hell did a floated idea gain momentum so bloody fast? The time line is interesting, Andrew Neill casually mentions it on the Daily Politics, then Iain posts and confirms the idea is true but that there are misgivings and mutterings at CCHQ. Before you know it, Dyke is telling Sky he won't stand, and Ming Campbell is essentially saying "sod off".

The question is how did such a plan even get out? I imagine that Cameron - if Dyke really did approach him, - would have told very few about it, Steve Hilton for sure, and maybe one or two others? So which one mentioned it to Andrew Neill? Was it mentioned deliberately to get the idea "out there" and flattened for the rank insanity that it would've been? Or was it mentioned because the idiot genuinely believed it was a great idea?

Either way, there's no way the grassroots (yellow or blue) would've bought into it anyway. Certainly a fast news day, shame the news was so silly.

UPDATE: Have just heard from a reliable source that Andrew Neill is most likely to have known about this because of something Charles Moore has written in tomorrow's Spectator. The question remains of course, why would CCHQ even consider the idea? Seriously.... it's bonkers.