Not deterred by her failure to win selection in Stoke-on-Trent North and Brighton Kemptown, serial loser and perennial carpetbagger Katie “Ghastly” Ghose has put herself forward to replace Austin Mitchell in Great Grimsby. The woman who turned a 27% referendum lead for “Yes to AV” into a 36% victory for the “No to AV” campaign has been nominated for the all-women shortlist in the seat. She could have at least bothered to have changed the photo on her website from her previous failed attempt down in Brighton…

Ghose was up in Grimsby at the weekend, though her attempts to endear herself to the locals and fight the UKIP vote were less than subtle:

Retiring Mitchell has himself warned that his successor should not be “imposed upon them by the metropolitan elite”. What could go wrong for Oxford-educated parachuting southerner Ghose…