By Guido’s count this is the fourth time serial loser and perennial parachutist Katie “Ghastly” Ghose has put herself forward for a Labour seat:

Interesting to see @katieghose put her name in for #York #Labour PPC – high profile for sure but unconvinced right profile for #York

— Richard Bridge (@richardbridge1) January 20, 2015

Not deterred by her failure in Stoke-on-Trent North, then defeat in Brighton Kemptown, and then trying and failing to replace Austin Mitchell in Grimsby, now Ghose is going for York, where sitting Labour MP Hugh Bayley has just announced he is standing down. What is it about the Oxford-educated southerner that fails to be inspiring CLPs? Katie has bagged more carpets than Ed Miliband in a mosque…