Just why is perennial Labour loser Katie Ghose finding it so impossible to find a seat? Ghastly Ghose has been rejected by Brighton Labour, Grimsby Labour and York Labour, but with her Electoral Reform Society hat on, she reckons she’s found the answer:

Dear Guido

Today we’re pleased to launch our new report, Women in Westminster: predicting the number of female MPs.

We’ve found that the number of female MPs is set to rise after this year’s election – but progress is slow. Why?

In large part, it’s because of our broken voting system.

Definitely nothing to do with the Oxford-educated parachuting southerner bagging up her carpets and rolling up at seats across the country without even bothering to change her website from her past failed attempts…

Aspiring carpet-bagger Kate “Ghastly“ Ghose just popped up on Sky News with her Electoral Reform Society boss hat on, having her usual pop at anyone but Labour:

In an extraordinary exchange, Ghose refused to declare she is a committed Labour activist and clearly stated she was not a candidate.

Not for want of trying.

Ghose has been turned down by Brighton Labour, Grimsby Labour and York Labour. No one wants her to be their MP.

“You’re absolutely right, I’m not a candidate for a party”. Nor should she ever be.

Regular readers will remember Katie “Ghastly” Ghose, who spent her whole time as chairman of the Yes to AV campaign trashing the ‘old political parties’. You would have thought that the woman who turned a 27-point lead for AV into a 36-point victory for the No campaign might have moved on to pastures new, but no, she’s back. And she’s in the running to be a Labour MP…

Labour shortlists for Brighton Kemptown, Katie Ghose and Nancy Platts are the two candidates vying for selection

— Labour South East (@SELabour) May 28, 2013

Her controversial company Electoral Reform Services Ltd won’t be counting the votes this time, but Guido takes some pleasure in knowing that as it’s a shortlist of two, her fate will be decided by First Past the Post. No doubt Ghastly Ghose will gain plenty of support from those Labour MPs who refused to deliver her Yes2AV leaflets that branded them lazy. Best of luck Katie…

The complex London vote on May 3 saw Londoners cast four votes on three ballot papers, each using a different electoral system. IntElect a joint venture between Data Research Services (DRS) and Electoral Reform Services won the contract to do the count. The services company set up by the Electoral Reform Society has been widely criticised for messing up the count taking more than 24 hours to deliver a result. They promised a result within 12 hours…

This is despite the electronic system costing even more to implement than a manual count. The same group messed up the Scotland’s 2007 STV vote. Just imagine how bad it would be if this was done nationally..

http://twitter.com/#!/jonsnowC4/status/66187396353495040

Some surge, “No” got 13,013,123, “Yes” 6,152,607…

Guido is off to the Excel centre to watch the No Campaign votes pour in. The Prime Minister said this morning that “there will be no celebrating, there will be no congratulations.” He also made it clear on Thursday that he wasn’t part of the official No campaign, so Guido’s not sure they will  be acting on that particular memo…

With YouGov polling people who voted yesterday and finding a 62%/38% No win it could be a long night…