- Wed Jul 08, 2026 9:36 am
#113721
I don't think Vorderman will want to stand against Fargle in his contrived pantomime by-election . She's far more savvy than that, will be talking to Labour and perhaps the other proper political parties as well, and will follow suit on them in not falling into line with Fargle's egotistical spin of the electoral roulette wheel.
Now, if and when Fargle is returned after the panto by-election and the parliamentary standards investigation resumes, and, it can be presumed, results in a legitimate further by-election, that's a different matter. Vorderman may well stand in that one, and might even, if all the parties can agree to give her a clear run, be persuaded to do it as an anti-corruption candidate in the manner of Martin Bell in 1997 in Tatton - where he successfully brought down the loathsome (friend of Fargle) Neil Hamilton.
"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.