A bandwagon rolls as Hitchens seeks selection as the candidate for one of the safest Conservative seats in the country and, like a cross between a McCarthyite zealot and a Soviet commissar, busily denounces people who are not "real Tories".
Britain's Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee finished second in a 10,000m track race in the US as he seeks selection for England at the distance at the Commonwealth Games.
There could be a gap in the market to record and sell discs of Kate Upper Middle Class to women seeking selection to the royal Wag club.
It should also be an affront to all the other Labour candidates seeking selection by the party to stand for mayor of London".
Reducing their number by 50 triggers a nasty round of musical chairs in all parties as incumbents seek selection for fewer seats.
Many believe that David Lammy, a Labour minister and friend of Mr Obama, will seek selection as his party's candidate for mayor of London in 2012.
This provoked Cook into seeking selection as the Labour candidate, and he narrowly won the seat, by then known as Stockton North, in the 1983 election, forcing Rodgers into third place.
He was deputy shadow leader of the house during the party's warring years under Michael Foot's leadership and, having lost out when the Boundary Commission redrew the constituencies in Manchester, tried unsuccessfully to seek selection for three other seats.
Sandra Gidley, Romsey MP and chairwoman of the Lib Dems' gender balance task force, said moves were planned to support women seeking selection, including recruiting supporters to help with childcare, laundry or transport.
"I felt proud of the party in the way that everyone responded to the threat of an early election by pulling together and putting the best foot forward," said Antonia Cox, an active Conservative Party worker who is seeking selection by the party as a parliamentary candidate.
Just days before Davies came out in favour of Heathrow, albeit with environmental strings attached, Goldsmith won the approval of his constituents, by a large majority, to seek selection as the Tory candidate for mayor of London, in the hope of succeeding Johnson in May next year.
