The perils of Facebook

Top marks to Dizzy for spotting this Facebook story about the Tory MPs backing an imaginary candidate for an imaginary seat:

There’s a group on Facebook called Brian Braddock for Hawkesmoor a “campaign to elect Brian Braddock as the next Conservative MP for Hawkesmoor”. Does Hawkesmoor exist as a constituency? I can’t find a reference to it. And who is Brian Braddock?

Amusingly, Nigel Evans MP, Damien Green MP and Louise Bagshawe are members of the group as well, and also quite a few people from Conservative Future. Does this just go to show that if you stick the right colour rosette on something lots of people will blindly sign up?

No snide jokes about imaginary policies please.