Luciana Berger in Hillsborough twitter disaster

Luciana Berger's candidature has been plagued from the start but she does keep putting her foot in the proverbial crap, and today shows yet another example of her lack of understanding of the people of Liverpool.

You can read further coverage here and here.

Now, before all of the Labour hacks jump on me and say be fair to her, I am stating that even I got three out of four of these questions and I certainly didn't say "You can't ask a gay a football question" in the same manner she (pathetically) said "You can’t ask a girl a football question." anyway here was how Luciana Berger responded to the Liverpool Echo's "Liverpool Test".

I say this not to make petty political points but as a person born in Nottingham, yes really I was, and I recall watching that football match while working in Peterborough, you have to accept that the coverage by the Sun and their continued campaign afterwards was never justified.

Now, anyone at all worth their salt will know that the 15th April 1989 was a major date for Scousers and Hillsborough was an awful tragedy and everyone in Liverpool and Nottingham affected by the disaster has a real issue with The Sun newspaper and their bloody awful coverage of the disaster.

Well, that appears to be everyone apart from Luciana Berger, who felt it perfectly acceptable to follow The Sun on Twitter, you can see here on Luciana's Twitter page that she is desperately defending her very stupid decision.

I follow my Lib Dem opponent, and indeed he follows me, doesn't mean we support each other!

Now, that was Luciana Berger's latest twitter message (as of 9pm), honestly has she never heard of when in a hole stop digging?

When someone on twitter pointed this out to her,she stopped following the sun on her twitter account.

However, Luciana Berger has yet again proved she doesn't understand Liverpool or it's residents and voters and really should just shut up or resign and go for another seat, although I wouldn't recommend anywhere in Liverpool, Sheffield or Nottingham, I think you have proven Luciana that you just don't get it.

Thankfully the good people of Liverpool Wavertree have a local champion who wants to be their MP, Colin Eldridge.

Celebrity MPs and Parliament but who will really represent you?

I just got a twitter message pointing me to a posting on Christopher Lovell's blog, titled A Celebrity Parliament? After reading this, it got me thinking (always dangerous, I know).

Christopher is right, we have a few celebrity names coming forward or being discussed but for now let's take Liverpool Wavertree, where Jane Kennedy the Labour MP is standing down before the election, although I suspect her decision has been partly made because of the amazing camapign run by the Liberal Democrats candidate Colin Eldridge who is in a close second place and Labour are running scared.

Now, Labour have run their selection process to replace Jane Kennedy and have selected crisis hit Luciana Berger, you can read the story about her continuing crisis hit selection here.  She didn't know who Bill Shankly was for starters!

So annoyed with this Labour saga the actor Ricky Tomlinson has said he may stand for the Socialist Labour party.  Is that really the answer?

Then down in Luton South, Esther Rantzen announced she was standing as a candidate against Margaret Moran MP because of the expenses scandal that Moran got caught up in.  Margaret Moran has since announced she is standing down at the next election but Rantzen's campaign continues for now albeit like a roller coaster, up and down or on and off as time has shown.

However, there is already a Luton South local champion Qurban Hussain who does and will continue to stand up for Luton South.

Anyway what my questions is, arising from Christopher Lovell's blog post this morning, is will these celebrity candidates keep it all up for five years?

Will they be there when the local people want their weekly advice surgeries, needing urgent help or when they have to visit the police at 5am in a morning or sleep out all night with the people helping the homeless?

Are they up for the 70-80 hours per week minimum they will have to work, sometimes doing mundane things?  They won't have a national phoneline or an ever expanding team of staff to help them, the current allowance for MPs to staff their offices is around £80,000, not a large amount.

Will they continue to be interested when the cameras and journalists have all gone home, when the novelty and media coverage wears off?

A Parliament full of former actors and celebrities would not be good for democracy, and would certainly not be the Celebrity Big Brother House.  We need hard working, honest MPs who will stand up for the local people and be a champion for their constituents.

It's easy to attack the MPs on expenses (don't get me wrong, rightly so, it made me angry too) or because the wrong candidate was selected for an area, however the day to day hard work of some MPs is not easy to replicate who ever you are.