I ASSUME you are familiar with the old adage ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’, loyal reader. Let me take you on a trip down memory lane.

Lisa Ventura, a former erotic fiction writer and current PR consultant, tried and failed to become a Conservative city councillor in a hotly contested by-election back in September 2007.

She lost out to former Labour politician Jenny Barnes after a 17 per cent swing in the St Clement ward – a contest triggered by the departure of Tory Ian Imray who had emigrated to New Zealand.

Poor Lisa was sensationally outed for her now defunct erotic website, where she would blog about sex toys and all manner of other things too saucy for mention in this column.

But like many good PR people, she is now determined to re-write history in the best possible way, by insisting she despises the Tories after all.

Writing on her Facebook page, she now declares: “Despite popular belief I’d like to set the record straight about something – I am actually not a Tory, nor do I agree with the Conservatives and their draconian approaches and spending cuts.”

She goes on to say she is “madder than hell” with the party, and insists she is “born Labour” and “will die Labour”.

Somewhat alarmingly, she then insists she was actually “pushed into standing for the council”.

Not one to leave it that, she then writes “thank god I didn’t get in at the time” and reveals she has now signed up to the Labour party, the “party of her roots”, which gives her a “great and liberating feeling”.

Worcestershire has a fair number of political turncoats, but this, surely, is taking the mickey in spectacular style.

It’s also the best bit of fiction she’s probably ever conjured up.

What the Labour party makes of it is anyone’s guess, especially as local activists were so keen to play a dirty game six years ago, with former MP Mike Foster saying the so-called “sex scandal” had lost her the seat.

At the time of her shock defeat she went onto her (now deleted) myspace website to say it had shattered her dreams of being “the next female Prime Minster”.

It’s a strange way to go about it.