The Birmingham Post reported today that a Birmingham Lib Dem council candidate has admitted to changing his name so as to appear above a Labour candidate on the ballot paper.

Saeed Aehmed was Saeed Ahmed, until he changed used deed poll to insert an extra “e” into his surname, pushing him alphabetically above Councillor Muhamed Afzal on the May 2007 local elections, and has admitted that this was the reason for the change.

Oh dear.