Is it a bird? Is it a plane..? No, it’s a two-faced back-stabbing Tory twerp.

With more dastardly characters and shameful shenanigans than a Victor Hugo novel it’s easy to take your eye off some of the lesser entities in these interminable pre-election days.‰

But that would be a mistake dear reader. Long experience has shown that huge amounts of fun can be had if one vigilantly monitors the bit part players.

Think Tom Stoppard’s classic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead — but with added idiocy.

It is an old adage that you cannot keep a good man down, but it is equally true that scum floats to the surface.

Like a fatberg clogging the sewers.

Or Grant Shapps.

Yes, that’s right the man with more aliases than James Bond’s address book, the Tory Party chairman unintentionally stuck his head above the parapet again this week in spectacular fashion.

One might have thought Shapps would be somewhat wary when it came to his internet browsing habits after he was exposed as having set himself up as a millionaire self-help guru using the nom de plume Michael Green.

Not so the bold Shapps who would appear to favour the more hands on approach of blatant historical revisionism.

It is alleged that the architect of the bedroom tax, or someone working for him, accessed his Wikipedia page to expunge embarrassing references to Green-gate and other less than successful wheezes he had perpetrated over the years.

The practice of creating a false identity to access and temper with Wikipedia accounts is known as “sock puppetry” apparently, which I had previously assumed was a euphemism for going into coalition with the Lib Dems.

One example of the alleged editing of Shapps’ page was the attempt to shift the blame for the infamous beer and bingo posters — like Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake” but more patronising — onto Lynton Crosby and George Osborne.

Now this column yields to no-one when it comes to putting the boot into Osborne and his perfidious ilk and he may well have had his pudgy fingers in that particular pie to some degree, but I don’t recall Shapps sharing the credit when he still thought the posters were a good idea.

In fact he tweeted a picture that said: “Bingo. Cutting the Bingo tax and beer duty: To help hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy.”

He then asked his followers to re-tweet “to spread the word.”

There’s more than enough ammunition to keep kicking Osborne for years as it is, you don’t need to make stuff up.

And speaking of kicking colleagues, it would appear that this was what Shapps spent most of his time doing.

Edits under the pseudonym “Contribsx,” while being remarkably favourable towards and forgiving of Shapps, appear to be less so of other Cabinet members, and in particular Phillip Hammond, Dominic Grieve and Justine Greening.

Again this column has no problem with the judicious application of shoe leather to the posteriors of the pompous politicos targeted by “Contribsx.”

There is a certain delicious schadenfreude to watching them turn on each other like weasels in a sack and let’s face it — it would hardly be the first time a Tory stabbed a colleague in the back — or the front for that matter — but to, apparently, be caught out so dismally is a poor show indeed.

It should be stated for the record that Shapps’s people — or it might have been him let’s face it — have described the story as “completely false and defamatory.”

But then they would, wouldn’t they?

Incidentally did you know that if you type “Wikipedia” into Wikipedia it implodes under the sheer weight of bullshit?

Rather like the Tory election campaign.