I assume it's rhyming slang for "lo".
As in "And lo, I stood for Parliament, and made a massive prat of myself before realising I'd made a terrible decision and withdrew."
I just looked, and it turns out it's the most Sikh constituency in Britain at "over 20%" (According to Wikipedia).
That said, given that at the last three elections Sharma's received 60.8, 70.3 and 65% of the vote, I think every single one of those Sikhs could vote for Panesar and he'd still not...
I wasn't familier with Monty Bowden. I do love the understatement you get in cricketers biographies:
"Officially he died of epilepsy, although a fall from his cart, leading him to be trampled under the hooves of his own oxen contributed to his death."
To be fair to Gilligan, being a member of the British Facists in the mid 20s wouldn't have had anything like the connotations it does now (or only about 10years later for that matter).
There's a few who've attracted significantly more in the way of criticism for their political careers or...