By Stephen Blease

Last updated 11:45, Thursday, 14 August 2008

It seems that Posh Spice was a rather inappropriate nickname for Victoria Beckham. For German historian Hans Mueller has just discovered that, far from being posh, one of Victoria’s ancestors was a champion of the common people and an early Communist revolutionary.

It turns out that Posh is the great-great-great-granddaughter of the revolutionary

Carl Heinrich Pfaender , a close associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Pfaender was born in 1819 and, like Marx, fled to London after the failed 1848 revolution in Paris.

Pfaender’s great-great-great granddaughter is better known for her husband, her sunglasses and her thinness than for her political convictions.

But when she and her comrades in the Spice Girls extolled girl power, was it a more political message than we realised at the time?

And with Gordon Brown faring badly in the opinion polls and many voters still distrustful of David Cameron, could this be Posh’s chance to seize power?

What would a Beckham-led Communist government be like?

She would surely take water, gas and electricity back into state ownership – something most News & Star readers would approve of, according to our webvote. But then if she was a strict Communist she’d also take everything else into State control, including the major fashion labels.

Let’s hope she would not go the same way as Stalin, with Spice Girls’ critics being imprisoned – and members of other all-female bands such as Girls Aloud being denounced as counter-revolutionaries and sent to gulags.

The national anthem could be replaced by Posh leading singing of The Internationale – although considering she was regarded as the Spice Girl with the weakest voice, she may have to rely on a backing tape for this.

President Posh might also feel compelled to dress in military fatigues, like Fidel Castro. Does Gucci do a line in these?