STRAIGHT TALKING Labour MPs don’t trust their own lot

FROM UKIP’S DEPUTY LEADER

THE whole idea of a political party is that everyone in it shares pretty much the same values and definitely the same aims.

So in UKIP’s case, that would mean leaving the European Union, keeping the pound, and controlling our own borders, just for instance.

Along the way there will be disagreements on the nuances of policy, of course, because all grown-up politicians disagree from time to time – it’s the nature of the beast.

But those disagreements spark healthy debate, and at the end of it there is something we all broadly agree upon.

What we’re witnessing with the Labour Party at the moment however is an entirely different thing.

Last summer Jeremy Corbyn was elected with a record mandate from grassroots members to become leader. Now his MPs say that their own party electorate are “wrong”.

The MPs say Jeremy Corbyn cannot lead the parliamentary party and therefore cannot lead Labour to victory at the next general election, whenever that may be.

Most of these Labour MPs are people you will almost certainly have never heard of. Apart from a handful of household names, the rest are essentially anonymous.

What they are, though – or at least what they’re representing, no matter how unwittingly – is that emerging new form of

There’s little doubt that the hand-wringing but nevertheless nothing- to- do- with- me- guv Tony Blair bears some responsibility for creating problems he never had a hope – or as it turns out, a plan – of solving.

But the terror attacks breaking out across Europe are not merely the results of his reckless war games in Iraq, they are the seeds of greater terror in the future. political prey that has never felt so under attack.

They are the elitists. The right to rule-ists. The finger waggers. The told you so’s. The I-know-better-than-you-do’s. It’s incredible, really. The Parliamentary Labour Party, founded on the basis of representing the working man, finds itself in the bewildering position of not liking being led by a very left-wing socialist.

It would be funny if it were not so serious.

Labour MPs are turning on vast numbers of their own party members from right AMAZON has partnered up with the government to trial the idea of delivering parcels by drones.

Is it just me that thinks this has disaster written all over it? One of the current rules of drone operation is that the pilot must maintain “line of sight” (unless they’re Americans unleashing Reaper missiles across the country and telling them they can’t be trusted to make up their own minds.

They’ve just rustled up a £25 new membership fee cynically designed to appeal to people with extra pounds in their pocket to vote for a new leader supposedly there to represent the less well off.

But Angela Eagle’s stalking horse fell at the first fence, and it’s not looking all that good for would-be insurgent Owen Smith ( above right), either.

Yet still the MPs are telling the people out there who support Jeremy Corbyn that they’re “wrong”.

Doesn’t this sound all too familiar?

Many of them are the same MPs who said 17.4 million of you were “wrong” for voting to leave the EU (but thanks again, into the Middle East, of course). But there’s no way the Amazon guys can maintain eye contact with a drone delivering a cook book or DVD to an address miles away. And how big can these parcels be anyway? Are we talking the size of a pizza box or a food mixer? Or bigger? I’m pretty sure Amazon sell freezers, too.

Do we really want our skies filled with these whirring machines plopping parcels out all over the place like robotic seagulls?

Then there’s the telephone and power cables, and the masts that hold them up.

Plus it would open up a whole world of possibilities to the pranksters and the more evil-minded among us.

Nah. Let’s stick to delivery men and women. At least their batteries can’t run out.