Dennis MacShane and his Labour friends are dangerously out of touch.

Every time I have seen Dennis MacShane appear on TV, he has come across to me as an arrogant and dangerously out of touch man. Like many in Labour, he dismisses working class fears when it comes to the levels of immigration in many areas of the country and will not accept any criticism of the fatally flawed European Union.

His description today of UKIP as "increasingly anti-Muslim" in The Guardian exposes one again his own extremism. UKIP talk about banning the burka and standing up to, as a country, Islamic extremists who seek to divide us as a nation. To MacShane, this immediately translates to buzzwords like extremism and far-right, despite worries from people of all colours and faiths in Britain on such issues.

MacShane is not alone. At a hustings in Harrow before the General Election, Labour MP Tony McNulty described UKIP candidate Abhijit Pandya (a top bloke), as a "BNP man in a suit" just because Abhijit objects to multiculturalism and being described as "British Indian" rather than just British.

The likes of Labour's MacShane are not just out of touch, but they are downright dangerous in how they seek to censor sensible debate with mud-slinging.

David Cameron condemns many of his own MPs.

David Cameron's strong support for Turkey to join the European Union (which would eventually give free movement without borders for over seventy million Turks within the EU) is certainly a talking point. Far from being the eurosceptic Prime Minister many were keen to hail him as prior to the General Election, Cameron is very keen to see the EU expand.

His declaration however that those who oppose such a move must be driven by either protectionism, nationalism or prejudice is very dangerous. Many on the Conservative backbenches will strongly disagree and not take kindly to being labelled by their Party Leader. Cameron is also playing with fire if he wishes to brush off those with concerns of the potential impact of Turkey joining the EU as having a quasi-Islamophobic agenda. The vast majority of eurosceptics don't want any more countries to join the EU, for the sake of the people of those countries themselves as much as anybody else.

Common sense need not apply.

Why should a man convicted of kidnapping and murdering an 8 year-old girl get legal aid? Why should he ever have the possibility of getting out of prison? Why doesn't he get a life sentence, with life meaning life in prison, end of? That is, after all, the length of the sentence that Roy Whitling gave the parents of Sarah Payne when he murdered their daughter.

The fact that this disgusting human being has had ten years slashed off his sentence via legal aid funded by the taxpayer really indicates just how nuts things have become in our criminal justice system. Even if realistically a reduction of 50 to 40 years means that Whitling will still never get out of prison, this is a needless and I suspect painful blow to a family that have already suffered more than any family should ever have to.

Public sector saving? Start with vice-chancellors.

There have been hysterics by some on the left at the thought of the government taking a hatchet to public sector spending. I don't know why. There is plenty of money to be saved.

Lets just take the Vice-Chancellor of my Uni, the UEA. That's one employee of one University. The base wage for the UEA Vice-Chancellor is £254,000, more than the Prime Minister. That doesn't include pension contributions or bonuses. The Vice-Chancellor that just stood down from UEA got £265,000 in an "additional pensionable service". It gets worse: in the last 4 or 5 years the number of people earning over £100,000 at UEA has risen by 30%. There's plenty more where that came from, have a look.

We're talking massive amounts of cash here and this is just one example. It seems perverse that University bosses are talking of falling standards and the requirement for tuition fees to rise to upwards of £10k a year when in 2008 - 2009 the salaries of the heads of institutions rose by nearly 7%. They clearly aren't willing to lead by example, it's time for a government with guts and common sense to start the savings.

Hate to say we told you so but..

One of the most annoying things in politics is to be dismissed as loony because you have the foresight to predict things that may not seem obvious to most at the time. Many economically sound people in UKIP, including former MEP and Economics Lecturer Dr. John Whittaker, have been explaining how it was inevitable that Greece, followed by the likes of Portugal, Italy and Spain, would one day have to leave the euro. That it was bound to end up hurting their respective economies just too much to remain viable. That the political idealism behind this strand of the EU superstate building project would prove to be too costly. And that it didn't matter what the EU said or did, such suffering and fallout would be inevitable, sooner or later.

Today the Greek government are being advised by the Centre for Economics and Business Research in London to leave the euro so that they can devalue their currency as is badly required to boost their dismal export market. Perhaps one day such economists will come to another conclusion, a conclusion that those in UKIP drew before anybody else: that Britain would be far more prosperous outside of the European Union.

Do as we say, not as we do.

The Telegaph has reported some new findings from the brilliant Open Europe, demonstrating just how amazingly hypocritical politicians really can be.

Not only are MEPs (not the UKIP ones) in the European Parliament going on hugely expensive fact finding missions that are a huge drain on taxpayer's cash - £175,000 for a trip to Angola, £101,000 to Panama and Chile etc. - but the likes of Labour grandee Glenys Kinnock left a carbon footprint of over 26 tonnes of CO2 between 2004 and 2009. This from the people constantly talking of an impending doomsday and tax on ordinary people wanting to fly for their annual holiday. Pretty disgusting stuff, all in all.

Laws should go.

How very disappointed the constituents of David Laws must be. Many thought he was "one of the good guys" as shown time and time again on TV reports today in his constituency in Yeovil. Yet instead this fast-rising star has been exposed as being the same as all the rest, paying his partner £950 a month in rent. Anyone who says Laws has done anything other than pad out his partner's bank account to the tune of £40k with payments that were illegal from 2006 onwards is being very generous.

With the public already baying for blood post-Expensesgate, having figures tainted by such dodgy goings-on in such prominant positions in the government is a recipe for disaster.