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.