Grey Skies Thinking

As Angela Smith denounces "left-wing intellectuals", it is true that no one has ever accused her of being either of those things.

So many people have been changing the Independent Group's Wikipedia page, so that its official colour was altered from "Grey" to "A funny tinge", that it has stopped listing an official colour at all. Yes, really.

Still no policies from the Katie Hopkins Party, but we all know what they are going to be.

Chuka Umunna's unpaid internships, which even Theresa May has expressed a desire to ban. Chris Leslie's revival of the austerity programme that even the Government has moderated a very little bit.

Ann Coffey's abolition of juries in trials of her choosing. Mike Gapes's bought and paid for foreign policy that is pro-Saudi even by British Establishment standards, answering the question of who funds the Independent Group.

Angela Smith's bought and paid for enthusiasm for water privatisation. Her bought and paid for insistence that "the Intelligence and Security Services" must be believed without question, another obvious source of revenue. Her robust action against people who have a funny tinge, a remark that has been spookily ignored by the BBC in its endless puff pieces for this project.

And Luciana Berger's hallucinations about anti-Semitism, which have now been disproved twice. On the more recent occasion, one in five of all complaints, of which there were only a thousand and four hundred of those were against people who were not Labour Party members, were found to have come from the person who is known to the great Professor Norman Finkelstein as "Barking Yenta".

Plus, of course, the Labour Party Conference resolution on a second EU referendum. As if that superseded the most recent General Election manifesto. Try and imagine that someone had ever suggested that to Tony Blair: that a Labour Party Conference resolution had superseded the most recent General Election manifesto.