While the House of Commons was voting to bomb Daesh in Syria on that late Wednesday night, it seems as though the Labour party was also voting to go to war … with itself. And similarly when we saw the first airstrikes carried out just hours after the vote, the Corbynite militia fired their first round of ammunition at those who dared to disagree with their leader who, we keep being reminded, is the imperial proprietor of the biggest mandate in a Labour leader’s history. How c

This Labour leadership contest is getting rather exciting and colourful all of a sudden. Well, comparatively so anyway. Because up until last week, the so-called 'contest' had been as dull as dishwater - to call upon a cliche. The candidates who have been nominated to save the Labour party from its election blues are Liz Kendall, Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper and Andy Burham. Together, they have looked like a four-pack of kitchen scrubbers. You know the ones: yellow and green,