OK, OK, it's probably genuinely challenging for most members of our political classes to apply principles consistently - if, of course, they actually had any to start with. But here's the thing - even the greatest thickos usually have a sense of self-preservation. But not our political classes. A bloke with the same or similar ideology as those 'rebels' now sitting in Damascus being cheered on by the West's so-called 'leaders' murdered the MP Sir David Amess. Another MP, Stephen Timms narrowly avoided the same fate when a woman with the same or similar ideology as our new Syrian friends stabbed him twice.

Jihadists have killed and attacked their own and yet most of our MPs are cheering on the same ideologues in Syria. How utterly, utterly stupid do you need to be to become an MP here?