Low-grade Labour nobodies bloated with self-importance still say they know better than 17m Brexit voters

THE Second Referendum campaigners don’t know they’re beaten.

Parliament this week sent them a clear message — their hopes to overturn the biggest democratic mandate in our country’s history will come to nothing.

But now they have turned their guns on Brexit-supporting Labour MPs who have put constituents and country above their pathetic party’s posturing.

These low-grade nobodies are already so bloated with self-importance that they’re happy to say they know better than 17million Leave voters.

And they DARE to target MPs for the crime of voting for what their constituents want?

It’s exactly the sort of ideological purity battle Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour specialises in. The Tories need to show they’re above that.

We don’t agree with much of Nick Boles’s plan for a Brexit so soft as to be barely Brexit at all. This week’s amendment, co-signed by Boles and Yvette Cooper, could have holed the whole operation below the waterline.

But that does not mean he should be deselected. The Tory party has always been a broad church and it serves as a better party of government when pragmatism is its guiding force.

For the first time in months, the Conservatives have shown the sort of professionalism and unity that the public expects of them.

They must keep it together.

Just Jack it in

IT is an outrage that speedboat killer Jack Shepherd continues to claim legal aid despite refusing to return to Britain.

Justice Secretary David Gauke cannot simply put his hands in the air and claim he’s powerless to do anything.

Everybody has a right to a fair trial, and that often means help with legal costs. But how anybody on the run can be entitled to taxpayers’ cash is absolutely beyond us.

Gauke has form for dodging tough decisions. His plans to reform Parole Board transparency in the wake of the John Worboys fiasco are still in a holding pattern.

He has been renowned as a safe pair of hands for years.

That reputation is rapidly disintegrating.

Dopey decision

A STONED teenager drives his parents’ Audi and kills two people — weeks after being stopped for suspected drug-driving.

You’d probably expect the lout to spend some time at Her Maj’s pleasure. You’d at least expect him to be charged with manslaughter, or death by dangerous driving.

But no. The coppers’ son from swanky Ascot walked free from court with barely a slap on the wrist.

Would that happen to a 17-year-old council estate kid?

We doubt it. The law looks an ass.