Labour will be backing the Reckless motion later today. When Denis Macshane and Bill Cash skip hand in hand through the division lobby, the PM must surely realise he’s on the wrong side of history. Again…

With the news this morning that Energy Minister John Hayes has declared “enough is enough” when it comes to windfarms, Telegraph writer James Delingpole is bowing out of the Corby by-election race, where he was standing as a single issue candididate:

“What would be the point? John Hayes has just gone and made my every dream come true. I’m overjoyed. In fact, I think I may well have run the most stunningly successful election campaign in the history of elections.”

Good news for UKIP who were angry at a split protest vote.

Brace yourself for the most terrifying statistic you will read this Halloween: trade unions are being subsidised by the taxpayer to the tune of £113 million-a-year. New research by the Taxpayers’ Alliance shows that in 2011-12 £92 million of our money was spent on funding trade union Pilgrims alone.

Not only that, but the report claims that public bodies have even been deducting union subscription fees in the payroll process without charging the unions for the work that requires, in spite of unions themselves claiming the opposite.  

Where is Van Helsing, to plunge a stake straight through the hearts of these taxpayer-funded bloodsuckers once and for all…

He does appear to have a point.

The UKIP transparency reports stop in 2011…

Launching @AndySawford's by-election pledges at a meeting with local residents in Corby pic.twitter.com/6TtJQgtP

— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) October 30, 2012

Something a little sad about this tweet…