BOTH Labour candidates Phil Wilson in Sedgefield and Jenny Chapman in Darlington campaigned against Brexit and are standing for re-election in constituencies where the vote for Brexit was approximately 58 per cent.

Also, both are standing as Labour candidates but are saying that a vote for them is not a vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.

Be in no doubt that should you vote for either of them, Corbyn will claim you voted for him!

Both these former Labour MPs did not represent the views of their constituents during the referendum and disagree with the majority of the current Labour Party membership.

How can anyone vote for them if they do not itemise what parts of the Corbyn Labour Party’s Manifesto they don’t like?

Further, Jenny Chapman was on the ‘wrong’ side of the argument over Darlington’s libraries while Phil Wilson was on the ‘wrong’ side of the argument over payment of County Durham teaching assistants.

It would have been more honest for them to stand as Independent Labour candidates, which they will, in fact, quickly become should Corbyn become Prime Minister.

Corbyn holds Britain’s foreign policy to blame for the radicalisation of British born suicide bombers! He forgets the fact that, prior to 9/11, we did not have a “war-on-terror”.

He also forgets that many Muslim communities have failed to integrate into British society and that the home-grown terrorists are the offspring of refugee Muslim parents allowed into Britain by liberallyminded politicians who have put their ideology of a multi-cultural society’ before our safety.

Unfortunately, we now have a multi-national, multi-racial and multi-religious society which is unsafe for all of society. It does not increase our safety to deny the current situation and to sing the praises of a ‘Multi-cultural Society’ which does not, in fact exist.

Ukip is the only party in this General Election whose manifesto seeks to address the problem of non-integration and it pre-dated the Manchester massacre. Ukip is therefore the natural home for ex-Labour and ex-Conservative voters who voted Brexit. The rump of Labour and Conservative voters who still want to support Remain can always vote Liberal Democrat!

Regardless of how you vote, remember, a vote for any Labour candidate is a vote for Corbyn’s extreme left-wing Marxist Labour Party and a vote against Brexit.

Alastair PG Welsh, Newton Aycliffe