Not just UKIP Eurosceptics in trouble this week, but Tory ones too. Roger Helmer MEP had recently been getting some stick in his local press for ranting about all kinds of supposed evils of proposals for European legislation, which he then failed to oppose in the European Parliament. His rather lame excuse was that he had better things to do with his time. This has provoked one irate constituent to write in to the Derby Evening Telegraph this week to say: "No sooner have the Tories accepted Roger Helmer back into their ranks, than he admits in your paper that he has 'better things to do' than use his time in the European Parliament to oppose proposals for European legislation that he does not like. What, then, is the point of electing him?"