Showing posts with label Stephen Kinnock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Kinnock. Show all posts

Monday, 6 June 2016

Remainiac MPs planning to overrule a Brexit vote

Pro-EU MPs are threatening to use their parliamentary majority to undermine the EU referendum vote and do a deal to keep us in the EEA when we vote to leave.

Staying in the EEA is a big part of the so-called "Norway option" and involves paying into the EU budget and accepting EU regulations but we need to negotiate our own arrangement that suits us, not copy someone else's. Rather than continuing to subsidise the EU through the EEA and blindly accepting EU regulations we would be best served by the approach taken by Switzerland and Liechtenstein who decided to stick with EFTA only and then decide what they want to sign up to over and above what is necessary for their EFTA membership. Liechtenstein has even negotiated a limit on immigration and the Swiss are ending free movement of EU citizens.

Stephen Kinnock MP, the ex-pat son of former Labour leader and now multi-millionaire EU Commissioner Neil Kinnock, defended the idea of overruling voters, saying:
If the British people voted to leave the EU that's one thing. But can we really say that they voted for the devastation and destruction of the entire exporting sector of our economy? I don't think you can necessarily say that there's a democratic mandate for that.
Ignoring the fact that leaving the EU won't destroy the economy, when the British people vote to leave the EU on the 23rd they will have done so having been bombarded with alarmist propaganda that Goebbels would have been proud of. So yes, a leave vote will be a democratic mandate to pull out of the EU and the EEA and secure a relationship with the EU that works for us. What MPs won't have a democratic mandate for is to keep us tied into the EU without the power to stop unlimited EU immigration and spending billions of pounds a year to prop up the bankrupt EU member states and single currency.

Stephen Kinnock with his wife, the former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, on a rare trip to the UK for the election last year

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Stephen Kinnock, MP for Copenhagen

Neil Kinnock's son, Stephen Kinnock, has been selected as a Labour candidate for the safe seat of Aberavon.

Stephen Kinnock, soon to be MP for Aberavon, Denmark
Kinnock is married to the Danish Prime Minister and is based in London which makes the rich and powerful son of millionaire peers the obvious choice to stand as an MP for a working class constituency in South Wales. Any claims of nepotism will no doubt be strenuously denied by the Labour Party who will undoubtedly have a plausible explanation as to why a part-time MP who's never had a proper job in his life and spends half his week in London and the other half in Denmark will be able to effectively represent a constituency nearly 200 miles away.

Aberavon has had a Labour MP since 1922 so it looks like we'll be seeing the MP for Copenhagen taking his seat in Westminster next year.