The #GoWTO MPs in the media

Our MPs are fighting hard for the 'Go WTO' Brexit

David Jones, Andrea Jenkyns, and Graham Stringer deserve your support

The three pro-Brexit MPs who are headlining our ‘Go WTO’ public campaign have all been active in the last week. Below are just a few excerpts from what they’ve been doing and saying.

The Rt Hon David Jones MP (Con, Clwyd)

The BBC, 10 January 2019

Excerpts of interview with Huw Edwards

“To be realistic at the moment I think that no deal is the most likely option. I think that what the Government has to prepare for, in fact is preparing for, is no deal.”

Asked by Huw Edwards whether that concerned him, he replied: “I’m not concerned about it overly, ideally we would like to have an agreement but there are already arrangements in place which would ensure that the planes fly, that traffic continues between here and the continent.”

“In fact we heard the President of the port of Calais this morning saying that yes of course they’re ready to cope with a no-deal Brexit.”

“It’s more likely than not that there will be no deal. I think that is something that is manageable and something that we can live with.”

Andrea Jenkyns MP (Con, Morley and Outwood)

Andrea appeared on the Briefings for Brexit podcast last week, where she was asked in detail about her support for Brexit and her backing of our #GoWTO public campaign.

Briefings for Brexit is an excellent site, written mostly by academics, and is one which we can recommend.

Listen to the podcast with Andrea and read the full article here.

Below are some short excerpts from the Briefings for Brexit article.

“60% of Morley and Outwood, 58% of Yorkshire, and 52% of the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU – overall, by a majority of 1.3 million people. We must respect the will of the people and leave the EU in full,” she said.

She continued: “I have never met a Leave voter yet who wants a Second Referendum. It’s a sore loser’s referendum. I don’t think over 1 million people more voting to Leave is a slim margin. A Second Referendum is not good for our Country, it kicks it into the long grass further, we have seen what a mess the last two years have been and the lack of preparedness and kicking it into the long grass doesn’t help things. It is not good for business or planning, it’s not good for democracy, and it’s not good for parliament which needs to get on with other things. Let’s just get on with things and ensue we leave on the 29th March 2019. Put some common sense into it, we are a great Western democracy.”

“We are all Brexit fatigued but Brexit is too important to give up on. More people voted to Leave than for either political party in the last two general elections. As a democrat we have to keep fighting for the democratic mandate that got presented to us by the British public in the Brexit referendum. My case work is showing me Leave is stronger than ever in my constituency.”

Copyright: Briefings for Brexit

Graham Stringer MP (Lab, Blackley and Broughton)

In response to Labour MP Chris Mathison’s opinion piece in the Guardian last week, damning Brexit, #GoWTO supporter Graham Stringer MP wrote a stern riposte, published in the Guardian on Thursday last week, 10 January.

Here are some excerpts:-

“Labour politicians as different as leader Hugh Gaitskell and Tony Benn based their opposition to this European project on sound principles of sovereignty and democracy. Gaitskell famously told the 1962 Labour conference that joining the Common Market ‘would be the end of Britain as an independent European state’ and Tony Benn, referring to the European commission, argued that if we can’t ‘get rid of you, we don’t have a democracy’.”

“Since the Enlightenment it has been the commonly held belief of the left that those who decide on our laws and taxes should be able to be removed by the electorate; the EU does not allow this.”

“Chris Matheson [MP] voted in 2015 to hold the referendum and on 1 February 2017 voted to give the prime minister authority to trigger article 50. Chris was right then to give people the power to decide our future in a referendum and to respect the result. He is wrong now to deny both the long tradition within Labour to oppose the EU and his own voting record. The voters will never trust us again if we don’t honour their decision.”

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