Labour should REBEL against Jeremy Corbyn's 'infantile leftist illusion' says Lord Kinnock

by Guest Sat May 12, 2018 1:14 pm

JEREMY Corbyn’s leftist instructions should be defied and MPs should fight amendment after amendment to retain key aspects of the single market after Brexit, said leading Labour peer Lord Kinnock.

The call to disobedience follows the order given by the Labour leader to abstain in parliamentary votes on Britain staying in the European Economic Area (EEA), a grouping that allows free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the European single market.

Urging MPs and peers to rebel again against Mr Corbyn, Lord Kinnock explained that the Labour leader’s objections to EEA membership were based on an "infantile leftist illusion".

The former leader of the Labour Party said: "The objections to supporting EEA membership from some in the upper reaches of the Labour Party seem to centre on claims that it would either restrict a Labour government's freedom of socialist action or that it would mean ignoring our supporters who voted to leave the EU, or both.

"The first of these claims is based on falsehood.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/958662/labour-party-news-jeremy-corbyn-lord-kinnock-single-market-eea-brexit

Well that is a first for me, actually being in agreement with Kinnock