Tuesday, 23 February 2016

How Somerset's MPs stand on the European Union Referendum.

This morning's Western Daily Press (February 23rd) lead article by Tristan Cork reported on how the West Country's 36 MPs stand on the European Union Referendum.

 The list below refers to Somerset's MPs, all are Conservative.  Four are for "leave", two would "remain" and three are "undecided".

Bath - Ben Howlett MP                                                        Remain.
Bridgwater and West Somerset - Ian Liddell-Grainger MP Undecided.
North Somerset - Liam Fox MP                                            Leave.
North East Somerset - Jacob Rees-Mogg MP                       Leave.
Somerton and Frome - David Warburton MP                       Leave.
Taunton Deane - Rebecca Pow MP                                       Undecided.
Wells - James Heappey MP                                                   Undecided.
Weston super Mare - John Penrose MP                                 Remain.
Yeovil - Marcus Fysh MP                                                      Leave.

For the West Country as whole the figures were fourteen "leave", eleven "remain" and eleven "undecided" or "undeclared".  Bristol's three Labour MPs are all in the "remain" camp while Charlotte Leslie MP (Conservative) was undecided.

My constituency MP is Marcus Fysh.  The Western Daily Press article reported his views as follows.

Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh said the way that deal had to be done showed why Britain should leave. "The process of renegotiating really demonstrated how unreformable it is, with major decisions having to be made by a committee of 28 who all have different interests making it very difficult to get decisions," he said.
"I don't think leaving will have a detrimental impact on the operation of Italian helicopter firm Finmeccanica in Yeovil, but while immigrants have a beneficial part to play in the economy, the 300,000-plus a year put an enormous strain on our services like housing and schools," he said.

I agree entirely! 






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