Labour’s Stephen Kinnock made himself look a bit silly in the Commons yesterday, as he implied he had never taken out an insurance policy before.
Kinnock: The backstop is an insurance policy. Can the Prime Minister give us an example of any insurance policy she has ever seen or signed up to that was based on an expiry date?
PM TM: I do not know what insurance policies the hon. Gentleman takes out, but most insurance policies have a renewal date.
Being the son of a Labour leader and EU Commissioner, as well as the husband of a former Danish Prime Minister, Guido suspects that Kinnock Jr. doesn’t worry about menial tasks such as insurance policies. Awkward.
Stephen Kinnock’s new centrist book has something very familiar about its front cover. It’s using exactly the same image as Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan’s 2008 twelve month plan to renew Britain. If you can’t beat them, join them…
Carswell and Hannan’s The Plan is still available.
Guido hears Stephen Kinnock’s 24 hour “hunger strike” to protest against FPTP has gone down like a bucket of sick with female Labour MPs. Kinnock has chosen to carry out the day’s hunger strike – which is not a hunger strike, it is how George Osborne says slim – on the centenary of women getting the vote. Labour sources say this attempt to take attention away from today’s focus for his own personal crusade has not impressed his female colleagues. One says: “He seems to think getting Labour votes to be worth a bit more in Dorset is more important than overturning centuries of structural oppression of women”. It has been noted that Kinnock’s seat was set to disappear in the last two boundary reviews. Stephen could have done with Mrs Kinnock being around to tell him his idea wasn’t the best…
This clip of Stephen Kinnock and @HelleThorning_S is absolutely incredible. Just after the exit poll at 10pm- you can tell who’s been a former PM. #LaboursSummer pic.twitter.com/V9WL3OR6yk
— Jack Evans (@jackcevans) November 20, 2017
Clip from election night from the BBC. No mystery as to who is the pro here…
Labour MPs Lucy Powell, Ruth Cadbury and Stephen Kinnock, who had been calling for Mr Corbyn to resign, as they’ll be seen on BBC2 Mon 9pm pic.twitter.com/yiYuHo3fvq
— BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) November 20, 2017
The moment Stephen Kinnock saw the exit poll on June 8 and realised Corbyn would be staying as Labour leader. One of many Labour MPs who had been hoping for a worse result…
In all the Fallon excitement, Corbyn should not be allowed to get away with his attendance at the MEND event in parliament last night. There’s no two ways about it, MEND is an extremist-linked group whose senior figures have praised Al-Qaeda, attended speeches by al-Qaeda hate preachers, and justified the murder of British troops. Last week the respected Henry Jackson Society think tank dubbed MEND “Islamists posing as civil libertarians”. Tory MPs pulled out of last night’s event when details of MEND’s extremist links were published in the media over the weekend. Yet still Corbyn agreed to be the keynote speaker. Labour MPs Wes Streeting, Stephen Kinnock, Naz Shah, Kate Green and Afzal Khan all attended. Corbyn’s face is now proudly splashed across MEND’s Twitter page.
MEND is a seriously nasty group. Jez and the Labour MPs who attended will have seen the reports about them over the weekend. And they still turned up. It’ll be missed as sleaze takes centre stage, but this is grim stuff from Labour…
