A few days ago, I went to 10 Downing Street with several Labour colleagues seeking more government support for working-class, Brexit-supporting constituencies like ours. But when I heard how some Remainer Labour MPs had reacted, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Comments from those who long to see a second EU referendum that we are being ‘bribed’ to support the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal are simply wrong.
I am just doing my job as MP for Bassetlaw. Far from damaging the constituencies of my Labour critics, I’m fighting to get a better settlement for voters in all areas neglected by politicians.
Let’s get one thing straight: I voted for Brexit and I backed Mrs May’s Brexit deal in the Commons on Tuesday, and will carry on backing it regardless. John Mann pictured on Tuesday
Let’s get one thing straight: I voted for Brexit and I backed Mrs May’s Brexit deal in the Commons on Tuesday, and will carry on backing it regardless.
None of us has said to her ‘give us more money for our constituencies and we will vote for you’, and none of us will be.
Our concern is what happens to our constituencies after Brexit has happened. They voted for Brexit expecting things to get better once we are out. But the reality is that they will not be able to enjoy the opportunities unless we get help from central government.
Pro-Brexit demonstrators protest outside the Houses of Parliament, in Westminster, London
Much of the Labour criticism of me came from Remainer fanatics who want to overturn the referendum. People like Redcar Labour MP Anna Turley who said the Prime Minister was ‘trying to bribe former mining towns to get her Brexit deal through’.
(By the way, according to statistics from the House of Commons library, her Redcar constituency voted to Leave with a massive 67.7 per cent voting to break from Brussels).
Like Redcar in North Yorkshire, Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire was devastated by the pit closures. If I get my way, Redcar will benefit as much as Bassetlaw from the new government aid we are demanding.
British PM Theresa May leaves No.10 Downing St for PMQs at Parliament
Another vocal Labour critic was pro-EU Tottenham MP David Lammy. He wrote on Twitter about those who came with me to Downing Street: ‘Socialists my a***. Cowards and facilitators. History will be brutal.’
I have never noticed David not trying to get more money for his constituents – and to suggest we are not good socialists is nonsense. We have told the Prime Minister we want more of the nation’s wealth redistributed from better-off areas – including parts of London which have done very nicely, thank you, in recent times – to the North and Midlands. I don’t know about David Lammy, but I call that socialism in action.
Pro-Remain Labour MP, Wes Streeting of Ilford North in London, meanwhile, said we were ‘aligning ourselves with Boris Johnson’ and that our actions ‘would never be forgiven’.
A sculpture depicting Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May stands opposite Parliament as the protest against Brexit continuous in London in December 2018
Well, the likes of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg will be fine whatever happens after Brexit.
It will never be as easy for my constituents – which is why I told the Prime Minister that Brexit presents a great opportunity for national renewal.
Wisely, Jeremy Corbyn has not joined in the chorus of accusation about ‘bribery’.
He said we were right to ‘demand appropriate resources for (our) constituencies … particularly from mining areas’.
A vocal Labour critic was pro-EU MP David Lammy (pictured). He tweeted about those who came with me to Downing Street: ‘Socialists my a***. Cowards and facilitators. History will be brutal.’
I freely acknowledge it is a strange feeling as a loyal Labour MP to be invited to No10 to sit down and negotiate directly with a Conservative Prime Minister. And it is not only the door to No10 that is open. Like trade union leaders last week, we have had access to a number of other departments in my search for firm commitments on workers’ rights, environmental protection and other issues important to my constituents.
For a start, we need to use the money that came to Britain via the EU’s regional aid fund, but will now stay in Treasury coffers, to rebuild the most deprived areas, which are nearly all Labour seats. This must be a multi-billion-pound, game-changing project: new transport schemes, science parks, high-tech projects, housing developments.
It should be a national fund to rebuild Britain, focusing on industrial towns like mine in the North and Midlands, and some coastal towns that voted to leave the EU partly because they have not had a fair deal from successive governments over the years. We want serious money ploughed into our areas. We aren’t trying to achieve a seat-by-seat deal.
So yes, we are using the Prime Minister’s need for our support on Brexit to try to get a better deal for our constituencies – and I will not apologise for that.
When we met Mrs May, she told us she had always been committed to tackling inequality between communities, and wanted to promote prosperity in areas like ours.
We will judge her by results. If she gives a cast-iron commitment to a national rebuilding programme that’s truly transformative in scale, and will help communities woefully neglected for decades, I will be delighted.
Will that make it easier for more Labour MPs to vote for her Brexit deal? Yes.
But that is not bribery, it’s politics.
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