Hain calls for NE Regional Assembly: Numpty

Will Green in the Journal has reported that the concept of English Regional Assemblies is still on the socialist agenda.

It come to something when a failed Europe Minister and Welsh MP starts to instruct the people of the North East as to what is good for them.
Mr Hain said during a talk at the London School of Economics: “It could be a regional government in the North East of England – rejected, I know, in 2004 but rejected on a kind of Mickey Mouse offer where the powers were not really real and the timing wasn’t right.
“Under a Tory-led Government, I think we could easily win that referendum now.”

Ian Mearns, MP for Gateshead and former chairman of the campaign for a North East assembly, said the region needed a “strong voice” to take on an increasingly powerful Scotland and a distant Whitehall.

Of course for Labour such a thing would be valuable as it would give them a permanent toehold in English governance, something that isn't guaranteed in any other way.

What the people of the NE would think about it, and the guaranteed waste of public money pushing, propagandising and voting for it is another matter.

They are just so desperate.

So what did you do when you were Europe Minister

According to the Western Mail, Peter Hain is a little confused about the 'British jobs for British workers' row.

Former Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said it was a “puzzle” that foreign firms could bring workers over to the UK for contract work, pay their accommodation costs and remain within EU employment rules.
“This does not seem to me to add up,” he said. “The real answer to this puzzle [is] these contracts are sub-contracted all the way down the line to the point where nobody really knows.”

This chump wasn't just a former Welsh Secretary he was the Europe Minister. So how the hell can he be puzzled. This is him back when he was the Minister in 2002,

It is estimated that enlargement will create 300,000 jobs across the EU, including thousands in Britain, as companies take advantage of trade opportunities.

Enlargement will enhance co-operation, helping us to tackle problems that do not recognise borders, such as pollution, drug smuggling and people trafficking. My right hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West was right. The same fears were expressed about the accession of Spain and Portugal. In fact, the reverse was the case. People went back to Spain and Portugal as those countries gained prosperity through membership of Europe.

So the Portugeese went home, and then came back. That is the wonder of the free movement of people, but how he can pretend he doesn't understand the problem beggars belief.

Either he has forgotten, is thick, or dishonest. Now I wonder which of these is most likely.