Wellswood Supper Club with Jacob Rees Mogg MP

Date

Thursday, 15th September 2016

Time

7.00pm for 7.30pm

Our next dinner will be with Jacob Rees Mogg MP at the Palace Hotel (Babbacombe Rd, Torquay TQ1 3TG) on Thursday September 15th. We are fortunate indeed to have such high profile guest.

Jacob was born in May 1969 and was brought up in Somerset at Ston Easton and Hinton Blewett. He now lives in the village of West Harptree with his wife Helena and their four young children.

As the Member of Parliament for the constituency of North East Somerset he spends time in both Westminster and North East Somerset where, almost every weekend he holds surgeries to meet constituents and discuss their thoughts and issues.

President Obama has been branded “splendidly arrogant” by Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg over plans to urge Brits to stay in the EU during a UK visit.

The US President is set to make a major intervention in the Referendum campaign next month when he jets into London after visiting Germany.

Pro-EU campaigners believe President Obama will help persuade undecided voters to back Remain, but his planned rallying cry has provoked fury from Brexiters.

An e-petition calling for President Obama to not be allowed to speak in Westminster on the issue has attracted 26,000 signatures.

At a meeting of eurosceptic think-tank The Bruges Group last night, leading Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg tore in the US President’s plans.

He also claimed the French government’s support for its country’s ‘dirty’ film industry was harming EU/US trade negotiations.

After describing Obama as a “funny fellow”, the North-East Somerset MP said: “I think he’ll be the greatest recruiting sergeant for the Brexit campaign.

“No true honest Briton is going to be told what to do by a Yankee president they’re just not. He can come and tell us all he likes about what we should do but we’re not an American colony and they’re not a colony of ours anymore.

“It’s so splendidly arrogant for him to think that poor little Blighty is just waiting for big old Uncle Sam to come and tell us what we should do with our European neighbours and which garden we should play in.

“I think we just have to be very welcoming to him, thank him for his kind consideration and vote against being told what to do.”

Rees-Mogg’s comments, which were met with applause by the 200 or so eurosceptics in the room, echoed those of fellow Tory MP Steve Baker when the visit was revealed.

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Wellswood Supper Club with Jacob Rees Mogg MP