MEPs must be wary of lobbying by vested interest groups
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News on 23. Dec, 2009 | Comments
ANDREW Brons has responded to two constituents from Skipton who are convinced that climate change and man-made global warming pose a threat to their children and grandchildren.
It was only an ‘innocuous shot’ claims the Politics Show
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News on 21. Dec, 2009 | Comments
AFTER the appearance of Andrew Brons on the BBC’s Politics Show on Sunday 13th December, Chris Beverley, the MEPs Constituency Manager, wrote to the programme’s producer over certain misleading footage that was shown during the programme.
Nearly 40 votes in a 90 minute session this morning
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News on 17. Dec, 2009 | Comments
IT was a busy morning at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Andrew Brons and his political assistant for the week Martin Wingfield, spent much of yesterday evening and the early hours of this morning going through the voting lists and discussing how the MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber would vote.
A murderous and pointless war than can’t be won
Posted by Andrew Brons in EU News on 16. Dec, 2009 | Comments
THIS afternoon, I was initially promised only one minute but because Philip Claess could not give his speech, his minute was given to me. I had already timed my speech exactly (having reduced it from one minute and a half). I now had to extend it again only half an hour before I was due to speak.
Plight of steel workers in Middlesbrough prompts support for funding proposal
Posted by Martin Wingfield in EU News on 16. Dec, 2009 | Comments
THIS morning, Andrew Brons MEP took steps to submit an official explanation of his voting on the Riemer Boge Report on Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to help unempoloyed car and construction workers in Sweden (left), Austria and Holland who have recently lost their jobs.
The Taliban wouldn’t be killing our men and women if our troops weren’t in Afghanistan
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Parliamentary Questions on 15. Dec, 2009 | Comments
THIS afternoon at 5.00pm in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, oral questions were accepted on ‘Restrictive measures affecting the rights of individuals following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty’. Responding to a statement made by Baroness Ashton, the European Union’s new High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Andrew Brons MEP asked this question:
