Only six months ago Stephen Kinnock wrote about immigration and the implications of Brexit. At the time Kinnock was one of those fanatical Europhiles trying to put the fear of God into anyone thinking of voting for Brexit. His article cited two scenarios for the country on Brexit/immigration. The first was the "Norway model" where we would be part of the European Economic Area (EEA) which gives access to the Single Market. But we'd also have to accept free movement of people. Norway is in Schengen, even though it’s not inside the European Union.

Then there is the "Canada model", which maintains a trading relationship with the EU but is not part of the Single Market. You could then have greater control of your borders, and you would not have to accept free movement of people. You would lose access to the Single Market and have to create new trade arrangement with the other 27 members of the EU. Boyo's conclusion of this arrangement was that we would see "the total collapse of the British economy, which I think is a pretty big price to pay…".

http://www.debatingeurope.eu/2016/03/10/leaving-eu-affect-immigration-britain/#.V-GHRq0xj90

So how strange that barely six months on from saying we'd see the total collapse of the economy, this week he has written an awfully long, boring and pretentious article on immigration (read it at your peril in the link below - he obviously inherited his verbosity from the Windbag himself) in which he states "We can no longer support limitless freedom of movement as our society doesn’t have the social, economic or political capacity to make it sustainable". Wow - how things have changed in just six months. Whatever made him change his mind?

I don't know if he's genuinely come round to the long held views of millions of UK citizens that free movement cannot go on. I am extremely sceptical as to his motives. If we do away with free movement what has become of his warnings the economy collapses? Or is his conversion more to do with the fact his credibility and job are on the line and he's going to have to align himself with mainstream thinking in order to gather every bit of support he can? I don't trust him - he's his father and mother's son.

http://www.stephenkinnock.co.uk/we_must_develop_a_new_approach_to_immigration_and_freedom_of_movement