Nigel Adams is a loyal conservative MP and claims to have voted against his own government only once. However, during the campaign he told us, "Don't listen to the scaremongering of those who wish to remain in the EU". Since this included most of the cabinet and about two thirds of his colleagues it was quite a statement. And while not a vote against the government it was a vote of no confidence in what they said.
Think about this. Anyone who thought remaining in the EU was a good thing must be scaremongering (a euphemism for fibbing) about the impact of leaving - whatever they said. He urged leavers to close their ears in case they might be offended or swayed in some way. I do not believe he produced a single document setting out the pros and cons of membership of the EU. When his own government did this he condemned it as scaremongering. And during a debate on 11th April 2016 about the government's leaflet summarising the case he attacked it and said (Hansard Column 85):
"I was slightly disappointed that it was printed on shiny, glossy paper. Had it been printed on something a bit more absorbent, then at least my constituents would have been able to put it to good use".
The person who told us that EU regulations had caused job losses in the coal industry, knowing it was false, thought we should use as lavatory paper his own government's official leaflet accurately predicting:
If we vote to leave the value of the pound could go down compared to other countries. This could make the things we buy from those countries more expensive in the UK (page 9 HERE)
The pound is hovering around $1.22 today compared with $1.50 when we voted, a fall of about 18% making fuel and plenty of other stuff more expensive. So, which piece of paper should go into the toilet?
