Our favourite MP, Nigel Adams, has told us many times about the loss of highly skilled and highly paid jobs in the coal and power industry caused by regulations that the EU have forced upon us (HERE). Nigel and his friend Andrew Percy, MP for Goole, set this out in the second paragraph of their joint declaration printed full page in The Selby Times on 23rd June 2016, the day of the vote itself, so it must have been important. He said "enough was enough".
Afterwards, when Cameron resigned, Nigel became a member of Boris Johnson's "war cabinet" (HERE) with some suggesting he was actually Boris' campaign manager in his failed bid to become PM. It was hard to say since the bid only lasted a few hours and we all know what happened there, so not altogether a rousing triumph for Nigel's campaign management skills. When Boris was appointed to the FCO he wisely did not invite Nigel. If there is one thing a chancer recognises from a great distance, it's another chancer.
Leaving the EU meant, I assumed, that Mr Adams would campaign vigorously to dump the job destroying EU regulations that he had so railed against. But his government on 17th November 2016 decided to become a separate signatory to the Paris Climate Change agreement, the same one that derived originally from the 1994 UN Framework. That's the same one the EU had been following all along and where the job destroying regulations came from.
And in one of those truly excruciating moments that happen all too often in politics, his erstwhile mate Boris, the one who described the global leaders who drafted the Paris treaty as driven by “a primitive fear” that warmer weather was caused by humanity – a fear that he described as “without foundation” was the minister charged with ratifying the Paris Climate Change Treaty.
And what did Nigel have to say about it all? Nothing. So, it seems enough wasn't actually enough after all.
