I used to wonder why Andrew Percy, MP for Goole, didn't seem to put much stuff on his website about the EU even though he is an ardent Brexiteer. I now realise he reserved most of the rubbish he wrote on the subject for The Scunthorpe Telegraph. There is quite a vein of nonsense to be tapped there but I want to look at some of the things he said on the eve of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum (HERE).
Describing himself as an "emotional unionist", Mr Percy said he hoped the Scottish people would vote to stay in the UK "as we are definitely stronger together".
Anyone familiar with last year's referendum will perhaps see similarities between Mr Percy's words and the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign - i.e. the idea that we were stronger together with the EU. But Andrew Percy (not the brightest person on the planet in his own words) does not believe we are "stronger together" with Europe. In fact he is 24 carat Eurosceptic. He thinks we are stronger separated from the EU, but we are stronger together with Scotland, people that by his own admission he would say are "our brethren" as he has described Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders.
Lesson for today.....
Xenophobe: (noun)
2. a person who fears or dislikes the customs, dress, etc., of people who are culturally different.
