Andrew Percy, apparently got an email in 2011 saying an EU referendum shouldn't be held and was asked, jokingly, if it had come from a Conservative whip. Mr Percy answered:
"No, it was a constituent who informed me that we could not have a referendum on the European Union because the people do not understand the arguments—the usual patronising guff that comes from pro-Europeans" (Hansard Column 193 HERE).
He is fanatically anti-European although it is difficult to understand why since he never makes any logical arguments against it. At least he is honest, in the same debate he said:
"I am not the brightest individual, as anyone who has heard my speeches will confirm, and I have not read through all the relevant documents".
"Apart from leaving the European Union, we should be going much further while we are in it to ensure that our budget contribution is substantially reduced. My constituents simply cannot understand why an ever-increasing amount of their hard-earned money is being sent off and spent by that institution."
Other constituents probably wonder why they pay Mr Percy when he doesn't "read through all of the relevant documents". That "ever increasing amount" of hard earned money comes to about 1.2% of government revenues, or 0.6% of GDP.
