Andrew "thicko" Percy the fanatically anti European and xenophobic MP for Goole, who I have posted items about previously has been surprisingly quiet after the referendum and even more so since the election this year when he lost his junior ministerial position, although I'm not altogether surprised at that since has described himself as "not the brightest individual". You can say that as again.
However, he asked a written question on 27th November in parliament about the aerospace industry post Brexit. This is it:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to assist the UK aerospace industry to take advantage of global trading opportunities after the UK has left the EU.
The SoS gave a somewhat bland answer about continuing to invest, blah, blah, blah (HERE) but I was interested in the question itself since Airbus, surely one of the great European success stories of the last forty years, are totally opposed to Brexit because it threatens the very existence of their plants at Filton, near Bristol and Chester, that make the wings for airbus planes.
I assume by "taking advantage of global trading opportunities" after Brexit he wants Airbus UK to find a country where they are only making fuselages for commercial airliners which are sitting outside unfinished, while a hard pressed purchasing manager is scratching his head and desperately googling to find a company who makes wings to fit.
This would be an ideal scenario I know, but I fear a rather unlikely one.
For Andrew Percy this is a bit like pushing a broom handle through the spokes of Chris Froome's racing bike, watching him crash to the floor and then asking him to go on and win the Tour de France.
