You can always tell that people are being “liberal with the truth” when their story changes. Over the years I’ve heard Eurosceptic MEPs claim that 90% of new UK laws have been decided at a European level. Sometimes that figure changes to 80% (as Conservative Dan Hannan was quoted the other day), sometimes it’s 75% etc etc – this figure depends, I’m assuming, on which number comes into their head first.

I see that this week, according to Godfrey Bloom, the figure is 65% (which means Hannan – a Tory, is even more wild in his allegations then UKIP!).

Well they're certainly getting warmer. I wonder how long it will take for them to get down to 9% (the actual figure - supplied by the House of Commons library).

It's also worth mentioning that Mr Bloom said, and I quote, "nobody knows anything about it [the European Union] and how it works. That's a great shame".

This is something that I CAN agree with him on wholeheartedly. Does this mean that Bloom will now become part of the solution and not the problem? Will aviatory pigs really be seen over his Selby office? Watch this space!