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UKIP is home to loads of elderly Judge Dredd wannabes.

A few weeks after being appointed to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality on 20 July 2004, Bloom told an interview that, "no self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. " Around the same time, he said that "I just don't think [women] clean behind the fridge enough" and that "I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home." Bloom told BBC Radio 4's Today that his comments were "said for fun" to illustrate a more serious point, that equal-rights legislation was in fact putting women out of work.

Bloom confessed that he used to visit brothels in Hong Kong, claiming that "terrified young women beaten into prostitution often from Eastern Europe [...] is only a very small aspect of the flesh trade", and concluded that "in short, most girls do it because they want to."

After inviting students from the University of Cambridge Women's Rugby Club to Brussels in 2004, he was accused of sexual harassment, making sexist comments and using offensive language during a dinner party. One student handed in a formal letter of protest to the President of the European Parliament, heavily criticising Bloom's behaviour. Bloom who sponsored the club with £3,000 a year, later admitted making misogyny comments but denied a sexual harassment.

Bloom rejects anthropogenic global warming. He said in 2009: "As far as I am concerned man-made global warming is nothing more than a hypothesis that hasn't got any basis in fact. Every day more scientists are modifying their initial views." He argues that the global climate has actually been cooling down since 2002, and bases this on "the very early skiing season" each year.

Bloom was filmed at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen congratulating the French for bombing the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, in 1985. Bloom's comment prompted outrage from the environmental group, which accused him of "celebrating" the killing of Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira in the bombing in Auckland. Bloom was filmed posing in front of the present Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior II, during the climate summit at the Copenhagen harbour. In the footage, he said: "Here we have one of the most truly fascist boats since 1945, Well done the French for sinking (it)." The video appeared to have been uploaded to Bloom's YouTube channel Goddersvision on 16 December during the last days of the summit, but was later taken down.

In December 2008, Bloom had to be carried out by an intern after making a European Parliament speech while drunk. During the speech, Bloom denied that the MEPs from Poland, the Czech Republic or Latvia have the ability to understand economic relations. In February 2012, Bloom interrupted a debate with the question whether the Cambridge University Women's Rugby team should wear their logo on the front or back of their shirts. Later he admitted to have consumed alcohol and "very heavy" prescription painkillers after breaking his collarbone in a riding accident.

On 24 November 2010, Bloom was ejected from the European Parliament after directing a Nazi slogan at a German MEP Martin Schulz as the latter was speaking during a debate on the economic crisis in Ireland. Godfrey Bloom interrupted Schulz and said "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" - one people, one empire, one leader. He was then suspended from the debate.

At the height of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, Bloom complained about the lack of manners of the political class. In a statement on his website, he pointed out that, unlike many others, he wouldn't employ family members in his parliamentary staff. However, Bloom later conceded that three members of his staff were also employed part-time at TBO, the company in which he is a major shareholder, and one of these is his wife's niece.[4]

In July 2013, Bloom was filmed referring to countries which receive overseas aid from the United Kingdom as "Bongo Bongo Land".A spokesman for UKIP was reported as saying that Bloom's remarks were being "discussed right at the very highest level of the party". He has chosen to stand by his comments.

a little bit of 'my best friend is black' (it's actually his housekeeper :D ), but the rest just balls out, don't give a shit, i need the racist vote so i'll just be openly racist.

I don't believe it.

in aid to this place? What proportion of the total overseas aid budget is going to a country I've only vaguely heard of?!

:D

the overseas aid is being spent on 'sunglasses, Ferraris and apartments in Paris'.... but he's probably not too far off the mark.

Wonder why it's so cheap, then read the stories and realise this: we take far more from the "developing" world than we could ever hope to give back. Maintaining foreign aid is one of the few things I agree with David Cameron on.

'Questioned on the BBC News Channel, Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, said it was "absurd" and "ridiculous" to label his comments racist.

He said Bongo Bongo Land was "a figment of people's imagination. It's like Ruritania or the Third World."'

Big fan of how the only cultural reference to a fictional place he could (apparently) think of is from a series of books published in the 1890s. is he Mr Burns?

but the whole London-centic 'HAHAHA imagine what kind of THICKOS would vote for him!' narrative that has been doing the rounds is just as hateful and unpleasant.

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UKIP have requested he doesn't use the phrase again.