Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom criticises aid to 'bongo bongo land'

[alp227]

A senior Ukip politician has been recorded telling activists that Britain should not be sending aid to "bongo bongo land".

Godfrey Bloom, a Ukip member of the European parliament, made the comments to a meeting of supporters in the West Midlands. He suggested foreigners used aid to "buy Ray-Ban sunglasses" and "apartments in Paris".

His remarks have emerged in the week Ukip is due to publish its list of approved candidates for next year's European elections, in which the party hopes to get the biggest share of the vote.

In a challenge to Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, several MPs called for the party to prevent Bloom from standing again, saying it was a good test of its resolve to eradicate "intolerance".

full: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/06/ukip-godfrey-bloom-bongo-bongo-land

A parliamentary proportional representation system brings the super crazies in the house. UKIP is even more right wing than the Tories!

[Warren DeMontague]

1. You know, I thought he meant Italy.

but I guess that's Bunga-Bunga.

[dtom67]

2. if I lived in bongo land...

I'd be against foreign aid for my country, too. This money goes to wealthy elites ; the strings that come with the money call for the explotation of the Public.
Obviously Bloom is an ignorant racist that does not even understand how such aid is used as leverage against small countries.

[pampango]

3. The nativist right wing of British (and many other countries) politics is not shy about spouting

their ignorance for all to see. In fact, they believe that reporting on their ignorance "will probably double my vote".

Bloom said that suggestions that his comments carried any racist implications were "absurd" and "laughable", adding that he has two Kashmiri staff and a Polish wife. He stood by his remarks, saying: "What's wrong with that? I'm not a wishy-washy Tory. I don't do political correctness … The fact that the Guardian is reporting this will probably double my vote in the north of England."

In another part of the recording, Bloom says, in reference to a ruling from the European court of human rights: "You can torture people to death but you jolly well can't give them a full life sentence because that's against their human rights.

"We can't hang them because we're now a member of the European Union and it's embedded in the treaty of Rome.

Bloom has previously caused controversy over some of his comments about women. The MEP was criticised for asking why businesses would ever hire "a lady of child-bearing age" and once said he wanted to get involved in women's rights issues because: "I just don't think they clean behind the fridge enough."

Sounds like misogyny goes hand-in-hand with racism and nativism.

I had not realized that membership in the EU requires that countries cannot use the death penalty. Apparently that is one of the reasons the UKIP wants to withdraw from the EU.

[T_i_B]

4. Misogyny is the thing Bloom is most well known for.

He never misses a chance to appear in the UK media blathering about how people shouldn't employ women in cast they get pregnant.