United Kingdom Independence Party MEP Godfrey Bloom has unleashed yet another stream of coarse, xenophobic abuse - this time in the European Parliament. Whilst listening to a speech by German Social Democrat MEP Martin Schulz, Bloom shouted “Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer” – one people, one empire, one leader. Bloom was ordered to leave the chamber and went on to describe Mr Schultz as “a national socialist”.
United Kingdom Independence Party MEP Godfrey Bloom has unleashed yet another stream of coarse, xenophobic abuse – this time in the European Parliament. Whilst listening to a speech by German Social Democrat MEP Martin Schulz, Bloom shouted “Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer” – one people, one empire, one leader. Bloom was ordered to leave the chamber and went on to describe Mr Schultz as “a national socialist”.
The speech Bloom interrupted was regarding a discussion of the Irish Republic’s economic crisis and resulted in the president of the European Union Jerzy Buzek asking Bloom to “leave the chamber at this point”. Bloom may face disciplinary action as a result of his words.
No stranger to controversy, Bloom has previously made a number of incendiary remarks. As well as being a climate change denier who previously claimed:
“As far as I am concerned man-made global warming is nothing more than a hypothesis that hasn’t got any basis in fact.”
He also praised the sinking of the Greenpeace ship ‘Rainbow Warrior’ in 1985, despite the fact that one man died as a result.
Bloom’s other high-profile, unsavoury remarks date back to 2004 when he argued no “self-respecting” small business owner would employ women of child bearing age. He went on to explain:
“I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home. I am going to promote men’s rights.”
Tomorrow Bloom’s leader Nigel Farage will be appearing on Question Time, alongside Ken Clarke and Paddy Ashdown; the big question is: will he agree with Bloom’s rhetoric or not?
40 Responses to “UKIP MEP thrown out of European Parliament for Nazi slur”
janie_s
the core europhile countries are isolated. out of 220 odd countries in the world, only a handful want to give up sovereignty and create a superstate.
anyoldname
So while condemning Bloom for a Nazi reference your best attempt at questioning his character is to use holocaust-inspired terminology like “climate change denier”. Nice.
Braintangular
I don’t like this talk of censure, though. He was saying exactly what his voters wanted him to say, offensive and tactless as he was. Why else vote UKIP?
As for the Nazi comparison – unfair and offensive. That said, there are a good many Europhiles who seem intent on repeating the mistakes of 19th century nationalism – attempting to forge a European nation out of the diverse peoples of Europe and seeing European destiny as a superpower alongside the US, India and China. In that regard a better comparison might be post revolutionary France or pre unification Germany. In both cases the creation of a nation led to war within a generation – the French Revolutionary Wars in the first instance and the First World War in the second.
Spir.Sotiropoulou
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Mr. Sensible
Embarrassing.