1. Godfrey William Bloom TD was born on 22 November 1949 and is an English author, economist and former politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014.
27 Facts About Godfrey Bloom
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Godfrey Bloom was elected for the UK Independence Party in the European elections of 2004 and 2009, representing UKIP until September 2013, when UKIP withdrew the party whip from him.
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Godfrey Bloom then sat as an Independent until the end of his term of office in May 2014.
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Godfrey Bloom resigned his party whip from UKIP on 24 September 2013 and thereafter sat as an Independent MEP until the end of his term in office on 2 July 2014.
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Nigel Farage, the UKIP party leader, said "the trouble with Godfrey Bloom is that, he is not a racist, he's not an extremist or any of those things and he's not even anti-women, but he has a sort-of-rather old-fashioned Territorial Army sense of humour which does not translate very well in modern Britain".
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Godfrey Bloom was removed as Honorary President of the Ludwig von Mises Centre in December 2017, the organisation citing his comments on Twitter.
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Godfrey Bloom was born on 22 November 1949, the son of Alan Godfrey Bloom and his wife, Phyllis.
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Godfrey Bloom's father served as a fighter pilot during the Second World War.
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Godfrey Bloom was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Transport in 1977.
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Godfrey Bloom contested the Conservative-held seat of Haltemprice and Howden at the 1997 general election, coming fifth.
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Godfrey Bloom's statement said: "I have felt for some time now that the 'New UKIP' is not really right for me any more".
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In December 2013, as a result of his various controversies, Godfrey Bloom was awarded the Plain English Campaign's Foot in Mouth Award.
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Godfrey Bloom is a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
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Godfrey Bloom was a co-author of Wolfson Prize Economics Submission with Pat Barron and Philipp Bagus.
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Godfrey Bloom warned that credit agencies would be "castrated" by too much regulation of the EU.
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Godfrey Bloom stated that he had visited brothels in Hong Kong.
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In December 2008, Godfrey Bloom was carried out by an intern after making a speech in the European Parliament while drunk, the second occasion on which he was accused of being drunk in the chamber.
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In February 2012, Godfrey 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.
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On 24 November 2010, Godfrey Bloom was ejected from the European Parliament after directing a Nazi slogan at German MEP Martin Schulz who was speaking in a debate on the economic crisis in Ireland.
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Godfrey Bloom interrupted Schulz and shouted "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" at him.
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Godfrey Bloom then proceeded to call the latter "an undemocratic fascist", a remark for which he was removed from the chamber.
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At the height of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, Godfrey Bloom complained about the lack of manners of the political class.
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Godfrey Bloom later conceded that three members of his staff were employed part-time at TBO, the company in which he is a major shareholder, and one of these is his wife's niece.
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In July 2013, Godfrey Bloom made a speech about Britain's foreign aid in which he referred to countries as "Bongo Bongo Land".
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In January 2014, broadcaster Michael Crick stated that Godfrey Bloom, supporting the motion "Post-war Britain has seen too much immigration" in a debate at the Oxford Union, asked a disabled student who was speaking against the motion if he was Richard III.
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In December 2017, Godfrey Bloom wrote a tweet identifying Goldman Sachs as an "international Jewish bank".
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On 2 December 2019, days after the 2019 London Bridge stabbing, Godfrey Bloom tweeted in response to pleas from the father of one victim, Jack Merritt, that politicians not use his son's death for political gains:.