UKIP's Godfrey Bloom under fire over 'demeaning' joke

[muriel_volestrangler]

A UKIP politician faces disciplinary action after joking that a group of female activists were "sluts".

Godfrey Bloom made the comments while addressing a "women in politics" event at the party's conference.
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Mr Farage said he did not have the power to suspend him without the authority of the party chairman and governing executive but would recommend sanctions against the Yorkshire and Humber MEP who he said "had gone beyond the pale".
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When the women at the meeting said they had never cleaned behind their fridges, he said: "This place is full of sluts."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24175041

Watch: UKIP’s Godfrey Bloom hits Michael Crick in the face

When Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick asked Ukip’s Godfrey Bloom why there were no black faces on his party’s conference brochure, he wasn’t bargaining on Mr Bloom’s response.

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/09/20/watch-ukips-godfrey-bloom-hits-michael-crick-in-the-face/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+liberalconspiracy+%28Liberal+Conspiracy%29

UKIP once again shows it's the British Tea Party. 'PM' on Radio 4 introduced this as "Godfrey Bloom calls a room of women 'full of sluts'. We look at UKIP's attempts to attract voters".

[non sociopath skin]

1. Looks like Farmer Nigel just bolted the stable door!

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/20/nigel-farage-godfrey-bloom-sluts-ukip

What larks, Pip, old chap!

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[Ken Burch]

2. Illustrating, yet again, that UKIP's campaign song should be

&quot Tonight we're gonna party like it's)1899"(mild apologies to Prince).

Should we really assume that Nigel Farage didn't know how this boyo rolled before today?

[T_i_B]

3. None of this is out of character for Godfrey Bloom

To be honest he was always an accident waiting to happen for UKIP, given that he's very openly, blatantly misogynistic.

[Ken Burch]

5. What, exactly, did UKIP like about the guy?

[LeftishBrit]

6. That he's a right-wing stick-in-the-mud bigot. But then he took it too far, or too obviously, even

for them.

[non sociopath skin]

4. ... and now he's taken his ball home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24222992

.... though he will continue to trouser his salary and expenses, despite having been elected as part of a party list and not as an "independent" individual.

What a shower they are!



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