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British politician

Godfrey William Bloom TD (born 22 November 1949) is a former British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014. He 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. He then sat as an Independent until the end of his term of office in May 2014. Bloom resigned his UKIP party membership on 13 October 2014. During his tenure, he received attention for making remarks considered objectionable by his party leader, for his opinions concerning climate change and for making other controversial comments. On 20 September 2013, UKIP withdrew the party whip from Bloom after he hit journalist Michael Crick in the street with a conference brochure, threatened a second reporter, and at the party's conference jokingly referred to his female audience as sluts. 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. Bloom was removed as Honorary President of the Ludwig von Mises Centre in December 2017, the organisation citing his comments on Twitter.

Bloom was born on 22 November 1949, the son of Alan Bloom and his wife, Phyllis. His father served as a fighter pilot during the Second World War. attending the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst for the two week course for territorials. In 1992 he was promoted to the rank of major. He left the TA in 1996.

Bloom worked as a financial economist. In 1996 he was part of Francis Maude's regulatory consultancy panel from which he later resigned. In his last position, he worked as the director of the investment company TBO in which he is a major shareholder.

Bloom contested the Conservative held seat of Haltemprice and Howden at the 1997 general election, coming fifth. In 2004, Bloom's election to the Yorkshire and the Humber seat was UKIP's first seat in the region in the European elections. Subsequently, he got into a confrontation with journalist Michael Crick in the streets, hitting him over the head with the conference brochure, and allegedly threatened ITV reporter Paul Brand, by saying, "You treat me badly, you'll get a lot worse than that (Crick's slap) that is a threat to any journalist." In December 2013, as a result of his various controversies, Bloom was awarded the Plain English Campaign's Foot in Mouth Award. A spokesman said that Bloom was "an overwhelming choice" who "could easily have won this award on at least two other occasions [he's] a wince inducing gaffe machine and we could fill a page or two with his ill advised quotes from 2013 alone".

Bloom was ejected from the Mansion House in 2009 for heckling Lord Turner for giving staff bonuses after the massive regulatory failure of 2008/09. According to The Daily Telegraph he was the first man to be ejected since John Wilkes in the late 18th century. In a letter to UKIP, Turner wrote that "Mr Bloom will not be receiving any further invitations to Mansion House events nor will be welcome at the Brussels Annual reception [ ] As to future Mansion House events we will be seeking a different MEP from UKIP as a potential guest." Bloom signed the petition in disgust at the knighthood for the failures of Hector Sants. Bloom was a co author of Wolfson Prize Economics Submission with Pat Barron and Philipp Bagus. He warned that credit agencies would be "castrated" by too much regulation of the EU. Bloom claims that most MEPs have "little or no business experience" and do not understand the consequences of their actions. 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 programme that his comments were "said for fun" to illustrate a more serious point, that equal rights legislation was, he claimed, putting women out of work. After inviting students from the University of Cambridge Women's Rugby Club to Brussels in 2004, he was accused of sexual assault, making "sexist and misogynistic remarks" and using offensive language during a dinner party. One student handed 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, admitted making misogynist comments, but denied sexual harassment. In a piece for politics. co. uk in August 2013, Bloom attempted to set the record straight about his earlier comments on gender equality.

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".

At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bloom was filmed in front of the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior II, saying, "Here we have one of the most truly fascist boats since 1945, well done the French for sinking one of these things." He was referring to the 1985 bombing of the ship's predecessor by French government agents in which Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira was killed. After criticism, the video was removed from Bloom's YouTube channel and he said he had forgotten about the death.