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Jan 12, 2012


Dear Editor,


I am appalled to learn that soldiers risking life and limb in Afghanistan are being brought home for short breaks, not for their welfare, but to ensure they are liable to pay income tax.

Apparently if they serve a continuous period of six months abroad they are then classed as a 'nom dom' and do not have to pay income tax on their meagre income.

I know we are living in difficult financial times but the revenue so generated is minute in the overall scheme of things for the government but means a lot to the individual soldiers.

However the other important issue is the emotional drain on them and their families when they have to say their farewells all over again as they return overseas after just a few days home.

This sharp practice is unfair on our troops serving in war zones and should be stopped immediately.

 

Yours sincerely


Godfrey Bloom MEP
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

Jan 10, 2012

 

Dear Editor,

 

Open letter to David Cameron

 

I watched your performance on Countryfile on Sunday night very carefully. You gave a nearly 'cast iron' guarantee that you would respect the English landscape.

Most of the programme was devoted to the beauty of the Yorkshire Wolds, narrated by our greatest living artist David Hockney. This is indeed a truly beautiful part of England.

There are proposals to cover the Wolds with massive wind turbines and this horrifies local people, including David Hockney. Every level of local government is opposed to it. Parish councils, district councils, Westminster MPs and myself, the Euro MP.

On countless occasions we have seen our wishes turned over by anonymous  planning officers in Whitehall. You claimed on Countryfile that your new Bill for Localism would protect us. Well, Prime Minister, I do not believe you. But prove me wrong, let the local people decide. We are watching, this is a test case. 

 

Yours sincerely

Godfrey Bloom MEP

 

Jan 3, 2012

 

Dear Sir, 

 

Does anyone else find the Archbishop of Canterbury as irritating as I do? 

 

His New Year message about “giving up on young people” following the Bishop of London’s absurd interaction with St Paul’s ‘camping club’ was quite offensive. 

I have spent a considerable amount of time and money over the years working with young people in the field of sport. Particularly rugby football, as do thousands of others across the country. We do though help children who are prepared to help themselves. 

What has the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London ever done? Where is their parish priest experience? What do they ever do except whinge and issue banalities from the comfort of their palaces?

What we need is some old fashioned leadership. Some muscular Christianity. Can I beg her Majesty next time around to insist on a new Archbishop with a track record of ‘hands on’ clerical work, rather than ‘hands wrung’. 

Yours faithfully,

 

Godfrey Bloom, 

 

 

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