15 July 2010

Dear Sir,
 
George Osborne wins in Brussels does he? (Backing for EU finance watchdog in London) All he has done is secure one of the three new EU financial regulatory authorities for London.

He must be fooling himself if he thinks that these regulators will not regulate, which is exactly what they are designed to do.

Either that or he thinks he is fooling us. How many times have we been told that the EU isn't going to do this or that, only to find out further down the line that that is precisely what they are going to do? Read the documents, they are all there on the EU's websites.

Welcoming this EU office into the city is a foolish as letting in a big wooden horse into Bootham bar. The Trojans found this out to their cost.

Yours sincerely,
 
Godfrey Bloom MEP, UKIP
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee
European Parliament

 

July 12, 2010

To the editor

Open letter  to the Treasury.

 

Dear Sir

The government have owed me a £3,000 tax rebate since April. Can I assume they will pay me interest? Or is it one way traffic? 

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

8 July 2010

Dear Sir 

Let's set the record straight. Forget bankers bonuses and all the emotive clap trap from politicians on the band wagon. UKIP voted against what is an EU regulated incomes policy.

Unpopular bankers today, who will it be tomorrow?

Yours

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

Member of the Environment Committee in the European Parliament (substitute)

 

15 June 2010

Dear Sir,

Advanced party Lib/Con coalition, EU Parliamentary Vice President Edward Macmillan – Scott presided over an interesting parliamentary vote this morning. 

A new Vice President was being elected Mr Laslow Tokes. After half an hour of chaos and confusion Mr Tokes was duly elected.

Interestingly total votes cast were 40 more than actual numbers of members in the Chamber. These are the same people with the same system who voted half an hour later on derivatives legislation.

I did not know whether to laugh or cry.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire 

 

 

14 June 2010

Dear Editor,

My heart swells with pride to see the England fervour evident all around us. 

I know many people are truly proud to be English but sadly most only seem to show it when there is an international sporting event taking place.

I pray this English pride continues long after the World Cup - however well we do or don't - and people stand up for our country and what is best for it at every opportunity, including the ballot box.

Yours faithfully 

Godfrey Bloom 

 

8th June 2010

 

Dear Sir 

 

Interesting is it not, that former Bundesbank President Helmut Schlesinger is quoted as saying we must not contemplate the end of the Euro.

 

I wonder in what other profession, other than in central banking, it is considered responsible to not consider the most likely outcome of one’s own stupidity.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Godfrey Bloom 
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire 
(EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee member)

 

29 May 2010 - published in most local newspapers

 

Dear Sir

All right minded people must be horrified at destruction and murder perpetrated by the Islamo-Fascists against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan. I have frequently written to the Pakistan Embassy trying to persuade their government to meet the requirements of their own constitution. The persecution of this gentle peace loving Muslim sect is an international disgrace; other Muslim countries also need to stand up against the dark forces of violent religious persecution.

Time for our new foreign secretary William Hague to earn his inflated ministerial salary perhaps?

 

Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom

 

To Bradford Telegraph and Argus - June 2

 

Dear Sir

Your correspondent S. Pickup could not be more wrong when he says that UKIP MEPs are irrelevant within the EU. (EU hypocrisy, May 26)

We need to be in the European Parliament so that we have our research team  who delve into the thousands of regulations and directives churned out each year.

Time and time again it is UKIP researchers who reveal the stories about crazy, and often totalitarian, EU plans which otherwise would crawl under the media radar.

The public then get the chance to voice their views to their MPs and MEP's, albeit usually fruitlessly. 

S. Pickup is, however, right to say that the UK Independence Party needs to get elected to Westminster to pursue withdrawal from the EU tentacles. 

That is exactly why those who care for the future of our country should vote UKIP at every opportunity.

Yours

 

Godfrey Bloom 

 

2nd June 2010

 

Dear Sir

Your letter from the faintly ridiculous Andy Tyrrell accused UKIP as being racist, political thugs.  At the recent election we fielded a fairly eclectic mix of candidates, West Indian, Pakistani, Sikh to name but a few.  Our leader of the MEPs is married to a German, me to a Polish lady and our London MEP to a Filipino.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

To: 'letters@examiner.co.uk'

Dear Sir

In response to Mr Weavill’s letter about campaigning he manages to magnificently miss the point.  UKIP who came second only to the Conservatives in June were deliberately kept off television by the establishment.  No TV, no votes.  Not difficult Mr Weavill.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

 

To Yorkshire Post - 

May 14, 2020

Dear Sir,

In response to Hilary Andrews “UKIP are the Tories’ natural allies” Ye gods!  How many more times?  We hate the Tories, our votes are highest in Labour seats, by miles.  Do some homework Hilary.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

Dear Sir 

The coldest May night since 19996, my runner beans and begonias murdered by frost, six weeks of hunting lost to me through snow in the winter, last year not much different.  

Precisely when is this climate change going to happen?  And could we have our £17 billion of green taxes given back to us by the swindlers who are perpetrating this scam?

Yours

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

 

To: yp.editor@ypn.co.uk
Sent: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:41
Subject: From Godfrey Bloom

Dear Sir

May I correct your misleading headline “All parties support wind turbine hub” etc.
UKIP do not support the manufacture, subsidy or installation of these ridiculous, monstrous, white elephants.  Real jobs yes, wind turbines no.

Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

April 23

Dear Sir,

The three party leaders given the debate platform seem to misunderstand the fundamental laws of economics.  Particularly the Prime Minister (and erstwhile Chancellor) which is why we are in the mess we are.  Let me guide them here and the lay public with no economic training.

The public debt is growing by nearly half a billion pounds per day.  (Institute of Fiscal Studies based on the government's own statistics).  In four years time every family in the land will be paying £60 per week just to service the debt.  The situation is deadly serious.

Now the prime minister, and those wishing to become prime minister need to understand the continuance of massive public sector spending makes the situation much worse.  

The overspend is how we got into the mess to start with.  Public spending does not 'put money into the economy'.  It takes it out.  There are two kinds of people, those that create wealth and those who spend it.  No matter how worthy some aspects of public spending are it is a drain on the wealth creators now, or a debt on our children in the future.  

Keep the doctors and nurses, but get rid of the Quangos and fat cat public sector pen pushers.  We could save £50 billion in the next eighteen months without sacking a single real worker in the public sector.  These are the sort of numbers we need.  Cameron's £6 billion is but 12 days of curtailed growth. 

A special plea to public service interviewers and press correspondents.  I beg you on behalf of the nation to start asking content over style questions before it is too late.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

 

 

April 21

Dear Sir 

I was wondering when some publicity seeking scientist would link volcanic eruptions to global warming.  Step forward Prof Bill McGuire of the deliciously named UCL Hazard Research Centre.  Presumably a subtle bid for a grant if he is not already on one.

My lawn mower broke down the other day, my wife put it down to global warming, well, why not?

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 

 

 

April 15, 2010 - Keighley News

Dear Sir 

Nader Fekri is I see a typical Lib Dem. Never mind the research screech off today’s policy on the hoof.

UKIP are not xenophobic or ‘Little Englanders’, far from it. One glance at our website would have shown amongst our candidates for the elections are Pakistanis, Sikhs, West Indians, a Bulgarian and many other nationalities. Our EU Parliamentary leader married to a German, my wife is half Polish, our London MEP is married to a Filipino, and my assistant in Brussels is French. I could go on, but you get the picture.

 Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

April 15, 2010 - Sent to - Bradford Telegraph & Argus

Dear Sir 

Does Brian Holman (letters April 13) really think that the current drink driving limit is too high?

The alcohol fuelled accidents he speaks of are caused by those well over the limit and not by those who have had two pints.

But the difference between being able to have a couple of pints and just one will lead to more drivers deciding the journey is not worth the bother. 

Instead of a convivial evening in a pub they may well opt to stay in drinking too much cheap supermarket booze, harming both their physical and mental health. 

And at the same time the rural pub - already an endangered species - will slide further to oblivion.

 

Yours

Godfrey Bloom

April 15, 2010 - UKIP CAMPAIGN LAUNCH 

The political leaders who took part in last night’s televised debate have been described as “muppets” by Euro MP Godfrey Bloom.

Speaking at the launch of UKIP’s Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire election campaign before the event Mr Bloom queried what the three party leaders would have to say.

“Three complete muppets debating nothing. They all say the same thing,” he told UKIP’s parliamentary candidates gathered at the Darrington Hotel in  Darrington, West Yorkshire.

He also pointed out that in four years time the national debt will be £1.5 trillion. “That means £60 a week for every family to pay just the interest on the debt.”

Among the many present was Brigg & Goole candidate, Nigel Wright, with his six-week-old son. “He already owes £20,000,” pointed out Mr Bloom.

“Gordon Brown should be taken out and shot,” he added.

Mr Bloom congratulated the candidates for their hard work and pointed out that the number locally was “phenomenal’

ends

 

 

24 March 2010
Proposed Wind Farm at Dearne Head

I am writing to express my personal objection and objection on behalf of my constituents to the proposed Wind Farm at Dearne Head, impacting on the Birdsedge and High Flatts district.
Read more here

 

 

April 6, 2010 - letter sent to National Press

Dear Sir 

At last expenses abuse is being taken seriously and politicians have been quite rightly brought to book.  

I am concerned though the Quangocracy suffer no such constraints. 

Can we have an assurance for example that the Financial Services Authority comply with their own rule book for example on hotel expenditure? Or is compliance just something for other people? 
For example do Lord Turner, Hector Sants and other FSA big wigs restrict themselves to £170 per night in Europe? 

Yours faithfully 
Godfrey Bloom

 

 

April 6, 2010

Dear Sir

I am increasingly concerned that the predominantly male judiciary have not yet grasped the nettle when it comes to an unequivocal stand against violence to women.  

We have seen a spurious marriage save a violent rapist from deportation, Justice Collins, and a derisory sentence for a thug who threw bleach over a young mother in Yorkshire, Justice Collier. 

 Not to mention state thuggery severely punishing a woman pet shop owner for selling a goldfish to a minor.

Sentencing policy and out of touch judges on the benches are in need of urgent review.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Member of the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee in the EP

 

 

March 6, 2010

 

Dear Sir

 

At last expenses abuse is being taken seriously and politicians have been quite rightly brought to book.

 

I am concerned though the Quangocracy suffer no such constraints. Can we have an assurance for example that the Financial Services Authority comply with their own rule book for example on hotel expenditure? Or is compliance just something for other people?

 

For example do Lord Turner, Hector Sants and other FSA big wigs restrict themselves to £170 per night in Europe?

 

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

March 30 - to the national press

Dear Sir 

Foreign MEPs, i.e. the vast majority, like the EU Commissioners, over half of whom are communists, think that hedge fund managers are worse than child molesters.  
I feel much the same way about the completely silent conservative MPs and MEPs on the betrayal of the City of London.  

Yours faithfully 
Godfrey Bloom 
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

 

30th March 2010

Dear Sir 

Often when I attend wind turbine protest meetings, some naive and gullible souls are afeared the debate may be “politicised”.  

The reason we are under threat of these awful monsters is because it is the political ideal of the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems to support the EU renewable directive i.e. wind power is wonderful (although we all know it doesn’t work).  

Never mind your nice MP or PPC sympathising with you, that is what their party stands for unless they are UKIP.  

David Cameron’s father -in-law makes millions a year from turbines on his estates in my euro constituency.  Take those heads out of the sand protest groups, please!

Yours faithfully 
Godfrey Bloom

 

30th March 2010

Sent to Yorkshire Post

Dear Sir 

I was delivering a lecture to a senior school economics faculty in West Yorkshire last week when I heard the same misunderstanding of economics as shown by Ralph Musgrave in Friday's letter.
If you add private funding initiatives and public sector pension liabilities, our national debt is significantly higher than anytime in our history.

Indeed if we were, as we should, be obliged to show our accounts according to international standards it would be plain for Mr Musgrave to see.

To simply print money in a factory will ensure our demise as surely as it ensured for the Weimar Republic.

Yours faithfully 
Godfrey Bloom

 

 

30th March 2010

Dear Sir 

Interesting to see the jumping for joy by Yorkshire Forward (EU Quango) and Carbon Trust UK (Quango) that Yorkshire might receive government largesse for the installation and manufacture of windmills at sea.

These work at 30% efficiency at best,  are subsidised for 20 years and produce energy at the equivalent of $260 a barrel of oil, which a conventional coal fired power station could produce at one seventh of the cost.

Also there is also the jubilation at the possibly of bio-fuels ensuring the upward trend in global food prices.

All this involves not real jobs at all because they will have to be paid for by people with really real jobs, what nonsense it all is!

It would be more economically viable to pay for people to play golf.

Yours faithfully 
Godfrey Bloom

 

29th March 2010

Sent to Daily Express

Dear Sir 

I have heard all this pro Tory rant from Frederick Forsyth before.
Point one - in the North of England UKIP take Labour seats first, in the June Euro elections in Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Rotherham and many others. There are no Tories up here at all.
In any event the Tories still want the country to be run by Brussels. So why waste a vote on them?

Yours faithfully 
Godfrey Bloom

 

 

18th March 2010
Sent to Barnsley Chronicle

Dear Sir 

I read with great interest your report on the ‘missing’ EU aid for Barnsley and its surrounding area.  Perhaps I could throw some light on the problem. The UK contributes £45 million to the EU every day (Treasury Pink Book Government Figures). A proportion of this is sent back for regional development and special aid (floods and so on). 

If the number of regions is entered into the budget equation ,Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire contribute about £700,000,000 per annum to the EU. 

Any returned money (which is only a relatively low fraction) comes to various government agencies, who of course take a substantial slice in salaries and pensions. Take a gander at Yorkshire Forward in Leeds. 

 

No surprise that most of it is wasted. That is what government does so well.  
A conservative estimate of net costs to the region of EU membership is about £300,000,000. 

Interestingly some of our subscriptions go to the European Investment Bank to subsidise new steel works in East Europe, Russia and India.  

Funny old world, ain’t it? 

Yours faithfully 
Godfrey Bloom

 

 

16th March 2010
Dear Sir

 

It afforded me much amusement to see the Yorkshire Post make news of Mr MacMillan-Scott’s defection to the Liberal Democrats. As if it made the slightest difference! All the ‘main’ party MEPs vote yes to everything stand up for the European anthem and salute the blue flag with the gold stars. 

 

What humbug. 

 

Yours faithfully

 

Godfrey Bloom

 

 

16th March 2010

Dear Editor,

 

I see scientists are having a good laugh at our expense again. Well, it made me smile anyway.

 

Having been firmly warned that more than a couple of eggs a week was extremely bad for us, if not downright lethal, now we are being told to eat as many of the little blighters as we fancy.

 

Turns out that they are not going to result in cholesterol induced heart attacks after all and are in fact an excellent protein-dense food full of marvellous dietary goodies.

 

I say 'in fact', but who knows, maybe next week they'll be banished back to the hen coop again. Meanwhile I shall carry on as I always have and enjoy eggs, free range of course, whenever I fancy and not when dictated to by the health police.

 

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

 

 

16th March 2010

Dear Sir

So the government wants to reduce the drink drive level to one pint. I can only assume they are terrified there might be one or two rural pubs still serving.

Yours

 

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire

 

10th March 2010

 

Sir, 

Well, who would have guessed it? Labour has come up with another hopeless plan that will penalise law abiding citizens and turn out to be a further stealth tax.

This time the cash cow is a dog, or rather every dog in the land. Proposals to make owners take out insurance and get them microchipped will involve additional costs, both for the owners and the government.

The suggestion of an annual dog 'MOT' with checks by officials to make sure it complies with the law is plainly totally unworkable. Which officials are these? And doubtless money would be raked in from a charge for this 'MOT' and the fines imposed for non-compliance.

Little old ladies with elderly dentally-challenged dogs will suffer as they struggle to pay for microchipping and insurance and the number of abandoned dogs will soar.

Meanwhile the irresponsible owners who own dangerous dogs as status symbols and a lethal weapon will continue to be a menace and ignore the regulations. These plans will be as useful as ID cards for preventing terrorist attacks.

Yours

Godfrey Bloom

 

 

9th March 2010

Support of Ahmidyya Muslims

To all my constituents in Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

I very much welcome the opportunity to give my support and good wishes to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community with whom I have experienced a very enjoyable and fruitful relationship since I was elected in 2004.  UKIP are fielding 500 candidates in the forthcoming elections, included in our candidates’ list are representatives from almost every major religious faith.  What do they have in common?  They are all proud to be British, proud of their families and faithful to their religions in peace and good fellowship.

The bus campaign by the Ahmidyya’s is a demonstration of commitment to these goals to which the vast majority of us in the United Kingdom subscribe.

With all good wishes.

Yours sincerely

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
http://www.loveforallhatredfornone.org/

 

4th March 2010

 

Dear Editor,

I am saddened that the Tetley brewery in Leeds is to close next year, albeit long forecast.

It is a great shame that almost 200 years of brewing on the site is to end, particularly when statistics apparently show real ale is performing better than other beer styles.

Yes, trading conditions are difficult but what angers me is that much of this results from endless rules and regulations spewing forth from both the EU and this Labour government.

It cannot be the same brew from Marston, water from the Wharfe will not brew the same beer as the Trent.  Magnificent though both be.  

Cask ales should be tax free, they are part of our heritage and do not contribute to binge drinking problems and would help save the traditional pub.  

Greg Mulholland, John Grogan and I cannot save the pub and brewing industry alone but my wife says I'm doing my bit.

 

Yours faithfully 

Godfrey Bloom

 

 

4th February 2010

Dear Editor,

I would like to point out to local people that they still have time to voice their objections to the proposed Spaldington wind farms.

This is something I would urge all sensible residents to do as a matter of urgency before it is too late and these dreadful and useless eyesores are foisted on us.

Formal objections are already in from a number of town and parish councils to both Spaldington Airfield and Spaldington Common wind farms and the more voices that are raised the better.

Wind farms are highly inefficient and I, for one, will do all in my power to continue exposing them for what they are -  the witchcraft of the modern age.

The closing date for objections was initially last month but this has now been extended. For details on how to register your objection go to the Stop Spaldington Wind Farms website - www.spaldingtonstop.org.uk

 Yours sincerely 

 

Godfrey Bloom 

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

3rd February 2010

To: dtletters@telegraph.co.uk

 

 

2nd February 2010

Dear Sir

 

I think everyone now knows they have been the subject of a confidence trick on climate change Al Gore, Prof Jones, Pachauri, the BBC, IPCC and now the New Zealand Climate database has all fiddled the figures.

 

I know a scam when I see one and I think ordinary Yorkshire folk do to.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

 

 

1st February 2010

Dear Sir, 

Reports that the brothers, who carried out the shocking torture attack on two boys at Edlington, are likely to claim their human rights have been violated would be laughable if it was not so serious.

But it does highlight the ridiculous situation this country finds itself with human rights legislation. 

How many more evil terrorists and murderers have to win their battle to stay here or successfully challenge court orders before the people of this country rise up and say 'enough is enough'?

In this particularly sad case the two brothers were apparently doomed from birth and never stood a chance but they carried out a dreadful attack and a senior British judge has handed down the penalty. 

Such decisions should not be tossed aside - in a move which by the way will cost us tens of thousands of pounds - by a court in Strasbourg.

Yours sincerely 

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

 

January 28th 2010 - Letter Sent to the Times

 

 

 

January 3, 2010

 

November 19, 2009

 

 

17.11.08
Sent to The Press (York Evening Press)
Sweet Charity

 

Perhaps Mr B Emmerson would care to take a look at Mr Bloom’s website (Don’t scoff at it, Letters, November 10).

There he will be able to see that Mr Bloom does in fact donate all his attendance allowances to local charities and good causes and a list of the charities and good causes that have benefitted. Should Mr Emmerson’s personal charity not yet have benefited, perhaps he would like to suggest it to Mr Bloom, who will no doubt add it to his list to be considered.

I hope that the five other MEPs who represent Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire will follow Mr Bloom’s example so that local charities can benefit further.

Emma Brader, PA to Godfrey Bloom MEP

Click here to read on The Press website

 

06.11.08

Sent to Yorkshire Evening Post

 

Dear Editor,

 

I am writing to you to voice my absolute and total disgust at the Management of the Tesco superstore at Seacroft Green and the disgraceful attitude they showed regarding the Poppy Appeal volunteers.

 

Until yesterday, the 5th Nov, the Poppy Appeal volunteers, who so diligently year after year, volunteer to sell poppies and thereby raise much needed cash for our fallen and injured heroes, were prevented from selling their poppy’s inside Tesco’s by Tesco’s management.

 

What a crass slap in the face, to all of those dedicated volunteers, who by the kindness of their hearts, year after year, give up their own time, go unpaid for their efforts, in all weather and raise money for in most cases, for people whom they have never meet.

 

Sir Terry Leahy CEO Tesco, should hang his head in shame for allowing such a management travesty, to be instigated by the management of one of his stores, especially when the Tesco Green superstore so not far away from being a 1 Million Pound a day turnover store.

 

Perhaps the Tesco Green management should consider making a personal substantial donation/contribution to either SSAFA, The British Legion or the Help 4 Heroes campaign offices.

 

I would like to add, I will be attending and receiving, for and on behalf of the Help 4 Heroes campaign, over £6,000 on Remembrance Sunday.   This £6,000 was raised by volunteers, for whom over 90%, are not Ex Service Personnel.   Everyone of these people that I will meet, are the real heroes.

 

Lest we forget

 

Adam Douglas

22.10.08
Sent to all local and national papers

 

Dear Sir

Perhaps you will permit me a few lines, as a professional financial economist to respond
to articles by professional politicians giving there views on the recent credit crunch. In
2004 after the ENRON crisis the EU endorsed a new mark to market rule. They are
known as Basel II in the financial services industry, it is embodied in two directives
2006/48 and 2006/49. I will not bore your readers with the details but broadly they insist
on a ‘daily solvency statement’ Read more