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/

 

 

4 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

 

4 March 2010

 

Dear Editor,

Nigel Farage has foolishly alienated our junior bank clerk vote and driven damp rags into the arms of the Liberal Democrats, admittedly their natural home, with his derogatory remarks about President Van Rumpy Pumpy.  

Yours faithfully 

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire

 

22 February 2010

 

Dear Sir

 

Your one great newspaper now has an environment editor who thinks CO2 is a ‘pollutant’. Does The Times no longer insist on any form of formal education for their correspondents?

 

Yours faithfully

 

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

 

4 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

Dear Sir