26 December 2008

Godfrey, riding Mr Cracker, with the Middleton Foxhounds at their Boxing Day Meet in Malton Market Place

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16 December 2008

Climate Change Kills

 

Europe's climate change package will lead to thousands of pensioners dying in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region.

 

"The EU's climate change package agreed today is not merely wrong but is in a way murderous", said Godfrey Bloom UKIP Euro MP for Yorkshire and North Lancashire.

 

"According to the Office for National Statistics in Yorkshire ad the Humber Region, 2100  pensioners died over and above the statistical norm - what they call 'Excess Winter Mortality", he said "Of course what they mean is people's parents and grandparents".

 

Gordon Lishman, Director General of Age Concern has already pointed out that,“It is a national scandal that we have a higher number of excess winter deaths than every other country in Europe. With this winter set to be colder than last‚ the numbers are likely to rise". He also makes clear that, "the impact of increased energy bills is causing thousands to risk their health by cutting back on heating".

 

"With the winter predicted to be colder and significant hikes in fuels bills already in place, the thought that the European Union wants to add enormous increases to carbon taxes, via its 'Cap and Trade' system, is not merely misguided but nigh on murderous" said Godfrey bloom

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Because of blind acceptance of the climate change agenda by the EU our energy generating capacity is collapsing. According to the CapGemini Report, The European Energy Markets Observatory, published in November,"Starting from 2013, 100% of the Emission Rights will be auctioned to the power sector which currently gets most of them free of charge. This change will result in tens of billions of Euros in extra cost for the Utilities which will certainly be passed onto the electricity prices".

 

"Can we start to worry about our grandparents instead of our great great great grandchildren yet unborn ? ", Ask Godfrey Bloom.

 

Notes

Office of National Statistics data

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=7089

 

Age Concern Comments

http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/worry-warm-winter-271108.asp

 

The European Energy Market's Observatory

http://www.capgemini.com/resources/thought_leadership/european_energy_markets_observatory_2008/?d=1

 

15 December 2008

Godfrey Bloom called in to Parkin’s Butcher at Howden late night Christmas Fair to order the Christmas ham.

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“If we don’t support our local butchers, they will go the same way as our fishmongers, driven out by regulatory nonsense from Brussels and Whitehall.”

 

 

11 December 2008

Is this the end of the Royal Navy asks Bloom?

In the light of Operation Atalanta, the EU naval mission to the Horn of Africa designed to fight piracy, Godfrey Bloom MEP has called for clarity about the chain of command.

 

Mr Bloom says, "As with the real projection of naval force this week off the African coast no one, including very senior naval and military officers seem to know where the chair of command extends beyond Northwood, formerly NATO regional command centre and now the HQ of the
EU operations".

 

He continued "So where does the buck stop? Under whose ultimate control is the naval task force? It is not under the NATO structure, nor presumably the Ministry of Defence and subsequently the cabinet and parliament?

 

This time it is just piracy. However what if there is an escalation in Iranian waters. Or other potentially hostile state power.

 

I think we should be told. To that end I have asked a series of question of the Council of Ministers for clarification".

 

Godfrey Bloom, is a graduate of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, Military historian, an ex soldier returned recently of Arkitiri, Cyprus where a major logistics exercise was being carried out and questioned a range of senior British military figures about their new, EU chain of
command.

 

 

See Godfrey Bloom's Parliamentary Questions
Operation Atalanta

Palestinian Authority

 

 

4 December 2008
Yorkshire MEP applauds DNA judgement but urges caution

Today's decision by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has been applauded by Godfrey Bloom the UKIP Euro MP for Yorkshire.

 

The case centred on two Sheffield residents who had claimed that the Government holding their DNA on a criminal database despite neither having been convicted contravened their human rights. The Court has upheld their argument.

 

Godfrey Bloom said, "This puts the Government in a quandary. They can of course ignore the judgement - but t hat would be unusual to say the least. They can scrub the million DNA profiles held on non convicted British citizens - but that would go against their regular claims that the database is a good thing. Or and no doubt this is their preferred option they could demand that every single one of us be put on a national DNA database and therefore making everybody equally under suspicion"

 

He went on, "I think we can guess which would be this interfering dictatorial government would prefer, and that is that we all hand over a blood sample for them, to play with. This must not be allowed top happen. What they must do, and soon is to scrub the million samples from their database.

 

What they do not seem to realise is that they do not own us. They are our servants and they do not have to right to keep tabs on us at all times".

 

This comes at a time when they are demanding that British citizens have to justify their existence to any police officer or functionary of the state and they are filling the streets with surveillance. We are freeborn English men and women, and they must never forget that", he continued.

 

Notes

ECJ Judgement can be found here

 

3 December 2008
Yorkshire MEP attacks 'ID cards through the back door

News that people in Yorkshire could be stopped and asked for proof of their identity was met with outrage today.

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire Godfrey Bloom said the whole thing smacked of war time security.

"The government have insisted that it will only be for immigrants, but this is clearly ID cards in through the back door."  said Mr Bloom.

"For how can someone prove they're not foreign without producing some kind of ID?

"It's the Europeanisation of British society where people are forced to carry documents to prove they have a right to be somewhere.

The whole thing fits in perfectly with the Lisbon Treaty and the creation of a single area of 'Freedom, Justice and Security'."

 

2 December 2008 Beer Festival

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In a show of solidarity with independent Yorkshire Brewers, Godfrey Bloom MEP met up with Tom and Gill Mellor of the Wold Top Brewery in Driffield and Andrew Whalley of the York Brewery at a beer festival for northern beers in Brussels this week. The festival had been organised by the British Beer Club of Brussels of which Mr Bloom is an enthusiastic member.

"Though I am told that the Belgian's are no slouches when it comes to brewing", said Mr Bloom,"it is a delight to welcome these entrepreneurs and to share some of their fine produce. It is especially important at a time of such economic difficulties for the beer and pub sector for politicians to actually listen to the concerns of the sector and to take into account their difficulties when formulating policy".

He went on, "I am of course delighted to do my bit to help their profits and the enjoyment and employment that it brings with it".