March 8, 2010 - CONTROVERSIAL FILM BAN

Al Gore's controversial global warming film would be banned in schools by the UK Independence Party.

Godfrey Bloom, MEP, said today that the film, 'The Inconvenient Truth' is actually "a convenient lie".

"UKIP would ban it and public authorities would not be allowed to spend money on climate change initiatives."

"It is wrong that Impressionable youngsters should be shown this blatant piece of propaganda as if it were the incontrovertible truth when in fact it contains errors and mis-information," said Mr Bloom.

"'The Inconvenient Truth' is in fact a convenient lie used by propagandists," he said.

The party's plans also include launching a Royal Commission led by a High Court judge to investigate whether global warming is man-made.

"Pending the results of the commission, we would build new fossil-fuelled power stations to meet energy demands and scrap subsidies for wind farms. 

"Our party has always been sceptical about claims of man made global warming and interestingly a recent poll found the just one in five people believe climate change is man-made, compared to one in three a year ago," said Mr Bloom, Euro MP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

"UKIP is the only party offering voters an opportunity to vote against the climate change consensus.

"All the major parties have decided to sign up to the eco-fascist agenda and therefore anyone who does not believe in that agenda has nowhere else to go," he said.

"The use of computer models by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an unreliable research method in determining global temperature records," he added.

"UKIP’s policy would be to cease funding for the IPCC, pull out of the EU’s Carbon Trading Scheme and establish a Royal Commission that would allow scientists on both sides of the debate to research climate change. 

"This would enable politicians to act sensibly in response to the science rather than spending billions on ineffective carbon emission measures, when the science is far from settled”, said Mr Bloom.

 

March 1, 2010 - PRISONERS VOTES

The proposal that prisoners should have the right to vote has been described as "an outrage."

UKIP Euro MP Godfrey Bloom has announced that he is totally against the move to allow prisoners to vote in elections.

Following a European Court of Human Rights case the current blanket deprivation of the right to vote in UK elections has been declared unlawful.

"Why should they have the right to vote? They have broken the rules of a civilised society and obviously have no respect for the human rights of others, said Mr Bloom, Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire MEP.

"This is more politically correct nonsense. It sends out a message to criminals that society has gone soft. I do not believe it is right and nor do most right thinking members of society."

"But I fear in due course some prisoners will be able to vote because we remain bound by our Treaty obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, effectively to implement the judgement and because the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates the convention into UK law. 

"The only way of preventing prisoners from voting, therefore, is for the UK to resile from the Convention, repeal the Act. We have a perfectly good Bill of Rights which has not been revoked. 

"If we need a new one, let us start the debate," said Mr Bloom.

 

 

February 23, 2010 - LATEST EURO EQUALITY LEGISLATION IS ‘STUPID AND WRONG’ SAYS BLOOM

Plans to make it compulsory to give 18 weeks of maternity pay on 100% of wages was today described as "the economics of the madhouse" by Euro MP Godfrey Bloom.

"At this time of economic crisis this proposed legislation is stupid and wrong. I said this years ago and I repeat it now. No small businessman or woman with two brain cells will employ a woman of child bearing age".

 

The Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee of the European Parliament will be voting tonight on the issue.

 

"It is stupid because rather than increasing employment possibilities for young women, it make them scarcer as hard pressed businesses factor in the risk of losing staff - whilst paying them for months on end," said Mr Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

"And it is wrong because it is the small businesses that create wealth and innovation. Doing this strips them of the ability to invest effectively in staff.

 

"It is sadly typical of a legislature made up of public sector employees, lecturers and charity workers - no concept of life in the real world, yet they have the temerity to dictate to those whose hard work pays their wages", said Mr Bloom.

 

 

February 22, 2010

PRESS RELEASE - NOT BLOWING IN THE WIND

Euro MP Godfrey Bloom has slammed wind farms following newly released figures showing the turbines inefficiency.

"Energy generated by onshore wind farms during the January cold spell averaged just 1%.

"Ruining our beautiful countryside with monstrous, useless wind turbines is an outrageous waste of money and effort and these figures amply demonstrate that point," said Mr Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

"Vast amounts of money are made by those involved in the wind farm industry and their agenda is to convince people that it is the way forward for our energy needs.

"It is a con and this has been highlighted by UKIP peer, Lord Willoughby de Broke. 

"He asked the government about the energy consultancy Utilyx'  estimate that wind energy produced 0.2% of the UK's energy requirement during the January cold spell.

"In response Lord Hunt, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, revealed that during the first two weeks of the year "operationally metered wind" contributed between 0.2% and 2.2% of the total operationally metered generation, averaging around 1%.

"He went on to say that only half the onshore wind farms and none of the offshore wind farms are operationally monitored so in fact the figures could actually be less," said Mr Bloom.

"Winters have been getting colder in this country and clearly wind farms are not the answer. 

"These figures show that wind power is at its most unreliable when the need for power is at its peak. When the wind does not blow on cold, still days the turbine blades do not turn.

"There must be an urgent re-think on meeting our energy needs and meanwhile I will continue to vociferously oppose planning applications for wind farms, both onshore and off shore," said Mr Bloom.

 

January 29, 2010 - DISBAND IPCC DEMAND

A Euro MP is pressing for the abolition of the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change.

"The IPCC was never a scientific body.  It was always a political lobby group to ‘prove’ made global warming.  It is their sole remit.

"No point in being surprised therefore when it cuts a few corners.  Recent data showed the globe has stopped warming for nearly a decade.  Well, they shredded it before the Freedom of Information Act could blow them up.  This story actually is nearly two years old, just a story never told,"  said Godfrey Bloom. 

"There still seems to be some significant confusion from columnists and correspondence on climate change science.  It matters not if you believe the globe is warming or cooling, or indeed the moon is made of green cheese. 

"We need to understand who does what to whom and why.  Climate science has been politicised whether we like it or not.  After all what red blooded politician is going to miss an opportunity to increase his control over the electorate and grab the opportunity to hike taxes at every opportunity.  Scare stories are the best catalyst for this behaviour. 

"Similarly individuals and big business love a band wagon, climate science has provided an opportunity to revive failing political idealism and make money at the same time.  Completely irresistible in the modern secular centralist post democratic era in which we now live in Europe and North America," said Mr Bloom.

"The Al Gores, Rajendra Pachauris and Lord Sterns of this world are making a fast buck out of the runaway gullibility of politicians, the great and the good and the usual sloppy journalism of the post democratic era.  Nothing new, the snake oil salesman is always with us. 

"So what to do?  Disband the IPCC.  No one will ever take it seriously again, even if it cleans up its act," said Mr Bloom, UK Independence Party MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire..  

"Remove the remuneration system for climate researchers from government patronage.  Accept that the debate is not over, it has never really started.  Stamp on the brake of economic global mayhem until we actually know something about climate change and its potential impact. 

"Stop the stream of government sponsored scare stories from Y2K, T Bone Steaks, Avian flu, Swine flu and global warming to fairies at the bottom of the garden.  One day there might be a genuine scare and no one will bother to take notice," said Mr Bloom.

 

January 18, 2010 - BURKA BAN PROPOSAL

UKIP Euro-MP Godfrey Bloom has called for the burka to be banned when there are security issues involved.

His remarks follow comments by the party’s former leader, Nigel Farage, MEP, expressing concern that muslim veils are a sign of a divided Britain.

“UKIP is extremely concerned about this and because of security concerns we believe burkas should be banned in public places such as banks and in schools.

“If a head teacher does not want them to be worn in his school they should not be allowed there but there is no objection for them being worn to and from the premises.

“This is a cultural issue, not a religious matter, it is not part of the Koran,” said Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

“As a libertarian party we do not believe in banning things, such as fox  hunting or smoking or banning people walking down the street in a burka.

“But where security or crime is an issue then they should be banned in the same way that crash helmets are banned,” he added

January 15, 2010
I have spent time in Brussels this week, along with my UKIP colleagues, questioning the Commissioner-designates as they enter their 5 year parliamentary term.  I questioned both Olli Rehn and Msr Barnier with with regards to Financial Service Regulation.  To see my questions please go to www.ukipmeps.org

 

January 2010 - Captain Michael Briggs and Godfrey Bloom, old chums from 150 Northumbrian days share a drink at young Briggsy’s wedding

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January 6, 2010 - COLD COMFORT

A Euro MP has expressed sympathy for Iceland's plight following the collapse of their banking system.

The country's president has refused to sign off a £2.3 billion deal to repay British savers and a referendum is now to be held on the issue.

"I feel some sympathy for the citizens of Iceland," said Godfrey Bloom, UK Independence Party MEP, today.

"They are being asked to pick up the tab for failed bankers, regulators and greedy investors who thought higher interest rates did not involve greater risk.

"I wish we had had a referendum on the bail out of our equally stupid bankers, regulators and politicians, all of whom seem to be carrying on as normal.

"I would have voted no and I hope they do," said Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

ends

 

 

December 31, 2009

 

December 15, 2009

I have just returned from Copenhagen, I felt I simply had to find out what it was all about.  As I suspected it was more about tee shirts than science.  Thousands of people enjoying the friendly welcome of the city, but objective scientific appraisal there was none.

I mingled with youngsters from over the world.  None of them could even begin to discuss the subject with any authority.

Then the politicians arrived, more jamboree, more posturing, more promises of tax payers’ money for dodgy third world countries whose leaders covet more Rolexes, Mercedes and Rayban sunglasses.

All this based on CO2 being a ‘pollutant’ which it is not, the globe boiling in 2050, which it won’t, that independent scientific opinion believe the ‘debate is over’ which it clearly is not.

One theme displayed strongly, money is the driving force.  You would not believe how much of it is slushing about, most of it earmarked for those who already have plenty.

Godfrey Bloom
Member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament

 

December 8, 2009 - Wonderful Copenhagen? 

 

An MEP has accused scientists of "selling their souls to the devil" in support of the man-made global warming theory.

 

"It is a shame that the scientists who used to be respected and admired by the rest of us have sold their souls to the devil," said Godfrey Bloom, today. (Tue)

 

"Sadly we have learnt that many will fake their facts to fit the bureaucratic theory of man-induced global warming, ie hockey stick, disclosure of e-mails and documents from the Climate Research Unit, because it helps secure more funding for research.

 

“Simultaneously the scientists who dare question the alarmist warming theory are treated as pariahs.

 

"There is no such thing as settled science. Science can never be settled by definition otherwise we would still be living in the dark ages!"

 

"The inconvenient truth is that it is an opportunity for politicians to put their hands in our pocket; it is a way of taming developing countries' economic growth, a new form of colonialism", said Mr Bloom, UKIP Euro MP, who sits on the EU Environment Committee.

 

“To achieve this, the activists and other non-scientific bodies helped by the media are using emotional blackmail on us.”

 

The President of the Maldives has said that if the climate changes summit in Copenhagen fails all its inhabitants were going to die, and yesterday the world was witness to a weeping Fijian teenager tugging at our heartstrings while the railway engineer who heads up the IPCC took credibility beyond the limits when he threatened a sea level rise of 23ft!.

 

But Mr Bloom quoted Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, A former lead reviewer for the IPCC and former  head of Geodynamics at Stockholm University, who said "sea-level in the Maldives was 50 cm higher in the 17th century. The money is likely to flow in more quickly than the ocean will rise.'

 

"The only thing that this summit will bring with 20 000 delegates from all around the word flying to Copenhagen, some in private jet, is more CO2, but that's ok isn't it because it is to save the planet," said Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

 

Mr Bloom will be in Copenhagen on Thursday the 10th to meet scientists and to lobby the global-warming activists.

 

7 December 2009 - BY-ELECTION HOPEFUL

 

Taxi firm boss James Norie is standing in the Goole North by-election for the UK Independence Party.

 

Mr Norie has previously stood as an Independent candidate but has now decided that the policies of UKIP reflect his own views and aspirations for local people.

 

"I have lived in Goole for many years and sadly watched this town deteriorate," said 47-year-old Mr Norie. "I believe that UKIP's policies of local people being involved in local issues is the right way forward.

 

"I came to this country from Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, where my English parents worked hard for many years to help and improve the native infrastructure under the Commonwealth.

 

"After doing my National Service in the 3rd Battalion of the Rhodesian African Rifles I went into farming and wildlife conservation, especially protecting the endangered species of black and white rhinoceri.

 

"But we had to flee our native country and leave everything we owned behind, due to the oppressive and dictatorial regime of President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party.

 

"My wife and I settled in the United Kingdom, built up our local taxi business and we now have three children.

 

"I feel strongly about my local community and want give something back to the home country of my parents, which welcomed me with open arms and gave us a new opportunity," said Mr Norie.

 

"I have always been prepared to work hard and I would do so for the people of Goole North," he added.

 

3 December 2009 - Why Sir Paul McCartney’s Anti-Meat Campaign is Misguided

By Stuart Agnew MEP

UK Independence Party – Eastern Counties

Today, in Brussels, Sir Paul McCartney is launching his anti-meat campaign in the misguided view that this is somehow going to save the planet. His contention is that methane emissions from ruminants will contribute to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, preventing heat from escaping and leading to Armageddon.

Technically methane is a greenhouse gas that occupies just 0.000002% of our atmosphere. Compare this with water vapour, the major greenhouse gas which is very variable, but might average out at 16% and we can put things in perspective. (Incidentally carbon dioxide, an essential plant food, but vilified as an undesirable pollutant only represents 0.038% of our atmosphere)

Ruminant animals themselves are only minor players in the production of methane. The major contributor to methane across the globe is termite activity, (with rice farming chipping in a share!).

Ruminants are part of the natural world order and it is conceivable that 150 years ago there were more wildebeest, buffalo and deer etc roaming the great plains of Africa and America than there are ruminants in the world today. Nature is a balance and it would seem quite out of character for one of the world’s natural inhabitants to contain the seeds of destruction of the planet.

Ineffective tinkering

Tinkering with the numbers of domestic ruminants therefore will not make a measurable difference to methane output, but it will have other effects. If meat consumption is reduced it will need to be replaced by other food which will need land on which to be cultivated. Converting grassland to arable land is in many cases impossible and in most cases will damage the environment, the very same environment that Sir Paul is so desperate to defend.  The final irony of his desire for us to stop eating meat is that vegetarians are known to be prone to flatulence, and think what that is going to do to gas emissions!

However, there is a more serious side to his activities in Brussels and it will work as follows. In my few months as an MEP I have been taken aback by the influence of the green lobby in Brussels, which seems far stronger than it is here in the UK. Sir Paul will be taken seriously by a number of individuals, some of whom will be part of C.O.R.E.P.R.A (the maze of 3000 committees that push ideas for new laws up to the European Commission) and they will put pressure on the Commission to legislate in the area of ruminant methane emission reduction.  The Commission, always wanting to be seen to be green, will respond by proposing such legislation and it will in time end up in front of the European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, of which I am a member.

Most of the MEPs on the Committee are completely on message with the whole man made global warming religion and will be in an immediate dilemma as to what to do about this. On the one hand they want to support farmers, but on the other they have to be seen to be green. The result will be a compromise and a member of the committee will become the “rappoteur” to shepherd a new bill through Parliament.  He/she will be financially rewarded for doing this and although there will be some political bickering over amendments, a law will ultimately descend on the British livestock producer who will find himself struggling to record the farting output of his animals, but may also face “cross compliance” penalties if he doesn’t do it properly.

Complete scam

I have never been part of the man made global warming religion, which I view as a complete scam and am delighted to see the increase in the numbers of objective scientists who are prepared to pull it to shreds. This view was strongly reinforced with the news recently that the Climate Change Unit at the University of East Anglia have been trying to cover up evidence of global cooling in recent years.

I will therefore have no inhibitions in voting against all proposals to reduce methane emissions from livestock, and will try to get a few other MEPs on my side.

 

Ends

Further information about Mr Agnew and his campaigns can be found at www.stuartagnewmep.co.uk

 

December 3, 2009 - MEATY FEAST

  

Euro MP Godfrey Bloom attended a barbecue in Brussels yesterday (Thur) organized to coinicide with a visit to the European Parliament by music legend Paul McCartney.

 

The barbecue was arranged by the UK Independence Party to protest about the vegetarian singer's campaign to stop people eating meat to save Mankind.

 

McCartney flew to Brussels as he wants to get EU policy-makers to harass people into changing their lifestyles to "save the planet".

 

"These vege-evangalists think it is EU businesses what we should eat. That is nonsense,” said Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

 

"It's not only farmers who will be out of a job if McCartney gets his way – the bureaucrats at the super-nanny super-state would make their own mothers redundant. Stand-by for EU directives on nose-picking, bottom-scratching, and not putting things in ears,"

 

Before the barbecue Mr Bloom attended a meeting of the EU Environment Committee, of which he is a member, along with the party’s North West MEP, Paul Nuttall.

 

Mr Nuttall told the committee, “The whole thing is a con. The EU is using climate change to justify its own existence.

“People like me who are climate change sceptics have been described as climate change deniers – but that is not true.”

 

1 Decmeber 2009 - Climate Luncheon/Conference
Royal Over-Seas League

On behalf of the EFD Group I arranged a Climate Conference held at the Royal Over-Seas League on Tuesday 1 December and invited a large number of journalists, opinion formers, scientists and members of the industrial sector.

We were privileged to have Lord Monckton of Brenchely to Chair the meeting and Professor Ian Plimer, Emeritus Professor of the University of Melbourne who gave an informative presentation to the guests.  This was followed by a Question and Answer session and discussions and debate continued over lunch.

Professor Plimer’s presentation was filmed and you can view this at:

http://www.ukip.org/content/features/1352-ukip-video-on-demand