Letters Sent

Dec 28

Dear Sir,

As we come to the end of 2010 and record the coldest winter on record - last year was not much better - snow storms ravage the east coast of America, there is snow in the Carolinas and even Alabama, we must draw a line under our energy policy and start again.

We know the world was warmer in the Minoan, Roman and Medieval periods.  We also know that carbon dioxide historically follows warm periods and that carbon dioxide is at a significant low on average over the last 300,000 million years. 

Even the corrupt IPCC has admitted there has been no global warming since 1995.  We have seen the scandal of falsified statistics at the University of East Anglia and in New Zealand (Kiwigate, largely unreported in Europe).  

We also know of the ‘mini ice-age’ in the early nineteenth century which gives all statistics limited to the last 150 years an unreliable slant.  We also know there is not a ‘scientific consensus’ on manmade global warming, the Manhattan Declaration and the group letter by German scientists to Angela Merkel. 

Public service broadcasting has relentlessly pursued their man made warming propaganda with the assistance of an uninformed press following blindly the main party line and big business interests.

For those of us with eyes to see we also know that for the last month those absurd windmills have not been turning.

We should now demand a freeze on current energy policy, all subsidies, and a detailed response from the coalition government on the recent efficiency of so-called sustainable energy.

We stand on the abyss of a major energy disaster, thousands of old people will die of hypothermia in the near future and industry will find energy too expensive to remain in the UK. 

Energy poverty is growing alarmingly.  We must return energy policy from the failed EU and put it in the hands of an independent commission in the UK before it is too late.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Environment Committee in the EU Parliament

Dec 17

Dear Sir

Last year I wrote bemoaning the fact I could not hunt and my local rugby club could not play because of the frozen earth and snow.  Where is so called global warming?  Bring it on.
Same again this year it would seem, incidentally the windmills seen from my bedroom window haven’t spun for about 3 weeks.
Please do not write to me and tell me climate has nothing to do with weather, tell my horses.

Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom

Dec 17

Dear Editor, 

It was with anger that I learnt today that an Iraqi Kurd asylum seeker, who left a girl dying under the wheels of his car, has been told he can stay in the UK.

I would say my reaction was one of disbelief, but Aso Mohammed Ibrahim played the Human Rights card, so of course it comes as no surprise that he is not being chucked out the country as he so rightly deserves.

For those who do not know, Ibrahim, who did not hold a driving licence, was jailed for four months for driving while banned and failing to stop after the accident. He had been due for deportation but after his release met a British woman and they now have two children.

He consequently claimed he had a right to a family life under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act and two immigration judges have now ruled in his favour.

But what about the rights of the rest of us and particularly Paul Houston, the heartbroken father of the 12-year-old victim Amy? Human rights only seem to apply to criminals and those who are a burden to this country.

Since human rights came in the window, responsibilities and moral obligations seem to have disappeared out the door. And we are all the poorer for that.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

Dec 16

Dear Editor,

The arrest of Wikileaks head, Julian Assange, has neatly highlighted the dangers of the European Arrest Warrant.

A legal point said to be argued by his barrister is that one of the allegations against Assange might not be an offence under English law. 

But he is actually missing the point. Under the EAW offences do not have to be applicable in this country, just the one seeking extradition.

English courts are powerless to prevent extradition under a EAW. 
Provided that the correct information has been filled in and the relevant boxes ticked the British legal system is obliged to hand over the accused person.

In this particular case the waters are muddied because apparently Sweden had not even laid charges and the EAW should only be used to prosecute or to enforce a sentence.

Last year alone, Europe's fast-track extradition system was used to extradite nearly 700 people from the UK. Fair Trials International believes this is causing many serious cases of injustice - I have no doubt they are correct.

Yours

Godfrey Bloom

Dec 15

Dear Editor,

Following media stories about Euro MPs increased pay and perks package I would like to point out that I, like some other UKIP MEPs, am not taking the wage rise.

Although obviously eligible for the increase in salary I have opted to remain with the same salary and pension arrangements as Westminster MEPs as a matter of principle.

Do not tar all of us with the same brush.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

Dec 14

Dear Editor,

And so it continues! The unbelievable waste of our money by unelected EU bureaucrats.

This time the European Commission has spent three million euros hosting an anti-poverty development conference for 6,000 people in Brussels.

A fashion show, a "Fight Poverty" awards ceremony and "Music against Poverty" photo contest were involved and all participants were invited to a cocktail party with unlimited champagne and expensively catered canapes at the close of the event.

I really cannot see how any of this tackles poverty. But I can see that it is a disgraceful waste of British taxpayers' hard earned cash.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

December 10

Dear Editor,

Chris Patten – now Lord Patten of Barnes – has applied for the job of Chairman of the BBC Trust a role which is, in part, to ensure impartiality in the BBC's editorial coverage.

As a former EU Commissioner Lord Patten's EU pension, amounting to around £100,000 per year is removable if he acts in a way which is detrimental to the interests of the European Union.

So no matter how honourable a man he may be, the suspicion must be that he cannot be entirely impartial on matters such as the European Union.

To have as the arbiter of impartiality one who owes a significant chunk of his income to the good will of the European Union would be plain wrong.

The job of Chairman of the Trustees of the BBC Trust is decided by the Government and the Government must ensure that the BBC is governed without a pro European Union bias.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

November 29

Dear Editor,

The Soil Association’s view on human sewage as fertiliser being beneficial may well be so, however it is not really the point at issue.  

Sewage sludge contains significantly more than just human sewage.  It is mixed with all sorts of other waste including significant amounts of plastic litter, there is very little organic about it.  

It is certainly not compost as it is sometimes laughingly referred.  I have seen the effects of this spreading first hand and it produces very mixed results.

It would certainly, in many people’s view, render the label organic completely worthless.  My family now grow our vegetables in raised beds to avoid accidentally buying food grown in what is, basically, industrial waste.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

November 17

Dear Editor,

"Let's be honest, if the Euro was a horse we would have shot it by now."

Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament

November 16

Dear Sir

Yet again Sir Bernard Ingham edits UKIP out of his mind when he uses the phrase “all political parties”.

This time it is wind turbines.  UKIP oppose these ridiculous, expensive and useless things tooth and nail.  See my website for a comprehensive video on their failure here and abroad.  Most of the things Sir Bernard is against we are against, yet he only occasionally admits we exist and only then to make derogatory remarks.

Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom
[email protected]
www.europesillwind.org

November 15

Dear Editor,

"How Kenneth Clark has got the immortal crust to associate himself with celebrating Magna Carta beggars belief.  He and his Europhile colleagues have spent a lifetime trying to undermine it."

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

November  8

Dear Editor,

The suggestion that the right for jury trial should be taken away for"petty" offences is another 
attack on our traditional freedoms and rights.

A shoplifting conviction, for instance, may be regarded as nothing by many but it is a major 
concern for a respectable member of the community and can have huge repercussions.

Not, of course, that many "petty" offences actually get to court at all these days with the culture 
of cautions and fixed penalties - the petty criminals charter to do what they want.

The idea, this time advocated by Victim's Commissioner Louise Casey - former tsar of Blair's 
failed ASBO project -  is far from new. It is another insidious attempt to do away with jury trials 
altogether and adopt the continental system of justice instead of our own tried and

tested system.

The powers-that-be may well seize on it as a cost-cutting exercise butthere should be no price 
on justice. Ever since courts began calling defendants "customers" the ethos has been on
running it as a business with back room bean counters calling the tune.

To describe the right to trial by jury as "a nicety" of the legal system  confirms the agenda behind
the proposal. Interesting that the human rights card is only played when it suits and not when 
a genuine and long standing right is at stake.

And a Victims' Commissioner would be otiose if judges' hands were not tied behind their back
by the Sentencing Guidelines Council which is seemingly hell-bent on not jailing anyone. We all 
know why - and that's nothing to do with justice either.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire

October 28

Dear Editor,

At last the faintly ridiculous Chris Huhne admits wind technology is over 200 years old which is probably why it is so inappropriate for a modern economy.  

They have comprehensively failed in Denmark, Germany and the Iberian Peninsular.  We must wake up to this before it is too late.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP

October 25

Dear Sir,

I am very pleased to learn that Skipton Magistrates Court has been recommended by a top judge to remain open.

It is currently in a hit list of 177 courts earmarked for closure under cost cutting plans and I know that local people have been concerned about it.

It would mean people having to travel to Harrogate, an hour and a half train journey, and that is just not acceptable in my book.

Now that the Lord Justice Goldring has recommended that it should stay open I sincerely hope that Justice Secretary Ken Clarke will listen to sense.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP

October 18

Dear Sir,

So unemployment among women is rising sharply, says the Office of National Statistics.

I bet my bottom dollar - or should that be euro? - that this will be a continuing trend. And why? More EU meddling in British affairs, in this instance their directive altering maternity rights.

Women leaving work to have a child are to be entitled to 20 weeks' leave on full pay. Plans which it is estimated will cost UK firms £2.5 billion a year.

Which employer, particularly SMEs, will take on women of child-bearing age? And quite frankly who can blame them, particularly in these difficult financial times.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

September 9

Dear Sir,

Forty years ago we gave away our fishing industry, we are now net importers of fish.  

We have now given away our financial services industry. I suspect in a few years time we will be net importers of financial services. 

Both industries were given away by Conservative party Prime Ministers.  It proves again the Conservatives cannot be trusted on Europe.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

September 6

Dear Sir,

I am delighted that sense has prevailed and the East Riding Council has rejected plans for 12 wind turbines at Spaldington.

Wind energy is not the answer to power supply problems, these turbines are a foolish waste of time and the manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank at our expense. In this scenario Bob Dylan was wrong, the answer is not 'blowing in the wind'.

This is a serious issue and one which rightly causes indignation by all sensible thinking people, who are not brainwashed by EU-led energy and emission targets.

I was, however, amused to see that some of those in favour of the plans described the turbines as "no less attractive than pylons". Well that's ok then, let's just litter our gorgeous countryside with more ugly chunks of metal!!

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP

August 26

Dear Sir,

I sometimes despair of the media. They seem to completely ignore the provenance of their source of statistics. They accept road safety cameras work because road safety camera operators say they do. Wind turbines work because the Wind Power Association say they do.

Why not get back from lunch a bit earlier and dig out some independent, authoritative statistics for once.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom MEP

August 19

Dear Sir,

Speed cameras do not work. All major research shows this to be so. The Taxpayer’s Alliance research is the most recent but borne out by the Department of Transport's own traffic Laboratory Reports of recent years. 

There are circumstances where they increase accidents. The Police Federation are against them. We need old fashioned traffic policing, experienced and discretionary. 

Chief Constables who want more cameras have simply not done their homework and seem keen to avoid real policing. 

Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom

August 16

Dear Sir,

I note the Humberside Police do not pursue shoplifters for items under £20. Manchester Police do not pursue criminals on motorcycles if they are not wearing a crash helmet and Essex Police give serial burglars a house. 

The Minister for Justice Ken Clark does not believe in prison. If I was not already in a criminal profession I would certainly turn to crime myself.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom

UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament

August 7

Dear Sir,

Under Basel II the system (flawed) was that at the end of each day a bank was valued as Mark to Market.  This system basically declared a bank insovlent or potentially insolvent if assets and debts were out of whack. 

This was a bit silly because it did not distinguish between illiquid and insolvent.  I might tap you for a tenner in O’Flahertys because I have no Euros for beer.  I am not insolvent.  Basel II failed to make this distinction. 

Basel III however is equally flawed.  Simplistically it says, “we know you are holding the deeds to property which are worth much less than shown in your book.  However we are prepared to pretend they are worth what they were at their historic best because in x years time they might have bounced back.  

So we will just look at what you made over the counter last year, where are the till receipts?”

Crikey you made £1.5 billion – share price bounces, trebles all round!

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 

EFD Coordinator of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament.

July 29

Dear Sir,

Now you cannot get rid of workers over 65. We are told whom to employ, how to employ, what leave to give them etc etc. All by politicians who have never done a real job in their lives. 

When will bureaucrats stop telling businessmen how to run their businesses?

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 

July 27

Dear Sir

I see the eco-fascist jack book of Greenpeace is on the march again.

Their illegal activities have closed ten petrol stations in London.

Will no one clip the wings of these nasty bully boys?

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

July 26

Dear Sir

If you live in North Lincolnshire and are pretty appalled at the litter problem, or if you are old and frail and could like a bit more more home help and yet are told there are no resources, you might like to contact your local councillor and ask if a 'breast feeding co-ordinator' is the best use of your rates.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. 

July 24

Dear Sir

I think most historians would now accept that there was one world war in the last century. It came though in two parts - 1914 -18 and 1934-45.

The second part simply being an extension of the first after  bungled armistice negotiations.

The USA played an important, though not critical, role in the first from 1917-18 and a pivotal role from 1941 to 1945.

But if the entire war years are taken together and the UK's critical role in the early years of the conflict, ie the race for the channel ports in 1945 and the Battle of Britain in 1940 I would argue we were the senior partner.

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 

23 July 2010

Dear Sir

Now the taxpayer is having to bail out Equitable Life policyholders (where does it all end?) apparently for failed regulation. 

Can we expect the fat cat regulators at the FSA to send back their bonuses and salary increases they were so shamefully awarded in 2009?

Yours faithfully

Godfrey Bloom 
Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament

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: '[email protected]'

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