A Must See: UKIP MEP makes a fool of himself

[Lidl_Shopper]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCICF7GKPFw&eurl"]YouTube - A blast from Bloom![/ame]

According to Daniel Hannan MEP, Mr Bloom was drunk:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_...ber_federalist

[kerrynorth]

I think I detected a slight slurring of the word 'decisons' for which there could be any one of a number of explainations but other than that I do not think you could call him 'drunk'. A somewhat unfair attack I think.

[baldur0300]

I think I detected a slight slurring of the word 'decisons' for which there could be any one of a number of explainations but other than that I do not think you could call him 'drunk'. A somewhat unfair attack I think.

........... he may or may not be drunk but he's definitely an idiot.

[kerrynorth]

........... he may or may not be drunk but he's definitely an idiot.

He was making a political point re the City of London and decision making in Europe. Just because you do not agree with him it does not make him an idiot.

[ibis]

I think I detected a slight slurring of the word 'decisons' for which there could be any one of a number of explainations but other than that I do not think you could call him 'drunk'. A somewhat unfair attack I think.

He's not drunk. That's a particular style of speech, and one admittedly associated with big City lunches, but it does not require its possessor to be drunk to sound like that.

Of course, we're very fortunate to have people like that to defend us from the elites. As to it being a "Mickey Mouse assembly" full of people who've never worked outside politics...well, on the latter point he could easily be describing most democratic chambers, which do tend to be full of professional politicians. On the former point...if it's a Mickey Mouse assembly, what's he worried about?

[draiocht23]

Am I the only one who can't hear it, or am I psychologically shutting his ranting out?

[baldur0300]

He was making a political point re the City of London and decision making in Europe. Just because you do not agree with him it does not make him an idiot.

Well as someone who knows a good deal about the financial regulations coming from the community, I have a reletively informed opinion on such matters. In my opinion, the standard of such regulations is quite high. I'm sure some of those who generated such regulations were from Poland, the Czech Republic and even Latvia. Now you may ask, why my opinion is any more valid that his own. Indeed it is a fair question. I would answer that my opinion is supported by corporate governance lawyers and financial economists the world over, while I cannot think of any who support him.

[draiocht23]

YouTube - A blast from Bloom!

That was hilarious...what a larf

Altho, what an incredibly bastard - did he just become an MEP so he could tell everyone he hates them, and they're thick, all the time?

[baldur0300]

I found some quotes by Mr. Bloom. I think they support my thesis:

"No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. That isn't politically correct, is it, but it's a fact of life. The more women's rights you have, it's actually a bar to their employment".

On 12 November 2007, Bloom took part in an interview on Woman's Hour. On hearing the experiences of a woman who lost her job at a small company after becoming pregnant, he responded:

"...there would be a lot more young women employed if they could contract with an employer to say 'if I choose to have a family, I will review my position.'... What about that young women who had started that business, maybe with her life savings? I think she's perfectly entitled to say to that employee ... 'Do you want to have babies or do you want a career? That's a perfectly legitimate question to ask."

Interesting man.

[cHeal]

I found some quotes by Mr. Bloom. I think they support my thesis:

"No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. That isn't politically correct, is it, but it's a fact of life. The more women's rights you have, it's actually a bar to their employment".

On 12 November 2007, Bloom took part in an interview on Woman's Hour. On hearing the experiences of a woman who lost her job at a small company after becoming pregnant, he responded:

"...there would be a lot more young women employed if they could contract with an employer to say 'if I choose to have a family, I will review my position.'... What about that young women who had started that business, maybe with her life savings? I think she's perfectly entitled to say to that employee ... 'Do you want to have babies or do you want a career? That's a perfectly legitimate question to ask."

Interesting man.

Well he is of course right. Women rights in the work place, such as maternity leave, are a bar to employment, and the more rights we bestow upon them regarding issues which only affect women, the less attractive and financially viable they appear to employers.

Fact of Life.

I certainly couldn't tell from that clip if he was an idiot or not, but he's almost definitely correct with his comments about the assembly, no different to any government really, however the stakes are much higher because their decisions affect far far more people, in a far wider economic spectrum.