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Tim Shipman , Tamara Cohen and Matt Chorley
Daily Mail
August 8, 2013
- Godfrey Bloom confused why ‘Bongo Bongo land’ might be seen as racist
- ‘I’m 63, that’s the sort of phraseology we used years ago,’ MEP said
- He stormed off Channel 4 News when repeatedly asked if he was racist
- He called aid programmes ‘treason’ when the UK is making cuts
- David Cameron condemns ‘offensive’ remarks and defends aid spending
The UKIP politician who complained about Britain sending aid to ‘Bongo Bongo land’ stormed out of a TV interview after being repeatedly challenged over whether he is racist.
MEP Godfrey Bloom declared last night that sending aid to Africa was ‘treason’ and said he had no idea why he can’t refer to the continent as ‘Bongo Bongo land’.
Repeatedly quizzed on whether he is a racist, Mr Bloom told Channel 4 News interviewer Krishnan Guru-Murthy: ‘Move on, there’s a good fellow. If you’re not going to move on to serious issues, I’m not going to continue – I can’t be bothered with it.’
He then tore off his earpiece and stormed off.
It was an abrupt ending to a day of Whitehall farce as Mr Bloom engaged in a whirlwind tour of radio and television studios, repeatedly defending himself and making the case against overseas aid.
A fresh storm erupted over comments he made opposing women quotas on boards of top City firms, arguing men and women were very different.
‘Most women can find the mustard in the pantry quicker than a man, most men can reverse a car better than a woman,’ Mr Bloom suggested.
He has previously suggested that he wanted to deal with women’s issues because: ‘I just don’t think they clean behind the fridge enough.’
A former economist, he was elected as an MEP in 2004 and has been making headlines ever since with his views on women, climate change and Germans.
But he was slapped on the wrist by party leaders after he was secretly recorded making what critics immediately branded racist comments.
He told supporters in the Midlands that foreign leaders who received aid spent the money on ‘Ray-Ban sunglasses, apartments in Paris, Ferraris and all the rest of it’.
In the recording, the MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber says: ‘How we can possibly be giving a billion pounds a month when we’re in this sort of debt to Bongo Bongo land is completely beyond me.’
UKIP leader Nigel Farage ordered Mr Bloom to stop using the term and the under-fire MEP issued a carefully-worded statement apologising if he had caused ‘genuine offence’.
David Cameron weighed into the row today, branding Mr Bloom’s remarks ‘offensive’ and defending the use of British taxpayers’ money for overseas aid.
He said: ‘I think it is an offensive remark anyway, but what I think is wrong is this sort of “stop the world, I want to get off” approach just doesn’t work.
‘Britain is a very open international country. The problems elsewhere come and visit us. So it makes sense I think to have an overseas aid programme that helps solve these problems at source,’ he told BBC Breakfast.
But Mr Bloom has refused to say sorry and insisted he had not done anything wrong. ‘What I’m not doing is apologising,’ he said.
Last night an unrepentant Mr Bloom said he did not understand why Mr Farage had censored him.
He added: ‘I didn’t feel I had done anything wrong, I mean, I’m 63 years old, that’s the sort of phraseology we used years ago.
