"Bongo Bongo Land"

[SuperMikey]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23597233

 

A UKIP politician filmed saying British aid should not be sent to "bongo bongo land" has stood by his comments.

In film obtained by the Guardian, MEP Godfrey Bloom was recorded telling supporters that aid was spent on items like sunglasses and Ferraris.

He also claimed British aid was spent on fighter planes in Pakistan, which he called "treason" by the UK government.

Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, told the BBC giving to charity should be a choice.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "What I would argue is that it is for the individual citizen. It's not for the likes of David Cameron to pick up our pockets and send money to the charities of his choice.

"If I want to send money to charity, I will do it of my own accord."

 

Does he have a point, or is he another UKIP nutter?

[SuperMikey]

Oh, and just to add to the discussion:

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/we-dont-get-any-aid-says-president-of-bongobongoland-2013080777988

[pap]

Wait long enough, Super Michael - and all your chickens come home to roost.

 

From the Spitting Image book in the 1980s. The Tory Political Map of The World.

 

Life imitating art?

 

[Sheaf Saint]

He does kind of have a point, it pains me to say. The fact that our government is sending vast sums of money to countries that either don't need it or are wilfully spending it on anything other than human aid and development is an insult to the millions of people in the UK affected by the austerity policy.

 

However, for a MEP to show such an astonishing lack of judgement in his choice of words is utterly cringey, and highlights just what UKIP really think of them bloody foreigners.

[Hatch]

He does kind of have a point, it pains me to say. The fact that our government is sending vast sums of money to countries that either don't need it or are wilfully spending it on anything other than human aid and development is an insult to the millions of people in the UK affected by the austerity policy.

 

However, for a MEP to show such an astonishing lack of judgement in his choice of words is utterly cringey, and highlights just what UKIP really think of them bloody foreigners.

 

 

This.

 

 

PS. I still have that Spitting Image book.

[pap]

This.

 

 

PS. I still have that Spitting Image book.

 

I haven't got my original copy, but picked another one up in a second-hand shop. You may be unsurprised to learn that it shares permanent shelf space with my original copy of How To Be A Complete Bastard.

[SuperMikey]

He does kind of have a point, it pains me to say. The fact that our government is sending vast sums of money to countries that either don't need it or are wilfully spending it on anything other than human aid and development is an insult to the millions of people in the UK affected by the austerity policy.

 

However, for a MEP to show such an astonishing lack of judgement in his choice of words is utterly cringey, and highlights just what UKIP really think of them bloody foreigners.

 

I agree to an extent, foreign aid is a fantastic thing and something that shouldn't be cut, but there should be stricter regulations imposed on what that aid can actually be spent on. Maybe just give it straight to the aid organisations that operate in those countries as opposed to the centralised government who are more likely to spunk it.

 

As for Mr Bloom, I think he's watched too many Boris Johnson interviews and thinks he can get away with the same thing. Can't use racially sensitive words until you have fluffy hair like Boris - as far as the public are concerned anyway.

[Saint in Paradise]

Well some of you complain about how public services have been allowed to run down due to

lack of money in the public purse. OK perhaps his choice of using Bongo Bongo was a bit over

the top BUT it did get him noticed when perhaps his talk would have been largely ignored.

 

Oh yes and from the Telegraph not quite foreign aid but :- in October 2011 officials spent £20,361 on a single return ticket

from London to Penang, flying economy class with Malaysia Airlines. The same trip is available online at eight weeks’ notice

for £1,100.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10219812/Ministers-veto-keeps-public-sector-jet-sets-77m-flight-bill-a-mystery.html

[Jonnyboy]

[TopGun]

I have been unfortunate enough to have had dealings with Godfrey Bloom. I can confirm he is a nutter!

[Barry Sanchez]

Does he qualify as a libertarian?

[scotty]

 

As for Mr Bloom, I think he's watched too many Boris Johnson interviews and thinks he can get away with the same thing. Can't use racially sensitive words until you have fluffy hair like Boris - as far as the public are concerned anyway.

 

Boris can say whatever he likes, I reckon he's got a bit more pull with Cameron than most of us realise. Anyone else noticed the deafening silence about that story? A day or two on the web, a couple of jokes in Private Eye, then killed completely.

[The9]

Boris can say whatever he likes, I reckon he's got a bit more pull with Cameron than most of us realise. Anyone else noticed the deafening silence about that story? A day or two on the web, a couple of jokes in Private Eye, then killed completely.

 

They got to you too ?

[scotty]

They got to you too ?

 

 

Apparently so, but hardly anyone else seems to have noticed it.

[Jonnyboy]

Boris can say whatever he likes, I reckon he's got a bit more pull with Cameron than most of us realise. Anyone else noticed the deafening silence about that story? A day or two on the web, a couple of jokes in Private Eye, then killed completely.

 

Which one? Coulson and Brooks were bonking?

[The9]

Just noticed the Spitting Image map has "Bournemouth" and "Brighton" for the Tory conference locations and "Grantham" for Mrs Thatch's birthplace marked on it. Funny. I think I have the 1991 Spitting Image book, not as good as the 1980s one.