UKIP (UK Independence Party) MEP Godfrey Bloom ejected over Nazi jibe

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Source: BBC

A UKIP MEP (Member of European Parliament) has been ejected from the European Parliament after directing a Nazi slogan at a German colleague. Mr Bloom told the BBC he stood by his words, describing the leader of the socialist group in the parliament, as "a national socialist".

Commenting afterwards, Mr Farage said: "Whereas we accept that Mr Bloom's jibe in the Parliament may have been rash and inflammatory, we fully support his sentiments about the formation of an undemocratic Europe." Speaking afterwards Mr Bloom commented: "These Euro nationalists are a danger to democracy. These people are fanatics. People have got to wake up to this fact.

Liberal Democrat group leader Fiona Hall described Mr Bloom as a "national embarrassment". It is not the first time that Mr Bloom - who represents Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire - has courted controversy with his comments.

He has argued that man-made global warming is a myth and praised the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985, in which one man died. In 2004, he said no "self-respecting" small business owner would employ a woman of child-bearing age.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11828319

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The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is a political party in the United Kingdom which adheres to an ideology that has been identified as being eurosceptic, populist and conservative. Its primary policy is the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party