MEP Godfrey Bloom who is set to speak at the Beverley Arms Hotel is doggedly unrepentant after being formally reprimanded for a controversial speech he gave at the European Parliament.
His “The State is an institution of theft” speech has so far notched up almost four million You-Tube hits around the world since November 21 last year and is heading towards entry in the Guinness Book of Records.
His remarks have now been officially considered and the President of the EU, Martin Schulz, has stated in a letter that a reprimand has been imposed on him.
“I don’t take back a single word of my one minute speech and this official EU response just demonstrates how full of their own self-importance they really are. I shall carry on saying what I belief and will face the consequences,” said Mr Bloom today.
In the speech during a debate on the Action programme for taxation, Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, described tax as “just about a system where politicians and bureaucrats steal money from their citizens to squander in the most disgraceful manner”.
He went on to say that the Parliament was no exception and that the whole Commission and their bureaucracy avoid their taxes. He concluded by warning that “the message is getting home to the people of the European Union.
“You are going to find that Eurosceptics are coming back in June in ever greater numbers. And I can tell you worse: as the people get your number, it will not be long before they storm this Chamber and they hang you, and they will be right.”
Mr Schulz wrote that “The English expression ‘to get one’s number’ is commonly understood as meaning to figure out one’s intentions” and so Mr Bloom had meant and approved that having figured out the Commission or Commissioner’s intentions the people would storm the Chamber and hang the Commission or Commissioner.
It was ruled that the statement did not show due respect to the Commission and its Commissioners and it “also reflects adversely upon and thus infringes the dignity of Parliament itself.”
The letter also stated that approving the hanging violated respect for the Commissioner and human dignity and calling for hanging, if committed in public, is considered a crime as is expressing hate.
“The principle of freedom of speech which is guaranteed for all members of the European Parliament cannot extend to insulting other speakers or publicly supporting the commitment of a crime such as murder”, it concluded.
