"Is that the same bloke from UKIP who has a conviction for benefits fraud?"


No, Richard, it's this buffoon:


"A Euro MP for the UK Independence Party has sparked controversy hours into his first day in the Strasbourg parliament.
Godfrey Bloom was given a seat on the European Parliament's women's rights committee on Tuesday.
But he told the media: "No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age."
A range of fellow politicians were outraged, saying his views were terrifying and outrageous.
Mr Bloom, an investment fund manager from York, told journalists he wanted to deal with women's issues because: "I just don't think they clean behind the fridge enough".
"I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home. I am going to promote men's rights," he added. "                

And this:


"A British MEP uses his parliamentary staff allowance to pay three assistants who are also employed at an investment company in which he is a major shareholder.
Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP representative for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, who made headlines when he claimed that women do not "clean behind the fridge enough", employs his 20-year-old niece and two other members of staff at TBO Investments.
Mr Bloom was director of research at TBO until he was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 and remained as a consultant until two years ago. He still owns 20 per cent of the company, which was fined £28,000 by the financial services regulator last October for "advice failings".
Emma Brader, his accredited parliamentary assistant, and Victoria Skowronek, his secretarial assistant, were both working in the York headquarters of TBO Investments yesterday, six days before the European elections. David McLaughlin, another member of his staff, is a director of TBO Investments.
Mr Bloom, 59, has used his official website to highlight the expenses scandal at Westminster. It says: "Godfrey Bloom employs no immediate members of his family on his secretarial allowance, unlike most other MEPs (non-UKIP)." It also laments the "woeful lack of candour and common sense in modern-day politicians".
He confirmed yesterday that Ms Skowronek was his niece and lives next door to him in Wressle, East Yorkshire. Ms Brader, 26, a leading point-to-point rider, wrote on Facebook about their prospects if Mr Bloom was not re-elected: "This would mean that Vicki and I would lose our jobs and Godfrey says we'd have to go on the game, but we wouldn't make much money because we are too old!"
UKIP confirmed yesterday that Mr Bloom was questioned by a senior parliamentary official last year about a "possible conflict of interest with the employment contracts". Paulo Cam- pilho, head of the parliamentary assistance and members' general expenditure unit, decided that no further action should be taken, the party said.
Mr Bloom has become one of the best-known MEPs with his views on housewives, prostitutes and pregnant employees. He has claimed that "any small businessman or woman who employs a woman of child-bearing age needs their head examined".
He also once argued that the majority of prostitutes were not exploited. "In short, most girls do it because they want to," he wrote in an article for the Brussels-based political magazine The Sprout in 2006.
The Yorkshire Post reported that Mr Bloom admitted having visited brothels as a Hong Kong-based businessman, although the amount of beer he consumed meant that no encounters were consummated."


Maybe not as dangerous as the fascists, but severely unpleasant nontheless.