If UKIP thinks it is the victim of a smear campaign in the run-up to the local elections, then it needs to have a little think about whether the chief smearers hail from UKIP HQ itself, or CCHQ, as Paul Nuttall claimed they did when he appeared on the Sunday Politics earlier today. This evening, one of its internal smearers took to the airwaves to remind voters of a few other interesting aspects of the party’s character. Godfrey Bloom, the party’s MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, gave John Pienaar an interview on his show this evening in which he reiterated his belief that businesses shouldn’t employ women of a childbearing age.
You can hear the full exchange, including Bloom telling the show that he’d employ me because I’m a writer and can work from home (presumably in order to make sandwiches and clean behind the fridge properly), here, but these are his key lines:
‘Well the point I was making with draconian employment legislation, we have a problem that employers are frightened to employ women of childbearing age so they tend to employ women whose families have grown up and that has been vindicated in spades so when I said that in 2004 it caused ooh shock horror and now it’s received wisdom.
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