He then sat as an Independent until the end of his term of office in May During his tenure, he received attention for making remarks considered objectionable by his party leader, for his opinions concerning climate change and for making other controversial comments. On 20 September , UKIP withdrew the party whip from Bloom after he hit journalist Michael Crick in the street with a conference brochure, [5] threatened a second reporter, and at the party's conference jokingly referred to his female audience as sluts.
Bloom was removed as Honorary President of the Ludwig von Mises Centre in December , the organisation citing his comments on Twitter. Bloom was born on 22 November , the son of Alan Bloom and his wife, Phyllis. Olave's Grammar School. In he was promoted to the rank of major. Bloom worked as a financial economist. In his last position, he worked as the director of the investment company TBO in which he is a major shareholder. Bloom contested the Conservative-held seat of Haltemprice and Howden at the general election , coming fifth.
At a party conference meeting he had jokingly referred to his female audience as sluts. Bloom and Crick met again in May According to The Daily Telegraph he was the first man to be ejected since John Wilkes in the lateth century. He is a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. A few weeks after being appointed to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality on 20 July , Bloom told an interviewer that, "no self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
Bloom confessed that he had visited brothels in Hong Kong. He claimed he never consummated the visits, and also claimed "terrified young women beaten into prostitution often from Eastern Europe [ After inviting students from the University of Cambridge Women's Rugby Club to Brussels in , he was accused of sexual assault, making "sexist and misogynistic remarks" and using offensive language during a dinner party. One student handed a formal letter of protest to the President of the European Parliament, heavily criticising Bloom's behaviour.
In a piece for politics. Bloom rejects anthropogenic global warming. He said in "As far as I am concerned man-made global warming is nothing more than a hypothesis that hasn't got any basis in fact. Every day more scientists are modifying their initial views". At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bloom was filmed in front of the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior II , saying, "Here we have one of the most truly fascist boats since , well done the French for sinking one of these things.
