Godfrey Bloom

“In the old days, they put idiots in the village stocks. Now we put them on the Today programme.”

“The trouble with Godfrey is that, he is not a racist, he's not an extremist or any of those things and he's not even anti-women, but he has a sort-of rather old fashioned territorial army sense of humour which does not translate very well in modern Britain.What he ought to have learnt is that time and time again he says things that overshadow the whole agenda that Ukip is fighting for. My opinion is Godfrey has gone beyond the pale.”

“You can torture people to death but you jolly well can't give them a full life sentence because that's against their human rights.We can't hang them because we're now a member of the European Union and it's embedded in the treaty of Rome.It's a personal thing but I'd hang the bastards myself. ... Especially for some of these, especially for the guy who hacked the soldier to death. I do hope they would ask me to throw the rope over the beam because I'd be delighted to do so.”

“[From a video of a meeting at Wordsley, near Stourbridge in July 2013] How we can possibly be giving a billion pounds a month when we're in this sort of debt to bongo bongo land is completely beyond me.To buy Ray-Ban sunglasses, apartments in Paris, Ferraris and all the rest of it that goes with most of the foreign aid.”

“What a racist comment. How dare you? That's an appalling thing to say. You're picking people out for the colour of your skin? You disgust me.”

“I am always deeply suspicious of received wisdom. [...] 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. Recently 60 German scientists wrote to Chancellor Angela Merkel saying there was no proof for carbon causing global warming.”

“Terrified young women beaten into prostitution often from Eastern Europe ... is only a very small aspect of the flesh trade.”

“No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.”

“I am here to represent Yorkshire women, who always have dinner on the table when you get home.”

“I want to deal with women's issues [...] because I just don't think they clean behind the fridge enough.”