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Godfrey William Bloom TD (born 22 November 1949) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014. He was elected for the UK Independence Party in the European elections of 2004 and 2009, representing UKIP until September 2013, when UKIP withdrew the party whip from him. He then sat as an Independent until the end of his term of office in May 2014. Bloom subsequently resigned his UKIP party membership on 13 October 2014. 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 2013, UKIP withdrew the party whip from Bloom after he struck journalist Michael Crick in the street with a conference brochure, threatened a second reporter, and at the party's conference jokingly referred to his female audience as sluts. Bloom resigned his party whip from UKIP on 24 September 2013 and thereafter sat as an Independent MEP until the end of his term in office on 2 July 2014.〔 ==Biography== Bloom was born on 22 November 1949, the son of Alan Bloom and his wife, Phyllis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Godfrey Bloom )〕〔("Bloom, Godfrey" ), ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online ed., Oxford University Press, November 2014 (subscription required). Retrieved 25 April 2015.〕 His father served as a fighter pilot during the Second World War.〔 Bloom was educated at St Olave's Grammar School, the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the Royal College of Defence Studies.〔 In 1986, he married Katryna (Katie) Skowronek, an equine physiotherapist.〔 Bloom worked as a financial economist.〔 In 1996 he warned, in ''Money Marketing'', that "split caps" were not the solid safe investment people thought, and later in the year explained in Financial Adviser the dangers of what was to become "precipice bonds". In 1996 he was part of Francis Maude's regulatory consultancy panel from which he later resigned. In his last position, he worked as the director of the investment company TBO in which he is a major shareholder. Bloom was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Transport (Territorial Army) in 1977. He reached the rank of major in the Royal Logistic Corps and left the TA in 1996. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Godfrey Bloom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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