"Bongo Bongo Land"

It sounds fairly innocuous, like Barrie's "Never Land", something out of Kipling, or Gullivers Travels. Just when you think we have moved on as a race and learnt to not only tolerate, but value difference, something like this hits you between the eyes.

How we use language, the terms we use, how we describe people & things reveals so much about ourselves. What we say defines us because it reflects what we think deep down. Often unconsciously. Not many of us actually plan in advance what we are going to say in conversation. The words come out spontaneously in response to what someone else says & are often a window into the core of our beliefs.

Godfrey Bloom, a UKIP MEP, has revealed himself clearly & unequivocally. He has also revealed that UKIP is happy for it's members to think bigoted thoughts, but not say them in public. Especially not to the press!

To refer to aid recipients in this way is appalling on all levels. I don't see any point in enumerating them here, because I imagine most people wouldn't have any trouble working it out for themselves. Mr Bloom didn't even have the intelligence to realise what a pillock he had made of himself. His comments afterwards would have been  farcical if they weren't so stupid - "It's sad how anybody can be offended by a reference to a country that doesn't exist." "If I've offended anybody in Bongo Bongo Land I will write to their ambassador at the Court of St James."

Mr Bloom gets about £83,000 per annum as a MEP, + a daily subsistance of £265, + about £3,600, travel  + cash for staff & office expenses + a generous health care package & pension. One MEP costs an estimated £400,000 per annum.

I suggest the money would be far better spent in aid to Bongo Bongo Land. Perhaps Mr Bloom should be forced to donate.