Video: UKIP politician Godfrey Bloom caught in Bongo Bongo row
A senior UKIP politician has been caught on camera telling a Black Country audience that Britain should not send aid to 'bongo bongo land'.
Godfrey Bloom, a UKIP MEP, was filmed at a meeting of supporters in Wall Heath, saying those who received aid spent the money on 'Ray-Ban sunglasses, apartments in Paris, Ferraris and all the rest of it'.
The video, shot at the Kingfisher Country Club, also shows Mr Bloom railing against the European Court of Human Rights for ruling that full life sentences could not be handed down.
In the footage of his speech Mr Bloom said: "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."
Later in the speech, given to the Dudley and Halesowen branch of UKIP, he says in reference to the ECHR ruling: "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 them myself."
Mr Bloom said that his comments were not racist. A UKIP spokesman said Mr Bloom's comments were being 'discussed at the highest level of the party'.
