UKIP's Godfrey Bloom launches campaign to become Humberside police commissioner
A CANDIDATE bidding to become the first Humberside police and crime commissioner has said he will campaign for tougher prison sentences if elected.
UKIP candidate Godfrey Bloom also said he would cut the number of speed cameras and put victims first.
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TOUGH: Godfrey Bloom launches his bid to become Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner. Picture: Rob Stebbing
Launching his campaign in Hull, Mr Bloom said: "If I am elected, I will use my position as a platform to criticise the soft sentencing in this country, especially for repeat offenders.
"You hear of burglars who commit 25 offences and only go down for six months.
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"My guys can do their best, but what can they do if these people keep being let out of prison?"
He also dismissed speed cameras as a "money-making scam" which are reducing public confidence in the police.
"If your only contact with the police is an officer jumping out from behind a bush with a radar gun because you're doing 34mph, and then they can't come out when your house is burgled, you are going to lose confidence in them," said Mr Bloom.
"There are lots of cameras which are out there just to entrap people and make money. It also means a police officer sitting at the side of the road when they could be out on the beat."
Mr Bloom, 63, said he will step down from his role as an MEP if he wins November's election.
He described himself as "in touch with the public" and said he has seen the effects of crime and antisocial behaviour first-hand during his work as an MEP.
"I have been to plenty of sink estates, like Bransholme, and I thought they were full of people one step up from animals, but that couldn't be further from the truth," he said.
"Most of the residents are law-abiding citizens who keep tidy homes and gardens but on nearly every street there are pensioners living behind steel shutters because of neighbours from hell and antisocial behaviour.
"I want to protect people and start putting the victim first, not the criminal."
Mr Bloom is standing for the role with former Humberside Deputy Chief Constable Mike Speakman, who spent five years with the force before retiring in 2000.
They officially launched their campaign in Hull yesterday alongside the party leader Nigel Farage.
Mr Bloom said: "I am bringing a team with commercial experience, experience of working with men and women in uniform, political experience and policing experience.
"We are the only game in town. I don't think people know how big this job is, it is a monster."
Mr Speakman said: "Putting victims first is absolutely crucial. Over the years there have been a succession of politicians promising to do that, and they never have done.
"I am supporting Godfrey because I believe in his and UKIP's policies."
Comments
by vanityunfair
Sunday, September 09 2012, 8:14PM
“More than half the England and Wales population is female.
http://tinyurl.com/9tdnh8m Would anyone care to have a look at what Mr. Bloom thinks about the majority of people whose support he is seeking?
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by Strangley
Sunday, September 09 2012, 7:58PM
“@Mark_Hull
"I'll bet a shiny shilling the turnout won't exceed 20% and the lucky winner will have a vote of less than 10% of the eligible electorate."
You may be correct, but then the job will go to whoever can turn out most "Bots" on the day. As far as I am aware, if just one person votes, thats it.
It's a pity there is not a candidate that could focus the people's displesure at this farse such as H'angus the Hartlepool monkey who stood & was elected as mayor”
by Mark_Hull_65
Sunday, September 09 2012, 1:29PM
“I don't think you have anything to worry about with the turnout for this fiasco. As far as I can tell it's a matter of supreme indifference to everybody but the Hull Daily Mail and those throwing their hats into the ring for this sinecure.
I'll bet a shiny shilling the turnout won't exceed 20% and the lucky winner will have a vote of less than 10% of the eligible electorate.”
by froggy39
Sunday, September 09 2012, 1:18PM
“If anybody understands what improvement is going to be made to policing by the imposition of this Crime Commissioner perhaps they could tell me. It seems to me that the last thing we should be getting foisted upon us is more expensive jobs for the boys; after all, 75 grand is only the beginning of the payout here. The Commissioner will need a deputy and an office staff and little people running about looking busy to try to justify the imposition of this idea. Of course, it is the British Government trying to emulate its God...The Useless Yanks. Please please please could everybody not vote in November. It would be nice to see Cameron with egg on his face and unable to put Humberside's Gauleiter in place. I dream, unfortunately. And quite frankly I do not give a monkey's who becomes the Crime Gauleiter so long as it is not Lord Toad.”
by Dis12
Sunday, September 09 2012, 12:56PM
“Godfrey Bloom is a buffoon.”
by Mark_Hull_65
Sunday, September 09 2012, 12:23PM
“"'sees it and tells it like it is'"
What has he told us? Longer sentences, which he quite rightly will have no say in and soft on dangerous drivers (because that's the sort of offence him and his toffee nosed mates commit.
I wonder what this idiot thinks is a reasonable speed to drive in a 30mph zone. We know he thinks 34mph is acceptable but what about 35mph hour? Or 40mph perhaps? 50mph? 60? 70? 100mph? Why not go the whole hog and remove all the speed limits in built up areas and have a free-for-all where the people who think they've got somewhere because they own a BMW can chase the chavs in their Vauxhall Novas with exhausts that write cheques the engine can't cash?
Never mind the pedestrians and cyclists who get in the way just so long as a section of the public don't have to pay the idiot-tax they inflict on themselves. What is it with these people? When they were taking their driving test and got to the bit where they had to answer questions on the Highway Code did they think it was just a joke?”
by Mark_Hull_65
Sunday, September 09 2012, 11:54AM
“""I have been to plenty of sink estates, like Bransholme, and I thought they were full of people one step up from animals, but that couldn't be further from the truth," he said."
The mere fact he even thought people were "one step up from animals" in the first place shows he's unfit to hold any post with influence on policing. Obviously the man is just a tu'penny ha'penny snob who'll revert to type once he gets his feet under the desk (which he won't)
"on nearly every street there are pensioners living behind steel shutters because of neighbours from hell and antisocial behaviour."
Hysterical nonsense. What's the betting he's been driving as fast as he can through the estate with the windows wound up and the doors locked, seen a few temporarily shuttered properties and put 2 and 2 together and got 366746563.”
by india7
Sunday, September 09 2012, 11:44AM
“Easily the best candidate by far. Independent of the Tory and Labour parties is what we need, and this man 'sees it and tells it like it is'.If we must have a Crime Commissioner, I think he could do the job very, very well.”
by geertwilders2
Sunday, September 09 2012, 11:15AM
“gaya 69, sadly everybody with a differing opinion to you is a intolerant old bigot of some sort,
fascism at it's worst!!!!!!!!”
by Mark_Hull_65
Sunday, September 09 2012, 10:25AM
“Please add "and not for others" to the end of my last post
Thanks awfully.”