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

1. What?

2. Let’s hear that again:

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

3. You could be forgiven if you thought that quote came from the dark ages, but it actually came this week from the mouth of UK Independence Party member, Godfrey Bloom, who believe it or not has been nominated by his party to the EU Parliament’s Women’s Rights Committee. He was on the fringes of a press conference held by fellow party member Robert Kilroy-Silk, ranting at whoever will listen. This dimwit not only said this, but to quote a story from The Independent:

Speaking on the fringes of a press conference Mr Bloom joked that women “don’t clean behind the fridge enough” adding: “I would represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you come home.”

As the episode reached a surreal climax he turned to a television camera to declare: “The more rights you have [for women] it is actually a bar on their employment. No self-respecting small business man with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. That isn’t politically correct is it? But it is a fact of life; I know because I’m a businessman.”

4. And we thought John Howard was bad. This idiot just doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up. The Guardian reports:

Mr Bloom … then briefly disappeared under a pile of furious responses from other MEPs, particularly from women.

He was denounced as “Neanderthal and absolutely terrifying” by Glenys Kinnock. Mary Honeyball, a Labour colleague on the women’s rights committee, suggested an investigation of his business practices by a discrimination tribunal.

But Mr Bloom, 54, who took the last of Yorkshire’s six seats in June, soon bobbed back up again with more on the same theme.

5. Fucking unbelievable. Really, truly unbelievable.

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