Video: Bloom compares student to Richard III

This morning the Oxford Union released a video clip of the MEP Godfrey Bloom asking a physically disabled student, David Browne, “Are you Richard III, or not?”

Many people in the audience at the Union were shocked at Bloom’s comment, and Browne himself says he “didn’t think it was a nice thing to say”, and he “wasn’t happy” with the remark”.

And yet the video clip shows that the reaction of many others in the audience was to laugh, and a few claps.

If there was a gasp of shock, it must have been drowned out by the laughter.

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Perhaps the Union felt that Bloom was merely referring to Browne’s long, over-flowing, dark hair – in the style of Richard III – rather than making a tasteless jibe about his physical disability.

Either way, the clip will no doubt be added to the MEP’s long list of Bloomers.

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