ban public sector workers from voting

Former UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom said public sector workers and those living on benefits should be stripped of their vote.

Bloom told LBC radio that people who “did not vote” should lose their right to vote.

“If you didn’t cast a single vote, and your parents didn’t, and your parents didn’t, then I don’t understand why you should be able to vote for the administration,” he said.

“I think another issue we should look at carefully is the public sector, because people who work in the public sector naturally vote for increases in pensions and benefits in the public sector,” he added.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage was forced to throw Bloom out of UKIP in September after he jokingly called a room full of women “sluts” and attacked Channel Four News journalist Michael Crick ahead of the party’s autumn conference.

“There is no media coverage of this conference. It’s gone, it’s dead, it’s all about Godfrey punching a journalist and using a nasty four-letter word,” Farage told his party.

“We cannot allow any person, however funny, flamboyant, amusing or ridiculous they may be, to destroy the UKIP national conference and that is exactly what he did.”

Bloom responded by accusing Farage of having “lost touch” with ordinary UKIP members.

However, in an interview last month, Bloom suggested the way was left open for him to return to UKIP in the future.