Ukip's half-hearted condemnation: MEP Godfrey Bloom's 'Bongo Bongo Land' aid comment 'might be considered disparaging' Godfrey Bloom, the Ukip MEP, has been warned by his party leadership to take more care about how he uses language, after being filmed making disparaging comments about recipients of overseas aid living in what he called "Bongo Bongo Land." The Ukip party chairman, Steve Crowther, released a statement this morning saying: "We are asking Godfrey not to use this phrase again as it might be considered disparaging by members from other countries. However foreign aid is an extremely important debate that needs wider discussion. The reaction from Ukip's second most senior figure reflects the party leadership's sensitivity about being seen as a fringe party full of what David Cameron once described as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists." But the ticking off is unlikely to end the controversy over Mr Bloom's remarks, because Ukip is about to publish its list of candidates for next year's elections to the European Parliament. Several MPs have demanded that Mr Bloom be struck off the list, which Ukip's leasers are clearly not willing to do Mr Bloom was filmed telling party supporters at a meeting in in Wordsley, near Stourbridge, in July. In the recording he says: "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. He defended his remarks on this morning BBC Radio 4's Today programme, claiming that he was only expressing the views of "ordinary people in the rugby and cricket club." He complained about government spending on overseas aid when austerity at home had caused hospital closures. He said: "If I want to send money to charity, I will do so of my own accord." Asked whether he would apologise if instructed to do so by the Ukip leadership, he said: "I'd say right-o, sorry. If I have offended anybody in Bongo Bongo Land, I will write to their ambassador at the court of St James. It is not the first time Mr Bloom's comments have caused controversy. He once questioned why businesses would want to hire "a lady of child-bearing age," and remarked dismissively about women's rights that "I just don't think they clean behind the fridge enough."