ANOTHER week, another bizarre assertion from Godfrey Bloom (Letters, June 1 and 11).

Last week it was something along the lines of “public sector bad, private sector good”.

Perhaps he had forgotten the catastrophic mismanagement by the (private sector) banks which was a major factor in creating the mess we’re now in.

The only reason the banks didn’t collapse was because the public sector stepped in to rescue them. The banks survived, but we’re still living with the consequences.

Then Mr Bloom says that it’s “an unchallenged fact that there has been no global warming since 1995”. This will be news to Dr Phil Jones, of the Climatic Research Unit, whose recent analysis has shown that climate warming post-1995 has now passed the 95 per cent significance level, meaning that the odds of it happening by chance are less that one in 20.

Still, Dr Jones is only an acknowledged scientific expert, who has spent many years studying climate change. Who to believe?

I wonder what Mr Bloom will come up with next week!

Matthew Page, Emerald Street, York.

• IF, AS Mr Wardell (Letters, June 10) tells us, Godfrey Bloom MEP is earning his £90,000 – presumably working hard to prevent the EU stopping the UK Government from creating jobs in the private sector – can he explain what action he is taking?

He has accused public-sector workers in York of being “part of the problem”. Since some of them are at risk of losing their jobs, they have a right to know what the UKIP MEPs are doing to facilitate the provision of alternative jobs in the private sector of the same standing.

His silence makes you suspect UKIP is not even participating in the EU groups and committees.

Specifically can he tell us what role he is playing in the EU’s attempts to impose a ‘Robin Hood’ tax on the global financiers, who were not just “part of the problem”, but the actual cause of the financial crisis?

Maurice Vassie, Cartmans Cottage, Deighton, York.