United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) leader Nigel Farage was embarrassed after MEP and Ukip member Godfrey Bloom gave a speech in which he decried the fact that in the middle of an economic crisis the UK was giving billions in foreign aid to “bongo bongo land”.

A bongo is a type of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”. Bloom has since apologised.

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