Mr Bloom was speaking on his first day at the European parliament in Strasbourg as one of Ukip's 11 MEPs. "I am going to promote men's rights," he said, which was odd because he had just taken up a seat on the parliament's committee for women's rights.
For those women wondering why someone with Mr Bloom's views on their gender could deign to speak on their behalf, he said his mandate was clear: "I am here to represent Yorkshire women, who always have dinner on the table when you get home."
While the shades of Amy Johnson, the Bronte sisters and other famous Yorkshirewomen whirled beyond the grave, Mr Bloom unrepentantly went on local television - promptly syndicated - to make sure that his mission statement was understood.
"The more women's rights you have, it's actually a bar to their employment," he said, citing his experience in the Territorial Army and a London investment firm for which he still works as a researcher. "No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age."
Mr Bloom, perpetually pin-striped and with an office answering machine which barks "Halt! Who goes there?", then briefly disappeared under a pile of furious responses from other MEPs, particularly from women.
He was denounced as "Neanderthal and absolutely terrifying" by Glenys Kinnock. Mary Honeyball, a Labour colleague on the women's rights committee, suggested an investigation of his business practices by a discrimination tribunal.
But Mr Bloom, 54, who took the last of Yorkshire's six seats in June, soon bobbed back up again with more on the same theme. "It isn't politically correct, is it?" he said. "But it's a fact of life. I know, because I am a businessman."
Yorkshire was absorbing his view of its women last night, but there were knowing nods in Wressle, a small town near Selby where Mr Bloom has his party headquarters.
Ukip's regional organiser, Tony Slater, was laid up recovering from a hip operation (and enjoying watching his friend on TV); but his wife said: "It goes over your head round here; we've all heard it many times before."
Mr Bloom, who fought two Westminster elections in East Yorkshire before reaching Europe, has made a name for one of the county's characteristics - blunt talk - while ignoring the other one - of "seeing and hearing all, but saying nowt".
Friends of Mr Bloom, who is known to some as Godfrey's Bloomers, point out that for all his straight talking, his home life does not bear out any notion that women should primarily scrub and cook.
His wife Katie is better-known than he is - or at least she was until last night - as one of the country's leading horse physiotherapists and as a "passionate" side-saddle rider.
She was not available for comment, but she has come to his rescue before. When Ukip was charged with xenophobia, he countered robustly that his wife was half-Polish.
The party might soon find itself in need of more such excuses. After a month in the political sunshine that saw it dominate coverage of the European elections, Ukip has already had to suspend one of its MEPs, Ashley Mote, who is facing allegations of housing benefit fraud.
Yesterday the party tried to laugh off its latest embarrassment. But the Tories - out for revenge - will be watching.
