Our association with Godfrey Bloom goes back to before Drivers' Union was founded & Godfrey was one of the first to register his support of our work.
Just like our founder, Godfrey is a very outspoken critic of current roads policy and understands that road safety isn't a popularity contest; especially as, when it is flawed, or not based on correct reasoning, people will die.
He opposes for profit, coercively based, speed awareness courses, the misuse of speed cameras which cannot spot one single accident cause but tend to unnecessarily prosecute thousands of perfectly safe drivers and now totally distrusts the way in which statistics are being used to justify road safety profiteering.
It also worries Godfrey that so many officials and politicians, who do not have the credentials to make road safety policy, are at the forefront of doing so.
He is a past M.E.P. Who understands that the UK driver is central to all the things we depend on and busily promotes their cause.
Godfrey Bloom TD RCDS(s) Ex MEP.
President
Motor engineer by trade, served 32 years in London Police. Class 1 advance police driver & motorcyclist. Have dealt with accidents. Have prosecuted them. Have compiled and provided accident stats. Abstract road accident reports to the legal profession. Three Commissioner's Commendations (One on the instigation of the Governor of the Bank of England) Royal Humane Society Award for resuscitation in life threatening circumstances and a member of MENSA. Keith is also a regular cyclist. Had two businesses. Very involved in local affairs in London. Ran a London boxing club and rose to the National ABA Council and England team manager. Founder of a London Borough Sports Council. Keith is very involved in charity fundraising. Moved to Lincolnshire 1994. Founded an indoor short mat bowling club in Sutton on Sea. Currently the East Midlands Coordinator of the Association of British Drivers and Founder of Drive East Midlands and now the founder of Driver's (protest) Union. Being a Mensarian, coming in the top 1% of the UK that year, is what allows for a unique and lateral use of information seriously lacking in road safety thinking today.
Keith Peat. General Secretary (Founder)
Keith talking to Radio 4 listeners
Paul Biggs. Environment
BSc (Hons) In biological science 1979. 1980-2014 Birmingham University specialising in cancer research. 38 years driving experience including in the USA, Germany and Spain. In addition to his normal driving, Paul has been a keen caravanner since 1993. From 2003 to date Paul has applied his BSc to studying environmental issues as applied to road transport and was until recently the environment spokesman for the Alliance of British Drivers (ABD). Paul has been very active in opposing road pricing and was the source of the revelation that the National Roads Telecommunications Services (NRTS) could be used to apply road pricing. See the story here.
As Paul sees it: 'Road safety (and environmentalism) have been hijacked for the purposes of revenue raising and the anti-driver agenda, by 'fake charities,' private companies and the government, using personnel who lack genuine expertise. The Drivers Union has been formed to promote genuine road safety, free from distortion by profiteers, and to counter the obstruction of the arteries of the economy - roads, carrying the lifeblood of the economy - drivers.'
Paul Biggs
Godfrey Bloom began his career in the City of London in 1967. His subsequent 35 years extremely varied, probably impossible now in a very much more specialized and regulated city financial service environment. He won international awards for fund management.
Godfrey retired from investment management in 2004 to take up his seat in the European 'Parliament', he sat as an independent representing Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
In 2006 he gave a prescient paper to the National Defence University of Washington on procurement forewarning of the crisis to come.
Godfrey has a very long record of accurate prediction. In the mid nineteen nineties, as a guest lecturer at Cambridge University, he predicted the failure of the Euro over a ten year period. He is a long term critic of prescriptive regulation. He led the British opposition vote to Brussels governed regulation in the European Parliament in September 2010. Recent speaking engagements have included the advent of Basel III banking regulation in London, Vienna and Warsaw. He is a popular speaker at universities and enjoyed amongst others, engagements at Durham, Newcastle, St Andrews, Oxford, London, Syracuse and York universities, the Mises Institute in Alabama, Forum da Liberdade in Brazil and Joint Services Staff College in Shrivenham.
His uncompromising views on the current financial crises enjoy popularity on foreign television networks, but, of course, not the BBC who regard his anti Keynesian views too hot to handle.
A keen military historian, he is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Royal College of Defence Studies and has been published in the prestigious Army Review.
He served 30 years with the Territorial Army, initially with the County of London Yeomanry and holds the Territorial Decoration and bar, Sovereigns' and Parliamentary Medal.
Mr Bloom has more views on his speeches than any other MEP in the history of the Parliament in one year. The first elected politician to question the apocryphal man made global warming hypothesis on British TV in 2006. He also produced a film on the absurdity of wind turbines as an energy solution for Western Europe.
In July 2014 he accepted the Presidency of the Driver's Union.
He is married to one of the country's leading equine physiotherapists.