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And coming up in half an hour: We visit the Lincolnshire town where

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many say it's time to cut the number of EU migrants coming to

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work here. Plus, is it all a pipe dream? We

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take to the skies to assess the latest moves to cut Yorkshire's

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2389 seconds

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It is a size which is new and some would say unproven, changing carbon

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changing carbon dioxide emissions into liquid which is packed out to

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sea to be stored for ever in for more oil and gas fields. It is one

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way of trying to reduce our impact on the environment and to secure

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our energy supplies in future. A small part of Yorkshire's proposed

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new multi million pound carbon Capture network opens in ten days'

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time. As Len Tingle reports, time is running out to protect thousands

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of jobs which could depend on this new technology.

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Ferrybridge to power station near Pontefract. In ten days' time, for

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as an experiment, it switches on new equipment which could preserve

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its new -- long-term future by capturing the greenhouse gas based

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carbon dioxide which spews out from his chimneys. This will be the

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largest capture plant of its world of its type in the world, and the

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learning is important in terms of developing industry. So this

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industry is ready to demonstrate seer to capture in a large scale.

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That larger-scale would involve fitting full-scale car-bomb

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captured plants at all Yorkshire's coal-fired power stations. The

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liquified gas is pumped away by pipeline along with emissions from

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still works and chemical companies on the humbug before sending all

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the vet to be stored in a while and gas fields on the North Sea.

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You can see how big this project is - miles and miles of pipe right

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across Yorkshire. It is going to take a lot of patience and a lot of

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money for this project to succeed. The project is nothing that we have

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not done before. The process is all exist, but the challenge is to do

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it at a much larger scale than ever before, and at a way which is

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integrated. But certainly it is achievable if the financing and its

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planned commission come together in the next few years. On the billions

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of European and matching taxpayers' money can afford to take the risk

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that it will work. A decision has to be made within months.

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Construction will take these plants and power stations right up to the

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deadline for meeting new emissions levels, if they do not, then

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thousands of jobs will go as they are forced to shut. The free market

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were not delivered car-bomb capture on their own, governments need to

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have capacity building mechanisms. It has not got its action -- act

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together yet. Given that European emissions

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controls are going to kick in relatively soon, he is it crucial

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that car-bomb capture words or tens of thousands -- car-borne capture?

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In this scheme comes to fruition on the Humber, the jobs picture would

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be transformational. A lot of infrastructure would be poor it in.

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And then longer term, once the infrastructure is in place you

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would have a hub for low car-borne projects and applications. In terms

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of a catalyst for growth and employment this can be very

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attractive. The technology needs a lot of work

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before it can be commercialised. Most predictions savings will not

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be until after the 20 30s. We need to see an acceleration of these

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efforts to bring that date forward. And this helicopter a guided tour

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for journalists is in effect cranking up the lobbying campaign

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to ensure the Government and the EU commissioners bought their money

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where their mouths are. We are now flying over the cholera.

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It has been piecemeal so far, but much more money is required if

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Yorkshire's car-bomb capture network is to work on a scale which

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has not been affected anywhere else in the world before. -- car-borne.

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My eyes in the studio is the UK at any P Godfrey Bloom, he and at

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Westminster is Julian Smith, Conservative MP for Skipton and

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Ripon. Julian Smith, a car-bomb that capture and storage facility

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on this scale would mean a huge investment on public money where

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many say the signs is as yet unproven. Is this a huge gamble?

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it is important that the science does stack up. It should do, but it

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is also important that private money comes in as well. My

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understanding is that many of these projects, a huge number we have got

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in Yorkshire and Humber, if with a great opportunity because of our

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industrial legacy and the infrastructure is there, a private

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money attached. As they demonstrate, they will bring money in this --

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value in this area, the Government will step in once that is proven.

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Godfrey Bloom is shaking his head. Of course, he independent

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scientists are now moving away from the fact that carbon-dioxide is a

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pollutant at all, and that it causes global warming. We know

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institutionally the main institutions across the planet are

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now telling us there has not been any global-warming significantly

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for 15 years. We also know without doubt that carbon-dioxide throw at

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them atmosphere for those global warming, it does not precede it.

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And of course who picks up the tab for it? It is old age pensioners on

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in Yorkshire who see their electricity bills soaring through

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the roof, 20 % in the last three years and destined to go up another

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25 %. It is all very well talking about saving the planet, but it is

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old age pensioners and people on fixed incomes who are going to

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suffer. Julian Smith, the last major

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potential car-borne capture probe a project in the in Scotland was

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abandoned a earlier this year because it was going to cost so

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much. Can we afford this? Government is looking very

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carefully on insuring value for taxpayers when it puts his money

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aside. That is why we are leading a cross-party campaign to get the

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green investment bank in Leeds and Yorkshire. We have got a huge

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opportunity here but we have to demonstrate on every project the

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taxpayer is getting value for money. Godfrey Bloom, whether you like the

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technology or not or you believe in man-made climate change, this could

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potentially create thousands of jobs in Yorkshire at a time we

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desperately need them. No, it is the opposite. The problem we have

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with all this carbon-dioxide nonsense that is being talked down

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Cubbon tax credits and so on, he is it makes our energy too expensive.

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So our manufacturing industries are being exported to China and the Far

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East. This is costing us thousands of jobs, and they are closing the

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jobs in Teesside and Cheshire. The chemical plants, the aluminium

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plants. This is all about screwing the poor Auld working man he is in

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the North of England who has got a job in manufacturing. It is killing

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our manufacturing industry. Dunion, is it going to hurt the Little

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People's profits? Godfrey is a climate change denier. But I think

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we have got to be in the 4th front in Britain of all these

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opportunities in green energy. Whether you believe in climate

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change or not, gas, call, a whole set of fossil fuel reliance. We

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have got to get stuck in here and be at the forefront of this new

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innovations. The Duke of Edinburgh has been quoted saying that wind

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farms are are useless and those who believe in them are living in a

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fairy-tale. But think he has employed Godfry as a scriptwriter.

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One thing you can say about the Duke, he tells it how it is. He is

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right, it is nonsense and it is about transferring wealth from poor

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people to rich people. What about the jobs on the Humber. Jobs entire

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by manufacturing. Higher energy costs jobs, it does not produce

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jobs. If there was not taxpayers' subsidy is, there would not be as

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significant -- single winter pine in the country.

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Joe Neots Smith, can you say that at the time when many people are

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facing fuel poverty, they should pay more on their energy bills to

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pay for wind farms? I am not a great fan of wind farms, I have a

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bit far constituency in England and I have not seen yet the evidence

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that putting two or three wind farms in beautiful villages across

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Yorkshire makes sense. I think we have to look at these different

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technologies individually. A case unproven for wind farms. Do you

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think Yorkshire it could be at the centre of the green energy bomb?

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again that is why I am backing this campaign to get the Green

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Investment Bank for Britain in Yorkshire. If we have a whole range

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of projects and Community energy projects in my constituency in

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settle. If we are at the forefront of this area and we have to stay

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here and played for Britain. Godfrey, shouldn't you be more

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optimistic? This could be the start of a new broom in this Driffield

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Show up. Thousands of jobs. jobs subsidised by the taxpayer are

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not real jobs. We need to create wealth and create cross. As Winston

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Churchill said, you do not bat by taxing and spending. It is like

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trying to pick yourself up by standing in a bucket. We need real

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jobs, not bogus jobs like these jobs.

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We will leave that for now, because claims that the public services in

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parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire a struggling to cope because of the

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impact of immigration are being looked at by researchers at the

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Home Office. In a week when unemployment reached its highest

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level since 1996, people in one Lincolnshire town have been

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preparing to march in protest at the number of jobs taken by migrant

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workers. This is the man who was prepared to

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take to the streets of his home town to protest against the impact

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of migrant workers. Dean Everitt had been planning an anti-

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immigration March, which was due to take place in Boston this week.

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was a plasterer, self-employed. On for days I was told to leave my job

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and on the Saturday to Polish people came in on my place. Local

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people have been forced out of work, housing is in short supply, school

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places I getting overcrowded. Hospital waiting times a ridiculous.

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The town is just in a mess, and it is all down to immigration.

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Dean was persuaded to call off his March following talks with the

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local council, which has set up a task force to look at the impact of

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immigration on Boston. Boston is a small market town that has seen as

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a significant impact, a disproportionate increase on the

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size of its migrant population, in a relatively short space of time.

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We have always that the difficulty of persuading people in central

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Government that our population profile and the size of the

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population is different and larger than it appears to be from the

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available statistics. It is not known exactly how many

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foreign nationals currently live in Boston. But it has been estimated

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at up to a quarter of the local population, giving the town the

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second highest number of EU migrants outside the City of London,

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with some schools having up to 50 % of children with English as a

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second language. He in the past few days, officials

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from the Home Office have met with Dean Everitt and representatives

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from various public services here in Boston. If I am told that the

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Government is taking seriously the long-term impact immigration is

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having on this part of Lincolnshire. Last month the Prime Minister told

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me that more British people should be filling jobs that are currently

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held by migrant workers. There are a lot of jobs that are

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done in Lincolnshire that people come over from Europe to do, but

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frankly British people can could and should do. We are reforming

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welfare, so it is no longer being an option to sit on the Gulf when

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there is work available for you. My arena, who is Portuguese, is

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doing a child care apprenticeship. -- Marina. She people come here to

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live off benefits. People think that every foreigner in Boston is

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the same, but they are not. And many farmers say Lincolnshire's

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lucrative food production industry would not survive without migrant

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labour. I don't think we could find enough

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English workers to do that job. If you take 50 % a way, if what

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happens when we are in full swing and we find out we do not have

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enough workers? Were what the state of the bosses

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who say we need migrant workers to do double -- jobs British workers

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could not do? I would like to say, who would do that job -- who did

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their job before the mike was landed there? It was us, the people

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of Boston. But Home Office says its

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researchers are looking at the impact of migrants on public

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services across the country. Many here are eagerly a words --

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awaiting the findings. Let us go to Godfrey Bloom on this

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one. You have been quoted as saying that you believe migrant workers

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make more reliable workers than British workers. Why do you think

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that? This is the feedback I have got from employers, but we need to

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restructure the entire welfare system. We have a minimum wage

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policy which has -- his double that in eastern Europe. We have got a

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welfare state which I would argue has always been a mistake, where

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welfare is a lifestyle choice. What is actually happening is the market

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is saying we want these workers, and we want -- and there are people

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in Boston who would like to do the jobs, and we have a suicidal

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immigration policy, because our immigration policy is dictated by

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Brussels. This is the sort of problem we have.

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Chilean, do you sympathise with the people in Boston and many other

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towns across the country, who say public services are struggling to

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cope because of the sheer number of migrant workers who have come here

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in recent years? Yes, that is why my colleague Mark Simmons in Boston

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is looking at this area, and the Government is putting in place

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incredibly tough new restrictions on immigrants from outside the EU

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coming into Britain. We have also got to look at why our immigrant

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workers are attractive to employers. They are attractive in my

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constituency and across Yorkshire and I think they'd land from, one

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of the values the commitment the energy they bring to employers.

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But you are powerless to stop migrants from was EU countries

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coming here. If you cannot turn off the tap. The last Labour Government

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did not impose any restrictions on the EU migrants. But the counter to

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that is businesses in Yorkshire can go and trade across the EU, workers

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in Yorkshire can go and work across the EU. If we are better to look at

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what are the skills and values, what other ways of working, of

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these immigrant workers, and how do we as a British born workers try

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and match them? Then these jobs will be much more accessible --

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acceptable for local people. Godfry, but in many places migrant

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people a part of the fabric of society. They are here to stay,

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aren't they? This is typical of the intellectual dishonesty of the

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Conservative Party. You are quite right, there is absolutely nothing

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that can be done, and you cannot blame the previous Government. If

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you cannot restrict immigration from European Union countries. If

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people come here from eastern Europe where they are badly paid

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and come here to do jobs that either we will not do our cannot do.

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So it is completely ridiculous to say that we can do anything about

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it. While we are part of the European Union, our immigration

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policy will be decided in Brussels and not Westminster. I think a

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little honesty from Julian Smith would be valid for.

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I knew been dishonest? Are as I said, we cannot do anything about

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European immigration, but as I suggested, there are lessons that

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can be learned from immigrant workers who are coming here and

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proving attractive to employers. The work programme, various

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policies to get local workforce skilled up are important, but it is

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also an attitude of mind. Our British-born workers have quite a

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lot to learn from many of these migrants coming and taking jobs

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that they feel they should be getting. So how do you get, Godfrey

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Bloom, British people off benefits and into work? Well, the last thing

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you do is to pay perfectly fit young men and women to sit at home

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watching television. So this welfare culture which has been

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brought on needs to stop and is to stop straight away. We also needs

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to look at art education system to look at better in -- providing

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better educated people, and getting away from the system where people

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do not have the work ethic. Many -- the man in your film is being

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tarred with the same brush as the boy who do not have to work -- do

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not want to work. I feel sorry for that man has lost his job through

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no fault of his or her. A group of be a -- bishops have

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written a letter today criticising the Government's limit of �500 a

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week which households will be able to claim in benefits in future. The

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Bishop of Ripon and Leeds is leading a debate. What is your

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message to him? He is detached from the reality of people who are

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working flat out to stay afloat in this very tough economic times.

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�500 per week is the cap for the Government is introducing. Speak to

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any of my constituents who are working in businesses bought in

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employment, and they will think that is a lot of money. The bishops

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to stick to his task of running and helping to run the Church of

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England and leave the task of the benefit cap to Mr Cameron and his

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