Live Ukip Manifesto Launch Election 2017

Basically we would welcome those changes, whether the UK

Government would make them, or mitigate them. Obviously our

priority is that it is a simple and straightforward for people who claim

the benefits they are entitled to as it possibly can be. In mitigating

policies, as we have seen with schemes around the bedroom tax, and

the removal of housing support for 18-21 -year-olds, it tends to be

necessarily quite complicated, not as straightforward as not applying

the policy in the first place would be, that being said, if the Scottish

Government were willing to make changes, we would welcome that.

Supplementary is to that. Given the potential cost of a judicial review

to third party, third sector organisations like yourself, and

given the potential cost to the Scottish Government on terms of

mitigation, shouldn't the focus remain on this policy in the source,

and given there is a general election going on, shouldn't we be

putting the pressure on the UK Government in the coming weeks, and

continuing to do so going forward, to abolish this policy at source,

this policy that is, as Adam said, has been voted against Scotland? Or

at least thinking of a geographical exclusion. If the policy can be

amended, and I mean the two child limit can be mended, changed or

removed, that would ultimately be of most use to women in Scotland and

the rest of the UK. Particularly in Northern Ireland where there are

devastating consequences of the way the exemptions operate. There are

serious reporting of crimes like rate to the police. And exceptions

to abortion health care. Difficult decisions to be made by the women of

Northern Ireland, he would not be assisted by any mitigation which was

Scotland Pacific. We would wish to spend as little of our member's

money as possible. ... But it is not enough. To light

candles or signal our upset on social media, when you are a leader

of a political party, you have a duty to set out how you would

protect the people of your country from the threat to their entire way

of life. There is no magic formula to turning back the tide of Islamic

fundamentalism, action needs to be taken across many policy areas and

it will take time to make significant progress. But the in no

doubt, the problem will not be solved if politicians are too

cowardly to confront or even identify where the problem lies.

More over, without the political will to take difficult decisions,

challenge communities and most importantly secure our borders,

things are only going to get worse. I was criticised by certain sections

of the media for calling radical Islam is a cancer in our society

following the Westminster attack, and I make no apologies for saying

this and I will repeat this today. It is a cancer that needs to be cut

out. It is the role of Ukip in our national political life to challenge

the cosy establishment consensus where ever it is failing the British

public. We did that on immigration control and we did that on Brexit

and now we will do it by tackling issues surrounding integration.

These are issues that the other political parties would rather brush

under the carpet. And the Westminster powers would simply like

to ignore because it makes them uncomfortable. The Prime Minister

has during her time in office presided over cuts to our police

service, and reductions in our armed services, too. She has put pressure

on the police to lower the numbers of stops and searches they carry

out. And no progress, whatever was made, reducing the level of

immigration to give social cohesion a chance to advance. This, despite

Mrs May's pledge to bring net migration down to the tens of

thousands. Indeed, this morning it was announced we have added a city

the size of Hull to our population in the last year. It is also a

dereliction of duty to allow jihadists to return to our country,

like Monday's Terrace. Anyone who leave this country to fight for

ceramic state should forfeit their past but citizenship and never be

allowed return. -- should forfeit their passport, citizenship. More

police, more soldiers, more prison officers and border guards are

essential. There are many other things in our manifesto, including

something that all the other political parties would love to be

able to offer but cannot. 11 billion a year spending increase for the NHS

and adult social care by the end of the next Parliament. That increase

matches the reduction we pledge to make in foreign aid spending. All of

our key public services came together to help the victims of the

terror atrocity in Manchester. The police, the Ambulance Service, fire

and rescue, and all of the hospitals treating the injured. The response

serves to emphasise how people who work in our public services are so

vital to our society and its civilised values. It is time to

start investing in them again. There is, of course, also a major section

in the Marek -- in a manifesto about Brexit. We

set out how we will keep the government honest taking the country

out of the European Union. We have laid at six key breaks it tests that

we feel need to be met to ensure we get the kind of brings its people

voted for last year. Ukip is the country's insurance policy. If the

government begin to backslide during negotiations, it must know that we

will be there. We will also be the party standing up for gender

equality. Freedom of expression, and equality before the law. Making sure

these values are applied in every community in the country. No doubt

we will suffer insults from the politically correct brigade for

doing so, but that will not deter us. They will be the same people who

called us racists or simply are giving for low immigration. Just as

we were proved right about the strains of excessive immigration,

and the strains it was placing on British communities, and we were

right about the way Brussels have taken our democracy, we will be

proven right again about Britain's integration emergency. It is seldom

easy being part of Ukip, joining an establishment party would offer a

far easier route. This party is all about believing in our country, and

putting it first. It is not the British way to turn a blind eye to

evil in our midst. It is not good enough to light candles and proclaim

extremists will not beat us. Action is required on multiple fronts. I am

proud of Ukip is setting out its patriotically gender for defending

our country and our way of life. And now I am equally proud to hand over

to my deputy chairman, Suzanne Evans, who will take you through

some specific proposals in our 2017 manifesto.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. I would like to extend my

deepest sympathies to the families and friends of all those killed and

injured on Monday evening. The worst of it is, as the families mourn, and

we unite in with Manchester, we know there are others planning the next

deadly atrocity. This terrorist must be stopped, this terror must stop,

carrying on as normal is not an option. Our first step must be to

make our country safer. That means reversing cuts to our policing,

security and defence budgets. Theresa May might like to betray

herself as a strong and stable leader, he can tackle extremism, her

record suggests otherwise. As Home Secretary she make deep cuts to the

border force, oversaw record levels of uncontrolled immigration. Even as

Islamic State fighters threatened to infiltrate Britain by taking

advantage of the refugee crisis. The Tories made 17,000 police officers

redundant. As the murderous ideology of the Islamists took hold in our

prisons, 7000 prison officers were taken out of service. As Islam

-- as Islamism travelled across the word, Theresa May cut 24,000 people

from our armed service. She has failed to stop extremist spreading

hatred in universities and mosques, net migration reached record highs.

The growing backlog of failed asylum seekers, failing to deport illegal

immigrants and criminals were hallmarks of their time as Foreign

Secretary. Nothing will change if Theresa May wins a huge majority.

Reportedly not a single member of the Cabinet really wants to see

immigration reduced. As for Jeremy Corbyn, a man who has lauded

murderous dictators, shows a marked reluctance to condemn terrorism, and

backs uncontrolled immigration, he is not the answer either. Ukip is

the only party you can trust on immigration. We know that the

country without Borders ceases to be a country at all. Strong border

control is the first defence against any terror threat. The only party

committed to a balanced migration policy, setting net migration and

zero for these five years. This means around 300,000 migrants can

settle here every year. We will make sure these are migrants who respect

the British way of life, embracing our heritage, culture and values. We

will test their social attitudes, if they do not agree, for example, that

women or gay people are equal, and not second-class citizens, quite

simply they will not get in. They Ukip's plans, 4000 more border

guards will be recruited, reversing Tory manpower cuts that have made it

easier for illegal immigrants to escape deportation. We will prevent

those with by theology is incompatible with British values

from coming into the country to spread their hatred and embed

themselves in our communities. As for the extremists already here, if

we can deport them we will deport them, no excuses. Of course,

controlling our borders and controlling our borders and

immigration alone will not solve this problem. It is too late for

that. These measures should have been put in place years ago, at the

very least after 9/11. Be you and our government failed to act.

Combating the terror here requires a shift in our attitudes, yet again

any Ukip seems to have the stomach for this. We have already spoken in

this election campaign about the failures of the culturalism, the

divisive philosophy, that anyone from whatever country, holding

whatever beliefs, may come and live freely in Britain and continue to

behave if they were in their country of origin. Consequently hundreds and

thousands of migrants arriving into Britain have never tried to adapt to

our way of life. Again Theresa May has a very poor record on this. She

backed wearing the niqab and the burqa. She hailed the benefits of

sharia courts. When there was a Theresa May Home Secretary, there

was not a single conviction for genital mutilation. Hardline

Islamist preach hatred on our streets, demonstrating against

cartoons, women can gain people, dues, and our country without

impunity. When you get to launch an integration policies last month,

left wing and cowardly politicians, left wing and cowardly politicians,

that there is an instant lamp problem in this country. We stand by

those policies and they were in our manifesto. We will ban the wearing

of the niqab and burqa in public places. We will not accept these

dehumanising symbols of oppression. There is no human right to conceal

your identity. We will seek to protect girls from female genital

mutilation. We will not tolerate the Islamisation of our schools. We will

do our utmost to disband sharia councils discriminating against

women. We must stop appeasing those who would overturn the liberties,

qualities and way of life that so many have fought so hard for. This

is as much to protect law-abiding Muslims as anyone else.

The new definition of the version of prison does not even mention the

word punishment in the Conservative manifesto, and they are more

concerned about being labelled racist than preventing crime.

Theresa May we can stop and search and said it undermined relationships

with ethnic minority communities, and Ukip warned it would lead to a

rise in knife crime and we have been proven right. 14 deaths in London

alone in the last three weeks. We would reduce the burden of paperwork

that police had to do, and because we believe the primary job of police

officers is to prevent crime and catacombs, we will provide them with

the manpower and resources need to succeed -- and we will employ 20,000

more policemen and women in a direct reversal of the Tory party's cuts.

Prisons, we need to keep dangerous offenders our streets and we will

continue the prison building programme but reversed cuts to the

prison budget, placing them with 7000 officers lost since 2010, and

only you kit is prepared to put its faith in a strong police force,

deterrent and punishment as the bedrock of our system -- only Ukip.

We are the only party to make national security a priority, as

well. They have made the Royal Navy a shadow of its former self and left

the Royal Air Force with you within 25 the planes for the first time

since World War I. -- with only 25 fighter planes for them Britain must

have a well resourced and fit for purpose and force us we will add an

additional billion pounds to the annual defence budget and by the end

of the next Parliament have 20,000 more Armed Forces personnel

protecting our nation. This is Ukip's costed plan to make our

country safer and we will reverse the cuts that have put our national

security at risk, 20,000 more Armed Forces and 20,000 more police and

4000 more border guards and 7000 more prison officers. We will refuse

to allow culture to be an excuse for crime. We will stand firm against

the barbaric ideologies and practices that have been imported to

Britain and protect those at this, is Liz -- Islamism will not be

tolerated and we will only bring to Britain at migrants who abide by our

rules for top our way of life is under threat, make no mistake, and

if protecting it means making tough choices then Ukip will make those

tough choices but keeping us safe is the first duty of government. But of

course it is not the only duty. What else is in the manifesto? Times have

changed since we launched the last one in 2015, and back them leaving

the European Union was Ukip's train and we outlined a vision of how

strong and democratic Britain could be we had the courage to leave --

dream. A year later the people found the courage and voted for that dream

and now Article 50 has been triggered and we dare to believe it

will become a reality. But Ukip will keep pushing until we are actually

out and properly out, and in his manifesto we set at six Brexit tests

which need to be passed before we can say we are finally free of the

EU, the right of Parliament to make our laws and for our Supreme Court

to actually be supreme. We must have control of immigration and asylum

and border control and not be bound by any free movement of people

obligation. We must leave the single market and the customs union and

take back our seat at the World Trade Organisation and there must be

no divorce payment and this should be done and dusted by the end of

2019. One more critical test, the Maritime test, under international

British fishermen should have the right to fish up to 200 miles of the

coast or to the halfway point between the UK and neighbouring

countries, but there are signs that the fishing communities might be

sold out. The fishing community should know they have a true friend

in Ukip and if the Tories barter their rights away we will fight them

every inch of the way. We will also introduce a programme to encourage

economical growth in the coastal communities that have suffered

mostly from our European Union membership, offering reductions in

business rates and giving local authorities additional powers to

rejuvenate our seaside towns. Ukip will not treat our coastal

communities as being at the end of the line. As in 2015 all our

policies in this manifesto are costed and we have stuck to the same

financial principles that we utilised in 2015. We are the one

party prepared to spell out big reductions in unnecessary and

wasteful spending programmes in order to fund our priorities. By

making significant cuts to the foreign aid budget and scrapping HS2

vanity projects, and amending the Barnett formula and ceasing to pay

contributions to the EU, we will be saving 35 million pounds year by the

end of Parliament. That means for the second general election in a row

Ukip spending proposals do not involve raising any taxes -- ?35

billion. We go into the election as the only party promising not to

raise taxes. Our fiscal approach is responsible and our priorities are

those of the British people. And of course one of the top priorities for

the British people right now is the NHS and care for the elderly. Ukip

believes it is wrong for the country to be spending nearly ?14 billion

year on foreign aid when the Red Cross is describing the situation in

our own hospitals as a humanitarian crisis. Ukip will reduce the aid

budget 20.2% which enables us to make our biggest spending page of

the manifesto -- 0.2%. We will be using the money we will be saving to

find the NHS and social care, and this is significantly more than any

of the other parties can offer. We can show exactly where the money is

coming from, new kit will stop sending so much money abroad and

make the NHS and adult social care services the envy of the world --

Ukip will stop sending. This will close the HS funding gap and it will

enable us to lift the cap on medical school places and fund the cost of

training, abolishing tuition fees for medical students providing they

work in the NHS for at least ten of the 15 years after they qualify and

it means we can increase the number of nurse training places and

reinstate bursaries and remove the 1% pay cut for NHS staff earning

less than ?35,000 year. We would have 24,000 more nurses and 3500

more midwives working in the NHS and we will be on the way to seeing

10,000 more GPs, as well. We are going to put significant sums into

improving mental health provision, especially for our children and

young people who are poorly served at the moment. Our plans include

developing a national school-based counselling strategy for England on

a par with those operating in Wales and Northern Ireland. We will triple

the amount we have ring-fenced for dementia, and rolling out a national

dementia plan to identify priorities and coordinate expertise and deliver

a bold new programme of research and treatment and care. Ukip values the

hard work and experience all the people bring to our communities and

the voluntary sector that would collapse without them, and the Tory

attacks on the elderly are shocking. Ukip is proud to say we will

maintain the winter fuel allowance, free bus passes and prescriptions

and I tests for everyone over 60 -- eye. We will keep the triple lock on

state pensions. Ukip will make sure the National health service is a

national health service and not an international health service and we

will roll out the toughest ever crackdown on health tourism, but I

would also like to make it clear, unlike Theresa May, that Ukip will

guarantee the right of the 167,000 EU nationals who work in the NHS and

our social care sector, the right to stay in the UK after Brexit. We are

concerned about that if you are concerned about cuts to the foreign

aid budget, please don't be, a study concluded that in the developing

world there was no affect of aid on growth, trade is proven to be a far

better way to lift developing nations out of poverty. We will

embrace the opportunity Brexit Britain has to sign mutually

beneficial free-trade deals with developing nations so they can

develop economically rather than rely on hand-outs which often never

actually reach those in need. We will still be spending the same

percentage of GNI on aid as the USA and more in cash terms than Spain

and Italy combined, and we will continue to fund aid projects that

make a real difference such as clean water programmes and childhood

inoculate chins and medical assistance and emergency and

disaster relief. -- inoculations. We will launch a dedicated 500 hospital

bed ship to improve the contribution Britain can make in times of crisis,

she will deliver relief to our Armed Forces on active duty is and two

civilians and refugees in war sermons and to undertake him and a

terrier missions in peacetime and she will also provide reinforcement

in case of urgency is at home -- war zones. What else is only Ukip

offering? A workable plan to create the homes our country is desperately

short of. Other parties promised to build hundreds of thousands of new

homes but this is pie in the sky because the builders aren't there.

We have a real answer to the housing crisis. We will roll out up to

100,000 high low-cost factory built modular homes every year. Homes that

will cost less than ?100,000 to buy so they are affordable on the

national average wage of ?26,000 year. We will create jobs as we go.

When we leave the EU some of the money we get back from the regional

development budget will be used to boost capacity in UK based modular

homes mar factoring. Homes will be manufactured where jobs are needed

and built where homes are needed. Mostly on Brownfield sites, so they

will be close to existing infrastructure and these homes will

only be for owner occupation and not rental and they can't be sold on the

open market. Only back into the scheme at a guaranteed cost plus

inflation. We will have grants for the poorest students and we stand by

our pledge to abolish tuition fees for science technology and

engineering and mathematics students as well as medical students. To cut

the cost of living for ordinary families, we would use energy bills

by removing VAT and the green levies and taxes we are forced to pay to

help the energy companies invest in renewable energy, and Ukip thinks

their profits are high enough already and if they want to invest

in renewable energy they should pay for it themselves. Ukip will remove

VAT from takeaway food and women sanitary products and we will scrap

the TV licence. These policies will save households and average of ?400

year by 2022, and finally when Paul Nuttall stood for the leadership he

pledged to create an image parliament and that is in our

manifesto. Ukip will put England on the same footing as Wales and

Scotland and Northern Ireland and we will sit in the chamber occupied by

the House of Lords which Ukip will abolish. APPLAUSE

I'm surprised that is the most popular policy. We will also cut the

number of MPs House of Commons and make sure they are all elected on a

proportional voting system meaning every vote will count. Our plans

will reduce the number politicians in Parliament from 1475 down to just

700, making government more smaller and saving the taxpayer a grated of

money. -- making the government smaller. I would like to thank my

policy team. And our finance guru who wishes to remain anonymous.

Katharine gun for her help with proofing and our designer who has

made the manifesto so pleasing and also Patrick for his invaluable

contributions. Ukip is the only party that is serious about tackling

the threat of radical Islam in Britain. We are the only party that

will reverse Tory cuts to the defence and security of our nation

and we are the only party that is 100% committed to cutting

immigration and introducing a compatibility test for migrants.

Ukip is the only party to have a serious costed plan to get the NHS

back on its feet and build more homes. And we are the only party

going into this election promising not to put up taxes. Our country

needs a radical social economic and democratic change and the blueprint

is here. Or you have to do now is boat for it. -- all you have to do

now is vote for it. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE

AKA can make you and Dave. -- OK. Question and answers. Your

opening speech, wasn't that blatantly exploiting the events? You

are exploiting it was no, it certainly was not exploiting

Manchester. What I wanted to do was ensure the democratic process

continue. The one thing they hate most about us is our democracy can

they want to see it destroyed. The best way of telling them that they

will not win is getting out and campaigning and debating these

issues. It was not trying to jump on the back of Manchester, it was

telling these people they will not beat us. Following on from that, can

you confirm you have not added any thing into your manifesto since what

happened on Monday night, everything you presented here was already there

before the attack of Manchester? It went to print on Saturday night. We

will do broadcast first. You say you are not exploiting Manchester, but

you say lighting candles is not enough, is that an insult to all the

people who come out dart... enough, is that an insult to all the

people who come out It is not insulting people. People have a

right to go out, and like candles, and showed their grief on Twitter.

For the politicians, it is not enough. The problem we have in this

country is the politicians are too cowardly, to say but the real issue

is. They like to dodge the question. We are the only party who has put

forward in our manifesto policies which we think will help solve the

problem. It will be a long process. A lot of issues, a lot of things

that will need to be action. At least we are the only party willing

to face up and say what the real problem is. We are not exploiting

any thinking that what we're doing is telling these evil, walked, cruel

terrorists, you hate our way of life, you will not win. I understand

you had very strong words for Theresa May, when Home Secretary,

accusing her of allowing jihadistss in. It sounds like you are blaming

her for this attack. Is that the BBC, by any chance? Please, please,

let's be respectful. No, I'm not accusing the Prime Minister. I'm

saying politicians have been weak on this issue for many, many years. The

record as Home Secretary, I think it is appalling. This is a Home

Secretary who cut the numbers of police officers, that the number of

border guards down, cut the number of prison officers. I am sorry, it

is not a good record at all. As for blaming her personally for the

attack, I am not. I'm saying politicians in this country are too

cowardly at the moment to actually face up to what the real issue is.

Peter Walker from the Guardian. You said, making great pains to point

out at the start of the speech, you do not believe the great majority of

Muslims in Britain are problem. Your manifesto has a picture of Gerard

Batten, talking about Islam, he says it is a barbaric, regressive

ideology. Backwards. Do you plan to get rid of him as your Brexit

spokesman, or not? He's sitting behind you, you can speak to him at

the end of this, and asking those questions. You could have put back

this manifesto to 12 o'clock, before the minute's silence? In ten minutes

time, the nation will stop to remember the victims. Surely you are

exploiting this? Of course, we will take part in that minute's silence.

We try to push this back, the broadcasters told us we could not.

That is the bottom line. We wanted to push this back. We were told we

were not allowed to. It has nothing to do with making the lunchtime news

first you are focusing on the wrong problem. Last night your energy

spokesman said it was time to consider the unthinkable with

regards to internment policies for people who went beyond the radar of

intelligence services? I have not seen what he said, I don't know

where he has actually said that. What I will say, we need to get real

about the problems we face in this country. What I do fear, there has

been an attack in March, one this month, I feel this is the future we

had to get used to. We are not tackling it. The politicians are not

prepared to tackle the situation was is internment useful? I'm not

prepared to answer the question. What I will say, we have to get

real, stand-up and be counted, to at least have the bottle to say whether

real problem lies. After the Westminster attack, you said you

wanted to see changes to the way Mosque funding was recorded? Why did

you not have the bottles with that in your manifesto? I will stand here

and say I don't believe... I don't think it is fair to single

out one country in a manifesto. The nature of this election meant it was

loved to spend a lot of time loved to spend a lot of time

researching the funding of mosques, but we simply did not have the time.

Given that I did not have all the evidence at hand, not fair to single

out one country. I suspect Saudi Arabia is not the only culprit. I

wanted to ask you and Suzanne, what is the point in this context listing

Theresa May's failures as Home Secretary on prison numbers, funding

the military, controlling borders, if you are not suggesting she does

not bear some responsibility for the security failings? I think she must

bear some responsibility. All politicians who voted against the

measures, or voted for measures to make cuts bear some responsibility.

As I said, when 9/11 happened, we should have had a serious rethink

about immigration. In did not happen. Of course the European Union

is equally culpable as well. I lay a lot of blame at the feet of the

commissioners. As Paul said, they were far too cowardly to face up to

the real issues in our country. And what needs to be done to keep people

safe. That has to be the primary focus of any government, any

politician. Frankly, if they are not prepared to stand up and do what

needs to be done to keep people safe, they are not fit to govern. I

stand by what I said. I will take one more question, I don't look to

push towards 11 o'clock. I will take two this Theresa May must bear

responsibility for what happened in Manchester, do you agree with that?

I did not say she must bear responsibility, the only person

responsible, or people responsible, are the terrorists. Let me make that

absolutely clear. Sometimes we are too quick to blame other people, but

the terrorists in the situations. The circumstances that allowed them

and their ideology to breed, allowed their hatred to spread, politicians

should have taken action on that long ago. Once again, my worry, we

have this horrific atrocity, yet in a couple of weeks' time, it will all

be forgotten about. Those families will not forget. They will still be

grieving. My worry is that the politicians will move on, nothing

will change. Paul and I stand here to say that must not happen. Last

question. The government will not tell us if they will prioritise

reducing immigration, which part of the economy would you be

prioritising to reduce it? We're looking at foreign workers who have

a job to come to. A job or they can sustain themselves and their family.

Workers who will actually be able to contribute economically to this

country. Also in our manifesto we talk about agricultural workers, we

consciously farming community, for incense, they are very aware they

need to have a period of short migration to get crops in, and so

forth. Which workers are most expendable? I think unskilled. We

have said we will put on the Tory unskilled workers for five years. --

put a Mahmood Taurean. There are young unemployed people in this

country. One thing makes me sick, they do not want to work? I am out

on the streets, they do want to work. They do want a job. There are

jobs they could do very easily with the minimum training. These big

businesses have to get used to employing British people, training

them up, and paying them a decent living wage, instead of importing

cheap foreign labour. Allow me to simply add to that, this morning it

has been announced we allowed a city the size of Hull to come to our

country in the last year. If we continue on this road we will have a

population of 80 million by the middle of the century. It is

unsustainable. Something needs to be done, we have any party honest and

realistic about cutting the numbers. One for social cohesion reasons, and

two we think it is bad for working class communities because it

depresses wages. OK, we will act to wrap it up there. Thank you very

much coming. The minute as 's silence will take place in two

minutes time. Thank you very much. Cheers. APPLAUSE.