Paul Nuttall Election 2017

should not and we will not. And so what I ask you to do is understand

how things ever happen in politics. Six weeks ago we started our

campaign on issues such as integration and fundamentalist

Islam, at the time many people disapproved, at the time many people

said it was completely irrelevant, people said they were just trying to

find something. In the most appalling and terrible way it has

shown these are the issues that are fundamental concern to the British

people. We're talking about that time about short-term, long-term and

medium term of how we should address these issues but today, though now

it is about the immediate response needed to terrible events at a all

too regular so without further ado thank you Paul.

It is clear from the terrorist atrocities over the past month that

the Government are struggling to protect its own citizens. Our

security services are at any one time thwarting 500 potential terror

plots, they are monitoring 3000 hard-core jihadis around the clock

and keeping tabs, these are truly shocking figures. The police foil

plot afterthought in the neck of time now they're being overwhelmed

by the impossible scale of the task that they face, that task has

reached this impossible scale and it is a damning indictment of the

complacent British political establishment. An establishment

which adopted way back in the 1980s mindset that said Islamist should be

allowed to set up home in Britain because they would surely never

attack the place that was giving them refuge. It is an establishment

that has allowed hundreds of jihadis to return from five to four Islamic

State in Syria, an establishment that has abolished control orders in

place that was weakly, even as the Islamist threat was getting worse,

it is an establishment that was content to whip up cries of racism

against those of us who want clearer on a cause and called for a much

tougher approach on immigration. The Prime Minister finally took a step

towards acknowledging the problem, for far too long politicians in this

country have lacked the courage to name the source of terror within our

midst. I will do so again today. It is Islamist extremism. When I of

this fact in the debate in Cambridge last week, I was roundly criticised

by the leaders of the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens,

the SNP and the rest. These leaders are not prepared to acknowledge the

source of the problem means that they cannot even begin to start

sorting it. I want to make it clear Islamist extremism isn't cancer

within our society and it is a cancer that needs to be cut out. We

must be prepared to reverse the cuts to the police budgets. This has led

to 20,000 fewer police officers on our streets. We said this before.

These cuts were wrong. In these times of heightened terror we need

more police on the beat and an increase in community policing. We

must all be referred to reverse the cuts to the prison services and to

swallow the keepers referred to recruit 7000 more officers in an

effort to curtail the radicalisation of our prisons. We must also

properly control our borders. We are committed to recruiting 4000 more

border guards, here today, any British citizen goes abroad to

support bull fights for Islamic State should have their passports

revoked, their citizenship removed and never be allowed back into this

country. I also call on all parties to commit

to a major increase in resources for MI5 to help it in its brilliant work

in infiltrating, disrupting, and detecting Islamist terror plots. We

must also open a debate in this country as to whether we routinely

arm our police force, particularly in major cities. At the very least,

we must double the number of armed police officers as soon as per. Some

have said that some of my proposals have been extreme however I make no

apologies for taking nothing off the table to ensure that our people are

kept safe whether this includes tagging or indeed in the future

detention orders. And we must demand more from the Muslim community

itself. When it comes to reporting extremism. Here, the Labour Party is

culpable with people like Andy Burnham pushing the idea that the

Prevent strategy should be scrapped because it is uncomfortable for some

people within the Moslem community. It is clear that there has been a

breakdown of trust between Muslim leaders and the Prevent strategy.

Indeed, the report suggested that only one in eight referrals to

Prevent come from within the Muslim community itself. This is simply not

good enough. It is unreasonable to accept -- that anyone within the

community is on the path to violence. In fact, I would suggest

it is the minimum that we would demand from any decent person. Ukip

believes that Prevent should not be dropped but it should be redoubled.

Six weeks ago, at the beginning of this general election campaign Ukip

launched its integration agenda. At the centre of this agenda was a

determination that every young person from every community should

have the chance to enjoy the full fruits of British society and make

their maximum contribution to it. That we believe is the way forward.

Many of our suggestions, including banning face coverings, banning

sharia councils, mandatory checks for girls at risks of FGM were

widely derided by the Westminster establishment. Caroline Lucas of the

Green Party accused our integration agenda of being full throttled

Islamophobia. The Lib Dem Lynne Featherstone said that our policies

to stamp out FGM were outrageous. We were even accused of going to war

with the entire Moslem religion. I utterly refute that our integration

agenda is in any way Islamophobic or divisive. It is about bringing

communities together and ensuring that community cohesion is improved.

And I predict that history will prove that Ukip was head of its time

in highlighting these issues. Finally, it is clear that we need to

do more to prevent impressionable young minds from being is --

influenced by extremists. The authorities must get a grip on Saudi

funding of radical imams and mosques. It is time to close down

mosques where extra inversions of Islam are preached. -- extreme

versions. We know that the government has conducted research

into this and we call on them to release their findings. I repeat my

call for the banning of all Saudi and Qatari funding of mosques in

Britain. For all of the criticisms I have of Mrs May who I believe has

been complex and at best during her time -- commonplace and at best

during her time as Home Secretary they pale into insignificance in

comparison to the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn or a Diane Abbott government.

It would be reckless in my opinion to have as Prime Minister in these

dangerous times someone who has opposed every single piece of

anti-terrorism legislation put forward. Someone who has gone out of

his way to befriend terror groups in both Northern Ireland and the Middle

East, someone who has opposed allowing the police to shoot to kill

when confronted with armed terrorists. I want to make it clear

if there is a Ukip candidate go out and vote Ukip to ensure that these

policies are enacted. However, I have no hesitation in saying that

out of more than the 200 constituencies where Ukip has stood

aside in this election there are only a handful were I would

recommend a Labour vote. Kate Hoey, and Frank Field come to mind. In the

vast majority of other seats, Labour cannot be trusted on Brexit and

national security. The same is true of the Liberal Democrats everywhere.

So where Ukip is not on the ballot, I hope that those who voted for us

in 2015 will bear that in mind as they make their choice on Thursday.

Whatever the result, I will be proud of Ukip's campaign. We have set the

agenda as before on Brexit and immigration but we have also marked

out new priorities for our country and we have been the 1-party with

the guts to tell it how it is an integration and security. I have

never had any doubt that we would be vindicated on these issues and, in

fact, I'm only sorry that this vindication has come too soon and

has involved so much blood being shared. -- shed. If the terrible

events of the spring and early summer 2017 mark a genuine turning

point in political attitudes, the moment when moral relativism and

political correctness are ushered off the stage and a new muscular

approach takes their place we will have a better chance of preventing

another Manchester or indeed another London Bridge in the future. Ladies

and gentlemen, in any event, under my leadership, Ukip will continue to

be a patriotic party that speaks up for our wonderful country and sounds

the alarm whenever the interests of its people are jeopardised. I thank

you very much indeed. APPLAUSE Questions. Siobhan Robbins from Sky

News. You said we need to have a discussion about arming all police.

What's your personal view on this. Should all police be armed? I notice

that there was a poll on your station last night that said 72% of

British people would like to see the majority of the police being armed.

I certainly would like to see more armed police, particularly in cities

guarding places of interest, guarding places where obviously of

tourist interest as well. We work in different times. I work in Brussels,

Strasbourg as well. You see armed police everywhere. Particularly in

Brussels. You have to realise that we are living in a different world

where a small group of people hate us, hate what we are and want to

kill us. Is that yes? In our cities, yes. You have put forward plans of

reversing cuts to prisons and borders. How would you from that? We

have made ?35 billion worth of savings in our manifesto. We would

cut the foreign aid budget, there would be a dividend from membership

fee when we leave the EU. We would cut HS2 and look at The Barnett

formula which ensures in Scotland they are getting ?1700 per head more

than we are here in Britain. Everything is fully costed. It would

cost ?2.1 billion. Peter Walker in the Guardian. You've been adamant

that you are not in Islamophobic party. Yet your spokesman has called

Islam a barbaric death cult. Do voters not take these protestations

of Ukip not been Islamophobic seriously or do not have power over

them? It is like Groundhog Day. Every press conference. They aren't

my views. My views are that Islamist extremism is a cancer within our

country. Gerard has got his terminology wrong. They don't

represent the views of the party as a whole. But, you know, we do have a

problem in this country. It is something that needs to be cut out

and I think what I'd lay down today are a series of proposals that go

some way to ensuring that we don't have the kinds of attacks that we

saw on London Bridge the other night. Harry. You have made an

explicit call today for tactical voting. Is that going to be Ukip's

role in coming years to be the tactical voting party? No. Can you

blame your voters and supporters for lending their vote to a strong

Brexit backing Tory in a seat that you are standing in and don't have

chance of winning? If there is a Ukip candidate, go out and vote

Ukip. There is clear water between ourselves and other parties. We are

the only ones who really want to cut immigration. Not the Tory Jackanory

where they say they want to get it down to ten thousands but never

really want to do it. We have a real policy on cutting migration. If you

believe that the foreign aid budget should be cut and put into NHS and

social care, you go out and vote Ukip. There is clear water between

ourselves and other parties. If there is a Ukip candidate, go out

and vote Ukip. As for the future, is tactical voting what Ukip is about?

No. This is a unique election. A one-off. It won't be happening in

the future. That is why a number of our branches have stood down for

this one election only. One of your spokesman has said that mosques that

preach hatred should be closed down. Is that something you agree with? I

think that some mosques that poison the minds of young people in the

country should be shut down. I also believe that the funding of mosques

from Saudi Arabia and Qatar should be stopped. It is happening in

Austria and it should happen in this country as well. You say that

nothing is off the table. Would you consider a travel ban such as

outlined by Donald Trump? No. I have made that perfectly clear in a

number of press conferences. Tactical voting. Where ever there

isn't a Ukip candidate and apart from a handful of Labour candidates

that you mentioned, Ukip supporters should vote Conservative. INAUDIBLE

In light of the attacks are, do you think there should be... INAUDIBLE

I think that the copper should be awarded with the Queen 's police

medal for gallantry and then we can move an and talk about the George

Cross for civilians as well. There is an immense number of examples of

bravery. It just goes to show how great the British people are. We

will stand up in the face of terror for our fellow citizens and try to

ensure that everyone is kept safe. What needs to happen now is that the

government, whoever is elected, will show equal bravery to ensure our

citizens are kept safe, however politically incorrect or difficult

that may be. As for tactical voting, if there isn't a Ukip candidate in a

seat. Go out and vote for the Brexit candidate. I know that a lot of our

chairmen have had conversations with candidates from other political

parties. We need to get as many Brexit MPs in the next House of

Commons as possible. You talk about arming more police. Where do you

start on personal gun control? Would you like to see a relaxation of

that? No. And on costings, do you have any costings? You talk about

increases. We'd like to see 20,000 more police officers on the beat,

with training we estimate that will cost about 1.2 billion pounds. There

will be added training involved in putting more armed police on the

streets but, as I say, Ukip has a policy that if anyone has served in

the Armed Forces for 12 years, they will automatically be offered a job

in the police service. They are already firearms trained anyway.

Thank you very much, everyone. Cheers! APPLAUSE

I want to know what's really happening, who's saying what and

why. I've had enough will that of facts.