Paul Nuttall Election 2017

in public services and policies that will lift people out of poverty,

that is better than Tory MPs who will be a rubber stamp for Theresa

May's cuts. Good morning ladies and gentlemen

and thank you very much for coming. Six weeks ago we started our

campaign talking about those issues such as integration, radicalisation

and the threat of fundamentalist Islam. At the time many people

disapproved of that. At the time many people said that it was

completely irrelevant. At the time many people said Ukip were

floundering around trying to find something. I think that in the most

appalling and terrible way, it has shown that these are the very issues

which are fundamental in the concern of the British people and which have

to be talked about. We were talking about at that time the short-term,

the long-term and medium term of how we should address these issues. But

today I'm very pleased to say that our leader, Paul Nuttall, is going

to be talking about an immediate response which is needed to the

terrible events which unfortunately are becoming all too regular.

Without further ado, thank you, Paul.

Good afternoon. It is clear from the terrorist atrocities over the past

month that the government is struggling to protect its own

citizens. And during this election campaign it has emerged that our

security and intelligence services are at any one time engaged in

thwarting 500 potential terror plots. They are monitoring 3000

hard-core jihadis around the clock and keeping tabs on another 20,000

extremists who have given cause for concern. These are truly shocking

figures. For a long time those services and the police foiled plot

after plot in the nick of time thanks to some incredible work but

now they are 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 profoundly complacent British

political establishment. It is an establishment that adopted way back

in the 1980s mindset that said is the mists should be allowed to set

up home in Britain because they would surely never attack the place

that was giving -- Islamist 's. It is an established wood that has

allowed hundreds of jihadis to return from fighting for Islamic

State in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in recent months. It is an

establishment that abolished control orders even as the Islamist threat

was getting worse and it is an establishment that was content to

whip up crime -- cries of racism against those of us who warned we

were on a disastrous course and called for a much tougher approach

to both security and integration. On Sunday the Prime Minister finally

took a step towards acknowledging the problem. Fought 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 also it is

Islamist extremism. When I cited this fact during 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 Plaid Cymru.

The fact that these leaders are not prepared to acknowledge the source

of the problem means they cannot even again to stop solving it. I

want to make it clear, Islamist extremism is a 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 budget. This has led to

20,000 fewer police officers on our streets. We told you before these

atrocities had taken place that these cuts were wrong. In these

times of heightened terror, we need more bobbies on the beat and an

increase in community policing. We must also be prepared to reverse the

cuts to the prison service and that is wide Ukip is prepared to recruit

7000 more prison officers in an effort to curtail the rampant

radicalisation in our prisons. We must also properly control our own

borders. Therefore we are committed to recruiting 4000 more border

guards and I want to make it clear here today that any British citizen

who goes abroad to support or fight for Islamic State should have their

passport 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 the 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 possible.

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 Muslim community. It is clear that there

has been a breakdown of trust between Muslim leaders and the

prevent strategy and indeed reports have suggested that only one in

eight referrals to prevent come from within the Muslim community itself.

This is simply not good enough. It is in no way unreasonable to expect

any British citizen or resident to report concerned that another may be

on the path to committing horrific violence. In fact I would suggest it

is the bare minimum that we should demand from any decent person in our

country. Therefore Ukip believes that prevent should not be dropped,

in fact it should be redoubled. Six weeks ago at the beginning of this

general election campaign Ukip launched it integration agenda. At

the centre of this agenda was a determination that every young

purple 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, Chariot councils, monetary checks

for girls at risk of FGM and longer sentences for grooming gangs were

widely derided by the Westminster establishment -- Sharia councils.

Caroline Lucas of the Green party accused our agenda of being full

throttled Islamophobia. Lynne Featherstone of the Lib Dems said

our policies to stamp out FGM were outrageous and we were even accused

of going to war with the entire Muslim religion. I utterly refute

that our integration agenda is in any way Islamophobic or divisive. It

is about bringing communities together and ensuring that immunity

cohesion is improved. And I predict that history will prove that Ukip

was ahead of its time in highlighting these issues. Finally,

it is clear that we need to do more to prevent impressionable young

people from being influenced from extremist ideas. The authorities

must now get a grip on Saudi funding of radical imam 's and mosques. It

is now time to close down mosques where extreme Wahhabi or select list

versions of Islam are preached. We know that the government has

conducted research in this area and we therefore call on the Home Office

to release its findings. Moreover, I repeat my call which I have made for

many years now, 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 complacent at best during her time

as Home Secretary regarding these issues, they pale into complete

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 anti-terrorism legislation before them, someone who

has gone out of his way to defend terror groups in both Northern

Ireland and the Middle East, someone who has opposed allowing the police

to shoot to kill when confronting -- 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 of the 200

constituencies where Ukip has stood aside in this election, there are

only a handful where I would recommend a Labour vote. But in the

vast majority of other seats, Labour candidates cannot be trusted on

Brexit and cannot be trusted on national security either. 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've been the one party with the guts to tell it how

it is on integration and security, T. I have never had any doubt that

we would be vindicated on these issues. And in fact, I'm only sorry,

that this indication has come to seeing and have involved so much

blood being shared. The moment when moral relativism and political

correctness are ushered off the stage and a new, muscular

no-nonsense approach takes their place, then we will have a better

chance of preventing another Manchester or indeed another London

Bridge in the future. Ladies and gentlemen. Under my leadership, Ukip

will continue to be a wonderful party that speaks up for the

electorate and speaks up whenever it's supporters are jeopardised. I

thank you very much indeed. APPLAUSE

Use that we need to have a discussion about arming all police.

What is your personal view on this. Should all UK police be armed? I

noticed there was a poll on your station last night that said that

72% of British people would like to see the majority of British police

being armed. I certainly would like to see more armed police,

particularly in cities, are guarding places of interest, guarding places

of tourist interest as well. I think we are now living in different

times. I work in Brussels. I work in Strauss Borg as well. You see armed

police everywhere, particularly in Brussels at this moment. I think we

need to realise we live in a different world now and we live in a

society where a small group of people hate the way we live, Haiti

we are and quite frankly, want to kill us. -- hate who we are and

quite frankly want to kill us. So, is that a yes? I would like to see

more armed police in cities, yes. You have that in your policy that

you would fund extra police. How would you fund that? We have made

over ?35 billion worth of savings in our manifesto. We would cut our

foreign aid budget, there would be the membership fee of leaving the

EU, we would have the Barnett formula and we would also... ?2.1

billion. I am from the Guardian. You have been adamant she won not in

favour of the Labour Party and yet your Brexit spokesman -- you have

been adamant that you are not anti-Islamic and yet your Brexit

spokesman has put his bird anti-Islamic blog post out in as

many months. This is like Groundhog Day. What I will say is that these

are not my views. Islamist extremism in the cancer within our country. I

think Gerard has got his terminology wrong, they don't represent the

views of the party as a whole but we do have a problem in this country.

It's something that needs to be cut out and I think what I'd lay down

two-day race series of proposals that will go some way to ensuring we

don't have the kind of attacks we saw in London Bridge the other

night. Harry. Harry from the Sun. You have you have made an explicit

call today for tactical voting. Can you blame your previous voters for

lending their bait to a strong Brexit backing Tory in a seat that

Ukip are standing but don't have a chance of winning? No, because if

there is a Ukip candidate, go out and vote Ukip. We are the only ones

who really want to cut immigration, not this sort of Tory Jackanory

whereby they put it in their manifesto that they want to get it

down to the tens of thousands but never really want to do it. We have

a clear policy on cutting migration. If you believe the foreign aid

budget should be cut about money should be put into our NHS and

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

ourselves and the other parties, though if there is a Ukip candidate,

you go out there and vote Ukip. And as for the future, is tactical

voting what you get is about? No, this is a unique election. It won't

be happening in the future and that is why a number of our branches have

stood down for this election and this election only. BBC News. I

believe masks that -- mosques that breach 120s and boys young minds

should be shut down other but funding from Qatari and Saudi states

should be shut down immediately. You say nothing is off the table for

Ukip in this fight. Does that mean you would consider a travel ban,

such as outlined by Donald Trump? No, I have made that perfectly clear

at the number of press conferences. Do you think they should be awarded

for their ballot? Yes, absolutely, I think the copper should be awarded

with the Queen 's police medal for gallantry and then we can move on

and talk about maybe the George Cross for other people, for the

civilians as well. There's been an immense number of examples of

bravery that just goes to show how great the British people really are.

We will stand up in the face of terror, we will stand up for our

fellow citizens and we will try to ensure everyone is kept safe. What

needs to happen now is whoever is elected on June eight must show

equal bravery to keep our citizens so, how ever politically correct

order forgot that might be. As for tactical voting, if there isn't a

Ukip candidate in your seat, you go out and vote for the Brexit

candidate. We need to ensure we get as many Brexit MPs in the next House

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

you stand on personal citizens and gun control? Would you like to see a

relaxation Arr? No. toastie we have said in our manifesto we

would like to see 20,000 more police officers on the beat. That would

cost around ?1.2 billion. We would have more armed police on the

streets with training. Ukip has a policy that if anyone has served in

the Armed Forces for more than 12 years, they will automatically be

offered a job in the police, therefore they are automatically

fire arms trade. OK, thank you very much everybody. Cheers.