:00:25. > :00:27.Good morning everyone and welcome to our speech on our new immigration
:00:28. > :00:32.But before I start and introduce our immigration spokesman, I will deal
:00:33. > :00:37.quickly with the local election results. We knew that these local
:00:38. > :00:42.election results were going to be difficult. We knew that they were
:00:43. > :00:47.going to be the most difficult local elections were going to fight. We
:00:48. > :00:52.thought about we would be fighting them solely on a local basis. None
:00:53. > :00:59.of us foresaw the fact that they would be made doubly difficult by a
:01:00. > :01:05.general election. At the moment, the Prime Minister is being believed on
:01:06. > :01:12.the issue of Brexit. She is able to talk the talk but walking the walk
:01:13. > :01:20.will begin in September once the negotiations begin in earnest. And
:01:21. > :01:26.Ukip must be there, not only as the guard dogs of the Brexit that we
:01:27. > :01:28.fought so hard for but also as the country's insurance policy. We must
:01:29. > :01:33.be there to ensure that the government does not backslide on
:01:34. > :01:38.these negotiations. And to achieve these negotiations. And to achieve
:01:39. > :01:41.this, Ukip must go into the selection with a clear and
:01:42. > :01:45.forward-thinking range of policies that put Clearwater between
:01:46. > :01:53.ourselves and the establishment parties. This will be most apparent
:01:54. > :02:06.on the issue of immigration. We will be the only party that goes into the
:02:07. > :02:09.selection with an honest and clear commitment to cut immigration.
:02:10. > :02:13.Labour do not want to talk about it, the Conservatives have broken their
:02:14. > :02:22.promises on this issue time and time again. Remember, the Conservatives
:02:23. > :02:31.promised to get net immigration down to the tens of thousands. Last year
:02:32. > :02:38.Theresa May's last as Home Secretary, a city the size of
:02:39. > :02:43.Newcastle upon Tyne came to this country, net. It has been the
:02:44. > :02:51.equivalent of a city the size of Birmingham over the past three
:02:52. > :02:54.years. This is clearly unsustainable and it is clearly unfair,
:02:55. > :03:03.particularly to inner-city communities. It has put strains on
:03:04. > :03:10.the NHS, on housing, schools, on the transport network, and jobs.
:03:11. > :03:23.Therefore we propose to do something about it. Therefore I can announce
:03:24. > :03:27.today that Ukip will go into the selection -- this election with a
:03:28. > :03:34.policy of balanced migration, meaning zero net immigration over
:03:35. > :03:40.the next five years. For more information on this policy, I
:03:41. > :03:52.handover to Ukip's immigration spokesman, John Bickley. Good
:03:53. > :03:56.morning. I think you might have seen some of these faces here at one or
:03:57. > :04:01.two might buy elections I have stood at over the past few years, good to
:04:02. > :04:10.see you again. Thank you, Paul. If what will be a Remained dominated
:04:11. > :04:15.Tory government after June the 8th passes Brexit, then outside of the
:04:16. > :04:18.EU Britain will finally be able to reassess its immigration policies,
:04:19. > :04:21.to achieve its own priorities as a country. This is one of the most
:04:22. > :04:28.exciting political opportunities this country has had for many years.
:04:29. > :04:34.If we get it right, there is the potential for calming public
:04:35. > :04:41.concerns about immigration, improving race relations but still
:04:42. > :04:45.allowing the brightest from around the world to contribute to our
:04:46. > :04:49.society and economy. Public concerns about immigration is focused on
:04:50. > :04:54.three main factors. The pressure placed on public services and
:04:55. > :04:59.housing, the loss of community cohesion, and the impact on the
:05:00. > :05:05.domestic labour market where wage levels for all working-class jobs
:05:06. > :05:08.have stagnated. The unsustainable scale of immigration we have seen
:05:09. > :05:14.since the advent of the Blair government in 97, we have sent out
:05:15. > :05:19.search parties for migrants, and that is the main cause of the three
:05:20. > :05:24.no should I have mentioned. The Labour Party deliberately engineered
:05:25. > :05:28.mass uncontrolled immigration for electoral advantage. They also
:05:29. > :05:32.wanted to change our society without our permission. They wanted to turn
:05:33. > :05:36.Britain into a multicultural society. I do not remember them
:05:37. > :05:41.asking us if that is what we wanted. I thought that was how democracies
:05:42. > :05:47.worked. They assumed that their core vote had nowhere else to go. And so
:05:48. > :05:53.they ignored them and use the benefits system to effectively bribe
:05:54. > :05:57.them to keep voting Labour. Think about it. If you exclude small
:05:58. > :06:04.islands and city states, England, the part of the UK that the vast
:06:05. > :06:09.majority of migrants settle in, is now the sixth most overcrowded
:06:10. > :06:14.country in the world. The levels of migration seen under Tony Blair and
:06:15. > :06:18.Brown continued unabated under Cameron and Theresa May. In
:06:19. > :06:23.contravention of a specific Conservative Thomas Paul has just
:06:24. > :06:28.mentioned to bring migration down to the tens of thousands. I did not get
:06:29. > :06:33.an a level in maths but I understand what is tens of thousands mean. The
:06:34. > :06:36.Conservatives cannot even control non-EU migration. That is what we
:06:37. > :06:42.are supposed to have total control of. Are they incompetent? Or are
:06:43. > :06:46.they deliberately misleading voters when they promised to bring
:06:47. > :06:54.immigration down? Most likely both, I think. It follows that for public
:06:55. > :06:57.faith in our immigration system to be restored, we need to deliver
:06:58. > :07:02.lower levels of immigration from now on. And this is the key point that
:07:03. > :07:07.no amount of distraction from the other parties can get away from.
:07:08. > :07:14.Ukip is the only party with the political will and the plan to
:07:15. > :07:18.deliver this. Ukip will appoint a commission to oversee the reduction
:07:19. > :07:25.of immigration levels, working to a guideline from around 600,000 in a
:07:26. > :07:29.typical year to 300,000, measured over a rolling five-year period.
:07:30. > :07:34.This will help it to achieve the main target we will demand of it. To
:07:35. > :07:42.refuse net migration, measured over a five year periods, 2-0,
:07:43. > :07:46.maintaining that over the long term. Achieving the target will leave
:07:47. > :07:49.Britain in a good position, known as balanced migration. The case for
:07:50. > :07:55.such a policy has been argued by Frank Field for many years. The
:07:56. > :08:00.Labour MP for Birkenhead leads the House of Commons balanced migration
:08:01. > :08:04.group. As Theresa May herself admitted in this speech to the
:08:05. > :08:09.Conservative Party conference, the case for high immigration on
:08:10. > :08:11.economic grounds has been massively overstated because advocates are
:08:12. > :08:20.based their arguments on its impact on the GDP figure, rather than the
:08:21. > :08:23.more relevant GDP Capital One, which is the Guild migrants are unlikely
:08:24. > :08:28.to increase. If you remember, Theresa May said that at best the
:08:29. > :08:34.net economic and physical effects of high immigration is close to zero.
:08:35. > :08:38.So there is no case in the national interest for immigration on the
:08:39. > :08:44.scale we have experienced over the last decade. And yet since making a
:08:45. > :08:51.speech, Theresa May has continued to use construct -- continued to
:08:52. > :09:06.encourage... They support the Bishop EU and they appear to advocate for
:09:07. > :09:11.continued membership of the EU. It has been pointed out that a net
:09:12. > :09:15.immigration target for a particular year is hard to achieve because no
:09:16. > :09:20.one can predict in advance what the skill of immigration might be. Ukip
:09:21. > :09:23.will not ask the new commission with achieving annual targets, but
:09:24. > :09:29.bringing migration into balance over five years and keeping it close to
:09:30. > :09:32.zero, measured as a rolling average, does not suffer from this conceptual
:09:33. > :09:39.flaw. What it will require is political will. And the
:09:40. > :09:42.determination to resist vested interests among the corporate
:09:43. > :09:48.sector, who get the upside of an endless supply of cheap labour from
:09:49. > :09:54.overseas are largely avoided the downsides felt in working-class
:09:55. > :09:59.communities. There is nothing about the track record from the other
:10:00. > :10:05.parties that suggest that they have the necessary political will on this
:10:06. > :10:09.issue. It is only the Ukip campaign that has enabled them to talk about
:10:10. > :10:17.it at all. The British people can be sure that Ukip are profoundly fitted
:10:18. > :10:22.to radical cuts in immigration. -- radically committed. We will acquit
:10:23. > :10:28.the migration control commission with an expensive to get powers and
:10:29. > :10:31.controls as it sets about its path of steering Britain towards balanced
:10:32. > :10:35.migration. We will introduce an Australian style points system to
:10:36. > :10:39.rank migration applicants and we will also introduce a work visa
:10:40. > :10:44.system that is applicable equally to applicants from anywhere in the
:10:45. > :10:49.world, except the Republic of Ireland, where in respect of the
:10:50. > :10:54.Common travel area, we will continue that passed Brexit. The interaction
:10:55. > :10:56.of these two policies will ensure that the limited numbers of
:10:57. > :11:00.successful immigrants admitted to Britain will be amongst the
:11:01. > :11:05.brightest and the best. The people with the skills that our economy
:11:06. > :11:08.must needs. We will introduce a moratorium on unskilled and low
:11:09. > :11:16.skilled immigration to last for at least five years following our
:11:17. > :11:20.departure. And resumption of full sovereign control of our borders.
:11:21. > :11:36.This will prevent the taxpayer from picking up substantial bills for.
:11:37. > :11:40.Let's see working-class people starts to earn more money. Because
:11:41. > :11:48.their wages have stagnated for many years. We will, however, operate a
:11:49. > :11:53.seasonal workers scheme for agricultural sectors. Based on a
:11:54. > :11:55.six-month bizarre. The number of visas introduced will progressively
:11:56. > :12:02.be reduced over time by the migration council. As other measures
:12:03. > :12:07.are taken across the welfare system to increase the availability of
:12:08. > :12:12.home-grown labour. Only Ukip's policies have sustainability at the
:12:13. > :12:17.heart, with ethics and fairness. It is only by pursuing these policies
:12:18. > :12:21.and introducing a bespoke UK Visa system that we can be confident of
:12:22. > :12:26.immigration will benefit Britain and more importantly its citizens. I
:12:27. > :12:30.think it is fair to say that if you are a betting person that there will
:12:31. > :12:36.be a Tory government on the June the 8th with a large majority. That
:12:37. > :12:43.being the case, they will have no excuses to not deliver on their
:12:44. > :12:49.immigration policies. And for that matter, Brexit, which as far as Ukip
:12:50. > :12:54.is concerned, we leave the EU and its institutions, and their control
:12:55. > :12:59.on the UK, without paying an exit fee. As you all know, we have
:13:00. > :13:04.contributed almost ?200 billion net to the EU since we have joined, one
:13:05. > :13:06.of their top three paymasters. I think we have done our bit for
:13:07. > :13:39.contributing to the EU. The Tories have a worse job of
:13:40. > :13:45.immigration than the Labour Party, that takes some beating. Non-EU
:13:46. > :13:50.immigration which we're supposed to have total control of is out of
:13:51. > :13:56.control. By the Tories having 100% control of it. You could have forced
:13:57. > :14:01.the Tories to state they are going to deliver Ukip policies. Isn't it
:14:02. > :14:06.ironic? Brexit, immigration and grammar schools. We believe they
:14:07. > :14:12.will not do so. As was exemplified by Amber arrived. The Home Secretary
:14:13. > :14:17.totally failed to convince anyone that the Tories are serious about
:14:18. > :14:21.controlling immigration. They know that last year getting referendum
:14:22. > :14:25.result was driven by our country at the desire to take back control of
:14:26. > :14:30.immigration but there is no will in the Tory party to deliver. Either
:14:31. > :14:35.they maintain Theresa May's vacuous policy of ten thousands a year. A
:14:36. > :14:40.promise they failed to deliver in seven years. In the seven years
:14:41. > :14:43.since Theresa May has been Home Secretary or Prime Minister, 2
:14:44. > :14:47.million net extra people have come to this country, almost two times
:14:48. > :14:53.the size of Birmingham, thank you Theresa May. That's 4 million people
:14:54. > :15:04.in gross terms, four The Times of Birmingham. The Tories are so thin
:15:05. > :15:07.hooks with their multinational corporate chance they would rather
:15:08. > :15:14.see wages for people in this country to go down and not act on the
:15:15. > :15:18.interests of the big corporations. Ukip will continue to hold the
:15:19. > :15:22.Tories to account and if necessary, force them to deliver what the
:15:23. > :15:24.British people want. Ukip hasn't and won't be going away. Thank you.
:15:25. > :15:34.APPLAUSE We will do question and answer
:15:35. > :16:02.together. Doesn't Theresa May half of the
:16:03. > :16:11.ultimate immigration pledge, Brexit. What need is there now for Ukip?
:16:12. > :16:15.Well, Brexit means you can take back control but whether you actually
:16:16. > :16:18.have the willpower to take back control is another thing. Let's not
:16:19. > :16:25.forget the Tories have had the power to do something about non-EU
:16:26. > :16:30.migration for many years but still running at an unacceptable level.
:16:31. > :16:34.What's clear is that on June 23, people didn't just walk to take back
:16:35. > :16:38.control of our borders, they voted to cut immigration and I think
:16:39. > :16:40.Theresa May's past record as Home Secretary and the Conservatives's
:16:41. > :16:46.past record on this issue simply proves that the won't... You've had
:16:47. > :16:50.David Davis in the past fortnight talking about immigration levels
:16:51. > :16:53.running at this level for the foreseeable future, into the next
:16:54. > :16:57.decade, that's completely unacceptable to the British people.
:16:58. > :17:00.The only party that will have a clear and honest policy on
:17:01. > :17:19.immigration going into this election is Ukip. Nigel Farage says... I
:17:20. > :17:22.can't hear you. Nigel Farage said yesterday that Ukip could disband
:17:23. > :17:28.within two news if Theresa May delivers the type of Brexit the
:17:29. > :17:34.British people want. Do you agree and are you the man to answer this?
:17:35. > :17:43.You are so facetious. It's not really what he said. He spoke about
:17:44. > :17:48.if Theresa May delivers a full Ukip style of Brexit. It isn't going to
:17:49. > :17:53.happen, there is no chance that will happen whatsoever. I'm confident
:17:54. > :17:56.that she will begin to backslide once these negotiations start, I'm
:17:57. > :18:01.convinced that fisheries will be bartered away first, I think there
:18:02. > :18:05.will certainly be movement on immigration and a lack of control of
:18:06. > :18:12.our borders. I think we'll still end up paying some form of divorce Bill.
:18:13. > :18:15.I don't think... Looking at half past record I'm pretty confident
:18:16. > :18:21.that Ukip will not only still survive into the future, but the
:18:22. > :18:26.full Brexit Ukip, once these negotiations start, it could be
:18:27. > :18:31.bigger and I predict it will be bigger than the prefix if you was.
:18:32. > :18:41.Am I the right man to Yazidis questions? At the moment I'm the
:18:42. > :18:46.leader of Ukip. Can you be specific about who you are not going to let
:18:47. > :18:50.in, is the reason you just going so far in the other direction is
:18:51. > :18:56.because you want to try to trump the Tories because they swallowed your
:18:57. > :19:04.votes at the local elections? The reality is the Tory party looks like
:19:05. > :19:08.a Ukip light party, government. He is going to promote Brexit, David
:19:09. > :19:11.Cameron's government didn't want to leave the EU, she tells her she's
:19:12. > :19:14.gone to control immigration, I don't think David Cameron's government
:19:15. > :19:18.would do that, we were told by the Tories for decades they were not to
:19:19. > :19:22.be judges grammar schools, Theresa May now says she's gone to do that.
:19:23. > :19:26.From a pure policy standpoint and with nobody on the green benches, I
:19:27. > :19:34.would say currently we're in the more successful party in the world.
:19:35. > :19:38.For actually forcing the government to do our bidding and do the bidding
:19:39. > :19:44.of the millions of people who voted for Ukip. In fact, many Ukip members
:19:45. > :19:48.and supporters are not stupid, they realise the only person who
:19:49. > :19:52.technically can deliver Brexit is Theresa May, I think they are voting
:19:53. > :19:56.and will vote for Theresa May, not the Tories. When you speak to Labour
:19:57. > :20:03.voters who are our members or who voted Ukip, it's interesting, they
:20:04. > :20:07.always say, John, sorry, we want Brexit, it's what Ukip fought for,
:20:08. > :20:11.we have fought for Theresa May. Not the Labour Party. It's interesting
:20:12. > :20:14.with Labour voters, they cannot bring themselves to say they are
:20:15. > :20:19.going to vote for the Tory party, I'm voting for Theresa May. If
:20:20. > :20:24.Theresa May doesn't deliver Brexit, which means leaving the EU period
:20:25. > :20:30.and she doesn't control immigration, the Tory party, who most people are
:20:31. > :20:34.going to vote for Theresa May and still hate them, will be in big
:20:35. > :20:42.trouble. We will be there to pick up the pieces. Does it feel like you
:20:43. > :20:56.are leading the most successful party in the world?
:20:57. > :21:04.As for the more successful party, we have been, in terms of driving the
:21:05. > :21:11.government into the position it's in now on Brexit, the most influential
:21:12. > :21:16.party of the 20th century in this country. Obviously we have forced a
:21:17. > :21:20.reluctant Prime Minister to give a referendum he didn't want to give,
:21:21. > :21:24.we went out and campaign for Brexit hard to ensure that Brexit was
:21:25. > :21:29.achieved and obviously the people went out in bigger numbers than ever
:21:30. > :21:32.before on June 23 in a referendum which will galvanise the country and
:21:33. > :21:44.of people interested in politics and they voted to leave the school trick
:21:45. > :21:49.-- Schelotto -- leave the block. As for students, as for the detail of
:21:50. > :21:54.this, we want an Australian points-based system, which will not
:21:55. > :21:58.discriminate against anybody. If you have got the skills that this
:21:59. > :22:02.country requires, we want you to come here and work and take part
:22:03. > :22:07.fully in our society. Of course, students will also be, we don't want
:22:08. > :22:15.students taken out of the immigration figures, we want them to
:22:16. > :22:16.still be counted and I think there are certain forces in the
:22:17. > :22:20.Conservative Party who wanted them to be taken out so they could
:22:21. > :22:35.massage the figures to show they were coming down when in fact they
:22:36. > :22:40.were not. Write using the 200,000 people per year are still arriving
:22:41. > :22:44.if your policy comes right? With net zero migration, in the initial
:22:45. > :22:49.five-year rolling term from an average of 300,000 a year. We are
:22:50. > :22:54.loving a lot of flexibility net. A lot of stability for the migration
:22:55. > :22:57.control commission, talking with industry and all sectors of society
:22:58. > :23:01.to get the balance right and that means in any given year it will go
:23:02. > :23:06.up and down. Very much about setting the parameters of what we want to
:23:07. > :23:07.achieve but then recognising the need for flexibility in labour
:23:08. > :23:18.markets. Macro the key thing here, for as long as
:23:19. > :23:23.any of us can remember, no government, labour or Tory Lib Dem
:23:24. > :23:26.has managed to achieve net zero migration. In the last 15 years it's
:23:27. > :23:32.got out of control, starting with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown government
:23:33. > :23:39.who deliberately engineered massive uncontrolled immigration. It's a
:23:40. > :23:43.zero figure, balanced migration and that gives us an opportunity to
:23:44. > :23:46.actually started what people in this country want with are just pulling
:23:47. > :23:59.up the drawbridge, we don't want to do that.
:24:00. > :24:05.I'll answer that point first and come back onto it. I want a great
:24:06. > :24:10.Brexit, I don't want a bad Brexit, I'm prepared to put country above
:24:11. > :24:16.party, I want the best Brexit possible. I wish Theresa May all the
:24:17. > :24:20.best going into these negotiations. One of the duties of Ukip in the
:24:21. > :24:23.years to come, we must be the backbone of the government when they
:24:24. > :24:26.enter into these negotiations and that's why it's so imperative that
:24:27. > :24:31.Ukip stays on the pitch and Ukip ravines viable electoral force
:24:32. > :24:36.because as Nigel Farage said yesterday, Ukip is the country and
:24:37. > :24:43.an insurance policy. In case the government do begin to backslide. As
:24:44. > :24:49.for your first question, which was about people coming in, people going
:24:50. > :24:52.out, the point about zero net migration over a five-year period,
:24:53. > :24:56.firstly this has been called for number of years in the House of
:24:57. > :25:00.Commons by Frank Field and Nick Soames and others and this is all
:25:01. > :25:05.about managing the population because at the moment, we are
:25:06. > :25:12.allowing net our population to grow at the rate of a city the size of
:25:13. > :25:16.Newcastle every single year. It's bad for the NHS, it puts pressure on
:25:17. > :25:21.the NHS, it puts pressure on housing, it puts pressure on the
:25:22. > :25:22.transport network, on schools, which are bursting to capacity, it's all
:25:23. > :25:45.about managing population. The zero migration is being said in
:25:46. > :25:53.a flexible way. Have you going to support the NHS and the other
:25:54. > :26:01.things? Your fault collapsed -- your vote collapsed. It is quite
:26:02. > :26:05.reasonable for a country, a so-called sovereign nation to decide
:26:06. > :26:10.who comes here and we think our target is reasonable. It still says
:26:11. > :26:16.we want to attract the brightest and best in the world. I want anyone in
:26:17. > :26:19.the world to look at Great Britain and believe that at some point in
:26:20. > :26:23.their life they can come here on holiday, obviously and spend money,
:26:24. > :26:28.come here to study, come here to work and maybe come here to live.
:26:29. > :26:32.Completely open door in that respect but we must control it, we must set
:26:33. > :26:39.the terms of reference. We still have over 800,000 kids 16-24 who are
:26:40. > :26:45.not working, about 1.5 million people unemployed, we sent hundreds
:26:46. > :26:50.of thousands of people into higher education and there's a question
:26:51. > :26:55.whether that's the best for all of them and the country. Many of us
:26:56. > :26:58.think that the reason we have so many people in higher education was
:26:59. > :27:01.the Labour government wanting to massage the employment figures so
:27:02. > :27:06.the more people they higher education the better the employment
:27:07. > :27:10.figures. There are great opportunities to take the human
:27:11. > :27:13.capital we have in this country and make it more productive. The one
:27:14. > :27:17.thing immigration has actually shown, let's be honest about this,
:27:18. > :27:21.there's been no shortage of jobs in this country. That's one of the
:27:22. > :27:26.things it shows. There's no excuse for British people to say there
:27:27. > :27:31.aren't any jobs. That's something that immigration has shown us, we're
:27:32. > :27:34.an incredible economy that is creating lots of opportunities but
:27:35. > :27:38.let's make sure it's our people first and foremost who are given
:27:39. > :27:44.opportunities to move up the value chain and to take those jobs and
:27:45. > :27:48.when it suits us, not some bureaucrats in Brussels, we'll
:27:49. > :27:51.decide who needs to come here and the idea of the migration control
:27:52. > :27:57.commission is that they will have the ability to move these numbers
:27:58. > :28:01.around on an annual basis but knowing that over five years it must
:28:02. > :28:05.average net zero migration. That seems to me think that the majority
:28:06. > :28:10.of British people will say is pragmatic, sensible, grown-up and
:28:11. > :28:15.actually the only party they can trust to deliver on immigration
:28:16. > :28:18.policies for us because the Tories can't under Labour, the Greens and
:28:19. > :28:25.the Lib Dems they want everyone in the world to come here and to hell
:28:26. > :28:29.with the consequences for our public services and social cohesion. The
:28:30. > :28:32.dip in the polls came within 24 hours of the Prime Minister
:28:33. > :28:40.announcing there was meant to be a general election. It predated what
:28:41. > :28:46.you called Ukip on terrible. We lost 4% the opinion polls. I think over
:28:47. > :28:54.the next four and a half weeks, you will see Ukip gradually climb once
:28:55. > :28:57.again. This manifesto will be radical, it will be forward
:28:58. > :29:03.thinking, it will be ahead of its time in many ways and I want Ukip to
:29:04. > :29:07.be out there and I want Ukip to be leading the debate, just as we did
:29:08. > :29:12.over Brexit and over immigration, just as we did over grammar schools
:29:13. > :29:20.and Ukip can look forward, I believe, to a pretty prosperous
:29:21. > :29:30.future. You just predicted the government will backslide over
:29:31. > :29:37.Brexit, you will not be challenging the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
:29:38. > :29:47.and the election. What proportion of seats will you be contesting and do
:29:48. > :29:54.you anticipate your endorsement of the Tories will go down well?
:29:55. > :30:00.There will be Labour MPs that we will not challenge but they will be
:30:01. > :30:08.real Brexiteers. We will be standing in the best majority of the country.
:30:09. > :30:18.Just a quick couple of questions about immigration policy. If people
:30:19. > :30:29.are at university and the UK, and we have zero net migration, overseas
:30:30. > :30:39.students generates a large amount of income, is that a concern? And also,
:30:40. > :30:45.with the ruling six-month bizarre, can you go home for a weekend? Let
:30:46. > :30:52.me say this about students coming in, they are welcome to come here.
:30:53. > :30:55.When they come here, they put pressure on housing and public
:30:56. > :30:59.services. You cannot just have an unlimited number of students coming
:31:00. > :31:04.here without understanding the impact that might happen on public
:31:05. > :31:08.services. Think people forget -- and the thing people forget is that if
:31:09. > :31:10.you want to improve your infrastructure or build new
:31:11. > :31:14.infrastructure, it takes many years. In doing that, you need to make
:31:15. > :31:19.predictions about the size of your population and how many houses you
:31:20. > :31:24.need to build, how many hospital places, how many hospital beds,
:31:25. > :31:27.school places. If you do not have ideas about what these numbers might
:31:28. > :31:30.look like, you cannot properly plan and we have seen the consequences of
:31:31. > :31:35.not being able to plan because immigration has been out of control,
:31:36. > :31:39.where we have unsustainable pressure on public services and housing.
:31:40. > :31:42.Anyone sensible will say, let's get a grip of this, let's start to
:31:43. > :31:47.understand what the numbers will look like over the next five or ten
:31:48. > :31:50.years. By setting parameters but leaving flexibility within the
:31:51. > :31:54.parameters, you are starting to be able to make some predictions about
:31:55. > :31:57.where the population is going and then that means you can properly
:31:58. > :32:02.plan infrastructure. That is the sensible thing to do. Back to
:32:03. > :32:06.seasonal workers, there you go, that is how it works. You can have a
:32:07. > :32:11.six-month seasonal Visa if you are coming to work in the agricultural
:32:12. > :32:14.is nice. I don't think we are very productive in this country during
:32:15. > :32:20.the winter months when there is no or frost on the ground. They need to
:32:21. > :32:21.be here when the work is available and that is during the summer
:32:22. > :32:26.months. So we issue a six-month months. So we issue a six-month
:32:27. > :32:30.visa. We also want to encourage our own people to get back into that
:32:31. > :32:33.industry. These to be a time when it was a rite of passage for people
:32:34. > :32:38.going through an internal gap year in this country on the way to
:32:39. > :32:42.university or at university, to get some extra cash in, what would they
:32:43. > :32:46.do? They would go fruit picking. That was the way we work an
:32:47. > :32:52.interesting and productive economy. The idea that we just have to keep
:32:53. > :32:55.looking abroad all the time to fill our requirements is crazy. We need
:32:56. > :32:59.to make sure we have used up the human capital that exists in this
:33:00. > :33:04.country and maximised its potential mop and then let's attract as many
:33:05. > :33:10.people are make sense from anywhere in the world. I am not interested in
:33:11. > :33:14.the colour of their skin, their religion, their sexuality, I don't
:33:15. > :33:17.care. If they can bring about used to this country and it fits in with
:33:18. > :33:37.what we're trying to achieve, great, welcome to Britain. Last question, I
:33:38. > :33:42.will take two. Have you bought a house in Boston and Skegness? I have
:33:43. > :33:45.not, but nor did I buy a house in Stoke. It will be rented. Will I be
:33:46. > :33:47.staying in the constituency? staying in the constituency?
:33:48. > :34:00.Probably at some point. Next question. In terms of the six-month
:34:01. > :34:07.Visa for seasonal workers, you talked about wanting to reduce
:34:08. > :34:17.entitlement in Britain, what happens if they do not take up this role? Is
:34:18. > :34:28.a danger you become a parody party, without any MPs? Are you almost
:34:29. > :34:33.becoming a parody party? I think you will find the majority of seasonal
:34:34. > :34:39.workers in this country are British. But beyond that, are we a parody of
:34:40. > :34:43.ourselves? Well, look, we were not actually just at the forefront but
:34:44. > :34:46.the party that forced the biggest decision the British people have
:34:47. > :34:51.ever made in a generation and could possibly be the decision we will --
:34:52. > :34:53.the biggest decision we have made in the first part of the century, the
:34:54. > :35:01.decision for us to leave the European Union. I think we have been
:35:02. > :35:09.quite successful. I spoke to Steven Woolfe a few weeks ago and he said
:35:10. > :35:15.that Ukip have lost their way. They once had a golden opportunity but
:35:16. > :35:21.the next election will be a breaking point for them. What do you think of
:35:22. > :35:27.those comments? He would say that, wouldn't it? That's it. Thank you
:35:28. > :35:32.very much. Right, well done. Cheers.