UKIP Event - live Election 2017

Good morning everyone and welcome to our speech on our new immigration

But before I start and introduce our immigration spokesman, I will deal

quickly with the local election results. We knew that these local

election results were going to be difficult. We knew that they were

going to be the most difficult local elections were going to fight. We

thought about we would be fighting them solely on a local basis. None

of us foresaw the fact that they would be made doubly difficult by a

general election. At the moment, the Prime Minister is being believed on

the issue of Brexit. She is able to talk the talk but walking the walk

will begin in September once the negotiations begin in earnest. And

Ukip must be there, not only as the guard dogs of the Brexit that we

fought so hard for but also as the country's insurance policy. We must

be there to ensure that the government does not backslide on

these negotiations. And to achieve these negotiations. And to achieve

this, Ukip must go into the selection with a clear and

forward-thinking range of policies that put Clearwater between

ourselves and the establishment parties. This will be most apparent

on the issue of immigration. We will be the only party that goes into the

selection with an honest and clear commitment to cut immigration.

Labour do not want to talk about it, the Conservatives have broken their

promises on this issue time and time again. Remember, the Conservatives

promised to get net immigration down to the tens of thousands. Last year

Theresa May's last as Home Secretary, a city the size of

Newcastle upon Tyne came to this country, net. It has been the

equivalent of a city the size of Birmingham over the past three

years. This is clearly unsustainable and it is clearly unfair,

particularly to inner-city communities. It has put strains on

the NHS, on housing, schools, on the transport network, and jobs.

Therefore we propose to do something about it. Therefore I can announce

today that Ukip will go into the selection -- this election with a

policy of balanced migration, meaning zero net immigration over

the next five years. For more information on this policy, I

handover to Ukip's immigration spokesman, John Bickley. Good

morning. I think you might have seen some of these faces here at one or

two might buy elections I have stood at over the past few years, good to

see you again. Thank you, Paul. If what will be a Remained dominated

Tory government after June the 8th passes Brexit, then outside of the

EU Britain will finally be able to reassess its immigration policies,

to achieve its own priorities as a country. This is one of the most

exciting political opportunities this country has had for many years.

If we get it right, there is the potential for calming public

concerns about immigration, improving race relations but still

allowing the brightest from around the world to contribute to our

society and economy. Public concerns about immigration is focused on

three main factors. The pressure placed on public services and

housing, the loss of community cohesion, and the impact on the

domestic labour market where wage levels for all working-class jobs

have stagnated. The unsustainable scale of immigration we have seen

since the advent of the Blair government in 97, we have sent out

search parties for migrants, and that is the main cause of the three

no should I have mentioned. The Labour Party deliberately engineered

mass uncontrolled immigration for electoral advantage. They also

wanted to change our society without our permission. They wanted to turn

Britain into a multicultural society. I do not remember them

asking us if that is what we wanted. I thought that was how democracies

worked. They assumed that their core vote had nowhere else to go. And so

they ignored them and use the benefits system to effectively bribe

them to keep voting Labour. Think about it. If you exclude small

islands and city states, England, the part of the UK that the vast

majority of migrants settle in, is now the sixth most overcrowded

country in the world. The levels of migration seen under Tony Blair and

Brown continued unabated under Cameron and Theresa May. In

contravention of a specific Conservative Thomas Paul has just

mentioned to bring migration down to the tens of thousands. I did not get

an a level in maths but I understand what is tens of thousands mean. The

Conservatives cannot even control non-EU migration. That is what we

are supposed to have total control of. Are they incompetent? Or are

they deliberately misleading voters when they promised to bring

immigration down? Most likely both, I think. It follows that for public

faith in our immigration system to be restored, we need to deliver

lower levels of immigration from now on. And this is the key point that

no amount of distraction from the other parties can get away from.

Ukip is the only party with the political will and the plan to

deliver this. Ukip will appoint a commission to oversee the reduction

of immigration levels, working to a guideline from around 600,000 in a

typical year to 300,000, measured over a rolling five-year period.

This will help it to achieve the main target we will demand of it. To

refuse net migration, measured over a five year periods, 2-0,

maintaining that over the long term. Achieving the target will leave

Britain in a good position, known as balanced migration. The case for

such a policy has been argued by Frank Field for many years. The

Labour MP for Birkenhead leads the House of Commons balanced migration

group. As Theresa May herself admitted in this speech to the

Conservative Party conference, the case for high immigration on

economic grounds has been massively overstated because advocates are

based their arguments on its impact on the GDP figure, rather than the

more relevant GDP Capital One, which is the Guild migrants are unlikely

to increase. If you remember, Theresa May said that at best the

net economic and physical effects of high immigration is close to zero.

So there is no case in the national interest for immigration on the

scale we have experienced over the last decade. And yet since making a

speech, Theresa May has continued to use construct -- continued to

encourage... They support the Bishop EU and they appear to advocate for

continued membership of the EU. It has been pointed out that a net

immigration target for a particular year is hard to achieve because no

one can predict in advance what the skill of immigration might be. Ukip

will not ask the new commission with achieving annual targets, but

bringing migration into balance over five years and keeping it close to

zero, measured as a rolling average, does not suffer from this conceptual

flaw. What it will require is political will. And the

determination to resist vested interests among the corporate

sector, who get the upside of an endless supply of cheap labour from

overseas are largely avoided the downsides felt in working-class

communities. There is nothing about the track record from the other

parties that suggest that they have the necessary political will on this

issue. It is only the Ukip campaign that has enabled them to talk about

it at all. The British people can be sure that Ukip are profoundly fitted

to radical cuts in immigration. -- radically committed. We will acquit

the migration control commission with an expensive to get powers and

controls as it sets about its path of steering Britain towards balanced

migration. We will introduce an Australian style points system to

rank migration applicants and we will also introduce a work visa

system that is applicable equally to applicants from anywhere in the

world, except the Republic of Ireland, where in respect of the

Common travel area, we will continue that passed Brexit. The interaction

of these two policies will ensure that the limited numbers of

successful immigrants admitted to Britain will be amongst the

brightest and the best. The people with the skills that our economy

must needs. We will introduce a moratorium on unskilled and low

skilled immigration to last for at least five years following our

departure. And resumption of full sovereign control of our borders.

This will prevent the taxpayer from picking up substantial bills for.

Let's see working-class people starts to earn more money. Because

their wages have stagnated for many years. We will, however, operate a

seasonal workers scheme for agricultural sectors. Based on a

six-month bizarre. The number of visas introduced will progressively

be reduced over time by the migration council. As other measures

are taken across the welfare system to increase the availability of

home-grown labour. Only Ukip's policies have sustainability at the

heart, with ethics and fairness. It is only by pursuing these policies

and introducing a bespoke UK Visa system that we can be confident of

immigration will benefit Britain and more importantly its citizens. I

think it is fair to say that if you are a betting person that there will

be a Tory government on the June the 8th with a large majority. That

being the case, they will have no excuses to not deliver on their

immigration policies. And for that matter, Brexit, which as far as Ukip

is concerned, we leave the EU and its institutions, and their control

on the UK, without paying an exit fee. As you all know, we have

contributed almost ?200 billion net to the EU since we have joined, one

of their top three paymasters. I think we have done our bit for

contributing to the EU. The Tories have a worse job of

immigration than the Labour Party, that takes some beating. Non-EU

immigration which we're supposed to have total control of is out of

control. By the Tories having 100% control of it. You could have forced

the Tories to state they are going to deliver Ukip policies. Isn't it

ironic? Brexit, immigration and grammar schools. We believe they

will not do so. As was exemplified by Amber arrived. The Home Secretary

totally failed to convince anyone that the Tories are serious about

controlling immigration. They know that last year getting referendum

result was driven by our country at the desire to take back control of

immigration but there is no will in the Tory party to deliver. Either

they maintain Theresa May's vacuous policy of ten thousands a year. A

promise they failed to deliver in seven years. In the seven years

since Theresa May has been Home Secretary or Prime Minister, 2

million net extra people have come to this country, almost two times

the size of Birmingham, thank you Theresa May. That's 4 million people

in gross terms, four The Times of Birmingham. The Tories are so thin

hooks with their multinational corporate chance they would rather

see wages for people in this country to go down and not act on the

interests of the big corporations. Ukip will continue to hold the

Tories to account and if necessary, force them to deliver what the

British people want. Ukip hasn't and won't be going away. Thank you.

APPLAUSE We will do question and answer

together. Doesn't Theresa May half of the

ultimate immigration pledge, Brexit. What need is there now for Ukip?

Well, Brexit means you can take back control but whether you actually

have the willpower to take back control is another thing. Let's not

forget the Tories have had the power to do something about non-EU

migration for many years but still running at an unacceptable level.

What's clear is that on June 23, people didn't just walk to take back

control of our borders, they voted to cut immigration and I think

Theresa May's past record as Home Secretary and the Conservatives's

past record on this issue simply proves that the won't... You've had

David Davis in the past fortnight talking about immigration levels

running at this level for the foreseeable future, into the next

decade, that's completely unacceptable to the British people.

The only party that will have a clear and honest policy on

immigration going into this election is Ukip. Nigel Farage says... I

can't hear you. Nigel Farage said yesterday that Ukip could disband

within two news if Theresa May delivers the type of Brexit the

British people want. Do you agree and are you the man to answer this?

You are so facetious. It's not really what he said. He spoke about

if Theresa May delivers a full Ukip style of Brexit. It isn't going to

happen, there is no chance that will happen whatsoever. I'm confident

that she will begin to backslide once these negotiations start, I'm

convinced that fisheries will be bartered away first, I think there

will certainly be movement on immigration and a lack of control of

our borders. I think we'll still end up paying some form of divorce Bill.

I don't think... Looking at half past record I'm pretty confident

that Ukip will not only still survive into the future, but the

full Brexit Ukip, once these negotiations start, it could be

bigger and I predict it will be bigger than the prefix if you was.

Am I the right man to Yazidis questions? At the moment I'm the

leader of Ukip. Can you be specific about who you are not going to let

in, is the reason you just going so far in the other direction is

because you want to try to trump the Tories because they swallowed your

votes at the local elections? The reality is the Tory party looks like

a Ukip light party, government. He is going to promote Brexit, David

Cameron's government didn't want to leave the EU, she tells her she's

gone to control immigration, I don't think David Cameron's government

would do that, we were told by the Tories for decades they were not to

be judges grammar schools, Theresa May now says she's gone to do that.

From a pure policy standpoint and with nobody on the green benches, I

would say currently we're in the more successful party in the world.

For actually forcing the government to do our bidding and do the bidding

of the millions of people who voted for Ukip. In fact, many Ukip members

and supporters are not stupid, they realise the only person who

technically can deliver Brexit is Theresa May, I think they are voting

and will vote for Theresa May, not the Tories. When you speak to Labour

voters who are our members or who voted Ukip, it's interesting, they

always say, John, sorry, we want Brexit, it's what Ukip fought for,

we have fought for Theresa May. Not the Labour Party. It's interesting

with Labour voters, they cannot bring themselves to say they are

going to vote for the Tory party, I'm voting for Theresa May. If

Theresa May doesn't deliver Brexit, which means leaving the EU period

and she doesn't control immigration, the Tory party, who most people are

going to vote for Theresa May and still hate them, will be in big

trouble. We will be there to pick up the pieces. Does it feel like you

are leading the most successful party in the world?

As for the more successful party, we have been, in terms of driving the

government into the position it's in now on Brexit, the most influential

party of the 20th century in this country. Obviously we have forced a

reluctant Prime Minister to give a referendum he didn't want to give,

we went out and campaign for Brexit hard to ensure that Brexit was

achieved and obviously the people went out in bigger numbers than ever

before on June 23 in a referendum which will galvanise the country and

of people interested in politics and they voted to leave the school trick

-- Schelotto -- leave the block. As for students, as for the detail of

this, we want an Australian points-based system, which will not

discriminate against anybody. If you have got the skills that this

country requires, we want you to come here and work and take part

fully in our society. Of course, students will also be, we don't want

students taken out of the immigration figures, we want them to

still be counted and I think there are certain forces in the

Conservative Party who wanted them to be taken out so they could

massage the figures to show they were coming down when in fact they

were not. Write using the 200,000 people per year are still arriving

if your policy comes right? With net zero migration, in the initial

five-year rolling term from an average of 300,000 a year. We are

loving a lot of flexibility net. A lot of stability for the migration

control commission, talking with industry and all sectors of society

to get the balance right and that means in any given year it will go

up and down. Very much about setting the parameters of what we want to

achieve but then recognising the need for flexibility in labour

markets. Macro the key thing here, for as long as

any of us can remember, no government, labour or Tory Lib Dem

has managed to achieve net zero migration. In the last 15 years it's

got out of control, starting with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown government

who deliberately engineered massive uncontrolled immigration. It's a

zero figure, balanced migration and that gives us an opportunity to

actually started what people in this country want with are just pulling

up the drawbridge, we don't want to do that.

I'll answer that point first and come back onto it. I want a great

Brexit, I don't want a bad Brexit, I'm prepared to put country above

party, I want the best Brexit possible. I wish Theresa May all the

best going into these negotiations. One of the duties of Ukip in the

years to come, we must be the backbone of the government when they

enter into these negotiations and that's why it's so imperative that

Ukip stays on the pitch and Ukip ravines viable electoral force

because as Nigel Farage said yesterday, Ukip is the country and

an insurance policy. In case the government do begin to backslide. As

for your first question, which was about people coming in, people going

out, the point about zero net migration over a five-year period,

firstly this has been called for number of years in the House of

Commons by Frank Field and Nick Soames and others and this is all

about managing the population because at the moment, we are

allowing net our population to grow at the rate of a city the size of

Newcastle every single year. It's bad for the NHS, it puts pressure on

the NHS, it puts pressure on housing, it puts pressure on the

transport network, on schools, which are bursting to capacity, it's all

about managing population. The zero migration is being said in

a flexible way. Have you going to support the NHS and the other

things? Your fault collapsed -- your vote collapsed. It is quite

reasonable for a country, a so-called sovereign nation to decide

who comes here and we think our target is reasonable. It still says

we want to attract the brightest and best in the world. I want anyone in

the world to look at Great Britain and believe that at some point in

their life they can come here on holiday, obviously and spend money,

come here to study, come here to work and maybe come here to live.

Completely open door in that respect but we must control it, we must set

the terms of reference. We still have over 800,000 kids 16-24 who are

not working, about 1.5 million people unemployed, we sent hundreds

of thousands of people into higher education and there's a question

whether that's the best for all of them and the country. Many of us

think that the reason we have so many people in higher education was

the Labour government wanting to massage the employment figures so

the more people they higher education the better the employment

figures. There are great opportunities to take the human

capital we have in this country and make it more productive. The one

thing immigration has actually shown, let's be honest about this,

there's been no shortage of jobs in this country. That's one of the

things it shows. There's no excuse for British people to say there

aren't any jobs. That's something that immigration has shown us, we're

an incredible economy that is creating lots of opportunities but

let's make sure it's our people first and foremost who are given

opportunities to move up the value chain and to take those jobs and

when it suits us, not some bureaucrats in Brussels, we'll

decide who needs to come here and the idea of the migration control

commission is that they will have the ability to move these numbers

around on an annual basis but knowing that over five years it must

average net zero migration. That seems to me think that the majority

of British people will say is pragmatic, sensible, grown-up and

actually the only party they can trust to deliver on immigration

policies for us because the Tories can't under Labour, the Greens and

the Lib Dems they want everyone in the world to come here and to hell

with the consequences for our public services and social cohesion. The

dip in the polls came within 24 hours of the Prime Minister

announcing there was meant to be a general election. It predated what

you called Ukip on terrible. We lost 4% the opinion polls. I think over

the next four and a half weeks, you will see Ukip gradually climb once

again. This manifesto will be radical, it will be forward

thinking, it will be ahead of its time in many ways and I want Ukip to

be out there and I want Ukip to be leading the debate, just as we did

over Brexit and over immigration, just as we did over grammar schools

and Ukip can look forward, I believe, to a pretty prosperous

future. You just predicted the government will backslide over

Brexit, you will not be challenging the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

and the election. What proportion of seats will you be contesting and do

you anticipate your endorsement of the Tories will go down well?

There will be Labour MPs that we will not challenge but they will be

real Brexiteers. We will be standing in the best majority of the country.

Just a quick couple of questions about immigration policy. If people

are at university and the UK, and we have zero net migration, overseas

students generates a large amount of income, is that a concern? And also,

with the ruling six-month bizarre, can you go home for a weekend? Let

me say this about students coming in, they are welcome to come here.

When they come here, they put pressure on housing and public

services. You cannot just have an unlimited number of students coming

here without understanding the impact that might happen on public

services. Think people forget -- and the thing people forget is that if

you want to improve your infrastructure or build new

infrastructure, it takes many years. In doing that, you need to make

predictions about the size of your population and how many houses you

need to build, how many hospital places, how many hospital beds,

school places. If you do not have ideas about what these numbers might

look like, you cannot properly plan and we have seen the consequences of

not being able to plan because immigration has been out of control,

where we have unsustainable pressure on public services and housing.

Anyone sensible will say, let's get a grip of this, let's start to

understand what the numbers will look like over the next five or ten

years. By setting parameters but leaving flexibility within the

parameters, you are starting to be able to make some predictions about

where the population is going and then that means you can properly

plan infrastructure. That is the sensible thing to do. Back to

seasonal workers, there you go, that is how it works. You can have a

six-month seasonal Visa if you are coming to work in the agricultural

is nice. I don't think we are very productive in this country during

the winter months when there is no or frost on the ground. They need to

be here when the work is available and that is during the summer

months. So we issue a six-month months. So we issue a six-month

visa. We also want to encourage our own people to get back into that

industry. These to be a time when it was a rite of passage for people

going through an internal gap year in this country on the way to

university or at university, to get some extra cash in, what would they

do? They would go fruit picking. That was the way we work an

interesting and productive economy. The idea that we just have to keep

looking abroad all the time to fill our requirements is crazy. We need

to make sure we have used up the human capital that exists in this

country and maximised its potential mop and then let's attract as many

people are make sense from anywhere in the world. I am not interested in

the colour of their skin, their religion, their sexuality, I don't

care. If they can bring about used to this country and it fits in with

what we're trying to achieve, great, welcome to Britain. Last question, I

will take two. Have you bought a house in Boston and Skegness? I have

not, but nor did I buy a house in Stoke. It will be rented. Will I be

staying in the constituency? staying in the constituency?

Probably at some point. Next question. In terms of the six-month

Visa for seasonal workers, you talked about wanting to reduce

entitlement in Britain, what happens if they do not take up this role? Is

a danger you become a parody party, without any MPs? Are you almost

becoming a parody party? I think you will find the majority of seasonal

workers in this country are British. But beyond that, are we a parody of

ourselves? Well, look, we were not actually just at the forefront but

the party that forced the biggest decision the British people have

ever made in a generation and could possibly be the decision we will --

the biggest decision we have made in the first part of the century, the

decision for us to leave the European Union. I think we have been

quite successful. I spoke to Steven Woolfe a few weeks ago and he said

that Ukip have lost their way. They once had a golden opportunity but

the next election will be a breaking point for them. What do you think of

those comments? He would say that, wouldn't it? That's it. Thank you

very much. Right, well done. Cheers.