02/03/2016 Party Political Broadcasts: UK Independence Party


02/03/2016

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Britain is facing a huge housing crisis,

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and nowhere is it more acute than here in London.

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Something like 600,000 Londoners

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have left this city in the past decade,

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and that's not because they want to leave,

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it's simply that they can't afford

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to either buy a place or rent a place.

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It's hardly surprising,

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when you know that the average house price now in London

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is half a million pounds,

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and the average age of a first-time buyer is now 38 years old.

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Now, I'm here in Dagenham to find out a bit more

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about the crisis in house buying and also in social housing,

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because this is something which is affecting Londoners,

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as it is affecting people all over the country.

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So, Debbie, can you tell us,

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what's your problem at the moment with your housing?

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Er, my problem is...

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is that there's five of us, me and my fiance and my three children.

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-Yeah.

-And we're all living in a two-bedroom property.

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Really? Wow.

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What's it like compared to, say, 10 years ago, 20 years ago?

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Um...

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Well, from when I got my first home in 2001,

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-um, I waited for about six months.

-Yeah.

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And then, obviously, from 2008, there's more overpopulation,

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less housing, so everyone's waiting longer.

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I've been waiting since 2008 for a bigger property,

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so I would say it's got a lot, lot worse.

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Whilst we're not controlling our own borders,

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and people have free access to this country,

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more and more people are going to come to London.

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We just simply will never be able to keep up

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with the rate that people are coming into the country.

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You'll never build enough houses.

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I'm going up to meet Jennifer,

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who lives on the 16th floor of this block in Dagenham.

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She's got three small children,

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and you can see the size of this lift - barely take a buggy.

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-Jennifer?

-Hello.

-Hello, hi.

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-Come in.

-Oh, great. Thanks very much.

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-It's a small lift, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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I don't know how you get anything in there.

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Um, so...

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-Jennifer, you're from... You're from Dagenham, aren't you?

-Yeah.

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And your whole family, isn't that right?

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Three generations, in fact.

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Cos, like, my uncle still lives in my nan's house.

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And then I lived with my mum in Barking and Dagenham

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since I was a baby.

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-My husband's lived in the borough for 30 years.

-Yeah. Yeah.

-So...

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You've been in this flat now for how long?

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-9½ years.

-Yeah.

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Why has it...? Why has it been so difficult? Why is it so tough?

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There's just too many people on the housing list,

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and you get people that come to the borough,

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and they get put on the list

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and then they get housed before everyone else.

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But do you think you will have to move further out?

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-I mean, do you think that's what will...?

-Probably.

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If we can't get moved here, on this list, then maybe a different list.

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-Yeah, yeah.

-Further out.

-Yeah.

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GIRLS GIGGLE

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But how do you feel about moving away?

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It's not going to be nice,

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cos obviously friends and family are here.

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But, if we have to move further apart, then...

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-that's what we'll have to do.

-Yeah.

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-What's the effect on you, you know?

-It does get me down.

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When they're asking...

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-VOICE CRACKS:

-"Oh, when are we going to get a garden?" Sorry.

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Mm, mm, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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No, it's tough. Very tough. SHE SNIFFS

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These are not isolated cases.

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Indeed, it's happening across London

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and, indeed, across the whole country, too.

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Our population is going up by over a third of a million a year,

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as a direct result of open borders.

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And we simply can't build houses quickly enough.

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The same knock-on applies for education and for health.

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I blame the government.

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The job of government is to plan for provision

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for housing and public services.

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But with open borders, we don't know,

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looking five years ahead, to within the nearest million people,

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how many folk will be in our country.

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Let's take back control of our borders,

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and let's plan for our public services

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and, crucially, for our houses.

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