:00:10. > :00:16.They are doing the knocking up for us. It is a remarkable exercise and
:00:17. > :00:21.it is not difficult. Don't over promise. Don't promise at all. I
:00:22. > :00:25.never promise I say to people look, we'll do everything we can for you,
:00:26. > :00:28.but I can't make promises we're not in power. When we are, hopefully we
:00:29. > :00:32.will, but it is those simple things you can do and do them well and in
:00:33. > :00:38.the next few weeks we will be producing a guide to tell and
:00:39. > :00:43.instruct how you can make a difference like we have done because
:00:44. > :00:47.in your seats, they maybe more demo graphically suited to Ukip you can
:00:48. > :00:51.make that difference and if you start acting like a councillor
:00:52. > :00:55.people will reward you by making you their councillor. It takes hard
:00:56. > :01:04.work, but if you knock on the doors and you start off saying, "I'm Tim
:01:05. > :01:09.Acre, is there anything we can do to help? Blimey, I thought you were
:01:10. > :01:15.going to put your arm out and instruct me to vote for you." That
:01:16. > :01:18.keeps the door open for 30 seconds more because you're offered
:01:19. > :01:24.something. You're the boss. The people are the boss and there is a
:01:25. > :01:32.why Ukip have grown as successful because the other three parties have
:01:33. > :01:35.forgotten what that means. APPLAUSE
:01:36. > :01:41.They were given an incredible reminder on polling day. This
:01:42. > :01:48.referendum is a revolution. People who know me, I always say the
:01:49. > :01:55.revolution is coming and the revolution is coming, but just not
:01:56. > :02:00.on the BBC! It has redemocrat advertised our countriment all the
:02:01. > :02:07.people who registered to vote, voted for Brexit. They now know where
:02:08. > :02:11.their constituency polling stations. When you vote once, you have vote
:02:12. > :02:17.many times over. I lost by 800 votes last year. But 3,000 people
:02:18. > :02:24.registered for the referendum, what might have been? But you don't win
:02:25. > :02:29.the next war by fighting the last one. If you two streets a week it
:02:30. > :02:34.makes a difference because people will say, "I saw the Ukip lot out
:02:35. > :02:39.the other week. They are knocking on doors. You only see the others at
:02:40. > :02:41.election time." We can do this and I'm optimistic of the way forward
:02:42. > :02:47.because the other parties now, they're broke. Theresa May can't
:02:48. > :02:51.smile. LAUGHTER
:02:52. > :02:55.And resorted to taking our policies and packaging them in a way that
:02:56. > :03:01.would question them in the first place. The Labour Party, well, the
:03:02. > :03:06.Labour Party, goodness me. Well done Agent Corbyn, you're doing a
:03:07. > :03:12.fantastic job! There is one more, the ginger one from up north! Well,
:03:13. > :03:16.you know, and we have that opportunity because Brexit allows us
:03:17. > :03:20.to solve the nation's problems and when you look at what issues are
:03:21. > :03:26.coming they affect us in Local Government. Who heard of pay to
:03:27. > :03:33.stay? No. A couple. I see a couple. Pay to stay is a Tory poor tax. It
:03:34. > :03:40.is a tax on the poorest in society. They're going to levy taxes on
:03:41. > :03:44.council tenants who you could have a married couple earning ?15,000 a
:03:45. > :03:50.year, they would be taxed by virtue of living in a council house. Do any
:03:51. > :03:56.of you think that's fair at all? And you think of the money we're sending
:03:57. > :04:01.abroad in foreign aid and they decide to tax our poorest. I don't
:04:02. > :04:05.care in the Labour Party is in a shamble and I don't care if Theresa
:04:06. > :04:11.May thinks it is not OK to be elected Prime Minister, you disgust
:04:12. > :04:13.me with your politics. Why is this Conservative Party, this
:04:14. > :04:18.Conservative Government so keen to squeeze the poorest in our society
:04:19. > :04:26.so that they can throw billions overseas? They should be ashamed of
:04:27. > :04:31.themselves. APPLAUSE
:04:32. > :04:35.We now can branch out and create policy positions that can attract a
:04:36. > :04:39.new wave of support to us and I'm very confident under Diane's
:04:40. > :04:44.leadership we will go from being a 13% party to a 23% or 33% party. We
:04:45. > :04:49.can do it. We are the people's army, aren't we?
:04:50. > :04:54.Well, I tell you what, if she wants to wait until 2020, that's fine by
:04:55. > :04:59.me because it gives me four years to sharpen my pitchfork!
:05:00. > :05:04.We have an incredible opportunity, but get out there. Let's speak to
:05:05. > :05:08.the people. The people rose up and now they're looking for political
:05:09. > :05:13.leadership. We can do this. Our best days are so far ahead of us and each
:05:14. > :05:17.day that passes gets us one step closer to achieving that dream we
:05:18. > :05:23.have of this country being the greatest in the world. We are Great
:05:24. > :05:26.Britain, let's not let the Tories or the Labour Party or the Liberal
:05:27. > :05:30.Democrats talk us down anymore. Let's get our country back the get
:05:31. > :05:33.out there, talk to the people, and let's make sure this country is
:05:34. > :05:52.great once again. Thank you very much.
:05:53. > :05:58.APPLAUSE Well, that's the whole zest of it is a winning formula from
:05:59. > :06:03.somebody with great experience and I think as we become more professional
:06:04. > :06:08.in what we do with council elections and the branches and hence we had
:06:09. > :06:12.the first branch chairman's conference in Derby a couple of
:06:13. > :06:17.months ago and that is what we intend to do. So we will win and
:06:18. > :06:26.thank you Tim for all your clear advice.
:06:27. > :06:36.Moving on to north of the border to, also a great rugby nation I have to
:06:37. > :06:46.say, David Coburn. APPLAUSE
:06:47. > :06:56.Hello conference. How are we all doing? Good, well, Michael Crick
:06:57. > :07:01.asked me this morning before I had my porridge, he said, "What's the
:07:02. > :07:09.purpose of Ukip now you've got Brexit? What's the purpose of that?"
:07:10. > :07:15.I said well, Mrs May has stolen all our ideas, she has stolen our
:07:16. > :07:20.policies, what would she do if Ukip seized to exist. It is more
:07:21. > :07:23.important than ever to make sure we are around, to make sure the ruling
:07:24. > :07:28.party, whether it be Labour or Conservative have something to think
:07:29. > :07:32.about. And hopefully we will become that ruling party. That's my
:07:33. > :07:36.objective. That's our objective in England and it is certainly our
:07:37. > :07:43.objective in Scotland where the Labour Party have completely
:07:44. > :07:47.collapsed. APPLAUSE
:07:48. > :07:52.Well, I can tell you, the only campaigners for Brexit on the
:07:53. > :08:03.streets of Scotland were kippers! Scottish kippers! Tom Harris the
:08:04. > :08:09.former Labour MP or MSP, he is an MP, I believe, who is running the
:08:10. > :08:16.Vote Leave campaign for the Tories stoogies, he was invisible as was
:08:17. > :08:23.his campaign. And Go in Scotland, they were completely manned by
:08:24. > :08:29.Ukipers, it was Ukip that won it. The SNP expected 80/20, well we got
:08:30. > :08:36.60/40, we didn't win, but 40% is a good number of people.
:08:37. > :08:40.APPLAUSE If it hadn't been for those Scottish
:08:41. > :08:47.kippers out on the streets I can tell you right now, it would have
:08:48. > :08:51.been 80/20. Thanks to all the Scottish kippers that got out there
:08:52. > :08:56.and lots of other people came up from England to help us as well.
:08:57. > :09:00.APPLAUSE Sadly the Scottish election well, it
:09:01. > :09:05.was a re-run of the general election, something we expected
:09:06. > :09:11.here. We got squeezed and the Scots voted, more importantly, to stop the
:09:12. > :09:17.SNP. That was their greatest fear, it worried them more than the
:09:18. > :09:21.European situation. The vote coming from the Labour Party, about 10%,
:09:22. > :09:26.shot across to the Tories because they were already in the Parliament
:09:27. > :09:30.and the BBC kept us off the media which was a disgrace. But anyway, a
:09:31. > :09:34.lot of votes went there and it stopped sturgeon having a majority
:09:35. > :09:38.Government which was the objective. Sadly, but we did very well, we
:09:39. > :09:43.increased our vote massively. It is always a good thing to do that and
:09:44. > :09:48.we are moving more and more towards getting people elected and that's
:09:49. > :09:55.our objective in Scotland. I think that Route Davidson has let down the
:09:56. > :10:00.Conservatives in Scotland. She was very rampantly prothe European Union
:10:01. > :10:05.and that has upset a lot of Scottish Conservatives. Many of them are
:10:06. > :10:10.hoping, or wishing to vote for Ukip and the only thing that's holding
:10:11. > :10:13.them back is the fear of Scottish nationalism and I'm going to be
:10:14. > :10:17.working with fibre of my being to get across the idea that they can
:10:18. > :10:20.safely vote for Ukip and that will be a vote that will work in
:10:21. > :10:33.Scotland. APPLAUSE Some of our campaigns have
:10:34. > :10:41.gone very well. We had a campaign about the named person Act. It was
:10:42. > :10:46.brought up by the SNP. They wanted someone to check on every home in
:10:47. > :10:50.Scotland, to check on every child. That's not on. That's not a
:10:51. > :10:56.democratic society. We made a fuss about it. We were on the telly about
:10:57. > :10:59.it a lot and we galvanised the other parties who voted for it and the
:11:00. > :11:04.Conservatives abstained so they were equally guilty. We were the only
:11:05. > :11:12.party in Scotland opposing this and we won and it was in the courts,
:11:13. > :11:17.they have turned around and said this was illegal legislation and
:11:18. > :11:21.said the perpetrators were authoritarian and that's from the
:11:22. > :11:25.Supreme Court. APPLAUSE
:11:26. > :11:32.This shows that Ukip in Scotland are being effective and we will be more
:11:33. > :11:36.effective. Well, wee Jimmy Cranky has been running around Europe
:11:37. > :11:39.speaking to every president there is plus all the presidents in the
:11:40. > :11:43.European Parliament. I think there are five of them. Seven of them, is
:11:44. > :11:47.there? Good lord, I must have missed a couple. Anyway, there are too many
:11:48. > :11:52.of them I can assure and you're paying for them, you lucky people.
:11:53. > :11:56.Jimmy Cranky was running around making the big oh, Scotland is
:11:57. > :12:05.staying in, we're going to have a special deal. Well, I went to see
:12:06. > :12:10.president, what's he called? President Shults he invited me in
:12:11. > :12:14.for coffee. I thought I'll have a convention with him and see what he
:12:15. > :12:22.says. Anyway, he said Scotland will not have a special deal. There will
:12:23. > :12:27.be no special deal. He received, wee Jimmy Cranky as he would receive any
:12:28. > :12:31.Prime Minister, from any of the German States as a matter of
:12:32. > :12:35.courtesy. There will be no deal. We entered the European Union together,
:12:36. > :12:47.we must leave the European Union together and that is that.
:12:48. > :12:51.APPLAUSE He told me, he no more wanted the bellicanisation of
:12:52. > :12:56.European States than we do. He doesn't want for example the
:12:57. > :13:00.problems in Spain with various parts of Spain wishing to remove
:13:01. > :13:04.themselves. He doesn't want to aggravate that or any of the
:13:05. > :13:08.problems that are happening in other parts of Europe. He is not
:13:09. > :13:11.interested in that, so whatever she says, she is talking nonsense.
:13:12. > :13:24.Brexit will be Brexit and Scotland will be out. She has to stop this
:13:25. > :13:28.nonsense because what she is doing is harming the Scottish economy.
:13:29. > :13:31.Scotland needs certainty, it needs to know where it is going, that it
:13:32. > :13:35.needs to be part of the United Kingdom. We voted for it. More Scots
:13:36. > :13:39.voted to remain in the United Kingdom than voted to leave the -
:13:40. > :13:45.remain in the European Union. We need to stay in the United Kingdom
:13:46. > :13:50.to make sure our country is strong. We cannot divorce from our nearest
:13:51. > :13:54.and closest ally in England that we have been together for with for the
:13:55. > :14:02.best part of 300, nearly 400 years, it is simply not on. Scots knew when
:14:03. > :14:07.they voted in the referendum on Scottish independence that we would
:14:08. > :14:10.be voting in the future. We must abide by the rules and the Scottish
:14:11. > :14:22.Nationalists have got to get that through their head.
:14:23. > :14:28.APPLAUSE Inconveniently from Madam surgeon, a third of SNP voters voted
:14:29. > :14:32.for Brexit. Not all of them like the idea of being ruled from bles
:14:33. > :14:36.anymore than we do. According to section 3 of the Scotland Act the
:14:37. > :14:40.First Minister cannot pronounce on the constitution. She should get on
:14:41. > :14:43.with the business of running a country where it has got a ?7
:14:44. > :14:56.billion deficit and sort that out first.
:14:57. > :14:59.We can't have a barbed wire fence 50 miles from Edinburgh, it is
:15:00. > :15:03.unimaginable. She is bringing in so many immigrants. She wants to bring
:15:04. > :15:07.more and more into Scotland and she is desperate to keep them, she is
:15:08. > :15:09.putting them on Scottish islands! Presumably because they can't escape
:15:10. > :15:18.so quickly! A lot of them want to move to
:15:19. > :15:22.Birmingham and London where there are more people of their own
:15:23. > :15:29.background, and they want to start their own business. And in Scotland,
:15:30. > :15:32.where the already problems with unemployment, it is bad for the
:15:33. > :15:36.people who already live there and they cannot set up their own
:15:37. > :15:43.businesses. And these people are proud, they want to contribute to
:15:44. > :15:46.society. It is not fair of her to people in and to think Scotland is a
:15:47. > :15:49.separate unit. We must work on our frontiers as Great Britain, not as
:15:50. > :16:01.individual parts of the United Kingdom. We need to be ahead of the
:16:02. > :16:07.game on this. We have to start thinking how Scotland, Ireland other
:16:08. > :16:11.parts of the UK fit in so that we do not have a problem with the
:16:12. > :16:16.different parliaments and the rights of those parliaments and the rest of
:16:17. > :16:20.it, and all the arguments that account for that. We must try and
:16:21. > :16:25.persuade people that having a parliament is a good thing, but we
:16:26. > :16:29.must have a UK Parliament, and that is important. We must start making
:16:30. > :16:35.sure that the constitution is something we will develop. Ukip are
:16:36. > :16:39.the only people not frightened to talk about change. The other parties
:16:40. > :16:46.don't want to talk about change. We do. To that end, we have been
:16:47. > :16:54.working on a constitution that can work to keep the United Kingdom
:16:55. > :17:01.together. That is our objective. I suggested the idea of an ancient
:17:02. > :17:05.Saxon name for the parliament. We need to try and make sure the
:17:06. > :17:12.British constitution works. We cannot go on with this Civil War
:17:13. > :17:16.being created by the SNP. But the good news is that they are starting
:17:17. > :17:21.to fail. People are realising they are not sensible. They are not
:17:22. > :17:25.bringing solutions. Just shouting Scotland is not going to solve
:17:26. > :17:32.unemployment or a deficit in the economy. Now is the chance for Ukip.
:17:33. > :17:36.The Labour Party has collapsed, there are a lot of votes to be got
:17:37. > :17:40.there. I am going to go after those votes. I will make sure we have good
:17:41. > :17:44.representation in Scotland and perhaps in the future, a Scottish
:17:45. > :18:04.Government which is the Ukip flavour. So there you go. Thank you,
:18:05. > :18:15.David. Now we go on to somebody who is as extremely experienced in his
:18:16. > :18:19.field, a long term Ukip exponent. If you have ever heard him speak on the
:18:20. > :18:23.subject of energy to a technical conference, I have no idea what he's
:18:24. > :18:32.talking about. But hopefully, it will be broader today. He may touch
:18:33. > :18:34.on Hinkley, on, off, whatever is going on, and where from here? Roger
:18:35. > :18:55.Homer, MEP. Good afternoon, everyone. It is
:18:56. > :18:59.shaping up to be a great party conference. We have heard super
:19:00. > :19:03.stuff from David Cockburn and other MEP colleagues from this platform,
:19:04. > :19:07.so you can see what a great team there is in Brussels and I am happy
:19:08. > :19:11.and proud to work with those guys. This is our first conference since
:19:12. > :19:15.our great victory in the Brexit referendum. This is the conference
:19:16. > :19:19.where we say farewell to Nigel Farage, at least as party leader,
:19:20. > :19:23.although I think we will see a lot of him in the future, and where we
:19:24. > :19:29.beat as our new party leader Diane James. I would like to add my voice
:19:30. > :19:34.to the tributes that have already been paid to Nigel. Each of us in
:19:35. > :19:40.this hall today has played a part in the Brexit campaign. But I doubt we
:19:41. > :19:45.would have won it without all the tireless efforts that Nigel has made
:19:46. > :19:58.both during the campaign and during the two decades when he led and
:19:59. > :20:02.inspired the party. We all know that Nigel is going to be a tough act to
:20:03. > :20:08.follow, but we wish Diane James every success is our new party
:20:09. > :20:13.leader. She has a very challenging job to do, but she has the skills,
:20:14. > :20:17.the character, the determination and the media savvy to succeed. I am
:20:18. > :20:22.sure she can count on the support that all of us in this hall and
:20:23. > :20:33.throughout the party in the task that she has undertaken. Diane will
:20:34. > :20:38.be making her own decisions and appointments for policy spokesmen
:20:39. > :20:42.for the party. If so be, I shall be happy to pass on my responsibility
:20:43. > :20:46.for industry and energy to whomever she chooses to a point. But I have
:20:47. > :20:51.had the privilege of speaking on energy for the party for the last
:20:52. > :20:55.four and a half years, so perhaps I may take a few seconds to outline a
:20:56. > :21:01.few key thoughts on that policy area. First of all, nuclear. I have
:21:02. > :21:07.always been convinced that nuclear energy must be a key element in a
:21:08. > :21:12.rational British energy policy. So initially, I welcomed the decision
:21:13. > :21:16.to proceed with a new nuclear power station, Hinkley C. But I have
:21:17. > :21:19.become increasingly concerned about the costs. Nuclear power is
:21:20. > :21:23.potentially cheaper over the lifetime of a reactor, yet we have
:21:24. > :21:28.struck a deal which makes nuclear energy as expensive as offshore
:21:29. > :21:34.wind, and that at a time when fossil fuel prices are declining. Add to
:21:35. > :21:39.that the increasing concerns over security with the Chinese
:21:40. > :21:49.involvement, and we have to conclude that Hinkley C is a bad deal for
:21:50. > :21:54.Britain. In fact, I would draw a parallel. It is a vanity project. It
:21:55. > :22:08.is grossly expensive, and I would put it alongside High Speed two is
:22:09. > :22:13.one of those white elephants which are going to burden our children and
:22:14. > :22:17.grandchildren with debt. Let's turn to renewables. I am the party have
:22:18. > :22:22.been opposed to wind and solar for a range of reasons, but mostly because
:22:23. > :22:30.they put at risk both affordability and energy security. That is true
:22:31. > :22:33.today, but we need to watch developments closely, because the
:22:34. > :22:37.costs of solar and wind are reducing. The industry is claiming
:22:38. > :22:41.what they call parity for renewables. They are wrong to do so,
:22:42. > :22:46.because they choose to ignore the additional costs caused by the
:22:47. > :22:54.intermittency of renewables. But equally, there are rapid
:22:55. > :22:56.developments going on in large-scale energy storage. Today, we don't have
:22:57. > :22:59.the massive storage which would overcome the intermittency problem,
:23:00. > :23:03.but in ten years' time, we may well have. That doesn't mean we are wrong
:23:04. > :23:07.to oppose renewables today. If I am right and renewables will become
:23:08. > :23:12.economically viable, with reduced costs and massive storage capacity
:23:13. > :23:16.by 2025, we shall still look back and ask why we squandered vast
:23:17. > :23:21.resources covering the country with equipment which, from that future
:23:22. > :23:25.vantage point, will look hopelessly clunky am old-fashioned and
:23:26. > :23:31.inefficient. So let's keep those thoughts in mind. Then let's
:23:32. > :23:34.consider gas. It was the Labour statesman Aneurin Bevan, and the
:23:35. > :23:42.Labour Party used to have statesmen back in the day, Aneurin Bevan said
:23:43. > :23:46.Britain is an island made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. And
:23:47. > :23:53.colleagues, we will have those fish back after Brexit. But if Aneurin
:23:54. > :23:59.Bevan were around today, he might say that Britain was an island built
:24:00. > :24:04.on gas and surrounded by fish. There are real concerns amongst the public
:24:05. > :24:08.about shale gas and possibly some concerns in the party. That is not
:24:09. > :24:13.surprising, given the negative propaganda we have seen surrounding
:24:14. > :24:16.the technology. But an independent Britain needs an independent power
:24:17. > :24:20.supply, and we cannot afford to ignore the potential under our feet.
:24:21. > :24:25.If the shale gas reserves are anywhere near some of the estimates,
:24:26. > :24:31.the impact on the economy, prosperity, jobs and energy security
:24:32. > :24:35.and balance of payments and tax revenues will be dramatic. It would
:24:36. > :24:46.be irresponsible to ignore so great an opportunity. But let's return to
:24:47. > :24:51.the main theme of our conference today, Brexit. During the referendum
:24:52. > :24:57.campaign, I was careful to warn of possible economic volatility after
:24:58. > :25:01.the Brexit vote. I felt that if we won the Brexit vote, we would face
:25:02. > :25:06.months, perhaps years of negative headlines. I thought our job would
:25:07. > :25:14.be to go out there and say, hang in there, there will be benefits. But I
:25:15. > :25:19.have been amazed by the headlines we are getting. We are doing better
:25:20. > :25:23.than my wildest dreams. There has been no Emergency Budget. Mortgage
:25:24. > :25:27.rates have not rocketed. House prices have not slumped. The FTSE is
:25:28. > :25:32.ahead of its pre-Brexit level. High street spending is up. Confidence
:25:33. > :25:36.has recovered in service and manufacturing. Cars are selling.
:25:37. > :25:42.There is a tourist boom in London and across the country. Hotels, bars
:25:43. > :25:50.and restaurants are full and that is not just Kippers celebrating!
:25:51. > :25:53.Countries around the world frustrated in their efforts to
:25:54. > :25:59.negotiate with the EU are queueing up to open up trade talks on deals
:26:00. > :26:02.with the newly independent UK. OK, the pound is down, but that has
:26:03. > :26:08.proved a tonic for exporters and has had a huge positive impact on our
:26:09. > :26:11.balance of payments. Many economists would agree that the pound was in
:26:12. > :26:17.any case overvalued and needed an adjustment. So what has suffered
:26:18. > :26:29.from Brexit? The reputation of George Osborne has suffered. And of
:26:30. > :26:35.the Treasury, and of Mark Carney at the Bank of England. And the IMF,
:26:36. > :26:37.and President Obama, and assorted banks and consultants and
:26:38. > :26:42.accountancy firms and ratings agencies. They all called it wrong.
:26:43. > :26:54.This is an example of groupthink at its worst. Some of the whining
:26:55. > :26:59.Remainiacs are calling for a second referendum. But what would they say?
:27:00. > :27:06.This guy didn't fall. Project via has imploded. It has vanished in a
:27:07. > :27:15.puff of smoke -- Project Fear. They have no case to argue. On social
:27:16. > :27:18.media, some voices are saying that now we have won, Ukip can pack up
:27:19. > :27:23.and go home, mission accomplished. No more to be done. Some suggest
:27:24. > :27:29.that the Ukip MEPs should resign in a body in a great gesture of
:27:30. > :27:35.triumphant hubris. But remember that our country has voted for Brexit,
:27:36. > :27:40.but we don't have Brexit yet. Today, Britain is still a fully paid-up
:27:41. > :27:44.member of the EU. We are still subject to EU law. We are still
:27:45. > :27:50.paying billions for the so-called privilege of membership, and we have
:27:51. > :27:53.a Prime Minister who insists that Brexit is Brexit, but doesn't seem
:27:54. > :28:00.to know what Brexit means. So let's tell her. Brexit means independence.
:28:01. > :28:05.It means we are no longer subject to EU laws and EU policies. It means we
:28:06. > :28:11.will pay nothing to the EU budget. We will control our own borders and
:28:12. > :28:15.our immigration and our fisheries. And as a strong and independent
:28:16. > :28:19.nation, we will make the same sort of deal with the EU that we would
:28:20. > :28:23.make with America or China or any other country. We will not accept
:28:24. > :28:24.the Swiss or the Norwegian models and the dodgy compromises with
:28:25. > :28:37.Brussels. APPLAUSE So colleagues, our job is
:28:38. > :28:41.not finished yet. We have to hold Theresa May's kitten heels to the
:28:42. > :28:47.fire, to make sure there is no back sliding. I occasionally read a
:28:48. > :28:52.little poetry or history and although I'm not a religious man I
:28:53. > :28:58.found a prayer of Sir Francis Drake which fits the bill for these
:28:59. > :29:02.circumstances. Sir Francis Drake faced the Spanish armada, possibly
:29:03. > :29:07.the greatest military machine the world had seen, but they say he
:29:08. > :29:13.insisted on finishing his game of bowls before going down to blow the
:29:14. > :29:18.European fleet out of the water. What was his player, Oh Lord god to
:29:19. > :29:22.endeavour any great matter, grant us to know that it is not the
:29:23. > :29:29.beginning, but the continuing of the same until the endks until it be
:29:30. > :29:34.thoroughly finished which yield ith the great glory. Colleagues, we have
:29:35. > :29:42.won battle, but the war won't be won until Britain is independent again.
:29:43. > :29:46.APPLAUSE Colleagues, I said to begin with
:29:47. > :29:50.that we owe a great debt of gratitude to Nigel Farage, not just
:29:51. > :29:56.in this hall today, but the whole party and indeed, the whole country.
:29:57. > :30:02.But perhaps just perhaps, the whole of Europe will also be in his debt.
:30:03. > :30:07.About in no doubt that our Brexit victory has inspired others across
:30:08. > :30:13.Europe. The Swedish Democrats, wasn't it wonderful to have one of
:30:14. > :30:19.their representatives with us today with his message, but it is not just
:30:20. > :30:25.Sweden, there is the AFG in Germany and the five-star movement and the
:30:26. > :30:31.group in Eastern Europe which is in revolt against Brussels' migrant
:30:32. > :30:36.plans. Let me close with one last quotation from William Pitt the
:30:37. > :30:43.younger in his last City of London speech in 1805 after our victory in
:30:44. > :30:48.the Battle of Trafalgarment he said, "England has saved herself by her
:30:49. > :30:55.exertions and will save Europe by her example." Colleagues like Martin
:30:56. > :30:59.Luther King I have a dream, a dream of a free and prosperous Europe of
:31:00. > :31:03.democratic sovereign nations linked only by free trade and voluntary
:31:04. > :31:07.inter-governmental co-operation. I believe that that dream is closer
:31:08. > :31:13.today than it has ever been in my lifetime. And if it comes about,
:31:14. > :31:22.much of the credit will be due to this party. To Ukip. We did it. Well
:31:23. > :31:35.done, colleagues. Well done. APPLAUSE
:31:36. > :31:43.Well, I told you he was an expert. Isn't it interesting conference,
:31:44. > :31:49.isn't it really interesting we have in Ukip some of the highest
:31:50. > :31:53.experienced spokesmen in various areas, when compared with some of
:31:54. > :31:56.the other parties and what they babble on about without any
:31:57. > :32:08.experience and never having proper jobs! Anyway, I have one special
:32:09. > :32:22.announcement. The Ukip in London Assembly drinks reception. It is in
:32:23. > :32:26.the function room between 5pm the Hilton Hotel. All welcome. I hope
:32:27. > :32:35.they have got a big room and a lot of drinks! In closing what today is
:32:36. > :32:40.a momentous day of change and the end of an era I would like to ask
:32:41. > :32:49.our party chairman to come back and close the conference for today.
:32:50. > :32:54.APPLAUSE Ladies and gentlemen, have you had a
:32:55. > :33:07.good day? Yes. One final cheer if I may for three of our excellent MEPs.
:33:08. > :33:11.Spo APPLAUSE
:33:12. > :33:15.In all the years that Steve couther was the chairman I don't think he
:33:16. > :33:20.ever finished a conference day early. So I'm about to do something
:33:21. > :33:25.that I'm going to have fun with him in years to come. We've got through
:33:26. > :33:29.our agenda. That's extra helpful given that we have found out that
:33:30. > :33:34.we're going to be bout a drink by London! Thank you so much for come.
:33:35. > :33:39.Today has been a historic day for our party. It will be one that we go
:33:40. > :33:44.online and we look back on over time and time again. I saw the look on
:33:45. > :33:48.Nigel's face as he walked out of this room. He was close to breaking
:33:49. > :33:56.point with emotion, it was wonderful. Let's give him one last
:33:57. > :34:07.cheer, shall we? APPLAUSE
:34:08. > :34:11.That's the way. We have our gala dinner tonight and we have another
:34:12. > :34:14.very interesting day ahead of us, it would seem tomorrow, we're going to
:34:15. > :34:20.make the most of it, we're going to show this country what our party are
:34:21. > :34:28.capable of doing. Have a great night and we will see you in the morning.