16/09/2016 - Live Leader Introduction and Speech UKIP Conference

And we had come exactly like you did, we had been the voice that

constantly points out the problem. What is the problem, what we need to

do, and they have brought us everything. And you have read it in

the newspapers, they call us all the bad name is possible. And now

recently, just eg ago, the political parties started to adapt into our

political suggestions. Because we have said that for a long time we

can no longer handle this massive immigration into our country. When

we said it a year ago, they called us all those names, it was a huge

problem to say those things. Now it is no problem, now they call it

necessary. And it is a responsibility they are taking to

take care of the Swedish people. It is hypocrisy on a high level from

the Swedish establishment. APPLAUSE

And we have seen it in the pause in Sweden as well -- in the polls. We

are now the biggest party in several areas, and we are on the way from 17

to close to 30%. APPLAUSE

We will just come exactly as you did, continue to put the pressure on

the other politicians to deliver. Because, if you are a Swedish

politician, or if you are a British politician, your main responsibility

is to take care of your own country and not the rest of the world.

APPLAUSE And I'm sorry to say but that is a

huge amount of politicians that actually forget who voted for them.

They forgot it completely. They live a very good life, plenty of money,

they don't see the downsides of the lines outside of the dentists where

you have to wait months and months to come to a dentist, and in the end

you cannot afford it, so you have to cancel the time. But they don't see

that, because they live a privileged life in many ways. For me, it has

been so very important to stay with my feet on the ground, in my head I

am still myself and will always be. I also have put in quite a lot of

time as a substitute for Nigel when he has been away campaigning, and I

have the some of his duties. That means having dinners with the

establishment... And I tell you... When you come to those dinners on,

what do you call it, with gold-plated Rins and silver forks

and the wind and the crystal glasses, it's quite embarrassing. So

go and the wind. I remember once when I filled in for him. It wasn't

a discussion about immigrants drowning in the meant it in, -- it

was a discussion, and while we discussed it, we had a three course

dinner, very good wine, waiters were around and serving the wind. It is

actually quite disgusting. We are talking about people drowning, and

they are supposed to be there to solve the problem. And the only

thing they are doing is eating their very good food. So I said when I got

the microphone, this is disgusting. APPLAUSE

We are sitting here, and actually one guy from the Netherlands that

spoke after me, she said, it's quite astonishing. It actually takes a

normal truck driver to tell you what you are doing wrong. Isn't there

really something wrong in the political establishment when they so

totally lose the contact with the ordinary people and the

responsibility they have in their position.

In Sweden, we will always be the guarantee for the ordinary people,

the common people, the hard-working people, that pay their taxes.

Because we strongly believe that we are placed in our positions to work

for them, and they pay a very high amount of taxes, and then they

should also be able to use their social welfare system. But we also

have a lot of people coming in that never contributed anything into the

system, but who are taking out from the system very much. And that is

totally wrong. Of course if you are a Swedish or a British citizen and

you have paid your taxes are your entire working career, of course you

should be the one that is privileged when you should come to your health

care and everything else -- when it comes to your health care.

In Sweden, the Sweden Democrats will be that voice, always, for the

ordinary people. And in the United Kingdom, it always, as I see it,

will be Ukip that delivers that voice. It is the ordinary people

that need the ordinary people, that talked of the ordinary people, that

listens to the ordinary people. And they don't give very much to the

political establishment. And that is quite astonishing work they are

doing for you, always. I will not take up too much of your time. We

have more speakers to come on, I have my colleagues also waiting to

speak. But I will say this. You have had an excellent party leader. In

Nigel, you have had a great person. APPLAUSE

He is a person that, in my eyes, pretty much sacrifice very much of

his private life. As he said himself, you went into this

completely, he gave it all, he said he would deliver, and he delivered.

How many politicians do that? APPLAUSE

I also know Diane James very well of course. She is actually sitting just

in front of me in the Parliament. Very nice woman. I think she will be

an excellent party leader for you. But there are in mind, it's not easy

to fill the shoes of Mr Farage. He is an icon, he is pretty much way up

there where writ is almost impossible to reach. So you have to

remember, Diane will of course have her own way of being party leader.

And you cannot really may become per her to Nigel. -- may become per. But

the rest of the Ukip elected members will be there. You will be there,

and, you know what, together, we will do a fantastic job. We are

quite firm in that position. Well, that's it, and it was a privilege as

always to come here and meet all of you. It feels like coming home for

me, almost like family. It feels like I'm speaking in front of my own

party, pretty much. Because we have pretty much the same values, I would

say. We believe in the little people, we believe in the right to

raise the voice for the little people, that they should be listened

to. That is what you are delivering, that is what my party is delivering.

It has been a complete privilege, and I'm looking forward to meeting

you again. Thank you very much. Huge thank you there to Peter. Now,

ladies and gentlemen, our second Speaker of this session, a man that

we all know, one of the real characters of the party, having

joined us in 1996. Stood for us in a Westminster election in 1997. Has

been a regional organiser, and is now one of our excellent MEPs for

the West Midlands, also our Commonwealth spokesman. Ladies and

gentlemen, Jim Carver. APPLAUSE

Good afternoon, conference. I'm delighted to be here, celebrating

our referendum success. Returning our country from the shackles of

Brussels. I must offer my personal thanks to Nigel, whose leadership

got us the referendum. I also want to say a huge thanks to my other

great friend, Paul Nuttall, who has also worked so hard and been unable

deputy to Nigel. But more importantly, I want to thank you --

am able deputy. From grassroots, because of you all we are on the way

to getting our country back, thank you.

I've been asked to talk about the Commonwealth in today 's New World,

a world full of new opportunities for the United Kingdom. Free from

the stranglehold of EU membership. I want share my vision of a confident

UK, reclaiming its place within a forward-looking Commonwealth,

leaving behind the stagnation of an inward looking EU dominated by

bureaucrats and their petty empire building. We live in a world that is

governed by networks between countries. People, businesses, in a

way that we've never seen before. I've been an advocate and supporter

of the Commonwealth network, perhaps the globe's oldest network, spanning

every continent, all of my life. The Commonwealth enables it to have its

collective voice and action to the global challenges that all its

members and the world face. Despite decades of governance and charities

are bought, Africa faces as many challenges as ever before. Our

current approach, ladies and gentlemen, simply doesn't work. But

now that we have control of our own Craig Pawson, we can lead the world

by example -- our own trade policy. By following an example of trade not

aid. We can get rid of wasteful

government foreign aid programmes and open up these networks, not only

making food cheaper in the UK, but also providing real opportunities in

Africa where the economic stimulus provided by exporter to our country.

But why is the Commonwealth best placed to achieve this? I'll begin

by setting out its relevance today and how its ready-made network can,

within gauge meant and momentum from all its members, helped deliver

security and prosperity for all of us -- with engagement. I believe the

world sees the UK, as do especially the Commonwealth members, as a

leader. Exemplifying the principles that bring us all together. Freedom,

democracy, good governance and the rule of law, free trade and human

rights. As a British MEP, I care about helping the UK become a more

secure, more prosperous country, existing in a world where certain

basic values or upheld. The world order has shifted. Economic power

and influence is moving east and south, with the rise of the emerging

economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The world has become or

interconnected through trade, technology and universal global

challenges or more interconnected. Such as energy, security and

terrorism. Events that happen in one part of the world no longer happen

in isolation. More often than not, the impact can be felt across

continents, often very quickly. The financial crisis that has engulfed

the worst, or the revolutions that spread across the Middle East and

North Africa, have fiscal or political ramifications across the

globe. This greater interdependence means that we must work together on

the important global issues. A part of my vision for the Commonwealth is

that it is a strong force on a world stage. And why wouldn't it be?

Several Commonwealth members are also members of the UN Security

Council. The G20 and other important global bodies. Where our interests

overlap, we should make clear what our common position is. The

Commonwealth network, with its shared principles and similarly Gul

systems and, language, make it an ideal platform for doing business,

trade and development, which will, of course, lead the Buzz Berti from

members -- similar legal system. I see an increased commitment of

democratic values and increased trade as two sides of the same coin.

In fact, if I had one word to respond to the question, how was the

Commonwealth relevant today, it would be trade.

Over the last two decades, the importance of Commonwealth members

to each other as sources of imports has grown by a quarter. And as a

third as destinations for exports. More than half of Commonwealth

countries now export over a quarter of their total exports to other

Commonwealth members. The Commonwealth Society wrote a report

called trading places, the Commonwealth effect revisited. The

paper made clear there is indeed a Commonwealth factor when it comes to

intra- Commonwealth trade. Research found the value of trade was likely

to be one third to one half more than when one or both of the trading

partners was a non-Commonwealth country. This X factor can be

explained in part by our common history culture and a belief that

ties Commonwealth member states together. The facts speak for

themselves, the Commonwealth is good for business. Five of the top ten

countries in which to do business Commonwealth countries, and 17 of

the top 20 countries which do business in sub Saharan Africa are

also Commonwealth members. Is it any wonder that the Commonwealth brand

is increasingly sought-after? For trade worth over 3 trillion US

dollars occurs annually within the Commonwealth, and its combined GDP

nearly doubled between 1990 and 2009. It contained several of the

world's fastest-growing economies and will shape the global economy in

the future including India, South Africa, Malaysia, Nigeria and

Singapore, and five members of the G20. In middle class in the

Commonwealth has expanded by nearly 1 billion people in the last two

decades on the Commonwealth contains 30 1% of the global population --

31%. This network also provides us with links to other global networks

which can benefit us all. For examples Singapore, Brunei and

Malaysia link us to as EN. Canada is the third-largest economy in the

Commonwealth and an important gateway to the USA for many

countries. 44 of the G 77 countries are members of the Commonwealth, as

are 19 of the 13 African union countries. 12 of both the Caribbean

community and the organisation of the Islamic conference. Ten of the

Pacific island Forum and seven of the Asia-Pacific economic

cooperation. This equates to huge opportunities for partnerships

within the Commonwealth and will help us to compete in these markets.

We must press for the Commonwealth to be utilised fully to help lift

the prosperity of all of its members for increased free and fair trade.

It must become a leading voice in the global economy, working to

liberalise trade and break down barriers for International business.

Member states are investing in the Commonwealth family where the

wealthiest countries in the world sit alongside some of the poorest.

India has increased commitments by providing up to 7 million a year to

the 19 African members of the Commonwealth through the special

Commonwealth assistance in Africa programme. As Ukip's Commonwealth

spokesman Eid champion its values, advocating for small and developing

countries to take collective interest in interest such as debt

relief and ensuring Commonwealth institutions are fit for purpose and

working to our strengths. It is vital the Commonwealth returns to

its strengths of democracy and development. The UK has a very real

interest in seeing Commonwealth countries maintaining democratic

integrity and the rule of law. I want a strengthened Commonwealth

that protects our values but is also able to work constructively and

offer encouragement to those facing challenges to democratic

development. Small and vulnerable states should be reassured by the

network offering them a solid platform from which to voice their

opinions and receive timely assistance and support on issues

facing us all. Ukip's challenges to raise awareness of and build support

for the Commonwealth. And this as an alternative to that ghastly single

market. And showed the misguided attitude of project fear for what it

really was. We in Ukip have led our country back into the world, giving

us the opportunity to take full advantage of our options. We are

forward-looking, open and engaged, and in my role as both an MEP and

Commonwealth spokesman, I want to make sure that Ukip does the same

with both old friends and new. One of my very few pleasures within the

European Parliament is the ability to work closely with like-minded

movements across Europe. Like Peter who we've just heard from. Whilst

we've won our referendum and our freedom, millions more remain

trapped on willingly in ever closer union and we must also be ready to

offer our advice and support to those still campaigning for a better

Europe. One based on mutual friendship and national democracy.

And whilst these allies and friends will remain valued, we must also

look forward to establishing new partnerships with like-minded

parties from across the Commonwealth. So now, as we look

forward to the future, I would like to congratulate Diane James on her

victory today. APPLAUSE British politics is in a state of

flux, with the potential for huge gains for our party. The Islington

elite has never been so detached and cared so little for its core

working-class support. Now more than ever we need a strong alternative to

the two main parties, after all what was the point of fighting so hard

for our democracy just hand it back to the same old establishment again?

APPLAUSE Whilst some wrongly suggest that it

might be job done for Ukip, I say we are needed now more than ever.

APPLAUSE Conference, I believe that Fortune

favours the brave, and now as we head back out into the world, that

world is our oyster and the Commonwealth is a precious pearl

within it. Thank you. APPLAUSE Thank you, Jim. Very few industries

have been punished more than Britain's fisheries. As a result of

our membership of the European Union. And our next speaker believes

so passionately about it that he's almost become synonymous with in

Ukip for speaking out on behalf of British fisheries. He is one of the

nicest men in the party, you never hear anyone saying bad about our

next speaker, despite the fact he's an Everton fan! Ladies and

gentlemen, your appreciation please for Ray Finch. APPLAUSE

Good afternoon my friends, how are we? It's brilliant to be back. I

love conference, you meet all these lovely people, and Jim! LAUGHTER I

know you are going to be expecting a sermon today about our fishing

policy. But I've decided, as this is such a crucial time for our party

and indeed our nation, that I'm going to speak to you about the

future. The future of Ukip, and by extension the future of our nation,

whatever the likes of the Conservative Party and the media

say, it was Ukip who brought us the referendum. And without Ukip and all

of you, it would never have been one. -- it would never have been

won. Never ever forget that. You were the driving force for the

reclamation of our nation. So, the question is, what now? Our political

opponents both in other parties and in the media would love nothing

better than to see us exit stage right. And there is no greater

reason for us to carry on than their wish to see us finished. APPLAUSE

The fact is, that's the real reason for the continued success of Ukip.

And it is a continued success, because I was out campaigning with

our team in Maidstone a couple of weeks ago and we retained the

council seat with an increased share. We got more than Labour, the

Tories and the Lib Dems combined, so we can win. APPLAUSE

And the truth of the matter is that the old, disgraced parties are no

longer in touch with the people. We are still the people's party, and

the people need us to represent them in the way that the legacy parties

no longer do. So, I want to talk to you about how I see our future, and

luckily our new leader says she wants to see new policies from

everyone. Just as well, because I've got a load of them! LAUGHTER It's

about promoting policies for the entire nation, not just the crying

classes on which the Labour and Tory party now subsist. We are not a

party focus groups trying to wheedle just enough groups to target

marginal constituencies by appealing to small segments of voters, if we

use the right combination of weasel words and press releases and on the

Today programme. APPLAUSE We are the party that should speak

to and for everyone in our nation. We are the real one nation party,

and we want a vision and a future for all of our citizens, not just

the lucky few. APPLAUSE Here are some of my ideas for our

future direction. I have to stress these are my ideas and not Diane's,

and if she doesn't like them... Sorry! Don't want to be on the

naughty step already on the first day! We need to ensure that our

people are housed, educated, employed, healthy, fed, warm and

safe. APPLAUSE None of which are present parties...

That's seven criteria. Let's go through them one by one and see what

we can do. Educated, schools for all. A maximum of 30 pupils in a

class. Schools must be free to set their own curricula within sensible

boundaries. Stop the overreliance on continual micro-testing in schools

and let the teachers teach. APPLAUSE Also we must stop the catchment area

scenario where those who can afford to buy properties in the locality of

decent schools get their children a better education. This always

disadvantages the children of the poor. Let everyone applied to the

schools they want, as we do with universities. This gives poor

children a better chance to go to the school that suits them. And this

can help restart social mobility for our nation. APPLAUSE

Housing. The cost of housing is utterly stagnant. The reasons for

this include the loss of council housing and council house sales

without like-for-like replacement. The restrictions on planning and the

huge growth in population, due primarily to migration. So, let's

build more council housing. It's generally of better quality.

APPLAUSE It gives people a start in life and

lets them get on the ladder. We've got to look at planning to help fix

this. If you go back as far as the report in 1915 and the Dudley report

in 1944, standards were set for council housing such as minimal room

sizes. Now we have the smallest room sizes for new-build properties in

Western Europe, and this must end. We have to be able to build houses

fit for families to live in, and at present our housing stock is

becoming worse and more expensive. We have to reverse this. First, we

restore minimum room sizes to previous levels by legislation. We

release land to be built on by local authorities, and this will destroy

the pernicious practice of land banking. Councils building new

quality homes for UK nationals to living with priority given to local

people and two ex-military. APPLAUSE A Sam? And the homeless? Yes, I do

apologise. It will force builders to use the land to build better homes

for those who choose to buy them. This is not difficult, it just

requires the willpower, and the people to support us. Employment,

big one of mine. We need to end zero hours contracts as a mass tool of

oppression. Companies over a certain size must not be allowed to employ

over a small percentage of staff on these contracts. I have seen the

damage they do the people's lives and mental well-being. Sitting at

home waiting for days for the phone to ring, it's uncivilised and

barbaric and will not do for the people of our United Kingdom.

This doesn't mean that were going to be a party just for bashing the

bosses. We must be a party that encourages employment, but not fake

employment, real jobs must be the outcome. One of the biggest barriers

we have the job creation is the employers National Insurance

contribution. It is no more and no less than a tax on jobs. Why should

an employer David Government to take someone off the dole? That must end,

to -- why should an employer pay the Government. Health. The NHS is

failing. Let's be brutally honest about this. The key indicators for

many health issues are far worse in the UK than in our competitors. We

need to fix the NHS and make our people healthier. First, we stopped

diverted money out of the NHS to PFI schemes. They were originally used

primarily by the Blair government to bypass, which was somewhat ironic,

EU spending rules. They moved the costs to capital expenditure. But

now they are going to cost the NHS over ?300 billion. We must stop

them, now and forever. APPLAUSE

If we need to find new hospitals, and we will, interest rates on

Government loans are at a historic low. Let the NHS sell the loans

guaranteed by the Government to find new hospitals. That is a cheaper and

better way to fund our NHS. And next, we are told we need inward

migration to run the NHS. It's a barefaced lie.

APPLAUSE In 2014, 80% of UK applicants the

nurse training were refused. Let's train our own nurses.

Get our young and talented people of the off the dole and do the most

worthwhile career there is. The left are telling people who have children

or unjustly penalised in the workplace. This is actually true for

nurses. They cannot get back because they are too expensive to employ

because they are more qualified. Instead, we steal cheap nurses from

abroad, from places that cannot afford to lose them, and this must

end, too. Our NHS, and I know you will know this, is used as a world

health service. We must end this. Many countries... Stop it, you'll

get cramping your hands! Many countries in the world make you have

valid health insurance before you enter. You get will make you do the

same. -- Ukip. Even better, even better. Let's enable the NHS to set

up its own insurance scheme for foreign nationals, and make a profit

from it to reinvest in itself. Let us reverse the trend where we pay

for the world's health care, and let them pay for hours. -- for ours. Jim

talked about food just before, with trade not aid with Africa. Let's

give them free trade agreements so they can sell us both processed and

raw foods. Help them to help us. Yes, your next! Warmth. Stop all

fuel taxes for the elderly. In fact, for the elderly and the infirm poor,

give them free fuel. Over 20,000 people over 65 in the UK die every

year because they have to choose to eat or heat. And this is barbaric.

Let's stop this. Anyone who says, where can we find the money for

this? They need to take a look at themselves. Our pensioners have

worked hard all their lives contributing to our society. Would a

civilised society let them freeze to death once they are too old to

contribute? No, it would not. We owe a debt, and let us pay it. I think I

might have to cut a couple of bits here. How long? Oh, great. Safety.

Lots of policy, we like Bolasie! It's unusual to have a political

party where they actually like policy, isn't it? Smart safety, we

rely Cree Nation in that we are bound by the sea. -- we tailor the

nation. This has given us a level of protection denied to a less happy

nations. And now with modern transportation the need to protect

ourselves mostly falls on border agencies. We need the insurer they

are fully manned. -- we need to ensure they are fully manned. We

should also offer any member of our Armed Forces at the end of their

period of service a guaranteed job. We need to guard our seas against

smugglers, whether of goods or of people. And therefore, a full

coastal guard service needs to be in operation.

We can start to build ships in orange shipyards in places like pork

Portsmouth Naval documents -- our own ships.

There will need to be a lot of coastal patrol vessels, not to just

guard against smugglers, but also control our restored fisheries. And

these must be built here. No longer will we have naval vessels built

overseas in Korea and other places. We believe in Britain, let's build

Britain by building in Britain. That was good, that, wasn't it?!

A couple of little things at the end. I also want to mention the

scourge of so-called payday lenders. They target the poorest and most

honourable in our society. And we must, as a party, look at ways of

restraining their damaging ways, they cause untold misery and it must

stop. Right, before I finish, and, no, I'm

not going for leadership of the Labour Party if anybody puts in! I

wish to tell the Conservative government and the Department for

Brexited that our fishing waters, you knew I'd come back to it, must

be non-negotiable. We want our fisheries back, and if they try to

abandon our fishermen like he did, then the Brexiting is protest will

look like a quiet day on the boating lake compared to what we will

unleash on them -- the Brexit Thames protest.

We want our fisheries back, and we'll have them. Don't you worry, I

will! Now, these are just my ideas for the change in better Britain.

But the thinking behind these principles, and here is the plug, is

available in the new booklet. Available at all good stores, with

Ray Finch on them! I've written it with my colleague, Tony Brown. It is

available free on the stall. I'm sure our new leader and their team

will have many, many more and probably better. But policies along

these lines I firmly believe will show the people of our United

Kingdom that we are more relevant now than ever. Leaving the EU was

just the start. It was turning the key to unlock our future. And we can

and must be there to guide our nation forward together. The cars we

are the only party which still believes in Britain and her people.

Now, the nation needs Ukip more than ever before. And we must not fail

our United Kingdom. Thank you, my friends, very much indeed.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, our final Speaker of this session. It is

a great delight for me to introduce a man who has held two exceptionally

high profile briefs for our party, both as the economic spokesman

Anders our immigration spokesman. A genuinely good man who I have no

doubt has an incredibly strong, bright and prosperous future ahead

of him in the Ukip. Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Woolfe.

Good afternoon, conference. Ayew enjoying yourselves? Has it been a

wonderful day? Thank you, Mr Chairman. What an honour to follow

Ray, the man who has worked incredibly hard on his brief for

fisheries, and somebody who you can see in Ukip is behind us all the

way, is part of us, have the brilliant ideas that when we become

the government we will take forward to take our fisheries back. Thank

you, Ray, very much for all of that. I really don't know where I can put

this! I'm glad that you will meet at an time.

LAUGHTER I wasn't sure I would be! I have to

admit, when I was running for the trade I caught a glimpse of a

children's book in a shop window that I thought would give my

daughter a valuable lesson in applying for job applications in the

future, it was purple, had a big yellow clock on it, and it was

called, what time is it Mr Wolf? LAUGHTER

When I paid for the book, though, I realised I might miss the train and

the next one was not for another 70 minutes. Thankfully, the conductor

saw Miss printing down the platform and held up the train for a minute

for meat -- saw me sprinting. Some of the passengers weren't happy, but

others recognise they had been there themselves. I just hope you're glad

that I'm here today. Can I begin by really offering my

huge regulations to Diane. I think she has achieved a wonderful

opportunity for this party -- huge congratulations. She will lead us

tremendously in the future. And she has been a colleague of mine for a

couple of years, and I've seen the commitment she has put into this

party. I know she will do so to make sure that Ukip will get better, and

that the British people will get what they voted for, ie Brexited

meaning Brexited. And she will work to build on the party's

achievements. I really want to say congratulations, Diane, well done.

And of course it wouldn't be right to I do and once again pay a huge

tribute to our outgoing leader, Nigel Farage. I left the City of

London because of his passion and dreams. Those dreams led me to being

there in Manchester on the night that we got our country back. And

for that, I can never forget and thank him for everything he has

done. I really appreciate all of that. Thank you, Nidal. -- Nigel.

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it, didn't we? We just did it. Just

three months ago, the great Brexiter referendum, the people chose hope

over fear. -- the great Brexiteer from them. They voted for freedom,

democracy, an independent Britain. They voted to leave the EU. And what

a battle it was. From the north to the south, from the east to the

West, 17.4 million people voted for a new beginning. For a more

confident nation. And for a brighter future. Project via fail. -- project

via fail. So many of us knew that the government would resort to such

desperate politics. It also failed so much country because people only

via something if they have something to lose. If your wages have been

pushed down by large-scale migration, you don't via George

Osborne telling you that jobs apocalypse will come. If you can't

get on the housing ladder or your children are paying too high a rent,

you don't fear the Bank of England warning the housing market will

collapse. If you can't get to see a doctor, or your children or at over

crowded schools, you can't pay gas bills that are rising, you don't

fear President Obama telling Britain to stay in the EU.

APPLAUSE When we asked the ambassador to the

United Kingdom how many free trade agreements were in place, he said

none. I said if Britain left and we applied, we would be at the front of

the queue. Strange logic. So much has been ignored by the coalition of

the comfortable. The metropolitan elite whose disdainful and snobbish

attitudes to those who voted leaves have been a stain on our democracy.

APPLAUSE To you conference, and to those of

you in the audience and listening at home, I'm proud of you for ignoring

project fear and embracing project hope. I am so proud of you for

standing up for those people who have been ignored and marginalised.

Without Ukip, there would be no Brexit. But most of all I am proud

of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave and stood up for their

children's future and that of our nation. APPLAUSE

Of course now that we have won the referendum, the remainder is art

attempting to block the Democratic vote. -- remainers are attempting to

block. Rumour has it the EU is attempting to create a subsidised

music show to win the hearts and minds of Brits so that we won't

leave. Apparently it's based on the TV show, So You Think You Can Dance.

It is called, So You Think You Can Leave? LAUGHTER So far only three

bands have applied. The first are called The Remoaners. It has Nick

Clegg on the fading symbols, Tim Farron on the Kazuo and the lead

Whaler is Nicola Sturgeon! LAUGHTER APPLAUSE

And apparently they want to perform Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love

EU. The next band are called the Lose 48%. Eddie Izzard is on the

pink Chubut, Bob Geldof is on a rather large for corn, and JK

Rowling is on an imaginary flute singing Sinead O Connor's Nothing

Compares to EU. My favourite is the final band called Jean-Claude Euan

Kerr and The Commissioners. -- Jean-Claude Juncker and the The

Commissioners. They are not sure whether it should be called Red Red

Wine or, Papa's Got A New EU. There is a new TV channel called Britain's

Got Balls. APPLAUSE The headline acts are singing Don't

Cry For Me, European Union. Ladies and gentlemen, a new error of Brexit

is one that we can and should look forward to. We must be honest and

say that this is a new era for all of us in this room, a new era for

Ukip. The Brexit result has flipped politics on its head, there is a

hunger out there, especially in parts of the North and the Midlands,

for real change. And Ukip can and must gain strength to win the hearts

and minds of those people. Brexit will not solve all of those problems

at once. They are deep-rooted issues that we face as the country and the

old 2-party system has not sought to solve them. They have failed and

this is our chance. We must face up to the fact millions of people up

and down our nation have no stake in this country, because this country

has not invested in them. It has left them on lower wages with poor

schools, long waiting lists at hospitals and an NHS with no

strategy to tackle rising mental-health illnesses and a crisis

facing the elderly. We must not turn our backs, we must not presume the

job is done. We must stand up and represent those millions of

hard-working people in the country that have been let down by the two

establishment parties, let down by the old politics. The Labour Party

once believed it championed our workers. But decades have been run

by champagne socialists, metropolitan out of touch liberal

elitists has seen Labour abandon its working-class base. It's now

imploding in front of our eyes. APPLAUSE

Ukip did not and will not turn its back on these people, we will listen

when immigration concerns are raised and we will not demonise those who

are not afraid to talk about the real issues they face in their

day-to-day lives. We are proud of our flags and our history, we

believe in Britain, and we believe in the ability and support of our

peoples. It is our job to speak out for those who have been ignored,

maligned and forgotten. We must provide a voice for the millions who

have been deserted by the Tories and the Labour Party. And it is in this

decade that we must make a breakthrough and a major

breakthrough, in Westminster. That is why I believe that the team that

Diane will create will execute a winning strategy for our party.

While we must change and adapt to succeed, we mustn't forget who we

are and what unites us as a party. Ukip believes in freedom. Ukip is

the party that believes we only succeed as a nation when we all

succeed together. From the landscape gardener to the landed gentry. We

are a party that doesn't shy away from talking about the big issues we

face as a country, but rather a party which tackles them head-on. We

are a party which seeks to provide a voice for the vulnerable and for

those at the bottom of the economic ladder, and we are the party who

will speak for the aspirations of the hard-working Brit. We are a

party that believes GDP and economic output are not the only ways of

delivering success for our nation. It is access to vital security,

services and our identity that are more important. We must deal with

the growing lack of social mobility in our society through a more

diverse education system, and I know it's been stolen, but we must ensure

that grammar schools are forced through for every town in this

country, so I know that people like me get a chance to achieve. APPLAUSE

From housing to education, from jobs to health, life expectancy to mental

health provision, our country is becoming more divided. I love my

country, and its people. But we must together must speak up when we are

heading in the wrong direction. Brexit gives us the opportunity to

build a better Britain, and Ukip is a force for good in British

politics. So we must all Unite as one movement, so let's walk

hand-in-hand together to ensure that Brexit really does mean Brexit, and

take the fight to the political establishment for years to come. Our

country needs us. APPLAUSE Thank you.

Right. It's time for a cup of tea. I'm having one, I recommend you do

to! Thanks. Thank you very much for that warm

welcome and good morning conference! We did it, didn't we? We did it! We

achieved what we set out to do. We have succeeded in getting ourselves

out of this sclerotic out of date European union. And aren't we

getting off this juggernaut just at the right