16/09/2016 - Live Morning Session UKIP Conference

Unlike the Chancellor, most of the bankers still have their jobs. The

Remain claim that leaving would make everybody for thousand ?300 worse

off. Where on earth did that figure come from? The claim by our Shadow

Chancellor and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Labour would get

an extra ?35 million funding for the EU if we Remain. Another myth. The

economy continues to grow. House prices and sales are up. Exports are

up. Investment plans are up. Retail sales are up. 27 countries have

approached us are ready for trade deals. How wrong can these experts

be? Even the numbers on the dole are up, sorry down. I will read that

again. Even the numbers on the dole fell. We can make for the 3 million

job losses the gloom stirs forecast. What about the five million-plus

jobs the EU will lose? Two major overseas banks have both reiterated

their intention to open new headquarters offices and trading

floors in London. Even the head of advertising giant

WPP and a Remain support says his global company is benefiting from a

post Brexit recovery and the lower pound makes our exports more

competitive. All these Remain skiers remind me of the main man on

Westminster Bridge who saw another man on the parapet about to jump in

on the River. He grabbed the man by the ankles and asked him what he was

doing. The man mumbled something about recession, trade barriers,

economic disaster and war if the voters believe. The Remain man asked

in to calm down and tell him all about it. A to Leave surely could

not be as bad as all that. Five minutes later we both jumped off the

bridge. -- via both jumped off the bridge.

My wife told me no jokes. That is why I did it. Without Nigel's

inspirational leadership, none of this would have been possible. Let

us also not forget those who founded the party and grew it. They held you

get together for all those years in the wilderness. -- Ukip. We all

gratitude to Nigel and all of you and the people who voted to Leave.

May I add to the chairman of express newspapers and the editor of the

Daily Express for his support for many years for the beliefs as we as

Ukip called. -- called. Even though I am the deputy chairman

of Express, unpaid, I did not have to say that. I only receive one

grumpy call from Nigel during the whole campaign, which I thought was

pretty good. Let us not forget that in electing a new leader after a

very strong leader, there may be disgruntled members who seek to

disrupt the party. This must be avoided at all costs. One only needs

to look at what happened in the Conservative Party after Margaret

Thatcher was forced out. It had a succession of leaders who were

unable to establish their authority and it disappeared into the

wilderness for many years. Let us rally round our new leader, whoever

that may be and all pull together. The fight is not over yet. There

might still be an early election if the Prime Minister cannot get her

programme approved by parliament. However, we should not be frightened

by an election. I do not really understand what we are talking

about. We now have, thanks to camera and changing the law, a five-year

parliamentary term and an early election can only be called if the

House of Commons resolves that this house has no confidence in Her

Majesty 's Government, or if the House of Commons with the support of

two thirds of the total membership resolves that there should be an

early parliamentary election. Looking at the state of the Labour

Party, turkeys don't vote for Christmas. -- David Cameron.

Difficult as an early election is, we may be ready. -- must be. With

our increased support in the country, we must take the

opportunity to review and revise our rule book is needed. This must

include revisiting the role of the NEC, who have done much valuable

unpaid work. In my opinion, is small group of six should be formed by the

new leader to make recommendations to you, the members. Be magnanimous

in victory and gracious in defeat. Many of the remainder is seen to

accept the result. -- seem to be. I'm feel like asking them to a

funeral to cheer them up a bit. When you think that one and a half

million voters voted to Leave than Remain, out of a record number

reported, you have to ask, do they ever do their homework? Is at the

last election 20,000, yes, 20,000 voters, in the most marginal

Conservative seats had instead voted for the runner-up, the Conservatives

would have lost over 20 seats and thus a majority. Is that marginal

enough to call another general election? We are not Brussels, when

a country votes against the Lisbon Treaty they are spent to keep on

voting until the vote in favour. There were two organisations vying

for the official designation in the referendum. The winner getting a

Government grant and raise and spend more on the campaign. These were

vote Leave and Leave EU. I was on the board of call with Nigel and the

Toon Army we did not get the designation. -- we did not get the

designation. The Cabinet ministers joined the vote Leave. They refuse

to work with us. A commission was formed in Parliament by vote Leave,

to which we were invited. Like many large committees, it did not seem to

achieve a great deal except to be not the least bit interested in my

suggestion that we should all work together with Ukip, which I thought

quite bizarre. Without Nigel and UK, there would never have been a

referendum. -- and Ukip. Sadly, even the Government did not want my help

in negotiating Brexit. As far as the campaign was concerned, when we got

onto the subject of immigration, we were in danger of losing. The vote

Leave campaign did not, want to discuss immigration. Even amongst a

group of supposedly working together, one of us was described as

one MP on the vote Leave aside as toxic. Well, toxic enough to get

17.5 million votes. It is not racist to talk about the problems of mass

immigration. 700,000 gross a year, this is the figure to concentrate

on, as an accurate as it may be when you consider more insurance numbers

are granted to UK citizens a year. The new campaign, Obama forgot to

consider the queue consists of the EU.

The EU has not agreed a single one of the 27 chapters that make up that

treaty. The transatlantic trade investment partnership, plus that

treaty threatened in the pan Torah box of corporate law suits. --

Pandora box. The US desire for health countries should be able to

sue those governments in order to participate or get compensation.

They could compete to run the NHS. Therefore, under that agreement,

could have been by advised. Think how much easier it will be for one

country, the UK, to negotiate trade deals. After all, Norway did it in

seven months. Deploying Tony Blair, Tony Blair, Gordon Blair, and every

Tom Dick and Harry, would be counter-productive. We know for

example, one of the major contributors in money terms is the

EU. The latest farce of the Government of the bank of England,

claiming the forecast before and after the vote help to steady the

ship and meant the effects were not as bad as they might have been. I am

only an economist, I could not get into Oxford.

From my experience, a quarter cut in interest rates and maybe buying a

view bonds does not make a difference to anything. How could

such a minor gesture have an effect on the economy so quickly? Some

might ask why a re-cutting interest rates in the first place just as

inflation is picking up's Brexit will not cause a loss of confidence

in the UK economy. In mind all the doomsters forecasts, all of the

major indicators of the vote is remarkable. The bank created the

impression that exiting would economic disaster. Why did they not

say before that this disaster could be avoided by a cut in interest

rates? It is impossible to believe. The

Treasury were just as bad. What a terrible shame that both did not

Remain independent and above the fray. We were not greatly concerned

with project fear. Cameron and company having one, thought they

could repeat the process. A major mistake. We made mistakes too but we

had you on the ground and the whole organisation. As they say, you

cannot win a war without boots on the ground. Remainders were so busy

fiddling around Westminster that they lost the plot. May I just add,

never underestimate an opponent, especially his swivel eyed blinkered

loom. -- loony. There have been lots of suggestions

where after Brexit, Remain from here to Albania, Switzerland but the

doctor may the best option, to avoid all the endless pressure groups, as

to either to declare the UK a free trade area or join the World Trade

Organisation. And to do it as soon as possible. Let us pause on Germany

for a moment. We hear allsorts of skier stories about trade after

Brexit. The -- skier stories. An excellent report from Barclay bank,

Germany trade surplus with the UK is nearly 2% of their GDP. The UK is

Germany's third export market with ?80 billion of sales per year.

Germany's exports to the UK increased by 50% from 2010 to 2015.

8% of German goods exports come to the UK. Cars and other vehicles were

half the trade surplus with the UK. Does anyone serious believe they

want trade barriers Of course there will be problems.

But to try and satisfy every pressure group is impossible. The

threat that many companies will be relocated should be ignored. Sooner

or later, people will realise that to relocate businesses to France,

Italy, Spain, Greece... LAUGHTER

Turkey or even Germany presents a huge and rising risk when you look

at the state of the EU. I do know Turkey's not in there yet. You may

even have seen the statistic, the new head negotiator on EU Brexit, a

man who knows his business, said that we the UK are rats leaving a

sinking ship. APPLAUSE

If that is what he thinks of his employer, why should we want to sync

with Henman? I do not understand the obsession of the Westminster bubble

to stay in the single market. Of course we want tariff hike in free

trade with the rest of the EU, but single market means unlimited

immigration, all the rules and regulations... Would you mind, I'm

trying to make a speech. You are doing better than me! You've only

got to read it. Where was I? All the rules and regulations, and the

jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. We do not want a single

market, we want free trade. APPLAUSE

Our negotiating strength is much stronger than some realise. So the

EU gets two years. If, when we exercise Article 50, if there is no

agreement, we just leave after the two years. They will fall over

themselves to do a deal. And one day we will open and finalise fairly

quickly trade deals with the rest of the world. Our aim should be to turn

the UK into a low-tax are commonly. Thanks to Brown and Osborne's

fiddling, we have a tax code which is complex and a drain on the

economy. The new Chancellor keeps saying the result of the vote is a

surprise. Well, where in fairness he does not seem to be the only one.

Iraqi, there was no plan letter Baker. One would hope Mr Cameron has

learned from that experience, that he does not seem to have had a plan

either once Gadhafi was overthrown. It has been discovered that the

Government and silver service did little or no planning if the

Government lost the referendum -- civil service. What were they doing?

It must be fair and big businesses must pay that you amount, but must

be simple and offer incentives. But us have a low tax and free trade

economy and have it sooner. And that is get on with Brexit, either by

repealing the 72 European communities act...

APPLAUSE Or exercising section 50 of the

Lisbon Treaty. The longer we delay, the more

entrenched negotiation positions will become. We are assumed that

while we, from a zero starting position, because of the disgraceful

failure of the civil service to make any preparations for the Leave vote,

we have all the time in the world. Emigration is a flooding in, and our

opponents, the EU, are planning their approach. And seeking to

present a united front in their negotiations with us. Why are we

giving them so much time to prepare? The great British people had given

the Government that instructions, get on with it and stop fiddling

around. APPLAUSE

Thank you very much. Were the two speeches to start a conference or

were they? About a week ago I was contacted by journalists who wanted

to speak to me about the conference, and they said to me, rumour is it's

going to be a bit drab. There's only going to be a couple of hundred

people there. For the benefit of him and the people standing at the back

of the room, we're going to bring more chairs and in the mid-morning

break so you won't be standing for long. Final speech before the coffee

break, another giant of the party he will be leaving us as deputy leader,

but we hope will not be leaving us entirely. He is without doubt one of

the most capable people we have an hour party. He's been dynamic in the

north in establishing a foundation on which our future successes in

that part of the country will doubtless come. Ladies and

gentlemen, our outgoing deputy leader, Paul Nuttall, MEP.

APPLAUSE Thank you very much for that one

welcome. Good morning, conference! Thank you, Paul. We did it, didn't

we? We achieved what we set out to do, we have succeeded in getting

ourselves out of this sclerotic, out of date European Union.

APPLAUSE And aren't we getting off this

juggernaut just at the right time? Only 48 hours ago, in the European

Parliament, we heard the president of the European Commission,

Jean-Claude Juncker, and from us that's full steam ahead for a

European army. When Nigel Farage warned of this back in 2014, Nick

Clegg called him a dangerous fantasist. Some good it did him.

LAUGHTER APPLAUSE

As I was travelling back from Strasbourg the other day, I came

across Nick Clegg on television, promoting his new autobiography.

Yes, he has crawled out from under that Stone under which he has been

hiding. And they replayed some of his Brexit warnings. He literally

just stopped short of warning of new killer Holocaust, a plague of

locusts, and the murder of every first child born. It was Project

Fear on turbo. It was clear, there and then, there was only one person

living on fantasy Island, and it isn't Nigel, and it isn't us.

Because we know, as a country, we will go now from strength to

strength, free from the shackles of our Brussels masters.

APPLAUSE HECKLE

Absolutely. I'm celebrating with my Brexit beard, which meant nobody

recognised me last night. At least it has lasted longer than Nigel's

1970s moustache. On a serious note, we have achieved so much in so

little time. Undoubtedly, our greatest achievement has been this

referendum. It would not have happened if it hadn't have been for

Ukip. APPLAUSE

In 2013, we pushed the Prime Minister into offering a referendum

that he never wanted to give. And why? Because Ukip was steadily

rising in the polls and scoring local election wins all over the

country. Mr Cameron thought he could seek the Ukip votes by offering this

referendum. But all he did was simply feed it. The membership began

to rise rapidly. We began to speak to huge audiences across the

country. Nidal set off on his purple taxi the length and breadth of

Britain. He literally spoke to thousands of people. I did 200

public meetings in two years. Ukip began to catch on. We exploded into

local governments, and we now have 500 hard-working councillors across

the country. APPLAUSE

We forced the referendum, and you helped to win it. Rex it is yours.

-- Brexit is yours. You were the foot soldiers, you manned the stars,

delivered leaflets and got our country back.

APPLAUSE You have made us proud again. You

will be thanked by the next generation for giving them the power

to shape their own destinies. Do not and arrests are made what you have

achieved - Brexit will shape the direction this country will take in

the first half of this century. And what direction do we want it to

take? We want to see a Britain that can stand proud in the world, free

and independent. A Britain that makes its own laws and has the

ability to protect its own borders. APPLAUSE

This means there can be no backsliding on Brexit. Any attempt

to maintain freedom of movement of people will not be acceptable.

APPLAUSE I want to see us have access to the

single market, but not be part of it. I want a Britain that is friends

with our European neighbours, but not passed and dictated to. We want

all of our laws to be made at Westminster by people we elect.

APPLAUSE I also want to see a Britain that

looks to the urgent markets of the far East and Asia, and reignites its

links with the Commonwealth, which we so shamelessly turned our backs

on in the 1970s. APPLAUSE

This can now all be achieved, and it's thanks to you - give yourselves

a round of applause. APPLAUSE

I stood on this very platform eight years ago and said that I believed

that Ukip's future lay, as a part three of the patriotic work King

class. Very few people believe me at the time. But it is clear this is

Ukip's great opportunity. Where, in many of these working-class

opportunities, where the Labour Party has dominated for years, they

are weak and dying. The Labour Party has lost touch with its

working-class roots. It is a Labour Party that is increasingly dominated

by the views of the Islington dinner party, and a Labour Party that

actually sneers at our own flag. APPLAUSE

Ukip can make great strides in these areas as a party that wants to see

firm that there order control. That wants to see prison sentences mean

what they say. That wants to see all children of all classes get a fair

start in life, and one that is prepared to put British people at

the top of the pile. APPLAUSE

Now, let me talk about the future of the party and the new leader,

whoever he or she may be. I will be frank at this point, because I can

now, Ukip has not been a happy camp for over a year. And the animosity

has spilt over into the media. No one, no one, has emerged from this

with their heads held high. The designation process between Leave.EU

and Vote Leave created a cancer in the heart of the party, and led to

its leading lights using Ukip as a football. So much so that, at this

present moment, the party resembles a jigsaw that has been emptied onto

the floor. The new leader must put it back

together. This can only be done through talking to people, not

issuing empty threats or pursuing internal navel-gazing schemes that

will most likely amount to nothing. The opportunities are there. Today

is a breakwater in the history of this party. It is a changing of the

guard. Both Nigel and I are standing down from the stage and standing

down must mean standing down. The new leader will not benefit in any

way shape or form if any of us attempt to back-seat drive. They

must be their own person. They must stand their own mark and they must

take control of every lever of the party. The new leader must be a

unifier, not a divide. Seek compromise, bring people together.

As Winston Churchill once said, jot war is always preferable to war war.

They must not lead what the Westminster journalists call a car

as well Ukip. The must read Ukip. A Ukip for everyone. -- read Ukip.

They must ensure that the party is a big tent, were all talents are

utilised. People are not marginalised or simply holding

alternative viewpoints. I have always believed that the barometer

of the maturity of any political party is how it deals with people

who have different opinions. This, unfortunately, is something we have

failed to do well over the years. This must change because if it does

not, and the new leader continues to preserve over the infighting we have

seen over the past year, I fear the very future of our party. This is a

great opportunity to put all that behind us. To look for words and not

backwards, to let bygones be bygones. The new leader has a clean

state and my advice is this, look outwards and not in words. Be

optimistic and positive. Do not get bogged down in internal squabbling

and focus on fighting the enemy is and not on fighting each other.

APPLAUSE .

Of course, as Lord Stevens said, there will have to be some form of

constitutional reform. I was the first person in the party, back in

2010, to talk about the need of a party board, a political board. I

never envisaged for one second that this board would not have elected

representation from the membership. Do not allow democracy within the

party to be taken away. Do not allow the party... Do not allow the party

to become like the European Commission that you have destroyed.

It needs to be accountable. APPLAUSE

My advice is simply this, yes, let's have a political board for the

party, but let's also have a national executive that is elected

by the regions. A regionally elected NPC. -- NBC. Eight years ago when I

stood on this platform, as your new party chairman, we were a party that

was not registering in the opinion polls. Our membership was a near

third of what it is now. We were deemed so irrelevant that not one

single national journalist actually turned up to cover the conference, I

thought Michael Crick outside and that probably isn't a bad thing. We

have taken huge strides. I am as proud as punch by what we have all

achieved. In 2014, we became the first party since 9006 that wasn't

the Labour Party or the Conservatives to go on and win a

national election. 1906. We took 4 million votes at the general

election. We got the people the EU referendum and we have given this

country the opportunity to put the great back into Great Britain.

APPLAUSE It is fitting that it ends for me on

the very spot where it all began. My colleagues, my friends, it has been

a great honour and a pleasure to have been your party chairman and

then your deputy leader for the past eight years. I thank you all from

the bottom of my heart for the support that you have given both me

personally and the party in general. Never forget, you are its heart and

lifeblood. Leaders and deputy leaders can come and go. None of us

are indispensable. You, the membership, with you, the party

would be nothing. -- without you. On that note, it is time to hand over

to the next generation. They will take up the mantle. I wish whoever

succeeds me as the deputy leader of Ukip, all the best of luck. I thank

you all and goodbye. APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, one final cheer for Paul Nuttall MEP.

APPLAUSE Ogre, ladies and gentlemen, that

speech bring our first session to be close. -- OK, ladies and gentlemen.

We are finishing ahead of schedule, breaking records. That is good.

We're going to break now for a brief half an hour break and returning

back at 11:30am. We will hear from our outgoing chairman and leader,

Nigel far right. Please visit our exhibition. I am aware this is a

rabbit warren. We are going to do a final sweep of the building to make

sure we get everyone out before we go. On the way to the export room,

there is a Ukip victory wall. I would encourage you all to go and

sign it. It is a big placard that has been put up on our wall for you

to sign. Please get back for 1130 AM to listen to Steve. We will see you

then. My large ladies and gentlemen, after

a speech like that, I'd feel