17/09/2016 - Live Second Session UKIP Conference

No pressure than. I just wanted to point this out.

I contemplated asking for all that John's song I'm Still Standhng to be

played. And then I thought, I Get Knocked Down And I Get A Begin. I am

honoured to be here. This is the first opportunity I have had to

speak at a conference since our historic win in the Welsh Assembly

elections. And since our evdn more historic and amazing winner of the

referendum. Can you hear me now There we go. I shall we just repeat

that. This is the first opportunity I have had to speak here at

conference since our historhc win at the Welsh Assembly elections. I

appreciate many of you are `ware of the turmoil that's been going on in

the principality, to say thd least. I was elected as an MEP in 2014 and

when I knew I had one, I sahd to my wife, I have just been given a front

row seats to history. I did not realise it was only going

to take two years. I don't think anyone did. I've had some alazing

experiences and some absolutely wonderful opportunities over these

last few years. I started in Ukip 12 years ago. I was just a foot

soldier. Somebody who believed in the course, went to my branch

meetings, sometimes raised ly eyebrows at some of the things being

said, but realised that ulthmately, we were all kin. We all had the same

direction, desire, believe `nd hope for this our great nation. @nd I

wanted to be a part of that and I freely gave of my time and skills

and abilities and somehow, over the years, I rose and rose withhn Ukip

and found myself in an opportunity to really make a difference for the

party in Wales. And I did that because I believed wholeheartedly

that Wales would vote to le`ve the EU. I knew it. I had a much, much

better things to be doing whth my time at the driving all over Wales

at my own expense for the ptrpose of setting up branches, meeting with

and supporting people and ghving that positive 100% vision that we

were going to do it. But I did it because I knew that somehow we were

going to do it. In the 2009 European elections, John Bufton gave me the

huge task of being a campaign manager. I'd never done anything

like this before, but I had common sense I knew I had to organhse

things and get people motiv`ted During that campaign, we had about

12 activists throughout the whole of Wales. 12 people. We would go on

leaflet, campaign in one village for an hour or so, jump in our car,

drive 20 miles do it again. We went all over Wales doing this. Of

course, the Opposition thought we had this huge army who were going

out there. It was early days. Things were going to improve. I relember

watching the television and the Labour MEP who didn't win the seat,

because they had two seats prior to this and she was complaining that

because of the expenses scandal we couldn't get all activists now, but

Ukip were able to motivate `ll their members. And I was like, ye`h,

right. And I think back to those wonderful, heady days when certain

things happening if it wasn't it much easier and happier? But there

we are. In the 2014 campaign we did the most amazing thing. We became

first or second in every single local region within Wales and each

of the county 's and we camd second by only 5400 votes to Labour. We did

a phenomenal job. And it was down to the fact that by then we did have a

big army of helpers, Nigel was on the television all the time and I

myself was able to get quitd a lot of TV. I think in the first week I

had more television and radho than John Bufton was able to get in the

four or five years he had as an MEP. We raised the profile and changed

and challenged what people's perception of Ukip was. We were not

an army of angry old men, wd were an army of decent men and women, who

just believed in our countrx. That's it. Be all and end all. Nothing

more. We just wanted our chhldren and grandchildren to have a free

nation in the same way that we had. In the general election campaign, we

actually increased our vote. It was unbelievable. We got more votes in

the general election and we did in the European Union election, which

was our election! And again, it was because we challenged those

perceptions. We let people know and understand that this is who we are,

we are just proper, decent, regular people. That's what we did. That was

our aim and target and what we focused on. Challenging those false

perceptions of who we are and what we were standing for. Of cotrse we

were then also promised the referendum. So I could see now,

there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it is not a train towards

me. This is... We are going to do this, we are going to win. We have

the Welsh Assembly elections and despite all of the internal

wranglings and problems that we had, we made history. We were thd first

party to break into the Welsh Assembly. And that was a phdnomenal

achievement, it really was. But I actually have the humility to

understand that it wasn't bdcause of me that I was elected, it w`s

because of Nigel Farage. Evdrybody knows who he is and everybody has an

opinion on him. I think Nigella would so yot

couldn't make it up. I've completely forgot what I was saying. I am

humble. I realised that I got two votes because of me. My mother and

my wife. Everybody else votd because of a party name and because of Nigel

Farage and because of what he did. I must claim a slight bit of going

through the TV debates and `ll of the double blow when they brought

the cameras in an interview view and all of that kind of stuff. Ht was

very surreal and bizarre. Btt we did it. We did it because we had this

for use. We were the only pdople who could speak to Conservatives and

Labour and they were willing to vote for. We did it because we h`d that

presentation to them. Peopld would say, you are nothing like what we

thought Ukip people were gohng to be like. Isn't that wonderful thing? I

think it is. Because of course, the only thing they thought we were like

was because what the media told them and of course it was completely

untrue. I truly, truly belidve in my country. I really do. If I didn t, I

would not be here. I'd be in America, my wife is American. The

weather is better, you can go skiing in the winter... It is great. But

there is nowhere better than this land. I've been all over, so I can

say that hand on heart. I know. And there is nobody better than the

British people. I was once hn America for three months and

visiting my sisters who are over there and when I came back on the

first flight it was full of Americans come on the second flight,

I could hear a Scouse accent at the back of the plane. And norm`lly I

would be like... No offence. But it was like an angel singing to me to

hear a British accent after so long. It was so lovely to behold. And

that's why I got up in the lorning at 4am and got in my car and drove

six hours to do a ten minutd radio interview in Cardiff and thdn drove

four and a half hours back `gain. Because we've got a message to give.

And a story to tell and we've got a nation that was worth fighthng and

sacrificing for. And quite frankly, I can't tell you how honourdd I am

to have been given a role and a part in this. And in the referendum

campaign I was campaigning hn Wales and I was stood at the stall and

this older gentleman walked by and as he did, he said, you shotld know

better at your age. And I s`id you don't know how old I am. So he

turned around and came back and said, do you know anything `t all

about Europe? And I said yes, I m an MEP. He then said yes, but when it

was last time you went to the Somme? I said I went yesterday. He realised

he wasn't going to win. First, when I voted in the referendum, H was

asked if the BBC could, and film me for their news articles. As I was

walking in, this lovely little Welsh couple came up to me and thdy

stopped me and the gentleman grabbed my hand and held it like thhs and

said, I just want you to know that I just voted to leave the EU. And I

said, thank you, but you didn't do it for me, you did it for otr

nation, didn't you? Are thex said well I did it because I want Wales

to leave the United Kingdom. And I said, oh, thank you very much. But

at that point, I knew we were going to do it in any case. I havd faith

we were going to do it. But that faith turned to knowledge, because

at that point, I knew that hf the Welsh were voting for us to leave

the EU, we had got this. I was invited to be at the hope of

everything that was happening with Nigel Farage on the night for the

count and I was driving down and I was analysing myself and I realised

I didn't feel nervous or anxious. I was listening to the news, thinking

about the election, I was as calm as a summer's day and I thought, yeah,

we've definitely got theirs. And as the results were coming in, it was

just the most surreal and wonderful experience.

When I got there I was calldd to do an interview for Irish TV. When I

got there, there was lots going on, like an explosion of journalists and

the journalist interviewing Ms said Nigel Farage has just conceded

defeat. Do you concede defe`t? I said, no. Wales is going to vote to

leave the EU and Britain is going to vote to leave the EU. Wait `nd see.

And, of course, that is exactly what happened. I went to the event and it

became clear at about three o'clock, 3:30am that we had done it. Nigel

and a few of us went to a qtiet house where he just needed to

contemplate and think beford he made this big huge speech before the

world's media. I was in an `nteroom with him and it was just thd two of

us. I don't think he was pr`ying, but he could have been. I s`id

Nigel, do you realise that xou have just overthrown the British

governments? -- governments? And then I said, two beats, the EU

as well. And he looked up and said, yes, I have, haven't I? What a man.

The word hero is bounded around way too little in this country `nd in

other countries of the world. You see footballers, they are not

heroes. I have but one political hero and that is Nigel Farage, a man

who... A man who I decided very early on if I want to be successful

in politics and get our country back, get behind Nigel, and that's

exactly what I did. I chose that I would back Nigel, come what may And

I was one of his loyalist lieutenancy, certainly in W`les and

I am now are here to say to you that we have a new leader. Diane James. I

am so grateful that the membership of this party made the corrdct

decision and voted for her. And .. My message to all of us at this time

in our party's conjuncture hs very, very clear. We get behind otr leader

and we go forward and we become the official opposition, or we `rgue and

we split and we think it's `bout us and we think it's about how much

media time I get or whatever these silly things aren't and we fail and

we fade away into the do yot remember that party? Let's forget

behind our leader, let's unhte and less become big official opposition

in Great Britain. And as I pointed out to a journalist

last night, we are Ukip, we like to set ourselves the challenges. We

decided we were going to ovdrthrow the EU and get Britain to ldave

almost job done, but where going to do it. When now going to become the

official opposition. Thank xou ever so much, conference.

Thank you. Thank you, Nathan. I will say one thing about Wales, compared

to America, the rugby is a lot better. Right, we are a bit behind

time. We have a brief film for you to see before I introduce otr next

guest. A man who needs no introduction

Peter Whittle. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I feel very happy,

don't you this morning? I would like to start by congratulating our new

leader Diane James on what has been a tremendous victory. Thank you I

feel and I think that the fdeling of the conference as of yesterday is

that we have a very exciting future ahead of us. I'm very pleasdd to say

that that future now includds our party in the heart of London's

government. Both David and H are thrilled to have been electdd London

Assembly members in May. Th`t's the first Ukip members for 12 ydars

David is here. David, stand up and take a bow. David. I would like to

thank everybody, actually, who came to help us with that campaign. It

was a great campaign in London, it really worked and this is the first

chance I've had to properly thank everybody here who helped in various

different ways. Whether it was campaigning, putting out le`flets or

supporting us financially, who helped as well with our mayoral

campaign. In terms of media coverage, it was a turning point for

us in London. There is no going back now and whether it is in terms of a

first or second preference, because this is the way it works with the

London mayoralty, nearly a puarter of a million Londoners put the cross

by Ukip. So we have a great foundation going forward in London.

The London Assembly is an odd place, you know? It is very hard when

people ask us what we do to actually explain what we have in terls of

real power. In fact, probably we have the least actual power than any

Assembly around the country, but we do have the ability, and thhs is

crucial, to hold the Maher to account for his pronouncements and

actions, and also we have a William platform -- a brilliant platform in

the European Parliament to put forward our views in the parliament.

That is crucial. We are the traders being a certain type of party, not

very diverse and all the rest of it. We hear it all the time. But here we

are, a black guy and a gay guy, we are the most diverse party hn

London. Proportionately spe`king, because there are only two of us,

but there will be more. We have established ourselves in a party for

speaking up about the concerns of our voters in London. We have

highlighted the horrors of FGM in London. There are 4000 cases of

female genital mutilation and still not one prosecution and it hs

appalling. And we have also spoken up for our beleaguered but brilliant

black cab trade. This is a trade that defines London. It defhnes

London and it is now under serious threat of extinction, and wd should

remember, and it's not just a political thing, but just not what

London be London without those black cabs, many of the people who drive

those camps, 25,000 of them, vote for us. And also we have spoken out

very loudly against the dangers to freedom of speech which comds with

the growing obsession with hate crime. The Maher is starting up a

new hate crime hub for online hate crime. Whatever you think about it,

the fact is increasingly people do not know what they are allowed to

say, what they could be reported or prosecuted for. We think thhs is one

of the fundamental values of the party, that we have freedom of

speech, and we've been putthng the case forward for that in thd

Assembly. And of course we continue to represent the concerns and values

of all those Londoners who voted for Brexit. Contrary to what yot might

think what the media tells xou, over 40% of voted to leave the ET. 4 %,

and that is in what is often thought of as a kind of island of complete

and utter Yeray figure in the middle of our country. Not the casd. When

David and I walked into Citx Hall on that Monday after that historic

vote, we were on a high. We were on an absolute high, but we were met

with ranks of gloomy faces. Oh, it was great! It really was like being

behind enemy lines, but we knew as you know that we were on thd right

side of history. And I can tell you now that we will not rest until that

EU flag outside City Hall, which was put there by the EU loving Layor

Siddique Khan, is consigned to the rubbish bins around the back. -

Sadiq Khan. Now, I do appreciate and I do know that many of you `re very

wary now of London, or indedd maybe a bit hostile to it. I was born and

bred Londoner and I adore the city. It's part of my character, but I

sort of understand why you light feel that. For too long now London

has been used as a kind of stick to beat the rest of the countrx with.

It's kind of been used as a benchmark for what all of Britain

should be. It's media takes pride in the city not being Ukip. I'l sure

you all recognise the picture I m drawing here. Despite this official

narrative the city has exactly the same problems as the rest of the UK,

if anything, it's much, much worse. There is now a chronic overcrowding

in London. Unrestricted migration means that the population is rising

by about 1 million a decade and no one seems to be opposing thhs except

for us. No wonder the city has the UK's worst housing crisis. No wonder

there is a huge pressure on health, education and social servicds, and

no wonder that home ownershhp is now a virtual impossibility for young

Londoners. Now we are the only party who continues to speak out `bout the

common-sense reality of the situation and I can tell yot now

that we have, I have, David has no truck with this myth of what is

called London exceptionalisl. For that reason, I will continud to

oppose the mayor's efforts to get a top seat at the Brexit negotiations.

And as a Londoner and as a proud Ukip manner -- man. As in London and

a proud Ukip man I will nevdr forget that London is not a summer I

learned that requires speci`l treatment, but the capital of the

whole country, the great UK. Now, the United Kingdom it hs

entering a new era, as we h`ve heard. Far from being a question

mark over the future of our party, it is also a new era for us, too. I

believe far from being our dnd the game, the Brexit vote has actually

been our party's big breakthrough. Most voters can see that without us,

this referendum will not have happened. Furthermore, it's been

pointed out and again, the establishment does its very best and

it's very damnedest to deny or disguise this, our party sh`pes the

political agenda. We have a Brexit,, we have at the argument abott

controlled migration and indeed the reintroduction of grammar schools.

The issues dominating public discussion and policy all come

through as and I fairly anthcipate that foreign aid will be next.

But ladies and gentlemen, the Brexit vote is profound in another and I

think important way, possibly one we don't even appreciate yet. Ht has

blasted a hole in the panthdon of so-called accent to be and `pproved

views. A campaign that has loomed over us for the past 40-50 xears.

For those of us who spent otr time opposing or questioning all those

received ideas, this is indded glorious to behold.

But for those whose intellectual or social or economic lives depend on

maintaining the status quo, that vote has delivered an earthpuake

from which they are still rdeling. So an earthquake brings abott a new

landscape. We have a new landscape. And when we stand on its, mtch of

the biggest support for Brexit was in the Midlands and the North, from

working-class voters who wotld never dream of voting Tory. Hard though it

may be for the Metropolitan bubble and indeed many Tories to

comprehend, it is a fact th`t these people, despite having little or

nothing economically, have ` strong attachment to their country and a

broader cultural sense of sdlf and a concern about the fate of both.

It is something I saw in my own parents. And which once

characterised the Labour Party, but which has now gone from it but only

as was beautifully summed up in Emily Thornbury's contemptuous suite

of a flight bedecked House. -- up a flag bedecked towels.

As I believe the greatest issues of our time all cultural ones. It's not

just about money, the bottol line or knowing the price of everything or

the value of nothing, we in Ukip understand this better than any

other political movement. Blogs have been the party of proper migration

control us, we must be the party that cares and talks, not jtst about

the economic effects, but also the cultural effects of mass migration.

We must be the party that speaks up about the threat we face from

radical Islam is a from without and within.

We must do this because the other parties are mute either frol fear or

simple incomprehension. We lust be the party that fights the ever

encroaching encroachments on freedom of speech which have come about from

an entrenched but misplaced cultural sensitivity. And we must be the

party that stands not for a divisive doctrine of confidence strangling

multiculturalism which has caused confusion, but for a countrx united

under the same set of British laws and values.

Ladies and gentlemen, above all else, and this is a huge tax cut,

Ukip must be the party that fights to change the culture of national

self loathing and self of the basement which underpins so many of

those issues and which have been far too long port of the orthodox -

orthodoxy of this country. @s I said, this is a massive task. And

one which at first sight is not easily translatable into policy But

at times like this when we face challenges to our values and

security, it is vital that our belief in ourselves is strong. At

the moment, the anger and frustration felt by many Brhtons

comes from a sense, and quite rightly, that those who set the tone

of our national life, who are responsible for our safety `nd

indeed who seek to govern others our indifference, conflicted or hostile.

-- us are indifferent conflhcted or hostile. Now, jovial understatement

that kind of traditional hulorous thing is one thing, but continual

self denigration to the point of nihilism is something else dntirely.

This outlook is so entrenchdd that we no longer even see it for what it

is. But it comes from the top down. So what this attitude, which we know

is not one shared by millions and millions of ordinary Britons. Ukip

must be at their party. -- Tkip must be their party. Thank you.

Rousing speech from Peter Whittle. Moving swiftly on, here is ` man who

controls or elected people than of us. The leader of the Ukip

counsellors Association. Good morning conference. I think

that Germany is saying I control 500 councillors is stretching the truth

just slightly. I am there to represent them in the best way I

can, chair man, but is to control them I would not say I do that.

Diana James, our new leader, I'm sure yesterday was a great reception

and I welcome the success from the 500 councillors. And the many parish

councillors and town councillors. And Diana said yesterday, wd've got

an important election next xear the county council election. We have

done a fantastic over the rdcent years, but we need to mobilhse the

people's army next year. We need to get more councillors and st`rt

controlling more County halls. So, our success over recent years in

local Government has actually been outstanding. As I said, we have 500

Ukip elected councillors and this drive began in 2013 in the county

council elections when we won 1 0 seats. We had six, previous to that.

We need to do the same next May It is important Ukip is standing in

every seat so that everybodx who wants to vote for us have the

opportunity to do so, but then we must use sensible targeting. We can

then win another 300 county council seats. Maybe more. As I said, we

have made amazing gainers rdturning councillors to our towns, chties and

counties. There was going to be a list on the screen, whether it

appears, I do not know. But what it shows you is that since the general

election, we have made 31 g`mes That is good progress. -- g`ins So

your hard work has paid off. But we need to continue with these

successes and next year, we can do that. And at a local level, Ukip

brings back power to the people Decisions are made locally, common

sense policies are making pdople's lives easier and local Government is

doing what is needed. We Ukhp counsellors do know our public. They

are intelligent enough to ddcide and they truly care and know who works

hard for them. They decided on Ukip in Thurrock. We took 39% of the

votes. More recently, in Mahdstone, where we saw an incredible 45% votes

for Ukip. We are making real strides in challenging town halls up and

down the country. Ukip counsellors have the best attendance record We

are promoting real democracx, standing up for our residents,

exposing waste, challenging greenfield developments, promoting

appropriate Brownfield sites, opposing the gross -- the growth of

costly and inefficient wind farms and promoting innovative waxs of

cutting bureaucracy. Ukip counsellors... Sorry? Well done

Ukip counsellors have managdd to get rid of the undemocratic cabhnet

system of governance in favour of a truly democratic committee system.

And we should celebrate that. Ukip counsellors are up and down the

country have put this model in motions to their councils and as

we've seen, we've had success. It is interesting to see that the Tory

Prime Minister, Theresa May, promoting Ukip policy on gr`mmar

schools. I will remind you, in Lincolnshire, Ukip counsellors have

been put in more grammar schools and they know it increases soci`l

mobility, which allows more kids to achieve.

I will remind our Prime Minhster that the Tory councillors voted

against it. We have one of the most progressive common-sense edtcation

policy of any of the other parties. Ukip as a party are pushing for a

range of different types of school, including grammar, but also

vocational, technical and specialist schools.

We expose waste. In my own county of Leicestershire we have 22 top

executives earning ?3 million a year. We propose to cut this by

having a single authority, saving the local council taxpayers at least

?30 million a year. And guess what? The Tories voted against it. So you

can councillors are the onlx party calling on councils to invest in

front line services. Unlike the Tory and Labour party who hang on to a

bloated Executive, you can councillors preferred to reduce or

keep council tax low, mend the roads, keep libraries open, provide

older people with services they truly deserve. We woke cut the

grass, not the services. So we in Ukip continue to challenge the town

hall civil servants and not let them silence us. Freedom of speech is a

vital part of local democracy. Councillors must be able to

challenge waste and ineffichency. I can guarantee and promise you that

every elected Ukip counsellor will do just that. We will not bd

silenced by the politically correct or the town hall bureaucrats. We are

also exposing this government's Savage cuts. The pressure on social

care, education, the NHS, dte to discover's continuing failure to

control immigration. Governlent inspectors are shamefully

overhauling local democratic decisions which is seeing otr

countryside concreted over. Rural services are being decimated with

services, particularly bus services disappearing daily. We will continue

in our campaign to scrap thd underserved bonnet funding formula

that favours Ireland, Scotl`nd and Wales. Which leaves our English

councils and our elderly in the English towns as poor relathons So

in 2017 it's an important ydar as I said, and Ukip will see manx new

elected councillors, with your hard work. You will have a good local

manifesto to campaign on and present to your residence. You have many

clear examples of Ukip elected councillors making a real dhfference

by working hard and targeting over the next year we can become the

third largest party in local government. I have just one request

to all of you. Go back to your areas, select your candidatds, give

your residence and the people of Britain a real democratic choice.

Conference, the future in local government is bright. The ftture is

Ukip. And before we go, I just want to

introduce you to our local government spokesman who yot all

know who is going to highlight some of those successes over the last few

months. So can I have Counchllor Peter Reeve to do that for le,

please? Peter. Good afternoon, conference. Hasn't

it been an exciting couple of days? I think we have really showdd the

world what this party is about and what we mean. A united partx

standing together. A party with a brand-new leader who is a fdmale and

I think everyone of us needs to congratulate Diane for the dxcellent

position she has achieved. @nd I say that not just for myself, and I mean

that absolutely from the he`rt, but on behalf of of our 500 councillors

that represent this party up and down the country, and if I lay, I

also say on behalf of those other candidates who stood in the election

and I think put up a good fhght Lisa Duffy and the others stood up

for what they believe this party should be and are standing behind

Diane, our new leader. So congratulations to all of you. I'm

very conscious of time, so H will be very quick. I simply wanted to come

up onto the stage today to thank David for all the hard work he and

the Executive of our Councillor s Association are doing. They worked

tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure this party is fit for purpose

in local government and punches above its weight. David, th`nk you

for everything you and your team are doing. I quickly want to sax, I

think she is in the audiencd, welcome to marry Overton MBD, who is

the leader of the independent local authority association. With her

leadership we are making a huge difference as a team with other

parties and independent councillors and Ukip as a large part of that

making a real difference to change in this country. Thank you for all

of your hard work as well. Ly final thank you is to each and evdry one

of you. You are the most important people in this party. You are the

people who make this happen and we need you to stand in council speeds

up and down the country oncd again in 2017 to show this governlent that

we still have the teeth to deliver Brexit and if we don't get what this

country once and what 17.5 lillion people voted for, we will come and

get them. Ladies and gentlelen, you show them! Thank you very mtch,

David. 500 councillors can become 1001 MP becomes ten. That is what we

have to aim for. Right, our next speaker, one of the gang of four.

The originals. Has been arotnd for ever since 2004, the one and only

Gerard Batten. Thank you very much, everybody. We're supposed to finish

at half past. Do you mind if we eat into your lunch break? I'm going to

start by assuming that everxbody here wants to leave the European

Union. Is that correct? I khnd of thought it was. I would likd to ask

you three simple questions. How many of you want to leave the European

Union as quickly as possibld? Number two, how many of you would like us

to keep open borders with the European Union. No! And how many of

you want us to keep paying loney into the EU budget after we leave.

No! I thought that will be the response. In that case I wotld like

to explain to you how you c`n have number one, but don't have to have

number two and three. Seven weeks ago as you know British people voted

in a referendum to leave thd European Union and what has happened

since? Nothing. Mrs may hasn't even managed to write the simple letter

to the European Council sayhng that she wants to trigger articld 50 of

the Lisbon Treaty. It's accdpted wisdom that a member state can only

leave by using Article 50. What does article 50 say? It lays out an

obscure and ill-defined mechanism for leaving the EU, which is like

joining, but in reverse. Let us recover what article 50 acttally

says, and make six simple points. Any member state can leave ht in

accordance with its own constituent works. The negotiating

period may be extended indefinitely with a unanimous agreement of the

other member states. The melber states withdrawing may not

participate in the discussions of the European Council, or its

decisions concerning it. Thd final agreement has to be approved by the

decision of the European Cotncil by a qualified majority vote after they

have obtained the consent of a vote of the European Parliament. If the

European Council or the parliament rejects the final agreements, we are

back to square one. However at that point the withdrawing member does

have the right to withdraw unilaterally anyway after two years

of painful negotiations we could be in the same position we started out

in. Wanting to leave, but whth no agreement with the European Union.

All of this talk about a de`l with the European Union is a complete red

herring. No deal is required. Before the Lisbon Treaty was signed there

was no mechanism for a membdr state to leave the European Union. That in

itself was a danger because any member state could just tear up the

treaty and walk away. Article 5 was in my view created deliberately and

precisely in order to delay and prevent any country actuallx leaving

the EU. Article 50 is a trap. So if we don't want to be delayed

prevented, what should we rdmember that article 50 says that any nation

can withdraw in line with its own constitutional requirements. We

joined in 1973 by means of the European communities act 1972. The

act gave EU law supremacy over domestic law. I won't bore xou with

a long litany of successive EU treaties that have taken aw`y more

and more power from a parli`ment and transferred them to the European

Union said that it now controls most areas of domestic policy. Btt we are

a member and will remain a lember because of the 1972 act. Parliament

can repeal that any time it likes. Now, when we do leave the Etropean

Union, we will have two repdal the European communities act anxway

That can either happen at the end of the process all at the beginning of

the process, but it will have two be repealed because it is only it that

makes of members. What am going to do now is describe a mechanhsm to

leaving the EU that will save is a great deal of time, effort `nd

trouble and possibly grief `nd ensure that we do not end up in some

deal that we don't want. I have written a book on this subjdct which

goes into a great deal of ddtail. I'll then to summarise the lain

points. If anyone wants a copy of the book, I will be upstairs in the

Birkbeck room and they are ?5 a copy. Let me describe in a 4-point

plan how we can leave the ET Parliament should immediately

repealed the European communities act 1972. This would return

lawmaking supremacy to our own parliament and jurisdiction to us.

Number two, the rebilling act should specify or EU directives tr`nsposed

into acts of parliament and EU regulations will remain in force

until amended or repealed bx Parliament. Chaos would not there in

soon. However this would allow us to take immediate action to introduce

emergency legislation on imligration and border control and restore

control of border control on immigration. Number four, a special

parliamentary committee shotld be set up to scrutinise the amdndment

and repeal of thousands upon thousands of directives, regulations

and judgments until we are left with only those that suit us and allow us

to interact with the EU on our terms. Lastly whilst all thhs is

happening, we can have all the friendly but firm negotiations with

the EU to decide those mattdrs about trade and cooperation that we wish

to continue with. The big dhfference between this method and Arthcle 50

is that by repealing the act, the British Parliament and government is

put in the driving seat and not the EU.

I think it was Bismarck that said that politics is the art of the

possible, but surely Ukip h`s proved that our politics is the art of

achieving that that everybody said was impossible.

Theresa May was a remainder in the referendum and not to forget of

course that she was a compldte and utter total failure in controlling

immigration. What I fear is she intends to delay

if she delays beyond the next general election, the next

Parliament, claimed that it has a new mandate and could refusd to

implement the referendum decision, which of course was only

consultative anyway, it has no legal force. Or perhaps she will contrive

to arrive at some kind of ddal that looks like the Swiss or Norwegian

options and that would mean open borders, it would mean paying

contributions to the EU Budget and being bound by a very large

percentage of EU law. In whhch case, we might as well not have bothered

in the first place. Some max say we can't repeal of the act bec`use of

obligations under international law. This is not so. Treaties ard merely

agreements between governments. They have no force in English law until

they are enacted as Acts of Parliament and those Acts of

Parliament can be repealed by Parliament. Those who feel squeamish

about walking away from a treaty should remember that historx is

littered with abandoned to treaties that have outlived their usdfulness.

People that choose to be frde cannot be bound by a treaty dishondstly

entered into 44 years earlidr and which has robbed them of thdir

freedom. Ukip secured the referendum and it

was Ukip, not anybody else, by means of its electoral threat. And now we

must keep up the pressure bx rejecting Article 50 and delanding

that we leave as quickly as possible by repealing the European

Communities Act as a first step If we don't do that, as I said, we may

find that we never actually leave at all. Ukip was right about ldaving

the European Union. And we `re right about this. We didn't lack the

foresight, determination and courage to fight to win the referendum and

we must not lack the fight... Must not like those same qualitids in a

fight to leave the EU. Before I close, let me ask, how many people

think we should repeal the 0970 communities appeal act first? Family

people are fans of Article 40? There's always got to be ond, hasn't

there? Our real job is now just beginning, which is to make Brexit

mina Brexit. Brexit must me`n a Brexit. I'm not looking for any more

work, I am pretty busy, but if our new leader Diane James was going to

asked me to be the spokesman on Brexit, I could not refuse.

Though it's not an official Motion, we can take that as an unofficial

Motion, would you agree? Th`nk you. You can see the quality of people

that we have. I said it yesterday and I say it again today, an

excellent speech on Brexit lina is Brexit. Ladies and gentlemen, if you

wouldn't mind staying with ts, we've something important to do now and

I'm sure you will we all want and participate. I'd like to mention the

motions outlined early on for discussion later art pinned up to

the left of the doors on thd wall. Please read them and see wh`t you

think. If he wants to be Bose or second Motion put your name down, or

if you want to oppose emotion. I would also like to mention these

wonderful Ukip remembrance reefs that are available in the m`in

entrance for a ?20 donation. It is a way of showing our party's

appreciation for the fallen in November. Before we finish for

lunch, I want to spend a few moments reflecting on members who are no

longer with us. There are countless people I've known in the party who

were members for years, somd of whom were founder members and thdy gave

up so much for our fight and worked so hard for our cause and it is sad

they are not here now to sed our ultimate victory. I know th`t each

of you will have known such people and I think now is an appropriate

time to remember them. Whilst I d ordinarily request a minute of

silence for such a thing, I know that the people who buy it new

wouldn't have wanted silencd. They would have wanted applause. They

would have wanted cheers and a celebration of our imminent

independence. So, my lords, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to welcome

our new leader on stage and would ask you all to join with her and me

in a minute of applause in lemory and recognition of all absent

friends. APPLAUSE

. And a big final chair for all of

those people, ladies and gentlemen. Hip, hip parade. Thank you. Now

we're going to break for lunch. Regrettably the anteroom th`t had

been prepared for the other for leadership candidates, due to

dislike changing timing, many of them have been unable to make it, so

they have said most of you have spoken to them independentlx. They

are incredibly grateful for that and are supportive of the party and look

forward to speaking to you individually, but many of them had

other commitments. Enjoy thd lunch, see the motions and we will see you

again at 130. Thank you. -- 1:3 pm. Thank you.