:02:31. > :02:41.Good afternoon. Good afternoon. With every bone in mind taking their
:02:42. > :02:51.sheet, please. -- would everyone mind. If you could take your seat I
:02:52. > :02:55.would be most grateful. Thank you for accommodating our change in the
:02:56. > :03:02.starting time for this session. We are allowed an extra 15 minutes for
:03:03. > :03:06.lunch. I am delighted to now started this very interesting penultimate
:03:07. > :03:12.session of the conference here in Bournemouth and I would like to
:03:13. > :03:13.introduce to the podium your appreciation for our leader, Diane
:03:14. > :03:30.James. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome again.
:03:31. > :03:37.From my perspective, to the conference again this afternoon. NBA
:03:38. > :03:43.few moments it will be my absolute pleasure to invite Douglas Carswell,
:03:44. > :03:55.Ukip's MP, to address you. I, like many of you... Yes, let's do that.
:03:56. > :03:59.APPLAUSE I went to Clacton to support him, he took a very
:04:00. > :04:06.courageous decision to leave the Tories and come to us and I am not
:04:07. > :04:09.interested in what has gone on beforehand.
:04:10. > :04:17.I want you to get the most rapturous welcome to Douglas Carswell MP,
:04:18. > :04:30.you'd get MP. Many thanks. -- Ukip MP.
:04:31. > :05:00.thank you for that warm introduction. The referendum victory
:05:01. > :05:03.on June the 20 thirds was not the Conservative Party victory, it was
:05:04. > :05:12.not Labour's pectin, it was our victory. APPLAUSE. -- it was not
:05:13. > :05:19.Labour's victory. It was your directory, it was Ukip victory. We
:05:20. > :05:24.dared not just forced them to hold the referendum, we helped win it.
:05:25. > :05:30.Looking around I see lots of familiar faces, people who I know
:05:31. > :05:37.are helped run street stalls, people who went out handing out leaflets,
:05:38. > :05:41.who did not just do that during the referendum campaign but people I
:05:42. > :05:46.know did that for years. Thank you for what you did. In the referendum
:05:47. > :05:53.and before. It would not have happened without you. I also want to
:05:54. > :06:00.say well done to Diane, our new leader. It was a wonderful listening
:06:01. > :06:06.to her speaking yesterday. It takes a certain something for someone to
:06:07. > :06:12.offer themselves to Leeds, not just a political party, but the third
:06:13. > :06:17.largest party in British politics today. -- offer themselves to lead.
:06:18. > :06:26.I salute all of the candidates who put themselves forward for the job.
:06:27. > :06:30.APPLAUSE the membership is now spoken and made a clear choice.
:06:31. > :06:41.We must now all rally behind the Diane. APPLAUSE Diane, I give you
:06:42. > :06:51.110% of my support. Well done.
:06:52. > :06:55.APPLAUSE it has been a great year for our party.
:06:56. > :06:59.A few years ago the experts in Westminster said we would never get
:07:00. > :07:05.the referendum. David Cameron and George Osborne were estimates it
:07:06. > :07:10.would not happen. -- they were adamant. It did. The experts said
:07:11. > :07:15.the leave the site could never win. At times it felt like the entire
:07:16. > :07:21.weight of the Government machine was against us, not just Downing Street,
:07:22. > :07:25.but the so-called experts and economists, the central bankers,
:07:26. > :07:32.corporate bankers, lobbyists, the CBI. George Osborne blew up the long
:07:33. > :07:38.list of experts ready to tell us to come to heal. -- George Osborne blew
:07:39. > :07:52.up. The fall in line, or as Barack Obama put it, HQ, to tell us what to
:07:53. > :07:55.do. -- a a queue. It seems to me we're starting even earlier this
:07:56. > :08:00.year. They said interest rates would go up and instead they went down.
:08:01. > :08:06.They said there would be a recession and instead we seen growth. They
:08:07. > :08:10.said the economy could not cope. I suspect more jobs will have been
:08:11. > :08:21.created in Britain since the referendum than the whole of the
:08:22. > :08:25.rest of the EU combines. We won despite having the system rigged
:08:26. > :08:29.against us and Ukip can keep on winning despite having the system
:08:30. > :08:36.stacked against us. Nowhere is the system rate more against us than it
:08:37. > :08:44.is in Westminster. -- rigged against us. Sitting on those green benches I
:08:45. > :08:49.often find myself surrounded by 50-something Scottish Nationalist
:08:50. > :08:55.MPs, 56, I think. We got three times more votes than they got at the last
:08:56. > :09:03.election. And yet there are 50 of them. APPLAUSE and only one Ukip MP.
:09:04. > :09:09.How can that be fair? The SNP and the Liberal Democrats gets you asked
:09:10. > :09:13.question Time, questions of Prime Minister's Question Time, I am lucky
:09:14. > :09:18.if I get called to speak at all. We got more votes than the Lib Dems,
:09:19. > :09:29.Plaid Cymru, the Ulster Unionist Party Green Party combined. APPLAUSE
:09:30. > :09:34.I know how unfair our political system in this country really is.
:09:35. > :09:41.I sit next to it everyday. We urgently needs electoral reform. We
:09:42. > :09:48.need to make those parliaments more accountable to constituents. And
:09:49. > :09:52.supper the neighbouring county for the Mac people voted overwhelmingly
:09:53. > :10:00.to leave the EU yet every single Suffolk MP supported remain. Across
:10:01. > :10:05.the country only a tiny handful of principal patriotic and in many
:10:06. > :10:13.cases wonderful Labour MPs supported leave. The rest, the overwhelming
:10:14. > :10:15.majority, voted Remain. Michael Gove famously once described the
:10:16. > :10:25.education establishment in this country as being the blob. I tell
:10:26. > :10:32.you, the real blob and Britain is sitting in the House of Commons.
:10:33. > :10:39.That is where the group thing is to be found. It is group think that has
:10:40. > :10:42.been running this country for too many years and running it into the
:10:43. > :10:52.ground. APPLAUSE or we are beating the group
:10:53. > :10:55.thinkers on Europe and on immigration.
:10:56. > :11:02.My job in Parliament is to offer an alternative voice where the blob has
:11:03. > :11:07.got it wrong. Britney to those in Westminster that all agree Belgians
:11:08. > :11:09.are pounds of overseas aid should be spent at the Government the
:11:10. > :11:19.Government to Government subsidy. -- millions of pounds of overseas aid.
:11:20. > :11:24.We can win an end to those who cannot see what is wrong with taking
:11:25. > :11:28.money from normal people while giving money to the banks.
:11:29. > :11:36.Quantitative easing is a fancy way of saying hand-outs for banks.
:11:37. > :11:42.We need to press the Government on the timing of article 50. There will
:11:43. > :11:47.be vested interests trying to stall the process and Ukip must push to
:11:48. > :11:51.make sure they get on with it. I am going to be working and continuing
:11:52. > :11:55.to work with Mark reckless and others in the House of Commons. We
:11:56. > :12:00.have been producing policy papers setting out a range of alternative
:12:01. > :12:05.ideas on everything from energy policy, breaking open the cartels
:12:06. > :12:15.surrounding the family courts. Ukip needs to be the party for change. We
:12:16. > :12:18.should be the party that people vote for if they want to change. Upbeat,
:12:19. > :12:27.optimistic, change for a better and brighter future. APPLAUSE it is an
:12:28. > :12:32.enormous honour to call myself a member of this great party and I am
:12:33. > :12:35.looking forward to working with Diane and was team Ukip.
:12:36. > :13:10.Thank you. APPLAUSE
:13:11. > :13:16.thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, when we look
:13:17. > :13:23.at people in our party who have served it for a long time with
:13:24. > :13:27.dignity, tenacity and undoubted loyalty, there are a few people who
:13:28. > :13:34.can hold the level of our next Speaker. I have been asked and it is
:13:35. > :13:38.a difficult request, but I have been asked by Stuart Agnew, apparently
:13:39. > :13:43.standard request he makes a conference, do not clap him during
:13:44. > :13:48.his speech, please. He wants you to get your hands a rest and to save
:13:49. > :13:54.them for rapturous applause at the end of his speech. Ladies and
:13:55. > :13:59.gentlemen, we can get funky round of applause to welcome him on stage,
:14:00. > :14:07.Stuart Agnew. -- we can give him. APPLAUSE I hope the microphone is
:14:08. > :14:15.working. I will take you on a Brexit journey.
:14:16. > :14:21.That started 15 years ago when I was asked to go and join the debate in
:14:22. > :14:25.the NFU council and in those days I was in Norfolk delegate to the NFU
:14:26. > :14:29.council. The president said we ought to have a debate every now and then
:14:30. > :14:35.after the first debate was we think we should join the euro. He needed
:14:36. > :14:40.somebody to oppose that, you might think everyone would jump up but not
:14:41. > :14:43.in those days but I said I would do it, I had never done a debate before
:14:44. > :14:49.and he said I will tell you the rules. So we went and had a debate
:14:50. > :14:53.and I was thrashed by 56 votes to 11 but it was great from and it was a
:14:54. > :15:00.useful experience and I thought Apple gear. -- great fun. Back home
:15:01. > :15:05.a lot of Norfolk farmers were most unhappy their delegate their oppose
:15:06. > :15:11.the euro and when I was up to the election they found a candidate to
:15:12. > :15:16.stand against me. So I thought I like this job but I am not going to
:15:17. > :15:23.compromise what I believe, I am going to make it clear I oppose the
:15:24. > :15:26.euro. I had to get 20 nominations from 20 Norfolk farmers, I approach
:15:27. > :15:31.farmers and said well you support the again? But I do not like the
:15:32. > :15:35.euro and I do not want you to be under any misapprehensions. Some
:15:36. > :15:41.said we like you but we like the euro more than you so we can't. I
:15:42. > :15:48.got the 20 nominations and one had to think about the election. --
:15:49. > :15:52.election address. I have 50 words on farming enterprise, 50 words on the
:15:53. > :15:57.NFU and 50 word rant against the euro. Why not? That on the ballot
:15:58. > :16:02.paper and a lot of my friend said that if the suicide note. Why did
:16:03. > :16:07.you do that? I easily won the competition. That meant I was in a
:16:08. > :16:18.strong position from there after. I wasn't opposed and had a mandate
:16:19. > :16:24.at against the euro. Two years later I was a candidate in an election. It
:16:25. > :16:27.happened to coincide to coincide with a council meeting. Norfolk
:16:28. > :16:32.farmer said Stuart Agnew shouldn't go to a council meeting, there was a
:16:33. > :16:36.big row about it. In the end I went around telling everybody I'd been
:16:37. > :16:41.banned from the NFU council meeting because I stood for Ukip. That gave
:16:42. > :16:45.me a bit of kudos. We then move onto a surprise invitation I got to speak
:16:46. > :16:50.at the Oxford farming conference. That may mean nothing to you, but
:16:51. > :16:54.that is the premier event in farming. It takes place at Oxford
:16:55. > :17:00.University while the students are on vacation in January. We take over a
:17:01. > :17:05.couple of colleges and lecture rooms, the first morning is the big
:17:06. > :17:08.part of it. I'll let you know that everybody who thinks they are
:17:09. > :17:12.important in forming and all the allied industries go to the Oxford
:17:13. > :17:15.farming conference. If you think you're important in any way
:17:16. > :17:23.connected with Apple Kenji Goto. It is the place to be seen. Like smart
:17:24. > :17:28.people at Ascot. -- if you are anyway connected to agriculture it
:17:29. > :17:34.is the place to be seen. Ministers of agriculture spoke, and sometimes
:17:35. > :17:38.even royalty. In the afternoon there are more technical discussions about
:17:39. > :17:43.supplies and retailers. In the evening we go to the Oxford union
:17:44. > :17:48.debating chamber. I was asked what I propose the motion, this house
:17:49. > :17:53.believes that Arab culture would thrive outside the EU --
:17:54. > :17:57.agriculture. I was really nervous, really worried about doing this in
:17:58. > :18:01.front of an audience like that. But with the help of Tony Brown who have
:18:02. > :18:06.the right may speech I was allocated a second from the Young farmers
:18:07. > :18:10.club. We had some practice in the farmers club and we took this really
:18:11. > :18:15.seriously. I knew I'd be beaten, but by God I was going to put up a
:18:16. > :18:22.fight. We had a straw poll lead at the beginning. I got between ten and
:18:23. > :18:28.20% support. We gave that the full welly and we won the debate. We
:18:29. > :18:32.actually won the debate. That was seismic, not just for me personally,
:18:33. > :18:40.but from that moment on you couldn't say that all farmers think the EU is
:18:41. > :18:46.wonderful except etc. Some thought it was a one-off, a year later I
:18:47. > :18:50.went to Belfast for a similar debate in Stormont parliament. I won that
:18:51. > :18:55.as well. They couldn't say Oxford was a one off. That set up a tone, a
:18:56. > :19:00.movement in farming that we didn't have to be tied to the EU. We could
:19:01. > :19:09.actually survive and thrive without it. Now, that had built up this
:19:10. > :19:14.platform. I think that was important because I was asked back to Oxford
:19:15. > :19:19.again, at the beginning of 2015. This time to speak on the first
:19:20. > :19:22.morning, what an honour. 15 or 20 years ago with some have said you
:19:23. > :19:30.will be doing that, look at that pig farm over their! I got the chance to
:19:31. > :19:34.outline Ukip's policy for the General Election in a 20 minute
:19:35. > :19:38.speech, we lost the General Election and I forgot about it. Several
:19:39. > :19:43.months later I met a relative of mine who is an agricultural student.
:19:44. > :19:48.He said, all, I liked your Oxford speech. I told him he couldn't have
:19:49. > :19:51.afforded to get to go there. No, no, I didn't go there but our
:19:52. > :19:57.agricultural lecture gave us a link to your speech and told us we must
:19:58. > :20:02.watch it. So my head gets bigger! That was before the referendum
:20:03. > :20:06.campaign. But started properly in November last year. That was the
:20:07. > :20:11.first of 20 specialised our culture debates I was involved with against
:20:12. > :20:15.some big names, around the country, sometimes in media studios with a
:20:16. > :20:21.big audience. I realised about the NFU were asking my Ukip follies to
:20:22. > :20:27.speak at debates about Brexit. They might be up against Tory MPs or MEPs
:20:28. > :20:31.who know a lot about farming. I worried about this and I sent out
:20:32. > :20:35.three lots of briefing papers picking up on my own experience,
:20:36. > :20:40.because I was doing these debates hoping that would help them. I was
:20:41. > :20:43.worried. I know a lot of farming, but they don't. I must have got
:20:44. > :20:47.something right because Farage came up to me in Brussels and said I
:20:48. > :20:53.liked that briefing paper and a sword, Frank God for that. Two of
:20:54. > :20:59.these 26 debate stands out in my mind. The first one was in Norfolk
:21:00. > :21:04.when I was speaking about food security and the problem of
:21:05. > :21:10.importing more and more food and the worry of terrorist activity. There
:21:11. > :21:14.was a young man in the audience smirking condescendingly, it
:21:15. > :21:18.irritated me and I called him out. I said, young man, you wouldn't smirk
:21:19. > :21:22.if you have knew how much of the rings I had when I was your age will
:21:23. > :21:28.stop that wipe the smirk off his face but I made an enemy for ever.
:21:29. > :21:33.Five days later a bomb went off in Brussels yards from where I was
:21:34. > :21:38.sitting. Whenever I spoke about terrorism after that nobody smirked.
:21:39. > :21:43.Now, the second one that stands out in my mind is the one I did in
:21:44. > :21:48.Wales. I was up against no less than the Commissioner for agriculture, an
:21:49. > :21:53.Irishman, native English-speaking who had come from a farming
:21:54. > :21:58.background in Ireland. He was my opponent there. The place was
:21:59. > :22:03.packed. Full of media. It was standing room only. I said,
:22:04. > :22:06.Commissioner, I have a perfectly good personal relationship with you
:22:07. > :22:13.but I don't think you should be here telling us how to vote. It's similar
:22:14. > :22:17.to the Obama thing. He said I'd been invited. We had the debate and I
:22:18. > :22:22.think I did reasonably against someone of his stature, believe he
:22:23. > :22:25.has stature, please. At the end everybody rushed up. They wanted to
:22:26. > :22:30.be for direct with the Commissioner. I was elbowed out of the way, I
:22:31. > :22:34.politely moved aside. Then they said Stuart is going to be in this
:22:35. > :22:38.picture, he is part of this debate. He always goes out of his way to be
:22:39. > :22:44.nice and pleasant to me. Quite different from his predecessor who,
:22:45. > :22:47.was a gift to me, really. Mainly because he couldn't speak English
:22:48. > :22:52.properly and he only had to address the NFU conference for about ten
:22:53. > :22:57.minutes. He was doing my work for me. He very quickly lost the
:22:58. > :23:01.farmers. He got it back on me for saying I shouldn't be in Wales when
:23:02. > :23:06.I went to our cultural event in Cork in Ireland. He was there too. And as
:23:07. > :23:11.usual he came up to me, shot hands and said what are you doing here? I
:23:12. > :23:15.said I've been to Ireland twice, actually, since the vote. I tried to
:23:16. > :23:20.persuade the Irish to follow Britain out of the European Union. He leaned
:23:21. > :23:30.forward and fed into my ear, you mind your own business! With a grin
:23:31. > :23:34.on his face he thought I might be hurt or offended, I was just
:23:35. > :23:41.laughing. Now, where do we go from there? Sometimes, Lady luck shines.
:23:42. > :23:44.And she shone on me in one way during this campaign for the
:23:45. > :23:50.referendum. It became apparent that the EU might ban the herbicide that
:23:51. > :23:54.has been the backbone of farming operations ever since the mid-70s.
:23:55. > :24:01.Most farmers could not imagine life without it. Particularly in British
:24:02. > :24:04.conditions. It certainly undermined the arable farmers, large arable
:24:05. > :24:14.farmers who are normally absolutely pool EU. -- pro-EU. It worried them.
:24:15. > :24:18.I spoke in Strasberg for two minutes about this. Three minutes before I
:24:19. > :24:24.was due to give the speech one of the staff ran up to me and said
:24:25. > :24:28.you've got three minutes now. That was wonderful. I could relax a
:24:29. > :24:33.little bit and give a speech on this chemical. That went well. It went
:24:34. > :24:37.viral, apparently in agricultural circles because I then went to the
:24:38. > :24:42.cereals event in Hertfordshire in June. A big outdoor event. And as I
:24:43. > :24:46.walked about looking at tractors, one thing and another people were
:24:47. > :24:52.coming up to me and saying wouldn't you that bloke in that video? My
:24:53. > :24:57.head gets even bigger! Then we had a proper debate, opposing me was the
:24:58. > :25:01.NFU president and former Minister of agriculture, Lady luck shone on me
:25:02. > :25:13.again. I had the very last word. I was able to say a vote to remain is
:25:14. > :25:17.a vote to ban this. My opponent look miserable we go on from there just
:25:18. > :25:24.looking at some opportunities in agriculture. I'm going to go through
:25:25. > :25:27.these very quickly. I am part of a think tank headed up by Lord Brooke
:25:28. > :25:34.and other peers. We are preparing a paper that we haven't finished yet,
:25:35. > :25:41.but Steph are expecting it. We had a quick list of opportunities. We can
:25:42. > :25:47.retailer agricultural schemes. We can rethink of farm support schemes.
:25:48. > :25:51.I haven't met a Labour MP or Tory MP at who says we shouldn't support
:25:52. > :25:57.agriculture. It's just a matter of how we do it. We do not need knee
:25:58. > :26:01.jerk reactions to pesticides from the green lobby. We need proper
:26:02. > :26:07.field research to study the impact of what we are using on our crops in
:26:08. > :26:15.the wider environment. We should be using them. We can't repatriate
:26:16. > :26:19.organic farming. - the EU has taken an approach on this woods make life
:26:20. > :26:26.impossible for organic farmers. How flexible do you want to be? If we go
:26:27. > :26:30.down the EU would you won't get organic food. It will be too
:26:31. > :26:34.difficult. Then we looked into food labelling. We have the opportunity
:26:35. > :26:42.to label food and that will really make dairy farmers they are unhappy
:26:43. > :26:46.that they think Irish milk is being labelled as British, one way or the
:26:47. > :26:51.other. Public sector coolant. We have to put this will tend outside
:26:52. > :26:55.the EU. What an opportunity to say to hospitals and prisons, why not
:26:56. > :27:02.sourced locally? Who knows, patients may require a quicker with both
:27:03. > :27:08.local food? Aren't prisoners may get on the past to true righteousness
:27:09. > :27:13.quicker. This is a huge area, obviously. We'll have to have a look
:27:14. > :27:17.at them. Some obvious ones are identification of the compulsory and
:27:18. > :27:22.John it money that doesn't work. Asked by staff and stop. And going
:27:23. > :27:30.through these very fast, I am aware of that. How much time have I got?
:27:31. > :27:35.Two minutes. Foot and mouth, we go back to the report, we were not
:27:36. > :27:39.allowed to use this report in 2001 and had to burn all these carcasses
:27:40. > :27:45.which made the thing worse. This is my village. This is the main street.
:27:46. > :27:49.Look at that closely. Two weeks after the Brexit result, Brendan,
:27:50. > :27:53.who lives in that has commissioned an artist to put back there. Note
:27:54. > :27:58.that one of the stars has been removed and has fallen as a
:27:59. > :28:02.teardrop. The media learned that I lived in the parish and will roll
:28:03. > :28:06.over the area. Aren't you upset about this, don't you want to get
:28:07. > :28:13.down? Know, every time I drove past I'm reminded of my success. Some of
:28:14. > :28:17.you may remember a singer in the 1960s called Del Shannon, I'm not
:28:18. > :28:21.going to sing his song, there are two types of teardrops but he said
:28:22. > :28:40.there was one for sorrow, one for joy. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE.
:28:41. > :28:52.I apologise that I started the applause at some point during that.
:28:53. > :28:56.Earlier, when an new leader was introducing Douglas Carswell she
:28:57. > :29:02.talked about people with integrity and honour. Willing to sacrifice
:29:03. > :29:05.positions to do what was right. In our former chairman's speech
:29:06. > :29:13.yesterday Steve Crowther talked about our conference in Doncaster as
:29:14. > :29:18.one of his happiest moments, seeing certain MEPs who looked a lot like
:29:19. > :29:32.Stuart Agnew dancing in the aisles. When we unveiled Mark Reckless.
:29:33. > :29:36.APPLAUSE. I don't honestly believe there is any better representation
:29:37. > :29:39.of real integrity in politics than this man. He deserves huge
:29:40. > :29:44.appreciation from all of us. We are all delighted and assembly member,
:29:45. > :30:03.representing Ukip in Wales, Mark Reckless. APPLAUSE
:30:04. > :30:13.having moved from the Conservatives to Ukip and from Rochester to
:30:14. > :30:26.Cardiff, I'm often asked where the grass is greener. The answer is
:30:27. > :30:31.Wales. Because it rained so much. -- drains so much. I did take an
:30:32. > :30:35.interest in the climate as chairman of the climate change environment
:30:36. > :30:43.and rural affairs committee. For the Welsh assembly. I'm very grateful to
:30:44. > :31:02.Stuart Agnew for his briefings, on which I've relied on many occasions.
:31:03. > :31:11.I was even told by security that there could be protests disrupting
:31:12. > :31:21.our first committee meeting. That was before I decided to hold it at
:31:22. > :31:32.9am. The day after Wales had been any football semifinal. APPLAUSE it
:31:33. > :31:38.has been sunny Bournemouth for most of the conference and that is also
:31:39. > :31:43.the outlook our economy. The economic forecasters at the big
:31:44. > :31:48.banks and universities and Government departments, they forget
:31:49. > :31:56.one thing as they projected doom and gloom, that their negativity was
:31:57. > :32:03.that of just 48%. We have 52% knew things would look up, we would be
:32:04. > :32:15.better off out and was restoring control comes renewed confidence.
:32:16. > :32:21.APPLAUSE so while many broadcasters and their company bosses and the
:32:22. > :32:25.banks wrung their hands and predicted a recession, most people
:32:26. > :32:32.woke up with a smile on their face. None more so than in this room. It
:32:33. > :32:38.is those people who have been going out and spending, retail sales are
:32:39. > :32:42.up 6% on the year. They have been creating jobs with unemployment
:32:43. > :32:48.falling further. They have seen the pound more competitive with foreign
:32:49. > :32:55.income worth more so at last we are beginning to close I was huge
:32:56. > :33:00.overseas deficit. Brexit offers us a huge opportunities. It is no
:33:01. > :33:05.surprise the 52% to knew that already are faster to grasp them.
:33:06. > :33:11.The risks to our economy lie not in a Brexit, but in an incontinent
:33:12. > :33:18.central bank. And in weak productivity. Since I was appointed
:33:19. > :33:24.as our economy spokesman I have repeatedly said that it is time
:33:25. > :33:33.interest rates went up rather than down.
:33:34. > :33:37.APPLAUSE yet almost whatever the economic news the bank of England
:33:38. > :33:42.just cuts interest rates further and Prince more and more money.
:33:43. > :33:48.It is not just the bank of England that lost its way by central banks
:33:49. > :33:53.globally. For almost a generation now. As long ago as 1987 when the
:33:54. > :33:59.stock market fell central banks cut interest rates and added fuel to the
:34:00. > :34:06.booming economy. They get the same in 1998. And again in 2001 when the
:34:07. > :34:11.dot-com boom faulted. As central banks cut rates when stock markets
:34:12. > :34:17.fall but failed to increase them when stock markets rise, the
:34:18. > :34:22.consequences is ever higher house prices and more and more debts
:34:23. > :34:29.loading down our economy. The Bank of England's actions now I fear are
:34:30. > :34:34.making the situation even worse. As well as devastating the finances of
:34:35. > :34:39.pension funds and pensioners. Central banks were at least a
:34:40. > :34:42.responsible for the financial crash of 2007 - eight as the commercial
:34:43. > :34:52.banks they were meant to oversee by a loving growth and depth to out of
:34:53. > :34:55.hand. -- by allowing. We can understand why they began quantitive
:34:56. > :34:59.easing and cutting interest rates. If it was emergency measures to deal
:35:00. > :35:04.with the crisis, but what cannot make sense is continuing those
:35:05. > :35:08.policies for nearly a decade following the crisis. Worse still,
:35:09. > :35:15.the back of England stuck any remainder mindset is responding to
:35:16. > :35:19.Brexit as if it has precipitated another economic crisis yet the
:35:20. > :35:23.reality is the economy is growing and the bank of England is
:35:24. > :35:30.unleashing a further flood of money we simply do not need. As well as
:35:31. > :35:33.retail sales are growing at 6% the Bank of England's own preferred
:35:34. > :35:39.measure of the money supply is expanding by 14% a year. Against
:35:40. > :35:45.that background it is surely time for caution. Let's call a halt to
:35:46. > :35:58.quantitive easing and put interest rates up, not down.
:35:59. > :36:02.APPLAUSE to raise our productivity would be to reward real investment
:36:03. > :36:05.and Channel capital to more productive uses.
:36:06. > :36:09.That is what banking and our financial system is meant to do.
:36:10. > :36:15.Unfortunately, bailing out the banks, printing money and holding
:36:16. > :36:20.interest rates close to zero and has stopped finance working as it
:36:21. > :36:26.should. Instead of seeing businesses with bad business models give way to
:36:27. > :36:32.more productive firms, zombie banks keep over indebted firms on life
:36:33. > :36:39.support. Being just about able to service a loner party presents
:36:40. > :36:44.interest a year is not a good test for where a country should be
:36:45. > :36:50.investing savings. That is holding back growth in productivity and then
:36:51. > :36:54.holding back our standard of living. The same goes with the rules and
:36:55. > :37:00.regulations made by the EU for 40 years with so little regard for our
:37:01. > :37:05.particular needs and interests. Overall, productivity has also been
:37:06. > :37:10.held back by a big increase in a lower skilled work. Letting
:37:11. > :37:15.employers and port as much labour as the light from EU countries far
:37:16. > :37:17.poorer than ours allows the Government to hold down wages for
:37:18. > :37:27.many in this country. APPLAUSE
:37:28. > :37:34.Our party knows that and that is why I think many but far from all voted
:37:35. > :37:42.for us and Junior 23rd and we are now going to be a free and
:37:43. > :37:48.independent country. -- June at. The flip side of what happened in our
:37:49. > :37:54.labour market is by a loving employers to import cheap labour --
:37:55. > :37:59.allowing. The Government discouraged capital investment. People have
:38:00. > :38:04.voted for change. Outside the EU we can follow a different path to a
:38:05. > :38:08.higher wage, higher productivity economy. Now we really can look
:38:09. > :38:16.beyond Europe to the global horizon. With laws to suit our needs, trade
:38:17. > :38:21.deals beyond Europe, a competitive currency, sensible monetary policy
:38:22. > :38:25.and a belief in Britain, our best days lie ahead. We really are more
:38:26. > :38:29.than a star on somebody else's flight.
:38:30. > :38:49.APPLAUSE -- somebody else's slide. -- flag.
:38:50. > :39:03.Thank you, Mark. One of my proudest moments in the party over recent
:39:04. > :39:12.times was seeing our next Speaker sworn in as an AM in London. I was
:39:13. > :39:16.part of the process of looking at candidates ahead of the assembly
:39:17. > :39:20.elections in London last year and I was absolutely astonished by the
:39:21. > :39:25.quality and capabilities of the man who is going to speak now. He has
:39:26. > :39:31.been invited to deliver a speech on education on behalf of Paul Nuttall,
:39:32. > :39:37.who is our outgoing education spokesman. Or may not be outgoing,
:39:38. > :39:47.who knows. I believe we have got a short video to show before we begin.
:39:48. > :40:55.The non-dropping of the lights. ladies and gentlemen, David Kurten.
:40:56. > :41:03.Thank you very much for your kind introduction. No pressure to have a
:41:04. > :41:08.great speech. Many of you know me as one of two members of the London
:41:09. > :41:13.assembly for Ukip. It has been a fantastic year for Ukip in winning
:41:14. > :41:17.the referendum and also getting a representation in London for the
:41:18. > :41:22.first time for 12 years so I am very happy and proud of that. But as well
:41:23. > :41:28.as being on the London assembly some of you may know I was a teacher,
:41:29. > :41:32.chemistry teacher, for around 20 years before I got into politics and
:41:33. > :41:41.I was the teacher up until March this year. My privileged teaching
:41:42. > :41:45.career has taken me to both state schools and private schools in this
:41:46. > :41:49.country and abroad. One thing I will never forget in my teaching career
:41:50. > :41:55.was when I was teaching in one particular school in Eastern Europe.
:41:56. > :41:59.It was a private school which had some scholarships and the head boy
:42:00. > :42:06.of the school was a scholar from a poorer role in the north of that
:42:07. > :42:10.country. In his graduation speech he said this. I am so grateful for the
:42:11. > :42:16.opportunity that I have had to come to this school. It has opened my
:42:17. > :42:22.eyes the world I never knew existed. And from now on I do not just up the
:42:23. > :42:28.opportunity of coming here but I am going to university in America. But
:42:29. > :42:34.when I go home to my own town, I see my old friends and I talk to them
:42:35. > :42:40.for a while but after a while I feel like I don't have anything to say to
:42:41. > :42:44.them any more. I feel I have moved on to a higher level and I do not
:42:45. > :42:51.have anything in common with my old friends any more.
:42:52. > :42:58.So that was the speech with great joy and also great sadness in it.
:42:59. > :43:03.For that particular boy. He was plucked from his town and given the
:43:04. > :43:08.chance to shine and Excel. I think I'm probably you do as well, the
:43:09. > :43:13.situation is similar in this country. I am sure you know the
:43:14. > :43:18.statistic that 7% of average people get the opportunity to go to private
:43:19. > :43:22.schools and good for them. And this country is known all around the
:43:23. > :43:27.world for being a place of educational excellence. Many times
:43:28. > :43:30.because people think of schools and universities in this country and
:43:31. > :43:38.they think of private schools and they think of the and the culture
:43:39. > :43:43.they have. But what about those who are left behind's private school
:43:44. > :43:50.fees at the moment have reached a level where it is about ?30,000 a
:43:51. > :43:55.year. To go to full boarding school. They are out of reach for the
:43:56. > :43:57.ordinary working person and becoming out of reach even fought
:43:58. > :44:02.middle-class professionals and becoming very much the preserve of
:44:03. > :44:07.the international elite. What's the answer to this? How do we get all of
:44:08. > :44:12.our students, all of our young people from all over the country,
:44:13. > :44:16.whatever their background is, whatever the socioeconomic standing,
:44:17. > :44:20.to have the opportunity to go to institution of excellence? You know
:44:21. > :44:25.the answer. Because we have been saying it for decades, we need to
:44:26. > :44:27.have grammar schools in every town and city, every district and butter,
:44:28. > :44:37.all across this country. APPLAUSE
:44:38. > :44:44.So that everybody can have the chance to excel and shine.
:44:45. > :44:49.And Mrs May has taken on Ukip's policy, very sensible per to do
:44:50. > :44:53.that. As soon as she said that we have an army of so-called experts
:44:54. > :44:56.telling us it will be the most dreadful thing for this country to
:44:57. > :45:03.implement grammar schools. We heard this morning and in Lincolnshire
:45:04. > :45:07.Ukip is asking for extra grammar schools on behalf of parents and
:45:08. > :45:12.voters and some of the Conservative councillors are standing against it,
:45:13. > :45:16.let alone a Labour councillors and Labour politicians. When these
:45:17. > :45:21.experts and politicians talk against this policy what they say and what
:45:22. > :45:29.they do are very often to different things. So we know David Cameron can
:45:30. > :45:37.send his kids to private school, we high matron of equality, Harriet
:45:38. > :45:43.Harman, she went to private school and sends one of her children to a
:45:44. > :45:54.grammar school. Even the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Diane Abbott,
:45:55. > :45:58.BOOING it is funny saying those things in the same sentence.
:45:59. > :46:02.She can send her kids to private school. They might say they do not
:46:03. > :46:07.agree but by their actions you know they do because they want the best
:46:08. > :46:10.thing for decades and good for them. They are doing the best for the kids
:46:11. > :46:17.and I respect that what I do not respect is the hypocrisy.
:46:18. > :46:29.APPLAUSE but why should there be this hypocrisy about academic
:46:30. > :46:34.selection from those who best benefit from it? If someone is
:46:35. > :46:38.incredibly talented as an athlete or sportsman no one would object to
:46:39. > :46:42.looking out for athletic talent at the youngest of ages to have their
:46:43. > :46:47.talents developed and go on to be great sportsman will stop some of
:46:48. > :46:52.our Olympians who have done our country proud testimony to that.
:46:53. > :46:56.Would disagree with looking for musical talent, artistic talent,
:46:57. > :47:02.creative talent, those who want to be wonderful dances? Putting them in
:47:03. > :47:08.special schools for musicians, dancers, artists and so on. Many of
:47:09. > :47:13.the champagne socialist levees have benefited from that kind of
:47:14. > :47:19.education and selection. There would be happy for their ilk and friends
:47:20. > :47:23.to benefit as well. We need to make sure that we get these grammar
:47:24. > :47:28.schools implemented that we hold Theresa May to the fire and make
:47:29. > :47:34.sure that she does implement this policy. It is only Ukip that are
:47:35. > :47:38.wholeheartedly, 100% behind the best schools which are going to do the
:47:39. > :47:51.best for all of our young people, no matter where they come from. But
:47:52. > :47:57.schools are not the only part of our education system, of course. We have
:47:58. > :48:01.to consider tertiary education and universities as well. Never have
:48:02. > :48:07.there been so many people in this country going to university, thanks
:48:08. > :48:12.to Tony Blair's bizarre policy of targeting 50% of students to go to
:48:13. > :48:16.university, whether it is good for them or not. Of course, it is
:48:17. > :48:21.fantastic for some people, that never have they been so many people
:48:22. > :48:34.you leaving university with so much debt, Russell in equipped for the
:48:35. > :48:39.world of work and employment. We have a shortage of doctors and
:48:40. > :48:46.nurses in this country. It was a mad situation when we only have 7500
:48:47. > :48:51.places for medicine in British universities, but there are 82,000
:48:52. > :48:56.applicants. Many of those are not suitable. But many of them will be
:48:57. > :49:02.and are denied a place. Similarly for nursing. 20,000 places, but
:49:03. > :49:06.100,000 applicants. Tens of thousands of people who would like a
:49:07. > :49:12.career in nursing, but are not able to have one because they are not the
:49:13. > :49:20.places to train young people in this country to get the skills they need.
:49:21. > :49:24.And so we create a shortage by not planning properly. The result is
:49:25. > :49:28.that we draw the rules, bringing people with skills from other
:49:29. > :49:32.countries to work in this country when we failed to train our own
:49:33. > :49:46.young people. This is a madness which must stop! It doesn't just
:49:47. > :49:49.hurt our own young people, it hurts other countries who are losing their
:49:50. > :49:54.best and brightest people to come here. I don't blame anyone
:49:55. > :49:58.individually for taking the opportunities to come and live in
:49:59. > :50:04.Britain. It is a fantastic place to live. But we are denying people who
:50:05. > :50:07.should be staying in their own homelands to build up their own
:50:08. > :50:10.services, their own economies so that everyone can benefit from the
:50:11. > :50:23.investment is made in their young people. APPLAUSE. But some of the
:50:24. > :50:30.university courses that we have leave people less equipped and less
:50:31. > :50:37.intelligent at the age of 21 van when they went in at 18. It would be
:50:38. > :50:42.fantastic if we did have these extra places for medicine, for physics,
:50:43. > :50:47.for engineering and so on. But when we have courses such as diversity
:50:48. > :50:53.studies you wonder what people are coming out with, and if we are
:50:54. > :50:57.equipped for work. I know, one time before the referendum, I went to a
:50:58. > :51:01.college in north London to talk about our policies on the
:51:02. > :51:06.referendum. Why Brexit is a good thing. And it was time for questions
:51:07. > :51:10.afterwards. One young woman put up her hand, I thought, this is good.
:51:11. > :51:17.And she said I've been looking through your tweets. I thought, very
:51:18. > :51:26.sensible. She said I against political correctness. I said yes.
:51:27. > :51:35.And learned she said, how dare you! How do you not understand the harm
:51:36. > :51:43.of historical hetero normality. I said, well, I'm really not sure what
:51:44. > :51:48.you mean, but... I'll tell you, you know, I know what would be good for
:51:49. > :51:53.you, is that if you left your course and you go and learn how to be a
:51:54. > :51:57.mechanic. Because when you are 21 you have a skill and three years of
:51:58. > :52:11.wages and can stand on your own two feet. Good advice, I thought. But it
:52:12. > :52:24.didn't go down too well. She had to leave and go to her safe space.
:52:25. > :52:33.APPLAUSE sorry. Sorry. I didn't mean to upset her, but there you go. Our
:52:34. > :52:40.education system is overseen by a body called Ofsted. Ofsted, yes, we
:52:41. > :52:44.have a new chief of Ofsted, I think, whose straightaway came out with
:52:45. > :52:52.some of the politicians against grammar schools. The previous chief
:52:53. > :52:58.of Ofsted famous in the last couple of months was resigned after calling
:52:59. > :53:03.the idol of white and inbred white ghetto. What a dreadful thing for a
:53:04. > :53:08.chief inspector of our schools to say about one of our finest
:53:09. > :53:16.counties. If we have people like Ms overseen in our schools, something
:53:17. > :53:21.is wrong. -- like this overseeing our schools. We need a body that
:53:22. > :53:27.will stand up for traditional British values. Values like honesty,
:53:28. > :53:33.integrity, reason, respect for the rule of law, and everything that is
:53:34. > :53:38.good about this country. Not values which are called modern British
:53:39. > :53:42.values, diversity and tolerance. That is tolerant of every culture
:53:43. > :53:54.apart from our own culture will stop we need to make sure that stops. We
:53:55. > :54:02.need to make sure that we get rid of the crazy system of rating schools
:54:03. > :54:07.in terms of value added rather than real exam results. A system that
:54:08. > :54:11.will allow the best schools that get A 's and a stars to come at the
:54:12. > :54:21.bottom of the table because they don't have a value-added. Schools
:54:22. > :54:27.that come highly band the best because of this value-added system.
:54:28. > :54:31.We need a scrutinising body that will tackle the ravages of radical
:54:32. > :54:36.Islamism which is taking hold in some areas of our country and our
:54:37. > :54:48.school system. This will damage all young people in our country if it is
:54:49. > :54:54.not tackled properly. And we need a school system which will allow
:54:55. > :54:57.freedom of thought, what breed a generation of young people who
:54:58. > :55:02.cannot cope with the rigorous debate and need to go to this safe spaces
:55:03. > :55:08.like that young woman I was talking about before. We need to get rid of
:55:09. > :55:13.the strict observance to the crazy agenda of climate change which is
:55:14. > :55:21.going through our science education, our science classes. That is
:55:22. > :55:26.indoctrinating our kids. Indoctrinating our kids into loving
:55:27. > :55:31.these which are moving eco-crucifixes that we find being
:55:32. > :55:36.put up in our most beautiful places. In science people really don't
:55:37. > :55:41.understand the two principals of infrared absorption and body
:55:42. > :55:45.radiation. I'm not being racist, that is a scientific thing. It
:55:46. > :55:50.doesn't get taught, and if people did understand it they would
:55:51. > :55:53.understand that the climate change agenda is not true. It's
:55:54. > :56:05.indoctrinating people into accepting... APPLAUSE. Into
:56:06. > :56:10.accepting a pin-up and Lee of green taxes which will make us play three
:56:11. > :56:16.or four or five times as much for our energy if we simply used gas
:56:17. > :56:19.fired power stations like we always have done. That is going to hurt
:56:20. > :56:28.people coolest people in our country the most. Now, it's only Ukip will
:56:29. > :56:32.even approach these things. Other parties won't even come near to
:56:33. > :56:37.talking about many of the things I'm talking about because they're afraid
:56:38. > :56:41.of being seen to be politically incorrect. But what I'm concerned
:56:42. > :56:46.with is the truth. What I'm concerned with is that our young
:56:47. > :56:52.people have a pride in our country, and know what it is to be good
:56:53. > :56:57.British system is able to stand on their own two feet and know the
:56:58. > :57:00.truth rather than be indoctrinated into mediocrity and political
:57:01. > :57:14.correctness which has ravaged our country over the last four or five
:57:15. > :57:18.decades. It's got to stop. And Ukip, with our policies, with the most
:57:19. > :57:23.sensible policies in every area will allow us once again to build an
:57:24. > :57:28.education system which works for every young person, and an education
:57:29. > :57:31.system which will truly make Britain a great country you very much.
:57:32. > :57:57.APPLAUSE Thank you. APPLAUSE. I think you'll all agree,
:57:58. > :58:07.ladies and gentlemen, there is a man with a bright future in our party.
:58:08. > :58:13.Were going to close now 40, we've had a great session there. Just a
:58:14. > :58:18.few things I want to mention. I feel compelled, as chairman to make this
:58:19. > :58:22.point. As you'll all be aware, because you will have looked past
:58:23. > :58:28.it. We arranged a victory wall to be put up outside the Expo. And it's
:58:29. > :58:33.been a real treat, because every time I've walked past it I've seen
:58:34. > :58:38.people signing and making their mark. A recognition, post conference
:58:39. > :58:44.of the part each of us plays in bringing about British independence.
:58:45. > :58:50.But I'm frankly disgusted at the fact that somebody chose to do face
:58:51. > :58:58.that wall. Trying to scrub out names of people who they have clear
:58:59. > :59:01.personal issues with. That kind of behaviour discredits and dishonours
:59:02. > :59:09.not those people, but the whole party. And I want as oil to be very
:59:10. > :59:13.clear, as a party here, that we are going to look at the security
:59:14. > :59:18.cameras covering that room. We are going to short shrift for whoever
:59:19. > :59:35.was responsible for that. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not what we
:59:36. > :59:39.do. APPLAUSE. Now, we're going to close for a brief time for lunch,
:59:40. > :59:49.voting cards for members wishing to participate... TV! T. I'm enjoying
:59:50. > :59:55.the day so much I don't want it to end. Surely we can do lunch again?
:59:56. > :00:01.We are going to be breaking for tea. We will have motions and voting
:00:02. > :00:07.cards are available in the lobby. Go down and pick them up. I encourage
:00:08. > :00:12.everybody, I want a roomful of people here when conference closes.
:00:13. > :00:16.We'll be hearing from a representative of why I and our
:00:17. > :00:23.closing speech from our new leader, Diane James before listening to
:00:24. > :00:28.Ukip's first conference choir. Many of you have heard it rehearse
:00:29. > :00:35.already. None of you have heard it rehearsed with me involved! Enjoy
:00:36. > :00:39.the these 15 minutes. This 15 minute tea broke. If you put yourself
:00:40. > :00:44.forward as a composer, second or arguing against any of the emotions
:00:45. > :00:48.you are going to be called upon. You will be participating in this next
:00:49. > :01:26.session. Enjoy your tea. We'll see you in 20 minutes.
:01:27. > :01:44.APPLAUSE No pressure then. I just wanted to
:01:45. > :01:54.point this out. I contemplated ace-king for Elton
:01:55. > :02:04.John's song, I'm Still Standing to be played. And then I thought, I Get
:02:05. > :02:05.Knocked Down, I Get Up Again. I