17/09/2016 - Live Third Session UKIP Conference

Good afternoon. Good afternoon. With every bone in mind taking their

sheet, please. -- would everyone mind. If you could take your seat I

would be most grateful. Thank you for accommodating our change in the

starting time for this session. We are allowed an extra 15 minutes for

lunch. I am delighted to now started this very interesting penultimate

session of the conference here in Bournemouth and I would like to

introduce to the podium your appreciation for our leader, Diane

James. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome again.

From my perspective, to the conference again this afternoon. NBA

few moments it will be my absolute pleasure to invite Douglas Carswell,

Ukip's MP, to address you. I, like many of you... Yes, let's do that.

APPLAUSE I went to Clacton to support him, he took a very

courageous decision to leave the Tories and come to us and I am not

interested in what has gone on beforehand.

I want you to get the most rapturous welcome to Douglas Carswell MP,

you'd get MP. Many thanks. -- Ukip MP.

thank you for that warm introduction. The referendum victory

on June the 20 thirds was not the Conservative Party victory, it was

not Labour's pectin, it was our victory. APPLAUSE. -- it was not

Labour's victory. It was your directory, it was Ukip victory. We

dared not just forced them to hold the referendum, we helped win it.

Looking around I see lots of familiar faces, people who I know

are helped run street stalls, people who went out handing out leaflets,

who did not just do that during the referendum campaign but people I

know did that for years. Thank you for what you did. In the referendum

and before. It would not have happened without you. I also want to

say well done to Diane, our new leader. It was a wonderful listening

to her speaking yesterday. It takes a certain something for someone to

offer themselves to Leeds, not just a political party, but the third

largest party in British politics today. -- offer themselves to lead.

I salute all of the candidates who put themselves forward for the job.

APPLAUSE the membership is now spoken and made a clear choice.

We must now all rally behind the Diane. APPLAUSE Diane, I give you

110% of my support. Well done.

APPLAUSE it has been a great year for our party.

A few years ago the experts in Westminster said we would never get

the referendum. David Cameron and George Osborne were estimates it

would not happen. -- they were adamant. It did. The experts said

the leave the site could never win. At times it felt like the entire

weight of the Government machine was against us, not just Downing Street,

but the so-called experts and economists, the central bankers,

corporate bankers, lobbyists, the CBI. George Osborne blew up the long

list of experts ready to tell us to come to heal. -- George Osborne blew

up. The fall in line, or as Barack Obama put it, HQ, to tell us what to

do. -- a a queue. It seems to me we're starting even earlier this

year. They said interest rates would go up and instead they went down.

They said there would be a recession and instead we seen growth. They

said the economy could not cope. I suspect more jobs will have been

created in Britain since the referendum than the whole of the

rest of the EU combines. We won despite having the system rigged

against us and Ukip can keep on winning despite having the system

stacked against us. Nowhere is the system rate more against us than it

is in Westminster. -- rigged against us. Sitting on those green benches I

often find myself surrounded by 50-something Scottish Nationalist

MPs, 56, I think. We got three times more votes than they got at the last

election. And yet there are 50 of them. APPLAUSE and only one Ukip MP.

How can that be fair? The SNP and the Liberal Democrats gets you asked

question Time, questions of Prime Minister's Question Time, I am lucky

if I get called to speak at all. We got more votes than the Lib Dems,

Plaid Cymru, the Ulster Unionist Party Green Party combined. APPLAUSE

I know how unfair our political system in this country really is.

I sit next to it everyday. We urgently needs electoral reform. We

need to make those parliaments more accountable to constituents. And

supper the neighbouring county for the Mac people voted overwhelmingly

to leave the EU yet every single Suffolk MP supported remain. Across

the country only a tiny handful of principal patriotic and in many

cases wonderful Labour MPs supported leave. The rest, the overwhelming

majority, voted Remain. Michael Gove famously once described the

education establishment in this country as being the blob. I tell

you, the real blob and Britain is sitting in the House of Commons.

That is where the group thing is to be found. It is group think that has

been running this country for too many years and running it into the

ground. APPLAUSE or we are beating the group

thinkers on Europe and on immigration.

My job in Parliament is to offer an alternative voice where the blob has

got it wrong. Britney to those in Westminster that all agree Belgians

are pounds of overseas aid should be spent at the Government the

Government to Government subsidy. -- millions of pounds of overseas aid.

We can win an end to those who cannot see what is wrong with taking

money from normal people while giving money to the banks.

Quantitative easing is a fancy way of saying hand-outs for banks.

We need to press the Government on the timing of article 50. There will

be vested interests trying to stall the process and Ukip must push to

make sure they get on with it. I am going to be working and continuing

to work with Mark reckless and others in the House of Commons. We

have been producing policy papers setting out a range of alternative

ideas on everything from energy policy, breaking open the cartels

surrounding the family courts. Ukip needs to be the party for change. We

should be the party that people vote for if they want to change. Upbeat,

optimistic, change for a better and brighter future. APPLAUSE it is an

enormous honour to call myself a member of this great party and I am

looking forward to working with Diane and was team Ukip.

Thank you. APPLAUSE

thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, when we look

at people in our party who have served it for a long time with

dignity, tenacity and undoubted loyalty, there are a few people who

can hold the level of our next Speaker. I have been asked and it is

a difficult request, but I have been asked by Stuart Agnew, apparently

standard request he makes a conference, do not clap him during

his speech, please. He wants you to get your hands a rest and to save

them for rapturous applause at the end of his speech. Ladies and

gentlemen, we can get funky round of applause to welcome him on stage,

Stuart Agnew. -- we can give him. APPLAUSE I hope the microphone is

working. I will take you on a Brexit journey.

That started 15 years ago when I was asked to go and join the debate in

the NFU council and in those days I was in Norfolk delegate to the NFU

council. The president said we ought to have a debate every now and then

after the first debate was we think we should join the euro. He needed

somebody to oppose that, you might think everyone would jump up but not

in those days but I said I would do it, I had never done a debate before

and he said I will tell you the rules. So we went and had a debate

and I was thrashed by 56 votes to 11 but it was great from and it was a

useful experience and I thought Apple gear. -- great fun. Back home

a lot of Norfolk farmers were most unhappy their delegate their oppose

the euro and when I was up to the election they found a candidate to

stand against me. So I thought I like this job but I am not going to

compromise what I believe, I am going to make it clear I oppose the

euro. I had to get 20 nominations from 20 Norfolk farmers, I approach

farmers and said well you support the again? But I do not like the

euro and I do not want you to be under any misapprehensions. Some

said we like you but we like the euro more than you so we can't. I

got the 20 nominations and one had to think about the election. --

election address. I have 50 words on farming enterprise, 50 words on the

NFU and 50 word rant against the euro. Why not? That on the ballot

paper and a lot of my friend said that if the suicide note. Why did

you do that? I easily won the competition. That meant I was in a

strong position from there after. I wasn't opposed and had a mandate

at against the euro. Two years later I was a candidate in an election. It

happened to coincide to coincide with a council meeting. Norfolk

farmer said Stuart Agnew shouldn't go to a council meeting, there was a

big row about it. In the end I went around telling everybody I'd been

banned from the NFU council meeting because I stood for Ukip. That gave

me a bit of kudos. We then move onto a surprise invitation I got to speak

at the Oxford farming conference. That may mean nothing to you, but

that is the premier event in farming. It takes place at Oxford

University while the students are on vacation in January. We take over a

couple of colleges and lecture rooms, the first morning is the big

part of it. I'll let you know that everybody who thinks they are

important in forming and all the allied industries go to the Oxford

farming conference. If you think you're important in any way

connected with Apple Kenji Goto. It is the place to be seen. Like smart

people at Ascot. -- if you are anyway connected to agriculture it

is the place to be seen. Ministers of agriculture spoke, and sometimes

even royalty. In the afternoon there are more technical discussions about

supplies and retailers. In the evening we go to the Oxford union

debating chamber. I was asked what I propose the motion, this house

believes that Arab culture would thrive outside the EU --

agriculture. I was really nervous, really worried about doing this in

front of an audience like that. But with the help of Tony Brown who have

the right may speech I was allocated a second from the Young farmers

club. We had some practice in the farmers club and we took this really

seriously. I knew I'd be beaten, but by God I was going to put up a

fight. We had a straw poll lead at the beginning. I got between ten and

20% support. We gave that the full welly and we won the debate. We

actually won the debate. That was seismic, not just for me personally,

but from that moment on you couldn't say that all farmers think the EU is

wonderful except etc. Some thought it was a one-off, a year later I

went to Belfast for a similar debate in Stormont parliament. I won that

as well. They couldn't say Oxford was a one off. That set up a tone, a

movement in farming that we didn't have to be tied to the EU. We could

actually survive and thrive without it. Now, that had built up this

platform. I think that was important because I was asked back to Oxford

again, at the beginning of 2015. This time to speak on the first

morning, what an honour. 15 or 20 years ago with some have said you

will be doing that, look at that pig farm over their! I got the chance to

outline Ukip's policy for the General Election in a 20 minute

speech, we lost the General Election and I forgot about it. Several

months later I met a relative of mine who is an agricultural student.

He said, all, I liked your Oxford speech. I told him he couldn't have

afforded to get to go there. No, no, I didn't go there but our

agricultural lecture gave us a link to your speech and told us we must

watch it. So my head gets bigger! That was before the referendum

campaign. But started properly in November last year. That was the

first of 20 specialised our culture debates I was involved with against

some big names, around the country, sometimes in media studios with a

big audience. I realised about the NFU were asking my Ukip follies to

speak at debates about Brexit. They might be up against Tory MPs or MEPs

who know a lot about farming. I worried about this and I sent out

three lots of briefing papers picking up on my own experience,

because I was doing these debates hoping that would help them. I was

worried. I know a lot of farming, but they don't. I must have got

something right because Farage came up to me in Brussels and said I

liked that briefing paper and a sword, Frank God for that. Two of

these 26 debate stands out in my mind. The first one was in Norfolk

when I was speaking about food security and the problem of

importing more and more food and the worry of terrorist activity. There

was a young man in the audience smirking condescendingly, it

irritated me and I called him out. I said, young man, you wouldn't smirk

if you have knew how much of the rings I had when I was your age will

stop that wipe the smirk off his face but I made an enemy for ever.

Five days later a bomb went off in Brussels yards from where I was

sitting. Whenever I spoke about terrorism after that nobody smirked.

Now, the second one that stands out in my mind is the one I did in

Wales. I was up against no less than the Commissioner for agriculture, an

Irishman, native English-speaking who had come from a farming

background in Ireland. He was my opponent there. The place was

packed. Full of media. It was standing room only. I said,

Commissioner, I have a perfectly good personal relationship with you

but I don't think you should be here telling us how to vote. It's similar

to the Obama thing. He said I'd been invited. We had the debate and I

think I did reasonably against someone of his stature, believe he

has stature, please. At the end everybody rushed up. They wanted to

be for direct with the Commissioner. I was elbowed out of the way, I

politely moved aside. Then they said Stuart is going to be in this

picture, he is part of this debate. He always goes out of his way to be

nice and pleasant to me. Quite different from his predecessor who,

was a gift to me, really. Mainly because he couldn't speak English

properly and he only had to address the NFU conference for about ten

minutes. He was doing my work for me. He very quickly lost the

farmers. He got it back on me for saying I shouldn't be in Wales when

I went to our cultural event in Cork in Ireland. He was there too. And as

usual he came up to me, shot hands and said what are you doing here? I

said I've been to Ireland twice, actually, since the vote. I tried to

persuade the Irish to follow Britain out of the European Union. He leaned

forward and fed into my ear, you mind your own business! With a grin

on his face he thought I might be hurt or offended, I was just

laughing. Now, where do we go from there? Sometimes, Lady luck shines.

And she shone on me in one way during this campaign for the

referendum. It became apparent that the EU might ban the herbicide that

has been the backbone of farming operations ever since the mid-70s.

Most farmers could not imagine life without it. Particularly in British

conditions. It certainly undermined the arable farmers, large arable

farmers who are normally absolutely pool EU. -- pro-EU. It worried them.

I spoke in Strasberg for two minutes about this. Three minutes before I

was due to give the speech one of the staff ran up to me and said

you've got three minutes now. That was wonderful. I could relax a

little bit and give a speech on this chemical. That went well. It went

viral, apparently in agricultural circles because I then went to the

cereals event in Hertfordshire in June. A big outdoor event. And as I

walked about looking at tractors, one thing and another people were

coming up to me and saying wouldn't you that bloke in that video? My

head gets even bigger! Then we had a proper debate, opposing me was the

NFU president and former Minister of agriculture, Lady luck shone on me

again. I had the very last word. I was able to say a vote to remain is

a vote to ban this. My opponent look miserable we go on from there just

looking at some opportunities in agriculture. I'm going to go through

these very quickly. I am part of a think tank headed up by Lord Brooke

and other peers. We are preparing a paper that we haven't finished yet,

but Steph are expecting it. We had a quick list of opportunities. We can

retailer agricultural schemes. We can rethink of farm support schemes.

I haven't met a Labour MP or Tory MP at who says we shouldn't support

agriculture. It's just a matter of how we do it. We do not need knee

jerk reactions to pesticides from the green lobby. We need proper

field research to study the impact of what we are using on our crops in

the wider environment. We should be using them. We can't repatriate

organic farming. - the EU has taken an approach on this woods make life

impossible for organic farmers. How flexible do you want to be? If we go

down the EU would you won't get organic food. It will be too

difficult. Then we looked into food labelling. We have the opportunity

to label food and that will really make dairy farmers they are unhappy

that they think Irish milk is being labelled as British, one way or the

other. Public sector coolant. We have to put this will tend outside

the EU. What an opportunity to say to hospitals and prisons, why not

sourced locally? Who knows, patients may require a quicker with both

local food? Aren't prisoners may get on the past to true righteousness

quicker. This is a huge area, obviously. We'll have to have a look

at them. Some obvious ones are identification of the compulsory and

John it money that doesn't work. Asked by staff and stop. And going

through these very fast, I am aware of that. How much time have I got?

Two minutes. Foot and mouth, we go back to the report, we were not

allowed to use this report in 2001 and had to burn all these carcasses

which made the thing worse. This is my village. This is the main street.

Look at that closely. Two weeks after the Brexit result, Brendan,

who lives in that has commissioned an artist to put back there. Note

that one of the stars has been removed and has fallen as a

teardrop. The media learned that I lived in the parish and will roll

over the area. Aren't you upset about this, don't you want to get

down? Know, every time I drove past I'm reminded of my success. Some of

you may remember a singer in the 1960s called Del Shannon, I'm not

going to sing his song, there are two types of teardrops but he said

there was one for sorrow, one for joy. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE.

I apologise that I started the applause at some point during that.

Earlier, when an new leader was introducing Douglas Carswell she

talked about people with integrity and honour. Willing to sacrifice

positions to do what was right. In our former chairman's speech

yesterday Steve Crowther talked about our conference in Doncaster as

one of his happiest moments, seeing certain MEPs who looked a lot like

Stuart Agnew dancing in the aisles. When we unveiled Mark Reckless.

APPLAUSE. I don't honestly believe there is any better representation

of real integrity in politics than this man. He deserves huge

appreciation from all of us. We are all delighted and assembly member,

representing Ukip in Wales, Mark Reckless. APPLAUSE

having moved from the Conservatives to Ukip and from Rochester to

Cardiff, I'm often asked where the grass is greener. The answer is

Wales. Because it rained so much. -- drains so much. I did take an

interest in the climate as chairman of the climate change environment

and rural affairs committee. For the Welsh assembly. I'm very grateful to

Stuart Agnew for his briefings, on which I've relied on many occasions.

I was even told by security that there could be protests disrupting

our first committee meeting. That was before I decided to hold it at

9am. The day after Wales had been any football semifinal. APPLAUSE it

has been sunny Bournemouth for most of the conference and that is also

the outlook our economy. The economic forecasters at the big

banks and universities and Government departments, they forget

one thing as they projected doom and gloom, that their negativity was

that of just 48%. We have 52% knew things would look up, we would be

better off out and was restoring control comes renewed confidence.

APPLAUSE so while many broadcasters and their company bosses and the

banks wrung their hands and predicted a recession, most people

woke up with a smile on their face. None more so than in this room. It

is those people who have been going out and spending, retail sales are

up 6% on the year. They have been creating jobs with unemployment

falling further. They have seen the pound more competitive with foreign

income worth more so at last we are beginning to close I was huge

overseas deficit. Brexit offers us a huge opportunities. It is no

surprise the 52% to knew that already are faster to grasp them.

The risks to our economy lie not in a Brexit, but in an incontinent

central bank. And in weak productivity. Since I was appointed

as our economy spokesman I have repeatedly said that it is time

interest rates went up rather than down.

APPLAUSE yet almost whatever the economic news the bank of England

just cuts interest rates further and Prince more and more money.

It is not just the bank of England that lost its way by central banks

globally. For almost a generation now. As long ago as 1987 when the

stock market fell central banks cut interest rates and added fuel to the

booming economy. They get the same in 1998. And again in 2001 when the

dot-com boom faulted. As central banks cut rates when stock markets

fall but failed to increase them when stock markets rise, the

consequences is ever higher house prices and more and more debts

loading down our economy. The Bank of England's actions now I fear are

making the situation even worse. As well as devastating the finances of

pension funds and pensioners. Central banks were at least a

responsible for the financial crash of 2007 - eight as the commercial

banks they were meant to oversee by a loving growth and depth to out of

hand. -- by allowing. We can understand why they began quantitive

easing and cutting interest rates. If it was emergency measures to deal

with the crisis, but what cannot make sense is continuing those

policies for nearly a decade following the crisis. Worse still,

the back of England stuck any remainder mindset is responding to

Brexit as if it has precipitated another economic crisis yet the

reality is the economy is growing and the bank of England is

unleashing a further flood of money we simply do not need. As well as

retail sales are growing at 6% the Bank of England's own preferred

measure of the money supply is expanding by 14% a year. Against

that background it is surely time for caution. Let's call a halt to

quantitive easing and put interest rates up, not down.

APPLAUSE to raise our productivity would be to reward real investment

and Channel capital to more productive uses.

That is what banking and our financial system is meant to do.

Unfortunately, bailing out the banks, printing money and holding

interest rates close to zero and has stopped finance working as it

should. Instead of seeing businesses with bad business models give way to

more productive firms, zombie banks keep over indebted firms on life

support. Being just about able to service a loner party presents

interest a year is not a good test for where a country should be

investing savings. That is holding back growth in productivity and then

holding back our standard of living. The same goes with the rules and

regulations made by the EU for 40 years with so little regard for our

particular needs and interests. Overall, productivity has also been

held back by a big increase in a lower skilled work. Letting

employers and port as much labour as the light from EU countries far

poorer than ours allows the Government to hold down wages for

many in this country. APPLAUSE

Our party knows that and that is why I think many but far from all voted

for us and Junior 23rd and we are now going to be a free and

independent country. -- June at. The flip side of what happened in our

labour market is by a loving employers to import cheap labour --

allowing. The Government discouraged capital investment. People have

voted for change. Outside the EU we can follow a different path to a

higher wage, higher productivity economy. Now we really can look

beyond Europe to the global horizon. With laws to suit our needs, trade

deals beyond Europe, a competitive currency, sensible monetary policy

and a belief in Britain, our best days lie ahead. We really are more

than a star on somebody else's flight.

APPLAUSE -- somebody else's slide. -- flag.

Thank you, Mark. One of my proudest moments in the party over recent

times was seeing our next Speaker sworn in as an AM in London. I was

part of the process of looking at candidates ahead of the assembly

elections in London last year and I was absolutely astonished by the

quality and capabilities of the man who is going to speak now. He has

been invited to deliver a speech on education on behalf of Paul Nuttall,

who is our outgoing education spokesman. Or may not be outgoing,

who knows. I believe we have got a short video to show before we begin.

The non-dropping of the lights. ladies and gentlemen, David Kurten.

Thank you very much for your kind introduction. No pressure to have a

great speech. Many of you know me as one of two members of the London

assembly for Ukip. It has been a fantastic year for Ukip in winning

the referendum and also getting a representation in London for the

first time for 12 years so I am very happy and proud of that. But as well

as being on the London assembly some of you may know I was a teacher,

chemistry teacher, for around 20 years before I got into politics and

I was the teacher up until March this year. My privileged teaching

career has taken me to both state schools and private schools in this

country and abroad. One thing I will never forget in my teaching career

was when I was teaching in one particular school in Eastern Europe.

It was a private school which had some scholarships and the head boy

of the school was a scholar from a poorer role in the north of that

country. In his graduation speech he said this. I am so grateful for the

opportunity that I have had to come to this school. It has opened my

eyes the world I never knew existed. And from now on I do not just up the

opportunity of coming here but I am going to university in America. But

when I go home to my own town, I see my old friends and I talk to them

for a while but after a while I feel like I don't have anything to say to

them any more. I feel I have moved on to a higher level and I do not

have anything in common with my old friends any more.

So that was the speech with great joy and also great sadness in it.

For that particular boy. He was plucked from his town and given the

chance to shine and Excel. I think I'm probably you do as well, the

situation is similar in this country. I am sure you know the

statistic that 7% of average people get the opportunity to go to private

schools and good for them. And this country is known all around the

world for being a place of educational excellence. Many times

because people think of schools and universities in this country and

they think of private schools and they think of the and the culture

they have. But what about those who are left behind's private school

fees at the moment have reached a level where it is about ?30,000 a

year. To go to full boarding school. They are out of reach for the

ordinary working person and becoming out of reach even fought

middle-class professionals and becoming very much the preserve of

the international elite. What's the answer to this? How do we get all of

our students, all of our young people from all over the country,

whatever their background is, whatever the socioeconomic standing,

to have the opportunity to go to institution of excellence? You know

the answer. Because we have been saying it for decades, we need to

have grammar schools in every town and city, every district and butter,

all across this country. APPLAUSE

So that everybody can have the chance to excel and shine.

And Mrs May has taken on Ukip's policy, very sensible per to do

that. As soon as she said that we have an army of so-called experts

telling us it will be the most dreadful thing for this country to

implement grammar schools. We heard this morning and in Lincolnshire

Ukip is asking for extra grammar schools on behalf of parents and

voters and some of the Conservative councillors are standing against it,

let alone a Labour councillors and Labour politicians. When these

experts and politicians talk against this policy what they say and what

they do are very often to different things. So we know David Cameron can

send his kids to private school, we high matron of equality, Harriet

Harman, she went to private school and sends one of her children to a

grammar school. Even the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Diane Abbott,

BOOING it is funny saying those things in the same sentence.

She can send her kids to private school. They might say they do not

agree but by their actions you know they do because they want the best

thing for decades and good for them. They are doing the best for the kids

and I respect that what I do not respect is the hypocrisy.

APPLAUSE but why should there be this hypocrisy about academic

selection from those who best benefit from it? If someone is

incredibly talented as an athlete or sportsman no one would object to

looking out for athletic talent at the youngest of ages to have their

talents developed and go on to be great sportsman will stop some of

our Olympians who have done our country proud testimony to that.

Would disagree with looking for musical talent, artistic talent,

creative talent, those who want to be wonderful dances? Putting them in

special schools for musicians, dancers, artists and so on. Many of

the champagne socialist levees have benefited from that kind of

education and selection. There would be happy for their ilk and friends

to benefit as well. We need to make sure that we get these grammar

schools implemented that we hold Theresa May to the fire and make

sure that she does implement this policy. It is only Ukip that are

wholeheartedly, 100% behind the best schools which are going to do the

best for all of our young people, no matter where they come from. But

schools are not the only part of our education system, of course. We have

to consider tertiary education and universities as well. Never have

there been so many people in this country going to university, thanks

to Tony Blair's bizarre policy of targeting 50% of students to go to

university, whether it is good for them or not. Of course, it is

fantastic for some people, that never have they been so many people

you leaving university with so much debt, Russell in equipped for the

world of work and employment. We have a shortage of doctors and

nurses in this country. It was a mad situation when we only have 7500

places for medicine in British universities, but there are 82,000

applicants. Many of those are not suitable. But many of them will be

and are denied a place. Similarly for nursing. 20,000 places, but

100,000 applicants. Tens of thousands of people who would like a

career in nursing, but are not able to have one because they are not the

places to train young people in this country to get the skills they need.

And so we create a shortage by not planning properly. The result is

that we draw the rules, bringing people with skills from other

countries to work in this country when we failed to train our own

young people. This is a madness which must stop! It doesn't just

hurt our own young people, it hurts other countries who are losing their

best and brightest people to come here. I don't blame anyone

individually for taking the opportunities to come and live in

Britain. It is a fantastic place to live. But we are denying people who

should be staying in their own homelands to build up their own

services, their own economies so that everyone can benefit from the

investment is made in their young people. APPLAUSE. But some of the

university courses that we have leave people less equipped and less

intelligent at the age of 21 van when they went in at 18. It would be

fantastic if we did have these extra places for medicine, for physics,

for engineering and so on. But when we have courses such as diversity

studies you wonder what people are coming out with, and if we are

equipped for work. I know, one time before the referendum, I went to a

college in north London to talk about our policies on the

referendum. Why Brexit is a good thing. And it was time for questions

afterwards. One young woman put up her hand, I thought, this is good.

And she said I've been looking through your tweets. I thought, very

sensible. She said I against political correctness. I said yes.

And learned she said, how dare you! How do you not understand the harm

of historical hetero normality. I said, well, I'm really not sure what

you mean, but... I'll tell you, you know, I know what would be good for

you, is that if you left your course and you go and learn how to be a

mechanic. Because when you are 21 you have a skill and three years of

wages and can stand on your own two feet. Good advice, I thought. But it

didn't go down too well. She had to leave and go to her safe space.

APPLAUSE sorry. Sorry. I didn't mean to upset her, but there you go. Our

education system is overseen by a body called Ofsted. Ofsted, yes, we

have a new chief of Ofsted, I think, whose straightaway came out with

some of the politicians against grammar schools. The previous chief

of Ofsted famous in the last couple of months was resigned after calling

the idol of white and inbred white ghetto. What a dreadful thing for a

chief inspector of our schools to say about one of our finest

counties. If we have people like Ms overseen in our schools, something

is wrong. -- like this overseeing our schools. We need a body that

will stand up for traditional British values. Values like honesty,

integrity, reason, respect for the rule of law, and everything that is

good about this country. Not values which are called modern British

values, diversity and tolerance. That is tolerant of every culture

apart from our own culture will stop we need to make sure that stops. We

need to make sure that we get rid of the crazy system of rating schools

in terms of value added rather than real exam results. A system that

will allow the best schools that get A 's and a stars to come at the

bottom of the table because they don't have a value-added. Schools

that come highly band the best because of this value-added system.

We need a scrutinising body that will tackle the ravages of radical

Islamism which is taking hold in some areas of our country and our

school system. This will damage all young people in our country if it is

not tackled properly. And we need a school system which will allow

freedom of thought, what breed a generation of young people who

cannot cope with the rigorous debate and need to go to this safe spaces

like that young woman I was talking about before. We need to get rid of

the strict observance to the crazy agenda of climate change which is

going through our science education, our science classes. That is

indoctrinating our kids. Indoctrinating our kids into loving

these which are moving eco-crucifixes that we find being

put up in our most beautiful places. In science people really don't

understand the two principals of infrared absorption and body

radiation. I'm not being racist, that is a scientific thing. It

doesn't get taught, and if people did understand it they would

understand that the climate change agenda is not true. It's

indoctrinating people into accepting... APPLAUSE. Into

accepting a pin-up and Lee of green taxes which will make us play three

or four or five times as much for our energy if we simply used gas

fired power stations like we always have done. That is going to hurt

people coolest people in our country the most. Now, it's only Ukip will

even approach these things. Other parties won't even come near to

talking about many of the things I'm talking about because they're afraid

of being seen to be politically incorrect. But what I'm concerned

with is the truth. What I'm concerned with is that our young

people have a pride in our country, and know what it is to be good

British system is able to stand on their own two feet and know the

truth rather than be indoctrinated into mediocrity and political

correctness which has ravaged our country over the last four or five

decades. It's got to stop. And Ukip, with our policies, with the most

sensible policies in every area will allow us once again to build an

education system which works for every young person, and an education

system which will truly make Britain a great country you very much.

APPLAUSE Thank you. APPLAUSE. I think you'll all agree,

ladies and gentlemen, there is a man with a bright future in our party.

Were going to close now 40, we've had a great session there. Just a

few things I want to mention. I feel compelled, as chairman to make this

point. As you'll all be aware, because you will have looked past

it. We arranged a victory wall to be put up outside the Expo. And it's

been a real treat, because every time I've walked past it I've seen

people signing and making their mark. A recognition, post conference

of the part each of us plays in bringing about British independence.

But I'm frankly disgusted at the fact that somebody chose to do face

that wall. Trying to scrub out names of people who they have clear

personal issues with. That kind of behaviour discredits and dishonours

not those people, but the whole party. And I want as oil to be very

clear, as a party here, that we are going to look at the security

cameras covering that room. We are going to short shrift for whoever

was responsible for that. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not what we

do. APPLAUSE. Now, we're going to close for a brief time for lunch,

voting cards for members wishing to participate... TV! T. I'm enjoying

the day so much I don't want it to end. Surely we can do lunch again?

We are going to be breaking for tea. We will have motions and voting

cards are available in the lobby. Go down and pick them up. I encourage

everybody, I want a roomful of people here when conference closes.

We'll be hearing from a representative of why I and our

closing speech from our new leader, Diane James before listening to

Ukip's first conference choir. Many of you have heard it rehearse

already. None of you have heard it rehearsed with me involved! Enjoy

the these 15 minutes. This 15 minute tea broke. If you put yourself

forward as a composer, second or arguing against any of the emotions

you are going to be called upon. You will be participating in this next

session. Enjoy your tea. We'll see you in 20 minutes.

APPLAUSE No pressure then. I just wanted to

point this out. I contemplated ace-king for Elton

John's song, I'm Still Standing to be played. And then I thought, I Get

Knocked Down, I Get Up Again. I