:02:28. > :02:37.Good afternoon. Good afternoon. With every bone in mind taking their
:02:38. > :02:47.sheet, please. -- would everyone mind. If you could take your seat I
:02:48. > :02:52.would be most grateful. Thank you for accommodating our changd in the
:02:53. > :02:58.starting time for this sesshon. We are allowed an extra 15 minttes for
:02:59. > :03:03.lunch. I am delighted to now started this very interesting penultimate
:03:04. > :03:09.session of the conference hdre in Bournemouth and I would likd to
:03:10. > :03:10.introduce to the podium your appreciation for our leader, Diane
:03:11. > :03:26.James. Ladies and gentlemen, welcole again.
:03:27. > :03:33.From my perspective, to the conference again this afternoon NBA
:03:34. > :03:40.few moments it will be my absolute pleasure to invite Douglas Carswell,
:03:41. > :03:51.Ukip's MP, to address you. H, like many of you... Yes, let's do that.
:03:52. > :03:55.APPLAUSE I went to Clacton to support him, he took a very
:03:56. > :04:02.courageous decision to leavd the Tories and come to us and I am not
:04:03. > :04:05.interested in what has gone on beforehand.
:04:06. > :04:13.I want you to get the most rapturous welcome to Douglas Carswell MP,
:04:14. > :04:27.you'd get MP. Many thanks. ,- Ukip MP.
:04:28. > :04:56.thank you for that warm introduction. The referendul victory
:04:57. > :04:59.on June the 20 thirds was not the Conservative Party victory, it was
:05:00. > :05:09.not Labour's pectin, it was our victory. APPLAUSE. -- it was not
:05:10. > :05:15.Labour's victory. It was yotr directory, it was Ukip victory. We
:05:16. > :05:20.dared not just forced them to hold the referendum, we helped whn it.
:05:21. > :05:26.Looking around I see lots of familiar faces, people who H know
:05:27. > :05:33.are helped run street stalls, people who went out handing out le`flets,
:05:34. > :05:37.who did not just do that during the referendum campaign but people I
:05:38. > :05:43.know did that for years. Th`nk you for what you did. In the referendum
:05:44. > :05:49.and before. It would not have happened without you. I also want to
:05:50. > :05:57.say well done to Diane, our new leader. It was a wonderful listening
:05:58. > :06:03.to her speaking yesterday. Ht takes a certain something for somdone to
:06:04. > :06:08.offer themselves to Leeds, not just a political party, but the third
:06:09. > :06:13.largest party in British politics today. -- offer themselves to lead.
:06:14. > :06:22.I salute all of the candidates who put themselves forward for the job.
:06:23. > :06:26.APPLAUSE the membership is now spoken and made a clear chohce.
:06:27. > :06:38.We must now all rally behind the Diane. APPLAUSE Diane, I give you
:06:39. > :06:48.110% of my support. Well done.
:06:49. > :06:52.APPLAUSE it has been a great year for our party.
:06:53. > :06:55.A few years ago the experts in Westminster said we would ndver get
:06:56. > :07:01.the referendum. David Cameron and George Osborne were estimatds it
:07:02. > :07:06.would not happen. -- they wdre adamant. It did. The experts said
:07:07. > :07:11.the leave the site could never win. At times it felt like the entire
:07:12. > :07:17.weight of the Government machine was against us, not just Downing Street,
:07:18. > :07:21.but the so-called experts and economists, the central bankers
:07:22. > :07:28.corporate bankers, lobbyists, the CBI. George Osborne blew up the long
:07:29. > :07:35.list of experts ready to tell us to come to heal. -- George Osborne blew
:07:36. > :07:48.up. The fall in line, or as Barack Obama put it, HQ, to tell us what to
:07:49. > :07:52.do. -- a a queue. It seems to me we're starting even earlier this
:07:53. > :07:56.year. They said interest rates would go up and instead they went down.
:07:57. > :08:03.They said there would be a recession and instead we seen growth. They
:08:04. > :08:07.said the economy could not cope I suspect more jobs will have been
:08:08. > :08:17.created in Britain since thd referendum than the whole of the
:08:18. > :08:22.rest of the EU combines. We won despite having the system rhgged
:08:23. > :08:26.against us and Ukip can keep on winning despite having the system
:08:27. > :08:32.stacked against us. Nowhere is the system rate more against us than it
:08:33. > :08:40.is in Westminster. -- rigged against us. Sitting on those green benches I
:08:41. > :08:45.often find myself surrounded by 50-something Scottish Nationalist
:08:46. > :08:51.MPs, 56, I think. We got three times more votes than they got at the last
:08:52. > :08:59.election. And yet there are 50 of them. APPLAUSE and only one Ukip MP.
:09:00. > :09:05.How can that be fair? The SNP and the Liberal Democrats gets xou asked
:09:06. > :09:09.question Time, questions of Prime Minister's Question Time, I am lucky
:09:10. > :09:14.if I get called to speak at all We got more votes than the Lib Dems,
:09:15. > :09:25.Plaid Cymru, the Ulster Unionist Party Green Party combined. APPLAUSE
:09:26. > :09:31.I know how unfair our polithcal system in this country really is.
:09:32. > :09:37.I sit next to it everyday. We urgently needs electoral reform We
:09:38. > :09:44.need to make those parliaments more accountable to constituents. And
:09:45. > :09:48.supper the neighbouring county for the Mac people voted overwhdlmingly
:09:49. > :09:56.to leave the EU yet every shngle Suffolk MP supported remain. Across
:09:57. > :10:01.the country only a tiny handful of principal patriotic and in lany
:10:02. > :10:09.cases wonderful Labour MPs supported leave. The rest, the overwhdlming
:10:10. > :10:11.majority, voted Remain. Michael Gove famously once described the
:10:12. > :10:21.education establishment in this country as being the blob. H tell
:10:22. > :10:29.you, the real blob and Brit`in is sitting in the House of Comlons
:10:30. > :10:35.That is where the group thing is to be found. It is group think that has
:10:36. > :10:38.been running this country for too many years and running it into the
:10:39. > :10:49.ground. APPLAUSE or we are beating the group
:10:50. > :10:52.thinkers on Europe and on immigration.
:10:53. > :10:58.My job in Parliament is to offer an alternative voice where the blob has
:10:59. > :11:03.got it wrong. Britney to those in Westminster that all agree Belgians
:11:04. > :11:06.are pounds of overseas aid should be spent at the Government the
:11:07. > :11:15.Government to Government subsidy. -- millions of pounds of oversdas aid.
:11:16. > :11:20.We can win an end to those who cannot see what is wrong with taking
:11:21. > :11:24.money from normal people whhle giving money to the banks.
:11:25. > :11:33.Quantitative easing is a fancy way of saying hand-outs for banks.
:11:34. > :11:38.We need to press the Governlent on the timing of article 50. There will
:11:39. > :11:43.be vested interests trying to stall the process and Ukip must ptsh to
:11:44. > :11:47.make sure they get on with ht. I am going to be working and continuing
:11:48. > :11:51.to work with Mark reckless `nd others in the House of Commons. We
:11:52. > :11:56.have been producing policy papers setting out a range of alternative
:11:57. > :12:01.ideas on everything from endrgy policy, breaking open the c`rtels
:12:02. > :12:12.surrounding the family courts. Ukip needs to be the party for change. We
:12:13. > :12:14.should be the party that people vote for if they want to change. Upbeat,
:12:15. > :12:24.optimistic, change for a better and brighter future. APPLAUSE it is an
:12:25. > :12:28.enormous honour to call mysdlf a member of this great party `nd I am
:12:29. > :12:31.looking forward to working with Diane and was team Ukip.
:12:32. > :13:06.Thank you. APPLAUSE
:13:07. > :13:12.thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, when we look
:13:13. > :13:19.at people in our party who have served it for a long time whth
:13:20. > :13:23.dignity, tenacity and undoubted loyalty, there are a few people who
:13:24. > :13:30.can hold the level of our ndxt Speaker. I have been asked `nd it is
:13:31. > :13:35.a difficult request, but I have been asked by Stuart Agnew, apparently
:13:36. > :13:39.standard request he makes a conference, do not clap him during
:13:40. > :13:44.his speech, please. He wants you to get your hands a rest and to save
:13:45. > :13:50.them for rapturous applause at the end of his speech. Ladies and
:13:51. > :13:56.gentlemen, we can get funky round of applause to welcome him on stage,
:13:57. > :14:03.Stuart Agnew. -- we can givd him. APPLAUSE I hope the microphone is
:14:04. > :14:11.working. I will take you on a Brexit journey.
:14:12. > :14:17.That started 15 years ago when I was asked to go and join the debate in
:14:18. > :14:21.the NFU council and in thosd days I was in Norfolk delegate to the NFU
:14:22. > :14:26.council. The president said we ought to have a debate every now `nd then
:14:27. > :14:31.after the first debate was we think we should join the euro. He needed
:14:32. > :14:36.somebody to oppose that, yot might think everyone would jump up but not
:14:37. > :14:40.in those days but I said I would do it, I had never done a debate before
:14:41. > :14:45.and he said I will tell you the rules. So we went and had a debate
:14:46. > :14:50.and I was thrashed by 56 votes to 11 but it was great from and it was a
:14:51. > :14:57.useful experience and I thotght Apple gear. -- great fun. B`ck home
:14:58. > :15:01.a lot of Norfolk farmers were most unhappy their delegate their oppose
:15:02. > :15:07.the euro and when I was up to the election they found a candidate to
:15:08. > :15:13.stand against me. So I thought I like this job but I am not going to
:15:14. > :15:19.compromise what I believe, H am going to make it clear I oppose the
:15:20. > :15:22.euro. I had to get 20 nomin`tions from 20 Norfolk farmers, I `pproach
:15:23. > :15:27.farmers and said well you stpport the again? But I do not likd the
:15:28. > :15:31.euro and I do not want you to be under any misapprehensions. Some
:15:32. > :15:37.said we like you but we likd the euro more than you so we can't. I
:15:38. > :15:44.got the 20 nominations and one had to think about the election. --
:15:45. > :15:48.election address. I have 50 words on farming enterprise, 50 words on the
:15:49. > :15:54.NFU and 50 word rant against the euro. Why not? That on the ballot
:15:55. > :15:59.paper and a lot of my friend said that if the suicide note. Why did
:16:00. > :16:03.you do that? I easily won the competition. That meant I w`s in a
:16:04. > :16:14.strong position from there `fter. I wasn't opposed and had a landate
:16:15. > :16:21.at against the euro. Two ye`rs later I was a candidate in an election. It
:16:22. > :16:23.happened to coincide to coincide with a council meeting. Norfolk
:16:24. > :16:29.farmer said Stuart Agnew shouldn't go to a council meeting, thdre was a
:16:30. > :16:32.big row about it. In the end I went around telling everybody I'd been
:16:33. > :16:38.banned from the NFU council meeting because I stood for Ukip. That gave
:16:39. > :16:41.me a bit of kudos. We then love onto a surprise invitation I got to speak
:16:42. > :16:46.at the Oxford farming conference. That may mean nothing to yot, but
:16:47. > :16:51.that is the premier event in farming. It takes place at Oxford
:16:52. > :16:57.University while the students are on vacation in January. We takd over a
:16:58. > :17:02.couple of colleges and lecttre rooms, the first morning is the big
:17:03. > :17:04.part of it. I'll let you know that everybody who thinks they are
:17:05. > :17:08.important in forming and all the allied industries go to the Oxford
:17:09. > :17:11.farming conference. If you think you're important in any way
:17:12. > :17:19.connected with Apple Kenji Goto It is the place to be seen. Like smart
:17:20. > :17:24.people at Ascot. -- if you `re anyway connected to agriculture it
:17:25. > :17:30.is the place to be seen. Ministers of agriculture spoke, and sometimes
:17:31. > :17:34.even royalty. In the afternoon there are more technical discussions about
:17:35. > :17:39.supplies and retailers. In the evening we go to the Oxford union
:17:40. > :17:44.debating chamber. I was askdd what I propose the motion, this hotse
:17:45. > :17:50.believes that Arab culture would thrive outside the EU --
:17:51. > :17:53.agriculture. I was really ndrvous, really worried about doing this in
:17:54. > :17:58.front of an audience like that. But with the help of Tony Brown who have
:17:59. > :18:02.the right may speech I was `llocated a second from the Young farlers
:18:03. > :18:07.club. We had some practice hn the farmers club and we took thhs really
:18:08. > :18:11.seriously. I knew I'd be be`ten but by God I was going to put up a
:18:12. > :18:18.fight. We had a straw poll lead at the beginning. I got between ten and
:18:19. > :18:24.20% support. We gave that the full welly and we won the debate. We
:18:25. > :18:28.actually won the debate. Th`t was seismic, not just for me personally,
:18:29. > :18:37.but from that moment on you couldn't say that all farmers think the EU is
:18:38. > :18:42.wonderful except etc. Some thought it was a one-off, a year later I
:18:43. > :18:46.went to Belfast for a simil`r debate in Stormont parliament. I won that
:18:47. > :18:52.as well. They couldn't say Oxford was a one off. That set up ` tone, a
:18:53. > :18:56.movement in farming that we didn't have to be tied to the EU. We could
:18:57. > :19:05.actually survive and thrive without it. Now, that had built up this
:19:06. > :19:10.platform. I think that was hmportant because I was asked back to Oxford
:19:11. > :19:15.again, at the beginning of 2015 This time to speak on the fhrst
:19:16. > :19:18.morning, what an honour. 15 or 0 years ago with some have sahd you
:19:19. > :19:26.will be doing that, look at that pig farm over their! I got the chance to
:19:27. > :19:31.outline Ukip's policy for the General Election in a 20 minute
:19:32. > :19:34.speech, we lost the General Election and I forgot about it. Several
:19:35. > :19:39.months later I met a relative of mine who is an agricultural student.
:19:40. > :19:44.He said, all, I liked your Oxford speech. I told him he couldn't have
:19:45. > :19:47.afforded to get to go there. No no, I didn't go there but our
:19:48. > :19:54.agricultural lecture gave us a link to your speech and told us we must
:19:55. > :19:58.watch it. So my head gets bhgger! That was before the referendum
:19:59. > :20:03.campaign. But started properly in November last year. That was the
:20:04. > :20:07.first of 20 specialised our culture debates I was involved with against
:20:08. > :20:12.some big names, around the country, sometimes in media studios with a
:20:13. > :20:17.big audience. I realised about the NFU were asking my Ukip follies to
:20:18. > :20:24.speak at debates about Brexht. They might be up against Tory MPs or MEPs
:20:25. > :20:27.who know a lot about farming. I worried about this and I sent out
:20:28. > :20:31.three lots of briefing papers picking up on my own experidnce
:20:32. > :20:36.because I was doing these ddbates hoping that would help them. I was
:20:37. > :20:40.worried. I know a lot of farming, but they don't. I must have got
:20:41. > :20:43.something right because Far`ge came up to me in Brussels and sahd I
:20:44. > :20:50.liked that briefing paper and a sword, Frank God for that. Two of
:20:51. > :20:55.these 26 debate stands out hn my mind. The first one was in Norfolk
:20:56. > :21:00.when I was speaking about food security and the problem of
:21:01. > :21:07.importing more and more food and the worry of terrorist activity. There
:21:08. > :21:11.was a young man in the audidnce smirking condescendingly, it
:21:12. > :21:14.irritated me and I called hhm out. I said, young man, you wouldn't smirk
:21:15. > :21:18.if you have knew how much of the rings I had when I was your age will
:21:19. > :21:25.stop that wipe the smirk off his face but I made an enemy for ever.
:21:26. > :21:30.Five days later a bomb went off in Brussels yards from where I was
:21:31. > :21:35.sitting. Whenever I spoke about terrorism after that nobody smirked.
:21:36. > :21:40.Now, the second one that st`nds out in my mind is the one I did in
:21:41. > :21:45.Wales. I was up against no less than the Commissioner for agriculture, an
:21:46. > :21:49.Irishman, native English-spdaking who had come from a farming
:21:50. > :21:54.background in Ireland. He w`s my opponent there. The place w`s
:21:55. > :21:59.packed. Full of media. It w`s standing room only. I said,
:22:00. > :22:02.Commissioner, I have a perfdctly good personal relationship with you
:22:03. > :22:09.but I don't think you should be here telling us how to vote. It's similar
:22:10. > :22:13.to the Obama thing. He said I'd been invited. We had the debate `nd I
:22:14. > :22:18.think I did reasonably against someone of his stature, belheve he
:22:19. > :22:21.has stature, please. At the end everybody rushed up. They w`nted to
:22:22. > :22:26.be for direct with the Commhssioner. I was elbowed out of the wax, I
:22:27. > :22:30.politely moved aside. Then they said Stuart is going to be in thhs
:22:31. > :22:34.picture, he is part of this debate. He always goes out of his w`y to be
:22:35. > :22:40.nice and pleasant to me. Quhte different from his predecessor who,
:22:41. > :22:44.was a gift to me, really. M`inly because he couldn't speak English
:22:45. > :22:48.properly and he only had to address the NFU conference for about ten
:22:49. > :22:53.minutes. He was doing my work for me. He very quickly lost thd
:22:54. > :22:57.farmers. He got it back on le for saying I shouldn't be in Wales when
:22:58. > :23:02.I went to our cultural event in Cork in Ireland. He was there too. And as
:23:03. > :23:07.usual he came up to me, shot hands and said what are you doing here? I
:23:08. > :23:12.said I've been to Ireland twice actually, since the vote. I tried to
:23:13. > :23:17.persuade the Irish to follow Britain out of the European Union. He leaned
:23:18. > :23:26.forward and fed into my ear, you mind your own business! With a grin
:23:27. > :23:30.on his face he thought I might be hurt or offended, I was just
:23:31. > :23:37.laughing. Now, where do we go from there? Sometimes, Lady luck shines.
:23:38. > :23:41.And she shone on me in one way during this campaign for thd
:23:42. > :23:46.referendum. It became appardnt that the EU might ban the herbichde that
:23:47. > :23:50.has been the backbone of farming operations ever since the mhd-7 s.
:23:51. > :23:57.Most farmers could not imaghne life without it. Particularly in British
:23:58. > :24:00.conditions. It certainly undermined the arable farmers, large arable
:24:01. > :24:10.farmers who are normally absolutely pool EU. -- pro-EU. It worrhed them.
:24:11. > :24:14.I spoke in Strasberg for two minutes about this. Three minutes bdfore I
:24:15. > :24:20.was due to give the speech one of the staff ran up to me and said
:24:21. > :24:24.you've got three minutes now. That was wonderful. I could relax a
:24:25. > :24:29.little bit and give a speech on this chemical. That went well. It went
:24:30. > :24:34.viral, apparently in agricultural circles because I then went to the
:24:35. > :24:38.cereals event in Hertfordshhre in June. A big outdoor event. @nd as I
:24:39. > :24:42.walked about looking at tractors, one thing and another peopld were
:24:43. > :24:48.coming up to me and saying wouldn't you that bloke in that video? My
:24:49. > :24:54.head gets even bigger! Then we had a proper debate, opposing me was the
:24:55. > :24:57.NFU president and former Minister of agriculture, Lady luck shond on me
:24:58. > :25:09.again. I had the very last word I was able to say a vote to rdmain is
:25:10. > :25:14.a vote to ban this. My opponent look miserable we go on from there just
:25:15. > :25:20.looking at some opportunitids in agriculture. I'm going to go through
:25:21. > :25:24.these very quickly. I am part of a think tank headed up by Lord Brooke
:25:25. > :25:30.and other peers. We are preparing a paper that we haven't finished yet,
:25:31. > :25:38.but Steph are expecting it. We had a quick list of opportunities. We can
:25:39. > :25:43.retailer agricultural schemds. We can rethink of farm support schemes.
:25:44. > :25:47.I haven't met a Labour MP or Tory MP at who says we shouldn't support
:25:48. > :25:53.agriculture. It's just a matter of how we do it. We do not need knee
:25:54. > :25:57.jerk reactions to pesticides from the green lobby. We need proper
:25:58. > :26:04.field research to study the impact of what we are using on our crops in
:26:05. > :26:11.the wider environment. We should be using them. We can't repatrhate
:26:12. > :26:16.organic farming. - the EU h`s taken an approach on this woods m`ke life
:26:17. > :26:22.impossible for organic farmdrs. How flexible do you want to be? If we go
:26:23. > :26:26.down the EU would you won't get organic food. It will be too
:26:27. > :26:30.difficult. Then we looked into food labelling. We have the opportunity
:26:31. > :26:38.to label food and that will really make dairy farmers they are unhappy
:26:39. > :26:43.that they think Irish milk hs being labelled as British, one wax or the
:26:44. > :26:48.other. Public sector coolant. We have to put this will tend outside
:26:49. > :26:51.the EU. What an opportunity to say to hospitals and prisons, why not
:26:52. > :26:58.sourced locally? Who knows, patients may require a quicker with both
:26:59. > :27:05.local food? Aren't prisoners may get on the past to true righteotsness
:27:06. > :27:09.quicker. This is a huge are`, obviously. We'll have to have a look
:27:10. > :27:13.at them. Some obvious ones `re identification of the compulsory and
:27:14. > :27:19.John it money that doesn't work Asked by staff and stop. And going
:27:20. > :27:26.through these very fast, I `m aware of that. How much time have I got?
:27:27. > :27:31.Two minutes. Foot and mouth, we go back to the report, we were not
:27:32. > :27:36.allowed to use this report hn 2 01 and had to burn all these c`rcasses
:27:37. > :27:41.which made the thing worse. This is my village. This is the main street.
:27:42. > :27:45.Look at that closely. Two wdeks after the Brexit result, Brdndan,
:27:46. > :27:49.who lives in that has commissioned an artist to put back there. Note
:27:50. > :27:54.that one of the stars has bden removed and has fallen as a
:27:55. > :27:58.teardrop. The media learned that I lived in the parish and will roll
:27:59. > :28:02.over the area. Aren't you upset about this, don't you want to get
:28:03. > :28:09.down? Know, every time I drove past I'm reminded of my success. Some of
:28:10. > :28:13.you may remember a singer in the 1960s called Del Shannon, I'm not
:28:14. > :28:17.going to sing his song, there are two types of teardrops but he said
:28:18. > :28:36.there was one for sorrow, one for joy. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE.
:28:37. > :28:48.I apologise that I started the applause at some point during that.
:28:49. > :28:52.Earlier, when an new leader was introducing Douglas Carswell she
:28:53. > :28:59.talked about people with integrity and honour. Willing to sacrhfice
:29:00. > :29:01.positions to do what was right. In our former chairman's speech
:29:02. > :29:09.yesterday Steve Crowther talked about our conference in Doncaster as
:29:10. > :29:14.one of his happiest moments, seeing certain MEPs who looked a lot like
:29:15. > :29:28.Stuart Agnew dancing in the aisles. When we unveiled Mark Reckldss.
:29:29. > :29:32.APPLAUSE. I don't honestly believe there is any better representation
:29:33. > :29:36.of real integrity in politics than this man. He deserves huge
:29:37. > :29:40.appreciation from all of us. We are all delighted and assembly lember,
:29:41. > :29:59.representing Ukip in Wales, Mark Reckless. APPLAUSE
:30:00. > :30:09.having moved from the Conservatives to Ukip and from Rochester to
:30:10. > :30:23.Cardiff, I'm often asked whdre the grass is greener. The answer is
:30:24. > :30:28.Wales. Because it rained so much. -- drains so much. I did take `n
:30:29. > :30:31.interest in the climate as chairman of the climate change environment
:30:32. > :30:39.and rural affairs committee. For the Welsh assembly. I'm very gr`teful to
:30:40. > :30:58.Stuart Agnew for his briefings, on which I've relied on many occasions.
:30:59. > :31:07.I was even told by security that there could be protests disrupting
:31:08. > :31:17.our first committee meeting. That was before I decided to hold it at
:31:18. > :31:28.9am. The day after Wales had been any football semifinal. APPLAUSE it
:31:29. > :31:34.has been sunny Bournemouth for most of the conference and that hs also
:31:35. > :31:39.the outlook our economy. The economic forecasters at the big
:31:40. > :31:45.banks and universities and Government departments, thex forget
:31:46. > :31:52.one thing as they projected doom and gloom, that their negativitx was
:31:53. > :31:59.that of just 48%. We have 52% knew things would look up, we wotld be
:32:00. > :32:11.better off out and was restoring control comes renewed confidence.
:32:12. > :32:17.APPLAUSE so while many broadcasters and their company bosses and the
:32:18. > :32:21.banks wrung their hands and predicted a recession, most people
:32:22. > :32:28.woke up with a smile on thehr face. None more so than in this room. It
:32:29. > :32:34.is those people who have bedn going out and spending, retail sales are
:32:35. > :32:38.up 6% on the year. They havd been creating jobs with unemploylent
:32:39. > :32:44.falling further. They have seen the pound more competitive with foreign
:32:45. > :32:51.income worth more so at last we are beginning to close I was huge
:32:52. > :32:56.overseas deficit. Brexit offers us a huge opportunities. It is no
:32:57. > :33:01.surprise the 52% to knew th`t already are faster to grasp them.
:33:02. > :33:07.The risks to our economy lid not in a Brexit, but in an incontinent
:33:08. > :33:14.central bank. And in weak productivity. Since I was appointed
:33:15. > :33:20.as our economy spokesman I have repeatedly said that it is time
:33:21. > :33:29.interest rates went up rathdr than down.
:33:30. > :33:34.APPLAUSE yet almost whatever the economic news the bank of England
:33:35. > :33:39.just cuts interest rates further and Prince more and more money.
:33:40. > :33:44.It is not just the bank of Dngland that lost its way by central banks
:33:45. > :33:49.globally. For almost a generation now. As long ago as 1987 whdn the
:33:50. > :33:55.stock market fell central b`nks cut interest rates and added fudl to the
:33:56. > :34:03.booming economy. They get the same in 1998. And again in 2001 when the
:34:04. > :34:07.dot-com boom faulted. As central banks cut rates when stock larkets
:34:08. > :34:13.fall but failed to increase them when stock markets rise, thd
:34:14. > :34:18.consequences is ever higher house prices and more and more debts
:34:19. > :34:25.loading down our economy. The Bank of England's actions now I fear are
:34:26. > :34:30.making the situation even worse As well as devastating the fin`nces of
:34:31. > :34:35.pension funds and pensioners. Central banks were at least a
:34:36. > :34:38.responsible for the financi`l crash of 2007 - eight as the commdrcial
:34:39. > :34:48.banks they were meant to ovdrsee by a loving growth and depth to out of
:34:49. > :34:52.hand. -- by allowing. We can understand why they began qtantitive
:34:53. > :34:56.easing and cutting interest rates. If it was emergency measures to deal
:34:57. > :35:00.with the crisis, but what c`nnot make sense is continuing those
:35:01. > :35:04.policies for nearly a decadd following the crisis. Worse still,
:35:05. > :35:12.the back of England stuck any remainder mindset is responding to
:35:13. > :35:16.Brexit as if it has precipitated another economic crisis yet the
:35:17. > :35:19.reality is the economy is growing and the bank of England is
:35:20. > :35:26.unleashing a further flood of money we simply do not need. As wdll as
:35:27. > :35:29.retail sales are growing at 6% the Bank of England's own preferred
:35:30. > :35:36.measure of the money supply is expanding by 14% a year. Ag`inst
:35:37. > :35:41.that background it is surelx time for caution. Let's call a h`lt to
:35:42. > :35:54.quantitive easing and put interest rates up, not down.
:35:55. > :35:58.APPLAUSE to raise our productivity would be to reward real invdstment
:35:59. > :36:01.and Channel capital to more productive uses.
:36:02. > :36:05.That is what banking and our financial system is meant to do
:36:06. > :36:12.Unfortunately, bailing out the banks, printing money and holding
:36:13. > :36:17.interest rates close to zero and has stopped finance working as ht
:36:18. > :36:22.should. Instead of seeing btsinesses with bad business models give way to
:36:23. > :36:28.more productive firms, zombhe banks keep over indebted firms on life
:36:29. > :36:35.support. Being just about able to service a loner party presents
:36:36. > :36:41.interest a year is not a good test for where a country should be
:36:42. > :36:47.investing savings. That is holding back growth in productivity and then
:36:48. > :36:51.holding back our standard of living. The same goes with the rules and
:36:52. > :36:57.regulations made by the EU for 0 years with so little regard for our
:36:58. > :37:01.particular needs and interests. Overall, productivity has also been
:37:02. > :37:06.held back by a big increase in a lower skilled work. Letting
:37:07. > :37:11.employers and port as much labour as the light from EU countries far
:37:12. > :37:13.poorer than ours allows the Government to hold down wagds for
:37:14. > :37:23.many in this country. APPLAUSE
:37:24. > :37:31.Our party knows that and th`t is why I think many but far from all voted
:37:32. > :37:38.for us and Junior 23rd and we are now going to be a free and
:37:39. > :37:44.independent country. -- Jund at The flip side of what happened hn our
:37:45. > :37:50.labour market is by a loving employers to import cheap l`bour --
:37:51. > :37:55.allowing. The Government discouraged capital investment. People have
:37:56. > :38:00.voted for change. Outside the EU we can follow a different path to a
:38:01. > :38:05.higher wage, higher producthvity economy. Now we really can look
:38:06. > :38:12.beyond Europe to the global horizon. With laws to suit our needs, trade
:38:13. > :38:17.deals beyond Europe, a compdtitive currency, sensible monetary policy
:38:18. > :38:22.and a belief in Britain, our best days lie ahead. We really are more
:38:23. > :38:26.than a star on somebody elsd's flight.
:38:27. > :38:45.APPLAUSE -- somebody else's slide. -, flag.
:38:46. > :38:59.Thank you, Mark. One of my proudest moments in the party over rdcent
:39:00. > :39:08.times was seeing our next Speaker sworn in as an AM in London. I was
:39:09. > :39:12.part of the process of lookhng at candidates ahead of the assdmbly
:39:13. > :39:16.elections in London last ye`r and I was absolutely astonished bx the
:39:17. > :39:21.quality and capabilities of the man who is going to speak now. He has
:39:22. > :39:27.been invited to deliver a speech on education on behalf of Paul Nuttall,
:39:28. > :39:33.who is our outgoing education spokesman. Or may not be outgoing,
:39:34. > :39:43.who knows. I believe we havd got a short video to show before we begin.
:39:44. > :40:51.The non-dropping of the lights. ladies and gentlemen, David Kurten.
:40:52. > :40:59.Thank you very much for your kind introduction. No pressure to have a
:41:00. > :41:04.great speech. Many of you know me as one of two members of the London
:41:05. > :41:10.assembly for Ukip. It has bden a fantastic year for Ukip in winning
:41:11. > :41:13.the referendum and also getting a representation in London for the
:41:14. > :41:19.first time for 12 years so H am very happy and proud of that. But as well
:41:20. > :41:25.as being on the London asselbly some of you may know I was a teacher
:41:26. > :41:29.chemistry teacher, for around 2 years before I got into polhtics and
:41:30. > :41:37.I was the teacher up until Larch this year. My privileged te`ching
:41:38. > :41:42.career has taken me to both state schools and private schools in this
:41:43. > :41:46.country and abroad. One thing I will never forget in my teaching career
:41:47. > :41:51.was when I was teaching in one particular school in Eastern Europe.
:41:52. > :41:56.It was a private school which had some scholarships and the hdad boy
:41:57. > :42:02.of the school was a scholar from a poorer role in the north of that
:42:03. > :42:07.country. In his graduation speech he said this. I am so grateful for the
:42:08. > :42:13.opportunity that I have had to come to this school. It has opendd my
:42:14. > :42:18.eyes the world I never knew existed. And from now on I do not just up the
:42:19. > :42:24.opportunity of coming here but I am going to university in Amerhca. But
:42:25. > :42:30.when I go home to my own town, I see my old friends and I talk to them
:42:31. > :42:36.for a while but after a while I feel like I don't have anything to say to
:42:37. > :42:40.them any more. I feel I havd moved on to a higher level and I do not
:42:41. > :42:47.have anything in common with my old friends any more.
:42:48. > :42:54.So that was the speech with great joy and also great sadness hn it.
:42:55. > :43:00.For that particular boy. He was plucked from his town and ghven the
:43:01. > :43:04.chance to shine and Excel. H think I'm probably you do as well, the
:43:05. > :43:09.situation is similar in this country. I am sure you know the
:43:10. > :43:14.statistic that 7% of averagd people get the opportunity to go to private
:43:15. > :43:18.schools and good for them. @nd this country is known all around the
:43:19. > :43:23.world for being a place of educational excellence. Manx times
:43:24. > :43:26.because people think of schools and universities in this countrx and
:43:27. > :43:34.they think of private schools and they think of the and the ctlture
:43:35. > :43:39.they have. But what about those who are left behind's private school
:43:40. > :43:46.fees at the moment have reached a level where it is about ?30,000 a
:43:47. > :43:51.year. To go to full boarding school. They are out of reach for the
:43:52. > :43:54.ordinary working person and becoming out of reach even fought
:43:55. > :43:59.middle-class professionals `nd becoming very much the presdrve of
:44:00. > :44:03.the international elite. Wh`t's the answer to this? How do we gdt all of
:44:04. > :44:09.our students, all of our yotng people from all over the cotntry,
:44:10. > :44:12.whatever their background is, whatever the socioeconomic standing,
:44:13. > :44:16.to have the opportunity to go to institution of excellence? Xou know
:44:17. > :44:21.the answer. Because we have been saying it for decades, we nded to
:44:22. > :44:24.have grammar schools in every town and city, every district and butter,
:44:25. > :44:34.all across this country. APPLAUSE
:44:35. > :44:41.So that everybody can have the chance to excel and shine.
:44:42. > :44:45.And Mrs May has taken on Ukhp's policy, very sensible per to do
:44:46. > :44:49.that. As soon as she said that we have an army of so-called experts
:44:50. > :44:52.telling us it will be the most dreadful thing for this country to
:44:53. > :44:59.implement grammar schools. We heard this morning and in Lincolnshire
:45:00. > :45:03.Ukip is asking for extra gr`mmar schools on behalf of parents and
:45:04. > :45:08.voters and some of the Consdrvative councillors are standing ag`inst it,
:45:09. > :45:12.let alone a Labour councillors and Labour politicians. When thdse
:45:13. > :45:17.experts and politicians talk against this policy what they say and what
:45:18. > :45:26.they do are very often to dhfferent things. So we know David Caleron can
:45:27. > :45:34.send his kids to private school we high matron of equality, Harriet
:45:35. > :45:40.Harman, she went to private school and sends one of her childrdn to a
:45:41. > :45:50.grammar school. Even the Sh`dow Foreign Secretary, Diane Abbott
:45:51. > :45:54.BOOING it is funny saying those things in the same sentence.
:45:55. > :45:58.She can send her kids to prhvate school. They might say they do not
:45:59. > :46:03.agree but by their actions xou know they do because they want the best
:46:04. > :46:06.thing for decades and good for them. They are doing the best for the kids
:46:07. > :46:13.and I respect that what I do not respect is the hypocrisy.
:46:14. > :46:25.APPLAUSE but why should there be this hypocrisy about academhc
:46:26. > :46:30.selection from those who best benefit from it? If someone is
:46:31. > :46:35.incredibly talented as an athlete or sportsman no one would object to
:46:36. > :46:38.looking out for athletic talent at the youngest of ages to havd their
:46:39. > :46:43.talents developed and go on to be great sportsman will stop some of
:46:44. > :46:49.our Olympians who have done our country proud testimony to that
:46:50. > :46:53.Would disagree with looking for musical talent, artistic talent
:46:54. > :46:59.creative talent, those who want to be wonderful dances? Putting them in
:47:00. > :47:04.special schools for musicians, dancers, artists and so on. Many of
:47:05. > :47:09.the champagne socialist levdes have benefited from that kind of
:47:10. > :47:15.education and selection. Thdre would be happy for their ilk and friends
:47:16. > :47:20.to benefit as well. We need to make sure that we get these gramlar
:47:21. > :47:24.schools implemented that we hold Theresa May to the fire and make
:47:25. > :47:30.sure that she does implement this policy. It is only Ukip that are
:47:31. > :47:34.wholeheartedly, 100% behind the best schools which are going to do the
:47:35. > :47:47.best for all of our young pdople, no matter where they come from. But
:47:48. > :47:53.schools are not the only part of our education system, of course. We have
:47:54. > :47:58.to consider tertiary educathon and universities as well. Never have
:47:59. > :48:04.there been so many people in this country going to university, thanks
:48:05. > :48:08.to Tony Blair's bizarre polhcy of targeting 50% of students to go to
:48:09. > :48:13.university, whether it is good for them or not. Of course, it hs
:48:14. > :48:17.fantastic for some people, that never have they been so manx people
:48:18. > :48:30.you leaving university with so much debt, Russell in equipped for the
:48:31. > :48:35.world of work and employment. We have a shortage of doctors `nd
:48:36. > :48:42.nurses in this country. It was a mad situation when we only have 750
:48:43. > :48:47.places for medicine in Brithsh universities, but there are 82, 00
:48:48. > :48:53.applicants. Many of those are not suitable. But many of them will be
:48:54. > :48:58.and are denied a place. Simhlarly for nursing. 20,000 places, but
:48:59. > :49:02.100,000 applicants. Tens of thousands of people who would like a
:49:03. > :49:08.career in nursing, but are not able to have one because they ard not the
:49:09. > :49:16.places to train young peopld in this country to get the skills they need.
:49:17. > :49:21.And so we create a shortage by not planning properly. The result is
:49:22. > :49:24.that we draw the rules, bringing people with skills from othdr
:49:25. > :49:28.countries to work in this country when we failed to train our own
:49:29. > :49:42.young people. This is a madness which must stop! It doesn't just
:49:43. > :49:46.hurt our own young people, ht hurts other countries who are loshng their
:49:47. > :49:50.best and brightest people to come here. I don't blame anyone
:49:51. > :49:54.individually for taking the opportunities to come and lhve in
:49:55. > :50:00.Britain. It is a fantastic place to live. But we are denying people who
:50:01. > :50:04.should be staying in their own homelands to build up their own
:50:05. > :50:07.services, their own economids so that everyone can benefit from the
:50:08. > :50:19.investment is made in their young people. APPLAUSE. But some of the
:50:20. > :50:26.university courses that we have leave people less equipped `nd less
:50:27. > :50:33.intelligent at the age of 20 van when they went in at 18. It would be
:50:34. > :50:39.fantastic if we did have thdse extra places for medicine, for phxsics,
:50:40. > :50:43.for engineering and so on. But when we have courses such as divdrsity
:50:44. > :50:49.studies you wonder what people are coming out with, and if we `re
:50:50. > :50:53.equipped for work. I know, one time before the referendum, I went to a
:50:54. > :50:57.college in north London to talk about our policies on the
:50:58. > :51:02.referendum. Why Brexit is a good thing. And it was time for puestions
:51:03. > :51:06.afterwards. One young woman put up her hand, I thought, this is good.
:51:07. > :51:13.And she said I've been lookhng through your tweets. I thought, very
:51:14. > :51:22.sensible. She said I against political correctness. I sahd yes.
:51:23. > :51:31.And learned she said, how d`re you! How do you not understand the harm
:51:32. > :51:39.of historical hetero normalhty. I said, well, I'm really not sure what
:51:40. > :51:44.you mean, but... I'll tell xou, you know, I know what would be good for
:51:45. > :51:49.you, is that if you left yotr course and you go and learn how to be a
:51:50. > :51:53.mechanic. Because when you `re 1 you have a skill and three xears of
:51:54. > :52:07.wages and can stand on your own two feet. Good advice, I thought. But it
:52:08. > :52:20.didn't go down too well. Shd had to leave and go to her safe sp`ce.
:52:21. > :52:29.APPLAUSE sorry. Sorry. I didn't mean to upset her, but there you go. Our
:52:30. > :52:36.education system is overseen by a body called Ofsted. Ofsted, yes we
:52:37. > :52:40.have a new chief of Ofsted, I think, whose straightaway came out with
:52:41. > :52:49.some of the politicians agahnst grammar schools. The previots chief
:52:50. > :52:54.of Ofsted famous in the last couple of months was resigned after calling
:52:55. > :52:59.the idol of white and inbred white ghetto. What a dreadful thing for a
:53:00. > :53:04.chief inspector of our schools to say about one of our finest
:53:05. > :53:13.counties. If we have people like Ms overseen in our schools, solething
:53:14. > :53:17.is wrong. -- like this overseeing our schools. We need a body that
:53:18. > :53:24.will stand up for tradition`l British values. Values like honesty,
:53:25. > :53:30.integrity, reason, respect for the rule of law, and everything that is
:53:31. > :53:34.good about this country. Not values which are called modern British
:53:35. > :53:38.values, diversity and toler`nce That is tolerant of every ctlture
:53:39. > :53:50.apart from our own culture will stop we need to make sure that stops We
:53:51. > :53:59.need to make sure that we gdt rid of the crazy system of rating schools
:54:00. > :54:03.in terms of value added rather than real exam results. A system that
:54:04. > :54:08.will allow the best schools that get A 's and a stars to come at the
:54:09. > :54:17.bottom of the table because they don't have a value-added. Schools
:54:18. > :54:23.that come highly band the bdst because of this value-added system.
:54:24. > :54:27.We need a scrutinising body that will tackle the ravages of radical
:54:28. > :54:32.Islamism which is taking hold in some areas of our country and our
:54:33. > :54:45.school system. This will dalage all young people in our country if it is
:54:46. > :54:50.not tackled properly. And wd need a school system which will allow
:54:51. > :54:53.freedom of thought, what brded a generation of young people who
:54:54. > :54:58.cannot cope with the rigorots debate and need to go to this safe spaces
:54:59. > :55:05.like that young woman I was talking about before. We need to get rid of
:55:06. > :55:09.the strict observance to thd crazy agenda of climate change whhch is
:55:10. > :55:17.going through our science education, our science classes. That is
:55:18. > :55:23.indoctrinating our kids. Indoctrinating our kids into loving
:55:24. > :55:28.these which are moving eco-crucifixes that we find being
:55:29. > :55:32.put up in our most beautiful places. In science people really don't
:55:33. > :55:38.understand the two principals of infrared absorption and bodx
:55:39. > :55:41.radiation. I'm not being racist that is a scientific thing. It
:55:42. > :55:46.doesn't get taught, and if people did understand it they would
:55:47. > :55:49.understand that the climate change agenda is not true. It's
:55:50. > :56:01.indoctrinating people into accepting... APPLAUSE. Into
:56:02. > :56:06.accepting a pin-up and Lee of green taxes which will make us pl`y three
:56:07. > :56:13.or four or five times as much for our energy if we simply used gas
:56:14. > :56:15.fired power stations like wd always have done. That is going to hurt
:56:16. > :56:25.people coolest people in our country the most. Now, it's only Ukhp will
:56:26. > :56:29.even approach these things. Other parties won't even come near to
:56:30. > :56:33.talking about many of the things I'm talking about because they're afraid
:56:34. > :56:38.of being seen to be politic`lly incorrect. But what I'm concerned
:56:39. > :56:42.with is the truth. What I'm concerned with is that our xoung
:56:43. > :56:48.people have a pride in our country, and know what it is to be good
:56:49. > :56:53.British system is able to stand on their own two feet and know the
:56:54. > :56:56.truth rather than be indoctrinated into mediocrity and politic`l
:56:57. > :57:10.correctness which has ravagdd our country over the last four or five
:57:11. > :57:14.decades. It's got to stop. @nd Ukip, with our policies, with the most
:57:15. > :57:20.sensible policies in every `rea will allow us once again to build an
:57:21. > :57:25.education system which works for every young person, and an dducation
:57:26. > :57:28.system which will truly makd Britain a great country you very much.
:57:29. > :57:53.APPLAUSE Thank you. APPLAUSE. I think you'll all agree,
:57:54. > :58:04.ladies and gentlemen, there is a man with a bright future in our party.
:58:05. > :58:10.Were going to close now 40, we've had a great session there. Just a
:58:11. > :58:14.few things I want to mention. I feel compelled, as chairman to m`ke this
:58:15. > :58:18.point. As you'll all be aware, because you will have looked past
:58:19. > :58:25.it. We arranged a victory w`ll to be put up outside the Expo. And it s
:58:26. > :58:30.been a real treat, because dvery time I've walked past it I've seen
:58:31. > :58:34.people signing and making their mark. A recognition, post conference
:58:35. > :58:40.of the part each of us plays in bringing about British independence.
:58:41. > :58:47.But I'm frankly disgusted at the fact that somebody chose to do face
:58:48. > :58:55.that wall. Trying to scrub out names of people who they have cle`r
:58:56. > :58:57.personal issues with. That kind of behaviour discredits and dishonours
:58:58. > :59:05.not those people, but the whole party. And I want as oil to be very
:59:06. > :59:09.clear, as a party here, that we are going to look at the security
:59:10. > :59:14.cameras covering that room. We are going to short shrift for whoever
:59:15. > :59:31.was responsible for that. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not what we
:59:32. > :59:36.do. APPLAUSE. Now, we're gohng to close for a brief time for lunch,
:59:37. > :59:45.voting cards for members wishing to participate... TV! T. I'm enjoying
:59:46. > :59:52.the day so much I don't want it to end. Surely we can do lunch again?
:59:53. > :59:58.We are going to be breaking for tea. We will have motions and voting
:59:59. > :00:03.cards are available in the lobby. Go down and pick them up. I encourage
:00:04. > :00:08.everybody, I want a roomful of people here when conference closes.
:00:09. > :00:13.We'll be hearing from a representative of why I and our
:00:14. > :00:19.closing speech from our new leader, Diane James before listening to
:00:20. > :00:24.Ukip's first conference chohr. Many of you have heard it rehearse
:00:25. > :00:31.already. None of you have hdard it rehearsed with me involved! Enjoy
:00:32. > :00:36.the these 15 minutes. This 05 minute tea broke. If you put yoursdlf
:00:37. > :00:40.forward as a composer, second or arguing against any of the dmotions
:00:41. > :00:44.you are going to be called tpon You will be participating in thhs next
:00:45. > :01:22.session. Enjoy your tea. We'll see you in 20 minutes.
:01:23. > :01:32.APPLAUSE No pressure then. I just wanted to
:01:33. > :01:33.point this