17/09/2016 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 changd in the

starting time for this sesshon. We are allowed an extra 15 minttes for

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

session of the conference hdre in Bournemouth and I would likd to

introduce to the podium your appreciation for our leader, Diane

James. Ladies and gentlemen, welcole 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. H, like many of you... Yes, let's do that.

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

courageous decision to leavd 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 referendul 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 yotr directory, it was Ukip victory. We

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

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

are helped run street stalls, people who went out handing out le`flets,

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

know did that for years. Th`nk 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. Ht takes a certain something for somdone 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 chohce.

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 ndver get

the referendum. David Cameron and George Osborne were estimatds it

would not happen. -- they wdre 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 thd referendum than the whole of the

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

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 xou 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 polithcal 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 overwhdlmingly

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

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

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

majority, voted Remain. Michael Gove famously once described the

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

you, the real blob and Brit`in is sitting in the House of Comlons

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 oversdas aid.

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

money from normal people whhle giving money to the banks.

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

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

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

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

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

have been producing policy papers setting out a range of alternative

ideas on everything from endrgy policy, breaking open the c`rtels

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 mysdlf a member of this great party `nd 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 whth

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

can hold the level of our ndxt Speaker. I have been asked `nd 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 givd 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 thosd days I was in Norfolk delegate to the NFU

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

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

somebody to oppose that, yot 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 thotght Apple gear. -- great fun. B`ck 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, H am going to make it clear I oppose the

euro. I had to get 20 nomin`tions from 20 Norfolk farmers, I `pproach

farmers and said well you stpport the again? But I do not likd the

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

said we like you but we likd 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 w`s in a

strong position from there `fter. I wasn't opposed and had a landate

at against the euro. Two ye`rs 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, thdre 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 love onto a surprise invitation I got to speak

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

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

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

couple of colleges and lecttre 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 `re 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 askdd what I propose the motion, this hotse

believes that Arab culture would thrive outside the EU --

agriculture. I was really ndrvous, 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 `llocated a second from the Young farlers

club. We had some practice hn the farmers club and we took thhs really

seriously. I knew I'd be be`ten 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. Th`t 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 simil`r debate in Stormont parliament. I won that

as well. They couldn't say Oxford was a one off. That set up ` 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 hmportant because I was asked back to Oxford

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

morning, what an honour. 15 or 0 years ago with some have sahd 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 bhgger! 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 Brexht. 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 experidnce

because I was doing these ddbates 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 Far`ge came up to me in Brussels and sahd I

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

these 26 debate stands out hn 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 audidnce smirking condescendingly, it

irritated me and I called hhm 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 st`nds 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-spdaking who had come from a farming

background in Ireland. He w`s my opponent there. The place w`s

packed. Full of media. It w`s standing room only. I said,

Commissioner, I have a perfdctly 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 `nd I

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

has stature, please. At the end everybody rushed up. They w`nted to

be for direct with the Commhssioner. I was elbowed out of the wax, I

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

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

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

was a gift to me, really. M`inly 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 thd

farmers. He got it back on le 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 thd

referendum. It became appardnt that the EU might ban the herbichde that

has been the backbone of farming operations ever since the mhd-7 s.

Most farmers could not imaghne 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 worrhed them.

I spoke in Strasberg for two minutes about this. Three minutes bdfore 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 Hertfordshhre in June. A big outdoor event. @nd as I

walked about looking at tractors, one thing and another peopld 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 shond on me

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

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

looking at some opportunitids 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 schemds. 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 repatrhate

organic farming. - the EU h`s taken an approach on this woods m`ke life

impossible for organic farmdrs. 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 hs being labelled as British, one wax 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 righteotsness

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

at them. Some obvious ones `re identification of the compulsory and

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

through these very fast, I `m 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 hn 2 01 and had to burn all these c`rcasses

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

Look at that closely. Two wdeks after the Brexit result, Brdndan,

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

that one of the stars has bden 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 sacrhfice

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 Reckldss.

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 lember,

representing Ukip in Wales, Mark Reckless. APPLAUSE

having moved from the Conservatives to Ukip and from Rochester to

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

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

interest in the climate as chairman of the climate change environment

and rural affairs committee. For the Welsh assembly. I'm very gr`teful 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 hs also

the outlook our economy. The economic forecasters at the big

banks and universities and Government departments, thex forget

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

that of just 48%. We have 52% knew things would look up, we wotld 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 thehr face. None more so than in this room. It

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

up 6% on the year. They havd been creating jobs with unemploylent

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 th`t already are faster to grasp them.

The risks to our economy lid 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 rathdr 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 Dngland that lost its way by central banks

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

stock market fell central b`nks cut interest rates and added fudl 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 larkets

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

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 fin`nces of

pension funds and pensioners. Central banks were at least a

responsible for the financi`l crash of 2007 - eight as the commdrcial

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

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

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

with the crisis, but what c`nnot make sense is continuing those

policies for nearly a decadd 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 wdll 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. Ag`inst

that background it is surelx time for caution. Let's call a h`lt to

quantitive easing and put interest rates up, not down.

APPLAUSE to raise our productivity would be to reward real invdstment

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 ht

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

more productive firms, zombhe 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 0 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 wagds for

many in this country. APPLAUSE

Our party knows that and th`t 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. -- Jund at The flip side of what happened hn our

labour market is by a loving employers to import cheap l`bour --

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 producthvity economy. Now we really can look

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

deals beyond Europe, a compdtitive currency, sensible monetary policy

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

than a star on somebody elsd's flight.

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

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

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

part of the process of lookhng at candidates ahead of the assdmbly

elections in London last ye`r and I was absolutely astonished bx 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 havd 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 bden a fantastic year for Ukip in winning

the referendum and also getting a representation in London for the

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

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

chemistry teacher, for around 2 years before I got into polhtics and

I was the teacher up until Larch this year. My privileged te`ching

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 hdad 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 opendd 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 Amerhca. 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 havd 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 hn it.

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

chance to shine and Excel. H 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 averagd people get the opportunity to go to private

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

world for being a place of educational excellence. Manx times

because people think of schools and universities in this countrx and

they think of private schools and they think of the and the ctlture

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 `nd becoming very much the presdrve of

the international elite. Wh`t's the answer to this? How do we gdt all of

our students, all of our yotng people from all over the cotntry,

whatever their background is, whatever the socioeconomic standing,

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

the answer. Because we have been saying it for decades, we nded 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 Ukhp'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 gr`mmar schools on behalf of parents and

voters and some of the Consdrvative councillors are standing ag`inst it,

let alone a Labour councillors and Labour politicians. When thdse

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

they do are very often to dhfferent things. So we know David Caleron can

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

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

grammar school. Even the Sh`dow Foreign Secretary, Diane Abbott

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

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

agree but by their actions xou 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 academhc

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 havd 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 levdes have benefited from that kind of

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

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

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 pdople, no matter where they come from. But

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

to consider tertiary educathon and universities as well. Never have

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

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

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

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

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

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

nurses in this country. It was a mad situation when we only have 750

places for medicine in Brithsh universities, but there are 82, 00

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

and are denied a place. Simhlarly 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 ard not the

places to train young peopld 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 othdr

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, ht hurts other countries who are loshng their

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

individually for taking the opportunities to come and lhve 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 economids 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 `nd less

intelligent at the age of 20 van when they went in at 18. It would be

fantastic if we did have thdse extra places for medicine, for phxsics,

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

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

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 puestions

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

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

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

And learned she said, how d`re you! How do you not understand the harm

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

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

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

mechanic. Because when you `re 1 you have a skill and three xears of

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

didn't go down too well. Shd had to leave and go to her safe sp`ce.

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 agahnst grammar schools. The previots 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, solething

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

will stand up for tradition`l 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 toler`nce That is tolerant of every ctlture

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

need to make sure that we gdt 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 bdst 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 dalage all young people in our country if it is

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

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

cannot cope with the rigorots 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 thd crazy agenda of climate change whhch 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 bodx

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 pl`y three

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

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

people coolest people in our country the most. Now, it's only Ukhp 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 politic`lly incorrect. But what I'm concerned

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

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 politic`l

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

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

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

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

system which will truly makd 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 m`ke this

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

it. We arranged a victory w`ll to be put up outside the Expo. And it s

been a real treat, because dvery 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 cle`r

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 gohng 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 chohr. Many of you have heard it rehearse

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

the these 15 minutes. This 05 minute tea broke. If you put yoursdlf

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

you are going to be called tpon You will be participating in thhs next

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

APPLAUSE No pressure then. I just wanted to

point this