General Election Debates

[Classic Conservative]

NUTTALL ANSWERS THE PEOPLE

Opening Statement
Good Evening to our moderators for this evening, my fellow candidates and I wish a very good evening to the British public. My name is Paul Nuttall, I'm the son of a nurse and a factory worker who worked hard and became a teacher. In 2002, I saw that my country, my community and my world was falling apart due to those men and women in Westminster who come and preach to us about, us giving them our votes and then they will help us. I saw that those promises made by John McDonnell's Labour and Theresa May's Conservatives were just lies. For decades they have promised to fix our NHS, to clamp down on the immigration crisis, to solve our high unemployment and put the British people first in Brussels. In reality though, they have broken every one of those promises and made it worse. Instead of fixing our NHS, wait times are up and we have a massive shortage of good physicians and surgeons. Instead of clamping down on uncontrolled immigration, we will let 176,000 low skilled people come in our country and take jobs that could be used by our youth which is has a twenty-five percent unemployment rate. Instead of putting us first in Brussels they have put Poland, Germany, France and Sweden first and we have lost our sovereignty, our jobs and our way of life. For the past century, we the British people, have elected the same bureaucrats, the same politicans and the same parties that have caused this great national dilemma. My party, UKIP, however wants to put an end to this madness that has ravaged us for far too long. And I look forward to laying out our optimistic British agenda to Her majesty's people.

Our Economy
When our nation, entered the original Europe in 1973, our nation had a thriving economy. We had booming industrial and fishing industries and our cities were developing into ports of our global community. We controlled 70% of Europe's fishing industry and we had over seven million good paying factory jobs in our nation. Compare to today since our entrance into Europe. We only control 10% of the fishing industry and we only have two and a half million manufacturing jobs today. This is a result of the austerity politics of the Tories, the raising of taxes on all peoples by Labour and our entrance into the European Union. We don't put our economic policy into whether it supports austerity or taxing the living daylights out of people. We call our policy, Britain First. Our manufacturing industry has barely recovered in recent years thanks to low-skilled jobs on assembly row but in reality those jobs haven't benefited Leah for Cardiff they've benefitted Dorota from Białystok. Our policy will put the British people first in many ways. We call for a Buy British and Hire British policy. For too long our buisness tycoons have gotten away with cheap labor from Bucharest and Warsaw under our policy one must be a legal resident of our nation to get any job in this nation. This will help our unemployment crisis by making sure our people get put first. We also call for major tax reform which will cut taxes for small companies and cut taxes for those in the middle and working class as well as those in poverty. We will also call for a ten percent, one time repatriation tax to bring British capital back from Zurich and into to Birmingham. We will also withdraw from the disastrous Common Fisheries Policy, which limits the ability to catch fish which has stifled our fishing communities. These policies in Europe that Labour and the Tories have implemented show that what they say about the working class isn't true, they're really out to screw you over every five years. In reality they just want to help each other in Westminster while they leave us to fight for the scraps.

The European Union
The European Union has failed Britain. It has failed our people, our economy and it has taken away who we are as a nation. It has taken away our democracy, our rule of law, our ability to make our own trade deals and instead it has given those powers to a bunch of fat cats in Brussels who nobody can name nor have we even heard of them. UKIP in our manifesto is calling for a referendum to leave the European Union. We are the only major party running who is even running on that. The Tories aren't running on that instead they want to help Europe even more. The Liberal Democrats are the biggest lovers of Angela Merkel outside of Germany and Labour has stood on the sidelines and abandoned the working class in favor of sweet deals from Brussels to benefit immigrants in West London. As I stated earlier, since our entrance we have declined by over five million manufacturing jobs, we have lost sixty percent of European fishing, we have lost our right to make our own decisions and laws and we basically are our own Scottish Parliament. In fact the Scottish Parliament probably has more rights than the Parliament. We have seen a plethora of factories leave our nation for Poland and China and what jobs we have been able to keep have gone to the hordes of low skilled immigrant from Eastern Europe. I can distinctly remember our good friends in the, Trio of Doom and Glome, shout about how if we don't enter the Eurozone we will be hurt financially and nobody will love us. It turns out that Trio was wrong then and they will be wrong again when we leave. They keep scaremongering us about why we shouldn't leave while in fact they were the ones who got us into this mess and they won't ever get us out of it.

Our NHS
We have left our healthcare with the same people who have messed up everything else in our country for the past half century. For decade the main parties have claimed that they will help our NHS and revitalize it. In fact it has gotten worse with less doctors and higher wait times. Over 40,000 people this month will not get a referral within 18 weeks. And 13,000 will wait over 26 weeks. 193,000 people wait over a month for a surgery. In such a wealthy nation as ours, this is a shame. I'm sure that our friends in the main parties will say that we are fixing it, in reality they will never fix it. They will make it worse. They have claimed that they will fix it, for the past half century. Our plan is simple, we will start out with a council of world class doctors, nurses, surgeons and normal people from all stages of income and age. This council will be led by the Government and we will ask for suggestions on how to fix our NHS and what we can do to solve our shortage of doctors. We will take those suggestions and once we leave the EU, we will make our own laws again. We will invest in a campaign to get our children of tomorrow to enter the medical profession like our STEM campaign of today. With an expanding population, we need more doctors not fewer to meet our needs.

UKIP
Let me start out with this. UKIP rejects and abhors any and all types of hatred or prejudice because of race, color, religion and creed. For many years, Catholics like my family endured the same prejudice in our nation that Jews, Buddhists and Muslims receive. I say to all UKIP members that believe this to find a home in the National Front not UKIP. There are some fringes in UKIP that are extremely hostile towards certain groups but the vast vast vast majority of UKIP are not like this and we are reaching out to minority communities as well. We visited our Jewish friends in London and Manchester where we confirmed our support for Israel and we will visit other communities as well. UKIP, however supports strict immigration quotas. We don't support this because we want to keep the Muslims out, no we support this because we have our own problems in this nation, we can't take more people in till we solve these problems. We have a twenty-five percent youth unemployment we can't take in 176,000 people every year. These people aren't Albert Einstein, the majority of them are lower skilled workers from a Eastern Europe and North Africa. When we solve our own problems at home we will gladly take in many more people but right now we have our own problems and in our manifesto, We Put Britian and Her People First.