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The Press Secretary von Furzey Vice President Trump
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The Press Secretary of the Office of the Constitution The Press Secretary of the Constitution
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The Press Secretary of the Constitution Madame President, Ladies and Gentlemen
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The motion before us tonight is not actually about Reform UK
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and Nigel Farage It is actually about Britain and it is about what the political class in this country
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lined up before us over here have done to this country over the last 30 years.
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Time and time again we are told and we've heard it tonight
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that Reform UK is not possibly fit to govern because we don't have the experience,
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we're not competent, we're rabble-rousers and pirates and swashbuckling drinkers, all of that is true.
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But we we are not a serious political party.
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That is what we have heard so far this evening.
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But if all of those things are needed to govern this country effectively, then what on earth has been happening for the last 30 years?
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Just look at the people who are in front of me tonight.
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The Lib Dems, led by Ed Davey, a man that projects apparent seriousness.
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The SNP that wants independence so that it can shackle Scotland to the European Union,
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which is not a democratic organisation.
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The Greens, the Greens who talk about people being divisive,
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who have just mainstreamed in this country a virulent anti-Semitism
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and an Islamism and a misogyny that would treat women and girls in this country like second-class citizens.
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And the Tories, and the Tories, the traditional custodians of this country,
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who were so committed to this country
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that under Boris Johnson they even removed the requirement for companies
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in this country to advertise jobs in Britain before advertising them overseas.
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They are not conservatives, they are globalists and there is a difference between those two things.
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Many of the people who talk about experience and competence went to the best universities in the world like this one.
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Seven of the last ten prime ministers that we had in this country studied at Oxford.
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Many of them probably sat in this room.
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But all of them have presided over a political consensus that has given us zero economic growth,
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declining productivity, ensuring youth unemployment which everyone in this room will soon encounter.
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Collapsing public services.
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Not enough prisons.
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Two-tier policing.
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Broken borders.
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If I make an argument and then someone says, oh, here's a critique there, and I say, oh, your argument is rubbish as well, does that mean that my argument has suddenly given you to make this?
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Let me come to your point.
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Broken borders.
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Broken borders.
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The highest industrial electricity prices in the Western world.
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The highest tax burden in this country in peacetime, the mainstreaming of anti-white racism,
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sectarianism, the grooming gangs, which were left unchecked in this country for 50 years.
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Their legacy is reflected in collapsing public confidence and trust in politics.
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They have weakened our democracy.
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Did you not allege that family voting and election forms happened at the Gorton and Denton by election?
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It was then not proved by the election.
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That is factually incorrect.
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An independent report by democracy volunteers on the night of the election, supported by the Electoral Commission,
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found that in 68% of all polling stations in Gorton and Denton, there was illegal family voting.
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And I would point, sir, to the fact that Greater Manchester Police have just arrested activists in Gorton and Denton for electoral fraud.
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There is only one political party in this country that is serious about sectarianism and tackling it, and that is Reform UK.
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If experience is the thing that you're looking for, then I would suggest to you that the experience we have in Westminster is destroying our country.
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I would argue is that Reform UK is the only political party
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that understands the importance of two things that make a political party fit to govern, both of which are currently missing in Westminster.
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The first is national preference,
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the idea going back to ancient Rome that nation states will not survive if they do not prioritise their own law-abiding,
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tax-paying, hard-working citizens.
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Not international organisations, not supranational institutions, institutions, not unelected, unaccountable public bodies,
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lawyers, courts, foreign activists, Davos, the World Economic Forum, their own people.
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We hear tonight a lot about Reform UK being divisive.
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Let me be absolutely clear, there is nothing more divisive than treating your own people like second-class citizens.
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There is nothing more divisive than allowing the industrial scale sexual assault and rape of young women in this country for 30,
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40 years and then turning a blind eye because it's too difficult to consider that issue.
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It's politically unfashionable.
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Isn't it strange when you attack other political parties, which are membership organisations which we can all influence.
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And yet the reality is reform is the only one
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which is not a normal political party it's a private company controlled by Nigel Farage.
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This firstly has absolutely nothing to do with what I've just said.
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We have more than 200,000 grassroots members who will be meeting at our conference in September
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and I look forward to the SNP conference in the autumn,
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but I'm sure they'll have lots of questions about the lack of democracy within the SNP and the embezzlement of party funds.
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But let me move on.
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What is divisive in this country is not Reform UK.
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What is divisive is what we saw on the streets of Belfast.
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What is divisive is the treatment of Henry Novak.
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What is divisive is the mainstreaming of anti-white racism in our schools, our universities and our police force.
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And what is divisive is waking up week after week,
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day after day, reading stories about how our own people are being treated like second-class citizens.
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Reform UK is a symptom of the fact that the British people have had enough of being treated like second-class citizens.
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We have a serious policy programme.
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We will end all non-essential migration.
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We will end low-wage, low-skill migration that has been shown by the Office for Budget Responsibility to be a net fiscal cost.
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We will leave the European Convention on Human Rights so we can control our laws and our borders.
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We will end welfare benefits for people who are not British.
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We will end social housing subsidies for people who are not British.
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How is it right in this country that we have 1.3 million families on the social housing register,
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3,300 military veterans waiting for our house
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and the First Lady of Sierra Leone who lives in a
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presidential mansion in Freetown is renting out a council flat in Southwark.
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How is it right that these governments allowed senior lieutenants in Hamas to have council flats in our country?
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It is an absolute disgrace.
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The President of the House of Representatives The President of the House of Representatives That is,
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I'm afraid that's incorrect.
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We have a principle, read the Reform Party manifesto.
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We have a principle of national preference in housing, sir, which means if you're from this country, if you contribute to this country,
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if your ancestors built this country, you will be prioritised.
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You laugh while mainstreaming Islamist sectarianism in this country.
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You laugh while mainstreaming people who hate our country.
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You laugh while allowing misogyny and terrorist sympathisers in our country.
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It is an absolute disgrace.
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We will prioritise British people in the housing market.
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And we hear much about the family of Henry Novak.
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We hear much about what they asked for.
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We've heard nothing about what the family of Rhiannon White has asked for.
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Siobhan White, who was asked to meet with the Prime Minister, has asked to meet with Kemi Badenoch.
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What does Siobhan White want after her daughter was stabbed in the head 19 times by an illegal migrant from Sudan?
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What has Siobhan asked for?
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An end to broken borders.
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She's asked for control at the borders.
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She's asked for British people, British women, British girls to be protected.
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I have not heard a single politician in Westminster mention Rhiannon White.
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I've not heard them mention Thomas Roberts, Wayne Broadhurst, Terence Carney, Lucy Lowe, Victoria Ogoglia, Charlene Downs.
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I could go on and on and on because if you are part of the hard-working,
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law-abiding British majority, you simply are not treated with the same degree of respect and decency as other people.
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It's a very sweet question.
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This has come up with a hurry, Mr. Dane.
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It's our people, British people, all of these examples.
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Can you just define what you mean by that?
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UK nationals.
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UK nationals.
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Somebody like Rhiannon White who was murdered by an illegal migrant from Sudan who should not have been in this country.
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Somebody like the man we saw lying on the street in Belfast who has had life-changing injuries
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because of an illegal migrant from Sudan.
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Reform UK's policy on indefinite leave to remain is clear.
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We will abolish indefinite leave to remain.
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We will allow people to come to Britain, but they must speak our English language to a high standard.
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They must make a strong economic contribution to this country.
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They must have a clean criminal record.
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These are the foundations of a functioning nation-state.
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And I would say to you if you're on the left of politics, if you do not have those things,
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how on earth do you expect people to support the welfare state over the longer term?
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Nobody in this country will support the welfare state.
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Nobody in this country will support the social contract if their money,
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their tax paying money is going to people who they do not know and who are destroying their country.
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What we need in Britain is a new consensus.
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Reform UK is the only party that actually has the courage to stand up
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and point out the glaring failures in the existing system.
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So I would urge you, respecting the time in the debate, to support the motion.
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Reform UK is fit to govern because if we don't govern then goodness knows where Britain will end up.
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Thank you very much.
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