Transcript of Ben Habib’s Reform UK Conference Speech

Transcript of Ben Habib’s Reform UK Conference Speech ( First few minutes)

“Thank you very much for that incredible welcome. There is at least one advantage in being the last speaker, and that is, I know that you're here to listen to me!

So, when Richard said to me, "Ben, will you be our Brexit spokesman?" I thought, aren't people sick of Brexit? And Richard said, "No, the arguments need to be made”. People may have been exhausted by Brexit in the 2019 general election, but we paid a price for that exhaustion because we gave an 80-seat majority to someone who promised to deliver Brexit and didn’t

At its heart, what is Brexit? Brexit is the United Kingdom taking its rightful place among 168 other countries in the world that are not members of the EU.

It is not a remarkable situation; it is the default situation for a country NOT to be a member of the EU."

“But we are constantly told, and it seems our political class has bought this and perpetuated the myth, that the United Kingdom cannot survive outside the European Union: That the other 168 countries that we have now joined must be in a dire state not being members of the EU.

And we, as Brexiteers, have made one classic mistake. The mistake is this: We have allowed Remainers and Rejoiners to force us to justify Brexit.

We don't have to justify Brexit. Brexit is what it means to be the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. What Remainers and Rejoiners have to prove is that we should go back into the European Union. But they make no case for the EU; they just threaten and insult us, telling us that we are stupid for voting for an independent country.

I will agree with one thing that they say, and that is that the country has been badly managed. But that's got absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. What that has got to do with is a parliamentary party, the Conservative Parliamentary Party, which has an 80-seat majority. And instead of jettisoning the socialist entity that is the European Union, it's cozied up to it. It didn't ditch the Social Chapter of the EU; it didn't inculcate aspiration. It hasinculcated dependency. It didn't deregulate and cut taxes for growth; it just perpetuated wealth distribution. It even gave up part of the country, which is perhaps the biggest act of constitutional self-harm any of us have ever witnessed in our lifetime."

But Brexit is blameless. Brexit cannot fail because Brexit is us governing ourselves.

Sure, the Tory Party can fail, but you know what I want to do something to the Tory Party, and we ARE going to do it.

We're going to take back control. How is it that we somehow accept the settled argument that French boats can come into our waters, take whatever fish they want, completely un policed, and dredge up the seabed, destroying the wildlife and eco-environment — perhaps the most sustainable resources this country has — and we just sit back and do nothing?

Yet when it comes to illegal migrants that they bring to us, we're not allowed to send them back to the French shores.

They can send their boats in, take our fish, but we cannot send back the illegal migrants?

The politicians have given up on this country, and Labour is just as bad as the Conservatives.

If you want change, ladies and gentlemen, you don't argue against Brexit. Brexit has enabled us to effect change, and that change has to come by evicting the Tories and Labour from the House of Commons."

"I do like Zoella Braveman. I think she speaks with a tremendous amount of sense. She made an incredibly brave speech as a member of the cabinet, but she stops short of taking action.

She has diagnosed the problem, and that in itself is a good start, but we now need a solution. What is the solution to border control? What do we have to do to control our borders? What we don't do is wait for them to come here, so we have all the legal difficulties of deporting them.

Border control is a physical process!

Do you Remember when we used to have a navy which would protect the United Kingdom? This is, as Zoella Braveman said, an assault on our nation. But we haven't deployed the navy. The Border Force is a glorified taxi service. They should all be sacked.

The Lifeboat service, the RNLI, is going into French waters, picking up people who are perfectly safe, putting people on their boats — thus affording them instant protection under our law — and then bringing them back to our shores where they are promptly paid 50,000 pounds a year per head.

That equates to the 40 million pounds we paid last year on housing and caring for migrants, for the 100,000 illegal migrants who came to the UK.

And the problem is only going to get worse. So until Zoella understands what needs to be done, this is going to go on.

We need border control, not deportation!…

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