UK POOL
Westminster, London - 22 November 2019
1. Pan from media to UK Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"This is not a manifesto. Because a word association test with manifesto gave us the word, lie. And is that any surprise given just how many broken promises we've seen in British politics in the last few general elections. No, manifestos are a means of telling people what they want to hear, without ever having the genuine desire to implement them. So it (Brexit Party document) is a contract with the people."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"Be in no doubt, we want a clean break from the political institutions of the EU, and you can get that with a Canada-style trade deal, just as you can get it leaving on WTO terms. I have to say that we will be looking at the Conservative manifesto when it's launched on Sunday and reading the words in it very carefully indeed."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"And for us its perfectly clear, that there are five million Labour Leave voters who have been absolutely betrayed by the Labour Party. After three-and-a-half years of failure from a Conservative government, I have to say that when I saw (UK Prime Minister) Boris Johnson's so-called deal I was less than impressed, it simply was not Brexit."
7. Media
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"We need the Brexit Party to hold Boris Johnson to his word. We need the Brexit Party voice there in the House of Commons or we're not going to get anything like what we voted for three-and-a-half years ago."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"We have a population crisis. Directly as a result of policies since the late 1990s."
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"We would very much want to get immigration numbers down to what for 60 years were very acceptable and very workable post-war levels."
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"On illegal immigration, I think we probably need to do something to stop the human tragedy we saw in the back of that lorry the other week with 39 dead people, but even today there are boats coming across the English Channel and we all know that the Border Force bring them in to Dover, they're kept with the police for 24 hours and then virtually everybody disappears."
15. Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe in audience
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Brexit Party leader:
"We think a strong message that says if you come here illegally across the Channel or in the back of a container that you wouldn't be allowed to stay will prevent further human tragedy, and it's the right thing to do."
17. Pan from media to Farage
UK Brexit Party leader launched its policy pledges on Friday, which it called a "contract with the people" as it attempted to woo voters with its domestic policies.
The party, which wants Britain to make a sharp break with the European Union, says it also is calling for a political revolution in the UK.
Its policies include a written constitution, abolition of Parliament’s unelected House of Lords, more public referendums and a cut in immigration to below 50,000 people a year, less than a quarter the current rate.
The party, founded earlier this year, currently has no seats in Parliament.
It is running in almost 300 seats, but it has withdrawn from 317 Conservative-dominated constituencies to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.
Farage urged voters to give his party lawmakers in Parliament so they could pressure the government for a hard Brexit, in which Britain wouldn’t remain aligned to EU rules and standards.
"We need the Brexit Party voice there in the House of Commons or we're not going to get anything like what we voted for three-and-a-half years ago,” he said.
Farage told the crowd that Labour had "absolutely betrayed" its Leave-backing supporters.
"For us, it's perfectly clear there are five million Labour Leave voters who have been absolutely betrayed by the Labour Party," he said.
On immigration, he said the UK was facing a "population crisis."
"We think a strong message that says if you come here illegally across the Channel or in the back of a container that you wouldn't be allowed to stay will prevent further human tragedy, and it's the right thing to do."
