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"Mr President, our referendum on 23 June was a very British revolution. As I was watching the results come in, it was the working class areas, it was the traditional Labour areas that were coming in with massive votes to leave the European Union, and it was obvious why. It was obvious before the referendum was even called.
You talk about employment policies, well let us look at the biggest issue that has faced the United Kingdom for several years now: that of uncontrolled, unfettered, mass immigration. Now I do not blame people wanting to get a better life for themselves and their family. If your minimum wage is GBP 1 an hour, and you have the ability to go to a country where the minimum wage is GBP 8 or 9 an hour, you would do that, and I do not blame people for doing that.
The people I do blame are the politicians who forgot that they were public servants. They forgot that they had a responsibility to their constituents, who are their employers. As public servants they have to make sure that they do everything within their power to improve the lot of their employers, and they have not.
It was the Governor of the Bank of England who sealed the deal for the referendum when he said that mass immigration had led to incredible wage compression. Wages had fallen, jobs had stagnated, and why? Because people were coming in, taking a minimum wage that was much above their own wage, but big business cottoned on to this. The government in allowing for in-work benefits meant that big employers did not have to increase wages because the taxpayer will top up the bill.
Fortunately, with our Brexit, we have made sure that we can fix this problem and there is not a day that goes by when I do not thank the British people for giving us our freedom. But I also worry day after day, because those of you here who cling to the euro, who cling to free movement and the unreasonable policies of this Union, you are condemning your futures, your youth, to misery and unemployment. And when you get your referendums, which the people will actually force upon you, you will have to change, or your constituents will change you."@en1
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