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"Mr President, for the first time in my life I must congratulate the rapporteur. I know that this seems surreal coming from a member of UKIP, but I really do think that my British colleague is on to something here. Work permits, rights of residence: seems perfectly good stuff to me. In fact it sounds like the UKIP manifesto. However, where the report falls down is that these sensible proposals only apply to third-country nationals who want to come to the EU for seasonal work.
My proposal is that it should apply to all citizens within the EU but, sadly, EU freedom of movement, which is supported by all the British political parties except my own, prevents this from happening. At the moment in the UK we have 2.4 million people unemployed. That is less than some of the other countries within the EU, but it is still an appalling statistic. Indeed, worryingly, we have 20% youth unemployment and in some parts of my constituency, such as Salford, it is running at up to 40%. Many of these young people cannot find jobs because the employment market has been saturated by a huge influx of Eastern European workers who are prepared to work for less money.
The way to solve this problem is by applying Mr Moraes’ report to the whole of the EU, and then we can get back to controlling our own borders. But of course his own party, the Labour Party, would never support this. The European elections which are coming later this year are going to be dominated by the issue of immigration, and I am happy to say that my party, UKIP, is the only political party in Britain which has a firm, but fair, sensible policy in this area."@en1
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