Nigel Farage meets with Staffordshire County Council

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Nigel Farage meets with Staffordshire County Council.

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00:00Hello there, how are you from the Edgman?

00:09Morning all.

00:10This is Nigel Farage.

00:15Well, so, you are the first council that I've come to visit.

00:25And I've got to tell you, after personally a very, very long journey in politics, I've

00:31been out campaigning and fighting elections and leading political parties for 30 years,

00:37this is quite a moment.

00:38Because in the past, I've been involved in campaigns that have changed national opinion,

00:43that have forced a referendum, that have done many, many things.

00:46But now we're actually here in Staffordshire and elsewhere in administration.

00:50So it's a really, really big, big moment.

00:54And I hope you're all still enjoying it.

00:58But there is a burden of responsibility on your shoulders, as you well know.

01:03And there are huge problems.

01:07We know there are huge problems.

01:09One or two problems that appear quite intractable.

01:12Social care, etc.

01:13We all know that and we understand that.

01:15It's not easy for anybody.

01:16Plus, you've got the devolution situation.

01:19Well, I have to tell you, nobody has convinced me that breaking the identity of counties into

01:25a series of pretty anonymous, as it seems to me, you know, new unitaries is the right

01:31way forward.

01:32So you've got big challenges on your shoulders.

01:34But I will say this.

01:36How you do, in terms of keeping the promises that we made, when we stood in the election,

01:41which, if you think about it, is the single most important thing.

01:45Because kind of, why is reform doing so well?

01:47Well, it's actually for cars.

01:48We don't trust Labour or Conservative nationally to keep any of their promises.

01:54So keeping our promises, keeping our priorities, very important.

01:58I'm going to say this to you, without putting too much responsibility on your shoulders, that

02:02how we do will materially affect what happens in the next general election.

02:08We have now been given the opportunity here and elsewhere around the country to prove that

02:14we can be good, honest, true to ourselves, act in a way that is mature and responsible.

02:21And I no doubt you will.

02:22And funny, isn't it?

02:23It was the eve of pole that I came to Savasher, wasn't it?

02:25The jungle drunk was telling me that things were going quite well in this county.

02:33So, I mean, it's actually, was it 59, anyone?

02:3749.

02:3849.

02:38Sorry, I'm thinking Ken, 49.

02:40I mean, just the most extraordinary results.

02:42And I'm not even sure that the established other parties have quite yet woken up to the sheer

02:50magnitude of what happened on May the 1st.

02:55So it's an absolute pleasure to be here.

02:57Ian, introduce me around.

02:57Wonderful.

02:58We have Jenny Higgins, Education Ascent.

03:01You're the one that's not got on a holiday to be here.

03:03I should have gone next to that, but I wanted to see you in here.

03:11Well, thank you so much.

03:13You're very welcome.

03:14Thank you so much.

03:14No, thank you for coming to see us.

03:15No, not at all.

03:16Not at all.

03:17We have Hayley Coulson for just doing this in the courts.

03:20Yes, hello.

03:21How are you?

03:21All right?

03:22Good.

03:23Excited by it all?

03:24Oh, good, man.

03:25Good.

03:25How are you?

03:26Good.

03:27Pete Mason, who's at Highways?

03:29Yes, hello.

03:30That's a joke.

03:32I want some jokes.

03:33It was a challenge.

03:35Although, of course, you know,

03:37I think it's happening.

03:38You've got a certain engineering company

03:41within the area, which is,

03:45because they put a lot of research and the foreword.

03:49Absolutely.

03:49We're going to expect that we'll be in the second one shortly.

03:52Good.

03:53I'll throw.

03:54We'll be working with them to see what happens.

03:56Yeah.

03:57We'll push that forward.

03:58Yeah.

03:59I mean, funny, isn't it?

04:00You think about how national politics...

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