Nigel Farage has said the government’s plans to deal with illegal migration won’t work whilst the UK is still a member of the ECHR.
The MP for Clacton also said the new house building targets from central government will have a big impact on his constituency.
Speaking on GB News Nigel Farage said: “They're just negligible declines from all time record numbers. One of the biggest things is house building. Everywhere you go within this constituency, there's 50 new houses here, 100 new houses there.
“We're told from the Labour government, those targets from Central Government will double. So the impact on an area like this, of just the new houses with, by the way, no more GP surgeries, no new roads, is really, really big.
“So people are unhappy, and they feel that in the Brexit referendum, and in voting for Boris, they voted for all of this to be put under control, and they've, frankly, been ignored.
“That's what they voted for me here, that's what they voted for Reform.
“It's a sense of unfairness. It's a sense of injustice. And if Yvette Cooper and Sir Keir Starmer think they can brush this issue under the carpet, they're wrong.
“The point about health and social care is we cap the number of people going to medical school. They aren't trading enough doctors, so we rely on imported doctors. What kind of madness is that?
“And the same for nursing, we've made nursing an unfashionable profession. We've not encouraged people. We've made them go to university to get degrees before becoming nurses, god knows why.
“And so we take nurses from Africa and places where they probably need it even more. So, I think what these figures tell you through all the different sectors, whether it's skills with engineering, whether it's medical professional or care, is we need to be training our own people to do these jobs.
“And I say that with 9.4 million people of working age in Britain simply not working.
“I have heard it all before. Priti Patel said all the same things: If you employ illegal migrant workers, we will fine you, you may go to prison. Massive penalties for smugglers, life imprisonment.
“And you can put a thousand new enforcement officers in place, but if the European Court of Human Rights stops you deporting people, what difference does it make?
“We are very clear that a country is not a country without controlling its borders, and you'll never do that with the activist foreign court in Strasbourg, which remember, stopped that plane taking off to Rwanda back in 2022.”
Responding to plans to relax freedom of movement rules with the EU, Mr Farage said: “Some of our young people will go to live and work in Europe, but many, many more from Europe will come and live and work and settle full time here.
“Many of them may be lovely people, but our population explosion is the biggest social problem we face in Britain. Whether it's housing here in Clacton, whether it's access to GPS or dentists here or anywhere else, a 10 million increase in the population since Blair came to power has devalued the quality of life of everybody. It can't go on.”
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