00:00Richard Tice, MP for Boston and Skagness, how does that sound to you?
00:05Extraordinary, a great honour actually. I'm thrilled to have been elected and
00:10it's also a great responsibility. I'm going to get stuck in immediately to
00:16some of the big issues that I think people have voted for me, whether
00:20it's at the national level on immigration, campaigns to stop illegal
00:24immigration, dramatically we've got to freeze lawful immigration so we'll be
00:29taking on the Labour government on these issues and then on local issues
00:35whether it's the pylons that are planned to blight the countryside appallingly
00:41because of the madness of net zero, whether it's taking on the Environment
00:45Agency, they've got, bear so much responsibility for not dealing with
00:49flooding issues, whether it's Wayne Fleet, whether it's also, still haven't
00:53finished the protection, flood protection at the ports of Boston for
00:59example, despite many people thinking it has, sea level defences, Boston
01:04Distributor Road, all these issues, there's the state of Boston, town centre,
01:08the marketplace, security, policing, healthcare, there's a lot to do.
01:14Now the outgoing MP he did say that his party lost on failed promises, do you
01:20think you'll be able to keep yours? Well I'm certainly going to try and it went
01:24me through lack of hard work and it's right to be ambitious, it's right to set
01:28challenging targets but then be honest where if for whatever reason if you're
01:33not meeting it, be honest about that so yeah I'm going to give it a go and I
01:37think that's actually what constituents want. How committed are you to the
01:42constituency, are you planning to buy a house here? I will definitely get a
01:46property here and I'm fully committed and the testament of that, the proof
01:50of that is that I've already knocked on thousands of doors, people have been so
01:54thrilled and surprised to see actually someone knocking on the doors, they haven't had it
01:58for decades and decades so in a sense the proof's in the pudding and I've
02:01already made a great start. What would you say the most memorable part of your
02:06campaign has been? Being elected to be honest but actually there have been lots of
02:13memorable parts, another one actually was the Bowling Greens that have been there
02:18for a hundred years that East Lindsay District Council wants to remove the
02:22funding on, I attended a meeting for a couple of hundred people, not difficult
02:25to sort that out, put forward some suggestions and I want to make sure that
02:29those are progressed to preserve and improve those. Now you're probably going
02:33going home to get some sleep but what is top of your agenda for when you start as
02:39our MP? All of those issues that I've just been talking about and they affect
02:44different people in different ways, they're all important issues and I've just got to do the best I can and to be a critical friend to the other agencies, whether it's
02:53health care, whether it's policing, whether it's infrastructure, transport,
02:57there's a, Lincolnshire as a whole has been let down I believe by Conservative
03:02MPs who've been complacent and and now there's a big shift. Competition is a good
03:07thing. Thank you Mr. Tice.
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