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.
03:56Yeah.
03:57We'll push that forward.
03:58Yeah.
03:59I mean, funny, isn't it?
04:00You think about how national politics...