7. 7. UKIP Wales Debate: The European Union

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:54 pm on 22 June 2016.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 5:54, 22 June 2016

Well, that wasn’t really worth waiting for, was it? [Laughter.] I do listen to the people on the doorstep. I have long, painful discussions with people on the doorstep explaining to them that the problems we face—and in constituencies like Llanelli, we face them in spades—of left-behind areas, because of the economic model we have in this country, none of that is going to be helped by pulling out of the EU.

Neil Hamilton has talked about car manufacturing this afternoon. In Llanelli we have a successful car-manufacturing plant, owned by a foreign company. We have a sister plant in another part of the EU. Are we honestly saying that, if we pull out, the medium- and long-term capital investment decisions to be made by the headquarters of that plant are going to favour a plant outside of the trading bloc with tariffs or inside of the trading bloc without tariffs? People don’t buy that. It’s dishonest politics that you’re sending. So, let’s be clear that the—