Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:24 pm on 21 June 2017.
And what I don’t understand is why the parties who take a different view from us on immigration—those who are going to oppose this motion today—want to discriminate against the rest of the world, because that’s what our immigration policy does. If it’s a benefit to Wales and the United Kingdom to have an open door to immigration in the EU, why isn’t it similarly to our advantage to have an open door with the rest of the world? This is not something that is ever answered by those who are starry-eyed about the effects of membership of the EU upon—[Interruption.] We’re talking about free movement of people here, which is a different matter altogether from the single market. If it’s beneficial for us to take any number of individuals who are simply citizens of the EU to become part of our economy, or just our geographical land mass in the EU, and that’s a good thing for Britain, why isn’t it a good thing if we do the same for the rest of the world? What is it that distinguishes Europeans from Africans or Asians or Americans? Let’s have the answer to that question in the course of this debate because what we want in UKIP is a non-discriminatory immigration policy, which—[Interruption.] Yes, indeed we do. We want to have the same points-based approach that Australia applies towards all countries, and that will accommodate our need for specific skills whilst excluding too great an inflow of people who have no skills, or few skills, the effect of which, as our motion says—I’ll give way to Steffan in a second if he wants to intervene—which actually imposes wage compression upon those at the bottom of the income scale. I give way.