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Name: Gerard Batten
Occupation: MEP
Country: UK
Total Questions: 4
Total Answers: 4

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keithwhu asked Gerard Batten: "You state on your website that you would like to see “conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state” made a criminal offence. Can you foresee any circumstances in which a Govt..." Show more »"You state on your website that you would like to see “conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state” made a criminal offence. Can you foresee any circumstances in which a Govt might misuse such a law? " Show less »
Gerard Batten answer: "Well, there used to be such a law, sedition under the government. A lot of these things were removed by the Labour Government - they had a mania for reducing legislation. They actually got rid of some..." Show more»" Well, there used to be such a law, sedition under the government. A lot of these things were removed by the Labour Government - they had a mania for reducing legislation. They actually got rid of some very useful things. If government decides at some public order, that there should be an offence, we should have got rid of this – for example, Islamic fanatics – on that kind of legislation we could have dealt with them, instead of not being able to. Which is what we have at the moment. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Politics | Email to friends | Dec 20 2007 6:25:17 AM
keithwhu asked Gerard Batten: " On the one hand you oppose the introduction of ID cards saying that it will lead to a “Big Brother State” and on the other hand you seem to support the tapping of all forms of electronic communication...." Show more »" On the one hand you oppose the introduction of ID cards saying that it will lead to a “Big Brother State” and on the other hand you seem to support the tapping of all forms of electronic communication. Aren’t these views contradictory?" Show less »
Gerard Batten answer: "I don’t think so. The ID cards scheme, as you are well aware, is a bit of a red herring. It is not the ID card that matters, it is the information database that lies behind it, in which they will have..." Show more»" I don’t think so. The ID cards scheme, as you are well aware, is a bit of a red herring. It is not the ID card that matters, it is the information database that lies behind it, in which they will have all the information about a citizen on a safe database. There’s around 50 different categories of information they are going to have about you. It is very very dangerous to put all this in one place because if one of this isn’t secure, anyone can hack into it. It isn’t secure enough – when all your information is in one place, criminals can get hold of it that much easily. Extremely dangerous – I don’t trust the State to have this information, neither do I trust its security. Your personal information would become public property. I don’t think we owe the State that. [About tapping], all electronic communications are tapped anyway. Any communication you have by phone, fax, e-mail all goes through GHQ in Cheltenham and they can look at that whenever they want to. It’s a fact of life. They deny it is not. The security services have that ability to do that; the Americans have a system called ‘Echelon’ which can track any electronic communication in the world. It’s the nature of it now for electronic communication that this can be done. And while of course there are billions of messages every day, the security services look for special keywords and sophisticated searching device in order to track terrorists. And this is how many of the terrorist threats are actually countered and uncovered. That’s a fact of life. It happens. There’s no such thing as private or secure communication. If they want to tap you, they can and they will. What I’m saying is that these can be used in court and since the Security Services do use it, let’s regularize it and insert the circumstances when they can do it. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Politics | Email to friends | Dec 20 2007 6:26:24 AM
keithwhu asked Gerard Batten: "How do you think the UK can manage to keep its own cultural identity amidst such immigration flow? –This question was asked by tandundem."
Gerard Batten answer: "It cannot, under current projection. Some demographers have done some research on this and Professor Rich Lynn is forecasting that under current demographic trends, within the lifetime of anyone aged ..." Show more»" It cannot, under current projection. Some demographers have done some research on this and Professor Rich Lynn is forecasting that under current demographic trends, within the lifetime of anyone aged 50 or under, the native British, particularly the English, would become an ethnic minority in their own country. This is based on current rates of immigration. It is uncontrolled, unlimited and indiscriminate. We effectively have no control over people coming in from the EU; it is possible, very easy for people outside the EU to get false identification papers and to come to Britain through the EU. Although we supposedly have control over people in EU, in reality, they don’t work. If people turn up on holiday or a trip, they can disappear into Britain and never be heard of again. Which is why we have 1 million illegal immigrants. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Politics | Email to friends | Dec 20 2007 6:27:37 AM
keithwhu asked Gerard Batten: "The government has hinted that the people who have not a certain level of education will not be allowed to immigrate to Britain in the future. Where do you draw the line who’s going to be let in and who’s..." Show more »"The government has hinted that the people who have not a certain level of education will not be allowed to immigrate to Britain in the future. Where do you draw the line who’s going to be let in and who’s going to be left out of the Britain in the future? – This question was asked by Pikkumemy " Show less »
Gerard Batten answer: "Thing is, you have to divide it into two things – people who come here to work and people who actually want to emigrate here. Now, if there are gaps in the job market eg there are farmers that’ll tell..." Show more»" Thing is, you have to divide it into two things – people who come here to work and people who actually want to emigrate here. Now, if there are gaps in the job market eg there are farmers that’ll tell you they need these European labourers to harvest their crops. That’s a temporary thing, lasting three or four months or whatever part of a year. We should have a government ministry that sees what gaps the industry’s got, what places you can’t fill and then we issue work permits that people can apply for and they come here. And that might be on a very temporary basis, maybe 3 or 6 months or 1 / 2 / 3 years. But what that will give them the right to do is come here and work for a specific period of time and after that, they have to leave. Second thing – emigration, allowing people to emigrate into this country. I think it should actually be very difficult to do because we are a very densely populated country and we all know from personal experience that our quality of life is suffering because of congestion, particularly in London and the South East. So, if people want to emigrate here, I think we should have a very strict system similar to other countries in the world, where you have the points system, again, which says “what age are you?’, “what are your educational and professional qualifications?”, “how much money have you actually got?”, “can you support yourself when you get here so that you don’t become a drain on the public purse, the benefits or the health service?” and we decide on that basis. Someone has done some very interesting research on this and found out in order for an immigrant to have a neutral effect on the economy, they should actually bring with them £144,000 in cash. If you try to emigrate to a country like Australia, you will find they require you to have a profession they want, the right age so they can get X years of work out of you and you have to bring with you certain amount of money. Unless there’s a particular gap in the job market, eg, doctors, nurses, dentists etc, in which case they would waive that condition. But they have a very strict system. I think we should have one too. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Politics | Email to friends | Dec 20 2007 6:29:21 AM