 I want to finally introduce you to our next speaker and is it a rather controversial character? I'm sure he won't mind me saying or maybe he does mind me saying but he's a rather controversial character and hope not hate just hate him and that's a hell of an endorsement as far as I'm concerned. Julian Leppard is our councillor on Epping Forest Council. He worked his backside off to get that seat. I was with him through not much of it I'll admit but some of it. He made himself such a pest on the doorsteps around his area. And I do, honestly I remember people saying oh God not you again. They really did but it worked and they elected him and we knew he was going to win. And I was there at the count and it was the most fantastic, fantastic night. Julian thank you for all you've done, thank you for your hard work and I know you're going to be a brilliant, brilliant councillor for years to come. Julian Leppard ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Does this thing come off? Perhaps not. I'm not sure if I can follow that but hello, good evening and welcome everyone to the 2019 for Britain conference. Now what difference the year makes? Oh yeah, I prefer these. How's that, does this work? Welcome everyone to the conference. As I was saying what difference the year makes. Now it was just 12 short months ago many of us gathered together in a venue not too far away from here for the very first inaugural for Britain conference. And we gathered together and we all shared together our hopes and dreams for a better and a brighter future for our country and our hopes and our dreams for election success for our new embryonic infant young political party last year. Last year also I had the pleasure of meeting Katie Hopkins or my matey Katie as I call her now. And what do you know, just one short year later some of the election success that we all hoped and dreamed of we've actually had a little bit of it. So here I stand before you, bathed in the glory of an election victory with a fancy new title and a few letters in front of my name. And Ambris asked me to talk to you a little bit about that and how that happened. Well if you rewind, we rewind about 18 months ago and we all went for the logistical things you have to go through to get a new local branch going which we did in Epinforest. So we did all that, got the branch going. One of the first things we did is we made sure that the local press knew all about it so we could be as famous and as well known as we possibly could. I didn't have the paparazzi cant outside my doorstep for days on end but we did get a bit of publicity just by setting up the local branch. We had a story in the local Epinforest garden I've got here. Nationalist party set up in the district, new right wing party for Britain. Picture of myself interviewed with Eddie Butler. Eddie was the mastermind of our election win later on which he conducted with his usual expertise and applause. So well done and thank you to Eddie for that. I was also quite seriously liable in this interview because they said that my wrestling was softer than Eddie's. I don't want me calling me a Nazi in a fascist but I was really insulted by that and really bothered me. A couple of weeks later we had some more publicity for Epinforest for Britain branch. We had our first big meeting, another story here. You might be outside that for the meeting as Amory in the middle there. Very interesting headline on this meeting in the Epinforest garden. According to this party has no place in this area according to the local paper. Epinforest garden. I don't know about that. We have some elections a few months later and it turns out as it happened the party does have a place in this area. After all a place in this area in the form of a seat on Epinforest district council thank you very much. So shows what these left wing idiots in the newspapers know doesn't it? So much for them. So how did that happen? How did we win this seat? It didn't just happen by accident. We did have to work for it. You don't win elections just by posting your political opinions on the internet. You don't win elections just by being right even though of course we know that we are right don't we? I mean look at me I'm 52 years old I've never been wrong about anything. So we know we're right but that's not enough. It's not enough to be right. You have to get out there and persuade people on the doorsteps that you're right so they'll vote for you and you win. And that's what we did. You know we spent many months leaving the scene warming up the world. Nearer to elections time we spent a couple more months you know intensely canvasing again and again and again and so on. And we were saying you know they were sick of the side of us really. So you know look okay I'll vote for you just leave me alone you know. I'm trying to watch Coronation Street leave me alone. You know and everyone worked really hard on that campaign not just Eddie himself. All the activists worked really hard because they didn't have much choice really and anytime we caught them slacking during the campaign Eddie and myself would beat them quite mercilessly. But you know firm but fair is what you've got to do. And you know when all is said and done when you do the work you get just in politics as in life. You know if you do enough work you do get the rewards. The reward that we got for the work we did was that going into the election night as Anne-Marie just said we actually knew we were going to win. There's no doubt about it because we had all the cameras in returns from all the knocking on the doors. We knew we were going to win. The debate and the question conversation we were having before election night was how big was my majority going to be? Not are we going to win. And there was even discussion of maybe getting a historic record-breaking win for a nationalist party. You know or maybe an overall majority 50% plus. That's what we were talking about. In the event on the night I didn't break any records but on the end of the night we did win quite handsomly 41% of the vote. Also during the night Anne-Marie as she said she was there with us in the count and we took the phone call from Hartlepool. This is before my result came in. With the incredible news Karen King she had won time with 49% of the vote. 49% of the vote can you believe that? So not only did I not break any records that night I didn't even get the best result for our party on that night on that same night. But I don't want to make it very clear. I'm sure Karen's here but I know why am I anyway bitter or resentful or envious of her getting a much bigger win than me on the night. No really honest I'm fine. So that's that election. Talking of elections we've got another election coming up. It's taking part in it but the general election is coming up. Which means there's going to be lots of politicians on the television talking about Brexit so don't make a change on it. And I don't have much time. I've only got two general election predictions. The first general election prediction is going to be the most Christmas-ist general election in the world ever. So if you like Christmas and you like politics you're in for a treat. So that's my happy prediction, my not so happy prediction about the forthcoming general election is that regardless of the outcome and we should have a combination of Tory, Labour, Lib Dems and the Scottish so-called nationalists we get after this election it's not going to facilitate in any meaningful way Britain's departure from the European Union. Now I'm going to take a wild and crazy guess here. I'm guessing that most of you probably voted to leave in 2016. Very boldly to guess that, isn't it? But the bad news is I think all of us are going to be royally shafted by these people regardless of the outcome of this general election. We're even going to get no Brexit, a fake and phony Brexit in name-only type Brexit or they're going to deliberately and willfully drag out the arguments and the debate for another few years until they can force a second referendum on us. By which time of course almost an entire generation of elderly British people who voted to leave in 2016 will now be dead maybe in a few years and thereby unable to vote again to leave the EU and they'll be replaced at the ballot box by lots of brainwashed 18-year-olds and people from all over the world of course. So that's very bad news isn't it? It's not very good. But the silver lining to that is that this scenario can only exacerbate to ever higher degrees the level of contempt that British public have for our establishment politicians and that can only benefit in the long run a party like ours, can't it? But as if and only if we apply the work ethic to our politics as we did in Happy Forest and also in Hartlepool where Karen got a much, much better result than I did. No, I'm fine. Honestly, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm not better. So we apply the work ethic to our politics and we get the rewards. So with that in mind just to finish I want to leave you with a vision that I had. I started talking about earlier party conferences. I want to share with you a vision I've had for a future full Britain party conference in the future. Maybe next year, year after, year after that. So in this vision there I am at the full Britain party conference. One of you, one of you comes up to me and says, oh, oh, Councillor Leppert. I remember you from the 219 party conference, you know, lodging it and giving it the big one, strutting around the conference like your Charlie Big Potatoes, just because you had your fancy new title and your letters in front of your name. I remember you. But let me tell you something, Councillor, you're not being special in this party anymore because this party, last few years we've been campaigning really hard all over the country and as a result take a look around this room. Take a look around, elected full Britain councillors all over the place of which you are just one, my friend, just one. So that told me, didn't it? That told me. So there I am in my vision, you know, feeling a little bit chastised, a little bit humbled, but also feeling very, very proud, very proud indeed to be part of a party full of men and women but nobody takes to win, to get out there and win, and they're not afraid to do it. So let's carry on doing this, let's carry on doing this. We'll get our walls, we'll carry on winning and winning and winning. And as Donald Trump said recently in one of his speeches, we'll win so much that you will get sick and tired of winning, you know. So please keep that in mind, you know, share that vision with me and enjoy the rest of the conference and I'll see you all next year. Thank you very much.