(26 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clacton-on-Sea, UK – 21 June 2024
1. Various of Nigel Farage, Reform UK party leader and parliamentary candidate in Clacton-on-Sea, playing game in amusement arcade
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, Reform UK party leader and parliamentary candidate in Clacton-on-Sea: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"I’ve always been a disruptor. You know, I think we have a sort of status quo. The truth is that between Labour and Conservatives, on economics there are almost no differences, on immigration there are almost no differences, on really big issues they argue like, you know, they argue as if they’re in a catfight. But the reality is there are no big philosophical fundamental differences at all. And we’ve injected something new and fresh into this campaign. I have no doubt we are the subject of most conversations around people’s breakfast tables. And hey, you know, we might just keep growing. I think we’ve got a good chance of that."
3. Various of Reform UK supporter holding posters outside arcade
4. Various of Farage chatting with supporters
5. Wide of beach
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Carr, Clacton-on-Sea resident: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 7++
"This country is getting (to be) a joke, a complete joke. If there’s a war, people should come over, but the boat people, it’s bad, because we’re putting them in hotels, giving them money and our soldiers are sleeping on the street, and it’s not right."
7. Sunbather on beach
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Janet Clancy (left) and Sean Clancy (right), Clacton-on-Sea residents: ++STARS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 9++
Janet: "Immigration."
Sean: "NHS (National Health Service)."
Janet: "The NHS, yeah."
Sean: "It’s mainly the NHS really."
Janet: "And all the promises and nothing ever gets done. Our country just can’t afford it. You can’t afford to just to have.."
Sean: "I don’t, we haven’t got a problem with immigration, it’s the illegal immigration. And it’s the people coming over and claiming and getting benefits and everything as soon as they do. And yet we struggle to claim anything, which is – it’s just unfair, I don’t know."
9. Close of fairground ride
10. Close of signage
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK – 25 June 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Anand Menon, director of the UK In a Changing Europe think tank at King’s College London: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 12++
"Well, Nigel Farage is trying to weaponize the issue of immigration in quite a simple way, which is to say he explicitly campaigned in the 2016 referendum (on European Union membership), saying if we take back control of our borders, we can cut immigration. The reality has been, since we left the European Union with the Tories in charge, net immigration has reached record numbers – over 700,000 in the last year we have the data for. So Nigel Farage is simply saying these people have failed you, even though we won a referendum to allow ourselves to take back control of our borders."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clacton-on-Sea, UK – 21 June 2024
12. View of pier and sea
STORYLINE:
Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a doctor’s appointment through Britain’s state-run health care system.
Local buses have been cancelled.
There isn’t enough public housing.
Instead, Carr says she is probably voting for the populist Reform UK party in next week’s national election because she agrees with its core message: record immigration has damaged Britain.
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