Political leaders often criticize long-dominant parties for taking regions for granted, arguing that extended periods of single-party rule lead to complacency and failure to address constituent needs, as exemplified by Farage's criticism of Labour's 100+ year dominance in Wales.
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The party that has been able, frankly, to take Wales for granted for over a hundred years on Thursday will deservedly get smashed to smitherines.
But the fact we're here in Murtha Tidville is no coincidence because there is something hugely symbolic about this place and it goes back over 125 years. It goes back to 1900 when Kier Hardy was elected as the local member of parliament and he served here for 15 years and in 1906 here in Mura he founded what we now know as the Labor Party.
>> The party that was in those days patriotic.
Is it today?
>> No.
>> The party that stood for people who got up in the morning and went to work and paid their taxes and obeyed the law and looked after their family and what is it now?
>> I'm coming to that. Stop preempting me.
>> Don't worry, that'll get a mention. No, it's not the party of workers anymore, is it? It's not the party of alarm clock Wales or alarm clock Britain. It's the party of those who would rather not get up in the morning and live off the taxes paid by everybody else, who in many cases are working longer hours and harder and being taxed more than at any point in their lives. This is not a Labor party. It's a welfare party.
Well, Khardi may have started it, but from 1918 onwards, Mura, these valleys have been totally dominated by the Labour Party. The Labour Party have not lost an election in Wales for over a century. Think about that.
Think about that. And that's why I chose to come here this evening for my last big speech of the campaign rally.
Because what is about to happen here on Thursday is that the party that has been able, frankly, to take Wales for granted for over a hundred years on Thursday will deservedly get smashed to smitherines by the electorate.
And boy, don't they deserve it.
[cheering] >> Some of it's unbelievable.
20 m per hour speed limits >> in little villages at 2:00 in the morning.
>> It's all got to go. It's all got to go.
and the insane the absolutely insane addiction to the cult of net zero. Oh yes. Oh yes.
Oh yes. Oh yes. We must all bow down.
Cuz if Welsh farmers, you're trouble. You are.
If Welsh farmers have fewer cows, we'll save the planet, won't we? Have you ever heard such a lot of old in the whole of your lives?
>> I mean, the Chinese can build 80 new coal fired power stations every year, but a few cow farts could be the end of civilization.
[laughter] And I've seen and I've met and spoken to Welsh farmers both in the north and the south of Wales and seen the incredible bureaucracy they have to go through when everything that is put upon them by those in Cardiff is by people who frankly would barely know one end of a sheep from another. At least I hope not.
Sorry. I must behave. I must behave.
I'll get in trouble. I've got to stop being me.
>> No, no, no, no. I should become a bit more like Kharma and stand here and read off a pre-prepared script, which I have to look down on every 2.8 seconds because I'm totally incapable.
And that's what you're going to get with reform.
What you're going to get with reform are real people from all walks of life who bring experience and passion into politics. And yes, we've got those that are standing for us with considerable political experience.
But many of our candidates have never been involved in politics before. But they can see the terrible direction that Wales is going in. And they know there is one word, one big word that is perhaps the most single important word that needs to be in voters's minds when they go to the ballot box on Thursday. And that is change.
>> Do you want change in Wales >> after 27 years of labor? [screaming] because you won't get it if you vote Labor and you most certainly won't get it if you vote Pied.
>> If you ever look at the backgrounds of most pied candidates, very few of them have ever had a proper job or a real life in the community. They are political apparatics. by our hard leftists. Many of them have very very extreme views and are frankly just plain anti-English.
>> Well, we believe we believe in the United Kingdom. We believe in all the parts of the United Kingdom and the amazing things the amazing things through history that we have all done together and they've spent much of the last 27 years helping prop up a Labor government. They have similar views whether it's on transgender rights >> which they think is a massive priority or I'm ignoring you quite sensibly I think or the lunatic addiction to net zero or of course that Wales should be a nation of sanctuary.
Oh yes, >> let's not worry about ordinary Welsh folk. Let's not worry about retired veterans.
Let's make sure that people who come into Britain illegally in dingies across the English Channel who throw their passports into the sea at the 12 mile line. Let's make sure they go to the top of the social housing list. And it's wrong, wrong, wrong. And only we have got the guts to stand up and fight it.
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