Question four: Immigration
Question three: Immigration has put public services at great risk, what are your plans to deal with this?
Natalie Bennett pitches herself as an immigrant who came as a visitor and fell in love with the British way of life. She says she doesn’t accept the premise of the question. Migrants in her home in London are nurses and doctors and grandmothers. She points at Nigel Farage and says he wants to demonise them.
Nicola Sturgeon is more willing to accept that there are pressures but she says the debate must not be led by the intolerence of Mr Farage and his colleagues. The Ukip leader could well be happy about being physically pointed out as the only one who agrees with the whole premise of the question.
Ed Miliband says he si going to crack down on rogue landlords and gang masters and well as have tough immigration rules – the idea of cracking down “on exploitation wherever I find it” seems to be the central point. He goes back to protecting the “working people” of Britain.
Nigel Farage says that people are attacking him because they are losing the argument, and that’s what politicians do. He says they must leave the EU to be able to take back control of the borders and highlights Ukips new flagship policy of adopting an Australian style system. This would stop discrimination against people from India in favour of Eastern Europe he says.
Leanne Wood says that Mr Farage “abuses immigrants and those with HIV and then claim you are being abused”. She says the NHS would collapse if immigration was stopped. The way to stop wage depression, she says, is to raise the minimum wage and strengthen the Trade Unions.