FARAGE: NATION WITHOUT BORDERS ISN'T A NATION

NIGEL Farage has said that unchecked immigration is putting the lives of women in Scotland in danger, vowing the answer to the situation is quitting the European Court of Human Rights to "get back the supremacy and sovereignty of British courts".

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The Reform leader also gave his full backing to the Union, slammed Holyrood for "rabbiting all about climate change" and hit out at the burgeoning benefits bill as being a "cultural" problem.

In a hard-hitting interview with the Scottish Daily Express, Mr Farage, who was north of the border for the launch of his party's manifesto ahead of the upcoming election, did not hold back when quizzed on some of the most controversial issues.

Grievance

On asylum seekers, he claimed there was a clear and "corresponding link" between the presence of male migrants and "behaviour towards women that is unacceptable in every single way".

Mr Farage added: "These young men are coming from cultures that are entirely different to ours.

"Our view is that we are a very generous country. Half-a-million refugees have legally come to Britain in the last 10 years.

"It is not as if we have not allowed lots of people in for whom we thought there was a genuine grievance.

"But in the case of the young men who are put in hotels in Glasgow, who come across the English Channel by a boat, not a single one of them should be in this country.

"And many certainly should not be free to roam the streets." Speaking at the Ingliston Country Club Hotel in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, he continued: "We have no idea who they are. A nation without borders is not, frankly, a nation. So, these people would be removed." Mr Farage explained that Scots and people who are integrated into the community would be put on a priority list for social housing and temporary accommodation, noting the problem is "not just hotels".

"A He Reform government nationally, leaving the ECHR is the first thing "In terms of we would do.

Scotland in the shortterm, we would say that priority has to be for people who have got a proven track record of having been part of those communities".