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It's that time again - literally hundreds of UKIP members are gathering at the party's conference.

Fans of Hard Brexit have heard from the party's seventh leader in two years at the (EU-funded) ICC Birmingham as they gear up for leaving the EU.

Gerard Batten - whose flock got less than 2% of the vote last year - today claimed he was the only man with a real plan for Brexit.

But the party's also been arguing over Tommy Robinson, the anti-Islam EDL founder who Batten wants to let into the party - to Nigel Farage's ire.

And Batten is steering the party to a more hard-right, "populist" line.

We've spent a morning hanging out with the Brexiteers, the traditionalists and the social conservatives, and we're delighted, worried or just offended to report back what we found.

1. This shocking homophobic book

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It was on offer on the table run by the 'Support 4 the Family' group, which is the source of a lot of UKIP's most shockingly socially conservative stuff. It aims to "alert the public on the serious physical and psychological health dangers inherent in adopting a 'gay', lesbian or bisexual identity." Presumably the chief physical danger is being beaten up by homophobes.

2. This booklet about 'curing' "unwanted same-sex attraction"

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It comes despite pretty much any other party trying to distance themselves from so-called 'gay cure' therapies.

3. People ranting about the 'transgender agenda' that will 'rule the country'

Ex-Tory Neil Hamilton - yeah, him - complained about the "trasngender agenda taking over the country" in his speech (see below).

And a booklet from the hardline Support 4 the Family group - titled "the transgender delusion" - brands people's legal right to change their recognised gender "a direct attack on matromony."

The booklet claims: "The 'transgendered' and their allies would rule us."

4. This booklet blaming the EU for the Grenfell Tower fire

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5. This 'wake up sheeple!' book about Islam

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6. This souvenir photo of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump

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7. These Nigel Farage condoms

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For a "hard Brexit". They're the most effective contraceptive we've ever seen, to be fair.

8. This actual Brexit fudge

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9. These Brexit thongs

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10. Neil Hamilton talking for 15 minutes about 'political correctness gone mad'

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Seriously, he did.

Highlights - if they can be called that - included praising a man who talked about "faggots and peas", complaining an asylum-seeking Ugandan lesbian was "not a lesbian", and saying: "Then there's the diversity agenda, isn't there?"

To wild claps and cheers, he said there should be a sign warning "may contain nuts" over the House of Commons.

And he concluded: "The lunatics have really taken over the asylum."

11. This incredibly UKIP agony aunt column in UKIP's official newspaper

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12. 1,000 beer mats

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For the Farage who has everything.

13. This exchange about immigration

Ukip members shouted "send them back" as General Secretary Paul Oakley unveiled the party's new hardline immigration policy.

The party's new 'interim manifesto' calls for enhanced screening for immigrants from Muslim countries.

In a keynote speech to party's annual conference in Birmingham, Mr Oakley said: "Bombs at pop concerts, knife rampages in our cities, using cars as weapons, are not a price worth paying for the benefits of open door immigration."

He asked: "So what's to be done?".

One audience member shouted: "Send them back!"

Mr Oakley did not respond, but members of the audience laughed and clapped.