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From Bongo Bongo Land to "sluts" the UKIP MEP who wrecked his own

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party conference with foot-in-mouth disease. I said "you're all sluts"

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and we all had a jolly good laugh. Why is that funny? I thought it was

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funny and everyone in the room thought it was funny, why not ask

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them why they lost. He lost the whip, has the party lost the plot

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we will hear from one of Godfrey Bloom's UKIP colleagues. The

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vigilantes hunting paedophiles. The children groomed for sex on the

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Internet in their own homes. Is rough justice ever part of the

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solution. We have the inside story. As BlackBerry tonight shed more

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than 4,000 jobs one of the top business thinkers tells Newsnight

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which smart companies will be next to fail. Nokia is essentially gone,

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BlackBerry is essentially gone. And now Apple is next.

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Good evening, so it is your big moment as a political leader toe

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party conference. You promise a political earthquake and suggest

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your ambitions are almost limitness. Then you find out one of your

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closest political friends has described women who don't do proper

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house cleaning "sluts" and hit someone on the head with a party

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conference programme. Not a scene from a sitcom, but today at the

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UKIP conference. We have been discussing sluts and other matters

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with the man at the centre of it all, UKIP MEP, Godfrey Bloom.

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Britain is going to make the great escape. Good morning. Please

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welcome Nigel Farage. A hero's welcome for the man making UKIP

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grow up. Nigel Farage even had the mandatory pumping music, so beloved

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of our politicians. The day started so well for him. What I suggest we

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do is we turn the European elections May 22nd and give our as

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an opportunity to give our opinion on the European Union and open

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borders. Here we are outside the UKIP conference boozer, moments

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away from Downing Street and the corridors of power. What would

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happen if Nigel Farage's party got lucky, very, very lucky, but lucky

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enough to get anywhere near power in 2015. Is his team ready? The

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events of today suggest not. Nigel Farage we have just found you in

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the pub at 3.00, if you were PM you wouldn't be able to do that? Why

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not. Are you ready for Government, personally? We are not going to be

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forming a Government in 2015, of course we are not. That is a

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ridiculous jump to even contemplate, however, if we get our ducks in a

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row, and we target effectively and sensibly in 2015 we will get a good

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representation of UKIP MPs over there in Westminster. Who knows,

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may even hold the balance of power? Nigel Farage has been attempting to

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clean up his party and equip them with sensible policies. Mere

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moments later he would suffer a setback in this endeavour. As we

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were speaks, down the road his economic spokesman was being

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kippered, or U-kippered. What do you make of the front of the

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conference brochure with no black comments on it. What a racist

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comment, that is an appalling thing to say, you are picking people out

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for the colour of their skin, you disgust me, get out of my way.

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REPORTER: What is appalling about making that point? You, Sir, are a

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racist. REPORTER: What is racist? You have taken this and picked out

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the colour of people's faces, it is disgraceful! He then arrived to see

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Newsnight, what about other he made at the lunchtime event. Jane

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Collins the speaker said I don't clean behind the fridge and none of

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the ladies said they didn't clean behind the fridge, and I said

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you're all shrults, you are untidy you leave your kit hanging around,

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has your mother never called you a slut. She has called me other

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things, but not that. It was no malice, it was a joke, it was all

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on camera. And if you listen to what was said you will know that

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on camera. And if you listen to was a joke appreciated by everybody

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there, men and women alike. A lot of people watching won't like that,

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do you understand why? It depends, you are skewing this, why not ask

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the ladies who were there. It you are skewing this, why not ask

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fun, it was a joke, and most people in Britain have a sense of humour,

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even if you don't. But there are two sides to UKIP,

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Diane James stood in and very nearly won the Eastleigh by-

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election, like Nigel Farage she was not happy with Bloom. Are you

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election, like Nigel Farage she was saying that when you put a slate of

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candidates forward in 2015 that they will of your ilk or of Godfrey

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Bloom's ilk, they are probably listening to him today and being

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worried. I would say they will be of my ilk, thank you for that

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compliment. The process we have gone through to select our MEP

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candidates, I'm sure you will trip me up with Godfrey got through that.

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The point is over 300 people put their names forward, that was

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whittled down to over 200, 60 have come through. It was meant to be an

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upbeat conference, but Farrage accused bloom blom of destroying it,

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and UKIP -- Bloom of destroying it and UKIP withdrew the whip from him.

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David Cameron described UKIP once as "fruitcakes" he regrets that now,

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but Nigel Farage seems to be picking the fruitier bits from the

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cake, that is a long exercise and my mother could tell him that.

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I am a joined by Roger Helmer from UKIP. How big a problem do you have

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with fruitcakes from the party? We have a problem with the remarks

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Godfrey made sod, I'm not here to defend them. The whole party is

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saddened. We were having a great conference with some serious stuff,

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and I quite understand that the whole media story now is Godfrey

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Bloom. It is a disaster for you? In media presentation of our

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conference it is not good news. You knew about him after Bongo Bongo

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Land and other things, you knew and Nigel Farage knew he could be a

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problem. Why not just get rid of him before, it is about Nigel

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Farage's leadership? He's a colourful and outspoken character,

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and we all can be and we have lots of those. Bongo Bongo Land, that is

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colourful? I thought that was just about liveable with, today it was

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not liveable with and the party is right to withdraw the whip. Isn't

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it because it spoiled your conference, not because of the

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"sluts" comment and the Bongo Bongo Land, that wouldn't have been

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acceptable. Wouldn't it be acceptable as long as it didn't

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upstage Nigel Farage, which it did? Godfrey tries to justify it by

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saying it was a joke, if you listen to the tape everybody there laughed.

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In the context of the meeting it was accepted as a light-hearted

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remark. But it shows, in my view, a serious misjudgment, because any

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politician would know that a light- hearted remark can be picked out

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and shown on the television in a different situation and everybody

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says quite rightly that was one wise and not the right thing to say.

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Saying to somebody from the media "you are a racist" for pointing out

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of the 200-pictures on your conference programme they are white

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faces, and then whacking them on the head, that is not a joke? It is

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not acceptable, and the first line he might have got away with, I

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don't know, that piece of behaviour, it is the job of politicians to

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communicate with the public. It is the job of politicians to

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communicate with the media in an orderly and decent way. And frankly

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I was shocked when I saw that. Were you also shocked when it was

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pointed out that all these faces are white, or does that not matter?

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What I would point out to you is we have a list of 60 candidates for

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What I would point out to you is we our MEP election next year, and

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there is a significant number, don't ask me how many, because I

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haven't added it up, of ethnic minorities and incidentally women,

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we have women likely to be elected, I'm delighted by that. You don't

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have a problem the brochure, 200 pictures all of white people? I

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wasn't aware of that until we saw it on the television. Would you

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change it now? If we could go back we would do it differently. You can

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see the image problem, Nigel Farage made a speech very well received in

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the hall, he talked about wanting made a speech very well received in

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the country back and people nodding, and people looking at this will say

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the country you want back might be a country where it is OK to have

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200 white people and no black a country where it is OK to have

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people on the brochure and women cleaning behind the fridge? We want

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a country where women can stand for the Westminster parliament and for

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the European Parliament, where people of ethnic minorities can do

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sow and are respected, that applies in our party. This is why we are

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disappointed by these remarks, as you rightly say. It gives the wrong

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impression of our party. Just a final thought, will the party be

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much more disciplined now or if Mr Bloom, who is still a member,

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continues as a member, people might think it is still OK to say these

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things. You have to get rid of him, don't you? We are a party with a

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constitution and rules. It was possible to withdrew the whip on

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constitution and rules. It was the spur of the moment in an

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emergency situation, the Party Chairman has the right to do that.

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The National Executive Committee must consider the situation and

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must make an appropriate decision. It is not for me to make that

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decision, they will make that decision and we will see which way

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it goes. decision and we will see which way

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Phil Collins a columnist on the Times is here as is Isabel Hardman

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of the Spectator. Does this matter very much in terms of UKIP's image?

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I think it does. Godfrey Bloom is the gift that keeps on giving, he's

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fabulous for us. But I think he does have implications for his best

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fabulous for us. But I think he buddy Nigel Farage as well. If you

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think that Mr Bloom is funny talking about fridge cleaning, you

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should hear him on economics, he's hilarious, he's a nationalist,

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protectionist, it is closed economy hilarious, he's a nationalist,

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nonsense. What's happening here is that UKIP are being exposed as a

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non-serious party. You say that, but this could be a grow-up moment,

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it could be a moment where the speech which otherwise went down

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well from the loader of the party ends up with him disciplining, d

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the leader of the party ends up with him disciplining one of his

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mates. It was inevitable they would withdrew the whip from Godfrey

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today, he has greatest hits of odd comments he has been making over

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the years. I have had a run in with him, he said I would be fine to

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employ because I could work from home, close to the fridge I would

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imagine! It was going today, Nigel Farage gave a good speech and Paul

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Nuttall gave a good speech, he's a different story to Nigel Farage,

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he's from Liverpool with a good back story, then it all became

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about Godfrey hitting a journalist and using an offensive world. Ed

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Miliband is saying something interesting tonight about what is

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called at least some people call it the bedroom tax. Our conference is

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all about how we tackle the cost of living crisis facing so many

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families, we will be showing during the course of the week how we

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families, we will be showing during going to do that. We are starting

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by showing how we would abolish the bedroom tax, by ending boardroom

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tax loopholes that this Government is allowing. That is a fair choice

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that will help disabled people and is allowing. That is a fair choice

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some of the people in the greatest hardship in our country. Phil, do

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you think he's on the right side of this, do you think he has done the

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right thing for the party conference coming up? I do actually.

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I think this is a very bad policy, 70% of people who pay it are

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disabled. It's very clear that the housing stock isn't there for

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people to move out. People are housing stock isn't there for

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already falling into arrears who have never been arrears before. The

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already falling into arrears who danger for Ed Miliband is it is

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then easy to portray him as soft on welfare. Which has been a worry for

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the party for a while? It is a serious predicament for him. He

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can't allow this particular policy to be the icon for welfare reform.

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can't allow this particular policy Has to do other things. It is

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perfectly reasonable to say this is an incompetent policy and the wrong

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symbol of welfare reform and putting too great a burden on too

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few people. I think he's right. You can understand when it comes to the

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conference people like you will say that is a spending

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conference people like you will say actually that you are going to make,

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how about some other ones in terms actually that you are going to make,

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of taxation or other things? Absolutely. I una that Ed Miliband

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and Ed Balls had -- I understand that Ed Miliband and Ed Balls had a

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row about scrapping this cut, because Ed Miliband doesn't want to

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row about scrapping this cut, appear profligate. It is about

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appearing tough on this. It is OK about the bedroom tax that is a bad

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policy implemented badly. You have to look at other places in welfare

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you can appear tough. Labour had a welfare week recently but

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you can appear tough. Labour had a sure it cut through to voters. You

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have to buy other things, it is not very expensive because it doesn't

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raise much money, it is not a very profligate thing to do. It would be

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tempting to say let's stick with everything and there is a risk

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involved, it is the right thing everything and there is a risk

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do, as long as it is accompanied by other things. Do you think this is

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not just something that will appeal it the party's left, it might have

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broader appeal, given the kind of campaign that has been waged about

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this? It is an interesting way of Ed Miliband appealing to the

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campaigning groups around the bedroom tax. There is a lot of them

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campaigning outside the Lib Dem bedroom tax. There is a lot of them

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conference, they are organised and vocal, for him to get them on side

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is a good thing. It is not the most popular of the welfare cuts. If you

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pledged to scrap the benefit cap, that is the most popular benefit

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that pollsters have touched that would be a different thing. There

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is a way to do it, we are in favour of welfare reform, the Government

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are messing it up and this is an incompetent cut. You have to be

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cred be on that. If you were a parent concerned that your child

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was being targeted on-line by paedophiles where would you turn.

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One young mother who was worried her 15-year-old daughter was being

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groomed, chose to take her concerns to a vigilante group on-line,

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rather than going to the police. Today the man was jailed for eight

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years for offences against children. Our colleagues gained exclusive

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access to the vigilante group. To some they are good Samaritans, to

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others dang vus vigilante. Here a group of amateur paedophile hunters

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chase a man they believe has been trying to meet an under-age girl

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for sex. She's 14, you think it is OK to meet her for sex. Since

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January, Letzgohunting have been monitoring people on-line they

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believe are engaged in on-line grooming. We create a profile on

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various internet websites of a young girl, then we just sit and

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wait for people to message us. When they do we reply to reiterate our

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age and let us see where the conversation goes. Before they

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would speak to us the members of the group insisted on innim and

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refused to reveal their idea -- anonymity, and refused to reveal

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their identity. They claimed their first success. This is the moment

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James Stone came face-to-face with Letzgohunting camera. The camera is

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for our protection. We exchanged pictures and said would you like to

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meet up. The group tracked him down to this bar after a teenager's

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mother contacted them worried her daughter was being targeted by a

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predatory man. It was the Letzgohunting team through the work

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they do, they got the information, and when they told me the severity

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of it, I mean I was a wreck. In an ideal world all I wanted to do was

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go and find him myself, but I couldn't even walk let alone speak

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to police. How much of your on-line

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conversation is you encouraging them? If we do it is only to say

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hello. We don't encourage them to talk dirty or talk about sexual

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acts. We don't encourage them to meet us. We agree when they suggest

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things. How quickly are you up front with the fact that you are a

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13 or a 14-year-old girl? Instantly, front with the fact that you are a

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there is no discrepancy in our age at all. They know straight away.

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How quickly can the on-line conversation turn sexual from those

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first few contacts to actually making it very obvious they want

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more? Within minutes, and I mean minutes. People have done it within

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five minutes. The national organisation which protects

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children on-line says paedophile investigations should be left to

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the experts. Confronting people is really bad practice. It risks loss

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of evidence, it riskss people panicking and possibly harming

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children as a result, possibly destroying evidence and denying us

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a chance to investigate a whole web of activity they are involved. And

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not many people will care about it, but it is a real risk we have to

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anticipate, the risk of suicide from people whose activities of

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this nature who are suddenly exposed goes up quickly. A man

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confronted by Letz Go Hunting and arrested by Leicestershire police

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and bailed committed suicide four days later. People say you are

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responsible for Gary Cleary's death, how do you answer those criticisms?

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The team can't be held responsible for his death. He took his own life,

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which is unfortunate, our feelings go out to his family and friends

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after such an unfortunate event. Jamie is convinced his group is

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providing a service the police cannot match. If the police were

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providing a service the police doing enough we wouldn't have to.

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The fact that without even trying too hard caught 11 people trying to

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meet children in one particular area sort of thing, one area of the

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country, for sex, that says the police aren't doing enough.

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You can see more on the Letz Go Hunting story on BBC One's Inside

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You can see more on the Letz Go Out in the East Midlands on Monday

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night and on the iPlayer shortly after that.

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The latest film In Real Life investigates the secret lives of

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teenagers and the Internet for watching porn and other things.

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I was struck that many parents just watching that little clip would

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actually think that the vigilantes are doing a good job? You could

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understand why they would feel that. It is an emotional level, it is

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hard not to if you are a parent worried about your children. But

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vigilanteism is not the answer. We all know the police are having

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difficulty hoping with the volume of these types of crimes. The

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answer is to give them the resources they need and not to

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reply on all sorts of people for resources they need and not to

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all sorts of reasons. It could mess up investigations? How do we know

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that the police weren't involved in a major investigation of one of

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these individuals, it could be completely destroyed by this type

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of activity. You met a lot of teenagers making this film, what

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kind of people are we talking about? Are we talking about people

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who are particularly vulnerable about? Are we talking about people

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the kid next door? We have to be about? Are we talking about people

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really careful about the way we look at this problem, it hits the

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headlines and this is a grotesque story and we are all upset. What we

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have to acknowledge is kids are going on the Internet to learn

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about sex. If that's where they are going, then they are going to come

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across some very difficult situations. And I think that the

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failure is that we're not teaching them about how to manage the on-

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line world properly. Some of the things you came up with are quite

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shocking, there was a girl so attached to her BlackBerry she was

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prepared to be sexually abused in order to get it back when boys took

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it? Uch to be careful about "prepared to be". There is a lot of

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addictive technology around the net. "prepared to be". There is a lot of

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There is a lot of reward mechanism its, kids feel absolutely attached

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to their phones in ways that are really inexplicable to us. Once

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they get attached to the phone, if they don't have the resources to

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replace that phone and they are in a vulnerable situation, they make

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some very, very bad choices. Including trusting strangers that

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they would never do if this was some stranger that tried to open a

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car door to them? Absolutely, there is a culture of anonymity on the

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net, that we are not looking at properly. How big a problem are we

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actually talking about here. One of the things, people will be very

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shocked by this, there is also a danger of some kind of moral panic,

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is it a big panic or not? There was another story running today that

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new figures that CEOP produced showing the number of cases where

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kids were being black mailed on- line by paedophiles into performing

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sexual acts, self-laerming, and I think the number -- self-harming,

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and the numbers worldwide were 2500 cases they dealt with and 120 in

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the UK. I found that a very, very striking number. Bearing in mind

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that will only be a fraction of what is actually taking place.

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Where does the buck stop, the police, the parents, everybody? I

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Where does the buck stop, the don't know? This is a communal

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problem, we need a communal solution, that is what's

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problematic about a vigilante approach. I think that there is a

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lot more social responsibility from these companies. They seem to know

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that I want to buy a blue kettle with a whistle, but don't seem to

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know where the predators are. In every other part of our life we

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have to provide services with care. We have a duty of care to these

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kids. I think that I would like to say about the numbers, that in my

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filming, which has only been a year, and they don't all appear in the

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film at all, I met five young women who had been groomed on-line. Five

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and I didn't try that hard to meet them. And it really is very easy. I

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mean are the police the right people to do this? You talkeded

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about resource, but we're talking about a wider thing, which might

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involve something which people don't like the idea of, some kind

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of censorship within the Internet itself? Companies have to take more

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responsibility about the environments that they are creating

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and they are profiting from. Obviously they don't want these

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things to happen on those spaces, but they are. They can't walk away

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from the responsibility of the consequences of that. Yes the

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industry must do more. I think to go back to your point, I think we

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do have to start thinking about it go back to your point, I think we

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this in a broader way, frame it as a societal question, rather like we

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do with public health type issue, the police will not be by any means

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the only answer, but they certainly have to be part of it when you come

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to paedophile activity like this. Did you in the film, were parents

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shock by what their own children were up to, or were they brought on

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board? I took a particular decision, there is one set of parents in the

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film, only, but mainly because their son died, he was bullied and

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died. He committed suicide. But I tried to get the voices of

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teenagers. And I think that's something that is really missing in

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this moral panic. Is we're not hearing about the voices of

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teenagers. A lot of what they do is unconscious and a lot of what they

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do, they are not even aware of their engagment in dangerous places.

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I think we have to put it in the context of the brilliant and

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I think we have to put it in the wonderful things that the net

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delivers our kids. We have got a real discussion to have, not just

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this panic. Thank you very much both of you.

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It was once one of the world's most successful companies, noted for the

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innovations but tonight BlackBerry announced a cut of 4,500 jobs. Why

:25:14.:25:19.

do successful companies fail, not because they do things wrong but

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because they do things right. That is the theory of Harvard professor

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Clayton Christensen. He's worried innovation itself is in serious

:25:28.:25:33.

trouble. And some of the world's best known tech firms like Apple,

:25:33.:25:38.

who launched this week another version of their iPhone had better

:25:38.:25:40.

take note. We have lived through an age of

:25:40.:25:46.

innovation, from the modem to broadband to Wi-Fi over a

:25:46.:25:50.

cappuccino. From the duff car to the electric car, the unmanned

:25:50.:25:54.

drone, the computer virus and of course the cat video. But is it all

:25:54.:26:00.

the wrong kind of innovation, since the mid-1990s the Holy Grail has

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been disruptive inknow vague. The new machines and techniques that

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blow away old ones and create new economies, change the world. The

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man who invented the term is -- innovation. The new machines and

:26:14.:26:19.

techniques that blow away the old ones and create new economies and

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change the world. The man who invented the term is Clayton

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Christensen. Disruptive innovation transforms complicated and

:26:29.:26:33.

expensive products into ones that are affordable and accessible that

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many more people have access to them. Usually that is good

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because......because Many more people have access, the companies

:26:41.:26:48.

have to hire people to make and distribute them and service and

:26:48.:26:53.

sell them. And yet our system impedes capital from being used to

:26:53.:26:58.

start more and more of these empowering innovations.

:26:58.:27:05.

Instead money is being hoarded inside corporations, or used to

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create low-skilled jobs, or to defend monopoly positions that

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boost profits in the short-term. So could that stop the economic

:27:13.:27:16.

recovery from taking off? We need to describe what you have just said

:27:16.:27:21.

in the present tense, not the future sense. It is here. In

:27:21.:27:27.

America we are investing and launching only a third of the

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disruptive innovations that we used to do in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s,

:27:31.:27:39.

because of the way we measure things makes capital unwilling to

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because of the way we measure invest in those things. In Britain

:27:41.:27:47.

it is worse. I'm not aware of any truly disruptive innovations that

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it is worse. I'm not aware of any have been launched here.

:27:48.:27:54.

Instead he says the finance systems rewards market dominance, one after

:27:54.:28:00.

the other, from IBM, to Microsoft, and now Google, Facebook, stock

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markets love a big boast. It wasn't always like that. Before 1914 the

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US President, Teddy Roosevelt attacked the power of monoplies and

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price cartels and that moment is etched into American business

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history. Does it not frustrate you that some of these big names in

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history are monopoly players, don't you crave a Theodore Roosevelt to

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come along and say enough competition? That is a great

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observation, and I would say, no. That historically when there has

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been a Monday NOP -- monopoly, it hasn't been that the Government

:28:46.:28:52.

came in and cut them up, but it was disruption that cut them up. And so

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IBM was being sued by the Government in America because they

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thought it was a Monday NOPy, and what made them -- monopoly, and

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what made them and cut them up wasn't that it was the computer.

:29:11.:29:16.

Right now there is a death match in the smartphone market, between

:29:17.:29:25.

Apple, with a cut price phone and android backed by Google. The

:29:25.:29:28.

stakes are high. There is absolutely a they arey that

:29:28.:29:37.

describes how a pro-primery architect -- pro-primery axe

:29:37.:29:43.

tebgture. So like the iPod, this could all end in tears? Because

:29:43.:29:46.

every one of those in the past has could all end in tears? Because

:29:46.:29:51.

been disrupted by open architectures. Apple has always

:29:51.:30:00.

been able to cup up with the next closed architecture that targets a

:30:00.:30:04.

different set of customers in the market. I don't see that coming.

:30:04.:30:11.

Instead they are taking their iPhone to the fifth generation,

:30:11.:30:17.

still closed and those on the open...By That we mean looked down

:30:17.:30:23.

into Apple's world and Apple's world only? That's correct. And

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that is what kills companies. Nokia is essentially gone, BlackBerry is

:30:31.:30:37.

essentially gone, and now Apple is next.

:30:38.:30:41.

If he's right the most successful tech company in the world had had

:30:41.:30:46.

better get the head around the idea of disruptive innovation.

:30:46.:30:51.

That was Paul Mason and we will miss him and wish him well in his

:30:51.:30:57.

own anyone know vaigs. We leave you with -- innovation. Next year you

:30:57.:31:02.

will be finally be able to buy your very own jet pack, going to work on

:31:02.:31:06.

Monday morning will never be the same again.

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