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Well, the great debate is finished and we had it all. Blue on blue, red | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
on red, mayor on mayor. We are in the Wembley spin room with everybody | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
declaring victory, trying to work out who has won an advantage in the | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
EU endgame. They began by telling us | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
they were going to have a positive and patriotic case, and they are | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
back to Project Fear within moments. You might start off with platitudes, | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
saying how wonderful immigration is. But your campaign hasn't | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
been Project Fear, it's been Project Hate as far | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
as immigration is concerned. From big stadium events | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
to the most intimate. Hello, I am from vote Leave. I will | :00:42. | :01:01. | |
be voting Leave. Great. All the people from Europe are taking our | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
jobs. vote is chased down in the last | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
hours of this tightest With just a day to go, | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
we've banished the politicians, in favour of some of our most | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
thoughtful public figures each of whom has passionate views | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
on the EU: Howard Jacobson and Jack Monroe, Dreda Say Mitchell, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
and the historian Robert Tombs - they'll be discussing what this | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
referendum, and the conduct of it, And we hear from Turkey, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
whose ambitions to join the EU have been used by those | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
who want to Brexit as a stick to hit the Remainers | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
with, and in the debate President Erdogan's chief advisor | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
is here to hit back. Good evening from the spin | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
room at Wembley Arena. The last big debate of this fraught | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
referendum campaign has finished. And do these kind of debates | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
really influence people Whatever the case, in such a tight | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
campaign, on such a momentous issue, Joining me in a moment we'll explore | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
the arguments made tonight with representatives from both | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
sides, but first here's David Grossman with the key | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
moments from the debate. Wembley Arena is where | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
you can often see veteran Wembley Arena is where you can often | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
see veteran bands who are, shall we say, not in their first | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
bloom The audiences come to hear | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
their greatest hits, That, too, is the job | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
of tonight's politicians. Veterans of this | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
long, long campaign. It is quite simply too close | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
to polling day for them to Instead we've heard some | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
very familiar numbers We are stronger, safer | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
and better off in Europe. After the opening statements | :02:44. | :02:55. | |
there were questions from the 6000 strong | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
audience, picked to be half If we leave the EU, will this be | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
the beginning of a slippery slope towards weaker employment and social | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
rights in the UK? Thank you very much | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
for your question. And the truth is, UK governments | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
have led the way in providing good rights for workers, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
even before the European Union came It's been governments | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
of all parties that have created minimum wage legislation, | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
now a national living wage, shared parental leave, childfree tax care, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
tax free childcare and it is this country that is protecting | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
worker's rights. We do not need an unelected, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
bureaucratic, European leaders who none of us can even name, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
let alone who any of us voted for, to tell us what our | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
workers' rights should be. We hear a lot about holidays, | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
but when the working time directive came in, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
two million people in Britain got Mainly women and | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
mainly young people. Do you trust them, can they promise | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
us today because I've heard a lot from some of these leading | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
light in the Leave campaign and what they plan to do with | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
employment rights. Can you promise us today that | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
you will protect each and every We already have that, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
replied Boris Johnson. From the economy, the question | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
moved on to immigration. My family and I have had first-hand | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
experience How would it manage | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
if we left the EU, given the UK's inability to train and retain | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
sufficient doctors and nurses? I think the first thing we should do | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
tonight in a discussion about immigration is celebrate | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
immigrants and immigration and Because my family, my family has | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
benefited massively from immigration, and so I know have | :05:09. | :05:22. | |
millions of people watching tonight. The crucial thing is to | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
look in an informed way Look at the numbers, | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
look at the pressure that is large-scale, uncontrolled | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
immigration is causing You don't fund schools and hospitals | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
and you don't control And that is what leaving | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the EU would do. The final part of the debate | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
was on sovereignty, Britain's relationship with | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
the European Union. If we vote to remain | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
on Thursday, how can we be sure in another 40 years, we won't find | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
ourselves in a United Britain is a sovereign, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
independent country We retain control over our defence, | :05:59. | :06:12. | |
over the pound, over interest rates, what we do | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
in our schools, hospitals and public I just don't accept there | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
is a trade-off between trade and I think democracy is | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
enormously important. And finally by sort | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
of an encore, the closing I know that the EU isn't perfect, | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
but the benefits far And the Britain I know, | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
the Britain that I love works with its friends | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
and neighbours. They say we have no choice, | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
but to bow down to Brussels. We say, they are woefully | :06:47. | :06:58. | |
underestimating this country and With perhaps the strangest | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
one night only gig in Wembley Arena's long history now | :07:01. | :07:13. | |
over, we are now just hours away from polling day and we will find | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
out which of these Joining me now is our political | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
editor Nick Watt, Nick - Is it possible to say if there were | :07:20. | :07:36. | |
winners and losers? This room is buzzing with talk of Ruth Davidson | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
who emerged from something of an unknown star to many here. In | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
personal terms it was a pretty standout performance from the leader | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
of the Scottish Conservatives. I was speaking to her friend this | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
afternoon, who said she could not wait to get stuck into Boris | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Johnson, and boy, did she. It is important to say she had a head | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
start, she didn't live through the Scottish referendum and was on the | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
winning side, so has lots of practice in these sorts of debates. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
At their use or somebody who doesn't really sound like a conservative, | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
and the Remain side thinks she connects. They put them on the panel | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
because they believe this referendum will be won or lost in the Labour | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
heartlands and that was the message that they needed to get out to mind. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
But it is important to say I think this debate basically told us where | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
this referendum is. It was symbolic of that. It's pretty evenly matched. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Whilst everyone is excited about Ruth Davidson, the vote leave camp | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
believe they did well in getting their fundamental message, take back | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
control. Journalists may sneer, every sentence ended with take back | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
control. But they are saying on these three core messages, | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
immigration, the economy and Britain's relationship with the EU, | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
people are hearing from vote Leave, vote for us and you take back | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
control so they are quite pleased. You have a sense of the choreography | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
of what might happen after the polls close? There is great excitement | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
among the vote Leave camp, spinning like mad in the room behind us. What | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
I understand is the moment the polls close the tone amongst vote Leave | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Tories will completely change. A letter will be published, signed by | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
most of those Tory Brexit supporters saying the Prime Minister should | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
stay on regardless of the result. If all the Tory vote Leave supporters | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
do not sign a letter calling for him to go then he will not go. What will | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
be interesting is that Boris Johnson and Michael Gove will have the sort | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
of low-key response in the initial hours but when the result is | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
declared in Manchester, the first voice you will hear from vote Leave | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
will be the Labour chair of that campaign. She will make either a | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
victory or a concession speech. Then you will not hear from Boris Johnson | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
and Michael Gove until the Prime Minister has responded. And if the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Prime Minister has lost this referendum, they will wait to hear | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
what he says. There is a clear message coming out, the Prime | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Minister would have two except the vote Leave demand that the Prime | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Minister delays triggering article 50, that is the mechanism to take | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
the UK out of the EU. One person said if the Prime Minister carries | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
on with his plan to trigger that straightaway he would be thrown into | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
the river, and you may well see some of these people leaving the Cabinet. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Bit of a debate in vote Leave, some are saying we've got to have our | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
mandate introduced, out of the EU, out of the single market. Others are | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
saying maybe you could negotiate any easier association status. The | :10:42. | :10:42. | |
mechanics are fascinating. Well arguably what happens | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
here in the spin room is just as important as what happened | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
earlier in the arena across the road - it's here where spin doctors | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
and politicians try to bend the ears of journalists to convince them | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
that their side won the day. Joining me now is the Energy | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Secretary and Remain Nice of you to come in. There was | :11:04. | :11:18. | |
some thought a big gaping hole where the Prime Minister should have been? | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
I didn't quite understand that comment. I was here at the debate | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
and what I heard was emptiness from the vote Leave campaign, I heard no | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
plan. Two days before this momentous decision and they were pressed | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
relentlessly on what their plan was and we heard absolutely nothing. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
What was interesting, those from the vote remain side were very positive | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
in their selling of the immigration message, and very passionate about | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
it. It was something we hadn't heard. We'd heard a slightly | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
apologetic line on immigration, targets missed, certainly from the | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Conservatives in the race so far. I think they were much rancour about | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
immigration than the Leave campaign. They did say they know it is | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
accommodated business but they rightly talked about the huge | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
benefits we get from immigration as well. What I thought was a really | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
revealing moment. Should it have come earlier? To be able to stand | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
there and say don't knock immigration, it is doing great | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
things. That is part of what we have been saying all along. When the vote | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Leave campaign were challenged on immigration there was a slight pause | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
and shock, because they have been saying one thing to one group and | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
another to another group. Some immigrants think their communities | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
are going to grow, something they will get less, and that was revealed | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
when they couldn't give a number and couldn't even say whether it would | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
go up or down. This whole emphasis they have put on immigration is like | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
the rest of their plan, there is no thought about how to deliver its. | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
Some would say you've had the same problem when it comes to Turkey, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
sending out to messages. We've heard the Chancellor, David Cameron say | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
it's not going to happen, it's simply not on the cards, not in my | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
lifetime. We heard the chief adviser to the Turkish president say he was | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
flabbergasted that Turkey will not be joining you, he said he thought | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Cameron was their chief supporter of membership. We almost this is a red | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
herring, something that has been ruthlessly used. Are Turkey wrong? | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Bien Karo website says Turkey is in plans to join the EU. We have always | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
said it will be 34 different chapters and on the current rate it | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
could be by the end of the next century. You haven't managed to shut | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
this down. We have to look at it and be clear what the Leave campaign are | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
doing. As Sadiq Khan show, they've been sending out misleading leaflets | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
talking about Turkey, mentioning only a number of countries, Turkey, | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
Iraq, Iran. Sadiq Khan was right when he said they have elements in | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
their campaign which is Project eight and they need to be much more | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
careful about that. You have been accused of project fear. I wonder | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
whether you go back over falling house prices, tax rises, emergency | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
austerity budget, these prophecies of doom. You could have chosen away | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
which was the sunlit uplands. You could have had making the campaign | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
nicer place. I think it's absolutely right to talk about the benefits we | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
have in the European Union which we have been doing. I was very pleased | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
to hear Sadiq Khan mention climate change for the first time. The fact | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
is on Thursday this decision is huge and the impact on the economy and to | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
people's everyday lives, to their families, to the jobs, Frances | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
O'Grady made that point very clearly. The Leave campaign are | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
reckless with people's jobs. It is irresponsible and it's a leap into | :14:39. | :14:39. | |
the dark. Thank you very much Well on Newsnight, we usually | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
like to have people from both sides debating each other but due | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
to a strict edict from No.10 barring 'blue on blue' discussions that has | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
held to the very end of this campaign, we'll dismiss Amber Rudd | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
now to be joined by her fellow Conservative minister and Leave | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
campaigner Dominic Raab. What about this project hates, | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
project fear becoming Project hate? I think they have doubled down on | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
the scaremongering and the negativity. The standout thing for | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
me, was Sadiq Khan, telling us how scared he is. On the contract | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
inside, Boris Johnson saying Thursday's Independence Day, the | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
optimistic message and the confidence that we want people to | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
turn out and vote. What happened to the 350 million figure, I didn't | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
hear that at all to night? I think it slipped in in various areas. I | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
use it all the time, I can understand why people think 350 | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
million is a gross figure. When you get paid your salary by the BBC, I | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
shudder to think how big it is. There was no mention of 350. I | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
wonder if there is a quiet acknowledgement you overplayed your | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
hand on that number and it has been ditched. There was a lot of talk | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
about taking back control. The annual dividend. Taking back control | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
is not the same as 350 being pulled out as a lie at times. 350 million | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
is our gross contribution to the EU. There is no doubt about that. If | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
they are so confident about it, why have we started getting different | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
figures in the last week. Why did we not hear it at all to night if you | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
are so confident? We have always talked about the gross and net. Once | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
we leave the EU, we get annually ten billion. The reason why those | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
figures are important, one is the amount we sent to Brussels and don't | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
see back. The other is the amount of descent to Brussels and they spend | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
on our behalf. We want it all back. You need people to explain the | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
difference between the net and the game. I think they have got it by | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
now. They need an expert voice. When you get your pay cheque every month, | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
you have your salary and then your take-home. I will ask you a | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
different thing, your campaign has, in the words of Michael Gove, | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
ditched the words of experts? We have had economists, Michael | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Burridge has done important work on white freed up from the EU... You | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
are still an expert fan? A lot of people on your side saying, we are | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
done with experts, we don't believe them. I don't think lining up the | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
establishment and saying we have a roll call of experts on our side. We | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
can point to Sir Richard Dearlove, point to heads of the | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
counterterrorism branch at the net police who are on our side. We have | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
Sir Michael Rose, but that is not what people call about, a roll call | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
of names, it is about the evidence. It is the passion and the optimism | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
and what came out of this debate tonight, it is clearly on the side | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
of Leave. As you can see, there is still a few hurdles going on beehive | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
to me. This is when some of the politicians who were not in the | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
debate, they come and talk us through what they thing happened. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
There is the pitter patter of tiny deadlines being written. Who knows, | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
at this stage, there are that many undecided minds in this country. If | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
there are, it is all to play for. We have two days. | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
Well, one of the biggest issues of the referendum campaign has been | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
It was raised as an issue in the BBC debate tonight. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Those who want to Brexit have brandished possible Turkish | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
membership of the EU as a reason to leave, | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
with claims that millions of Turks could migrate to the UK, | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
putting strains on communities and public services. | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Those who want Remain have been at pains to stress that there is NO | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
chance of Turkey joining the EU in the near future. | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
David Cameron himself has said they won't join until the year 3000. | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Earlier I spoke to Ilnur Cevik, the chief advisor | :19:26. | :19:26. | |
I began by asking him what he made of that claim by the Prime Minister. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
We thought that Mr Cameron was our chief supporter for our quest | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
Turks felt the British were the driving force | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
behind our EU membership and that they were supporting | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
But the way Mr Cameron put it, he didn't believe anything, | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
apparently, in our full membership and he was only deceiving us. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
While, the others at least were very frank, they said we don't want | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
The Germans said we will offer you another kind of partnership. | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
But the way Mr Cameron put it, we feel really, really taken in. | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
Because the way he's putting it, he says, they were never going to go | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
in anyway and we just said we will go along with them. | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
That kind of attitude really is deeply hurting the Turks. | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
What do you think of David Cameron's position now, having said he wanted | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
you in and now having said he sees little prospect of it? | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
As I said, we still feel he was taking us for a ride. | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
This kind of attitude is very, very insincere. | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
We felt that when we needed him, he was going to be there. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
But now we feel that he was just saying, let me toy around with them, | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
But let's not be the bad guys to tell them they won't get in. | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
Do you believe in the David Cameron that wants you to join, | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
or do you believe in the David Cameron that | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
doesn't want you to join, which is it? | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
Well, to be frank, the way he's putting it, we don't think | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
The Leave campaign says that countries should be able | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
to control their borders, because mass migration puts a huge | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
strain on social services, health services, education services, | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
Britain is already controlling its borders. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Britain's borders are not uncontrollable. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
There is a Visa restriction for Turks in Britain. | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Even if the European Union lifted Turkey's Visa restrictions | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
through the Schengen agreement, still there is a British Visa, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
so how can Turks enter Britain while the current Visa | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
The Leave campaign say one of their arguments | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
against Turkey joining, is because your crime rate is very | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
high, your level of gun ownership is very high and they say, | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
why should we give Turkey access to Britain in those circumstances? | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
Secondly, there's no extraordinary situation in this country | :22:39. | :22:48. | |
that we would export anything to Britain. | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
But, besides that, who's going to come to Britain? | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Whatever exists in Britain, also exists in Turkey. | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
We're not going to go there just because you produce Cadbury's | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
chocolate and Maltesers, for god's sake. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Do you think Britain should leave the EU? | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
That's a choice for the British people. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
If they want to leave the European Union, they should. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
But they should not use us as an alibi. | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
They should really deal with the nitty-gritty on why | :23:27. | :23:41. | |
they should be leaving and they should not use us | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
Mr Cevik, thank you very much indeed. | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Now, we bring you the antidote to tonight's stadium debate - | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
the decisions made quietly by people talking amongst themselves | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
in their own homes, discussing the issues in the pub | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
Katie Razzall has been listening, and watching, as campaigners | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
doggedly follow after every vote in a referendum which looks like | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
With two days to go, we set up in one of London's Royal horrors to try | :24:06. | :24:25. | |
to ascertain what is driving decision-making in the EU vote. You | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
can make a lot of new friends with some garden furniture, a bit of | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
linen, posters and a selfie stick. Because of him. You don't like David | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
Cameron? Which one do you prefer? That one. Which one do you want to | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
pick? Will you hold that? The question is straightforward, it | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
should we be in or out of the EU. But that question has apparently | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
split Britain down the middle. Which side do you trust? That is what we | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
as the people of Kingston upon Thames. How are you making the | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
decision? Who do you trust? I am an arrogant old man, I do what I want. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
My dad did not fight in the war for this. How do you decide what is a | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
fact and what isn't? You listen carefully to what people are saying | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and dismiss most of it. Even people like the governor of the Bank of | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
England? Well, he is Canadian, isn't he. Barack Obama came in and | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
expressed an opinion. And they know nothing. So you have been trusting | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
experts on the Remain side? Yes. If you have 90% plus of experts telling | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
you it makes sense to stay, then they know what they are talking | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
about. The polls are so close, every moment counts. We asked people on | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
both sides to wear a camera today and record the reaction. On the | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
streets of central London, this Leave campaigner got a mixed | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
reaction. Hello, are you going to vote? Are you going to vote? No. Why | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
not? Because we will miss out on so much. What will you miss out on? | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
Please. Out, great. It isn't easy. I haven't decide. But I think we will | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
remain in. There are still those whose minds he will not change. | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
Hello. I am from vote Leave. I have sent my vote by post. Who did you | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
vote for? The opposite. In this day and age, a little country going on | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
it's own is not feasible. I think it is better for the younger people. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
What about tampon tax? I don't know about that. Do you know which way | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
you are voting... In north London, an area which should sit firmly in | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
the Remain, Samp Ovie is still finding people who are voting | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Brexit. It looks like this is going to the wire. Do you know which way | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
you are voting? I can tell you explicitly, out, out, out. Stay out | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
and wish we had never come in. Have you decided which way you will vote? | :27:39. | :27:48. | |
Yes. Yes. Are you eligible to vote. Yes. What swayed you in favour of | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
staying in? It is the power and the money. Can you chat about the | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
referendum. I am voting out. Do you know which way you are voting? I am | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
in. The Visa, having to go abroad, the issue of getting new visas. The | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
uncertainty of people being taxed more. Do you know which way you are | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
voting in the referendum? Out. Why are you voting out? Hopefully there | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
will be more jobs for British people and look around you, where we are | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
standing now, you point to me ten richest people. For weeks and | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
months, the arguments have raged. At Kingston College, how are these | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
staff and students making up their minds? Have these people down here | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
influenced how you will vote? They are like a rough guide to people | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
making their decision. You take a little bit from everyone. It has | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
become a popularity contest. If we bowed out, there will be billions of | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
immigrants every week falling over our borders. If we leave, we will be | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
in a massive recession. It is scaremongering. It should be a | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
personal decision. Even though you should pay attention to the | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
statistics. Have you trusted anyone in this? Not really. I don't really | :29:20. | :29:29. | |
trust the politicians. And the experts or just the politicians? | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
They are all much of a muchness, in each other's pockets. If that is the | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
case, how will you decide? Speak to my dad. You trust him? I trust him. | :29:42. | :29:50. | |
Back on the street, one person who is out has gone to town. That is the | :29:51. | :29:58. | |
new EU flag. I made it myself. I don't know anyone who is not voting | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
out. I will take Nigel back, someone else might want him. Can I keep him. | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
With that he was off, neither he nor we have too long to wait now for the | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
outcome of this referendum. So how has the referendum | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
campaign been for you? Have you been dismayed by the nature | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
of the argument, or have you relished | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
the hand-to-hand combat? Project fear, on each side, | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
claim and counter claim, blunt warnings and intemperate | :30:28. | :30:29. | |
language, accusations What has the prosecution | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
of the campaign told us about the public discourse in | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
Britain and has it unearthed deep-seated divisions and | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
faultlines in our culture? Here with me, the writers | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
Howard Jacobson, Jack Monroe, and Dreda Say Mitchell | :30:41. | :30:42. | |
and the historian Robert Tombs. First let's talk about the conduct | :30:43. | :30:53. | |
of the campaign. Howard, you heard about scaremongering, what the woman | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
was saying about scaremongering on both sides, what do you think? I am | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
exhilarated by the campaign and depressed at the same time, you can | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
feel both. I very much as a Remainer, and I have been a person | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
who wanted to leave Europe forever. Every morning I left Europe until I | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
realised there was going to be a referendum and people were doing | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
this seriously. It's one thing to play at leaving but people were | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
serious, so I became a Remainer. Since then I've grown very depressed | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
by, more than anything else, the charge for people who want to leave | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
that the Remainers are scaremongering. I have not heard | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
any. They are saying you are about to take a leap in the dark, that's | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
frightening, be frightened of the unknown. There is a difference | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
between being frightened of the unknown and what the Brexiteers are | :31:50. | :31:51. | |
doing which is saying be frightened of other people. From your point of | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
view, Robert, as an historian, is there something particularly about | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
the whole binary nature of a referendum that brings out the | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
visceral hand-to-hand combat? And also the idea that it's going to be | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
a simple majority. It could just be 140 people. Let's hope not. What | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
strikes me about the campaign has been how little the establishment | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
has been listened to by a very large portion of the electorate. These | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
masses of people, the people who are supposed to be our leaders, have | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
been telling us over and over again, this is the way we must vote. It | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
reminds me of Victorian squires saying to their tenants you have to | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
vote for me all you will be evicted. And I think there has been a lot of | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
scaremongering. What about the kind of language, Dreda? For me it has | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
been a lot of scaremongering on both sides. I think with Remain it has | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
been more about economic. George Osborne, talk about an own goal, | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
saying house prices will drop. Most of the young people I know were | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
jumping in the air saying they might be able to get something. When I | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
watched what was going on, my perception was, because I did not | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
see much of Labour being involved, and as a left-wing Labour supporter | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
I was very disappointed about that. I just saw infighting among one | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
particular party. To tell you the truth and I've said this publicly, I | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
turned my television off and I went and try to educate myself via | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
Reading, talking to other people, and that's how I came to the | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
decision to actually leave. I was very disturbed by the type of public | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
campaign I saw on both sides. Jack, how has the campaign been for you? | :33:35. | :33:42. | |
What do you make of it? It's been insidious, xenophobic, terrifying. | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
It's been a lot of very noisy rhetoric from the same faces from | :33:50. | :33:56. | |
the same establishment figures. I would challenge claim that the | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
public are not listening to the establishment, I would say the | :34:02. | :34:03. | |
establishment are not listening to the public, and I do not see my | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
views represented anywhere, the views of my father, many of my | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
friends. I feel we've got the same bevy of people telling us what's | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
best for us and nobody is asking us. It is a very binary debate and it | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
does get heated. But it is the lies, dammed lies and statistics that have | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
really got me, how are people supposed to know how to vote when so | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
many people are distorting so many facts? I think what has happened, if | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
you go outside of London it is a very different picture. I live | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
outside of London! What has come to the surface for me is the divisions | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
among class. When you talk to a lot of working-class people they are | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
saying that they will vote for leave. What was interesting with the | :34:44. | :34:52. | |
referendum debate at Wembley was Frances O'Grady was saying I am | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
standing for workers, she is on the Remain side. A lot of the workers | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
are saying, you are not actually standing for us. The problem has | :34:59. | :35:00. | |
been that the Labour Party has been too much in the shadows. One of the | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
issues for the future is, where are working-class people going to vote? | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
When you've got the project fear followed by what Sadiq Khan said | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
today, calling it project hate, you've got the kind of language, is | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
it the language of the social media page? In this country we have a | :35:17. | :35:23. | |
proud tradition of vehemence debate. We are sarcastic, we love being rude | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
to one another. In the 19th century people used to watch pantomime | :35:31. | :35:32. | |
because they loved the violence. We've got great cartoonists. All | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
this is within our great tradition. What is different and I would not | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
put this down to our national character and not down to the effect | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
of social media is this assumption that everybody who doesn't think | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
what you think is a moron. And not only is he a moron, he's a liar. | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
This idea, the trouble with a binary debate, it's exactly in the spirit, | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
in or out. Whereas we all know that all the interesting things are | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
between those two funds, but we've got no opportunity here to do | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
anything but say in and out. Encouraged by the social media, we | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
now suppose that everybody who doesn't think what we think deserves | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
to die, really. Is this actually a reflection of a solid democracy? | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
Well I think it's going to leave rather a political hangover. It's | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
shown that there are divisions that we always knew were there, social | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
divisions, generational divisions, regional. But they have proved to be | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
rather deeper than we thought. It has shown a huge amount of distrust. | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
What worries me, whatever the result, people will be looking for | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
things to go wrong afterwards. And by the very nature of how the result | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
is counted, we are going to know geographically, demographically, how | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
this is panning out, and where the divisions like. And I think that is | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
an important thing to know. I think for too long when we talk about | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
politics it very much has been centred on London and the South and | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
Westminster. I think it was even interesting with Newsnight's | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
analysis of the debate just now, we were talking very much to | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
politicians. I thought to myself, why has there been no discussion? | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
Couldn't they have had a satellite in another part of the country | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
talking to people outside London? We have been doing that all last week, | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
we had a referendum truck around the country. For that particular debate | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
because it is such a key debate, it would have been an interesting | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
perspective to have. I think it is a good example of what we are not | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
doing sometimes. Jack, are you concerned that some of the divisions | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
this has exposed will remain? They will not be papered over on Friday? | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
Absolutely. And I think it will highlight what different people's | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
concerns are in a way that we probably don't have that information | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
at the moment. Because our politics seems so focused in the wrong | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
groups, in the wrong places. There are large swathes of people who feel | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
not represented, and that's how we have people like Nigel Farage, Trump | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
over in the States. That's how we have these blustering obsessively | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
nasty politicians getting their armies of people to listen to them | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
because they are people who feel like they are not being represented. | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
We've got a working-class revolution going on but they all seem to be | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
going in a rather dangerous direction. I think in a way the EU | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
provides an extra layer of a problem. All over the western world | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
and in the democratic world people are feeling unrepresented by | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
politicians. Then you have in the EU another layer which separates people | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
from politicians, where decisions are being made quite outside the | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
accountability and indeed the knowledge of the voters and that is | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
a big problem. How do you feel about the House of Lords, then? That's | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
another debate. How do you make your peace with your friends who take a | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
different view? My friends don't take a different view! They are very | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
quickly persuaded of the rightness of my point of view. And I don't | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
have any friends who say "I want my country back". I have a great deal | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
of sympathy for people who live in areas where they don't hear their | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
own language spoken. I'd think we should talk about racists the way we | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
do. Nonetheless, to hear people saying "I want my country back", | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
that's terrifying. It wasn't so long ago when we saw what people saying | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
that led to. This country has not been taken over, we are not | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
occupied, we have a distinct, vibrant country. We are ourselves, | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
we have nothing to fear about being taken over, it is a wicked language | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
and terrifying. If you are on the side of Leave and you end up being | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
lumped in with people who say "I want to take my country back". I | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
want the democracy back. But how does it sit with you, do you believe | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
that? What I believe is that democracy in Europe is under a lot | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
of pressure and the EU, which is what we are supposed to be talking | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
about, is making it worse and aggravating the situation. It has | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
really reached us yet and you could say this is not our problem, but if | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
you look around Europe there is a rise of populist parties of right | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
and left. I think Europe is heading for some sort of political crisis. | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
Dreda, you are in a position with some bedfellows you wouldn't | :40:13. | :40:14. | |
normally want as bedfellows, how comfortable do you feel about that? | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
To me it has never been the issue, the issue around the EU has never | :40:21. | :40:23. | |
been about the left and right debate, it goes right across the | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
parties. I think I'm in the tradition of the Labour Party from | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
the 1970s and 1980s with the big slogan get Britain out. That's where | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
I think I'm sitting. It's not a debate about personalities, it's | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
about the issues. Thank you all very much indeed. Vote well but just vote | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
once. That's all we have time for. Evan is back tomorrow for the last | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
day of the user what. Good night. Most of us go into the night drive | :40:51. | :41:01. | |
but by the morning rain again across parts of South West England through | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
towards the Midlands. From there towards Yorkshire and the Humber | :41:06. | :41:06. | |
where we could | :41:07. | :41:07. |