Browse content similar to 30/06/2013. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Morning, folks. Welcome to the Sunday Politics timewarp edition! | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
It's back to the '70s, as Britain faces the threat of power blackouts. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
We'll ask the Energy Minister how he will keep the lights on. And | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
it's back to the '80s with Labour, as right clash with left amid | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
claims that comrades at Unite are trying to take the party over from | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the inside. We go to Falkirk where it has all been kicking off. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
And if you got a P45 tomorrow, could you wait a week for welfare? | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
That is the Government's plan. But is it fair? The two sides go head | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
to head. And in Scotland: the actor Brian | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Cox will be live in the studio to talk about playing a politician on | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
:01:24. | :01:24. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1681 seconds | :01:24. | :29:26. | |
the small screen versus getting If people have no savings, they can | :29:26. | :29:35. | |
go -- they can get help. There is a massive increase in the use of the | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
banks. There are six jobseekers for every vacancy. Taking away money | :29:40. | :29:48. | |
from people will not make it easy. That is scaremongering. When people | :29:48. | :29:58. | |
:29:58. | :30:14. | ||
first Gaiman to -- when we first Sweden's benefits are three times | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
as generous. We have some of the least generous benefits in the EU. | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
In Scandinavia, using the social security system does not leave a | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
person destitute in the way that benefits in the UK do. Let me | :30:30. | :30:38. | |
interrupt you. Let me show you what the TaxPayers' Alliance has said. | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
We think the Government is doing excellent work on welfare reform, | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
particularly in times of making work pay. But there is one concern | :30:47. | :30:57. | |
:30:57. | :30:59. | ||
we have. There is this idea that it will dissuade people from taking on | :31:00. | :31:09. | |
:31:10. | :31:12. | ||
work. It is something that needs to I do not believe it will. A bug is | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
not logical you would not look for temporary work again very quickly? | :31:16. | :31:23. | |
Would that not be logical in this position? You would wait to be able | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
to sign on, would you not? I think it depends on how we make sure we | :31:29. | :31:39. | |
:31:39. | :31:41. | ||
get the detail right on this. already have a three-day wait. | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
point about the seven-day wait policy is it will do what Labour | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
and the Conservatives want to avoid in the benefits system, of which is | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
make it less attractive for people who are already living on the | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
breadline seeking work to take on the short term contracts which are | :31:57. | :32:05. | |
the only work people can find. Balls was prepared to go along with | :32:05. | :32:11. | |
it. At every focus group disagrees with the government and the | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
opposition. It seems it is politicians who do not have any | :32:15. | :32:23. | |
idea of what is going on. Is it worth looking at the nasty party | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
again? I have built a business where we lived on the breadline for | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
the first 12 months because we had to use credit cards to keep the | :32:33. | :32:42. | |
business going. That is not the same as being on the minimum wage. | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
But the idea that you think about work first is a good one. People | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
who do not have jobs think about work 247, and making them more | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
could has no way to help them into jobs that aren't there. Where are | :32:56. | :33:06. | |
:33:06. | :33:06. | ||
the jobs you are creating? Coming up in 20 minutes, I will be | :33:07. | :33:16. | |
:33:17. | :33:19. | ||
Welcome to Sunday Politics Scotland. Coming up: BMA award-winning actor | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
Brian Cox will be live in the studio. -- the in the award-winning | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
actor. They 200th bill of the Scottish | :33:27. | :33:35. | |
parliament has been signed by the Queen, but how has Holyrood | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
performed in the 14 years? What's cuts and hard choices as austerity | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
continues. Austerity showed how the UK | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
continues to struggle. George Osborne's failure to cut the | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
deficit in time ironically means he has locked down Labour into hard | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
choices. I have been digesting what the Chancellor set out. | :33:57. | :34:07. | |
:34:07. | :34:10. | ||
It was not any old Aga. It was a luxury bar go. -- burger. The | :34:10. | :34:19. | |
Chancellor set out �11.5 billion of cuts for 2015/2016. It looks as if | :34:20. | :34:29. | |
:34:30. | :34:35. | ||
Labour will stick to the spending plans if they regain power. As a | :34:35. | :34:45. | |
:34:45. | :34:47. | ||
consequence of the UK Chancellor choosing to ring-fence or keep NHS | :34:47. | :34:53. | |
and not award it any supportive allegation, that support Scotland | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
because every penny in England, Scotland gets its Barnett formula | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
consequence O'Shea's. Critic point out that it is a | :35:01. | :35:11. | |
:35:11. | :35:18. | ||
shrinking portion. In capital Part of the challenge for people | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
looking at the numbers regularly is it is not absolutely clear quite | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
what big net position is going to be. It is clear Scotland has been | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
given additional borrowing capacity but it is not clear whether a but | :35:33. | :35:43. | |
:35:43. | :35:44. | ||
as a supporting capital spend. it is not clear where it will go. | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
Will it go here? Anyone who wants to take forward a serious programme | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
of beneficial reform has to recognise the importance of taking | :35:55. | :36:02. | |
the workforce with a us. And walked off George Osborne's beefburger? | :36:02. | :36:09. | |
Maybe it ended up in the bin, like his growth figures. | :36:09. | :36:16. | |
Joining me is Stewart Hosie, and in Aberdeen Sir Malcolm Bruce, and in | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
Glasgow I am joined by Labour Shadow Treasury Minister Cathy | :36:19. | :36:27. | |
Jamieson. Good morning. First of you, -- first of all, over | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
to you, Sir Malcolm Bruce. He borrows more than he intends to, | :36:33. | :36:41. | |
and does not inspire a growth. He is the static Chancellor. What we | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
know as the previous Labour government presided over the | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
biggest collapse in the industrial capacity, economic capacity, since | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
the war. It has been difficult to try to rebuild that. There are some | :36:53. | :37:01. | |
signs of recovery beginning to creep in, but the truth is we have | :37:01. | :37:08. | |
not had to deal with the deficit, but we have also cut taxes by | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
raising the tax threshold and increased pensions. That is part of | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
the reason why we have not been able to cut the death -- cut the | :37:22. | :37:32. | |
:37:32. | :37:32. | ||
deficit as much as we wish. Stewart Hosie, Scotland is not having the | :37:32. | :37:42. | |
:37:42. | :37:43. | ||
same luck. The resource budget has been cut by less than the rest of | :37:43. | :37:52. | |
the country. It is �333 million, even though it is only 2%. That is | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
in addition to the 6.5% cut we had in the last spending review, and in | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
addition to the capital cut we hadn't the last spending review. In | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
terms of capital spend, the conventional capital allocation is | :38:05. | :38:11. | |
down. The so-called extra money is loans that have agreed in the | :38:11. | :38:19. | |
Scotland Act, and funny Money financial transactions in the | :38:19. | :38:27. | |
Budget. As part of George Osborne's ongoing narrative, he has failed so | :38:27. | :38:37. | |
:38:37. | :38:38. | ||
far in. There is not that money available for capital spending. The | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
Scottish Government have new borrowing powers, so perhaps they | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
can be used to fund new projects. The Scottish futures trust has been | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
slow in getting on and making new project happen. I am sure the new | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
borrowing powers will be used, but the capital programme in Scotland | :38:55. | :39:05. | |
:39:05. | :39:11. | ||
remains unchanged at to 0.5 billion. -- 2.5. Cathy Jamieson, a lot of | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
people said the Spending Review was a political shade but there to put | :39:15. | :39:25. | |
Labour into a cocked hat. -- charade. It has been frustrating | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
this week to try to find out what is Labour's position on borrowing? | :39:30. | :39:37. | |
It is unclear. First of all, the spending review has come about as a | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
direct result of the Chancellor and Prime Minister being unable to | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
deliver on what they said they would do in terms of getting the | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
deficit down. They are borrowing more than they said they would, and | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
the impact is being felt across the UK with people feeling their living | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
standards squeezed. We will face some difficult times in 2015 if we | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
are back in government. There is no doubt about that. We will look at | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
the overall spending plans and live within that for the first year, but | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
we have not ruled out the option of borrowing for investment. We | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
believe the Chancellor should have brought forward some of the | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
infrastructure projects now, rather than waiting another two years down | :40:18. | :40:26. | |
the line. So Labour would borrow more? This is the problem because | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
people are saying, will you or want you? What we are saying is we will | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
in order to be responsible, keep within the overall spending limit, | :40:35. | :40:39. | |
but we have not ruled out bringing forward additional investment plans | :40:39. | :40:46. | |
for borrowing if that is the right thing to do, but we will not be | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
borrowing to pay for day-to-day expenditure because they have | :40:48. | :40:55. | |
failed to get growth backed into the economy. This has also been | :40:55. | :41:05. | |
:41:05. | :41:08. | ||
called an opportunity for John -- George Osborne. Would you expect | :41:08. | :41:18. | |
:41:18. | :41:20. | ||
people to wait seven days before people can claim benefits? We have | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
made some massive reforms to tax, cutting 24 million people stacks | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
and boosting pensions by the biggest level ever, and ensuring | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
non-work related benefits are protected as part of the difficulty | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
we have in getting the deficit down. Growth has not been coming forward | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
us we would have wished. But those who say that we should spend our | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
way out of this should be careful of what the markets might do and | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
what it might do to interest rates. They should also recognise that | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
where there is growth beginning to come back in the oil and gas sector, | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
that instead of knocking it, they should encourage it. Building | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
confidence is the best way to build growth. Stewart Hosie, maybe you | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
have to rein in spending, and Mr Swinney gave me that clear hint on | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
Wednesday that the automatic pay increase would not be ended in | :42:20. | :42:26. | |
Scotland for civil servants. Any news on that? I think his hint was | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
strong enough. In terms of what Malcolm said, if there is good news, | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
I welcome it. We have got to understand that this Government are | :42:36. | :42:43. | |
planning to cut �155 billion a year out of the economy in tax rises and | :42:43. | :42:50. | |
cuts. The proportion of cuts to tax rises is four-to-one. That means | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
the Government are planning to rebalance the books on the back of | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
the poor, in a way that they do so much consumption out of the economy | :42:59. | :43:05. | |
that he is trying to cut his way to growth. The debate within the | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
government was that Conservatives wanted to cut for the the welfare | :43:09. | :43:19. | |
:43:19. | :43:19. | ||
budgets but the Liberal Democrats refused to do it. -- to cut further. | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
Cathy Jamieson, Stewart Hosie was pointing out the changes to welfare. | :43:23. | :43:29. | |
Many Labour supporters would be horrified at what Ed Balls is it | :43:29. | :43:39. | |
said thing. -- accepting. We will need to look at the money we have | :43:39. | :43:47. | |
available and make it fairer. We have not said we will take any | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
action that will put more people in the hands of the loan sharks. The | :43:51. | :44:01. | |
:44:01. | :44:03. | ||
present government can not have it all ways. At the same time, they | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
are giving tax breaks to millionaires, which does not see | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
sensible. Let us look to another item making the news today. It is | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
the latest paper from the UK Treasury. Sir Malcolm Bruce, it has | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
been claimed that Scots may have to face roaming charges if there is | :44:18. | :44:25. | |
independence on the mobile phones. A Tory MP says some of the | :44:25. | :44:31. | |
arguments against independence are becoming silly. Some of them are | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
real. If you have a single market and break it up there are potential | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
consequences that could increase costs. I have not seen this paper, | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
but I think it is suggesting that breaking up the single market in | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
telecommunications and broadband could have implications. If you | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
remove the Universal Postal Service from Scotland because you take | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
Scotland out of the UK, the chances are you will not be able to send a | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
package or a letter from John o'Groats to Land's End for next-day | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
delivery at a flat rate. You cannot do it between Ireland and the UK. | :45:07. | :45:14. | |
There are real issues here which need to be considered. It is like | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
unscrambling an omelette. There are a lot of difficulties. Stewart | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
Hosie, Sir Malcolm picks out the wider issue that if there is | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
independence there could be difficulties with Telecom | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
indications and the postal service. This is just more scaremongering | :45:30. | :45:39. | |
nonsense. Let us look at the issues in the story. We have higher mobile | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
phone charges which the European Union are about to outlaw. And | :45:44. | :45:50. | |
between a liberal, a Tory and Labour MSP, they signed up to the | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
Scottish Parliament motion welcoming that. This is simply | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
wrong. In relation to the Post Office, the only threat comes from | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
UK governments. These people have shut 400 post offices in the last | :46:02. | :46:12. | |
:46:12. | :46:12. | ||
10 years. Hang on, be protected them. 400 have been closed! There | :46:12. | :46:19. | |
will be a proper postal service in Scotland, and we will do everything | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
we can to preserve this. Roaming charge is about to go. This is a | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
rather silly scare story from the project fear people. The good news | :46:30. | :46:40. | |
:46:40. | :46:41. | ||
is no one is listening to them any more. There are serious issues that | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
Scotland want answers to. John Swinney says one thing in public | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
while the work he is doing in the background says something else. | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
People deserve answers on pensions, passports and a whole range on | :46:51. | :46:58. | |
other a dash of other thing is. want to pick up another final issue. | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
Scottish Labour's financial spokesperson was sacked in the | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
latest reshuffle. He said about Johann Lamont, disagreements we may | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
have run the direction in which the party is headed. Is there a war | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
within the party? No, Johann Lamont has a good team of people around | :47:15. | :47:22. | |
her, now look forward to working with her. -- I look forward. I | :47:22. | :47:32. | |
:47:32. | :47:38. | ||
Note one Scotland 's most famous exports. Brian Cox has come a long | :47:38. | :47:46. | |
way from his career started in Dundee. He has spoken at the launch | :47:46. | :47:56. | |
:47:56. | :47:57. | ||
of the Yes campaign. I have got a few parasites on me. There are few | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
people wanting to take me for a ride and maybe there are few trying to | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
send me to the glue factory. This was Brian Cox working in his native | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
Dundee for the first time in decades. He took on the role of a | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
self-styled people 's champion. Campaigning in his unique style as | :48:17. | :48:24. | |
an independent candidate in a by-election. The city of Dundee has | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
played a big part in shaping Brian Cox 's outlook and continues to have | :48:29. | :48:37. | |
a strong influence on his beliefs. He now lives in America where he has | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
gone on to establish himself as one of Scotland 's greatest actors. But | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
despite his Hollywood success, he is increasingly drawn back to Scotland. | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
He retains a keen interest in issues here. Recently he gave his backing | :48:55. | :49:01. | |
to the equal marriage legislation and he is a firm supporter of | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
independence for Scotland, describing himself as a democratic | :49:04. | :49:11. | |
socialist he spoke at the launch of the Yes Scotland campaign. we have | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
arrived at the moment to realise our potential. Please, let us not | :49:15. | :49:25. | |
:49:25. | :49:26. | ||
wasted. so, can we expect to see and hear more of Brian Cox in Scotland | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
over the next 12 months? I am elated to see that Brian Cox | :49:31. | :49:38. | |
joins me live in the studio. -- delighted. You grew up in Dundee. | :49:38. | :49:45. | |
Did you ever imagine how your career would end up? not a clue. It has | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
been such a surprise. The irony is that when I was a kid I used to look | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
at the River Tay and think, I want to get over there. Now I come the | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
other way and think, I cannot wait to get back on the Dundee side. I | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
had no idea. But it was important for you to go down to London when | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
you were quite young to get your career going. It is very | :50:10. | :50:17. | |
different... We are talking 50 years ago. It was a very different world. | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
Scotland really has... I do not think that people really realise how | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
much Scotland has come into its own in the last 50 years. When I was a | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
child it was very much in North Britain. It was post-Warren and it | :50:29. | :50:39. | |
was tough for everybody. Then there was this great period of social | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
mobility in the 1960s and I was a product of that myth of social | :50:42. | :50:52. | |
:50:52. | :50:53. | ||
mobility and so I went to study my craft. -- that atmosphere of social | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
mobility. London was the same distance to me as Glasgow was, so I | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
went there and had a great time studying. and then things took off | :51:01. | :51:09. | |
in Hollywood. yes, they did. I did not go to Hollywood until I was | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
nearly 50. I always wanted to do movies. That was my influence as a | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
child. Dundee was historically known as having more cinemas than any | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
other town in Scotland. At one time in my life I visited all of them. | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
That was the kind of actor I wanted to be, it wanted to be a film actor. | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
And then I realised that because I worked in the theatre, I started | :51:36. | :51:46. | |
:51:46. | :51:53. | ||
work at the Dundee Rep. There was talk about the British film | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
industry. There was a television industry, but there was never a film | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
industry as such. I decided to make the move to America in the mid-19 | :52:02. | :52:10. | |
90s. You are being drawn to Scotland more. What attracts you to the | :52:10. | :52:20. | |
:52:20. | :52:23. | ||
Scottish roles? You still have the Hollywood career. His work dried up? | :52:23. | :52:29. | |
In Scottish culture, the East Coast does not get represented very well. | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
There is not a lot of east coast humour. East Coast tumour is very | :52:33. | :52:39. | |
different from West Coast humour. We have seen all the great West Coast | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
comedians but there was never anything about the East and Dundee. | :52:42. | :52:52. | |
:52:52. | :52:55. | ||
It is a very particular, surreal kind of humour. The writer is from | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
Broughty Ferry and he seemed to capture something extraordinary. | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
saw you speak at the launch of the Yes campaign, where I saw you | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
describe yourself as a democratic socialist. Do you have any | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
particular attachment to a party? You are in favour of independence of | :53:14. | :53:20. | |
course. I am not. I'm very much not a Scottish Nationalists did they | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
think that people should see the issue in terms of... I think that | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
people get confused. We're not talking about Scottish National is, | :53:29. | :53:34. | |
we are talking about Scottish independence. They are two entirely | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
different issues. It happens that the Scottish Nationalists have taken | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
up the pattern, but I come from a social democratic position. I come | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
from a position of experience. I lived in London for 40 years. It is | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
living in the south and seeing what has happened in England. I am a | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
federalist. I watched Leslie Redeker put weeks ago. I was impressed with | :53:57. | :54:07. | |
:54:07. | :54:08. | ||
what she said about that. How do you think that the Yes campaign has | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
performed over the last year? doing relatively well. But on both | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
campaigns, the no campaign, there is a lot of fear being thrown out which | :54:18. | :54:26. | |
is needless. I think we have tried to be honest in the Yes campaign. We | :54:26. | :54:34. | |
do not tell lies. I was watching a clip of you in Braveheart. It is | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
very much the nationalism of the heart as opposed to the head. How | :54:38. | :54:41. | |
can you attract people to independence, head or heart, what | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
makes the difference? It has to be a balance of both. We balance our | :54:47. | :54:52. | |
ahead and our heart. Life is made up that way. The whole thing of | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
Scottish independence has come to me... I was never for that when I | :54:56. | :55:02. | |
was a child. I was never for that in my 20s. But having seen how the poor | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
have got poor and the rich have got richer and that seems to be across | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
these islands, I think it is time to start again and I think an | :55:09. | :55:14. | |
independent Scotland as a way of starting again. It is also something | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
which is about the particular as well as about the general. I am an | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
internationalist, but I believe in their particular element of what | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
Scottish independence represents. was when you went to London that you | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
felt that you were a Scot? really feel it, I was from Dundee. | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
That is very different from being a Scot! But going there, I suddenly | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
realised what Scotland was about. I loved my time in London, but even | :55:48. | :55:53. | |
now living in London, it is a great place, but we have become so focused | :55:53. | :55:59. | |
on London. The healthiest thing for it Great Britain would be to have a | :55:59. | :56:06. | |
parliament that was not based in London but was based somewhere else. | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
We are heading to the news in a moment. Then we will look at the 200 | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
act of Swiss Scottish Parliament becoming law. -- of the Scottish | :56:17. | :56:26. | |
Parliament. What has Holyrood ever done for you? No time for the news. | :56:26. | :56:36. | |
:56:36. | :57:02. | ||
between Pakistan and Afghanistan was of vital importance. He said that | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
Britain and Pakistan had a shared interest in establishing a stable, | :57:08. | :57:13. | |
peaceful and democratic Afghanistan. the friends of Pakistan are friends | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
of Britain. Enemies of Pakistan are enemies of Britain. We will stand | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
together and conduct this fight against extremism and terrorism | :57:19. | :57:29. | |
:57:29. | :57:29. | ||
together. I have assured Prime Minister Cameron of our firm resolve | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
to promote the objective of a stable and peaceful Afghanistan. So that | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
those currently living in Pakistan can return with honour and dignity. | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
David Cameron also hopes his visit here will provide more opportunities | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
for British businesses. Building on the historic and cultural ties | :57:47. | :57:53. | |
between the two countries. He has announced a new goal of �3 billion | :57:53. | :57:58. | |
in bilateral trade by 2015. There have been press accusations | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
about the extent of spying by America 's National Security | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
Agency, this time involving the European Union. The former CIA | :58:07. | :58:14. | |
contractor Edward Snowden told a German newspaper that millions of | :58:14. | :58:22. | |
German phone calls have been monitored, as well as e-mails. Today | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
marks the first anniversary of President Mohammed Morsi 's election | :58:26. | :58:34. | |
in Egypt. There is predicted to be demonstrations in support and | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
against his leadership. The Rolling Stones and their legions | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
of fans are recovering this morning after they completed their first | :58:42. | :58:48. | |
ever appearance at the Glastonbury Festival. | :58:48. | :58:56. | |
The band played for over two hours, with the Glastonbury organiser | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
describing it as his highlight of the 43 years of organising the | :58:59. | :59:09. | |
:59:09. | :59:11. | ||
event. The three-day festival ends this weekend. | :59:11. | :59:14. | |
Good morning. The UK government is to claim that Scottish independence | :59:14. | :59:20. | |
with lead to more phone users here facing higher bills. In his | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
statement looking at the impact of a Yes vote, it raises the possibility | :59:24. | :59:30. | |
of Scottish callers facing roaming fees when they visit England. It is | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
also claimed that independence could threaten postal services and rope | :59:35. | :59:43. | |
broadband position. Scottish consumers benefit from UK wide | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
postal and telephone networks. We know that it costs more to provide | :59:46. | :59:52. | |
the services to rural areas, but across the UK we benefit from | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
economies of scale and spreading that cost. An independent Scotland | :59:55. | :00:01. | |
would have a higher proportion of rural, sparsely populated areas, and | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
so the cost of posting a letter or your mobile phone bills could go up. | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
to terror bills are due to be demolished in Dundee today. They | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
have stood at the top of the city 's held town for 40 years. Nearby homes | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
have been evacuated and 20 wrote in the area have been closed. The | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
congregation at St Martin's Episcopal Church which stands | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
between the two buildings are worshipping elsewhere today. Time | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
afternoon and with that comes outbreaks of rain for western | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Scotland. Turning more sherry for the afternoon, elsewhere some | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
brightness getting through. The best of it across Aberdeenshire and | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
Angus. That will lift temperatures up to new 20 Celsius. | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
More in the early evening News at 6:50pm. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Brian Cox is still with me in the studio. We have done your career, | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
your politics. One series that fascinated me over Christmas was | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
looking at opium, whiskey and sugar in Scotland. Things that have | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
brought a lot of wealth to this country, but a lot of ill-health as | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
well. Sugar in particular. We are all becoming a nation of diabetics. | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
What appals me, and this is on a recent visit, when I visited my home | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
Hospital in Dundee, I went and had my tests with the chief scientist of | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Scotland, Arnold friend of mine. He did my eye tests and feet tests and | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
my tests for diabetes. Then went down to the shops in the hospital | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
and they are selling the most appallingly high sugar stuff. On the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
one hand you have this health going on and in the basement there is | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Christ casting the people out of the temple. What is going on? All of | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
this rubbish that is being served up. It is our diet. We do not pay | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
enough attention to ever doubt. series was hugely informative. He | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
were looking at the effect of whiskey as well and the way that | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
alcoholism has spread throughout Scotland. You exploit that in the | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
series. Timmy whisky is very honest because it has a social base to it. | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
It is this move from being very... We moved almost overnight from an | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
agrarian to an industrial culture. People still have a farming | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
mentality. They removed out to big flats in cow cartons and places like | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
that. Suddenly alcoholism went through the roof and the Temperance | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
movement, which was an amazing movement at the time, we have only | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
just got -- caught up with it. have been here, there and | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
everywhere. But when you come back to Scotland do you see a nation that | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
is changing? I see a nation that is extraordinary. I am so proud of this | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
country. I am so proud of the way it has moved in last 40 or 50 years. It | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
has done phenomenally. Just in terms of itself and its own identity. It | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
is more itself than it ever was. It was not like that when I was a kid. | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
I am very proud of it, I'm very proud to be Scottish. Will BBC more | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
review in Scotland? Anything else coming up? I will be doing some | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
stuff here and in Shetland. I am really looking forward to that. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
detective series. I am going to do a spot on that. I like being back here | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
and working. But the great thing for me is that I have been elected for | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
another three years as director of Dundee University. The University is | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
one of the big things in my life and it is something I'm really dedicated | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
to. When it comes to the referendum, will you be voting? I cannot fault. | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
I cannot thought, sadly. I would board, you know how I would thought. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
That I just want all of these fears to be evaporated. There are a lot of | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
people fear mongering. I think that independence is the way forward, not | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
just for us but for the size as well. It has been a pleasure | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
speaking to you. 14 years after it was first | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
established, the Scottish Parliament this week celebrated the passing of | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
its 200th act. The Forth Road Bridge Act became law according to the | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
usual conventions. The milestone offered politicians are chance to | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
reflect on Holyrood 's records. in a week when the new Queensbury | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
Crossing has enjoyed the limelight, its neighbour was in the limelight | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
:05:29. | :05:33. | ||
too. The Great Seal of Scotland has not changed much in 800 years and | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
this is a key stage. Pouring the hot wax into these moulds, waiting for | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
it to set, ready to be applied to the document. Over the course of two | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
hours the delicate work continued towards its conclusion. The moment | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
that the heavy mould is removed is the moment that the act becomes law, | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
maintaining strong links with the past. the seal has been used in its | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
current form since 1707 at the union of the Parliaments. Before that it | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
would have been used by the monarch in Scotland. After 1707 at Kendall | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
declined. Since the Scottish Parliament it has been used much | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
more. Legislation has influenced most aspects of Scottish life, from | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
the legal system to the environment. Act that brought about the smoking | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
:06:36. | :06:37. | ||
ban and free personal care for the elderly. The Presiding Officer who | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
:06:47. | :06:53. | ||
was there at the beginning of the Parliament believes that there have | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
been great advantages. the only thing is that there is no revising | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
:07:11. | :07:22. | ||
chamber. That is something that is on some legislation, there needs to | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
be sunset clauses on some legislation so that after three or | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
four years it his to come back to parliament for approval before it | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
can continue. Another bone of contention comes from the SNP 's | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
convincing victory. the Parliament was designed so that a minority | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
:07:54. | :07:54. | ||
government could not rule. democratic will of the SNP | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
Government of the Scottish people chose the SNP Government. We have | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
always come to a consensual view, which has included constructive | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
:08:17. | :08:23. | ||
criticism and recommendations for the Scottish Government. | :08:23. | :08:27. |