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Politics. Farewell Abu Qatada. It's only taken | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
us eight years to send you packing. The extremist Muslim cleric has | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
already arrived in Jordan this morning. We'll be talking to Justice | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Secretary Chris Grayling. We know what Nigel Farage thinks - | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
he's never off the telly. But what about the rest of UKIP? Stay tuned | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
for the biggest survey yet of UKIP councillors. We'll be putting our | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
results to the party leader. As Ed Milliband and Union baron Len | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
McLuskey come to blows, we'll be asking political bruiser John Reid | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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who's in charge of Labour? And imagine coming out of the care | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
system at 16 and finding yourself homeless. There is new legislation | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1873 seconds | :01:30. | :32:44. | |
to fix the issue but does it go far this point you seem reluctant to | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
talk about and instead bash Labour which is not what I am asking about | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
at all. We have seen that many people who might have voted for you, | :32:50. | :32:56. | |
who voted Conservative in the past, will now vote for MrFar and -- | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
MrFarage. Maybe in enough numbers to give MrMiliband the keys to Downing | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
Street which you say would be a disaster and MrMcCluskey and the | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
rest of them. I ask again why don't you do a deal to stop that | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
happening? Well, you don't do deals. You fight for your principles, you | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
fight for what you believe is right. The Conservative Party isn't going | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
to go to a general election having done a deal with someone else. We | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
are going to a general election and fight on the principles we believe | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
in. If you take the issue of Europe, the one on which a number of people | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
have expressed concerns in the last few years. On Friday the entire | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
Conservative Party went to the House of Commons and voted for a | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
referendum on the European Union. We face opposition to that from Labour | :33:38. | :33:44. | |
and the Lib Dems. Not from UKIP. Why can't you do a deal with a party | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
that's already full of people who used to be Conservatives? Look, we | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
have to get legislation through the House of Commons. The reality of the | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
House of Commons is that it's Labour and the Lib Dems who have more votes | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
than us in the House of Commons. So therefore if we are going to win the | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
argument the only way we will be able to change these things, the way | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
we can deliver a referendum, a renegotiation first because that's | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
crucial, we have to have a renegotiation so there is a genuine | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
deal to offer, we have to get a majority Conservative Government. | :34:14. | :34:21. | |
understand that. But you are only trailing Labour by 6-10% in the | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
polls, it's not a huge amount Labour is ahead at the moment. A deal with | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
UKIP would make it much more likely that you form a Government after the | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
next election. You have seen the election projections, no deal with | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
UKIP, MrMiliband could win an overall majority with less than 35% | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
of the vote. Well, the deal I want to do is not with another party. | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
It's with voters. It's with voters who might be tempted to vote for | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
UKIP, voters who might be tempted to vote for the Labour Party or Lib | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
Dems. We have to say to them if you want a referendum on Europe, if you | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
want new human rights laws, to carry on with welfare reform, if you want | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
more education changes of the kind you believe in, if you want a | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
tougher criminal justice system you need a majority Conservative | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
Government. All right. Abu Qatada back in Jordan today. The Home | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
Secretary said in the aftermath of this we need to look at the European | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
Court of Human Rights and nothing should be off the table, quote. But | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
nothing off the table, does that include the possibility that we | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
would leave the European Convention on Human Rights? Yes, it does. We | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
have been very clear. We are currently doing detailed work on | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
options. I have personal responsibility within the | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
Ministerial team for human rights issues. We are currently looking at | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
what the options are for us. I have been very clear indeed, we are not | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
ruling anything in, we are not ruling anything out. I have said | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
clearly at a minimum there will be a replacement for the Human Rights | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
Act. We will have a fundamental change to our realise with the | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
European Court of Human Rights. We cannot go on with a situation where | :35:59. | :36:06. | |
we have people who want to do real damage to this country able to stay | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
here, when they represent a threat to us A future Conservative | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
Government with a majority, one of the options would be to leave the | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
convention altogether? One of the options, I have ruled nothing in and | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
out. A future Conservative Government with a majority will make | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
wholesale changes to human rights laws. The problem is not the | :36:28. | :36:30. | |
original convention written by Conservatives and is a sensible | :36:30. | :36:37. | |
document. It's the way in which the European Courts interpret it and | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
re-interpret it You can't change the convention yourself. You can't | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
change it. Well, that's why we are working through detailed options and | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
we will come up later this year with a clear plan. We will go to the next | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
election in our manifesto with a clear plan for change that will set | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
out exactly what we will do, when we will do it, how we will do it, what | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
the legal basis will be. We will have that in good time for the | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
election but I am absolutely clear there will be wholesale changes to | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
the way that human rights laws operate in this country. I am sure | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
UKIP will agree with you, but I understand there will be no deal, | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
you have made that clear. Thank you for joining us. Coming up in 20 | :37:17. | :37:26. | |
minutes, I will be looking at the week ahead with our panel. Welcome | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
to Sunday Politics Scotland. What more can be done to help those | :37:33. | :37:43. | |
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marooned by the system after 16? had no family down here. The Battle | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
of Falkirk. Ed Miliband wants to mend the union link. | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
And the social media cyber war. How Yes Scotland and Better Together | :37:57. | :38:05. | |
wrestle it out in the digital world. It is a familiar story across the | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
country. Young people leave the care system only to find themselves | :38:08. | :38:15. | |
homeless. The Scottish Government is trying to change that through the | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
Children and Young People's Bill. Some believe it does not go far | :38:20. | :38:27. | |
enough. For this person the search for a | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
place to call home has been difficult. Now settled with his | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
partner and his daughter it is a different picture to five years ago. | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
The clear unit he was placed on was closed down. Unable to go home, | :38:42. | :38:52. | |
homelessness was his only option. had no family down here. I was in a | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
bed and breakfast. You were not allowed to be there during the day. | :38:55. | :39:03. | |
You had to be outside. I was lost. In towns and cities across the | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
country thousands of people have similar stories to tell. The nature | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
of homelessness means that hard and fast figures are difficult to come | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
by. It is estimated that one third of Scotland's homeless population | :39:16. | :39:26. | |
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have spent time in care. I had two younger brothers who has | :39:29. | :39:36. | |
left the care system at an early age. They were homeless. They passed | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
away at the age of 18. There is a real disconnect when a young person | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
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has grown up in the care system and then they leave the system. | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
The organisation Who Cares Scotland has supported -- has provided | :39:59. | :40:09. | |
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support and employment. Every person has the same aspirations. They want | :40:10. | :40:17. | |
a job. They want a family. We have not given them the tools for that to | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
happen. If we look at the different sources that are paying for the | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
services that young people use and put that back into investing in the | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
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longer term. The legislation proposes to raise the age that | :40:39. | :40:49. | |
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support is available from 21 at 226. -- from 21 to 26. The economic sense | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
of acting early is there to be seen. There are many preventive measures | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
in this legislation that will help us to ensure that young people 's | :41:06. | :41:13. | |
lives are positive will stop but Who Cares Scotland are not alone in | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
thinking the Bill needs to go further. | :41:17. | :41:24. | |
I would like to see some consideration of 16-year-olds and | :41:24. | :41:32. | |
17-year-olds, the possibility that they can be received back into care. | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
The Bottom Line for this person is that those leaving care in future | :41:40. | :41:49. | |
should not face the same situation he did. People should be able to say | :41:49. | :41:59. | |
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that they need the support. It should be a baseline. Joining me now | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
is the Chief Executive of Who Cares Scotland, Duncan Dunlop, and Mary | :42:05. | :42:14. | |
Fee, who is on the equal opportunities to midday will stop | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
and we have Marco Biagi who is also on the Equal Opportunities | :42:18. | :42:28. | |
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Committee. Paint a picture for us. How serious is the problem? We have | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
to look at it relative to what happens to other young people. The | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
average age of young people leaving home in Scotland is 26. The majority | :42:39. | :42:48. | |
of people are leaving care at 16. Yet they have not had the stability | :42:48. | :42:58. | |
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through childhood and adolescence. The consequences of this are dire. | :42:59. | :43:06. | |
We have to take this seriously. They need the right to be able to return | :43:06. | :43:16. | |
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to care, or stay in care until 26. As the legislation and is | :43:19. | :43:29. | |
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opportunity? It needs to go further. Children and Young People's Bill | :43:31. | :43:41. | |
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need the right to return to care or to stay in care until age 26. | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
Biagi, what do you have to say about what Duncan Dunlop has been pointing | :43:49. | :43:58. | |
out? The legislation has perhaps not gone far enough? The legislation | :43:58. | :44:08. | |
extends the duty of corporate parenting by councils. Many of the | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
most successful projects for people who have let care are those that | :44:11. | :44:17. | |
have ongoing support, not simply putting them in a House, but having | :44:17. | :44:24. | |
support staff that come round and help them with life skills. That | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
kind of support is very important. It is being rolled out with the | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
changes that are taking place. When a young person leaves care they are | :44:35. | :44:41. | |
dependent on the grant that the Scottish Government has stepped in | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
to protect from Westminster cuts. There is a great deal already | :44:46. | :44:55. | |
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happening. The legislation is a huge step already. Would you go as far as | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
what Duncan Dunlop is proposing? That would give many the chance to | :45:03. | :45:09. | |
go through higher education and make their way in the world. This | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
legislation includes provision that local councils would have to listen | :45:14. | :45:20. | |
to calls for help from these people up to the age of 26. I do not want | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
to be prescriptive about the particular approach. There are a lot | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
of methods of support out there. We have seen a great deal of work with | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
councils, not just with people who are leaving care, but is trying to | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
intervene to stop people going into care. The prevention agenda is not | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
just after you leave care. It is trying to deal with difficult | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
situations that can lead to an young people needing care in the first | :45:46. | :45:54. | |
place. Mary Fee, on the Equal Opportunities Committee you were | :45:54. | :46:01. | |
pointing out that the age should be raised to 18. What about the idea | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
that the support should be there until the age of 25? It is crucial | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
that the support is there until the age of 25 if that is what they | :46:11. | :46:21. | |
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want. Many of the young care leavers told us that 16 is too young to | :46:22. | :46:31. | |
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leave care. We heard harrowing story from a young person who was taken to | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
temporary accommodation on his 16th birthday. He did not have the life | :46:38. | :46:48. | |
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skills to sustain that tenancy. What is your reaction? When politicians | :46:49. | :46:59. | |
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know about this issue. They now understand this issue. We are | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
evolving the thinking. This legislation needs to go further. We | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
have not refused the legislation. We just need to look at it in more | :47:19. | :47:29. | |
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detail. It is too complex. We need to compare it to what other young | :47:30. | :47:40. | |
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people have in their lives. They have parents who gave them. At the | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
moment there are too many different relationships, different places, and | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
these young people do not know who to trust. That is why going to | :47:52. | :48:02. | |
another set of relationships from age 16 does not necessarily help. | :48:02. | :48:12. | |
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Perhaps we are lacking in support. Is there a financial issues here? | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
Councils at and down the country bear the cost of having to clean up | :48:24. | :48:31. | |
after terrible incidents that could have been prevented will stop -- | :48:31. | :48:41. | |
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prevented. The kind of measures that are in the legislation will embed | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
that approach. That is an approach that a lot of councils will | :48:51. | :48:57. | |
appreciate. Right now there is a tight financial situation imposed on | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
Scotland. It is hard to make that shift without cutting somewhere | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
else, but over the long term that is a shift in service provision that | :49:06. | :49:16. | |
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everybody wants to see. That is not necessarily true. In the short-term | :49:20. | :49:27. | |
it could be expensive. How much does it cost to put someone through the | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
justice system? How much does it cost for somebody to be an employed | :49:33. | :49:43. | |
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and not involved in education? A preventative agenda would make | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
Scotland the best place to grow up. It is a great opportunity for | :49:48. | :49:55. | |
Scotland to do this. Mary Fee, are you going to press for further | :49:55. | :50:05. | |
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changes? I don't think the bill does go far enough. Many children leave | :50:08. | :50:15. | |
the key system without the proper system. We have to look very | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
carefully at corporate patenting. We should expect the same things for | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
those children as we aspire to for our own children. It is a key issue | :50:26. | :50:35. | |
for me. I want to ask about the Falkirk situation for the Labour | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
Party at the moment. Do you think it is possible to mend a link with the | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
unions? Absolutely I think it is possible. The situation in Falkirk | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
is alive peace enquiry so it would be inappropriate for me to comment. | :50:47. | :50:57. | |
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John Hanlan and -- Joanne Lamb and has been involved in that. It is not | :50:59. | :51:06. | |
just a Falkirk issue, it is a UK issue. It is a far wider issue. | :51:06. | :51:10. | |
is not just a Falkirk problem, there are claims today that unite tried to | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
take in the shadow Foreign Secretary when a review pitched him against | :51:17. | :51:25. | |
Jim Sheridan, what do you see about that? That is ludicrous. You cannot | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
compare the two situations. Clearly easily could have suffered in the | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
boundary changes. A boundary changes did not go ahead and MPs would have | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
been up against each other had they gone ahead. The situation is | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
completely different. It is only natural when there is a selection | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
process that people will come in and join the party but it is crucial we | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
get the best possible people standing in seats. Thank you all for | :51:52. | :51:59. | |
an interesting discussion. Since Obama's rise to office social media | :51:59. | :52:09. | |
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and the Internet have seen as crucial campaign tools. Better | :52:11. | :52:21. | |
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Together had a big change. The battle for America 2008 is the one | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
to beat. With the West Wing 's dream of having a political campaign like | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
that, as ground-breaking as its outcome was historic. Trucial to the | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
success was the way the Obama campaign used the Internet and | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
social media to get their message out and bring donations in. The | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
company behind that digital effort has been advising the Better | :52:50. | :53:00. | |
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Together campaign ahead of Scottish independence. They had to build an | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
organisation from scratch so they wait to digital to do that. Often | :53:06. | :53:12. | |
the digital team is often put in the corner, in the cupboard far-away, | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
decisions are made in an organisation or political campaign | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
and then very close to the time I campaign is launched that gets | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
involved with the digital team. The digital team in 2008 was at the top | :53:23. | :53:31. | |
table. It is not just a case of talking to the Facebook is and those | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
on twitter. Activists across the country are kept on message. We are | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
grassroots organisation with tens of thousands of volunteers. Part of | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
what we want them to do is go out and evangelise through digital | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
media. Equally important is for them to talk to people face-to-face in a | :53:53. | :53:59. | |
cafe, with their family, in a pub or out of it for much. Our job is to | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
make sure those people have the tools they need and the information | :54:02. | :54:06. | |
they need to be able to carry on those conversations in an effective | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
way. Around the country I have instruct IB comments made by young | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
people. There are times when politicians attempts to use social | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
media go horribly wrong. Gordon Brown's intervention on the expenses | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
scandal through YouTube was ridiculed for being awkward and in | :54:27. | :54:37. | |
effect live. Some candidates have said stupid rings online. It is | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
keeping a sense of a new self online and remembering it is for ever so if | :54:42. | :54:52. | |
you are not willing to stand by it then do not see it. Some see online | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
campaigning as an alternative to off-line campaigning, knocking on | :54:54. | :55:00. | |
doors to you and me. But they have to get the message to new groups of | :55:00. | :55:07. | |
voters. It allows us to tailor our message to different audiences and | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
measured exactly how they have responded to it so we can further | :55:10. | :55:17. | |
polish our messages for people. Scotland and better together insist | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
they are grassroots campaigns and the referendum be won and lost in | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
online communities. With online networks playing a bigger part in | :55:25. | :55:33. | |
people's lives, being a wireless battle to dwell the week to win. | :55:33. | :55:41. | |
With me now is social media strategist. Thank you for coming in. | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
I'll be any where near the Obama level of online campaigning? Even | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
the level they were wrapped in 2008? Tell Michael I think both sides | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
would love to see they are in the hope that this Obama magic would rub | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
off on them but in terms of gathering data, the tools are very | :55:59. | :56:06. | |
similar. If the tool is available in America it is easily sent over here. | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
What all sides are missing is that what works in America does not | :56:09. | :56:15. | |
necessarily work in Britain. In America, Obama had local | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
fundraisers, people going round to each other was Mike houses, watching | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
videos of Obama and leaving donations, I do not see anyone in | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
Scotland rushing round to watch a video of Nicola Sturgeon or Alistair | :56:28. | :56:37. | |
Darling, it is not the same sort of politics. What is the key for this | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
kind of digital strategy? Equal is in the name, it is called social | :56:42. | :56:49. | |
media. -- the clue is in the name. It is not just about broadcasting | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
the message. For both sides being at close and cons. They want to put | :56:54. | :56:59. | |
their message out there but the beauty of social media is companies | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
coming back and changing things after listening to the audience. | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
They are reaching out to communities asking what the issues are at a | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
local level. The big problem is, neither side is going to back down | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
on anything. They do not want to be seen as looking weak or indecisive | :57:16. | :57:23. | |
or have the other side jump on them. Until we have a grown-up debate | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
about that EDL we will be more or less broadcasting rather than true | :57:27. | :57:36. | |
social media. -- about that easier. In this day and age politicians | :57:36. | :57:42. | |
should remember they are servants of the people. They should he | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
reflecting the desires of the people. If people want more taxes or | :57:46. | :57:53. | |
better childcare the job of the politician is to turn around and | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
respond to that. It has never been easier for the politician to the act | :57:56. | :58:02. | |
to the electorate. They are trying to hard to shout at people and top | :58:02. | :58:09. | |
down to them instead of seeing we will do one thing and by speaking | :58:09. | :58:16. | |
across Scotland we will see it as a bigger issue. That shows real change | :58:16. | :58:26. | |
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and maturity online. In the US last night there was a method in twitter | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
that you could access slightly longer tweets and get more | :58:31. | :58:37. | |
information, what is the next big thing in social media? It ends on | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
the generation. For geeks like myself it is fascinating. You have | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
got people 25 and up to use Facebook, Twitter, blogs, they are | :58:47. | :58:53. | |
day-to-day tools now, not to much new media, just the media day use. | :58:53. | :58:58. | |
Youngsters are using tools that the average politician would not know | :58:59. | :59:06. | |
what it meant. It is not one tool, this is where many people struggle. | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
In days gone by a few appeared on shows like this or in the Herald or | :59:10. | :59:18. | |
Scotsman the coverage was done. Now it is a multi-fragmented platform. | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
The tools that need to be brought into day have to be used in weeks up | :59:23. | :59:30. | |
to the election. It is still a year away. You do not know what will | :59:30. | :59:36. | |
happen. The minute you win the election you start planning for the | :59:36. | :59:42. | |
next one, this has been the longest one in history for people to know. | :59:42. | :59:47. | |
With social media editors normally done quickly, 15 seconds, this is | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
something where people have a real chance to build relationships over | :59:52. | :59:58. | |
the long haul. You have to synchronise the online and off-line | :59:58. | :00:05. | |
campaign? Yes, it is one big connected world now. Thank you for | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
coming in to talk to us, really interesting to speak to you. Now you | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
are watching Sunday politics Scotland, after the news it might be | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
recess but that does not mean it has been a quiet week in politics. I | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
will be joined by my guests from the Herald and times to discuss more | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
about what has been in the news and a little sporting event that is | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
coming up this afternoon. Now we have the news and Reporting | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
Scotland. Good afternoon. The radical Muslim cleric Abu could had | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
has arrived in Jordan after being deported from Britain. He has been | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
taken to court in Amman this morning. That brings to an end eight | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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years of legal wrangling. Applicant had on his way out of Britain. For | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
years people have wanted to see this site but he frustrated them. A new | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
decision meant he could be put on a plane to Jordan where he has twice | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
been convicted in his absence of terror plots. I was absolutely | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
delighted. This is something this government said it would get done | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
and we have got it done. It is an issue that, like the rest of the | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
country, it has made my blood boil. This man who had no right to be in | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
our country and who was a threat to our country, that it has taken so | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
long to deport him. Now he is back in Jordan, that is excellent news. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Now the government wants to change the rules that made him so difficult | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
to deport. They want fewer appeals in cases. You want a fundamental | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
change in Britain's relationship with the European Court of human | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
rights which the claim for delaying this case. One of the options would | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
be to have nothing more to do with this court. We need to ensure we | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
protect human rights and this country has a fine record in | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
relation to the protection of human rights but we do want to make sure | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
that when there is somebody in this country who is dangerous and who | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
poses a threat, that we are able to remove them. With him finally landed | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
in Jordan how best to achieve that balance will be contested and the | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
world will watch to see whether he gets the fair trial here promised by | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
the officials in Jordan and expected by British politicians. Place in | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Canada say they expect the number of casualties to rise after a tanker | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
train was derailed and exploded in a small-town intubate. Dozens remain | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
unaccounted for. More than 2000 people have been evacuated. The | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
train was carrying crude oil when it apparently started to roll away | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
after being parked by its driver. Andy Murray will attempt to win his | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
second title this afternoon. All tickets have been sold but many | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
queued overnight in the hope of watching the game on the big screen | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
inside. That is all the news for the moment. We will have more news at | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
half past seven tonight. Good afternoon. As you have healing Andy | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
Murray takes on Novak Jaco bitch in the main's singles at Wimbledon | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
tonight. -- Novak Jaco bitch. Our reporter was at the all England | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
club. It is quickly -- pretty quiet year on centre court right now. Andy | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Murray will step out in front of 15,000 fans. If he wins he will make | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
history. Standing in his way is the best player on the planet. The world | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
number one has won most of his meetings. The last time they met it | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
was Murray who took the honours. Labour leader Ed Milli band has | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
dismissed rumours he wants to end their relationship between the party | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
and the trade unions. First Minister Alex Salmond has accused Scottish | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
Labour leader Johann Lamont of being silent on the issue while her party | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
has imploded. has imploded. | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
Time for the weather Dry bright and sunny across most of the country. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Any cloud in the south tending to break. Slightly cooler further | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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break. Slightly cooler further north. That is the forecast. I will | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
now hand you back to Andrew. In a moment we will be discussing | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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the big stories, but first let us its 65th anniversary this week. -- | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
:05:54. | :05:56. | ||
the NHS celebrated. The MP Tom Watson left as the Labour | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
general election court it. The right to buy council houses at a | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
discount will be scrapped by 2017. Glasgow lost out in its bid to host | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
:06:23. | :06:24. | ||
the youth Olympic games 2018. We are proof that the men who died | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
in July 1980 are not forgotten. The 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha | :06:32. | :06:42. | |
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Labour's troubles in Falkirk have dominated the news and will no doubt | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
:06:57. | :07:00. | ||
play a big role in the week ahead. I am now joined by Lindsay McIntosh | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
and Robbie Dinwoodie. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining me. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
We will get straight to the top story that is dominating the | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
:07:17. | :07:23. | ||
headlines. Ed Miliband is set on reform. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
It has been a disastrous week for Labour. It is not going away any | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
time soon. The more that Ed Miliband wants to put this behind him the | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
harder it gets because he is simply pushing the unions away. This is the | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
labour movement. It is not easy to separate it out. Lord Reid was | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
talking about this ideological divide earlier. It looks like this | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
is a war that will continue. It is a battle for the soul of the Labour | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Party that is going on here. They have to modernise in order to see | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
that's all. Labour has been successful in the past decade or so | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
when they have taken a centrist approach. We cannot have this lurch | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
back to union control. It is not going to fly. Do you think that Ed | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
Miliband can mend the link with the unions? He has to make sure that | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
more moderate trade union leaders are on his side. At the same time | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
they have to be very weary of accepting everything that has | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
happened and austerity because ordinary people are beginning to see | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
that enough is enough. That is the two tensions that are pulling at | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
him. We have been seeing a lot of Johann Lamont in the newspapers | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
today. She has been portrayed as a puppet in the press. She has been | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
quiet on this issue. We have not seen much of her in the past week. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
She has not come out on this issue at all. It is an issue for the UK | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
party, but Johann Lamont has made much of the fact that she is in | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
control of the Scottish party. We do need to see her upfront. I believe | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
she is doing a lot behind the scenes, but she should come out and | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
say that. Does this call her leadership into question? It does | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
not call her leadership into question. That I am baffled by the | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
tactics. If, as Labour claimed, she is at one with Ed Miliband on this | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
and has been having conversations every step of the way, why has this | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
statement is not reflected that? Why have not been comments issued in the | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
:10:25. | :10:33. | ||
name of Johann Lamont? For her to be completely silent strikes me. | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
:10:43. | :10:46. | ||
Headline about the Unite union. There is the review of the boundary | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Commission coming up. Jim Sheridan is portrayed as the man likely to | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
take the seat. Labour spokesperson has said something that I even | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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mention on here. United deny that anything untoward happens. This is | :11:08. | :11:18. | |
not on the same scale as Falkirk at all. But the fact that they were | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
willing to take on Alexander suggests that they are pretty | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
confident and pretty keen to seize power of this party. The Unite union | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
denied the allegation in the article. Are there are further | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
problems ahead for its Miller band? There is talk of this happening in | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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40 seats? If two constituencies had been merged then you should not be | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
surprised that some people will side with one and some will side with | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
another. What happened in Falkirk was different. Back in February | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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there was bleated vote rigging. -- there was clear vote rigging. This | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
is a controversy that is not going away. | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
And what some may call and artists impression of Andy Murray. Perhaps | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
history can be made this afternoon? It would be brilliant to have a | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
Scottish winner, a British winner. It would be great. He deserves it. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
It is a brutal sport. It would be great if he did it. If he does not | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
do it this time I think he and Novak Djokovic will dominate for the next | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
few years. And I am sure your colleagues will be heading to | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
Dunblane. It would be great to have a winner from there. They are very | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
proud of him. Any political reverberations if a Scottish man | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
wins Wimbledon? I doubt it. I am not a great believer that sporting | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
:13:31. | :13:31. | ||
events have a political knock-on effect. Are they not often tied in? | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
Yes they are. Both sides try to make capital out of it. But we try to | :13:38. | :13:45. |