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In the south, high speed rail is back on track but could it still | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
hit the buffers? Conservative-run councils and MPs along the route a | 0:01:29 | 0:01:39 | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1688 seconds | 0:01:39 | 0:29:48 | |
deeply unhappy at the decision. -- Welcome to Sunday politics south. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:52 | |
High Speed Two may have had the green light from ministers but will | 0:29:52 | 0:29:55 | |
it get derailed by the Conservative MPs and councillors on the route to | 0:29:55 | 0:29:59 | |
are not happy about it? More on that in a bit. With me about the | 0:29:59 | 0:30:03 | |
programme are two of the region's MPs. Collarbones is the | 0:30:03 | 0:30:07 | |
Conservative member for Conservative West and we have the | 0:30:07 | 0:30:11 | |
Liberal Democrat member for Mid Dorset and North Poole. Busy start | 0:30:11 | 0:30:17 | |
to the parliamentary year. The welfare bill. A good thing that | 0:30:17 | 0:30:23 | |
they send it back? I think so. The second chamber is there for | 0:30:23 | 0:30:26 | |
scrutinising and saying let's have a look at this again, and it is | 0:30:26 | 0:30:32 | |
only right be sensitive issues are looked at again. Many of us still | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
very sensitive about cancer patients, in particular. I | 0:30:35 | 0:30:39 | |
certainly need some more reassurances on that. I have to say, | 0:30:39 | 0:30:44 | |
I am overwrought in support of the welfare bill. Moving to universal | 0:30:44 | 0:30:49 | |
credit, giving a real incentive for people who were able to work, is a | 0:30:49 | 0:30:56 | |
good move. -- an overall in support. Do you think people will want to | 0:30:56 | 0:31:00 | |
defend those things against the very cement bands? It is the House | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
of Lords doing what it is there to do which is to review and challenge | 0:31:03 | 0:31:07 | |
the House of Commons. The House of Lords does a very good job which is | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
where I am slightly surprised the Deputy Prime Minister wishes to | 0:31:10 | 0:31:14 | |
abolish it. Getting rid of the Lords is an abolish rid of the | 0:31:14 | 0:31:18 | |
Lords, not a reform. This will be an opportunity for those of this in | 0:31:18 | 0:31:23 | |
House of Commons to make his case again. -- those of us. Tony Blair | 0:31:23 | 0:31:27 | |
tried, backed off. The Universal Credit which wasn't in the | 0:31:27 | 0:31:32 | |
manifesto, 80% of households will be better off. A cross the | 0:31:32 | 0:31:35 | |
coalition we support that. The reality is there are over 5 million | 0:31:35 | 0:31:40 | |
people in this country of working age on out-of-work benefits. 1.4 | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
million of those will be out of work and on this benefit for more | 0:31:43 | 0:31:47 | |
than a year. The country needs to fix this. I welcome it coming back | 0:31:47 | 0:31:51 | |
and I welcome making the case again. Very sympathetic to the point in it | 0:31:51 | 0:32:01 | |
makes about cancer sufferers. We encounter this all the time -- | 0:32:01 | 0:32:09 | |
Annette. We have to have a balance, and certainly from my perspective | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
as a Liberal Democrat it is speaking up all the time. There are | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
other aspects in the welfare bill and queasy about, the cap on | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
housing benefits, as much as that needs tightening and worried about | 0:32:20 | 0:32:25 | |
the impact on many families. I think it is right that we look at | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
everything very carefully. The Liberal Democrats have pushed very | 0:32:28 | 0:32:34 | |
hard on some issues and one thing I have been involved in to some | 0:32:34 | 0:32:38 | |
degree has been employment support allowance for people with | 0:32:38 | 0:32:42 | |
fluctuating conditions. The government has attempted to look at | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
this very sensibly bringing in Professor Harrington, all the | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
organisations have been able to have an input. We get cases now | 0:32:49 | 0:32:53 | |
with legacy from the last government with people with ME for | 0:32:53 | 0:32:57 | |
example, multiple sclerosis, who go for an assessment and they are told | 0:32:57 | 0:33:00 | |
they are capable of working and it just happens that they have got a | 0:33:00 | 0:33:05 | |
good day and that is a travesty. much has been already happening | 0:33:05 | 0:33:10 | |
this year. Scotland as well. And the film, or about Mrs Thatcher. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:16 | |
Connor Burns, have to ask you about this, you are a regular visitor to | 0:33:16 | 0:33:20 | |
Mrs Thatcher? I went to see the film in Leicester Square at 3pm and | 0:33:20 | 0:33:26 | |
I went as they do most Sunday to see her at her home at 6:30pm. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:30 | |
Brilliant piece of acting by Meryl Streep, absolutely amazing. I have | 0:33:30 | 0:33:37 | |
to say, and police to say, the patrol of her in the film, the real | 0:33:38 | 0:33:42 | |
one is so much better and so much better in herself. It is an an | 0:33:42 | 0:33:46 | |
accurate portrayal of how she now is. Insulting? Regrettable. I find | 0:33:47 | 0:33:52 | |
it difficult to attack people who talk about her as she now is | 0:33:52 | 0:33:56 | |
because her daughter, Carol, who rotor batted in the book, so it is | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
in the public domain but the lady is in good form. When I came | 0:33:59 | 0:34:04 | |
through the door to seal a Sunday was, tummy what has been going on? | 0:34:04 | 0:34:10 | |
Did you tell her about the film? would have loved to. It is | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
flattering but had to tell her they are making a film that betrays her | 0:34:14 | 0:34:19 | |
late husband appearing and taunting her. I thought that said it was a | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
bit cruel. Let's talk about the other big | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
thing that happened this week. According to its critics and there | 0:34:26 | 0:34:31 | |
are plenty of them it will cost at least �32 billion, �1,200 per | 0:34:31 | 0:34:36 | |
family, just so businessman to get to Birmingham a few minutes faster. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:40 | |
As the government announced this week they are going ahead with the | 0:34:40 | 0:34:43 | |
HS2 the country's second high-speed rail line running from London to | 0:34:43 | 0:34:48 | |
Birmingham, they will also pushing the benefits to the colony of the | 0:34:48 | 0:34:53 | |
whole country -- they were also. This makes the project look very | 0:34:53 | 0:34:59 | |
flash, but it flashes through Tory heartlands, uniting MPs and | 0:34:59 | 0:35:03 | |
Conservative councils in opposition. There were concessions this week. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:07 | |
Longer tunnels to appease critics. But at a cost of millions more on | 0:35:07 | 0:35:12 | |
the bill. Making the announcement, the minister was cleared off the | 0:35:12 | 0:35:15 | |
cost of not going ahead. The price of that would have been paid in | 0:35:15 | 0:35:21 | |
lost business, there were growth, fewer jobs, and more misery for | 0:35:21 | 0:35:25 | |
passengers on a network that could not cope with the capacity. Joining | 0:35:25 | 0:35:32 | |
us now is Martin tete, the leader of Buckinghamshire County Council. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:35 | |
The Government's point is there is no alternative. What we do spend | 0:35:35 | 0:35:40 | |
�32 billion on? Certainly not on this. The key thing is Tuesday was | 0:35:40 | 0:35:44 | |
described as many independent observers as the triumph of spin | 0:35:44 | 0:35:49 | |
ever commonsense. If you are going to spend �32 billion at the sky it | 0:35:49 | 0:35:52 | |
-- time of sky-high National that you have to make sure you are | 0:35:52 | 0:35:56 | |
spending it well. There are three criteria, make sure it is good | 0:35:56 | 0:36:01 | |
value for money because your money, my money and that many of every | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
single person watching this programme, you have to make sure | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
there are no viable alternatives, you have assess those bubbly, and | 0:36:06 | 0:36:10 | |
you have to persuade people it is genuinely in the national interest. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:15 | |
-- you have assessed those properly. Every independent analyst has found | 0:36:15 | 0:36:20 | |
the government wanting on all three of those. One key example, the | 0:36:20 | 0:36:24 | |
whole business case of this trip to Birmingham and the value for money | 0:36:24 | 0:36:28 | |
of that means every single minute spent on a train by a businessman | 0:36:28 | 0:36:34 | |
is wasted but we all know in an age of technology, some of the most | 0:36:34 | 0:36:38 | |
productive time any businessman ever spent his on a train. The idea | 0:36:38 | 0:36:44 | |
it generates billions of pounds to the economy is just nonsense. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:49 | |
If they admitted that. You can work on a train, you are going to patch | 0:36:49 | 0:36:53 | |
this up, you are all Conservatives together? | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
This is a coalition government decision. Ironically, of course, | 0:36:57 | 0:37:02 | |
this is as Maria Eagle reminded the House on Tuesday, this is Gordon | 0:37:02 | 0:37:08 | |
Brown's project. His big dream, his big silver bullet. He turned this | 0:37:08 | 0:37:12 | |
up and the coalition Cabinet have run with it. The problem is, | 0:37:12 | 0:37:17 | |
virtually every government gets deleted by the idea that some big | 0:37:17 | 0:37:21 | |
prestige project is a silver bullet that solves problems. The reality | 0:37:21 | 0:37:25 | |
is what really sold structural problems in our economy is actually | 0:37:25 | 0:37:28 | |
investing in the road and rail infrastructure around the whole | 0:37:28 | 0:37:32 | |
country that people actually use today. The broken roads, pavements, | 0:37:32 | 0:37:37 | |
trains that are overcrowded, that we really need to sort out, that is | 0:37:37 | 0:37:40 | |
what the -- that is what is going to persuade people to invest and | 0:37:40 | 0:37:46 | |
bring local jobs. Big projects like this, could a | 0:37:46 | 0:37:51 | |
coalition government have the will to push them through, do you think? | 0:37:51 | 0:37:58 | |
I think so. My party obviously is in favour of the whole scheme, and | 0:37:58 | 0:38:01 | |
details of really important, particularly for the local area, I | 0:38:01 | 0:38:05 | |
would like to deny that. It is an awful lot of money. A large sum of | 0:38:05 | 0:38:10 | |
money but we have to think how long is it since we have had a major | 0:38:10 | 0:38:14 | |
investment in our railways. It goes back to the 19th century, something | 0:38:14 | 0:38:18 | |
really major, rather than just doing something on the edges, which | 0:38:18 | 0:38:22 | |
all of that is important but it is not solving our fundamental problem | 0:38:22 | 0:38:26 | |
of under capacity. Whilst we are talking about the roads, if we are | 0:38:26 | 0:38:30 | |
going to be putting more freight on the rail, that will be an enormous | 0:38:30 | 0:38:34 | |
advantage to many of us and long term when this is expanded further | 0:38:34 | 0:38:40 | |
north and Scotland, that of course is going to save on air travel and | 0:38:40 | 0:38:47 | |
carbon emissions. There is an awful lot that you can argue for, but I | 0:38:47 | 0:38:52 | |
have obviously understand, I looked in Aylesbury, I know the area well, | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
and I understand the local objections. You are going to have | 0:38:56 | 0:39:01 | |
to go to legal action to stop this? We are obviously looking at the | 0:39:01 | 0:39:08 | |
detail announced on Tuesday. have you taken a decision on legal | 0:39:08 | 0:39:14 | |
action? It is like the London A-Z telephone directory published on | 0:39:14 | 0:39:19 | |
Tuesday, it is right we go through this, analyse it, and a standard. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:23 | |
So might is emerging as you get through the detail, I am tempted to | 0:39:23 | 0:39:27 | |
say bad news buried deep on Tuesday, because one of the things we have | 0:39:27 | 0:39:31 | |
found out is what they call the cost-benefit ratio, the value for | 0:39:31 | 0:39:36 | |
money of this thing, has dropped yet again. It is now down to what | 0:39:36 | 0:39:40 | |
the government describes as a low value for money. You are going to | 0:39:40 | 0:39:45 | |
go to legal action, I do? Her we are not. We are not they didn't to | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
legal action is the point and making. We are going to do this in | 0:39:48 | 0:39:54 | |
a considered way. This will not take cars of the road, a substitute | 0:39:54 | 0:39:58 | |
for air. Every landing slots at Heathrow at that is freed up anyway | 0:39:58 | 0:40:03 | |
is going to be substituted with a long-haul flight so it will have a | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
negative effect in terms of carbon. This is all spent. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:12 | |
Thank you very much for joining us. It is about now we get the bad news | 0:40:12 | 0:40:16 | |
about Christmas as bills start London are our doormats. For many | 0:40:16 | 0:40:19 | |
the only answer to a temporary cashflow crisis will be doorstep | 0:40:19 | 0:40:23 | |
lenders with expensive interest rates. New rules the government | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
brought in from the start of the canny credit unions will be moving | 0:40:26 | 0:40:31 | |
in on some of that business. No idea what a credit union is? Nicola | 0:40:31 | 0:40:41 | |
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Marie has all you need to know. -- Nicola Marie. -- Murray. It has | 0:40:45 | 0:40:49 | |
been a gloomy Christmas for many retailers but one sector has been | 0:40:49 | 0:40:54 | |
booming, but things might be about to change, new rules have been | 0:40:54 | 0:40:59 | |
introduced to make credit unions began and more competitive. -- | 0:40:59 | 0:41:09 | |
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The United States Navy has a credit union, the White House has won, in | 0:41:12 | 0:41:16 | |
this country you get police credit unions, but you also get credit | 0:41:16 | 0:41:23 | |
unions based on regions, geographic areas, where you might live or work, | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
so our common bond has been anybody who lives and works in Hampshire | 0:41:27 | 0:41:33 | |
and very soon the Isle of Wight. What people do it is they Paul the | 0:41:33 | 0:41:38 | |
savings together, then other members borrow them. That is how | 0:41:38 | 0:41:43 | |
credit unions have worked up until now, so what is new? What is being | 0:41:43 | 0:41:47 | |
removed is the obstacle to credit unions achieving in this country on | 0:41:47 | 0:41:52 | |
the scale they have achieved everywhere else, where they are | 0:41:52 | 0:41:54 | |
people's main financial service provider, where you have your | 0:41:54 | 0:41:59 | |
salary, your income, or your income paid into your credit union, and a | 0:41:59 | 0:42:05 | |
credit union offers you a mortgage had manages your bill payments and | 0:42:05 | 0:42:09 | |
everything else. Opening the credit union membership up to businesses | 0:42:10 | 0:42:15 | |
and organisations, all in all, it will free us up to do more for more | 0:42:15 | 0:42:19 | |
people and be more attractive to people who currently does see the | 0:42:19 | 0:42:23 | |
point of credit unions. They may be popular with the US Navy but how | 0:42:23 | 0:42:33 | |
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many people have heard of them in the UK? No. No. If something goes | 0:42:35 | 0:42:40 | |
wrong, I know what Unionists. people who cannot afford much and | 0:42:41 | 0:42:45 | |
they have got low-interest rate. With so few people aware of their | 0:42:45 | 0:42:49 | |
existence will these changes enable credit unions in the UK to become | 0:42:49 | 0:42:55 | |
serious competitors with the backs? They will help credit unions | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
consolidate themselves in a limited market in which they operate. But | 0:42:59 | 0:43:03 | |
we shouldn't imagine they are going to stop providing competition for | 0:43:03 | 0:43:10 | |
banks, and they still have to erode the commercial sector's market | 0:43:10 | 0:43:13 | |
which is a very efficient one. that commercial market targets | 0:43:13 | 0:43:18 | |
people who are not able to go to the bank for money, like unemployed | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
single mother of two, Helen, who felt she had no choice but to turn | 0:43:22 | 0:43:26 | |
to a doorstep lender and her debts more than doubled. I knew I should | 0:43:26 | 0:43:31 | |
have gone to them, to be honest, but I had no choice. Then the | 0:43:31 | 0:43:39 | |
statement came through from a housing association and I had a | 0:43:39 | 0:43:43 | |
card with a credit union for top I didn't pay any attention, went to | 0:43:43 | 0:43:47 | |
my bank, try to get a loan, they were not interested unless you're | 0:43:47 | 0:43:52 | |
working. Went down to ease credit union people and luckily enough | 0:43:52 | 0:43:58 | |
they could help me. -- these. Making them a bigger player isn't | 0:43:58 | 0:44:01 | |
likely to worry the traditional high-street lenders but could give | 0:44:01 | 0:44:04 | |
far more people access to cheaper borrowing when the bank says | 0:44:04 | 0:44:09 | |
another. I am committed to credit unions and have been for over 20 | 0:44:09 | 0:44:14 | |
years and I firmly believe there is a future for credit unions, | 0:44:14 | 0:44:18 | |
alongside the banks. If we get it right people will want to use it. | 0:44:18 | 0:44:22 | |
If it wasn't for them, I would dread to think what would have | 0:44:23 | 0:44:32 | |
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happened, to be honest and where I Those who use them love them, but | 0:44:33 | 0:44:39 | |
it seems most people haven't heard of them., have few ever thought of | 0:44:39 | 0:44:48 | |
Migrate and used to volunteer it in one in a very deprived part of | 0:44:48 | 0:44:53 | |
north Belfast. These doorstep lenders are parasites who are | 0:44:53 | 0:44:56 | |
preying on some of the most vulnerable people in our community, | 0:44:56 | 0:45:00 | |
have very little money and engaging them in loans that they have no | 0:45:00 | 0:45:03 | |
hope of ever repaying and making some of the poorest in society even | 0:45:03 | 0:45:11 | |
poorer. I am so in favour. The area of my constituency, you see these | 0:45:11 | 0:45:15 | |
people are collecting the debt and it is obscene. I am passionately in | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
favour of everyone, government, local government, capitalising | 0:45:18 | 0:45:22 | |
credit unions and Pavenham get out there to serve these people who are | 0:45:22 | 0:45:26 | |
in really dire straits. They have been given a bit of a beast. They | 0:45:26 | 0:45:31 | |
need to be. Arisen report came out and pointed out if for example a | 0:45:31 | 0:45:36 | |
lower income households has to read a new washing machine than they | 0:45:36 | 0:45:39 | |
paid an enormous sum of money for it. Or if they are getting the | 0:45:39 | 0:45:43 | |
credit from the doorstep lenders, terribly expensive. We are talking | 0:45:43 | 0:45:49 | |
about making the poor poorer. This is an area we can tackle making | 0:45:49 | 0:45:53 | |
sure they have credit on good, sound, reasonable terms. People are | 0:45:53 | 0:45:57 | |
not getting much interest from about and the Mehmet so maybe if | 0:45:57 | 0:46:05 | |
people have got a bit of money would be a good thing to put it | 0:46:05 | 0:46:08 | |
into this. Our regular round-up of the | 0:46:08 | 0:46:18 | |
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The Prime Minister kicked off the political year in Maidenhead and | 0:46:23 | 0:46:28 | |
Bracknell. He gave Waitrose a big society award and it was all smiles. | 0:46:28 | 0:46:38 | |
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But then he took a broadside from a In Dorset divers had a sinking | 0:46:44 | 0:46:49 | |
feeling over plans to chop the coastguard rescue chopper. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:53 | |
Southampton biggest airline cut rates after their profits took a | 0:46:53 | 0:47:03 | |
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nosedive. -- routes. In the Isle of Wight they are building lightweight | 0:47:04 | 0:47:07 | |
carbon-fibre engine parts for planes. The robots are so cutting- | 0:47:07 | 0:47:11 | |
edge we had to blow the pictures. Each wonders five weeks' work in 10 | 0:47:11 | 0:47:18 | |
hours. Mr Frisk Cooke's they are a secret weapon for new jobs in their | 0:47:18 | 0:47:23 | |
staff -- hopes. They really did ask the steeper the | 0:47:23 | 0:47:26 | |
blur over there so that when it is on line the Chinese cannot look at | 0:47:26 | 0:47:31 | |
it and gobby these machines, or Americans, or whoever. -- copy | 0:47:31 | 0:47:35 | |
these machines. Do you think private sector jobs will make up | 0:47:35 | 0:47:39 | |
for a lot of the public sector once lost? It would be one of the most | 0:47:39 | 0:47:43 | |
exciting things for me as a member of the coalition to see the | 0:47:43 | 0:47:46 | |
manufacturing industry grow again because it has been dreadful under | 0:47:46 | 0:47:49 | |
the Labour government, shrinking and shrinking. It is our future to | 0:47:49 | 0:47:54 | |
believe Britain can be great again, investing in technology, and for me | 0:47:54 | 0:47:58 | |
the coalition's putting the emphasis on growth policies is all- | 0:47:58 | 0:48:05 | |
important. So the problems out but at the centre and stimulate growth. | 0:48:05 | 0:48:09 | |
Will a make-up for the public sector jobs? We know the rate of | 0:48:09 | 0:48:13 | |
change is out of sync at the moment and that means more pressure from | 0:48:14 | 0:48:17 | |
the Liberal Democrats on government that we must get on with the growth | 0:48:17 | 0:48:22 | |
policies. A There is a lot of aerospace industry in Dorset, even | 0:48:22 | 0:48:27 | |
though we think of it as an agricultural area. Rape is a centre | 0:48:27 | 0:48:37 | |
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-- growth is at the centre of what we need to do. Small businesses | 0:48:39 | 0:48:48 | |
that how you they need more regulation. They are bought by | 0:48:48 | 0:48:55 | |
American and German companies and exploited and developed. We have -- | 0:48:55 | 0:49:02 | |
we are still an entrepreneurial country and we need to embrace that. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:08 | |
Two Dorset MPs would search a range of views on all sorts of different | 0:49:08 | 0:49:13 | |
things, joining us on this first programme. You can keep up-to-date | 0:49:13 | 0:49:19 | |
with what is politically hot during the week by following my blog. We | 0:49:19 | 0:49:24 |