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rush at the European athletics championships in Swansea, and the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
European swimming in Berlin. That is all in Sportsday, in 15 minutes, | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
after the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Neil Midgley, media | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
commentator from Forbes.com and the political commentator and journalist | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Miranda Green. Tomorrow's front pages, starting with: The Financial | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Times pictures how rail fares will rise 3.5% from January, in another | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
above`inflation increase. The Telegraph says husbands who bully or | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
intimidate their partners could be jailed under a new offence of | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
domestic abuse. The I quotes research which suggest the majority | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
of English voters want Scotland to remain part of the UK. The Daily | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Mail claims nurses are being asked to question elderly patients about | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
whether they would agree to a 'do not resuscitate' order. 'Private | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
patient income soars at NHS trusts' is the headline on the front of the | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
Guardian. The Daily Express also leads on house prices. It says the | :01:04. | :01:15. | |
average home has risen 23,000 pounds in a year. The Times leads on | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
allegations in the High Court concerning the mayor of Tower | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Hamlets in London. And the Scotsman quotes Alex Salmond as saying he | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
would be prepared to give up his political career if that was the | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
price of gaining an independent Scotland. We will talk about that a | :01:27. | :01:39. | |
little bit later on. What we will start with the Daily Mail. Do you | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
want us to let you die? That is the headline. Nurses on home visits told | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
to ask elderly patients if this is what they would want. It is a great | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Daily Mail splash, do you want us to let you die? Nurses are making home | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
visits to patients, elderly patients, and filling in a form, | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
which is part of a scheme to keep people out of hospital apparently | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
and improve care for the elderly. But as part of this, patients are | :02:11. | :02:22. | |
being asked whether they will sign a DNR. This is one of those issues | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
where if the system works as it should, this is all right. If your | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
heart stops beating, many don't want special measures. Many people who | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
are very old don't want that, they consider that time is up. The | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
question is whether the system always works as it should. What the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Daily Mail is pointing out is that some vulnerable elderly people may | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
feel pressured by nurses that they don't know. The burden of this story | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
really is that these forms are being taken out by nurses that they have | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
never met before. It is not a district nurse with whom they have | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
an ongoing relationship. It might be someone they have never met, and | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
might seem like an intrusive and pressurised question, and people may | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
later regret you answers. The Daily Mail is not necessarily saying that | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
it is wrong to ask these questions, but that the wrong people are asking | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
them. The elderly person needs a... I don't know, feels that they can | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
trust. Absolutely, it is not just the person asking the question, but | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the circumstances. You might ask somebody already in hospital who is | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
going through a difficult illness how they felt about a DNR order on | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
their notes. At this is a home visit to assess before someone has become | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
seriously ill. Their attitude to ageing, what the health problems | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
might be, how he would like to be treated if they become ill. It is | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
supposed to be part of this strategy to keep people out of hospital. But | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
it seems there is an extra question tag onto the questionnaire. Well by | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
the way, you know, do you want us to let you die? And it is being | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
described by health experts in the Daily Mail as callous for the reason | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
that somebody might be feeling vulnerable when visited at home in | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
this way I health professional age are not know or have a relationship | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
with. They might well sign a form to try and be corporative, really, and | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
then very much regret it later. And also, the family may not be present, | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
it may not be the widest possible way to assess whether it is | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
appropriate for somebody to have a DNR order. `` corporative. There has | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
been so much discussion recently about assisted suicide and the Right | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
to Die `` co`operative. They don't in some cases want to needlessly and | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
painfully prolong their lives. There is this whole ethical dilemma about | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
when life should be allowed to end by doctors. It will stay on the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
front pages as a huge ethical dilemma of our times. It is. Let us | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
go through a dilemma that the Scots will be going through on the 18th of | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
September. The referendum there. Alex Salmond, the First Minister, | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
has said I would quit if it meant a yes vote. He would trade his career | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
and his party to support independence. But that question is | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
not on the ballot. It seems in recent days as if the yes camp is | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
sort of closing in on no. They have had a healthy lead for the last few | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
months, and what all the experts say, the people who watch Scottish | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
politics very closely, is that Alex Salmond and the SNP and those in | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
favour of Scotland separating need a game changer to overtake the No | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
campaign. And this story says that somebody in the independence | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
campaign has tried to publicise a fairly throwaway remark by Alex | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Salmond earlier this week, because they don't want people to go to the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
ballot box thinking they are voting on the issue of whether Alex Salmond | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
will be the king of a new independent Scotland. He is talented | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
and charismatic, but also divisive as a politician. Many in Scotland | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
don't like the idea of Alex Salmond being in charge, while they are | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
attracted to his vision. So they are trying to remove the Alex Salmond | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
personal factor from the vote. Will that work? As you say, he has not | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
actually resigned. So we might never know. But apparently, according to | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
this story, he is something of an electoral liability. So maybe the | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
yes campaign are trying to have their cake and eat it too. Have them | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
leading it, but also have in the wings the possibility that he will | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
leave it at some future point. As an addition to this story, we have the | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
front of the... It is actually page four of the I there. They want the | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
government to be tough on Scotland, even if they vote No. That is not | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
what Westminster is moving towards, it seems to want to give Scotland | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
everything, to try and keep them in the union. Yes, but the English | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
generally take a different view. They want the Scots to stay with | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
them, so they are not in favour of Scottish independent, by quite a big | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
margin, I think, which surprises me actually, as I would have thought | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the English would be quite in favour of getting rid of them. Why? One of | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
the reasons is that the English... In this is a thorny issue, given | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
royal revenues, but public spending per head in Scotland is much higher. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
One of the things coming out of this poll is that the English want public | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
spending in Scotland authorised I Westminster and paid for in part I | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the alleged taxpayer, paying for free tuition, and healthcare for the | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
elderly... This is very interesting, because I suspect, I have covered | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
last month, it was fantastic. What I last month, it was fantastic. What I | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
suspect is that the English are using their hearts and not their | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
heads, in their response to these kinds of questionnaires, as to | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
whether or not Scotland should separate, so the idea of the union | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
disappearing, the idea that Scotland is no longer part of what we want, | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
and what we like, it is not about economics. And it is the heart | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
ruling the head, that Alex Salmond hopes to tap into as far as Scottish | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
voters are concerned. It is an interesting question as to whether | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
that is going on. I agree that the slogan Better Together probably | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
makes a lot of sense to the English. The polling data from the papers | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
tomorrow morning would suggest that is absolutely the case. But there is | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
really bad news for both the yes and no camps in this story. Because, | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
unfortunately for Alex Salmond, it shows that people in England would | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
not be keen at all on his plan to keep some sort of currency union. | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
The Sterling, absolutely. The English would like the government to | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
reject that. That is bad for Alex Salmond. On the other hand, this | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
poll is bad for the prounion No campaign, because it shows the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
English would like Scotland, public spending to be cut in the event of a | :10:06. | :10:15. | |
no. And also, as explained, they would like Scottish MPs to be | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
deprived of the right to vote on English matters at Westminster. This | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
is a kind of constant running issue since devolution in 1999. This is | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
contrary to the policies coming out of the No campaign. It will be | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
interesting to see whether negative reaction to the setback for the yes | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
side or the no side stronger in Scotland. We are into the last month | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
of the campaign. If the polls start moving in one direction or the | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
other, there will be a lot of people getting very jumpy about this. It | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
goes back to the fundamental thing about this referendum, which is that | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
only the Scots get a vote. It is presented as a referendum on | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Scottish independence. It is also a referendum about the breakup of the | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
United Kingdom, which is as much an issue for the English and the Welsh | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
and the northern Irish, as it is for the Scots in many. So it is hardly | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
surprising that the English, denied a vote, when you ask them in the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
opinion polls what they think the consequences of the Scottish vote | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
should be, they are not particularly charitable. It could also have a big | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
effect on the BBC as well. We face a big funding cut of Scotland votes | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
yes. Neil, with your media analyst hat on, what are they talking about? | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
Roughly speaking, 10% of the licence fee comes from Scotland, so ex | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
hypothesi, if you take Scotland away, the BBC gets less money. I | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
think it is overdramatised, not least because if the BBC becomes the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
English broadcasting Corporation, effectively, then they won't have to | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
spend money in Scotland either. They won't have revenue, but they also | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
won't have expenditure. Some say that is what it already is, | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
actually. The BBC, whether a figleaf or not, has put a lot of effort in | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
all the nations. Question Time has gone to Glasgow, the weakest Link | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
went to Scotland for production. They are trying to get more network | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
programmes in the nations. That would not be the case. The person to | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
talk to about a casting is Alex Salmond. He wants to persuade the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Scottish people they can have all the BBC stuff they have at the | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
moment, and a separate Scottish broadcasting company which would | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
make its own programmes. Now you can't have both of those for the | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
same money. You just can't, it doesn't add up. You either have to | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
have less BBC, so you have to have a Scottish broadcasting company which | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
would buy some BBC programmes but not others, so you might get | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
EastEnders but not Strict league. Or you say we will take the BBC in its | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
entirety `` Strictly. Or you say we will pay a license fee in Scotland, | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
and an additional fee for a Scottish broadcaster, which would be | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
unpopular. One suspects for Scottish voters this is more of an issue for | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
the BBC. It is not really at the top of Scottish voters' minds, as they | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
decide what to do on independence. I think that is not quite right | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
actually. One of the things the pro` independence campaign has tried to | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
do... They have tried to promise as much stability and continuity as | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
possible. There has been a lot of don't frighten the horses about the | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
pro` independence campaign. They have tried to say they are not | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
abolishing the Queen, they will keep her as head of state. All this stuff | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
about the Sterling, it will still be used as the currency, and even in | :14:03. | :14:03. | |
that large document he produced at that large document he produced at | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
the beginning of the summer, they have tried to say the cultural UK | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
riches including the BBC, will remain there as. That may not be the | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
case. That may affect people's vote. Britain will send jets to join the | :14:18. | :14:35. | |
hunt for kidnapped girls. 200 girls are still missing after being | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram. This story was absolutely | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
huge when it happened. Over 200 schoolgirls taken in north`eastern | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Nigeria. The whole world was horrified. In fact, it was | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
impossible at the time to find them, do anything about it. The | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
government was heavily criticised for a flat`footed response. There | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
were calls for international intervention and it did not happen. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
The UK is involved in surveillance and intelligence gathering. It is | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
going to step up its role in trying to work out a pattern of Boko Haram | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
movements in Nigeria. There is no suggestion the UK is going to swoop | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
in and rescue the girls. The UK is becoming very involved in | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
surveillance and intelligence gathering. That is also one of the | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
key roles for the Brits in Iraq against the Islamic State. There is | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
very little understanding of the shape of ISIS. That is also the case | :15:48. | :15:57. | |
with Boko Haram. This is two areas of the world where the UK is | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
starting to think of how it can help, even if it is not going to | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
have military intervention. That is the key. Very briefly. David Cameron | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
has been talking about using UK military assets and prowess, but not | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Brits on the ground. This musty one of the obvious ways he is referring | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
to. `` this must be. These girls need to be rescued. If we have got | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
jets, we should send jets. There is a wider question of when British | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
foreign policy keeps being interventionist, when does it end? | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
Look at what is happening in Iraq. But look at Kosovo, look at Sierra | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Leone. There are success stories. We could talk about this for a lot | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
more. But we cannot, unfortunately. It has been good to have you with | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
us. Now it is time for Sportsday. | :17:00. | :17:11. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday. 10`man Arsenal are held to a | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
goalless draw in their Champions League qualifier in Besiktas. | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Manchester United reach an | :17:21. | :17:21. |