27/08/2014 The Papers

qualifier. We will have the action and the latest from the U.S. Open

tennis. Welcome to our look ahead to what

the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. The Financial Times

reporting on the investigation into Christine Lagarde. The Telegraph is

looking at the Council officials in Rotherham who it says failed to act

to prevent the sexual abuse of more than a thousand children. The Metro

reports on Emma, the victim who says she was forced to leave Britain to

escape her abusers. In an interview with the Guardian the deputy

children's commissioner says children are at risk of serious

abuse right across England because of a culture of wilful blindness

about the scale of sexual exploitation. The express is urging

David Cameron to get tough with foreign benefits cheats. We will

start with a story that has dominated the headlines for the last

couple of days. Chiefs who ignored child abuse must quit on the

Telegraph. It seems a to a lot of people that given the scale of what

went on in Rotherham only one person has resigned. I'm usually against

politicians saying other people should lose their jobs when people

like Ed Balls have done it in the past with Sharon shoesmith. This is

different because they are being reports for at least a dozen years.

People have took absolutely no action whatsoever about this

appalling scale of industrial abuse. They wanted to hope that it wasn't

happening or perhaps they didn't have the resources for it. It's

undoubtedly the case that these people who actually responsible for

the services at the time, somebody has be held accountable. That's the

point. I've witnessed it in the past. It is easy, so`and`so should

resign, it happened on his or her watch. That's the traditional

British way, and yet in recent times you find criticism that people

haven't resigned when perhaps they should have done. In my experience,

sometimes when people do resign because it happened on their watch,

those who actually were responsible survive. My only question tonight to

people in Rotherham would be if social workers, these social

workers, if council bosses, if the Police and Crime

workers, if council bosses, if the Commissioner and is particularly the

police seem to have been rather quiet in all of this, if they were

responsible on earth was? There's a lot of evidence that the police were

told about these cases and didn't act. They were caught or house where

a 13`year`old girl had called for their help and when they turned up

they found her drunk and hiding under the bed of an Asian man in his

30s. They arrested her for being drunk and disorderly. They paid no

attention to him. No action taken to having a 13`year`old naked girl in

his bedroom. The police prefer to think that these girls were

prostitutes or slags or responsible for their behaviour. The victims

were being blamed. The numbers that this report highlights. 1400. Is

that the tip of the iceberg as some papers suggest? Who knows what's

happening elsewhere. Regardless of whether Shaun Wright who is the

former Labour councillor responsible for social services, he's now the

Police and Crime Commissioner. He is making it clear that he doesn't want

to resign. You wonder who is advising him on that. How can anyone

have any confidence in him rightly or wrongly given the report that's

taken place? That's right. This is one of the flaws. Tories set it up

with the idea that they would be invulnerable to local pressure. If

the electorate doesn't like you you will get voted out that there are

years to go before another election. The Labour Party would like him to

go because he's an embarrassment. They can expel him from the

government. No one has any power to say you are off. I come from a part

of a country where we had an election last week for a Police and

Crime Commissioner. The turnout was under 15%. That's the other flip

side. Going onto the Guardian. Wilfully blind. The evidence seemed

to be there, but those people with a statutory duty to protect children

seem to ignore it. This comes from an interview with the Deputy First

children's minister. Her comments are intended to broaden the case

beyond Rotherham and similar cases of abuse. She cautioned despite the

emphasis placed on most of the victims were poor and white, while

the perpetrators were Asian, she said it affected all communities and

races. On the BBC News channel you've had interviews and you've

been reporting on your own Asian channels. We've been asking what

does the Pakistani feel about the way this has been reported? There

have been some very strong views expressed. It would be fascinating

to see how it plays out. I interviewed the head of the slim

women's network which works on behalf of Muslim women. It was

fascinating. She was talking about the fact that is in a Muslim

household the mother or the sister or one of the female members notice

something strange about the menfolk and feels that there may be grooming

taking place they are often reluctant to speak out because they

will be ostracised by their community. She said society needs to

intervene to provide a safe haven for these women who will feel they

can come forward and say I think something dodgy is going on with

so`and`so in the household. That's an interesting take. There has to be

much more openness about the fact there are sexual exploitation taking

place across all races but it often indifferent cultural forms. You can

get black gangs in London where girls are raped for members to prove

their masculinity and then raped by rival gangs to get back at the

original gangs. That's troublesome. We've known about a lot of

exploitation in white communities. Look about elderly white men from

Jimmy Savile onwards exploiting girls. We have to investigate how

it's happening in different areas and spot the different patterns. A

report earlier this year didn't get much attention. There is appalling

sexual abuse taking place all over England and police forces and social

services are averting their eyes. I'm afraid everyone was looking

around and saying in what ways have children been mistreated. This will

make us look at what is happening now. We will have to put resources

into this. A lot of the time social workers don't want to look at the

reality of what's going on underneath it because then they

would have to take action. It's expensive. There's not much money

around. This has been going on quite recently. None of this is history.

The Financial Times and Christine Lagarde. A leading light of

international finance, French. Like Dominic Strauss Kahn. In no other

way is she like him. I meant being French. She is being investigated.

Innocent until proven guilty. Caught up in a corruption scandal dating

back to her time as finance minister. We are always prejudiced.

I've always thought of her as a heroine. When I read through this

copy and read it quite a minor charge that there was a corruption

scandal, a businessman possibly paid off, she was finance minister and

the only possible charge being laid against is that she should perhaps

have intervened. Possibly a charge of negligence. No one saying that

she was corrupt herself. I have high hopes she will be found innocent.

The businessman to whom you refer is a former owner of a football club.

He had some business difficulties. Who knew that he was a bad man? I do

need to say alleged I think. I will say it anyway! The Financial Times.

Ryanair. Planning to land a share of business. ?2000 to pay for a

flight, would you go to Ryanair? I love this story. My old mate Michael

O'Leary, changing the image of Ryanair. It's going to do business

light flights. According to the Chief marketing officer of Ryanair

business travellers, what they want has changed. It used to be about

Lounge free snacks and free drinks but now customers want a reliable

service that gets you to your destination. That's a fairly basic

thing. It is quite interesting. Ryanair has had this brand, I used

to ban that word. I hated it. The brand of Ryanair is very clear. It

was built up deliberately by Michael O'Leary successfully and it worked.

Actually, it ran out of puff. Now he's trying to change it. He puts up

his marketing officer to try to change the image. I like Michael. I

want to see more of you. We are running out of time. The Daily

Telegraph we will do at 11:30pm. Let's go back to the Guardian. Mary

Beard. How to tackle your troll. Right his job reference. A brilliant

story after a run of such depressing news stories. Mary Beard was

horribly traduced on Twitter by people hurling sexist abuse and

being cruel about her appearance. What has she done, she befriended

her patrols. She discovered they have troubles in their lives. She's

taken out to lunch, writing references and finding that they are

angry about health care problems. She says all she is trying to do is

to stop hating badly. It's magnanimous and generous. She

reached beyond the ancient Roman or didn't, to Anglo`Saxon England and

used certain words that would be more appropriate. She has decided to

help them. I think it is fantastic, I congratulate her and I think it is

wonderful, but, for me, Twitter is changing. There is some trend in

going on. This trending his people that are on Twitter but not putting

themselves. They listen to what other people are saying. ``

tweeting. But people are intimidated by what goes on on Twitter. I don't

think that has got anything to do with Twitter watchers, it doesn't

matter if people are just following feeds. I will watch the

developments. You are both on Twitter? Do you get trolled? No.

Even from those on the right of the political spectrum who feel you are

a bit of a lefty? Well, maybe now they will start. You have been on

the papers for years! Everybody that follows me has been charming. I am

sure you get trolled by Manchester City fans? I learned a long time ago

to give as good as I get. We are going to be back in an hour. We will

have the stories behind the headlines. Stay with us on BBC News.

At the top of the hour we will have much more on the local Labour

Party's warning in Rotherham that it will suspend the South Yorkshire

Police Commissioner Shaun Wright from the party if he has not

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