09/09/2014 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With me are Pensions Consultant, Ros Altmann and Evening

Standard Columnist, Mihir Bose. All of the front pages are in. Let's

have a look at them. The Telegraph says the Prime Minister, David

Cameron, has warned that independence is a leap in the dark

that would punish future generations.

'Party leaders take the high road,' says the Guardian, reflecting on the

decision of the three main party leaders to travel to Scotland

tomorrow in pursuit of 'No' votes. The Independent says Britain faces a

constitutional crisis after a poll for the paper suggests Labour MPs in

Scotland would help clinch a victory at the next general election even if

Scotland votes to become an independent country.

The Metro leads with the story that Shaun Wright, the Police and Crime

Commissioner responsible for Rotherham, has been warned special

powers will be called for to force powers will be called for to force

him out of his job if he carries on refusing to quit.

The Times leads on the response from Buckingham Palace over any question

that the Queen could be brought into the debate on Scottish independence.

The Scotsman has a picture of Alex Salmond who claims the campaign to

keep Scotland within the UK has fallen apart.

The Sun also leads on the story that the three main party leaders are in

Scotland tomorrow to rally votes. And the Daily Mail says David

Cameron will give the people of Scotland a simple message during his

trip there that the rest of the UK desperately wants them to stay.

In that vein, the Sun's FrontPage asked the audience, it is 50`50, now

comes call to phone a friend `` front page. This is a call from

David Blunkett saying, make sure Scotland stays. Interesting piece.

It is a great contrast with how the Scottish Sun is showing it. The

Scottish Sun seems to be heading towards Scotland going independent.

What the Scottish Sun shows is the saltire, listed above number ten, it

seemed the first time around it didn't work because the rope got

stuck and the headline here is, No campaign is flagging `` Number Ten.

There is a difference between the Sun in the south and the Sun in

Scotland in how the story is represented. That is interesting.

First of all, there is the Scottish Sun that everyone can see. Another

poll disaster. Going to the Sun in England and the rest of the UK, this

is an interesting tactic, getting those people in Wales, Northern

Ireland, to phone up friends in Scotland and convince them not to

vote yes. That is trying to tap into the emotions, we want you as part of

our family, we are your friends, don't break away from us. Its

politicians saying, we haven't been able to connect with people, let's

try and see if ordinary people can connect with people in Scotland.

Most Britons want Scotland to stay. Most of us in England want Scotland

to say. We can't quite understand why they are feeling this desperate

need to break away. The Sun is almost saying, we think we might

have lost. They always want to be on the winning side. There are these

attempts to say, let's try and do something. Why leave it so late? We

should not underestimate a feeling in the rest of the UK. I have met

people who have said, if they want to go, let them go. Most people I

know Carden match in Scotland would break away and don't want it to

happen. If we go back to the Scottish Sun, the Scottish saltire

which they couldn't get above Number Ten. We saw the situation in

clawback with two weeks to go `` Quebec. The Prime Minister panicked

and said, we have got to do something about this, we could lose

the whole of Quebec. They put out an offensive to convince those in

Quebec to stay by saying, we don't want to lose you, they talked about

nationhood and a united country, all of the language that the Yes

campaign is using in Scotland, they used it for the No campaign. Is that

what we are finally seeing now? Yes, and hopefully it will work for

the No campaign. The impression is, it has come about not as any planned

strategy. Not as though someone has sat down and said, this is what we

need to do. It is a response to events. If you are responding and

reacting rather than guiding you are unlikely to reach the conclusion you

want. That's the worry. That work in Canada. The Canadian situation isn't

similar. There was the fact of the US with a different view and things

like that. Whereas Scotland has played this card, we are part of the

EU and think like that. It's quite a different proposition. One hopes for

the sake of the UK that it works. At, the political leadership so far

has been wrongfooted by Alex Salmond `` butter. Maybe, Alex Salmond is

trying to make the most of it, having been so far behind in the

polls `` but. Plenty in Scotland hope it doesn't work. You would hope

that we would have learned from what happened in Canada and taken some of

those messages on board because this is a bit of a rerun. We knew it was

a possibility. Somehow, the campaign didn't take into account. Don't drag

me into this, says the Queen. The palace response rebukes politicians

over calls for the monarch to intervene. Suggestions he has spoken

to David Cameron about the possibility that Scotland could go

`` Monarch. The the Palace says... The Queen is right to stay at this

and I think she is angry that politicians, who were supposed to be

sorting this out and dealing with this, I coming to her and saying,

please help us. Can you intervene `` are. That's not David Cameron. No,

no, no, it is a general message from Parliament. She is right to stay

above this and say, this is not my role or position. I am sure she

would very much like this to succeed. I was going to say, do you

think that she is fuming behind the scenes? I am certain that she would

want the UK to stay intact and stay united. If there is a yes vote,

which is possible, if Scotland says at the moment, they would accept the

Queen, but there is a factor in the SNP, which is Republican, who knows,

after the Queen, Scotland might decide that it doesn't want a

monarchy. There are consequences for the monarchy that has to be

considered. And consequences for the UK. John Major highlighted them.

What would happen to the UK's Security Council seat? The Queen

looks furious in the photo. A day after announcing she is going to

have a new great grandchild, she looks furious. Let's stay with the

front page of the Times. UK forces won three bases to fight ISIS. ``

want. There is a call for three bases, one in the UAE, one in Omagh

on and one in Bahrain to have engagement in the Middle East for UK

troops `` Oman. We have seen politicians in the UK who did not

anticipate something going wrong and they are now scrambling and saying,

we have got to do something differently. Whether or not it

works, I don't know, this is so frightening. We are getting a speech

from President Obama tomorrow, outlining his strategy to tackle

Islamist militants in Syria and Iraq. We get a sense with this front

page, if of course it is true, that there is a momentum building towards

some kind of concerted military strategy to deal with these

extremists. Obama took a long time. Initially, about ten days ago, he

said he had no strategy. We must go back to what Western policy has been

in the Middle East, and ask the question, did Western leaders think

that going into Iraq, and other initiatives, out of the time, hoping

Kadhafi would leave, did they think out the consequences of who they

were supporting and encouraging `` Gaddafi. One raises questions about

policy in the Middle East. Time now. You can't have a military solution

to this. In the name of religion, doing things that are outrageous.

You cannot just have military reaction. It has got to be beyond

the military to deal with it, politically if you like, you know,

at a philosophical level as we make sure that we don't have jihadis from

this country going there. That is precisely why the speech from

President Obama is coming tomorrow, two days after a unity that has been

formed in Baghdad so the sense if they are as a framework in which the

West can operate. Let's go to the Metro. If you won't go, we will make

you, this is Shaun Wright of the current Police and Crime

Commissioner for South Yorkshire, who was of course the head of

children's services during the dreadful scandal in Rotherham. 1400

children were abused. What the MPs are saying is, if you don't

voluntarily resign, and he has come under tremendous pressure to resign

and he has refused, clinging to his job, the home affairs committee

said, we will pass emergency messes to force Iraq. `` emergency measures

to force you out. The public is outraged at what happened and so

concerned, there is this feeling that there should be some

accountability. Surely. After all the pain and suffering that was

caused. We don't want this ever to happen again. We don't want anyone

in charge to think it is right to turn a blind eye. The point about

the Police and Crime Commissioner is that they were voted by the public

and only the public could get rid of them unless there is gross criminal

offence that was carried out. That hasn't happened. That hasn't

happened, but you have the question of accountability. We believe in

this country that if on your watch, it has happened, you take

responsibility. If you don't take responsibility, it raises questions

about why you are a public official. If you cannot say, I may not have

been responsible as an individual, but because I managed the whole

affair, I therefore must fall on my sword otherwise the whole basis of

public life in this country is being violated and changed. OK. Stating

with the Metro, Apple unveils a smartwatch. They have had a day of

unveiling new things `` staying. The new iPhone six has come out. Bigger

and faster. Unfortunately, they have some technical problems. It is in

the business section as well. That is slightly embarrassing. After they

couldn't get the technology to work, they had to hand out pictures to the

journalists waiting to see this great new technology. They have had

problems, haven't they? Their balance sheet is rather healthy, it

has to be said. But after the death of Steve Jobs, the founder and the

icon of the company, that they have not been able to find their feet in

the marketplace and new watch is the first new product they have brought

out for years. Other companies have already made this kind of thing,

brought this kind of thing out. To call it a smartwatch. Looking at the

picture... Smart is not the first word that springs to mind. It looks

like a load of old nonsense. It does. This sort of watch that I

would want to work. The whole question is... You have an iconic

figure departing, the man who made the company and went beyond the

company, the symbol of technology, and I think that Apple is struggling

still to find its feet, to find it strategy. These are, if you like,

other years when they bring out a number of products, none of which

will work, and hopefully in five or six years, they might finally become

an Apple which we say, they have found a successor to Steve Jobs. We

have the end it there. It has been great having you with us. Many

thanks for that. Stay with us now on BBC News because it is time for

Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm

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