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in the cricket against South Africa in Cape Town. More on that later. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to our Sunday morning edition of the papers. With me are | :00:00. | :00:23. | |
Phillipa Leighton Jones, editor of WSJ City at the Wall Street Journal | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
and journist KunalDutta. The the observer leads with flooding and | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
claims the Government budget cuts are almost doubling the number of | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
homes considered as being at writhe risk of flooding. The Sunday Times | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
headline an executive pay row. Saying the Environment Agency PR | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
chief left the organisation with a six figure payoff despite troubling | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
week for the agency. The Sunday express leads with the same story. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Saying senior managers at the Environment Agency have been awarded | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
bonuses worth almost ?300,000. The Independent on Sunday's picture | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
shows a woman in Bahrain protesting against Saudi Arabia's decision to | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
excuse 47 individuals, including a prominent Shia cleveric. The Sunday | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Telegraph reports 11-year-olds will be expected to know all their times | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
tables when they leave primary school under new Government plans | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
It's hunt the guilty parties for the flooding rather than acts of God. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
The Environment Agency, we'll get to them in a minute. Revealed how Tory | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
cuts are wrecking UK flood defences is The Observer splash. Ministers | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
warned of risk twice the number of homes face threat. This is moving on | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
to the next chapter of who gets the blame for the lack of flood | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
defences. This one is particularly damning for the Tories. As you'd | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
expect from the Observer. This is the emergence of a report from the | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
association of drainage authorities which warned the Government things | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
were getting worse. We've had five the wettest winters since 2010 or | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
since 2,000. As things have progressively got worse, the Tories | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
have cut the budgets for drainage, flood defences and this is why we're | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
at the situation we are now. Questions have been asked about this | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
all week. The emergence of this report and the fact the Tories were | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
told about this ahead of time calls into question their decision to cut | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
budgets for this. The key figure in here is today homes at risk from | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
floods, 330,000, it will rise to 570,000 by 2035 which calls into | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
question a lot of things. Also, last week, the Government, the word | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
unprecedented appeared in every statement pretty much they said. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
This is saying this might have been unprecedented but not unpredictage. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
People thought this could happen if this course of policy was followed? | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
Yeah, we've seen with floods, initially it was climate change the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
big issue. The Government said we've got to do something about climate | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
change which is such a long-term policy procedure. With actual | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
flooding itself, it's no coincidence we are seeing this much more | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
frequently. We are seeing storms almost annually. We only started | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
naming storms in November and, this was Alf bet cal. And we're already | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
coming to F. We only started with Abigail in November. So, they've got | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
nowhere to hide. I think what this is about is saying enough about the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
big rhetoric about climate change, we need to do something. Things have | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
to happen on the ground. Money has though flow into the north where | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
this problem is being hardest hit rather than just in the capital. The | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
whole northern powerhouse thing, three Great Northern cities under | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
water is... That's a huge challenge. Cameron's made the northern | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
powerhouse a key parts of his election pledge. Look what's | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
happened. He worried about the pair of wellies he'll don so he doesn't | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
look posh. Some of these homes arend water some not for the first time. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Lhotse Facing the problem of not being able to insure their homes. It | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
is miserable. Disgusting when you see what flooding does. The other | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
way to point the finger of blame is the Environment Agency. This the | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
Sunday express's take. Fury at fat cat bonuses. Awarded bonuses of | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
almost ?300,000. This is the other side of it. We were sussing earlier, | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
the viern agency is effectively public funded. It has to be | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
accountable to the public. When you see the disconnect between massive | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
flooding problems and failure of flood defences and you look at the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
agency and the bonuses that executives are getting for it, there | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
is likely to be, publicly, a question of is that actually | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
working? Rewards for failure. If this was banging. What would happen, | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
these days anyway, executives would say we accept we haven't done the | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
job expected. They'd hand back the bonuses or implement some long-term | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
incentive. That is hard to do when you've something as unpredictable as | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the weather. Why not say here's your bonus. We'll pay you in ten years | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
when we see how you've done. Use the scientific evidence of how things | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
are going to go. At least work with a modus operandi who... One or two | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
people not around during the Christmas period when storm Frank | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
hits. Being in sunny places. The message the head of this agency was | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
at home with family and they failed to mention at first that at home was | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
in Barbados. I think it's tricky all round for them. They need to take a | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
good long hard look at their incentive schemes. This story will | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
run and run, these two stories about what the Government and Environment | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Agency is doing. Given the figures, people won't accept this. They're | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
not. And these moves where the Government responds like David | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Cameron has today, a ?40 million emergency fund to go to Yorkshire. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Matching of charity donations to ?2 million, it's seen as on the hoof | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
when you're responding to things like this. Whereas, I think, | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
long-term, there needs to be a much more clear strategy in place which | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
acknowledges this will be the story that does carry on and will happen | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
next year probably It seeps haphazard up to now, dare I say, not | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
taken particularly seriously. There needs to be a revisit of how far up | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the agenda this goes. I'm sure David Cameron's thinking about that. One | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
of the things he's also thinking about, the biggest story we can | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
predict of 2016, what happens when we vote on Europe, if we vote this | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
year which most of us seem to think will happen. Pinsters, PM must go if | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
ministers loose EU vote. It would be terrible for David Cameron | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
personally if he were to lead a campaign to stay in Europe and the | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
people rejected it? Yes, it would be bad for him. I just warn everyone | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
not to underestimate what a master tactics he is strategically. The way | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
he's pitching getting this deal from Europe he's after, it will be very | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
carefully presented to the country. I think when it comes to it, don't | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
under estimate the fact he has until February to get the deal he needs | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
from Brussels. Then has the lag period where he needs to sell that | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
into the country. He's very good at that. That's the key point. He | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
doesn't have much time and is distracted by the floods. Six weeks | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Bev he has to do this deal with Europe the. He might or might not | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
get a good deal. Whatever happens, there will be a huge degree of | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
uncertainty. His key job is to educate the public. There is still | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
too little information out there about what EU membership means. | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
There's been spurious data put out there or heavily spun data. The EU | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
cost us X amount last week and that's why no flood defences. We've | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
been spending money on EU membership without telling about the upside of | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
EU membership. Euro scepticism, Britain's relationship, how | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
eurosceptic Britain is open to debate. People thought Ukip would be | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
the party to pull Britain out of Europe or gain attraction. They | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
haven't done that. When it comes to it, the time he has, if the | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
referendum is later on, he will have time to build a case very carefully. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
It is how considered people are. Those people who are very interested | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
are very interested. A lot of British people are, we're irritated | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
by various things but not that bothered. That's part of it. The | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
other key question is whether, even if he wins this referendum, it | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
becomes a run are sore. If it is overwhelming we want to stay in or | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
get out. If it's quite close, David Cameron's still got a split party. | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
He has but the Tory Party has by its nature has always been dealing with | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
their disgruntled backbench Eurosceptics. That seas been the | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
challenge since John Major. David Cameron is one of the more | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
successful Prime Ministers at keeping them quietly in the back | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
Birch in the days of John Major we saw leadership challenges talking | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
about frequently. Someone here said if eurosceptic MPs don't agree with | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Cameron, Osborne will have them out so watch out. Let's look at the | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
Sunday Telegraph. Two quick stories. Nick'spm will be an outsider. | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
Rebuilding the Conservative Party in Scotland says she believes George | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Osborne, Boris Johnson and Theresa May may all be beaten in the race to | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
beat David Cameron. She says the party are not necessarily good good | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
at picking people you think. And pupils must know all times table by | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
age 11. Frankly, if they don't already, it's a good thing for | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
people to be able to count, isn't it? Geoff knitly able to count, | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
yeah. That's useful. We were talking about it earlier. What kind of times | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
tables does, is, I guess the argument goes, gives you an | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
inference and understanding of numbers you don't necessarily get | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
otherwise through calculators or coding or anything else. It is so | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
important for everything else. I've no experience of teaching. I have a | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
12-year-old son. I've seen some of the maths homework. Everything he | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
does, you need to know times tables. I was quite shocked pupils didn't | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
know times tables. 74,000 children are still failing to meet the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
standard required. I know teachers of stressed. Maybe there's a failure | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
of the teaching methods. An implication under Labour the | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
teaching became quite unstructured. Maybe it needs to be pulled back to | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
old fashioned teaching. Find different ways to teach children | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
times tables. Maybe all pupils should know how to spell reasonably | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
by age 11. A start as well. Read? This is a really interesting story | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
in the Independent. Dam you, it says. The excuse of 47 prisoners by | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
the beleagueered Saudi Arabian regime yesterday. 1078 of these were | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
extreme Sunni Isis lambists. Al-Qaeda persuasion. Many focussed | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
on the killing of a Shia cleric. A protester but a peaceful man. Yes, | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
it is to do with power in that region on. The fact the Shia's | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
rightfully in countries like Saudi Arabia feel marginalised, possibly | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
oppressed. Sheikh al-Nimr wasn't a violent man. He told the BBC in 2011 | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
breve his arrest words were more powerful than weapons. So, | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
symbolically, this has had huge ramifications across parts of the | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Middle East. Particularly in Iran, the rhetoric coming out of Tehran | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
last night was extremely hostile. There will be worried as we ally | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
closer to the Saudi rib ya for what David Cameron argues is national | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
security reasons, this this destabilisation could have grave | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
consequences for Britain's relationship. This comes at a very | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
tricky time for Saudi Arabia. Dividing Shia's and Sunnis further | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
won't help. On December 28th they implemented a round of austerity | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
measures, including VAT and taxes on water and electricity. The key | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
reason there is Saudi is reliant on the ol rev enewes. Oil prices | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
slumped from $100 a barrel to $38 a barrel. They've bout themselves calm | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
and legitimacy by being able to provide a relatively comfort for | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Saudi nationals. Now, there that could lead to a restive population | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
there as well. Tricky time for them. Phillipa, I wanted toent on what I | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
thought was an interesting story in the Sunday Times. Beans means grills | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
eats like Gwyneth. She's been derided for what she eats, Gwyneth | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
pal Strow. Bear Grylls doesn't eat much meat and eats more like Gwyneth | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
Paltrow. They are saying, bear Grylls doesn't eat considering dial | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
eyes but goes eats seeds and yoghurts, things normal people might | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
eat. He's done this because he's just written a recipe book. One of | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
my favourite lines. He doesn't eat much meat, he relies more on plant | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
food such as quinoa, buckwheat for his protein which surely we all do. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Just catching up with the rest of us. The crocodile eyes are not easy | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
to get in stains breast. Half of it, I don't know what it is. What did | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
you make of that story? The great macho guy who has been eating and | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
preying with barrack Obama in the wild turns out to be eating veggie | :16:35. | :16:46. | |
burgers? It is a contrast between a television personality who Bear | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Grylls is out there, explore tiff. Eating deer. Why do that at home? If | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
that's his work life, it stands to reason he's not doing that. I want | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
to see Gwyneth eat a crocodile's eye. That would get on page one. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
That's it for the papers.s thank you both. A reminder, we take a look | :17:10. | :17:23. | |
atom's front pages every evening at 10.30pm and 11.30pm every | :17:24. | :17:24. |