19/01/2016 The Papers

games played in the current round of the FA Cup. And Wales and Scotland

named their squads for the six Nations. All that coming up after

burger-macro. -- after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

at what The Papers will be bringing us. With me are Henry Bonsu and Lord

Digby Jones. Letters have a look at the front pages. We will start with

the financial Times which leads with the Governor of the Bank of

England's decision not to raise interest rates. Mark Carney's

comments also on the front of the daily express. A judge has ruled

that 13-month-old Poppi Worthington was sexually assaulted by her father

just before she died. That story is also on the front of the Metro. The

Guardian leads with claims that doctors in the NHS are the most

stressed in the NHS. The Daily Mail leads with pensioners could be

suffering a cup to their pension pots. The Times carries a warning

from a leading vet that throwing sticks for docs could be bad for

their health. Let us start with the FT because there is a story about

the refugee burden in Europe. I spent a lot of my summer in Hungary

on the border with Slovenia and the problem those countries had was if

refugees came into their country, it will be their first port of call and

that is where they will be returned to. As these are thus Matt Brussels

is saying it is going to scrap that. The reason this wall will be changed

or scrapped is because it has put an unfair burden on those front line

states, like Greece and Italy. The policy fell apart because Germany

decided not to return the hundreds of thousands of refugees who passed

through those countries and ended up in Germany. I think the reason they

did that is because Chancellor Merkel said we have a right and

responsibility to do what we can for these people. She did an about turn

when the refugee burden became unsustainable. However, the refugees

have two get here first. They don't get here, they end up on the

European mainland. They might get to the jungle, but they have to get

across the Channel. I don't think this will end up putting a greater

refugee burden on the UK. You are right. It is not going to change a

massive amount. One of the problems has always been returning refugees.

There is a figure here, 13,000... You are right. No country is allowed

to send them back to Greece. The European Court of European rights

that that Greece cannot cope and therefore you are not provide people

with a life. This is more about, I use the term wishful thinking, it's

more about what people would like to happen than what is happening on the

ground. It is interesting the FT have run this because you can

imagine if those facts were played out in certain other newspapers, it

would be all about because you belong to the EU, this is going to

happen on the streets of Blackburn, which actually, is not what this is

about. It is about whether a reality, which is very few get

repatriated, becomes the law. They are doing it far more neutrally. If

there is a referendum in June and the Prime Minister can't so that

they need to be returned to the country of first -- and the Prime

Minister says they need to be returned to the country of entry,

that rule will be removed. I've never understood the jungle in

Calais. It's not the point of entry. They are in an advanced economy, so

why are they try to get out? Britain has presented itself as the cradle

of modern human rights. People also feel it is an open society. So why

doesn't the French police send them back? The French will not do what

they have been told to do, again. The Guardian is reporting on BGP

strike. The second strike has been adverted -- has been averted, but

the strike on the 10th of February could go ahead. I am old enough to

remember when teachers first went on strike in the 1970s and immediately

teachers mood and -- teachers moved away from being professional and

suddenly they became another worker on strike. A lot of respect in

society that teachers lost was because of that word strike. I don't

think so, it's because we started to boost the power of children. Are you

saying the decision to drop this second strike is about PR rather

than the fact they have made progress? Do think they are worried

about the implications of the strike? Junior doctors are sensible

people and are thinking about how this will play in the public. Strike

action only wins if you have public sympathy and they are worried they

will lose public sympathy. Especially the third strike, which

is set for the River Thames and there will be no cover for emergency

cover. -- which is set for the 10th of February.

This goes alongside a story that talks about the stress that doctors

are under and they have been saying today they want recognition today

for the hours and weekends they already work.

GPs, because of their pay settlement, don't get much sympathy

from most newspapers. But here they have, "Thousands of GPs plan to

quit." Wear hear that GPs are overburdened, overstressed. These

figures say 30% plan to quit in the next five years. They spend very

little time with their patients. Most practices say they should spend

no more tan ten minutes -- than ten minutes. We see in newspapers that

people get... Poor diagnosis early on. Very powerful and incurable

cancers because GPs miss it. One of the reasons, not the only reasons.

They aren't referred in time. This isn't about money. It's about

quality of life. I don't expect the Guardian to put up a headline, "NHS

needs serious reform", but that's what this is saying. Creating a

situation where GPs could earn more money, which is what Blair did,

nothing wrong with that, but interestingly, I was in the

supermarket with Pat on Saturday. Mrs Digby. Yes, playing the trolley

pusher. The two of us were talking about the doctors strike while we

were waiting. The lady behind the checkout actually said, this is

Saturday morning, I wish I had the luxury of choosing whether I work on

Saturdays or not. I suddenly thought to myself, do you know something,

that's where a lot of the public are on this. They're not saying they

don't sympathise with the cause, but they're saying, society has changed.

People work on Saturdays. And therefore, why aren't you doctors or

GPs. Maybe this hasn't been explained properly. It needs reform.

The moment you say reform you hear people going, you mean privatised.

There are loads ways to reform the NHS without privatisation. Let's

move along quickly. I'm rattling through them. The Daily Mail,

pension blow for 1. 5 million people. Largely according to the

Mail, middle class earners. The Chancellor would want to give the

impression that he's going after rich people's pensions. This word

here... Stealth, punish are two words you don't want to see. They

talk about a raid on middle-aged savers, people whose pension pot

amounts to about 1 million to 1. 5 million. You don't have to be very

wealthy, to have earned a huge amount to get a pension pot of a pot

of a million. -- ?1 million. If you save over 40 years. That's going to

be taxed. It's not taxed on the way in. But it will be on the way out.

If it's true, but it's for higher rate taxpayers. Not sure why the I

have twisted it that way. The Treasury have seen pensions as a

leakage of tax gaps for years. I have to call time on you. But we're

back next hour to look more at the papers. Thank you to Henry and Lord

Digby Jones. They're both back at 11. 30pm for another look at the

stories. Before that, we have the sports. Stay with us.