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Hello and welcome to the programme. Now, we have had a huge reaction to | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
our floods special. Tonight we will be hearing about our viewers who | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
have offered to help floodlit tins. We have had some wonderful replies. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Also, we have spent the day in this house. The owner has gone to | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
extraordinary lengths already. And Matt Albright meets the farmers who | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
are helping each other. And joining us for all of that and more is one | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
of Britain's best character actors. He is also a handyman to have around | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
in rough weather. These welcome Timothy Spall! Good evening to you. | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
Yes, looking very dapper. We try. Good, careful packaging. We have to | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
ask, how is Matilda, and where is she moored at the moment? She is in | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
a wonderful place which is not easy to pronounce, in Holland, at the | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
moment. In southern Holland, that is where she is. I went there the other | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
day and she is quite happy. As we heard the other night, they have got | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
remarkable flood defences over there. They have had 500 years to | :01:43. | :01:55. | |
flood it out. Now, you are returning... You can ask us | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
questions, if you want! You are returning to BBC One, with a new | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
series for this Sunday. And at the bottom, the new Empress. Yes, she is | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
lovely, she is a very nice pig. I do not know if I am allowed to reveal | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
her name, it is Doris. It is out there now. Is she a diva? When she | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
is given a chance. Basically, when she is not flatulent, she tries to | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
be like a diva, but apart from that, she is either asleep or just being | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
poked with a stick. We have some fans of the Empress with us tonight | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
in the audience. And there they are, proper pigs. And later on, one of us | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
will be clearing up after them, Timothy. I hope you have got | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
something more casual to change into! As much as I would love to do | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
so, you look like you have got very good marking leggings on. Look at | :03:04. | :03:19. | |
those! More high street! As the floods continue to cause havoc | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
across the country, on the Somerset Levels, there is an island which has | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
appeared, and it belongs to a man who has come up with some incredible | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
ingenuity. We went to meet him. This is the guy who has been described as | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
the King Canute of Somerset. For many, he epitomises the spirit of | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
this area. Sam is just about the last man standing. Everybody else | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
around here has abandoned their property, but the 40-year-old | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
builder refuses to budge. He is determined that his dream home will | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
not fall victim to the floods which have devastated the Somerset Levels. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
It is hard to believe, we are floating up the Main Street in the | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
village of Moorland, it is almost apocalyptic. This is what you are | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
trying to stop happening to your place? Absolutely. For the last ten | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
days, his home has become his partner and children have been | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
evacuated, while Sam and a team of family and friends have been | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
fighting to keep the waters at bay. When you go to sleep, you are | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
thinking about the water, the pumps have to be on. We have got to check | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
the pumps every three hours. We are not getting a lot of sleep. He has | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
had specialist support from his dad 's building business, and even the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Marines have been in to help. Today, he is stuck with me. His dam is | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
built from more than 2500 tonnes of soil. He has also got 30 tonnes of | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
sand bags to reinforce the pressure points just when the water does get | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
in, he has two channel it towards the pumps in order to get it out | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
again. That is the chief engineer, that is the muscle! If these guys | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
were not here, what would have happened? I would have been in water | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
probably about a week ago. This is the games room. And this is what the | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
fight is all about. A ?1 million self built 3-storey residence. One | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
of the furniture has been moved to the upper floors, just in case the | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
battle is eventually lost. So, this is literally your life 's | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
belongings? Yes, everything. I had to ask him, was it really worth the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
effort? Why are you fighting to keep this place, houses can be repaired? | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
I just think, we have all got a bit of spirit, just thinking it is the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
right thing to do. People would say, you knew you were building on a | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
flood plain, it was a risk you were running, wasn't it? Actually, we | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
built it two feet higher than the highest ever recorded flood. But | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
even these precautions have not been enough in this extraordinary | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
weather. As you can see, the water is probably three feet above floor | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
level. Every day from his window, he looks at a vast sea of water, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
covering a ten mile stretch of land. But up until now, he is winning. You | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
can see how close the water is to the house, but so far, this is the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
only damage it has caused inside. With his mum sending mails and his | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
sister running the kitchen, he has got full family support. -- meals. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
He is tough and determined, he will keep going to the bitter end, I | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
think. He has worked so hard to achieve this. He has worked all his | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
life, with dad, and put so much effort into this house. It is what | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
he lives for. It all escalated, and now, we are kind of up against it! | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
We did not know where the water was going to finish, and we still | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
don't. Do you think if it were to break, you would stay right until | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the bitter end and teach no, if it breaks, we are going to try and mend | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
it. But tonight could bring the ultimate test. There is another | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
storm predicted. If we can get past tonight, I think we have got a | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
chance. It will be an emotional moment, if this place goes. We built | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
it four years ago, and it is our home. Yes, we would be upset. Well, | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
we filmed that yesterday. He obviously got through last night. We | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
spoke to him before we came on air. He is just taking it hour by hour. I | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
love his grit and determination. When you have built a house like | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
that, you can see why, and if you have got the diggers outside, then | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
use them. Basically, there are a lot of people who are doing what they | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
can, and trying to help others, if possible. Absolutely, and so many | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
people got in touch with us last night. Something else which has been | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
going on in the Somerset Levels, 13 pumps have been brought in from the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
motherland is, they are into different places, and when start | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
pumping water out -- Netherlands -- they will be able to remove more | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
than two Olympic sized swimming pools every day. The water is being | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
diverted to the River Parrett, and from there it will go out to sea. It | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
is a big operation, but it will take a while. The Environment Agency have | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
told us that on the flooded land, it could take weeks. I guess that is | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
the point, getting the water to safety as well. You have got to get | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
rid of it. So, we have been inundated after last night's floods | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
special. Thank you for everybody for getting in touch with us. You have | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
got some examples? Yes, Aaron in Sutton said, he heard a lady saying | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
that she has got no heating, and have basement is flooded, so Aaron | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
has offered to install a boiler free of charge. He says, many hands make | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
light work. Let's keep the great British spirit alive. Wendy also | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
wants to help. Seeing scenes of devastation, she has offered her | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
cottage in West Sussex to a family which has been flooded out. She | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
says, even pets are welcome, if they are well behaved. So do not bring a | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
savage baboon. And on the same theme, a couple have offered their | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
spare room to anyone who needs somewhere to stay. The Polo club in | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
Windsor is offering free temporary stabling for horses. Charlie in | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Swindon says he has got next week off work, and he wants to know if | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
you can volunteer to help people. And Laura in Essex has also wanted | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
to volunteer as well. We thought, why don't people get in touch with | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the programme, we will have them up and we may even film them. And | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
later, we will be getting some tips for a good Valentine's Day, from | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Anita. The best tips, from the least romantic person on the planet! Of | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
course, we have seen a lot of people disrupted in the floods, and one | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
group which is a very close to my heart is the farmers. A lot of them | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
are going the extra mile to help each other out. Matt Allwright is at | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
the hub of the effort. So, what is going on this evening? Well, what is | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
going on is silage, tonnes and tonnes of it. It may just look like | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
decomposing hay, but to the hundreds of cattle which have been relocated | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
here in Somerset, it is breakfast, lunch and dinner. And the story of | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
the journey it took to get here is epic. First of all, let's speak to | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
James. James, you are a farmer locally, talk me through the last | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
couple of weeks. Well, it has been six weeks of flooding, starting on | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
the 1st of January. The water has been coming up since then. Last | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Wednesday, it started coming up about two feet every 12 hours, so it | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
meant that we had to start evacuating cattle, and we have got | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
550. That is really difficult, logistically, to get them out. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Presumably you cannot do it in one go, yourself? No, we put a call out | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
on Facebook and Twitter, and the response was raining -- was amazing | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
from the farming community. We had tractors and trailers turning up, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
guys driving for two hours to get to us. We were hauling cattle out, 120 | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
in each convoy, up to Sedgemoor market, where they kindly kept them, | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
and we then deployed them to other farms. But of course, you have still | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
got to feed them, which is that is where the wonderful Philip Rowbotham | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
comes in. Tell me what went through your mind when you saw what was | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
happening down here in Somerset. It is awful. We have been watching it | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
on the telly in Wakefield for six weeks. I just thought, it is time we | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
did something to help them. So what did you do? I got up on Saturday | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
morning, I rang up a couple of people, one local contractor helped | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
me out. We have got a load of silage off local farmers roundabout and we | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
set off this morning at five o'clock, and here we are. How much | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
did you bring? We brought 30 tonnes down today, which will just keep | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
James going for a couple of days. It is not a lot but we are trying to | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
help, and trying to get people to understand what is going on. So, you | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
did 200 miles in a tractor? Not on the motorway, no! Thank you very | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
much for letting everybody know what is going on, and setting an example. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
But it does not end there. Young farmers in Essex have now pledged | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
300 tonnes of silage. We are talking about ten times this amount, which | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
is a fantastically generous offer. Ian Johnson from the NFU, Southwest | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
region, this presents a challenge for you? The response is brilliant, | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
however. What we need, Mr Cameron, is an aircraft hangar to put it in. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
And what we need, Mr supermarket, is help with the logistics. That is | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
what we really need. We want people to send pledges to us at NFU | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
online... This situation is going to change, it could be months, not | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
weeks. Please get in touch with the NFU first, before you come down | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
here? Yes, they have got a fetid swamp, they will not have any grass | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
for months. We will come by it for them and bake sure the right people | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
get it at the right time. -- comp eyelet for them. You have got to | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
love the British farmers. -- compile it for them. It makes me very proud | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
indeed. Now, Timothy Blandings returns on Sunday on BBC One at | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
6.30pm. It is good family viewing, but for those that are into their | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
period drama, it is interesting, isn't it? His PG Wodehouse press | :14:19. | :14:33. | |
start, and Guy Andrews, has adapted this -- for a start. If you wanted a | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
proper comparison, you could say it is down to the Abbey -- Downton | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
Abbey, people have been taking unsolicited drugs, they are bonkers, | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
but they are lovely. There are crooks, loonies, felons, arms and | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
nieces, all in love, all bonkers. And there in the middle of it is | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
poor Clarence, who is in charge of everything that hasn't got a clue, | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
because all he wants to do is be with his page. -- pig. Is a bit of | :15:14. | :15:25. | |
Clarence running off on you? Is that the time? 25 past eight? Well, it is | :15:26. | :15:38. | |
a hundred years old. Playing these cast of characters, is Jennifer | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Saunders. She is wonderful, she plays my sister, constantly telling | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
me what a useless piece of Detrick is -- Detroiters I am. -- detritus. | :15:50. | :16:01. | |
All these wonderful characters coming, this cornucopia of actors. | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
Cornucopia? And you have Tim Vine coming in. He has become the new | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
butler. Michael Gray was otherwise engaged. Hopefully, this time, well, | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
the first time it went down well. We were finding our feet, but this time | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
round we've had a bit more time to judge how we think it should go, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
and, hopefully, we might have got it so right that people despise it. But | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
hopefully be got it even better. It was a delight that people liked it. | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
-- we got it even better. You mention the great cast, let's have a | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
look at Harry Enfield in action. This is Glossop, possibly thrashed | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
him at school. Can't be sure. Thrashed in so many. Why is my knees | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
behind that stuffed goat? That's not a goat, that is my stuffed alpaca. I | :17:04. | :17:15. | |
have it on good authority that there is some brass instruments in the | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
house working in concert. When I say concert I... Excretion is not right | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
either, but you take my point. It's a conspiracy. | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
Who was that? That is the extraordinary thing. You are so good | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
at coming up with all these different characters, that we know | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
and love you for, but is that the thing you love, the challenge of | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
getting the different classes of people you play? It is never lost me | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
that am tolerated on a regular basis to come up with a different | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
character, so if you get a chance to do different people and try to come | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
up with it and make it believable, and the court is out on that, it is | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
my pleasure. But it is my pleasure to come up with the characters and | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
you can only do it if you are bothered and then people keep asking | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
you. Blandings is back on BBC One this Sunday. Valentine's Day is | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
tomorrow. And Anita is here to make sure that the people of Basildon do | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
not make a pig 's ear of it. Love it or loathe it, Valentine's Day is | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
here again. Does the R in your life think these flowers are acceptable? | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
And is the J in your life as romantic as a nun? How do we feel | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
about the festival of love? I think it is important to show how much you | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
love each other every day. Valentine's Day is the day you can | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
go overboard. It's a waste of money. I prefer to celebrate our | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
wedding day. We are sort of past the age where you care about things like | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
that. We will have a little cinema event, making Mike are nice, putting | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
everything nice -- making Mike are nice. I will put on nice bed sheets | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
that of stuff. It is a Vauxhall Corsa, not the most comfy. You are | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
spending Valentine's Day with a good-looking male friend, but it's | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
not romantic? He is dropping hints about London, and I love London. As | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
it happens, Megan's love proposal is here? Just take her to London. I | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
have a very oversized romantic card, some chocolates, I want to | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
sprinkle some petals around. I will present her with her dinner. Just | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
the two of you in the family? No, we have four kids. Do you fancy him? I | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
have a soft spot for him. Do you hope it will end in a case? I think | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
it might. If the man gave you this man there might be some men | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
watching. If you are watching this, girlfriends, wives, something like | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
this, nice and fresh, with a tiny bit of ribbon around and add a ring | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
on the end of it, but it must be a large diamond ring. None of that. I | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
think today has been an out and out success. I have softened hearts and | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
open minds to the idea of love. If you are a Cupid, you should hand | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
your bowl over to me. Can I take these home for my husband? I don't | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
think anybody else wants them? He's going to love them. Such a | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
cheapskate, Anita. I love the guy who is going to do a cinema night in | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
his Vauxhall Corsa. You have been married for 30 years, and your wife | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
came on the programme a couple of years ago. It is 33 years this time. | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
So, all going well. But have you bought a Valentine 's card, or have | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
you painted one? I am a romantic fool, but recently I have been | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
painting and drawing a few. It saves going out and buying something naff. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
I will paint a something. You have teamed up with Mike Leigh and you | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
are playing Turner. We have been working a long time about a film | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
about JW Turner, the landscape painter, and part of the process was | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
that he sent me away for two years to learn how to paint before we | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
started shooting. So I have to say, the quality of the Valentines cards | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
has improved from paintings of bottoms, upside-down hearts. If you | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
ever looked like a hard, it looks like a bottom. And upside-down | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
bottom, beautifully painted, but now it's beautiful landscapes. You might | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
have to explain the card then. I've left it on the kitchen table, and | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
she has seen it. I have to finish it tonight. For voters in the Scottish | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
referendum economic issues dominate the news. But there are a million | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
people who classify themselves as Scottish you cannot vote. One | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
Scottish man who classes himself as Scottish is the X-Men and Bourne | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
trilogy man, Brian Cox. On the 18th of September the people of Scotland | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
will be asked if they want the country to be independent. Yes, you | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
said -- I said the people was -- the vote was for people in Scotland, not | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
from Scotland. I am in favour of independence but I'm no longer a | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
resident scholar, so that rules me and an estimated 1 million Scots out | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
-- no longer a resident of Scotland. I don't live in Scotland, I live in | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
New York, and I think it is right that the Scottish taxpayer and | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
ratepayers should be the ones who vote. But is mine a view shared by | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
other Scottish people living outside Scotland? Today, I'm not in | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Scotland, but I am among Scots. I have come to Corby in | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Northamptonshire, known as Little Scotland following a mass move by | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Scots for jobs in the steel industry in the 1930s. You have an amazing | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
variety of Scottish produce here. Do you do Bridie 's? You do! Oh, my | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
goodness. The connection has always been strong here. The Scots Corby, | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
like me, will not get to vote. Do you consider yourself Scottish? So | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
how do you feel you have no vote? Definitely if you were born in | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Scotland. There should be a cut-off. I am always saying how English I am. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Would you like a vote? I've never thought about it, to be honest. | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Wears the best place to find Scottish people? -- where is the | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
best place? The Grampian club. The Grampian club has a membership of | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
4500 Scots. I love Scotland, nowhere else like it. Should you have the | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
right to vote? I am Scots born and I served in the Scottish regiment for | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
18 years. I believe every Scots born person is entitled to vote. I don't | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
think I should, because I've lived here since 1979. Who would be a | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
Scottish citizen? If Scotland vote yes to independence, Scots born in | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
Scotland but living elsewhere will automatically become Scottish | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
citizens on the day of independence. So basically you are | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Scottish born. So you will become citizens of Scotland. How do you | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
feel now that you know you won't have a say in that process? It does | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
make a difference in that I would like to have a vote, but whether | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
people in Scotland think I should, I don't know. It's about you. You are | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
right. It's a shame that I would not be able to have that say. The thing | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
that gets me is that people do want to be part of this. It's not just | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
about the Scottish people in Scotland, it's about those | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
elsewhere, and people who are incredibly attached to their | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
Scottish heritage. I think we underestimate that a lot, and it's | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
not just sentimentality, it is something in the blood. It is there. | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
73 miles south of Corby and even further from Scotland, I'm in | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
London, to meet a Scottish lawyer, James Wallace, you feel so strongly | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
about the right to vote he is considering legal action against the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Scottish Government. I was raised in Dumfries. My whole family lives | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
there. I was at university in Scotland. I left 18 months ago to | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
train as a lawyer. Automatic citizenship? So this is the legal | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
argument and that is where the problem arises. I will automatically | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
become a citizen of another country without any say. I am Scottish | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
enough to be a citizen, but I'm not Scottish enough to have a say. I | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
can't vote because I've not lived in Scotland for many years. I don't | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
think you can get fairer than that? If you look at the members of | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
parliament in Scotland, it's nearly a quarter or a third who have at | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
some point lift elsewhere. -- lived elsewhere. Does Gordon Brown get a | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
vote? I think he's permanently resident there. He was resident in | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
ten Downing St for a while. So he wouldn't get to vote. It is not a | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
yes or no thing, it's about being able to vote. It's about exercising | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
what we believe is our democratic right to be able to have a say in | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
the future of Scotland. I do think some of the people I met have a | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
right to vote if they want it. This is not an easy issue. That is what I | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
think is the key thing. This has never been done before and it is | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
conjugated issue. As September approaches, we will return -- | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
complicated issue. Timothy, Blandings of course, and we know you | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
love a pig. But do they love you? I wouldn't know. We will find out. | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
David is up there with three little piggies, and they're going to run a | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
race. We will entice them with a bucket of food. The last one to get | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
his snout on the bucket will have to clean up. The person with a pig, not | :28:11. | :28:22. | |
with the snout? David and Janet Legge are here from short wood | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
Farm. Let's release the pigs and see what happens. -- short wood Farm. | :28:26. | :28:40. | |
Anyway, that is it for tonight. Alex will be back with Torvill and Dean | :28:41. | :29:00. | |
tomorrow. See you then. I knew he would go to you. | :29:01. | :29:02. |