:00:46. > :00:51.Afternoon. Welcome to the final Daily Politics of 2012. Guess what?
:00:51. > :00:57.It's a Christmas special. From pasties to plebs, to penitent
:00:57. > :01:00.politicians, we will be looking at the main party's years and having a
:01:00. > :01:04.run-down of the top little moments of the last 12 months. Have our
:01:04. > :01:09.politicians been behaving this year or are they just a bunch of
:01:09. > :01:14.Scrooges? We will be choosing our candidates for a first ever Daily
:01:14. > :01:18.Politics quiz -- Daily Politics Christmas awards. What other
:01:18. > :01:25.strange happenings at been taking place? Some of Westminster's finest
:01:25. > :01:29.minds take part in our very own Christmas quiz.
:01:30. > :01:37.All that coming up. With us for the first half of this Christmas
:01:37. > :01:39.special, I am delighted to say and joint in Santa's grotto, otherwise
:01:39. > :01:46.known as the press gallery bar, where we found a trio of Fleet
:01:46. > :01:51.Street elves to help their review the year. Phil -- Philip Collins of
:01:51. > :01:56.the Times, he wants an editor for Christmas. James Forsyth works for
:01:56. > :02:03.the Spectator, and take the halls with boughs of Polly Toynbee from
:02:03. > :02:08.the Guardian. A -- deck the halls. It has been a momentous year in
:02:08. > :02:15.Westminster so what better way to celebrate than the inaugural Daily
:02:15. > :02:23.Politics awards. I think we should call them the Andrews.
:02:23. > :02:29.Our first category... There is a whole band just behind
:02:29. > :02:33.you that does that. Parliamentary moment of the year, Phil Collins?
:02:33. > :02:36.thing we cannot let you pass without mentioning the Leveson
:02:36. > :02:41.Inquiry. I think my parliamentary moment of the year was Nick Clegg,
:02:41. > :02:46.the Deputy Prime Minister, making a separate statement on Leveson to
:02:46. > :02:48.the Prime Minister. Two things about this, firstly to have a
:02:48. > :02:52.liberal making the case for statutory regulation of the press
:02:52. > :02:56.was a strange interpretation of liberalism. Secondly, it laid bare
:02:56. > :03:03.a big cleavage in the coalition, one of the Rhine stories of the
:03:03. > :03:06.year. And thirdly, the substantial question itself, the problem that
:03:06. > :03:14.is left in the Prime Minister's inbox about what will happen when
:03:15. > :03:21.the press comes back. A free press does not mean a press that is free
:03:21. > :03:26.to bully innocent people or free to abuse grieving families. What I
:03:26. > :03:30.want now is for us to strike a better balance between these two
:03:30. > :03:35.liberal principles. So that our media can scrutinise the powers-
:03:35. > :03:38.that-be, but cannot destroy innocent lives. So that the
:03:38. > :03:41.journalists in the press gallery can hold us, the politicians, to
:03:41. > :03:48.account, but we can look up to the individuals and families in the
:03:48. > :03:54.public gallery, knowing they have the right protections and place.
:03:54. > :03:58.Phil Collins' parliamentary moment. Mr Clegg making his own statement.
:03:58. > :04:02.What was your parliamentary moment, James? I think it was the defeat of
:04:02. > :04:06.Lords reform, when it became clear that Tory MPs were not going to let
:04:06. > :04:10.Nick chair -- Nick Clegg's cherished project pass. There will
:04:10. > :04:13.that it was clear that was going to happen, Malcolm Rifkind made a
:04:13. > :04:20.speech savaging the idea and mocking Nick Clegg in personal
:04:20. > :04:25.terms. Let's hear it. I have not voted against my party for a very
:04:25. > :04:30.long time. I last did so in the 1970s. I do not know what effect it
:04:30. > :04:34.will have this time on my ministerial future. All I can say
:04:34. > :04:40.is the last time I did it, in the 1970s, two years later, Margaret
:04:40. > :04:44.Thatcher appointed me to her government. So be of good heart,
:04:44. > :04:48.bought as you believe, and that means 40 against his bill and
:04:48. > :04:55.voting against the programmed motion. -- voting against it this
:04:55. > :05:00.bill. An unlikely rebel. Was not a tactical mistake? They lost
:05:00. > :05:05.boundary reform as a result? It was a calamity. Did they really care
:05:06. > :05:12.that much about Lords reform? Compared to losing the next
:05:12. > :05:17.election as a result? I do not know what to call them? A kind of great,
:05:17. > :05:21.tribal, few will fit that they would not put up with this. --
:05:21. > :05:24.feudal. You're right, it was an honest moment, a moment without
:05:24. > :05:29.political calculation, in which Tory backbenchers just would not
:05:30. > :05:33.have that. They want to the House of Lords and the hereditaries and
:05:33. > :05:35.all that stuff and nonsense and they got it. They did not realise
:05:36. > :05:40.that the Liberal Democrats could not keep losing these
:05:40. > :05:42.constitutional things without some kind of retaliation. They were not
:05:42. > :05:45.convinced that the Liberal Democrats would strike back on
:05:46. > :05:51.boundaries, and they were determined to do that. The mountain
:05:51. > :05:54.that the Tories have to climb to get an overall majority is high
:05:54. > :06:00.enough with a boundary reforms. It is kind of Mission: Impossible
:06:00. > :06:07.without them. It will be very difficult. It is hard to see how
:06:07. > :06:11.they can pull it off. I can see how they will take some Lib Dem seats
:06:11. > :06:16.where tactical voting on wines and they can put pressure on the Lib
:06:16. > :06:20.Dem vote, but in the Labour seats, it will be different. Particularly
:06:20. > :06:25.with UKIP and the Lib Dem vote crumbling. The Tory vote is at the
:06:25. > :06:29.margins to UKIP. Whereas the good news? It is the most presidential
:06:29. > :06:36.campaign in a long time from the Tories. I said to a Conservative
:06:36. > :06:38.minister this morning, what is your message? Fought Cameron? He said
:06:38. > :06:42.that the Lib Dems were saying you are voting for the Conservative
:06:42. > :06:48.Party, we're going to say that you are voting for David Cameron.
:06:48. > :06:51.also say, don't fought back in the people who got you into this mess.
:06:51. > :06:55.-- Don't vote back in. parliamentary moment of the year
:06:55. > :07:00.to? Ed Balls recently got tripped up in the Spending Review. And we
:07:00. > :07:07.will come to that. But he is very good in Parliament. He is very
:07:07. > :07:12.pugilistic, tough as nails. He gave a very good response in the Budget
:07:12. > :07:22.speech, and I think he is pretty good in that bullying Forum. This
:07:22. > :07:23.
:07:23. > :07:27.is where he was on form. Back to March, his response to the Budget,
:07:27. > :07:32.not the response to the Budget, the Leader of the Opposition does that.
:07:32. > :07:38.This is Ed Balls in the Budget debate. You call this a Robin Hood
:07:38. > :07:43.Budget? But they have got this the wrong way round. Because Robin Hood
:07:43. > :07:49.took from the rich to give to the poor and this Budget takes from law
:07:49. > :07:54.and middle income families to give to the rich. Don't Basie? The
:07:54. > :08:00.Chancellor is not Robin Hood, he is the Sheriff of Nottingham. -- don't
:08:00. > :08:09.they see. As for jobs and growth, he could not give a Friar Tuck, Mr
:08:09. > :08:14.Deputy Speaker. Acini spatial expression from the Chancellor! --
:08:14. > :08:19.that a nice facial expression. When Ed Balls is on form, he is
:08:19. > :08:24.remarkable. Because of memories Easter as with previous
:08:24. > :08:32.associations of the final Labour years, and being a compadre of Mr
:08:32. > :08:35.Brown, is he still in negative in the eyes of voters? I think
:08:35. > :08:40.Labour's position on the economy is very soft. There is that problem.
:08:40. > :08:45.At this stage in the parliament, with gross as -- with growth as
:08:45. > :08:47.elusive as it is, for later to not be out of sight on the economy is
:08:47. > :08:51.worrying from their point of view. When it comes to it, the Tories
:08:51. > :08:56.will throw mud about economic record of the previous government.
:08:56. > :09:00.It is not so much Ed Balls' association with Mr Brown, it is
:09:00. > :09:06.his association with what happened. It is their Achilles heel. He was
:09:06. > :09:10.Ed Miliband's third-choice. It is possible that he might be the best
:09:10. > :09:15.opposition Treasury Persian up until closer to the election and he
:09:15. > :09:17.might even go back, perhaps, to Alastair Darling four of the
:09:17. > :09:23.military action. He is a good oppositional fighter, he is the
:09:23. > :09:31.best person they have got for the Stuffer. He revels in it. -- for
:09:31. > :09:41.this stuff. He is so quiet in the Brown Europe -- he is so mired in
:09:41. > :09:45.the Gordon Brown era, that it might be a worry. By 2014, he will be
:09:45. > :09:53.able to say he is the man who saved the financial union... Alastair
:09:53. > :09:56.Darling. He was responsible, for Labour, undermined by irresponsible
:09:56. > :10:00.Labour. If he comes back, it will be difficult for David Cameron to
:10:00. > :10:05.deal with. We know that Tories admire Alastair Darling, privately,
:10:05. > :10:10.and if he says the union as well in the referendum, and Ed Miliband
:10:10. > :10:15.says, all right, this is the guide to make Chancellor... Also,
:10:15. > :10:19.Alastair Darling handed over growth which George Osborne simply put a
:10:19. > :10:24.stop to with his first Spending Review. It will be hard to persuade
:10:24. > :10:28.people that he left a golden legacy. But he had a good financial crisis.
:10:28. > :10:32.He did. It is never going to happen in a million years. It is not going
:10:32. > :10:36.to happen. You're not going to remove Ed Balls from that position.
:10:36. > :10:41.Go back to your previous discussion about how hard tears for the Tories
:10:41. > :10:44.to get a majority. Labour think they are in for a good shout of
:10:44. > :10:49.getting into Downing Street and there is no way you will shift Ed
:10:49. > :10:53.Balls from the threshold. Don't underestimate Beth Miliband's
:10:53. > :10:58.toughness. I think he will do whatever it takes. -- Ed Miliband.
:10:58. > :11:02.If it seems a weakness, and it may well be that Ed Balls will come out
:11:02. > :11:06.with a convincing economic strategy. He cannot do that right now because
:11:06. > :11:12.we do not know the situation. If he does that, he might set himself,
:11:12. > :11:14.but to... At the cost of ensuring that his government will be carnage.
:11:14. > :11:20.If interestingly, if you think you're not going to win the
:11:20. > :11:22.election, you will do what irritates. But we will write it
:11:22. > :11:27.down. If we are right, we will remind everybody and did not, we
:11:27. > :11:33.will let it disappear into the mists of the BBC archives. Or words
:11:33. > :11:43.to your next award, the star man or woman around David Cameron's
:11:43. > :11:44.
:11:44. > :11:48.Cabinet minister of the year. James? Michael Gove. You look at
:11:48. > :11:51.him, he is the most dynamic reformer and the Government, he has
:11:51. > :11:56.achieved the most so far and I think the interesting thing, there
:11:56. > :12:00.appears to be a consensus emerging around his reforms. I do not think
:12:00. > :12:05.Labour will on pick them. I agree. I chose him as well. Two for Mr go
:12:05. > :12:09.for. I think he had a plan and what a rethink about his plan, he came
:12:09. > :12:14.into office with a plan which she was able to articulate and then
:12:14. > :12:18.enact. Contrast that with the health service, which were plans
:12:18. > :12:22.land upon us from on high and were a terrible mess. Michael Gove is
:12:22. > :12:27.exemplary and he set about doing what he wants to do. He built a
:12:27. > :12:31.strong consensus before he came to office. A hat-trick? I think he is
:12:31. > :12:36.pretty good because he is about the -- this is about the only area in
:12:36. > :12:41.which they're not in deep trouble. It is the or make him vulnerable
:12:41. > :12:45.area. Who is your choice? Are I have chosen the Iain Duncan-Smith.
:12:45. > :12:48.Were we are right now, it is the one popular policy, welfare reform.
:12:49. > :12:56.I choose it because he is the epitome of everything that is going
:12:56. > :12:59.to go wrong with this government. He is unctuous and sanctimonious
:12:59. > :13:04.and he is an appalling -- she is making appalling squeeze on the
:13:04. > :13:07.poorest and the weakness. -- the weakest. How does this qualify him
:13:07. > :13:11.to be Minister of the year? Because it is working now but I do not
:13:11. > :13:15.think it will work for much longer. The polls are changing and by the
:13:15. > :13:19.time we get to next April, when the benefit cuts really had the
:13:19. > :13:23.disabled, when people's mobility scooters will be repossessed, about
:13:23. > :13:31.90,000 of them, it will make lovely pictures. You think that will
:13:31. > :13:36.happen? It may be that they will do you turn up the last moment. -- do
:13:36. > :13:40.a U-turn at the last moment. As things are, two-thirds of disabled
:13:40. > :13:44.children will lose Disability Living Allowance. Children who or
:13:44. > :13:48.carers for sick parents are going to lose about �58 a week. It is a
:13:48. > :13:54.cruelty unimaginable and people have not yet got it but I think
:13:54. > :13:58.they will then. Coming onto the politics of this, you have chosen
:13:58. > :14:02.Iain Duncan-Smith and Michael Gove. Education and welfare reform were
:14:02. > :14:06.the two areas where the Conservatives came to power with a
:14:06. > :14:10.pretty good idea of what they wanted to do. You can agree a
:14:10. > :14:15.disagree but they knew what they wanted to do. Two areas that are
:14:15. > :14:18.quite difficult for Labour at the moment. Is that correct? I think so.
:14:18. > :14:23.On education, Labour does not know what it thinks and has been silent
:14:23. > :14:27.for a long time. Because Michael Gove is carrying on some of the
:14:27. > :14:33.Labour policies. Labour does not really have a position on schools.
:14:33. > :14:38.One welfare, they are in more trouble. MP after MP in 2010 found
:14:38. > :14:43.people telling them that Labour was associated with welfare. They have
:14:43. > :14:46.been spooked by this. They have made a few remarks about changing
:14:46. > :14:55.the welfare state back towards one of contribution, which does not go
:14:56. > :14:58.anywhere. They are in a tricky position on welfare. They do not
:14:58. > :15:01.want to talk about scroungers and become hard, although it is
:15:01. > :15:06.tempting, but it leaves you in a difficult place. I think they have
:15:06. > :15:09.a hope, -- they have to hope that the effects of austerity are so
:15:09. > :15:15.severe that that dominates the argument. One of the interesting
:15:15. > :15:19.things, if you look at the strategy, public attitudes have hardened. We
:15:19. > :15:22.are in a striking situation. Normally, in austerity periods,
:15:22. > :15:26.people are more sympathetic. would not rely too much on that
:15:26. > :15:30.survey. It is six months out of date. It is not like ordinary
:15:30. > :15:33.opinion polls, it is 18 months out of date. There is something
:15:33. > :15:37.striking that people in a recession are normally more sympathetic.
:15:37. > :15:41.is reflecting the end of the Labour era. People felt they were too
:15:41. > :15:45.generous. It is not telling us what they're thinking now. There were
:15:45. > :15:51.some polls this week that were conflicting. Some of them were nip
:15:51. > :15:56.and tuck. One of them were showing that the Conservatives was begun
:15:56. > :15:59.this issue. The Ipsos MORI poll showed a significant change. I
:15:59. > :16:05.think it is hard to tell but my guess is that after next April,
:16:05. > :16:09.when we get poll tax tight council tax, people having to pay council
:16:10. > :16:13.tax for the first time, Baylis at the door, and a lot of savage
:16:13. > :16:19.things happening, I think you may evil see -- you may even see the
:16:20. > :16:29.Daily Mail report poorly about this. The it is interesting to see Ian
:16:30. > :16:31.
:16:31. > :16:36.Duncan-Smith talking about this. He Iain Duncan Smith claimed to have
:16:36. > :16:41.an epiphany about poverty, so he should resign. He has used this
:16:41. > :16:48.language of more than anyone else. He said to the Sunday Times, I will
:16:48. > :16:57.tell them, you are a sky over. He is part of it. But in your view, is
:16:57. > :17:07.it a winner for the Tories? I think it is. It is hard to persuade the
:17:07. > :17:08.
:17:08. > :17:15.public... It is Labour against the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.
:17:15. > :17:19.Her it is difficult for Labour to win the argument. The Tories will
:17:19. > :17:26.just say, you are for a limited welfare. It will be interesting to
:17:26. > :17:32.see the debate. It will be a defining issue of 2013. It has been
:17:32. > :17:42.fermenting this year. But next year, we will see how it plays out.
:17:42. > :17:44.
:17:44. > :17:51.Time for our next award. Who has We are talking opposition
:17:51. > :17:55.politician of the year. Who do you choose? The obvious choice is Ed
:17:55. > :17:59.Miliband, because politics is so dominated by the leaders now. But I
:17:59. > :18:03.will go for someone unusual. Going back to the discussion about those
:18:03. > :18:06.who grew up in the shadow of Gordon Brown, one of the tasks of that
:18:07. > :18:12.generation of politicians is to try and release themselves from the
:18:12. > :18:16.shadow of Blair or Brown. A lot of the shadow front bench grew up as
:18:16. > :18:18.advisers to the previous generation. Douglas Alexander had done very
:18:18. > :18:23.little political personality, because he was so much in the
:18:23. > :18:26.shadow of his boss that when he took on the welfare brief earlier
:18:27. > :18:32.and then recently, with respect to the Arab Spring, there were signs
:18:32. > :18:35.of an emergent political personality in him. They are
:18:35. > :18:44.appealing and attractive. He is in the toughest job in a position
:18:44. > :18:47.apart from the leader -- the toughest job in opposition, which
:18:48. > :18:52.is shadow Home Secretary. He has had a good year. She is in him is a
:18:52. > :18:57.problem, because we could not find a clip that illustrated what you
:18:57. > :19:01.were talking about! So I will let that hang in the air. A Nigel
:19:01. > :19:05.Farage is my choice. He is running against not just the coalition, but
:19:05. > :19:10.their entire political class and the media. If you look at the
:19:10. > :19:15.recent polling, it is difficult to analyse the UKIP phenomenon. What
:19:15. > :19:20.appeals to their voters is what we think of as gaffes. But they like
:19:20. > :19:25.the fact that he says the unsayable. And not just on Europe. It is
:19:25. > :19:29.grammar schools, gay marriage, law and order. Let's hear Mr Farage.
:19:29. > :19:33.With Greece teetering on the edge of euro with Straw, the real
:19:33. > :19:40.elephant in the room had is that once Chris leaves, the European
:19:40. > :19:43.Central Bank is bust. It is gone. It has EUR444 billion worth of
:19:43. > :19:51.exposure to the bailed out countries, and to rectify that, you
:19:51. > :19:56.will need to have a cash from Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Italy.
:19:56. > :20:01.You couldn't make it up. It is utter failure. This ship, the Euro
:20:01. > :20:09.Titanic, has now hit the iceberg and sadly, there simply are not
:20:09. > :20:13.enough lifeboats. In an age of homogenised politicians, he is
:20:14. > :20:21.different, isn't he? Were all, there is always room for a
:20:21. > :20:26.theatrical performer. He is a great show off. I don't know if he
:20:26. > :20:29.believes in anything, but he has a lot of fun. And at a time when
:20:29. > :20:34.people are feeling very anti- Westminster politics, he will get a
:20:34. > :20:42.lot of support. He is good at what he does. I think it is worthless
:20:43. > :20:48.politics. If it were to become a big party, I would be quite scared.
:20:48. > :20:53.But the significance of UKIP is not that it is becoming a big party
:20:53. > :20:58.like a right-wing kind of SDP, it's dangerous simply that in those
:20:58. > :21:05.seats where Labour is a good second to the Tories, they will take away
:21:05. > :21:11.enough Tory votes to make that a potential Labour seat. That is
:21:11. > :21:21.precisely the significance of UKIP and why the Tories are the are
:21:21. > :21:23.
:21:23. > :21:29.scared. But I tend to agree with Polly. Nigel Farage has the air of
:21:29. > :21:33.the 18th hole about him. A few GNPs later, he stands up to make a
:21:33. > :21:39.speech about Greece leaving Europe. When you get to the serious
:21:39. > :21:47.politics of a general election, the ebb and flow will be exactly as it
:21:47. > :21:52.always is. Consider the 2014 European elections. You could not
:21:52. > :21:58.rule him out coming first. The Lib Dems would become headless chickens
:21:58. > :22:04.if they come 4th or 5th, and Mr Cameron has a real problem. It is
:22:04. > :22:11.almost certain that they will push the Lib Dems into third. What
:22:11. > :22:16.effect do us that have? Mr Cameron will need to set out his lines so
:22:16. > :22:22.that he can't be moved from it early on. He will be one to watch
:22:22. > :22:32.the 2013, or whatever you think of him. He is certainly a minor
:22:32. > :22:34.
:22:34. > :22:37.political phenomenon that is My person is Ed Miliband. If you
:22:37. > :22:42.think how written-off he was when he took over by a whisker, people
:22:42. > :22:46.said this was curtains for Labour. This is the year he has come into
:22:46. > :22:51.his own. He has found his feet in the Commons and he is absolutely
:22:51. > :22:56.Cameron's match. Sometimes one wins, sometimes the other. When he gets
:22:56. > :23:04.under Cameron's skin, Cameron goes red with rage. He has had a few
:23:04. > :23:08.good jokes and he seems comfortable for the first time. I have heard
:23:08. > :23:16.everything when the boy from the Bullingdon Club lectures people on
:23:17. > :23:26.bullying. Absolutely extraordinary. Have you read a restaurant
:23:27. > :23:29.
:23:29. > :23:36.recently? -- have you wreck to a restaurant recently? Now, we cover
:23:36. > :23:39.Prime Minister's Questions every week on the Daily Politics. All
:23:39. > :23:44.independent commentators would admit that he has got better as the
:23:45. > :23:49.year has gone on. He is much more confident now. He often it is a
:23:49. > :23:53.match and sometimes wins against Mr Cameron. But is he with the public
:23:53. > :23:57.yet? He needs to get with the West minster political class before he
:23:57. > :24:00.can get with the public. Until that conference speech this year,
:24:00. > :24:05.everything -- every time he did anything, it had to cut through
:24:05. > :24:09.this coverage about whether they picked the correct Miliband. That
:24:09. > :24:12.has now gone. He has moved on to a different plane. He is now
:24:12. > :24:20.guaranteed to lead Labour into the next election. The public might
:24:20. > :24:25.warm to him in time. He is one of the nicest people in politics.
:24:25. > :24:28.agree that the conference speech was a watershed moment. Firstly, it
:24:28. > :24:32.did what most speeches can't do, which was that it took him from
:24:32. > :24:35.being not a credible figure to being a credible figure in the
:24:35. > :24:40.course of an hour. Very few conference speeches ever achieve
:24:40. > :24:43.that. But he managed to talk for an hour without once mentioning the
:24:43. > :24:48.deficit, and I don't think he can do that for the next two years.
:24:48. > :24:51.That will still be the critical question. There is no doubt he is
:24:51. > :24:55.better than people thought, but that was because people thought he
:24:55. > :25:01.was a four out of ten politician, and he has proved to be six or
:25:01. > :25:06.seven. Let's move on on the one to watch. Who are the up and coming
:25:06. > :25:11.people in Parliament? There was an impressive intake of MPs in 2010 on
:25:11. > :25:17.both sides of the house. It was only Lib Dems that were not renewed
:25:17. > :25:21.her. Phil, who is the one to watch on the back benches? There were
:25:21. > :25:24.quite a lot I could have chosen. I have chosen Tristram Hunt because
:25:24. > :25:29.that New Labour will finally be complete when the party is led by
:25:29. > :25:33.somebody called Tristram. remember what Mr Blair said of Mr
:25:33. > :25:38.Mandelson, and that never came about. They are taking it to a new
:25:38. > :25:42.level. Tristram is very intelligent. In politics now, it helps if you
:25:42. > :25:45.come from the wrong side of the tracks, which is to say if you are
:25:45. > :25:50.a working-class Tory leader, that helps. If you are in middle-class
:25:50. > :25:55.Labour leader, that helps. You want to pull people over to your party
:25:55. > :26:00.who are not natural supporters. will he stay the course? He has a
:26:00. > :26:05.lot of other worlds going on. He is a serious historian. Being called
:26:05. > :26:12.Tristram, it is only a matter of time before he is head of BBC drama.
:26:12. > :26:16.I am anointing him on this show to encourage him to carry on. Your
:26:16. > :26:20.choice of the one to watch? Stella Creasy, a tremendously
:26:20. > :26:23.energetic local campaigner, vociferous. She has done what
:26:23. > :26:28.backbenchers should do, which eschews an issue which is a
:26:28. > :26:32.winnable and she has won it. She chose the monstrous debts that
:26:32. > :26:38.people build up with pay-day loan companies and said we have to have
:26:38. > :26:42.a cap on the amount of interest rates that people should pay. And
:26:42. > :26:49.she has won the argument. She has been impressive when we have had
:26:49. > :26:52.her on the programme. James? List Trust, the new education minister.
:26:52. > :26:57.She is not only doing the curriculum reforms, but the child
:26:57. > :27:01.care changes that will be announced in the mid-term review will make
:27:01. > :27:06.childcare cheaper. If it makes it tax-deductible, that could help
:27:06. > :27:10.mothers get back to work. The EU see her as a rising Tory? She is on
:27:10. > :27:14.the right of the Tory party. She is on the free-market wing, but she is
:27:14. > :27:19.also a woman and a working mother, so she does not look like the
:27:19. > :27:22.classic stereotype of a Tory politician, a white male public-
:27:22. > :27:28.school boy. A but there will be one hell of a row when she tells
:27:28. > :27:36.childminders that they can look after five toddlers are on their
:27:36. > :27:42.own. A candlelit in France. -- they can do it in France. We have to
:27:42. > :27:45.leave it there. We will go downmarket now, bring out the
:27:45. > :27:50.journalists and bring in some politicians. Merry Christmas to all
:27:50. > :27:54.of you. So, a pressie for Lizzie.
:27:55. > :27:58."plebgate" turns to Plodgate, and some festive career advice for the
:27:58. > :28:07.Shadow Chancellor. Here is David Thomson to explain all in our final
:28:07. > :28:11.60 seconds of 2012. Not a radical reshuffle, just the
:28:11. > :28:16.Queen visiting Cabinet as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
:28:16. > :28:19.Her Majesty got a 60 place mats and a caravan parked it as a gift.
:28:19. > :28:24.Better than socks. Form a chief whip Andrew Mitchell
:28:24. > :28:27.also got an early Christmas present through CCTV footage which appeared
:28:27. > :28:31.to class -- cast doubt on the police version of "plebgate".
:28:31. > :28:35.The BBC was given a caning by the inquiry into the dropped Newsnight
:28:36. > :28:42.Jimmy Savile investigation. No sackings, but senior management
:28:42. > :28:47.does need to be looked at. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister could
:28:47. > :28:50.not resist a jibe at the risk of tormentor in chief Ed Balls.
:28:50. > :28:55.Shadow Chancellor does a brilliant job playing Santa at the Christmas
:28:55. > :28:59.party every year. He does an excellent job, why not give
:28:59. > :29:06.everyone an early Christmas present. Make the arrangement permanent and
:29:06. > :29:12.give him the sack! Cha! Marie Christmas and hopefully, a not too
:29:12. > :29:15.austere new year. So, we saw the final Prime
:29:15. > :29:19.Minister's Questions of the year, with the traditional exchange of
:29:19. > :29:24.terrible Christmas puns. Yesterday was the last sitting day in the
:29:24. > :29:29.House of Commons before MPs pack up for 2012, and there were yet more
:29:29. > :29:33.awful seasonal jokes. Even worse than BBC One on a Thursday night.
:29:33. > :29:38.Here is the Shadow Leader of the house, Angela Eagle. I was looking
:29:38. > :29:42.for gifts for the Cabinet. Given the miraculous resurrection of
:29:42. > :29:47.those -- his ministerial career, the Government Chief Whip might
:29:47. > :29:51.like a copy of the ex-Australian prime minister John Howard's
:29:51. > :29:55.autobiography, Lazarus rises. We would be grateful if the Chancellor
:29:55. > :29:58.would spend this Christmas reading macro-economics for beginners.
:29:58. > :30:01.Given every announcement from the Department of Education inevitably
:30:01. > :30:06.finds its way into the media before the Education Secretary has had a
:30:06. > :30:16.chance to make a statement to this house, he would benefit from a copy
:30:16. > :30:20.of How Parliament works. A very excellent book. And Mr Speaker, you
:30:20. > :30:30.might enjoy a manual written for classroom teachers are entitled
:30:30. > :30:30.
:30:30. > :30:34.Managing very challenging behaviour. I can hardly contain myself. Anyway,
:30:34. > :30:39.you'll tide is a time of traditions, chestnuts roasting on the open fire,
:30:39. > :30:44.the family gathered around the tree, one of them probably climbing a bit,
:30:44. > :30:48.snowball fights. This is cliched nonsense, but one annual treat
:30:48. > :30:51.surpasses all the others for providing joy and merriment. I
:30:51. > :30:54.speak of the Daily Politics Christmas quiz. And who better to
:30:54. > :30:59.join us and the Prancer, Dancer, Vixen, and Blitzen of the political
:30:59. > :31:01.world? I will let you decide who is who. Kwasi Kwarteng of the
:31:01. > :31:06.Conservatives, Simon Hughes of the Liberal Democrats, Labour's Lisa
:31:06. > :31:16.Nandy and Paul Nuttall, deputy leader of UKIP. As is customary, we
:31:16. > :31:19.
:31:19. > :31:24.have given you special Christmas Number one. I am sorry. No.
:31:24. > :31:34.We're all in this together. wonder if that is. No. 3.
:31:34. > :31:34.
:31:34. > :31:41.nation. Benjamin Disraeli! Baffling! B do that again.
:31:41. > :31:47.Baffling. It is your leader. It has been a topsy-turvy 12 months for
:31:47. > :31:57.her David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Let's have a fresher memories. --
:31:57. > :31:57.
:31:57. > :32:49.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds
:32:49. > :32:56.Two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition and no
:32:56. > :33:02.passion -- compassion to want to understand the lives of others.
:33:02. > :33:12.When is the last time you bought a pasty in Greggs the baker? Look, I
:33:12. > :33:29.
:33:29. > :33:33.can remember the last time I bought Whatever moral authority this bill
:33:33. > :33:43.had, it has now lost. Liberal Democrats, the front bench and
:33:43. > :33:44.
:33:45. > :33:52.backbench, will vote against the Occasionally he would sign him
:33:52. > :34:02.off... "LOL, lots of love." until I told him it meant laugh out loud,
:34:02. > :34:05.
:34:05. > :34:15.and then he did not sign them like The ball moves back to the
:34:15. > :34:26.
:34:27. > :34:36.It was a plan made with the best of attentions but we should not have
:34:37. > :34:45.
:34:45. > :34:49.made a promise we could not deliver. This is the country that invented
:34:49. > :34:54.the computer, defeated the Nazis, started to the internet, fought off
:34:54. > :35:04.every invader for 1000 years. If we even persuaded the Queen to jump
:35:04. > :35:20.
:35:20. > :35:30.out of a helicopter to make the That was nice, wasn't it? The
:35:30. > :35:31.
:35:31. > :35:39.coalition's year. Let's find out how Polish as Our Parliament -- are
:35:39. > :35:44.at variance are. We are a political show. Which of these is the odd one
:35:44. > :35:48.out? Remember, this is a question about the coalition. I'll give you
:35:48. > :35:58.a clue. Each of these images represent a politician. Which is
:35:58. > :36:05.
:36:05. > :36:10.It's actually quite difficult. If I did not have the answer, I would
:36:10. > :36:18.not have had a clue. You were hovering. Anyone? Were your role in
:36:19. > :36:23.this together. What is the answer. I will go for the lot boat. Why?
:36:23. > :36:33.Because the other three are politicians. Balls, and Brown.
:36:33. > :36:43.about David Laws? The law book is David Laws. Do I get. For that.
:36:43. > :36:44.
:36:44. > :36:54.We are talking about Jeremy Browne. -- do I get. For that. I will have
:36:54. > :36:55.
:36:55. > :37:00.a go. David Laws is in the House of Commons.... I would not have got it.
:37:00. > :37:06.The bone is Peter Bone, the balls is Nick Boles and the log book is
:37:06. > :37:12.David Laws. Peter Bone is the only one of these four who is not a
:37:12. > :37:18.coalition minister. -- coalition enthusiast. Have you got that?
:37:18. > :37:24.not very topical. Peter Bone is always topical! The only one who is
:37:24. > :37:31.not a minister. Since you've got no points, I'm going to run a club
:37:31. > :37:36.from Parliament. Jeremy Paxman never does this on University
:37:36. > :37:40.Challenge. I want to tell -- I want you to tell me what word sums up
:37:40. > :37:44.what happens after this club. nation, together the British people
:37:44. > :37:49.will share in the effort and share in the rewards. This country
:37:49. > :37:59.borrowed its way into trouble and we are going to earn our way out. I
:37:59. > :38:02.
:38:02. > :38:12.commend this to the House. Omnishambles! B the correct answer.
:38:12. > :38:15.She got in there before anyone else. It was an omnishambles. It would
:38:16. > :38:25.not have been very loyal for us to answer that one. It tended to
:38:25. > :38:28.dominate politics. The Budget began to unravel. It wasn't the best
:38:28. > :38:33.presented Budget in the history of the world. There were a lot of
:38:34. > :38:38.things that seemed to hit the collision on the bottom. I thought
:38:38. > :38:41.the opposition statement was not criticised for at least been clear
:38:41. > :38:50.and straightforward. The was a fiddle. Half of the figures were
:38:50. > :38:55.not in it. It will never catch on. The surprise was the lead singer of
:38:55. > :38:58.the tax threshold again. Until the Budget, given the state of the
:38:58. > :39:02.recession and that the economy was not growing and living standards
:39:02. > :39:06.were being squeezed, your party was doing quite well in the polls. It
:39:06. > :39:11.was a turning-point. There is no doubt that if you look at any polls
:39:11. > :39:15.from the last election, the budget was a clear inflection point.
:39:15. > :39:19.it was frustrating because the news of the Budget was lifting loads of
:39:19. > :39:24.people out of tax and millions having tax reduced, and that was
:39:24. > :39:30.lost. But your side had looked that stuff in advance. I do not know
:39:30. > :39:35.about making it in advance, but I understand that in the end what was
:39:35. > :39:39.reported was little stuff that had not been heard before. If there is
:39:39. > :39:43.another year like 2013, the position of Lib Dems will be pretty
:39:43. > :39:47.difficult. I think you have heard me say this before. It is
:39:48. > :39:51.repetitious but I am a sports fan and I believe in judging the score
:39:51. > :39:55.at the end of the game, not at the beginning of the second half. We
:39:55. > :39:59.are have been in it -- we were in it for five years and that was the
:39:59. > :40:03.deal. We knew it would be a serious job to get the country together.
:40:03. > :40:06.Governments are always less popular in the middle of the term and I
:40:06. > :40:09.expect by the end, if we see unemployment drop and business
:40:09. > :40:15.creation grow, growth starts to happen, we will see a different
:40:15. > :40:18.picture. There is not much sign of growth. But it is beginning.
:40:18. > :40:22.said this week that there was chatter about Nick Clegg's
:40:22. > :40:29.leadership. One of your colleagues dismissed that. Is there or is
:40:29. > :40:32.there not to chatter? I was asked the question by the interviewer,
:40:32. > :40:37."Is their chatter about his leadership?" I said there is not
:40:37. > :40:41.chatter, there is, as always about any leader when things are going
:40:41. > :40:47.through difficulties, a little of chatter -- a little bit of chatter
:40:47. > :40:53.but not lots of chatter. A little bit? Are we talking about this
:40:53. > :40:56.March or this much? It is in the public domain. Nick Clegg led us
:40:56. > :41:03.into government and we are in government for the first time since
:41:03. > :41:08.the war. People have to hold their nerve. I heard some chatter there.
:41:08. > :41:12.Oh, no, you didn't. When you start talking to the Lib Dems? We have
:41:12. > :41:16.always talked to the Lib Dems. I do not think that politics is as
:41:16. > :41:21.partisan as you think. Simon and I have worked together run things and
:41:21. > :41:25.Kwasi Kwarteng and I have not but I'm sure we will then the future.
:41:25. > :41:31.The point is, we do not want to win an election in coalition. We want
:41:31. > :41:34.to win outright. Understand. want to get back the things that
:41:34. > :41:37.have been taken away from people over the last couple of years.
:41:37. > :41:42.Nigel Farage said on this programme that he could not work with David
:41:42. > :41:47.Cameron but he could with Michael Gove. How do you feel about that?
:41:47. > :41:49.think I said it on this programme first. Grown-up politicians and
:41:49. > :41:55.grown-up political parties speak. I made clear that we would struggle
:41:55. > :41:59.to deal with David Cameron because particularly on the European issue,
:41:59. > :42:03.he has given us guarantees, a referendum before had he cannot be
:42:03. > :42:08.trusted. He has called us racists and Louise. Frankly, that is
:42:08. > :42:16.offensive. What did he get drunk? think he got it all wrong. -- what
:42:16. > :42:26.did he get wrong. He has a look back at Labour's problems this year.
:42:26. > :42:43.
:42:43. > :42:47.We oppose the cuts now but it would be irresponsible, three years from
:42:47. > :42:57.a general election, for us to start making specific promises about what
:42:57. > :43:05.
:43:05. > :43:10.It is a matter of considerable personal shame what happened a
:43:10. > :43:18.couple of weeks ago. I hereby declare that George Galloway is
:43:18. > :43:24.Even people within Downing Street are calling it an omnishambles
:43:24. > :43:34.budget. Given credit, he made history this week, with his very
:43:34. > :44:00.
:44:00. > :44:06.own words in the Oxford English One nation, a country where
:44:06. > :44:11.everyone has a stake. One nation, a country where prosperity is fairly
:44:11. > :44:18.shared. One nation were we have a shared destiny, a sense of shared
:44:18. > :44:23.endeavour and a common life that we lead together. This government has
:44:23. > :44:32.shown that cutting too far and too fast, self defeating austerity is
:44:32. > :44:37.not the answer. The road to Downing Street runs through Corby. He does
:44:37. > :44:43.not listen, he is out of touch and last Thursday, the people of Corby
:44:43. > :44:48.spoke for the country. Last Thursday, the people Humberside
:44:48. > :44:58.spoke for the whole nation. nearly got it. It would have been
:44:58. > :45:01.
:45:01. > :45:05.nice but it's not so. The people Ed Balls as Santa. That was
:45:05. > :45:11.Labour's year. Which of the following is the odd one out? Each
:45:11. > :45:18.of these images represent a of these images represent a
:45:18. > :45:22.politician. Mr Bean... 8 powdered French aristocrat from 7090. --
:45:22. > :45:32.1790. Wallace from Wallace and Gromit and Harry Flashman. Which is
:45:32. > :45:41.
:45:41. > :45:51.Press your buzzer. I would go for the French aristocrat. Who does the
:45:51. > :45:54.
:45:54. > :45:58.aristocrat represent? Oliver Well, Mr Bean is obviously Gordon
:45:58. > :46:05.Brown, as he was called that by Mr Cable. George Osborne is the
:46:05. > :46:11.powdered aristocrat, so described by the Spectator. David Cameron is,
:46:11. > :46:21.according to everybody, Flashman. And Wallace, you must get, at is Ed
:46:21. > :46:21.
:46:21. > :46:25.Miliband. Which is the odd one out? Why isn't the French aristocrat the
:46:25. > :46:30.odd one out? The others are leaders. Did you come up with these
:46:30. > :46:33.questions? Next year, could we get somebody who knows what they are
:46:33. > :46:37.talking about? The answer is obviously Wallace, because Mr
:46:38. > :46:47.Miliband was the only one who said he liked the character he was being
:46:48. > :46:48.
:46:48. > :46:52.named after. Does Cameron not like Flashman? I don't think so. And Mr
:46:52. > :47:00.Osborne does not like being a pampered aristocrat, and Mr Cable
:47:00. > :47:05.did not -- Mr Brown did not like being called Mr Bean by Mr Cable.
:47:05. > :47:08.That worked very well. Are we going to have another question? Here is
:47:08. > :47:13.another kick of George Osborne in action in the Commons. What
:47:13. > :47:18.happened next? The public know there are no miracle cures, just be
:47:18. > :47:24.hard work of dealing with our deficit and ensuring that Britain
:47:24. > :47:28.wins the global race. That work is under way. The deficit is down.
:47:28. > :47:33.Borrowing is down. Jobs are being created. It is a hard road, but we
:47:33. > :47:43.are making progress. Everything we do, we are helping those who want
:47:43. > :47:48.to work hard and get on. Thank you. What happened next? I will take a
:47:48. > :47:57.guess. We went back into a recession? No., we went over to Ed
:47:57. > :48:02.Balls, who completely fluffed his response. But close. Was that a
:48:02. > :48:09.defining moment for Ed Balls, when he had such a poor response to the
:48:09. > :48:16.Autumn Statement? It clearly did not work in the Commons. He then
:48:16. > :48:20.went home and saw clips on the TV which were better. And some of the
:48:20. > :48:25.arguments were perfectly reasonable. So it is interesting how the
:48:25. > :48:30.political theatre can determine things. The commentators said it
:48:30. > :48:36.was a poor performance. He was expecting the borrowing figure to
:48:36. > :48:44.go up, and it didn't, and that was what through him. Because the
:48:44. > :48:52.Chancellor massaged the figures. Whatever reason, he got it wrong.
:48:52. > :48:58.It was a slow-motion car crash. actually, it has been good for Ed
:48:58. > :49:02.Balls in a way, firstly because it was so unusual. He is normally one
:49:02. > :49:07.of the strongest performers. But secondly, when he came out later
:49:07. > :49:10.and said, I was wrong-footed by the figures, but I also had a stammer
:49:10. > :49:15.and sometimes it gets the better of me, you saw a more human side to
:49:15. > :49:20.him. We see it in private, but people do not often see it in
:49:20. > :49:26.public. Britain slipped back into recession this year. It missed its
:49:26. > :49:30.debt target. Austerity was extended to 2018. There have been all these
:49:30. > :49:37.budget U-turns, and yet you could not really argue that people are
:49:37. > :49:40.flocking to Labour because of its economic message. People are
:49:40. > :49:45.definitely turning to Labour. We started the year level-pegging in
:49:45. > :49:51.the polls. We finished 11 points ahead in the latest opinion poll.
:49:51. > :49:58.It has been a good year for Labour. There is no argument about that.
:49:58. > :50:03.But it has not... Nobody claimed it was a great year for the coalition.
:50:03. > :50:09.Mike point to you is that there seems to be little attraction for
:50:09. > :50:14.Labour's economic message. It has not been a good year for the people
:50:14. > :50:18.we represent. Then you would think they would be rushing to you.
:50:18. > :50:23.there is a sense of hopelessness and despair, partly caused by this
:50:23. > :50:29.coalition's message that there are no other choices. Labour has to win
:50:29. > :50:33.the argument not so much on the economy, although that is important,
:50:33. > :50:38.but there are also different choices that can be made in a time
:50:38. > :50:46.of austerity. The last time the Tories were in power, the mid-term
:50:46. > :50:53.was 1990. What was Labour's lead in the polls then? I don't know.
:50:53. > :50:57.were 24% ahead. And you then went on to lose the next election.
:50:57. > :51:03.of the frustrating things is that this year, there have been some
:51:03. > :51:07.good signs. Unemployment has gone down and new job creation has gone
:51:07. > :51:12.up. But that has not percolated through to the general mood yet,
:51:12. > :51:16.even though the individuals affected clearly have noticed.
:51:16. > :51:20.commentators continue to assume that UKIP is getting the votes of
:51:20. > :51:24.disillusioned Tories. Do you have evidence that you are also getting
:51:24. > :51:28.the votes from people who are not buying into the Miliband and Ed
:51:28. > :51:33.Balls Labour Party? The problem with Ed Balls is a bigger problem,
:51:33. > :51:39.not just how he fluffed his lines. This guy was the bag-carrier for
:51:39. > :51:41.Gordon Brown. I think they think people have short term and Nishi
:51:42. > :51:48.and forget how they wrecked the economy. What is the answer to my
:51:48. > :51:58.question? We took part in two by- elections in Labour areas, and we
:51:58. > :51:58.
:51:58. > :52:01.have got votes from both Conservative areas and Labour areas.
:52:01. > :52:11.Finally, one of -- what have the other parties been up to during the
:52:11. > :52:35.
:52:35. > :52:43.Your MP, George Galloway! This is the Bradford Spring. Delegates, it
:52:43. > :52:47.is game on for Scotland. It is time to me to become the first ever ex-
:52:47. > :52:57.leader of the Green Party and to welcome onto the stage our new
:52:57. > :53:01.
:53:01. > :53:09.leader, Natalie Bennett. It is an honour to stand here today and a
:53:09. > :53:13.dress you in my first leader's speech to our annual conference.
:53:13. > :53:22.the Tories still exist in the North of England? They seem to be almost
:53:22. > :53:27.disappearing. If UKIP don't stand against us at the next election, we
:53:27. > :53:31.would give a firm undertaking to have an in-out referendum after
:53:31. > :53:41.that election. It is not going to happen. UKIP are a different party
:53:41. > :53:46.with a different manifesto. We will not be bought off by anybody.
:53:46. > :53:51.more could you want? That was how 2012 treated that lot. What was the
:53:51. > :54:01.answer to this question. Which of the following is the odd one out?
:54:01. > :54:07.
:54:07. > :54:11.Nigel Farage, Leanne Wood, Alex Salmond and Caroline Lucas? And
:54:11. > :54:17.each of the others are leaders of their political party, and the
:54:17. > :54:21.others have stood down. Correct! Let's move on. What happened next
:54:21. > :54:26.when I asked Nigel Farage about you could expenses?
:54:26. > :54:31.Take your deputy, Paul Nuttall. He is becoming a bit of a named. You
:54:31. > :54:36.are no longer a one-man band. He has declared nothing from January
:54:36. > :54:41.to July 2011. Surely that is not acceptable. He has to get his house
:54:41. > :54:45.in order. Will you have a word with him? Are certainly well. I accept
:54:45. > :54:52.that I am a few months late getting my stuff up, but I will do it.
:54:52. > :54:56.did he have a word with you? affairs were up the following day.
:54:56. > :55:06.Before you saw the programme. was just a bit of an administrative
:55:06. > :55:09.cock-up on my part. You can go on my website and see it. We get
:55:09. > :55:14.allowances rather than expenses. We don't have to declare anything, but
:55:14. > :55:19.we do. The British MEPs will be more transparent than anybody else
:55:19. > :55:23.in Europe. Not just in UKIP, but across the board, because of what
:55:23. > :55:30.happened with the expenses scandal. And not just that, we play by the
:55:30. > :55:34.rules. Chris Davies in our group has always been big on making sure
:55:34. > :55:43.the European Parliament has a better job on transparency. For the
:55:43. > :55:51.sake of this discussion, let's assume that you are the third party
:55:51. > :55:59.of 2012. I am not accepting that! You know that. There is no evidence
:55:59. > :56:05.space for that. We are the first party, presumably. What is on your
:56:05. > :56:10.wish-list for 2013? To fight every county council election in 2013 and
:56:10. > :56:15.then carry on growing membership and go on to win the European
:56:15. > :56:20.elections in 2014. You are hoping to win the European elections in
:56:20. > :56:24.2014. And by that, you mean getting the highest share of the vote.
:56:24. > :56:28.sending the most MEPs of any British political party back to the
:56:28. > :56:33.European Parliament and sending a message to the establishment that
:56:33. > :56:38.UKIP has arrived. That is not totally inconceivable. If you look
:56:38. > :56:41.at the last European election, UKIP did well. They came second. So to
:56:41. > :56:45.come first is not the most extraordinary thing to happen. I
:56:45. > :56:49.think it will be difficult. The Conservatives will be putting out a
:56:49. > :56:54.list of very good candidates and will hope to do well. We will fight
:56:55. > :56:57.you for every vote. The only reason we did not win it in 2009 is
:56:57. > :57:01.because Cameron said, I will give you a cast-iron guarantee to give
:57:01. > :57:10.you a referendum on Lisbon and then dropped it as soon as the European
:57:10. > :57:15.election was over. If they come first, and the Lib Dems, a very
:57:15. > :57:19.poor 4th or even 5th, it will be headless chicken time for both your
:57:19. > :57:24.parties. The coalition would go into meltdown. You will be talking
:57:24. > :57:27.of a new leader, and you will be wondering what kind of referendum
:57:27. > :57:32.you can promise. For we don't know what will happen, there is a long
:57:32. > :57:37.way to go. But European referendums have always been an opportunity for
:57:37. > :57:40.public protest in my book. They should not be, but that is what did
:57:40. > :57:46.they have been. It will not have anything to do with who runs
:57:46. > :57:51.anything. But it could have an impact. Of course it could, and the
:57:51. > :57:58.European issues are big issues which we have to address. And we
:57:58. > :58:07.will in the months ahead. Let me give you the scores. Conservatives,
:58:07. > :58:13.zero. Liberal Democrats, zero. Labour, one. UKIP, one. Sums up the
:58:13. > :58:17.year. A new coalition in the making! A marriage made in heaven.
:58:17. > :58:27.Thanks very much. That is it for the year. If the Mayans are right,