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:00:38. > :00:41.Hello, and welcome to the Daily Politics.

:00:42. > :00:43.The Justice Secretary Michael Gove accuses his cabinet

:00:44. > :00:48."like children who can be frightened into obedience",

:00:49. > :00:52.but are Leave campaigners waging their own campaign of fear?

:00:53. > :00:56.The Chinese will do something about the over-production of steel,

:00:57. > :00:59.so says the business secretary, but does the UK steel industry need

:01:00. > :01:03.direct government intervention to survive?

:01:04. > :01:07.It's an age-old technique used by MPs to wreck legislation

:01:08. > :01:09.they don't like, but is full time about to be called

:01:10. > :01:21.And if it does, will it be televised?

:01:22. > :01:28.There is a tendency in the Labour Party to organise revolutionary

:01:29. > :01:31.politics in the Labour Party and outside it.

:01:32. > :01:34.All that in the next hour and with us for the whole

:01:35. > :01:37.of the programme today left-wing-activist-turned-journalist

:01:38. > :01:39.and writer, former Channel Four News and Newsnight

:01:40. > :01:46.Yesterday was George Osborne's turn, today Justice Secretary Michael Gove

:01:47. > :01:50.takes centre stage in the EU referendum debate, setting out why

:01:51. > :01:53.he believes quitting the EU would be an act of liberation

:01:54. > :02:02.It follows Treasury forecasts an exit could cost

:02:03. > :02:04.households ?4,300 a year - a figure that has been heavily

:02:05. > :02:11.Michael Gove warned that a vote to stay in the EU is 'the real

:02:12. > :02:13.danger', arguing that Eurozone countries have a permanent

:02:14. > :02:20.and unstoppable majority allowing them to overrule British interests.

:02:21. > :02:23.And that "Britain has lost control of a vital area of power

:02:24. > :02:24.and the European Court will increasingly decide

:02:25. > :02:33.Turning on his opponents, Mr Gove said the Remain campaign,

:02:34. > :02:36.led by Prime Minister David Cameron, "treats people like mere children,

:02:37. > :02:40.capable of being frightened into obedience by conjuring up

:02:41. > :02:48.The Justice Secretary's speech comes the day

:02:49. > :02:53.argued that Britain would be "permanently poorer" outside the EU.

:02:54. > :02:57.But Michael Gove argued: "The report from the Treasury is an official

:02:58. > :03:01.admission from the IN campaign that if we vote to stay in the EU then

:03:02. > :03:03.immigration will to continue to increase by hundreds of thousands

:03:04. > :03:12.One of the most striking things about the debate on Britain's future

:03:13. > :03:16.relationship with Europe is that the case for staying

:03:17. > :03:20.is couched, overwhelmingly, in negative and pessimistic terms.

:03:21. > :03:23.While the case for leaving is positive and optimistic.

:03:24. > :03:26.Those of us who want to leave, believe that Britain's

:03:27. > :03:32.That our country has tremendous untapped potential,

:03:33. > :03:38.which independence would unleash and our institutions,

:03:39. > :03:40.values and people will make an even more positive

:03:41. > :03:44.difference to the world, if we are unshackled from the past.

:03:45. > :03:47.I'm joined now by the Justice Minister and leave Campaigner,

:03:48. > :03:49.Dominic Raab and the Labour MP Chuka Umunna from

:03:50. > :04:02.First of all, is the Remaining campaign treating people like me are

:04:03. > :04:09.children capable of being frightened into obedience by conjuring up a new

:04:10. > :04:15.bogeyman every night? No, and if everyone is conjuring up anything it

:04:16. > :04:18.is the leave campaign. Me and Dominic have particular views, we

:04:19. > :04:25.are not impartial and we want our side to win, but there is a bank of

:04:26. > :04:29.independent people from the IMF and Unison and unite who argue that we

:04:30. > :04:37.are better off in. The Leave campaign would have you believe that

:04:38. > :04:42.the Unite and Unison are working together with a band of socialists,

:04:43. > :04:46.all raucous rated by President Obama on George Osborne's behalf, to

:04:47. > :04:54.oppose bricks it. It is pure fantasy. Are you indulging in

:04:55. > :04:59.fantasy politics, accusing other team -- sides of conjuring up the

:05:00. > :05:04.bogeyman? We have cross-party consensus and unions like the RMT

:05:05. > :05:08.right the way through to economists like Nigel Lawson, the former

:05:09. > :05:12.Chancellor, making the Case for going out. There is a risk reward

:05:13. > :05:17.calculation on both sides. What Michael Gove wants to do is say,

:05:18. > :05:20.hang on, you are talking about the risks of leaving the EU but what

:05:21. > :05:27.about the risks of staying in with the Eurozone crisis. Also today,

:05:28. > :05:31.critically, he set out the positive vision outside of the EU. What was

:05:32. > :05:37.the positive vision? The majority of what Michael Gove said this morning,

:05:38. > :05:41.hearing the interview this morning, saying it was all about the fear of

:05:42. > :05:46.staying in. Take your time and have a read of the whole thing. It repays

:05:47. > :05:52.it. First of all, there is no lottery ticket say that being in the

:05:53. > :05:55.EU or outside is a win, it is a balance of risk and reward. But he

:05:56. > :05:59.set out the brighter prospects outside the EU. The ability to

:06:00. > :06:04.control regulation. You can take different views, but it has a huge

:06:05. > :06:08.impact on small businesses. The EU commission concedes it hits small

:06:09. > :06:13.businesses ten times as hard as normal businesses. In this country

:06:14. > :06:17.small businesses create 85% of new jobs. Secondly he talked about the

:06:18. > :06:20.brighter prospects if we are independent and more energetically

:06:21. > :06:25.trading from Latin America to Asia. The EU has been a poor negotiator of

:06:26. > :06:28.trade agreements and it doesn't have a single agreement with a big

:06:29. > :06:33.economy. We can argue that there are a whole range of positive

:06:34. > :06:38.opportunities outside the EU that people like Chuka Umunna completely

:06:39. > :06:42.discard. Isn't that the problem for the remaining campaign? They can

:06:43. > :06:48.talk about Project Fia, but the idea of a brighter future of change and

:06:49. > :06:53.looking beyond what we have now does feel like an easier case to argue in

:06:54. > :06:58.a more passion away than for the status quo which is more difficult

:06:59. > :07:02.when you rely on establishment bodies and institutions like the

:07:03. > :07:06.IMF. Lave McCluskey and Dave Prentice might have something to

:07:07. > :07:10.say. I don't buy the idea that we get trampled over by our partners in

:07:11. > :07:14.the European Union and we don't get our way. Nine out of ten times we

:07:15. > :07:19.are on the majority side when there are votes on the European Council.

:07:20. > :07:22.And it is suggested that some how things are imposed on high and we

:07:23. > :07:25.don't have a role to play in the rules and regulations that come out

:07:26. > :07:31.from it. But I see this in bigger terms. I think we are dealing with a

:07:32. > :07:33.lot of cross-border issues, whether it is terror, the environmental

:07:34. > :07:41.contrast Rafiq unfolding with climate change. Those things do not

:07:42. > :07:45.know borders. -- catastrophe. When you are looking at these things, and

:07:46. > :07:48.Paul has written a lot about it, the power of multinational companies

:07:49. > :07:51.which seek to play different jurisdictions against each other

:07:52. > :07:54.saying if you don't adopt a lower level of labour protection in that

:07:55. > :08:01.country we will take business elsewhere. And what actually the

:08:02. > :08:03.European Union enables us to do is set minimum standards and prevent

:08:04. > :08:08.that race to the bottom. We will come back to security in a moment

:08:09. > :08:12.because one of the big problems for Leave is what does it look like.

:08:13. > :08:19.That question is repeatedly posed because you don't have a document to

:08:20. > :08:22.actually answer this. We can't negotiate with the EU before the

:08:23. > :08:29.referendum. That is an aunt Sally. You can provide an alternative. We

:08:30. > :08:32.have. I'm not saying it's a criticism but there was no document

:08:33. > :08:38.are put through so in certain terms you are doing something that may

:08:39. > :08:43.happen but you don't know for sure. That is the same as the Remain

:08:44. > :08:51.campaign. We know what it looks like. Look at the Eurozone crisis on

:08:52. > :08:57.the way it unfolded. The EU feels like it is on a permanent state of

:08:58. > :09:01.crisis. The truth is there is far greater uncertainty around the

:09:02. > :09:06.prospect of the EU than there are in making, modestly, but in clear ways,

:09:07. > :09:12.the very concrete areas where we can actually change things. Like border

:09:13. > :09:15.controls. You couldn't anticipate the migration crisis in the way it

:09:16. > :09:21.unfolded and the EU has not been able to deal with it. That migration

:09:22. > :09:26.crisis would be there, notwithstanding whether the EU would

:09:27. > :09:30.be there or not. But one might say if the EU cannot deal with a

:09:31. > :09:36.migration crisis... So it has no pull on a migration crisis? Let me

:09:37. > :09:41.finish my sentence. If you look at what is driving the migration

:09:42. > :09:45.crisis, we had growing jihad is in Africa and more coming into the EU

:09:46. > :09:48.zone from Africa and also the problems in the Middle East. Those

:09:49. > :09:53.things would subsist whether we were in or out of the European Union. I

:09:54. > :09:56.am by no means saying the European Union is perfect and it needs

:09:57. > :10:01.reform, and you can only reform it if you are at the table, not outside

:10:02. > :10:06.the room. What about the Eurozone crisis? You couldn't have predicted

:10:07. > :10:09.that? We are not in the Eurozone but George Osborne said we did feel

:10:10. > :10:15.buffeted by the crisis. This goes to the heart of one of the Leave

:10:16. > :10:20.campaign's biggest weaknesses. They say if we leave we will be part of

:10:21. > :10:23.the single market so we have all the benefits but we will not have to pay

:10:24. > :10:26.a fee and we won't be subject to any of the rules that come with being

:10:27. > :10:32.part of the single market. No country outside of the EU has that

:10:33. > :10:36.kind of arrangement, and why would members that we leave in the EU, why

:10:37. > :10:41.would they give us a deal that they have not given themselves? That is

:10:42. > :10:44.the problem with the Michael Gove speech. Many German and French

:10:45. > :10:49.menaces have articulated that argument. Dominic Raab, I'm going to

:10:50. > :10:53.put this to you, the French economy minister suggested that Britain

:10:54. > :10:57.would be completely killed in trade talks if the country chose to leave

:10:58. > :11:01.the EU. I'm not saying he is right, but this is the response we get, and

:11:02. > :11:05.maybe they would say that at the moment because they don't want

:11:06. > :11:09.Britain to leave the EU. But you have to ask yourself, if you want a

:11:10. > :11:13.trade deal with all the pluses and advantages and none of the tariffs

:11:14. > :11:18.and quid pro quo freedom of movement is, why would they give it? First of

:11:19. > :11:23.all, I hope the French economic minister keeps talking. The idea

:11:24. > :11:27.that Britain would be apocalyptically off the cliff edge

:11:28. > :11:32.if we left the EU is silly. Neither the head of the CBI, the British

:11:33. > :11:38.ambassador to the EU, nor the Prime Minister takes that position.

:11:39. > :11:43.Thereau risk and reward ratios with in or out. The reason I think we

:11:44. > :11:45.would have a strong trading relationship is that we are the

:11:46. > :11:50.fifth biggest economy in the world and the EU firms sell 60 billion

:11:51. > :11:55.more than we sell them. There is a strong mutual interest. The only

:11:56. > :11:59.reason we would be in trouble is if the EU was going to behave in an

:12:00. > :12:02.utterly vindictive, spiteful way. And that would run against its own

:12:03. > :12:09.interests. I would say this, is that the kind of club you want to be part

:12:10. > :12:13.of? I'm not saying, because it is a bit of a strawman argument, that we

:12:14. > :12:17.would not be able to trade with our European partners. But there would

:12:18. > :12:21.be a deal to be done. It is a question of the terms. In terms of

:12:22. > :12:26.the risk and reward we are talking about, 44% of exports go to the EU.

:12:27. > :12:34.On average, if you look at the other 27 member states, just 5% goes. But

:12:35. > :12:44.the point is, for hours, we have far more to lose on imports and exports.

:12:45. > :12:48.Let him finish his point. On world trade, I led a delegation, trade

:12:49. > :12:52.delegation to Beijing in 2013 and you know what the Chinese said to

:12:53. > :12:59.make and I went to the International Department of the Chinese Communist

:13:00. > :13:02.Party, as you do, and they said to me, we don't understand why are

:13:03. > :13:06.there some people who want to leave the European Union in your country?

:13:07. > :13:11.When you negotiate with us, whatever it may be, intellectual property, a

:13:12. > :13:15.concern of small businesses in China, you are sitting on one half

:13:16. > :13:19.of the table with half a billion other people negotiating with 1.3

:13:20. > :13:24.billion, why do you want to sit in the corner on your own? Can I ask

:13:25. > :13:29.about China? So why does the EU not have a trade deal with China but

:13:30. > :13:32.Switzerland does? But Switzerland has a deal that Michael Gove doesn't

:13:33. > :13:37.want to emulate my got the impression. We have surely got

:13:38. > :13:44.bigger economic clout than Switzerland. Paul Mason, on the

:13:45. > :13:49.figures, one with talk about the Leave campaign quoting ?350 million

:13:50. > :13:54.but has been argued against, that we pay, they say, to the EU, and we

:13:55. > :13:58.hear that households would be worse off, maybe not individually, but the

:13:59. > :14:04.June ?4300 per year, does it resonate the public? -- to the June.

:14:05. > :14:08.It doesn't resonate with me because I've been on the end of so many Bank

:14:09. > :14:12.of England reports where you cannot see the inner workings and I never

:14:13. > :14:17.trust them. The idea you can put a figure on it per family is

:14:18. > :14:22.ridiculous. The Brexit debate will be about principle. I am convinced

:14:23. > :14:26.of the principle that Michael Gove outlined there, that the European

:14:27. > :14:30.Union is not democratic and is incapable of becoming democratic.

:14:31. > :14:35.That is why, philosophically, I would support Brexit. My problem is

:14:36. > :14:38.that what we have gone on to is what is the proposal? Michael Gove says

:14:39. > :14:43.we are like a hostage in the back of the EU car. I don't want to be a

:14:44. > :14:46.hostage in the back of the car of Michael Gove and Boris Johnson.

:14:47. > :14:50.Given the choice on the 23rd of June, I think Brexit will happen

:14:51. > :14:53.anyway for the reasons David Cameron suggest because we got a deal in

:14:54. > :15:00.Brussels that we are already half out. In ten years, we will be out. I

:15:01. > :15:04.just don't want to come out with an ultra right wing Tory government and

:15:05. > :15:10.no chance for the left or social democracy to have its say within

:15:11. > :15:17.that framework. Is that the problem for attracting voters to your side?

:15:18. > :15:24.The co-chairman of the Leave is there and Stuart Digby Jones. I take

:15:25. > :15:28.Paul's point. The reality is that the anyway the British people have a

:15:29. > :15:31.choice is between those two models is if we are outside of the EU, so I

:15:32. > :15:34.understand that people feel different way on the left in

:15:35. > :15:38.relation to things like the working Time directive. They don't get a say

:15:39. > :15:45.at all if they are outside. Isn't it true that this is less about the

:15:46. > :15:49.merits or not remaining in the EU but more than the viewers have

:15:50. > :15:53.become spectators of the war in the Conservative Party? You could say

:15:54. > :15:59.the same on the left? It's not the same as the blue on blue attacks.

:16:00. > :16:03.Jeremy Corbyn is being attacked left right and centre for being

:16:04. > :16:07.passionate about it. That is a good deflection, but it has been, as a

:16:08. > :16:11.result of a split in the Conservative Party, you must accept

:16:12. > :16:14.it? There are different views in the Labour Party on both sides and

:16:15. > :16:17.different views on the Tory party, and the average person watching

:16:18. > :16:21.probably thinks that's healthy. The overwhelming majority of the labour

:16:22. > :16:24.movement is absolutely behind continuing with membership of the EU

:16:25. > :16:29.because we think it is best for security, prosperity and jobs. One

:16:30. > :16:33.thing I would ask you to consider, Michael Gove, kind of weird seeing

:16:34. > :16:36.them next to each other like that, doing this speech from the position

:16:37. > :16:40.of being a champion of democracy, and one of the things that is

:16:41. > :16:43.curious is he has a lot to say about democracy with the EU but very

:16:44. > :16:47.little to say about democracy here where you can get into government

:16:48. > :16:52.with less than 25% of the support of registered electors. It illustrates,

:16:53. > :16:57.does this by care about democracy or is there something else. Before I

:16:58. > :17:02.let these two go, Paul Mason, Jeremy Corbyn's conversion, is it credible?

:17:03. > :17:09.I think it is. Does he believe He is attempting to lead a party. You

:17:10. > :17:13.cannot criticise him for not trying to build consensus in his party.

:17:14. > :17:16.Like me, there are many people in the Labour moment who are sceptical

:17:17. > :17:21.of Europe. I'm sceptical mainly on dome crass sane free movement but,

:17:22. > :17:25.you know, the choice will be, on 23rd, whether or not to hand over to

:17:26. > :17:30.Boris and Michael Gove and they could have come and said - let's do

:17:31. > :17:33.something, let's create the debate about the future Britain outside

:17:34. > :17:37.Europe beforehand, but they didn't. That's been their choice. It is

:17:38. > :17:43.clearer and clearer this week, that that is not their choice. I will

:17:44. > :17:47.have to stop it there. I promised I would do security, and I did not. I

:17:48. > :17:49.will come back. When you are invited.

:17:50. > :17:54.The question for today is which leading politicians has

:17:55. > :17:55.spent ?10,0000 on their official parliamentary

:17:56. > :17:59.Was it a) The Home Secretary Theresa May?

:18:00. > :18:04.c) The Lords Speaker, Baroness D'Souza?

:18:05. > :18:06.or d) Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon?

:18:07. > :18:08.At the end of the show, Paul Mason will give us

:18:09. > :18:21.Now, the Business Minister, Sajid Javid, was meeting with other

:18:22. > :18:23.steel-producing nations yesterday, trying to persuade the Chinese,

:18:24. > :18:27.The Chinese deny that they're dumping steel on the world market,

:18:28. > :18:29.leading to huge losses at steel plants like Port Talbot,

:18:30. > :18:31.which is threatened with imminent closure.

:18:32. > :18:35.This is what Sajid Javid had to say after that meeting.

:18:36. > :18:38.Well overproduction is the number one issue to tackle.

:18:39. > :18:41.I don't think anyone expected an overnight solution to that

:18:42. > :18:44.but the discussion today, with all of these countries coming

:18:45. > :18:46.together, something we pushed for and pushed for China's

:18:47. > :18:48.participation, will help make the difference.

:18:49. > :18:50.With regard to Tata, the sales' process, the formal

:18:51. > :18:56.We are starting to be approached by interested parties.

:18:57. > :18:59.It is too early to say much about them at this stage

:19:00. > :19:02.but the important thing is, as we said all along,

:19:03. > :19:11.we will do everything we can to help with that sales' process.

:19:12. > :19:13.The steelworkers of Britain deserve nothing less.

:19:14. > :19:16.And we're joined now by the Conservative MP, John Redwood.

:19:17. > :19:20.Does the outcome of the talks mentally change anything? I hope

:19:21. > :19:25.it'll lead on to a resolution. We know the Chinese have said they will

:19:26. > :19:28.take out a lot of capacity in their own domestic market which would be

:19:29. > :19:31.extremely good news but we also know, of course, the big export

:19:32. > :19:36.threat to the UK steel industry has come from the continent of Europe,

:19:37. > :19:40.not from China and the rest of the EU exports about six times as much

:19:41. > :19:44.into the UK as the Chinese do. So we still have a problem, even if the

:19:45. > :19:47.Chinese take out enough capacity. Do you agree that will make a ditches,

:19:48. > :19:52.even if they lower capacity it could then Hayesen a resolution? Very,

:19:53. > :19:56.very slowly. They have a social unrest issue in China. Number one,

:19:57. > :20:00.as Mr Redwood says, there is also the issue of what is the balance of

:20:01. > :20:04.the European steel industry in Europe? And for us, for me in the

:20:05. > :20:07.Labour Party, people I speak to in the Labour movement, what is

:20:08. > :20:14.important is we save every job. That's one thing. That's what we are

:20:15. > :20:17.not hearing, a plan right now. You can't rush around fwrusles to

:20:18. > :20:23.Beijing without a plan for steel. Even Thatcher had a plan for coal,

:20:24. > :20:26.didn't she? There doesn't seem to be the ability for this Conservative

:20:27. > :20:29.Government to have a plan for anything. Do they not have a plan?

:20:30. > :20:34.Is the Government sort of making it up as it goes along by saying it is

:20:35. > :20:38.not going to happen overnight, it is still too early to say, we are not

:20:39. > :20:42.going to commit our sefts to saving every job in the way that Paul Mason

:20:43. > :20:46.has just outlined, is that because there isn't a plan? I think there is

:20:47. > :20:49.a developing plan. The Government isn't in full charge. They have to

:20:50. > :20:52.deal with EU requirements. They have to deal with the very difficult

:20:53. > :20:56.steel market. They have to deal with the people who currently own the

:20:57. > :21:04.assets. The Government doesn't own everything, it is not all powerful.

:21:05. > :21:07.But rhetoric... I believe the businessminister and the Prime

:21:08. > :21:11.Minister when they say they want to save the Port Talbot works. I'm not

:21:12. > :21:16.saying they are going to save every job, of course we want to save as

:21:17. > :21:19.many as possible but we need to save capacity and the technology related

:21:20. > :21:23.to it. Is it sustainable in the long term, even if you reduce pension

:21:24. > :21:26.liability and did something about energy costs which are are the

:21:27. > :21:34.things we could do something about, is it sustainable in the lock term?

:21:35. > :21:38.When McDonald's automated part of the restaurant do touch screen they

:21:39. > :21:44.said they weren't losing a single job, they are not doing it to get

:21:45. > :21:46.rid of jobs, it is to reorder the business. A commitment like that

:21:47. > :21:52.from the Government would be one thing. If you ask is it viable,

:21:53. > :21:57.there is an argument in the steel industry, we have Conservative

:21:58. > :22:01.governments who have not taken seriously industrial policy. I'm in

:22:02. > :22:05.favour of doing it f it had to happen. It didn't work, before, did

:22:06. > :22:12.t nationalising steel It did. In what way The steel industry

:22:13. > :22:16.functioned and had a competitive. Was it competitive If you

:22:17. > :22:20.nationalise t it doesn't have to. You can do things for the good of

:22:21. > :22:24.the country, security and jobs The nationalised industry lost aer if

:22:25. > :22:28.tune, created false hopes, and created five, very, very large works

:22:29. > :22:34.and -- lost a fortune. Most have gone or are now under threat T

:22:35. > :22:39.started with the awful problems over Ravenscraig. Let's in the Dell in

:22:40. > :22:43.the past. We have the same aim - to save as many jobs as possible and

:22:44. > :22:46.keep a businessic steel-making capacity and technology of the

:22:47. > :22:52.sophisticated steels which has to belinged. The plan surely must be to

:22:53. > :22:55.get a buyer, an organiser, entrepreneur, a company to stand

:22:56. > :22:58.behind. Why are they not lining up? I understand there are buyers in

:22:59. > :23:03.discussion, but it depends on what we are allowed to do EU subsidy

:23:04. > :23:08.rules limit what the Government can offer by way of financial cross. EU

:23:09. > :23:12.domestic rules and energy rules many dear energy. I want the Government

:23:13. > :23:15.to do much more on cheaper energy. One of the reasons the German

:23:16. > :23:19.industry sells so much into Britain is they have had much more energy

:23:20. > :23:23.subsidy than we have in or been allowed to have in the EU. Would you

:23:24. > :23:29.like to hear the Government saying they want it save every job at Port

:23:30. > :23:32.Talbot. I would like them and they will say they will save as many jobs

:23:33. > :23:36.as possible at Port Talbot. You shouldn't give false hope to people.

:23:37. > :23:41.It is a difficult situation. You have to allow that the a new owner

:23:42. > :23:45.may have to make adjustments. If a new owner can't be found. You say

:23:46. > :23:48.there are some in discussion. But I haven't seen that much evidence of

:23:49. > :23:54.people queueing up to take-to-. Paul Mason is right in a sows, you can

:23:55. > :23:57.make a priority F it is so important and such an intrinsic part of our

:23:58. > :24:01.manufacturing history and life in the UK, why not put the money in? We

:24:02. > :24:04.do it for other things. We did it for the banks and their balance

:24:05. > :24:08.sheets arguably are still not that healthy. Why don't we do it for

:24:09. > :24:12.steel? Government has said it is prepared to put money in, but it has

:24:13. > :24:16.to do it within the rules. The Belgium Government is having a levy

:24:17. > :24:20.to get money back which the state offered part of the Belgium

:24:21. > :24:26.industry. The Italian industry Sunday a commission. I think the

:24:27. > :24:30.Germans have defied the shengen agreement and Dublin 3. Occasionally

:24:31. > :24:35.a country can say - we are doing it ourselves, take us to the ECJ. Do

:24:36. > :24:38.you think ideology are tonight Tories going forward with that?

:24:39. > :24:42.There is the European element but the problem with the ideology, is

:24:43. > :24:47.Sajid Javid sitting there and thinking it would solve itself. If

:24:48. > :24:50.they said to Tata Steel, this country profound by believes in the

:24:51. > :24:53.steel industry and we will back whoever own it is with money and

:24:54. > :24:58.state aid, with fighting against dumping, for all I accept it is not

:24:59. > :25:01.the main issue here with some smaller plants, if it had done, that

:25:02. > :25:04.the Government sets rules of behaviour and big international

:25:05. > :25:12.businesses move in and they say - OK, we can predict what can going to

:25:13. > :25:15.happen for ten years. I think the market forces ideology, made them

:25:16. > :25:19.take their eye off the ball and now 40,000 people are going to pay for

:25:20. > :25:24.what. What I would do, Mr Redmond, I would stick money in upfront and say

:25:25. > :25:28.- there is money for whoever buys it upfront, state aid and see who ko.s

:25:29. > :25:32.I think I'm certain that is the reason why some of the interested

:25:33. > :25:35.parties areaway right now. I think the Government is saying - there is

:25:36. > :25:40.Government money available under the rules but the Government has to take

:25:41. > :25:44.legal advice and it cannot low noeingly break European law. The

:25:45. > :25:48.Civil Service interrupt European rules. Tell them to butt out They

:25:49. > :25:53.will be telling ministers the Italians and Belgians are already in

:25:54. > :25:54.deep trouble over this very thing. I will finish it now. Thank you very

:25:55. > :26:02.much. Now, roll up, roll up,

:26:03. > :26:04.roll up your sleeves and get your working hands

:26:05. > :26:06.on the hottest economic Proving there is nothing taxing

:26:07. > :26:10.or sinister about going left, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has

:26:11. > :26:12.invited his favourite economists to get out of Westminster

:26:13. > :26:14.and deliver a series John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor

:26:15. > :26:23.welcomes the world On the new Economics Bill,

:26:24. > :26:27.there has been advice from the brightest left side

:26:28. > :26:29.of the brain, Mariana Mazzucato. Then economic cocktails served

:26:30. > :26:31.with a bowl of Joseph Stiglitz. Empressario John McDonnell himself

:26:32. > :26:33.chatted to Danny Dorling, not to be confused with Dany Dyer,

:26:34. > :26:36.although that would have been Then, there was the wisdom

:26:37. > :26:42.of Ha-Joon Chang, followed by the economic equivalent

:26:43. > :26:46.of being hit by a scooter driven by a well-groomed Greek rock

:26:47. > :26:50.star, Vanis Varoufakis. Top of the bill tomorrow,

:26:51. > :26:55.the gritty growl of reformed revolutionary,

:26:56. > :27:13.TV personality, Paul Mason. What a performance there from Giles

:27:14. > :27:14.with his guide it Labour's economic lecture tour.

:27:15. > :27:16.But what policy is emerging from all this economic wonkery,

:27:17. > :27:19.and will it help Labour win the next election?

:27:20. > :27:21.Well, to discuss that we're joined by the Blairite

:27:22. > :27:34.Blairite commentator? Let's have that discussion afterwards.

:27:35. > :27:37.Paul Mason, Ed Balls said in January 2014, there will be no more

:27:38. > :27:42.borrowing from day-to-day spending. Last month John McDonnell said they

:27:43. > :27:45.believe the Government should not need to borrow to fund day-to-day

:27:46. > :27:51.spending. The same thing. I don't think it is. I think the fiscal

:27:52. > :27:56.policy he underlined is looser on current spender. It can be looser if

:27:57. > :28:00.we hit the zero band with interest rates and we have. At a time like

:28:01. > :28:04.this, I would interrupt that - I'm in the Shadow Chancellor - but I

:28:05. > :28:07.would say we have nor leeway on current spending and certainly on

:28:08. > :28:12.investment spending and as I'm going to be outlining in my lecture for

:28:13. > :28:17.him this week, in any case, fiscal policy is not the main thing. Once

:28:18. > :28:23.you have an unor the docks monetary policy as we have, printing money,

:28:24. > :28:28.guaranteeing no interest rate rises for a certain period, you have a

:28:29. > :28:31.spill-over between fiscal and monetary policy that allows a future

:28:32. > :28:35.Labour Chancellor to stimulate the economy. It is not radically

:28:36. > :28:38.different. Ed Balls talked about stimulating the economy. The

:28:39. > :28:42.Government is strangling the economy. Even if you stimulated it

:28:43. > :28:47.mildly, I would argue, it would feel a lot divan, and again, you would

:28:48. > :28:52.have a predictable environment for the expansion of the NHS, and the

:28:53. > :28:56.education sector and in science and R that isn't happening right now.

:28:57. > :29:02.Well, John McDonnell has said he is against austerity and that those

:29:03. > :29:06.cuts that the Tory Government - - well, he has said he wouldn't put in

:29:07. > :29:08.place the sort of cuts the Tory Government is proposing because

:29:09. > :29:11.there would be growth in the economy from the investment that the Labour

:29:12. > :29:15.Party would make. That is a departure from Labour before Well

:29:16. > :29:21.reforically, yes, but we are just - I have come here to commiserate with

:29:22. > :29:24.Paul, you know, he's backed John McDonnell, who was the campaign

:29:25. > :29:28.manager for somebody called Jeremy Corbyn. He should have been the

:29:29. > :29:31.campaign manager for Liz Kendall, Liz Kendall was saying those things

:29:32. > :29:34.during the leadership campaign, you have to balance the current

:29:35. > :29:41.spending... She was a good candidate. She was a very good

:29:42. > :29:47.candidate. And she argued for fiscal responsibility which John McDonnell

:29:48. > :29:53.has now adopted. I know you want to get out of what is said by invoking

:29:54. > :29:58.the lower bound escape hatch. But you can't possibly agree with Liz

:29:59. > :30:00.Kendall's approximatelicy which John McDonnell has adopted for normal

:30:01. > :30:03.fiscal times. He is talking about fiscal responsibility. He needs to

:30:04. > :30:07.try to get the public to trust Labour and he is really doing the

:30:08. > :30:12.same things As certainly the previous Labour fwroencht and almost

:30:13. > :30:16.the Tory Government. The reason all governments have had fiscal rules is

:30:17. > :30:20.because they make sense 678 there is a cross-party academic agreement

:30:21. > :30:24.that, this is how it works - if the economy hits a rough patch, you

:30:25. > :30:27.spend some more now, to make it grow and then later the growth helps you

:30:28. > :30:31.pay back what you borrowed. That's the basic principle of all fiscal

:30:32. > :30:36.policy, but to formalise it stops you. This is I think the reason why

:30:37. > :30:40.McDonnell has done this. It stops your own supporters, the unions,

:30:41. > :30:45.people in the Labour momentum, etc, thinking that everything can be

:30:46. > :30:48.sorted by tax rises on the rich, or, you know, spending boosts. It

:30:49. > :30:53.signals to your own party that there are limits to these things and that

:30:54. > :30:55.other things have to take over, like industrial policy, like

:30:56. > :31:00.nationalising the steel industry and like boosting monetary growth. But

:31:01. > :31:02.he is going to, John McDonnell and if Labour were in power, add to the

:31:03. > :31:13.deficit. If you add the deficit you run over

:31:14. > :31:19.the debt. The deficit thing is doable. The thing is, Ed Miliband

:31:20. > :31:23.failed to get elected with those sorts of arguments, the Tory

:31:24. > :31:27.arguments, talking about fiscal responsibility, saying he'd balance

:31:28. > :31:34.the books and saying he would be responsible. Those aren't Tory

:31:35. > :31:41.arguments. That is what Ed Miliband echoed. Isn't it time for Labour to

:31:42. > :31:47.choose a different path? Paul has admitted they had chosen the same

:31:48. > :31:53.path, having debt as a share of trade in GDP by the end of the

:31:54. > :31:55.parliament and that is something that you and Jeremy Corbyn

:31:56. > :32:05.supporters condemned as neoliberalism. Wait until they, we,

:32:06. > :32:08.get our hands on the Office for Budget Responsibility and when it

:32:09. > :32:11.starts to calculate the real impact of fiscal stimulus on growth there

:32:12. > :32:18.will be a lot more allowed, even under the John McDonnell rules. And

:32:19. > :32:23.you can do more QE. That is what I will say in the lecture. So you

:32:24. > :32:30.don't want an independent Office for Budget Responsibility? I wanted to

:32:31. > :32:32.be independent of the Treasury, not using the Treasury Dome of fiscal

:32:33. > :32:40.multipliers that don't agree with the IMF. We should use fiscal

:32:41. > :32:43.multipliers that say... Osborne's kind of does. The Obi produce the

:32:44. > :32:47.answers he wanted without producing any of the growth he wanted -- the

:32:48. > :32:52.Office for Budget Responsibility. That is why he is reversing out of

:32:53. > :32:57.austerity. He is 4.5 billion out of his own austerity plan. He has

:32:58. > :33:04.reversed a position occupied by Ed Balls in the last Parliament. John

:33:05. > :33:08.McDonnell and his supporters do not disrespect Ed Balls's plan but we

:33:09. > :33:13.just need a different one going forward. In the end what will be

:33:14. > :33:16.more credible for the public? Fiscal rules, whether you stick to them,

:33:17. > :33:21.whether they are artificially made, do they make any difference question

:33:22. > :33:34.it showed by the last election they clearly did make a difference, even

:33:35. > :33:37.if the Tories argue that way. Labour will be Prime Minister, strange

:33:38. > :33:40.though it might seem to the Westminster bubble, if they tell the

:33:41. > :33:44.British people that is a believable story about how children get decent,

:33:45. > :33:46.secure jobs and have a diva -- decent lifestyle without having to

:33:47. > :33:51.win the X factor will be a professional footballer. I would

:33:52. > :33:55.actually agree with that. I think that is how Labour could win an

:33:56. > :34:02.election. But I don't see how they can possibly do so under Jeremy

:34:03. > :34:05.Corbyn. Why not? Because that is not what they are offering the British

:34:06. > :34:09.people. They are offering the British people anti-American is and

:34:10. > :34:16.fantasy economics and that is not a programme that the British people

:34:17. > :34:20.will want. What about this fantasy economics you spoke about? What is

:34:21. > :34:24.the fantasy bit? The fantasy is what they really believe as opposed to

:34:25. > :34:29.what John McDonnell has said before the budget suddenly it decided to

:34:30. > :34:32.adopt that, which is conventional economic thinking, that you should

:34:33. > :34:36.balance the books over the economic cycle. You think that would be

:34:37. > :34:40.abandoned if they came to power and they would revert to some sort of

:34:41. > :34:43.socialist doctrine you think they still hold by? I don't think John

:34:44. > :34:47.McDonnell really believes it, so I don't think he has any credibility

:34:48. > :34:51.in arguing for it but I think that is the base from which any party

:34:52. > :34:58.hats to approach the general election, and you cannot convince

:34:59. > :35:02.people to give you that vote. He is not saying to balance the books over

:35:03. > :35:08.the cycle. Balance the current books. It does say that, in five

:35:09. > :35:11.years' time. It was Gordon Brown who had an economic cycle -based rule.

:35:12. > :35:20.The rules of Ed Balls the current government are not cycle -based.

:35:21. > :35:25.What does infrastructure involved? A lot of it is not just building

:35:26. > :35:28.tunnels under the Pennines, it is about building the capacity of the

:35:29. > :35:33.workforce. There's a lot you can do under the label of infrastructure

:35:34. > :35:39.that actually cascades not into steel construction for example. At

:35:40. > :35:43.the end of the cycle, over five years, under the current fiscal rule

:35:44. > :35:47.that Labour is trying to implement all would implement, you would get a

:35:48. > :35:50.big infrastructure boost early on in any parliament and it would

:35:51. > :35:55.stimulate growth and draw jobs in. What would happen to the debt and

:35:56. > :35:59.deficit? The deficit might rise over the short-term, but that is the

:36:00. > :36:03.idea, but debt would come down as a part of GDP because over time the

:36:04. > :36:10.growth would come. Are you going to be a convert? If they're going to

:36:11. > :36:15.convert to conventional economics, fiscal responsibility, then I am all

:36:16. > :36:19.for it. The Blairites in the Labour Party have always been in favour of

:36:20. > :36:22.that and it's good to hear them come on board. The question is whether

:36:23. > :36:24.they really believe it. John Rentoul, thank you.

:36:25. > :36:27.Now, the pavements of Britain are thronged with sweaty, lycra-clad

:36:28. > :36:28.runners training for Sunday's London Marathon.

:36:29. > :36:31.Our Ellie's amongst them, and she's gathered together some fellow

:36:32. > :36:32.Westminster Village runners about to embark

:36:33. > :36:44.The weather is getting better, the sun is shining, the temperature has

:36:45. > :36:46.lifted and what else would you want to do on a Sunday morning banged

:36:47. > :36:56.over a gentle 26.2 mile I have three Labour MPs with me and

:36:57. > :37:01.we like to keep them on their toes at the Daily Politics, and here they

:37:02. > :37:06.are, running towards me. I don't normally get politicians running

:37:07. > :37:11.towards me. Hello chaps. Amanda, this is your first London Marathon.

:37:12. > :37:14.How do you feel? Incredibly nervous. I am excited because I'm assured

:37:15. > :37:19.that the crowd will carry you along, but very, very nervous about the

:37:20. > :37:22.whole thing. Dan Jarvis, a long way to be carried. How many have you

:37:23. > :37:27.done? This is my sixth London Marathon. Always hard work but a

:37:28. > :37:30.great event. The atmosphere is wonderful and the opportunity to

:37:31. > :37:35.raise money for Cancer Research is to good an opportunity to miss. You

:37:36. > :37:39.are the first Cabinet minister to run the marathon. No pressure. I've

:37:40. > :37:45.got to complete it. This will be my fit and I have to complete it --

:37:46. > :37:50.fifth. I have been running much in the last month, I can tell you.

:37:51. > :37:58.Getting his excuses in early. Amanda, apparently there is

:37:59. > :38:02.something called maranoia. Have you got any of that? I know that I want

:38:03. > :38:05.to do it and I want to think all the way through why I am doing it, and I

:38:06. > :38:10.think it's one of those things that will carry me through to the end. Is

:38:11. > :38:13.it paranoid or mad? It is madness, but it would be mad not to do it

:38:14. > :38:17.such a good cause. There is something lovely about this week in

:38:18. > :38:21.particular. You don't need to do any more running, just eat a load of

:38:22. > :38:26.carbohydrates. I haven't done a huge amount of running before these

:38:27. > :38:29.weeks, so I'm getting the excuses in again. We can look forward to the

:38:30. > :38:32.race. The atmosphere is wonderful and the level of support is

:38:33. > :38:36.incredible. I think it's really important we come together to

:38:37. > :38:42.contribute and be involved and do our bit. You said jokingly, but

:38:43. > :38:46.having the time to do it, but it does take a lot of time. Why do you

:38:47. > :38:51.do it? What is about running that goes with politics? The first is to

:38:52. > :38:55.raise money for a good cause and the charities and the impact they have,

:38:56. > :38:59.and the is quite selfish, you feel $1 million crossing the line. And in

:39:00. > :39:03.the training running up to it there are a lot of MPs running around the

:39:04. > :39:08.parks of London, late at night, and you are running through it --

:39:09. > :39:11.through Green Park, and it gives you a structure and stops you drinking

:39:12. > :39:17.and eating too much and it is a focus from Christmas until the end

:39:18. > :39:20.of April. Danny Connor you are sandwiched between some

:39:21. > :39:23.conservatives, and there are five Conservatives doing this and five

:39:24. > :39:28.Labour politicians but none of the other parties are taking part. Is

:39:29. > :39:35.there any rivalry here? Yes there is. I have been reasonably close in

:39:36. > :39:39.previous years and he has given me a bluff about some problems with his

:39:40. > :39:44.knee. I'm not buying it at all. I think we will be close to each other

:39:45. > :39:47.on Sunday. A bit of friendly rivalry, I think. I should point out

:39:48. > :39:50.it isn't just the politicians running this Sunday, there are some

:39:51. > :39:54.very dedicated political journalists who will be trying to give these

:39:55. > :39:58.politicians a bit of a run for their money. But we will see. It's a long

:39:59. > :40:14.way to go. Hey, wait for me, guys. That could have been very nasty. I

:40:15. > :40:18.actually ran with LA last weekend, no it can't be last week in, it

:40:19. > :40:23.feels like ages ago and I did a half marathon I thought I might need a

:40:24. > :40:27.hip replacement at the end. You have run a marathon? Yes, 20 years ago.

:40:28. > :40:31.The London Marathon is superb. A great social occasion and one of

:40:32. > :40:34.these institutions that holds the country together. It's great to see

:40:35. > :40:45.the MPs having a go. What was your time? 3.5 two. That's quite good.

:40:46. > :40:49.It's better to go slowly, carefully and finish. Did you run the whole

:40:50. > :40:55.thing? I ran like a whip into the first six miles and then had to be

:40:56. > :41:01.almost carried around after that. -- I ran like with it. It does take a

:41:02. > :41:02.big chunk out of your life, and not drinking in London, as one of those

:41:03. > :41:05.MPs said, quite difficult. Now MPs use the technique to talk

:41:06. > :41:08.out legislation they don't like. But a committee of MPs is proposing

:41:09. > :41:10.reforms aimed at putting an end to what's sometimes

:41:11. > :41:12.known as a "filibuster", calling it "a fraud

:41:13. > :41:15.on the people we represent". Here's the Conservative MP,

:41:16. > :41:16.Philip Davies, speaking at the debate on a bill to end

:41:17. > :41:19.hospital car parking So if we are already

:41:20. > :41:26.seeing this huge increase in parking fees for people,

:41:27. > :41:29.I don't want to introduce a bill which would see people

:41:30. > :41:31.have to pay even more. This is something

:41:32. > :41:33.that was highlighted by the British Parking Association

:41:34. > :41:37.back in 2009, following the scrapping of hospital carparking

:41:38. > :41:40.charges in Scotland. They say car parks need to be

:41:41. > :41:42.physically maintained, Charges were not introduced

:41:43. > :41:47.to generate income but rather to ensure that key staff,

:41:48. > :41:49.bona fide patients and visitors Without income to support car park

:41:50. > :41:56.maintenance, funds which should be directed to health care

:41:57. > :41:59.have to be used instead. There is also a very big

:42:00. > :42:03.geographic inequality... Mr Deputy Speaker, this speaker has

:42:04. > :42:09.already been speaking for an hour and nine minutes

:42:10. > :42:12.and what we are getting now And the Conservative MP

:42:13. > :42:22.Philip Davies and Labour MP Julie Cooper, who introduced that

:42:23. > :42:32.bill on hospital car Why did you do it, Philip Davis?

:42:33. > :42:37.Isn't it a bit of a low rent technique to adopt, filibustering?

:42:38. > :42:44.Filibustering is not allowed, and the speaker will pull you up. But

:42:45. > :42:48.that is filibustering, isn't it? Lots of people, on a Friday with

:42:49. > :42:52.bills that are ill thought through, worthy sentiments, and this is a

:42:53. > :42:57.prime example, but it hadn't been given proper consideration on the

:42:58. > :43:02.detail and application and it would have seen five out of six carers

:43:03. > :43:05.paying more than car parking. It was ill thought through, so this bill

:43:06. > :43:11.did not deserve to go through. But should it be talked out? Every

:43:12. > :43:15.parliamentarian uses whatever procedures are in place to deliver

:43:16. > :43:18.the outcome they want. This is how the Labour Party got into the Jeremy

:43:19. > :43:22.Corbyn situation by MPs saying they did not want to be the leader of the

:43:23. > :43:25.party, but let's give him ago and they ended up with a leader they

:43:26. > :43:29.want. You have to use what procedures you have got at your

:43:30. > :43:32.disposal to get the outcome you want, and every MP uses procedures

:43:33. > :43:37.to get the outcome they want. If they didn't they would not be used

:43:38. > :43:41.-- doing their job properly. Let's pick up on that it was ill thought

:43:42. > :43:45.through. Julie, do you want to come back? I totally disagree. I spent a

:43:46. > :43:48.lot of time researching the bill and I spoke to people on all sides of

:43:49. > :43:54.the house, including some Conservative members, Liberal

:43:55. > :43:58.Democrats, Scottish National party, the Green party, various supporters

:43:59. > :44:03.of the bill. I had been advised earlier on when selecting the

:44:04. > :44:07.subject that it was wise, if you hope to have any progress, that you

:44:08. > :44:10.had an issue that was noncontroversial and every party

:44:11. > :44:15.thought they could get behind. The whole point of the bill committees

:44:16. > :44:19.that follow one in the second readings are to iron out the details

:44:20. > :44:23.and I spent a lot of time with people far more experienced than I

:44:24. > :44:28.am preparing bills and there was a sound prospect in the bill but it

:44:29. > :44:33.was not to be thanks to filibustering. What do you say to

:44:34. > :44:37.the claim that MPs can and should adopt any technique that is

:44:38. > :44:42.available to their disposal if they think believes, as he put it, ill

:44:43. > :44:46.thought through? What happens is outrageously dishonest and

:44:47. > :44:50.undemocratic. I welcome the work done by the procedure committee

:44:51. > :44:54.since that episode that is actually looking to bring reform, because one

:44:55. > :44:59.thing my bill to do was to raise the whole issue in the public mind. Had

:45:00. > :45:04.I been successful, a million carers and their families would have

:45:05. > :45:07.benefited. Just to correct what Philip said, no carers would have

:45:08. > :45:10.paid extra charges and a million carers would have benefited, so it

:45:11. > :45:16.had a lot of public attention. And they were quite rightly disgusted at

:45:17. > :45:20.what they saw was spoiled on the part of some MPs. Is that not what

:45:21. > :45:25.it is? It is bored, because you do it because you can, speaking for one

:45:26. > :45:28.hour and 52 minutes, and were you being undemocratic? I was blocking a

:45:29. > :45:33.bill I thought was ill thought through. It's not the first time

:45:34. > :45:38.you've done it. Lots of bills go through. It's noncontroversial. But

:45:39. > :45:41.you did it on the compulsory emergency first aid education bill.

:45:42. > :45:45.That was a bad bill as well. The point about Julie's bill, if you

:45:46. > :45:49.don't mind me saying so, five out of six carers it wouldn't have applied

:45:50. > :45:53.to and only applied to people with an underlying claim to carers

:45:54. > :45:57.allowance. We had no idea how the hospital would determine that claim,

:45:58. > :46:00.how it would be managed, whether if there was a dispute between the

:46:01. > :46:04.hospital and the carer whether there would be some new parking ombudsman

:46:05. > :46:07.who would resolve complaints, whether the money to pay for this

:46:08. > :46:10.would come from the hospital on the doctors and nurses, from the

:46:11. > :46:13.government or from higher parking charges and everybody else which

:46:14. > :46:16.would have meant five out of six carers would have paid more. Julie

:46:17. > :46:20.couldn't and is the questions. She hadn't even spoken to Burnley

:46:21. > :46:26.Hospital. She had spoken to other parties. This was very much a soul

:46:27. > :46:32.campaign, not a party campaign, so you took it upon yourself to wreck

:46:33. > :46:35.the bill. The point is this. If a hundred MPs turn up on Friday to

:46:36. > :46:39.support a bill and it passes through, irrespective of what I do

:46:40. > :46:44.over how long anybody speaks, if Julie couldn't muster 100 MPs out of

:46:45. > :46:48.650 to support the bill and she claimed she had all the support,

:46:49. > :46:53.where were they? If a hundred MPs had turned up, it have passed. The

:46:54. > :46:57.point is that more senior MPs have sat through so many sessions that

:46:58. > :47:01.they know how it works on a Friday, but Philip and a couple of his

:47:02. > :47:05.colleagues sit there Friday after Friday, every time a Private members

:47:06. > :47:12.Bill comes through. Did you get the support? Yes, I did get the support.

:47:13. > :47:16.Where were they? The important thing is that going forward the committee

:47:17. > :47:21.looks at improving the process so we can have a fair situation and an

:47:22. > :47:26.honest boat. A number of colleagues -- an honest boat. A number of

:47:27. > :47:31.colleagues said that they support carers in Parliament and then they

:47:32. > :47:34.refused to vote against it. Many of the issues that Philip mentioned I

:47:35. > :47:38.had discussed with the Minister before the bill was presented and he

:47:39. > :47:43.made it plain that the government did not want to support it, so let's

:47:44. > :47:47.have an honest debate. Should there be moves to get rid of this option?

:47:48. > :47:55.No. I think the system works well in the sense if the bill has the

:47:56. > :48:00.support of 100 MPs it can go through without anybody blocking it but

:48:01. > :48:03.gives a mechanism to block bills. Otherwise people come with a worthy

:48:04. > :48:08.sentiment and expect everybody to faun all over it and pass it on the

:48:09. > :48:11.nod. We are passing legislation, it it is serious business, it should

:48:12. > :48:14.the be able dom with a worthy sentiment and go through. Do you

:48:15. > :48:19.think it is worth keeping? Absolutely not. The balance is not

:48:20. > :48:23.what happens in Parliament. If a large corporation wants the law

:48:24. > :48:29.changed they don't ask an MP to put a Friday morning bill in. They go

:48:30. > :48:35.and get an ordering counsel, they get statute changed and ministerial

:48:36. > :48:38.decisions and they are in there, as we speak, consultants being paid

:48:39. > :48:42.tens of thousands a week to do that. Business can get any change it wants

:48:43. > :48:46.to into government but the public has to go through petitions which

:48:47. > :48:52.are never listened to or private members bills and somebody pops up a

:48:53. > :48:57.and stops them. The minimum you can do, is streamline and make clear but

:48:58. > :49:01.a there are some crazy ones. Make clear that the private member's

:49:02. > :49:05.bill, that the procedure - but in the end, I think it is only the

:49:06. > :49:09.beginning of participatory democracy, which is what we need in

:49:10. > :49:12.this country. Do you think it'll put people off, other MPs coming forward

:49:13. > :49:17.with private members bills Absolutely definitely. I would think

:49:18. > :49:20.ten times, 100 times before I give up a Friday to support a private

:49:21. > :49:24.member's bill, even on a very worthy issue. It is a total waste, and a

:49:25. > :49:27.disrespect of British Parliament and even more than that, it is a

:49:28. > :49:31.disrespect to the British public. It is insulting for them for them to be

:49:32. > :49:36.- 1 million careers could have benefited and many of them and their

:49:37. > :49:40.families tuned in that morning tloisen to see the -- to listen it

:49:41. > :49:44.see the charade that passed for debate. All right. Thank you for

:49:45. > :49:54.both of you. I won't let you talk out the rest of the programme.

:49:55. > :49:58.Talk of a steel crisis reminds us of a time, not so long ago,

:49:59. > :50:00.when workers were out on strike, stock markets were crashing

:50:01. > :50:03.and the far left in British politics were agitating for a revolution.

:50:04. > :50:05.Including, it appears, one young journalist from Wigan.

:50:06. > :50:08.Times have now changed and these days Paul Mason has recanted his

:50:09. > :50:10."revolutionary marxism" in favour of "radical social democracy".

:50:11. > :50:13.In a moment we will find out why, and hear from Peter Taaffe,

:50:14. > :50:15.the General Secretary of the Socialist Party

:50:16. > :50:17.and former chief of militant, about why he thinks a revolution

:50:18. > :50:21.But first, let's go back to 1987 and hear the views

:50:22. > :50:32.There undoubtedly was the demand for a forum where the left could come in

:50:33. > :50:35.from the cold. For many be the so-called outside left the Labour

:50:36. > :50:39.Conference was a disaster. Since then it has been greatly lifted but

:50:40. > :50:43.the problems of the world stock market. The world will never be the

:50:44. > :50:49.same again. There is no way back for Thatcher and Reagan and it'll be the

:50:50. > :50:53.end of monetaryism. Tony Benn had hoped it could be a family reunion

:50:54. > :50:57.for the left but it was a family with immense strain. As well as over

:50:58. > :51:03.1,000 Labour MPs, there were many people from way outside the party

:51:04. > :51:13.like Socialist Work and entryist like Workers Power. There a tendency

:51:14. > :51:14.within the Labour Party To do what? Build revolutionary politics inside

:51:15. > :51:16.the Labour Party. I'm joined now by Peter Taaffe,

:51:17. > :51:18.General Secretary of the Socialist Party and founder

:51:19. > :51:20.of the entryist Militant Group which caused Labour so many

:51:21. > :51:29.problems in the 1980s. Welcome to the programme. I hope you

:51:30. > :51:34.enjoyed doing yourself. That jumper was superb. Why didn't you show me

:51:35. > :51:39.at that age. You were part of a ginger group... Ginger. Well a

:51:40. > :51:44.groups agitating for revolutionary politics but when George Osborne

:51:45. > :51:50.accused of you being a revolutionly Marxist, you denied it. Why? Because

:51:51. > :51:53.I'm in the one now. Thatcher destroyed the miners, we had

:51:54. > :51:56.extrajudicial force used against working class people. There were

:51:57. > :52:00.riots on the streets. We were fighting a battle for the survival

:52:01. > :52:06.of working class communities, which we lost, which I am terribly sorry

:52:07. > :52:09.about. There are people in emmer vale and Wigan, Leigh, where I come

:52:10. > :52:14.from, still living with that and we were right to fight it. Why aren't

:52:15. > :52:19.you still fighting? The world that has emerged is different. The global

:52:20. > :52:24.economy, the possibility for social just tis that is has emerged have to

:52:25. > :52:28.be recalibrated from where you start with. For me, personally ut journey

:52:29. > :52:32.I have taken, I think the revolutionary left politics of the

:52:33. > :52:35.197 #0gs and 80s had a fatal weakness of failing to understand

:52:36. > :52:40.that what most working class people, ordinary people that work now, let's

:52:41. > :52:43.leave aside the labels, what they want is an area of self-control

:52:44. > :52:48.within capitalism, within the system. That's what people like Nye

:52:49. > :52:51.Bevan fought for that.ings a what, as a trade unionist and MP, and

:52:52. > :52:54.that's what I would fight for now. Are you disappointed by this change

:52:55. > :52:58.of heart. Paul Mason says he is adapting to the world as it is

:52:59. > :53:03.today. You are stuck in the 1970s and 80s? No, I think he has changed

:53:04. > :53:07.his position and it is greatable, as he has explained. I think there is

:53:08. > :53:12.more of a case today for the battles we fought 30 years ago and they won

:53:13. > :53:16.some of those battles. It wasn't all losses. We are the people, that was

:53:17. > :53:20.Militant, now the Socialist Party who took on thatch-and-a-half in

:53:21. > :53:25.Liverpool and defeated her. She was forced to give big concessions to

:53:26. > :53:29.the working class of people. We also mobilised 18 million people to

:53:30. > :53:34.defeat the poll tax. If you read Mrs Thatcher's biography, you will see

:53:35. > :53:39.she admit in there that that battle, Paul, led to her resignation. It

:53:40. > :53:43.wasn't the EU. Those lessons are relevant today. What does Jeremy

:53:44. > :53:48.Corbyn's election to the leadership of the Labour Party represent? What

:53:49. > :53:54.does the Bernie Sanders phenomena in America represent? Where he has

:53:55. > :53:57.talked about revolution, you have articulated that. You have left at a

:53:58. > :54:01.time when perhaps, Britain and America are ripe for revolution.

:54:02. > :54:04.Bernie Sanders talk of revolution is about a political revolution in

:54:05. > :54:10.America, throwing money out of politics. You as co-thinkers inside,

:54:11. > :54:14.I think in is he atle you have one City Councillor Yes. But there is a

:54:15. > :54:19.big thing happening, horizontally among young people. We mean by that,

:54:20. > :54:25.not involved in hierarchial groups. There are people on the streets of

:54:26. > :54:28.Paris, every night fighting for social justice, not a Leninist

:54:29. > :54:33.revolution. The poblted of that has gone. Number two, yes, the struggle

:54:34. > :54:38.we won things through fighting the poll tax, your own collaborator,

:54:39. > :54:43.Tommy Sheridan was heroic I would argue and Scottish people followed.

:54:44. > :54:49.Yes, jailed in that time. And the point is what do we do now, it has

:54:50. > :54:53.to be a mixture of resisting the austerity and the injustice that is

:54:54. > :54:59.have been inflicted be o people and parliamentary action. Why don't you

:55:00. > :55:04.- why don't you just come in, join the Labour Party, give yourselves -

:55:05. > :55:09.as we did... On the last question. As we did in '97. I was part of the

:55:10. > :55:14.Labour Party. Why don't you? We would like to join the Labour Party.

:55:15. > :55:18.In the same way as the... Do you still want a Leninist mai,

:55:19. > :55:23.coalition? In the same way as the co-op. The idea of Leninism as a

:55:24. > :55:29.hierarchial, centralised... Do you still believe in it? We believe in

:55:30. > :55:32.parties. We don't believe we will be a spontaneous movement that can

:55:33. > :55:34.overthrow the most ruthless, capitalist class we have had in

:55:35. > :55:40.history. They are absolutery ruthless. They have been trained to

:55:41. > :55:44.rule. The phenomenon you have mentioned, it is a step forward. The

:55:45. > :55:48.Jeremy Corbyn movement is a step forward. Because would you like it

:55:49. > :55:53.to be the sort of party you want it to be, this overthrow of the

:55:54. > :55:56.capitalist class. We believe that will be arrived at by democratic

:55:57. > :56:01.discussion and debate. We would like to be part of the Labour Party. Paul

:56:02. > :56:07.wrote a very interesting article in the Guardian in which he said - it

:56:08. > :56:12.can't be now that - centralised, a topdown party. We agree with that.

:56:13. > :56:15.Why not a featheration, different organisations in different parties.

:56:16. > :56:18.Do you think there is still, a swell of support for that sort of

:56:19. > :56:23.sentiment? Stls not among young people and young people, in other

:56:24. > :56:27.words, are way ahead of the kind of fossilised leftism of the 20th

:56:28. > :56:29.Century. They have realised that you can have your own personal

:56:30. > :56:34.revolution, you can do quite a lot on your own and the key difference

:56:35. > :56:39.for me is that so many people have decided that, you know, in spending

:56:40. > :56:46.your entire life to enforce labour to do things or Knight night or the

:56:47. > :56:50.RMT, do it yourself -- or Unite. The point is you don't need a

:56:51. > :56:53.hierarchial organisation and structure, you don't need T with a

:56:54. > :56:58.cell phone you can do more than you can. I think that's childish,

:56:59. > :57:03.frankly. What you have explained in your book about post capitalism, is

:57:04. > :57:08.the enormous oppressive apparatus that the ruling class worldwide has

:57:09. > :57:13.bilted up. You give a good phrase where you said think about Manila in

:57:14. > :57:16.Gothenberg. You talked about the head of Prudential insurance saying

:57:17. > :57:21.the minimum wage is the enemy of young people. They are ruthless. Do

:57:22. > :57:26.you think that by coming together in the kind of general discussion, that

:57:27. > :57:30.we will be able to overthrow this capital class, it is childish? The

:57:31. > :57:35.only way is by building a mass party. Social counter-parlance. Are

:57:36. > :57:39.you still close to Jeremy Corbyn? In a sense, yes, we support Jeremy

:57:40. > :57:42.Corbyn. We would like to be part of his project but Jeremy Corbyn is

:57:43. > :57:48.unfortunately, he is trapped behind enemy lines. Who is the enemy? Who

:57:49. > :57:51.is the enemy? Some are the Blairites, one of whom you have had

:57:52. > :57:55.in here today. They don't want what Jeremy Corbyn stands for. Paul know

:57:56. > :57:58.this is. We have two parties in one in the Labour Party. We have the

:57:59. > :58:02.Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party and we have the old, discredited remnants

:58:03. > :58:06.of the Blairites. We want a real struggle to build a party that

:58:07. > :58:11.represents the overwhelming majority. Briefly, do you think

:58:12. > :58:15.Peter and his supporters are threatening the potential success of

:58:16. > :58:18.Jeremy Corbyn? 123450 not so far, they can't win a single election

:58:19. > :58:22.against him. Labour San alliance of the left and right. It is unusual

:58:23. > :58:25.the left is leading. That's what the Blairites can't get their head

:58:26. > :58:28.around. I will have to finish it there. Thank you very much. Now time

:58:29. > :58:33.to find out the answer to our quiz: The question was which leading

:58:34. > :58:35.politicians has spent Was it a) The Home

:58:36. > :58:40.Secretary Theresa May? C) The Lords' Speaker,

:58:41. > :58:43.Baroness D'Souza? Or D) Scottish First Minister,

:58:44. > :58:49.Nicola Sturgeon? It is the Lords' speaker. Nearly

:58:50. > :58:53.?10,000. It is, it is Lady D'Souza. Well done you. You don't get a cash

:58:54. > :58:56.prize but you can probably take a mug.

:58:57. > :58:58.Free membership of the Socialist Party for a year. From all of us,

:58:59. > :59:04.goodbye.