:00:01. > :00:04.Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Inside Out. Tonight we're
:00:04. > :00:10.at the Midland railway centre in Butterley to ask - where will we
:00:10. > :00:20.build the trains of the future? What next for Bombardier -
:00:20. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:28.Britain's last train-builder? impact will be phenomenal. It
:00:28. > :00:35.affects so many people in the area. Cutting services to cut the deficit
:00:35. > :00:42.- why it spawned a summer of discontent. CHANTING.
:00:42. > :00:52.And who's sending Paul Smith these mysterious presents? They always
:00:52. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:12.come as objects with stamps on them and the address on the item. This
:01:12. > :01:19.is one of the earliest trains built in Derby in 1865. Times have never
:01:20. > :01:22.been tougher for the city's industry. This week, new research
:01:22. > :01:25.into the decision to award a lucrative train-building contract
:01:25. > :01:28.to a German firm has found it could end up costing British taxpayers
:01:28. > :01:38.millions. Simon Hare has been investigating the real cost of the
:01:38. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:53.They've just been told almost half the workforce is going and the
:01:53. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:07.long-term future of Bombardier in Derby is under review. Devastated.
:02:07. > :02:10.3,000 workers in the City... Weeks before, a major train-building
:02:10. > :02:20.contract was awarded by the UK government, to Bombardier's German
:02:20. > :02:22.
:02:22. > :02:26.competitor, Siemens. Look after your own first, is all I said.
:02:26. > :02:28.a deal which was said to offer the best value for money. But for the
:02:28. > :02:38.first time, Inside Out has discovered the real potential
:02:38. > :02:43.
:02:43. > :02:48.economic cost. Jobs of that quality are not easy to backfill when lost.
:02:48. > :02:50.The government are guilty of economic genocide. It was
:02:50. > :02:54.appropriate that the Queen and Prince Philip should arrive at
:02:54. > :02:57.Derby, the centre of railway technology, and the Royal Train...
:02:57. > :02:59.The day Derby was granted city status... Without trains, it would
:02:59. > :03:09.probably have remained a market town. It's been building trains for
:03:09. > :03:35.
:03:35. > :03:40.over 170 years. MUSIC. Trained making is in the DNA
:03:40. > :03:44.of this city and everybody in Derby Adair knows someone, is related to
:03:44. > :03:47.someone or is married to someone in the Korean making industry. This
:03:47. > :03:51.was supposed to be the future - the Aventra - Bombardier's newest train.
:03:51. > :03:58.But it won't be running on the Thameslink line to Brighton. And
:03:58. > :04:01.will it ever be built in Britain? Kevin Owen has been here his whole
:04:02. > :04:11.working life. His grandfather worked on the railways and he
:04:11. > :04:17.followed his uncle into train- building. You can see their history.
:04:17. > :04:21.They are still the buildings from the 1800s. It is a great place to
:04:21. > :04:27.work, it is a community within a community and a great place to be.
:04:27. > :04:33.Kevin's a welder with 24 years' experience. He's also now a blogger
:04:33. > :04:37.with 24,000 hits. I want to pick myself as someone who was involved
:04:37. > :04:40.from the building -- beginning. I think the government gave the order
:04:40. > :04:44.to Siemens because there was no upfront money because of the
:04:44. > :04:51.economy and it seemed like a good deal for them so they could get
:04:51. > :04:55.trains built about spending money up front. -- without spending. He's
:04:55. > :04:58.become a key part of the campaign to urge the government to do a U-
:04:58. > :05:00.turn on Thameslink. Today, that campaign has got up early to meet
:05:00. > :05:10.in the world's oldest railway roundhouse, where steam locomotives
:05:10. > :05:24.
:05:24. > :05:28.were once serviced. They're off to London on a special train. We don't
:05:28. > :05:36.want this a real way to be a showcase for foreign trains. --
:05:36. > :05:42.this real life. We have to keep the pressure on and hope the government
:05:42. > :05:51.will reverse the decision. They can if that is what they want to do.
:05:51. > :05:55.The impact on Derby is going to be phenomenal. We are all being put at
:05:55. > :06:01.risk and we are all going for the assessment process, which is a
:06:01. > :06:04.weight on our shoulders. There is also the weight of the UK review.
:06:04. > :06:12.As well as the Bombardier workers, the great and the good from Derby
:06:12. > :06:18.have come to lend their support. am here today because I am angry. I
:06:18. > :06:23.work as an ambassador for Derby. I care about my home city. This
:06:23. > :06:28.decision is absolutely disgraceful. It makes an absolute nonsense and
:06:28. > :06:33.David Cameron bringing his cabinet to Derby earlier this year, in the
:06:33. > :06:39.spring, saying it was a vibrant and dynamic city and it is a role model.
:06:39. > :06:44.It makes a nonsense of that. 1971 was a defining moment in Derby with
:06:44. > :06:47.Rolls-Royce. 2011 is a defining moment with Bombardier. I believe
:06:47. > :06:51.there is a chance for the government to review that decision.
:06:51. > :06:56.I think they've got it would go away and that the summer recess
:06:56. > :06:59.would kill of protest. It has not. The protest is as strong as ever
:06:59. > :07:02.and Derby remains as committed as ever to fight the decision. As the
:07:02. > :07:04.protest went on outside, inside Westminster, one expert called to
:07:04. > :07:13.give evidence delivered a damning indictment of the government's
:07:13. > :07:19.decision. The first mistake they made was the bundling of the
:07:19. > :07:23.building up the trains with leasing. The other was that I made the wrong
:07:23. > :07:27.value for money calculation. -- they made. You what reasonable
:07:27. > :07:36.quality for the lowest price. That is eight reasonable approach to
:07:36. > :07:46.about -- buying a toaster but it does not work for a contract for
:07:46. > :07:51.1,200 carriages. They did not consider that every Derby worker
:07:51. > :07:56.pays taxes. If you put that into the equation that means that the
:07:56. > :07:59.British bid has benefits which were outside their value for money
:07:59. > :08:02.calculation. As well as lost tax revenues, Nottingham Business
:08:02. > :08:05.School has worked out other economic impacts. It's calculated
:08:05. > :08:13.the Derby economy will lose �150 million next year as a direct
:08:13. > :08:22.result of the Bombardier job losses already announced. That would rise
:08:22. > :08:26.to more than 300 million should the plant close. It would be the paper
:08:26. > :08:31.on a Sunday, the sandwich at lunchtime, in addition to other
:08:31. > :08:36.goods and services that they will be using their earnings to purchase.
:08:36. > :08:40.The estimates we produced our conservative estimates, they are a
:08:40. > :08:44.starting point. If we were to look in more detail at the supply chain
:08:44. > :08:48.effect, I suspect we would see it significantly higher estimates
:08:48. > :08:54.still. Bombardier may be Britain's last train-builder, but Derby is
:08:54. > :08:57.still home to the world's greatest concentration of rail companies.
:08:57. > :09:00.Just over the factory fence is a firm which would've made the
:09:00. > :09:10.plastic front ends for the new Aventra, but the loss of Thameslink
:09:10. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:22.has seen it lose 30 jobs. It is never nice having to let anybody go.
:09:22. > :09:29.That had a very big impact on me. We had men close to tears and the
:09:29. > :09:39.atmosphere was so bad, I shut the factory and said everybody home. --
:09:39. > :09:40.
:09:40. > :09:48.sent everybody home. Datum works for Siemens as well and has healthy
:09:48. > :09:52.order books with other industries. But there's still anger. We would
:09:53. > :09:57.normally be manufacturing up until 1 o'clock in the morning every day.
:09:57. > :10:04.Now we are finishing my afternoon and that it. It is a strange place
:10:04. > :10:09.to be at the moment. How does that make you feel? Annoyed that the
:10:09. > :10:12.Paras that we can make such a massive capital investment decision
:10:12. > :10:15.without considering the social economic impact. The Derby and
:10:15. > :10:18.Derbyshire Rail Forum says its members expect to cut 1,100 jobs in
:10:18. > :10:21.the next two years. Those are on top of the Bombardier losses
:10:21. > :10:31.already announced and represent only a fraction of the UK supply
:10:31. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:38.chain. If I were to make a similar decision in a private sector it
:10:38. > :10:42.would prove to be catastrophically wrong and I would be fired into --
:10:42. > :10:44.instantly, and rightly so. Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for
:10:44. > :10:46.Transport, insists the Government can't perform a U-turn on
:10:46. > :10:56.Thameslink, but will look at including other economic factors in
:10:56. > :10:58.
:10:58. > :11:02.future contracts. He has tonight left the position. We just wanted
:11:02. > :11:07.to go away but how can it? It is as in the firing line, it is as
:11:07. > :11:12.fighting for our jobs and for survival of an industry. We can't
:11:12. > :11:22.just roll over and die. We saw it happen with other industries. It is
:11:22. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:36.a future industry, not a dying industry. Kevin is still waiting
:11:36. > :11:46.for news of his own position. A decision on whether Britain is to
:11:46. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :11:56.retain its last train-builder will be announced in the next few weeks.
:11:56. > :11:59.It seems that every day the news about the economy gets bleaker and
:11:59. > :12:02.we're told we've got to get to grips with the deficit. But with
:12:03. > :12:07.cuts comes pain for those affected and a huge division of opinion on
:12:07. > :12:17.where the axe should fall. It's also spawned a new kind of protest
:12:17. > :12:19.
:12:19. > :12:28.movement, which Tony Roe has been filming throughout the year.
:12:28. > :12:31.They call themselves UK Uncut. For a year now, they have been
:12:31. > :12:35.arranging to meet through Twitter, Facebook and old fashioned word of
:12:35. > :12:42.mouth. Their mission is to disrupt and protest to make a point about
:12:43. > :12:52.the cuts being imposed. Their concern is the people who don't
:12:53. > :12:56.
:12:57. > :13:02.normally have a voice as loud as theirs. I feel like I'm a nothing,
:13:02. > :13:07.that I don't count anywhere in this world. We are embarking on some
:13:07. > :13:11.very bleak, sad times. You probably hadn't heard of UK Uncut until
:13:11. > :13:14.these disturbances in London in March. The violence and vandalism
:13:14. > :13:24.made the headlines at an anti-cuts protest involving half a million
:13:24. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:27.people. Most of those arrested that day were the 145 who held a
:13:27. > :13:36.peaceful sit-in at the luxury food store Fortnum and Mason, to protest
:13:36. > :13:42.over alleged tax avoidance by the business's part-owners. So, we
:13:42. > :13:48.decided to follow the activities of UK Uncut over the summer. We'd also
:13:48. > :13:55.get the alternative view from those who believe in a policy of cuts.
:13:55. > :14:00.Indeed, there are those who think the cuts should be deeper. It is
:14:00. > :14:06.about time the government started to stand up for British tax payers.
:14:07. > :14:09.It looked like we were heading for a summer of discontent... April. A
:14:09. > :14:16.warm day in Nottingham.UK Uncut supporters gather on a street
:14:16. > :14:19.corner dressed as nurses and hospital workers. It's a busy
:14:19. > :14:27.Saturday morning. They have a list of targets, but the police don't
:14:27. > :14:35.know what they are. All of a sudden, there's a quick march to a bank.
:14:36. > :14:44.Lloyds TSB - a bailed out bank which is 41% owned by taxpayers.
:14:44. > :14:48.The government his privatising the NHS. They go in to protest at news
:14:48. > :14:53.the bank's made 2 billion profit and paid no tax and spent 200
:14:53. > :14:55.million on staff bonuses. They claim Boots is avoiding tax by
:14:55. > :15:01.moving its HQ from Nottingham to Switzlerand, where corporation tax
:15:01. > :15:05.is almost half the rate of Britain. Alliance Boots say the change is
:15:05. > :15:09.because they're now part of a Europe-wide pharmacy group. They
:15:09. > :15:13.march on. And it has to be said, people march by, trying not to pay
:15:13. > :15:17.attention. They go to more banks and businesses they say are
:15:17. > :15:24.avoiding paying their fair share of tax. The argument being if the tax
:15:24. > :15:34.were collected, fewer cuts would need to be made. We wanted to know
:15:34. > :15:38.what motivates someone to get involved in action like this.
:15:38. > :15:42.mammy help you? Sam Dixon has lost her job because of the cuts, but
:15:42. > :15:48.says that's not why she has decided to give up part of her weekend to
:15:49. > :15:53.protest. I am outraged for people who are losing services and
:15:53. > :15:57.people's lives are going to be put at risk. I will be able to find
:15:58. > :16:07.another job and move on. These are the people Sam means - those helped
:16:07. > :16:13.by a programme called Supporting People. It has upset me, regarding
:16:13. > :16:20.what is happening to frontline services, because these people are
:16:20. > :16:24.either going to end up dying or needing some severe statutory
:16:24. > :16:27.intervention, which I find is a false economy. In Nottingham,
:16:27. > :16:29.Supporting People services are facing massive cuts. The charity
:16:29. > :16:36.Framework, which provides a safety net by tackling homelessness and
:16:36. > :16:39.its causes, has had a big hole cut in that net - half its funding. A
:16:39. > :16:45.ring fence to stop that happening was removed by the last Labour
:16:45. > :16:48.Government and the City Council has decided to cut. Back in February, a
:16:48. > :16:58.film maker from a charity gave those affected a chance to talk
:16:58. > :17:02.about their fears of an uncertain future. I have spent 25 years on
:17:02. > :17:11.the streets. There came a point of crisis in my life when I needed a
:17:11. > :17:16.lot more help and I came in here. am just going to be last. I'm not
:17:16. > :17:22.going to have that medal support that I actually need. I'm going to
:17:22. > :17:26.have nobody to fill my mind with love. I'm just going to have the
:17:26. > :17:32.devil on my back and I can't face going back into that situation
:17:32. > :17:36.again. May. A rainy day in Lincoln. Sam and the UK Uncut protestors
:17:36. > :17:46.from Nottingham are on a day trip gathering new supporters. This time
:17:46. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :17:58.they're dressed as bankers. first time I came across this, but
:17:58. > :18:02.it is very worthwhile. Hopefully some people will listen and
:18:02. > :18:05.sampling will change. Once more, it is a peaceful march around the city.
:18:05. > :18:12.The police keep a watchful eye, but not everyone is happy with the
:18:12. > :18:22.demonstrations. They are wasting taxpayers' money and wasting police
:18:22. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:33.time as well. If they pay taxes, they were have an argument. Idiots.
:18:33. > :18:37.They are all students. I can tell. It's a week later, on a sunny
:18:37. > :18:44.Saturday morning in Loughborough. Jago Pearson is up early for a
:18:44. > :18:48.student. He's off to London to a demonstration in favour of cuts.
:18:48. > :18:51.It's organised by the Taxpayers Alliance. There are people here who
:18:51. > :18:55.believe the cuts don't go far enough What they want are deeper
:18:55. > :18:59.cuts to public services to get the economy back on track. We are not
:18:59. > :19:06.going to start paying us back until five years time. The interest
:19:06. > :19:11.payment is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. They want deeper
:19:12. > :19:16.cuts to public services to get the economy back on track. It is time
:19:16. > :19:26.for us to get real. Let's face up to the truth, our public finances
:19:26. > :19:27.
:19:27. > :19:30.are in a total shambles. Britain is skint. I am state educated. We have
:19:30. > :19:35.got to accept that everybody is going to get ahead in different
:19:35. > :19:40.ways by cuts that are happening or further cuts that we are calling
:19:40. > :19:44.for. The fact is, we cannot let our vested interests get in the way of
:19:44. > :19:50.what is good for the country and for our grandchildren in 50 or 60
:19:50. > :19:53.years time. June. Nottingham and around the country. The teachers
:19:53. > :20:02.are on strike over pensions and UK Uncut are supporting them on a
:20:02. > :20:06.march. This is another example of the mess and the bankers have left
:20:06. > :20:15.us in and the government are expecting a tax payer to fit the
:20:15. > :20:18.bill. -- the taxpayer to foot the bill. But a decision has been taken
:20:18. > :20:21.to save money on the public sector pension bill. And for people like
:20:21. > :20:24.Jago Pearson, that's the right thing to do. There are people out
:20:25. > :20:28.there who believe the cuts are right and that we could go further.
:20:28. > :20:34.Take away the bureaucracy and the European Union. We spend billions
:20:34. > :20:39.of pounds on the European Union and it is just about time that spot --
:20:39. > :20:48.stops. August .Riots in London. Disturbances and arrests in
:20:48. > :20:52.Nottingham too. It is worrying that people are getting to that point
:20:52. > :20:56.and those sorts of behaviours have been displayed. September sunshine
:20:56. > :21:00.in Nottingham. This time UK Uncut are only targeting one shop -
:21:00. > :21:03.Vodafone. The shutters are already down when they get there. People
:21:03. > :21:09.walk by. This time there is no police presence. It's all over very
:21:09. > :21:18.quickly. Another filming session for those not normally heard from
:21:19. > :21:23.and they have a lot to say... lost my job because of the funding
:21:23. > :21:29.cuts and I have been looking for work for six months. I feel
:21:29. > :21:36.unsettled in myself. I feel like I don't belong anywhere. Is that
:21:37. > :21:39.anything to do with this play's closing down? You yeah. While that
:21:39. > :21:47.there are justices and on equalities taking place on that
:21:47. > :21:49.scale, I will take action wherever I can get to it. Westminster Bridge,
:21:49. > :21:54.last Sunday. UK Uncut from Nottingham join with protestors
:21:54. > :22:01.from around the country to demonstrate against the NHS Bill.
:22:01. > :22:04.It's a sign that it's a movement which is not going away.
:22:04. > :22:07.And now a surprising story of mystery and intrigue that's got one
:22:07. > :22:10.of our most famous fashion designers puzzled. For 20 years now,
:22:10. > :22:16.Nottingham designer Paul Smith has been getting gifts from a mystery
:22:16. > :22:19.sender. Tonight, we're showcasing the work of a new Nottingham
:22:19. > :22:29.director, Ben Wigley, who made this film about Mr Smith's rather
:22:29. > :22:47.
:22:48. > :22:51.special deliveries... I think it was the early 80s. I was
:22:51. > :22:58.on a train going to Nottingham and daydreaming and looking out the
:22:58. > :23:02.window. I was with an American guy. He said what are you looking for? I
:23:02. > :23:11.said if I see a rabbit, it is good. For my next fashion show and it
:23:11. > :23:16.will be successful and later, this papier-mache rabbit arrived. Now we
:23:16. > :23:26.get dozens and dozens of rabbits arrive constantly. I have to be
:23:26. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:37.careful what I say. The amazing thing about the things
:23:37. > :23:42.that were sent is that they are completely random. There is no
:23:42. > :23:50.message, here they come from. The absolute key point is that they
:23:50. > :23:56.never, ever are in a box. They always come as objects with stamps
:23:56. > :24:06.on them and the address written actually on the item. What amazes
:24:06. > :24:11.
:24:12. > :24:15.everybody, including me, is how they ever get here. Whoever is
:24:15. > :24:20.sending them really thinks carefully about the colour of the
:24:20. > :24:25.stamps. They might be water related, like a surfboard, and then the
:24:25. > :24:31.stamps will be all surf related. Sometimes I am tempted to use the
:24:31. > :24:34.things. A sledge arrived and I thought I could use it. They like
:24:34. > :24:40.but it is a shame to spoil it because it has the stands and
:24:40. > :24:46.everything on it. These are some of the latest objects to arrive. A
:24:46. > :24:55.bird box, which happens to be a galleon as well. These rather nice
:24:55. > :25:03.stamps. These are water skis but it is not a pair, just two different
:25:03. > :25:11.ones. The joy of these things is that they are not a special design,
:25:11. > :25:16.they are just things. For many years I have been just collecting
:25:16. > :25:19.things that inspire me in some way or another. Then, when I had my
:25:19. > :25:26.first little shop which was literally three metres square,
:25:26. > :25:32.which was tiny with no windows, the objects became a really nice thing
:25:32. > :25:38.for when people came in. They were quite shy and suddenly, they were
:25:38. > :25:44.confronted with me, the manager and owner. The fact that I could go,
:25:44. > :25:49.have you seen this, it's so scary, or something, it was a real ice-
:25:49. > :25:59.breaker. The objects were a useful tool for me to make people feel
:25:59. > :26:08.
:26:08. > :26:16.more comfortable and more relaxed. This is a joyous thing ransom the
:26:16. > :26:20.semi- last week, which is my room, in every detail. It is amazing.
:26:20. > :26:26.They have got the bicycle, but television, the bunny rabbit over
:26:26. > :26:29.there. This came from Poland. It is at very nice letter, which I'm not
:26:29. > :26:38.showing you, which is too embarrassing, but it is nice
:26:38. > :26:43.things! I have had a reputation for being interested in toys, object,
:26:43. > :26:49.beautiful things. What I'd do is the things I collect, I actually
:26:49. > :26:52.using might work, abstracting it. You start with one thing, then it
:26:52. > :26:58.goes in another. If you look through my old notebooks it says
:26:58. > :27:03.things like butterfly wings. To me that means something. Butterfly
:27:03. > :27:11.wings would mean iridescent colours, the way you put to deluge --
:27:11. > :27:16.colours together. It could end up being a piece of knitwear or
:27:16. > :27:26.something. It is just using Your eyes and your imagination to
:27:26. > :27:31.develop ideas. What is so amazing about this is that it is a
:27:31. > :27:41.completely unsung hero. It is someone who is massively creative
:27:41. > :27:51.but nobody knows about it. The object, taking on this iconic,
:27:51. > :27:54.
:27:54. > :28:04.artistic presence, even though there are still a traffic cone. It
:28:04. > :28:04.
:28:04. > :28:14.is more art than masses of the art that is out there. I am not really
:28:14. > :28:14.
:28:14. > :28:24.sure what it is, to be honest! But somebody knows. It is just a joy to
:28:24. > :28:26.have mystery.. Goodness for that. - - thank goodness for that.
:28:26. > :28:30.The surreal world of Paul Smith. And thanks to independent director
:28:30. > :28:32.Ben Wigley, who made that film. That's it from us for now. We'll
:28:32. > :28:35.see you at the same time next Monday.