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Tonight the parties claim they are polls apart on economic policy, how

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different are they really. Ahead of the autumn statement, we

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discover the differences between Labour and the Government come down

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to one third of 1%. Neither Osbourne or Ed Balls will ever

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quantify, there are never figures because the bubble will burst and

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we will see how close their plans are. We will ask economists and

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entrepeneurs on the right and left if the politicians are thinking

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radically enough. As Tahrir Square becomes the focus again of mass

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demonstrations, we will look at the divisions opening up in Egypt's

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opposition. An award-winning journalist tells us of her

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sustained assault by police in Cairo. And who done it, with

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parking rage on the south downs, we put Steve Smith on the case. The

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big question in UK politics right now is how to achieve growth. Next

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week's autumn statement may be under wraps, but the leader of the

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opposition has called it the moment when it is proved the Government's

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economic gamble has failed. Strong words, we decided it was time to

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look at the differences between the parties on economic policy. The

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results, as you might have guessed is mathematically waver thin, it is

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about one third of one per cent of Gross Domestic Product.

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We will hear radical thoughts from business and outside the sphere,

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first, David Grossman. The way the politicians charge around you would

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think they were contesting the whole pitch. Kicking the economic

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football from end-to-end. Making for exciting, almost

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exhilarating viewing. This week, again in the Commons, the party

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leaders clashed over their supposedly, vastly differing,

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economic plans. He was warned that his strategy of cutting too far and

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too fast, wouldn't create jobs, he was warned it wouldn't create

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growth, and he was warned he would find it harder to get the deficit

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down. Isn't that exactly what has happened. Is there a single other

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mainstream party anywhere in Europe, who thinks the answer to the debt

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problem is more spending and more borrowing? If he's worried, if he's

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worried about the level of debt, why is he proposing to add another

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�100 billion to it. It is the height of irresponsibility. The

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reason why people will never trust Labour with the economy again.

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However, at a macro-economic level, the area of dispute is very, very

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small. In the current financial year the coalition Government is

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planning to implement a fiscal tightening, tax increases and

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spending cuts, amounting to �24 billion taken out of the economy.

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The Labour's Government -- Labour Government's previous plan was

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cutting spending and tax is �19 billion, it is only a difference of

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�5 billion. The UK economy is �1,600 trillion, the disputed

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territory between the parties is �5 billion, less than a third of one

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per cent. In football terms, it is like both teams are kicking each

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other to pieces on a patch of ground four yards square. No wonder

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it is hard to watch, Labour suggesting cutting spending by an

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extra �5 billion will kill the economy stone dead. The coalition,

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borrowing �5 billion more will raise bond rates by Monday morning.

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You often hear about Freud's narcissism in politics.

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language between Labour and Tories couldn't be more different.

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Osbourne talks about austerity and the need for cuts, Ed Balls says it

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is wild and crazy, harsh and deep. When you compare their plans,

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Alistair Darling would have cut departmental spending by 2.2% a

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year, what is Osbourne doing? 3% a year. Are we supposed to believe

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there is a huge big difference between those two figures? Of

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course not. You will notice neither Osbourne or Balls will ever actual

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lie quantify, you never hear figures dropped in their rhetoric,

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because the bubble will burst and we will all see how close their

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plans are. Instead of a big battle over big numbers, you have

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skirmishes over who has the best collections of schemes, funds and

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plans to create growth. Today we saw the Deputy Prime

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Minister unveiling what the coalition calls its �1 billion

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youth contract, which, you understand, is vastly different

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from Labour's future jobs fund, which the coalition cut.

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Next Tuesday, the Chancellor will deliver his Pre-Budget Report. Many

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are predicting lots more new funds, plans and schemes adding up to,

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well, let's weight and see. The biggest story on Tuesday is likely

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to be after the Chancellor has sat down, when the Office for Budget

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Responsibility will give us its latest growth forecast. They will

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say the growth prospects have pretty much evaporated, and we

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should be settling down to a period of low growth and high debt, cheap

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debt, but you can't spend your way out of a debt crisis. That is what

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David Cameron is saying, but that is exactly what they are doing. Has

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gone up by 51% in the parliament. What would Labour have done? It

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would have gone up by 60%. Those figures are not different, George

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Osborne is still stuck in the groove settle by Gordon Brown. As

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he accurately said before the last election, that is a road to nowhere.

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The battle between the parties is always intense, sometimes angry,

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sometimes hitting the shins rather than the balls. They don't argue

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much on raw number, which in the grand scheme of things are only a

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few blades of grass apart. Joining me now, with their ideas

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for growth, Allister Heath, the editor of City AM, James Meadway a

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senior economics from the New Economics Foundation, and Julie

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Meyer the chief executive of investment group, Mariinsky capital.

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If those differences are well so small, what kind of radical plans

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would properly kick start the economy from your perspective?

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needs fresh thinking, big stuff to really kickstart the economy, the

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economy is asleep and needs awakening, the private sector.

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Infrastructure spending, it is not enough to spend �2 billion, you

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need tense of billions of investments all over the world.

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Housing, let's build a new city and town. Who is doing the building?

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The private sector, crucially. This has to be about bringing in private

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sector finance. There is a lot of money around in the world economy,

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sovereign wealth funds, in the Middle East and so on, this needs

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to be attracted. They are not spending, that was the ideal

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scenario for the Government. To get the private sector to do all the

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spending and the building, they are not? That was the theory, they have

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done nothing about t they have not changed the regulation or red tape.

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They have not created schemes to attract global Government. The huge

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pension funds have hundreds of billions to invest, they need to be

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brought in. You say you change red tape and suddenly everyone starts

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investing in building? I say yes, you do that and incentivise them to

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come, they will come, build and create jobs. I have to disagree

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pretty much entirely t hopelessly mischaracterises the type of

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recession we are in, that is a recession of demand. A collapsing

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demand from consumers and households, and particularly from

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private investment, which has shrunk by �40 billion or more since

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the recession started. It is now added to by the attempt by

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Government to shrink its own spending in the economy. You need

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to do the reverse. The alternative would be to simply reverse thaefrg

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this coalition Government is now doing, when -- everything that this

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coalition Government is now doing. In a recession, you don't decrease

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but increase Government spending, you get out there and lead

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businesses by the road and you get out there and create the economy

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you want to live in. You end up like a south European

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basket case? No you don't, you have to target the spending you want.

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You think about the kind of economy you want to create, you want green

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jobs and sustainable employment, you go out and make those things

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happening. That is all done by Government debt, by borrowing more?

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It can be done by borrowing, mobilising the resources of the

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nationalised banks we do have, the Royal Bank of Scotland could be

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used, it is on a fairly sound capital basis, it could be used.

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You could turn the Green Investment Bank into something that can be

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used. And the bond markets going through the roof that is not a

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worry? The signal from the market is there is chaos and bedlem

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everywhere else, and Britain looks like a safe haven. In comparison to

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those on the verge of bankruptcy, or bankrupt? Perhaps if you are in

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southern Europe, but Britain is a big, stable economy. It has a

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significant public debt at the moment, it is not historically

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especially significant, or internationally especially

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significant. The problem son the growth side, not on the debt side.

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You are trying to practically create a business on this economy

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we are on, where there is virtually no growth? We support another 20 or

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so businesses. I believe that society needs to be organised

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around the entrepeneur, there is not one type of business, you have

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established businesses, mature, then young, fast-growing SMEs, the

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innovation agency has proven repeatedly 6% of all UK businesses

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create 54% of all the new jobs. 6% are considered high-growth. Small

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business, fast-growing business, is not a niche activity, it is

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economic policy. We should give a hole bay on PAYE, national

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insurance, to those SMEs and watch them take off. International

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multinationals, Google, should pay more tax, they make an enormous

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amount of money in this country and don't contribute to tax. That

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sounds rational an enormous company like Google to pay more tax?

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way is to get people to come to the UK, and make it a centre of

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investment. We need to incentivise comes to come here. I don't agree f

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we did your policies there would be an immediate debt crisis with huge

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problems for the UK economy. We need to cut back on public spending,

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reduce the side of the state, and unleash the private sector. Look at

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southern Europe, you attack public spending and make the debt crisis

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worse, that mechanism is kicking in this country. The only difference

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in this country we have sterling and a lot of QE going on, that is

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why the debt markets are OK. There is no difference? We have our own

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currency, otherwise our own debt position is very bad, including

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private sector debt, way too high. One way to cut public services is

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to create a radically transparent public services in Government.

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Every expense, every salary that the Government or any public

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service that was put on-line, and shining a spotlight on things like

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that would create a natural shrinkage. Whenever you put

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scrutiny on something, nobody spends. You are not going to save

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that much money by putting stuff on-line? People do not spend other

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people's money. Private sector pay at the moment,

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the figures out from ONS this week, this is tax money we are missing

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out on by not chasing up in the private sector pay. You saw the

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report there, do you think Labour is being radical enough?

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remotely. The difference between the two parties, as the report said,

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is essentially wafer thin at this point in time. It would be better

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to have a Labour Government or a Labour Party that came out with the

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kind of stuff that Ed Balls is at least hinting at last year, saying

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we need to be radical about this, understand the macro-economics of

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the situation, rather than flapping about chasing after international

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corporations and trying to tweak tax regimes here and there. I say

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the same for the current coalition and the opposition, they are not

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doing enough, they need to be more radical. You want more green things,

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I want fewer green laws. It has gone too far, all this carbon

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reduction stuff has gone too far, this is a boom time policy when we

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were rich and thought better things were to come. We are still rich.

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Some people in this country are very definitely getting richer.

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What would you do with taxes, what would you do there? Abolish the 50p

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tax rate, that won't bring in any money. I would do exactly what

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Julie was saying, I would do national insurance holiday for

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smaller firms, cut national insurance contributions,

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incentivise them to hire. What about minimum wage? I would

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regionalise it, make it different in different regions so supply and

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demand could be balanced out. People are frozen out of the Labour

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market because companies are worried to hire. Absolutely, I

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think let's get a lot of tax from the very wealthy, you don't do that

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by increasing the percentage, you drop it and get the absolute amount

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of tax revenue high. Most people realise if you drop the 50p to 40p,

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the overall tax revenue would go up. These people should pay. There is

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no reason why they shouldn't. It is a symbolic gesture. It may be

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against every philosophical bone in your body, practically it could be

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the right way to do it? Global the evidence is there to sustain the

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idea T has been discredited since the 1980. There are dozens of

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surveys. The marginal cuts we were talking about, that this will

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release entrepeneurship and people will come running back. You can

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change your country and nationality, if you don't believe that people

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who create wealth can change our citizenship n two weeks, with the

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good law, you are not living in the same world as I. There was a survey

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out this morning saying the tax rate has made no difference to the

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highend manager. The constraints the Government works in, none of

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these ideas are something you could take to the electorate? A lot of

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ideas can be taken to the electorate. We need more airports

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in this country, we need to build them quickly. What about your ideas

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for employee rights? I think the Government is doing some of the

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right things there. I'm more concerned about the unemployed

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getting opportunities and getting back into the work force, that is

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where we need to change things. Last word, I think if we start

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chasing after supply side solutions we are chasing entirely the wrong

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direction, this is increasing spending, and doing tin tell gently

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to build the kind of economy you want, a green, sustainable economy

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for the future. Tens of thousands of protestors

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have packed into central Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand Egypt's

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military rulers step aside. They want the postponement of elections

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due to start on Monday. Divisions are starting to open up between the

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opposition groups. While some protestors want military rule to

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end before parliamentary elections are held. Others, including the

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influential Muslim Brotherhood, want the polls to go ahead as

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planned. Days start bleery on Tahrir Square,

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a springboard for revolution. For some it has also become a kind of

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home. They camped out for three weeks until President Mubarak fell

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in February, now they say they are camping out again until the

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country's new military leaders follow him into retirement. The

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generals who rule Egypt have made a substantial concession to the

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people here on the square. They have said that they will be out of

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power, completely, by the middle of next year. The trouble is, no-one

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here believes the generals any more. In this shelter there is a cross

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section of Egypt. Appropriately, this man, a hotel manager, is

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trying to make things kosy. Then there is Doha, the flower seller,

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the political analyst, and Mohammed, a leather tanner, Ahmed the waiter,

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and Ashraf the international lawyer. What haven't you got? We haven't

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got to change the system. It is the same system committing more crimes

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than Mubarak. We have prisoners in front of a military court. Mubarak

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didn't have all those prisoners, all through the 30 years.

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The main slogan now, "the people demand the fall of the marshall",

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Field Marshal Tantawi, who finally announced this week that

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presidential elections will be held by next June. It was previously

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implied it might take until April 2013. This retired general says the

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Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, never intended to hang on to power,

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it is just bad at communication. 1th of July, for sure, I can assure

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you, under any circumstance you won't see them any more. How bad

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has the last week been for the army's reputation? Very bad. First

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of all they were taking positions a bit late than the right time to do

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it. Not pensioning the road map, which I think is really a corner

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stone, people were waiting for that and they didn't mention it, where

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and how, they didn't mention. People were waiting it for a long

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time. These people blame the army, not just for setting out a

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timetable for democracy, but also the shooting of 30 protestors this

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week and the beating and teargassing of many more.

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TRANSLATION: We want a national salvation Government with wide

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powers. We want the release of prisoners and swift trials of those

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responsible for the violence, from the lowest to the highest official

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involved. We want an independent fact-finding committee to

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investigate what happened. He's from a fundamental Salafi party.

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It wants strict implementation of Sharia Law. But those from the

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Muslim Brotherhood aren't here en mass. Their leaders have accepted

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the army's timetable, in what many here see as a betrayal.

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brotherhood are going to lose substantial numbers of seats in

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parliament. People who were expecting to vote for them, are not

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going to vote any more. Because they got betrayed at Tahrir Square.

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They didn't support them, so they won't support them at the

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parliament. Tonight I found one Brotherhood candidate, out

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campaigning for parliamentary elections due to start on Monday.

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Why wasn't he on the square today? We had a very good signs and

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information that some of the powers and forces that are against the

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revolution are trying to cause some sort of chaos in the square, making

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use of current events, in order to post fon pon the elections.

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postpone the elections. That is why as the freedom and justice party we

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decided not to join in big masses. Hasn't the army succeeded in

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dividing the opposition? I don't think they did, we believe it is a

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short-term misunderstanding. We are willing to take this on our

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shoulders, because we care more about the overall interests of the

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country. The main thing is to have the elections going on. To have the

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process completed, then we can move safely and peacefully into

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democracy. Here, away from the square, there is still anger at the

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military, but many now want to move on. It is the long-term social and

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economic future of Egypt that worries them most.

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What future will they choose? We will begin to discover next week,

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when they hope they will be able to battle at the ballot box, not just

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on Tahrir Square. Joining me now, the prominent

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Egyptian journalist, who was assaulted by police, after she was

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arrested on Wednesday. Thank you for joining us. I can see your arms

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are pretty heavily bandaged there. Talk us through what happened?

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Wednesday night I went out on to the frontline, between protestors

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and the security forces on Mohamed Mahmoud Street. Riot police came

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over on to our side of the barrier. The people around me managed to get

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away. The riot police cornered me and beat me viciously with their

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sticks, my arm and hand was broken. They sexually assaulted me as they

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took me to the Interior Ministry, I had hands all over my body it was

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awful. I was detained by the Ministry of Interior for five hours,

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then military intelligence for another five to six hours. And

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finally released with my hand, I said get me a doctor because I'm

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really suffering. No medical aid, I was released after 10-12 hours.

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Your's wasn't a specific case, how widespread do you think this was?

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My case is by no means unique. A spokesperson from the Ministry of

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Interior today tried to suggest this was an isolated incident. By

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no means. What happened to me is just the tip of the iceberg of

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police brutality in this country. The reason we started the

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revolution on police day was to protest police brutally, nine

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months later it continues. As you heard in the news report, almost 40

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people were killed in the past week. Hundreds, thousands have been

:22:19.:22:24.

injured. Police brutality continues, and now accompanying it is army

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brutality. When this Egyptian general admitted that virginity

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checks are being carried out on women. What was the justification

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for that? The sexual violence, the sexual violence I encountered is

:22:38.:22:42.

not unique to the security forces, eventhough the army who had me for

:22:42.:22:47.

five hours apologised for what happened with the police. The army

:22:47.:22:51.

staff sexually assaulted women when they had activists in custody, and

:22:51.:22:55.

subjected them to these horrendous sexual assaults. At first they

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denied at the happened and called the women liars. Finally when they

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conceded they subjected them to the awful assaults, they said these

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were not girls like your daughters and mine, these were bad girls who

:23:06.:23:12.

spent the night in Tahrir Square. It is a horrendous example of

:23:12.:23:17.

patriarchy, that permeates all levels in Egypt, it is that which

:23:17.:23:20.

we launched our revolution against, it continues through Egypt. Instead

:23:20.:23:25.

of being symbolised by Mubarak, who we got rid of, it is symbolised by

:23:25.:23:30.

Tantawi and the generals. We replaced one Mubarak with 18 mubs,

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we must be free of military rule, that is why we came to the square

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today. You describe a proper breakdown between the relationships

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between people and the army. Is that repairable now? No, I believe

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it is beyond repair. It is nine months, and most of the

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revolution's demands have not been kept. People are continuously

:23:57.:24:00.

losing trust in the supreme Military Council. The supreme

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Military Council made a whole bunch of promises they haven't kept. We

:24:03.:24:07.

recognise that it is not the army and the people that are one hand.

:24:07.:24:10.

They broke my hand. It is the people and the people on the one

:24:10.:24:13.

hand and the police and military together against the people. When I

:24:13.:24:17.

was in custody, I asked one of the military men, why are you at war

:24:17.:24:20.

with the Egyptian people. This is how we feel in Egypt they are at

:24:20.:24:24.

war with us. We will not let them hijack our revolution. For many

:24:24.:24:28.

people watching it, it is almost incomprehensible, that something

:24:28.:24:31.

they thought had the start of a really positive new beginning, with

:24:31.:24:35.

the end of Mubarak's rule and all the rest of it. What really went

:24:35.:24:40.

wrong with that first stage of the revolution, do you think? I believe

:24:40.:24:44.

what went wrong is the military took over. Egypt should never have

:24:44.:24:48.

been under military rule. One of the main demands of the revolution

:24:48.:24:52.

is Egypt falls under civilian rule. The military portrayed itself as

:24:52.:24:55.

the guardians of the revolution, some people wanted to believe that

:24:55.:25:00.

was the case. But from the very beginning, these virginity tests

:25:00.:25:03.

you mentioned, they happened in March. A little over a month after

:25:03.:25:07.

Mubarak was forced to step down. So many of us from the very beginning

:25:07.:25:10.

had very little trust in the military. Some Egyptians wanted to

:25:10.:25:18.

trust them, but that trust has definitely been whittled away at.

:25:18.:25:23.

Thank God so many people came to the square they see the military

:25:23.:25:28.

needs to step aside. 1234 Here is a little tale of

:25:28.:25:31.

frustration from "middle England". Vandals armed with explosives have

:25:31.:25:34.

embarked upon a dangerous campaign of blowing up parking metres in

:25:34.:25:40.

Lewes on the Sotuh Downs. It is the second time the wave of metre-rage

:25:40.:25:45.

has hit the historic market town. Officials are offering a reward of

:25:45.:25:50.

�250 to anyone who can help stop the pavement anarchy. They have

:25:50.:26:00.
:26:00.:26:09.

been down to East Sussex to work You know what they say, it is

:26:09.:26:16.

always the quiet ones. Lewes is a charming little town, but also

:26:17.:26:20.

distinctly characterful, as the estate agents put it. Someone has

:26:20.:26:23.

been going around blowing up the pay-and-display machines, 14 of

:26:23.:26:28.

them in the past few weeks alone. And the cops, not to put a fine a

:26:28.:26:35.

point on it, are baffled. Have you been able to build up a

:26:35.:26:38.

psychological profile of this individual or group? We haven't

:26:38.:26:42.

gone that far, I would suggest they don't like the parking system.

:26:42.:26:46.

could be a sign. Have you even come up with a nickname for this person

:26:46.:26:50.

yet? We haven't gone to that much trouble yet, I'm afraid, I don't

:26:50.:26:54.

think we are likely to. If our viewers think of one, you are not

:26:54.:26:58.

interested? By all means if they want to think of one, I'm sure they

:26:58.:27:03.

can think of a few. Something about this case got the

:27:03.:27:08.

old juices going. We spent the afternoon gum-shoeing

:27:08.:27:13.

around Lewes, and searching for clues. Did someone want to stop us

:27:13.:27:18.

finding out the truth? Impossible to tell.

:27:18.:27:22.

All I know is someone has been blowing up these babies with

:27:22.:27:27.

fireworks. They call them rook- scarers down here. The damage has

:27:27.:27:31.

cost �30,000 and counting. And no- one has seen a thing, not even the

:27:31.:27:36.

CCTV. So many machines have been tampered

:27:36.:27:40.

with, there were fears of a shortage of metres. Maybe of panic

:27:40.:27:45.

parking, people queuing up and rationing introduced. So far it

:27:45.:27:50.

hasn't come to that. In fact, some say the attack on the parking

:27:50.:27:55.

machines doesn't come as a surprise to them. Lewes is maybe a

:27:55.:28:00.

particular place people may be rebelling against such things.

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haven't necessary got sympathy women this, no-one thinks this is

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right. But I can understand why a lot of people, and there is a lot

:28:07.:28:13.

of people in Lewes, if you were to introview them, that are very

:28:13.:28:16.

against -- introduce them, that are very against the parking

:28:16.:28:20.

restrictions we have here. They make a big deal out of

:28:20.:28:25.

fireworks night in Lewes, with extraordinary, some say macarbre

:28:25.:28:30.

effigies. The place even produced the crazy world of Arthur Brown,

:28:30.:28:35.

who had a hit with a song. This is a town with gun powder in its blood.

:28:35.:28:41.

Lewes and fireworks go together, and have done, for many years. In

:28:41.:28:45.

this town it could be anybody in possession of fireworks. What has

:28:45.:28:49.

happened in Lewes is something nobody can condone. It is a

:28:49.:28:52.

combination of the skill and the will to do something, to destroy

:28:52.:28:57.

parking metres in the way they have been. We have a very, very strong

:28:57.:29:01.

bonfire tradition, there are a unusually high number of people in

:29:01.:29:06.

our town who have a lot of skills with blowing things up. It is a

:29:06.:29:11.

town full of pyromaniacs, is that what you are telling me? It is not,

:29:11.:29:21.
:29:21.:29:22.

it is far more complicated than that.

:29:22.:29:28.

Tonight the police remain on the trail of the firework enthusiast

:29:28.:29:33.

putting the pay into pay-and- display.

:29:33.:29:43.
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Now the front pages of tomorrow's That's all tonight. In a moment the

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review show will look at a new film about Marilyn Monroe, and a long

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lost novel by Jack Kerouac. Before we go, George Michael has had to

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postpone the rest of his concert tour after catching severe

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