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Tonight, commuters could soon be hammered by train fare rises | 0:00:03 | 0:00:08 | |
averageing more than 6% in England, 4% in Scotland and 11% on some | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
routes, but will they actually happen? The Government found money | 0:00:11 | 0:00:16 | |
to keep fares down, could another change of mind be coming down the | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
line? You may love your morning rail commute you don't mind paying | 0:00:20 | 0:00:25 | |
more. But possibly, you feel slightly different. Also tonight: | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
Connect with the bank that's been connecting Asia, Africa and the | 0:00:29 | 0:00:34 | |
Middle East... One of Britain's biggest banks pays a record fine | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
for breaking an American banking embargo to Iran. Why did they | 0:00:38 | 0:00:48 | |
settle? You got a job but they won't guarantee you any work or pay, | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
welcome to Zero Hours culture. understand that, there's not a lot | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
of work out there, but it is not fair because we need to know where | 0:00:56 | 0:01:01 | |
we stand. Because, how are we supposed to pay our bills. Mitt | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
Romney's running mate for the US presidency is a man with a plan. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:13 | |
What opponents suggest is a little extreme. Paul Mason explores the | 0:01:13 | 0:01:20 | |
austere world of Ryanomics. We speak to a man about his chances. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:26 | |
Cosmopolitan, page 114. Sex and the Single Girl, Cosmo founding editor, | 0:01:26 | 0:01:36 | |
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Good evening, two weeks ago the governor of the Bank of England, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
Mervyn King predicted inflation would fall for the rest of the year. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:50 | |
Today it went up, the CPI to.6%, the retail price index to 4.2%. If | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
you are a rail commuter the news is particularly bad because this | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
month's figures are the basis for fare increaseness January. They | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
will now be over 6% on average in England and over 11% on some routes. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
So, should the Government step in as they did last year? Is something | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
more radical required? Perhaps a return to a publicly owned British | 0:02:11 | 0:02:21 | |
Rail, as a strategic resource? David grossman sets the scene for | 0:02:21 | 0:02:25 | |
us. Even when the sun is shining the slog to work is not much fun | 0:02:25 | 0:02:35 | |
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and it costs. We already pay some of the highest rail fares in Europe. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:45 | |
Up a fifth in real terms since 1995. And the pain is going to get worse. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
When the coalition came to power they decided we need today reorder | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
the balance of who pays for our railways from a situation where | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
roughly 50% of the cost were met by pass injuries and the other half by | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
the taxpayer, to one where the passengers pays 75% of the costs. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
Those rail passengers, tempt today rail against the rail companies, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
will be better directing their anger towards two factors. One is | 0:03:08 | 0:03:16 | |
high inflation and the other, is a conscience Government policy. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:23 | |
fares are playing an important role in funding a massive fund of | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
improvements right across the country. The Government is | 0:03:25 | 0:03:31 | |
committed to spending 18 billion to improve the railways for passengers, | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
but we need to ask passengers for a contribution for that. The last | 0:03:37 | 0:03:42 | |
Government's policy was that rail fares rise by the retail price | 0:03:42 | 0:03:47 | |
index plus 1%. When the coalition came in, they said the figure | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
should be RPI plus 3% from 201. Last year the Government backed | 0:03:51 | 0:03:57 | |
down for one year at least, limiting the rise of RPI to 1% | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
instead. If the fares rise in the way the Government's talking about, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:08 | |
3% above in inflation, inflation is 3.2%, that's 6.2%, plus flexibility | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
that allows operators to increase it by more. We think that's going | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
to be too much when the economy is flatlining, and households are | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
already facing higher housing and other costs. We think that the | 0:04:20 | 0:04:28 | |
Government needs to rethink these fares' rises. And actually, reduce | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
them significantly. Some commuters already report being near breaking | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
point. I think it is the if the rail fares increase, it will be a | 0:04:36 | 0:04:41 | |
decision to come down to work here or not. As stark a choice as that? | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
Yes, when you're looking how much increase that they put on year on | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
year, it doesn't match the salary increases we get. You may have to | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
rethink what you do for a living? Exactly that. That's of course if | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
the Government doesn't back down first. Like they did last year over | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
rail fares and the pasty tax charities tax and fuel duty rises. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
There's pressure within the coalition for them to do so. The | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
Liberal Democrats went into the last general election promising to | 0:05:10 | 0:05:19 | |
raise rail fares by no more than RPI, minus 1%. The Liberal | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
Democrats set the Government, which they are part should be pressing | 0:05:22 | 0:05:28 | |
the rail industry to make the efficiency savings, recommended by | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
the Mcnulty review, savings that could add up to �1 billion. George | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
Osborne could step in and use the money from Mcnulty and reduce the | 0:05:37 | 0:05:42 | |
rate of increase of rail fares. Ideally they would go up by less | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
than inflation. I hope he can do that. We persuaded him last year, I | 0:05:47 | 0:05:53 | |
hope we will do this this year, we have to take a stance, otherwise | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
rail fares will be continue to above inflation, and lots of people | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
will be unable to afford to travel by rail. The Liberal Democrats have | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
half an eye on the marginal seats. Commuter towns are important to all | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
the parties. And the commuters don't like fare rises but if they | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
don't have to stump up the extra cash, well it has to come from | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
taxpayers, who don't like paying more taxes either. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:22 | |
But is there another way? Government keeps talking about | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
there's only two source of funding, actually we think if you look at | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
other countries, and even at experience in this country, there | 0:06:29 | 0:06:34 | |
are other sources of funding for the railway. The railway gets 10% | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
of income from developments stations, retail, shopping and that | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
kind of thing. We think there are other opportunities for adding | 0:06:41 | 0:06:46 | |
development around railway stations, and using that money to invest in | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
new capacity in the railways to make stations better. Many | 0:06:50 | 0:06:56 | |
passengers, are already fed up. The fare rises in England won't come in | 0:06:56 | 0:07:02 | |
until next January. The Government has until then to decide whether to | 0:07:02 | 0:07:08 | |
intervene. We'd love to have asked the Government whether they might | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
interintervene as they did with petrol prices but no-one was ail | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
vabl. Maria Eagle is here. Should they intervene and say we shouldn't | 0:07:15 | 0:07:20 | |
do this, like the petrol prize increase, we can put it off? They | 0:07:20 | 0:07:25 | |
could and should and Labour's policy is it should be no more than | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
inflation plus 1%. They've taken the decision to plus 3% they're on | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
the side of the wrong people, instead of siding up for commuters | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
and passengers, they've given companies the power to hike fares | 0:07:40 | 0:07:46 | |
by more, 5.% above the cap. Just as a matter of principle, do you think | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
it is right to try to reduce the public subsidy to the railways so | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
taxpayers, many who don't travel on the railways, shouldn't have to pay | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
for commuters who do travel, choose to travel and railway's popular? | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
You have to get the balance right. Passengers pay two-thirds of the | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
money going into the railways. You have to have the balance right. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
Because there is a potentially economic benefit from enenabling | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
people to get to work, to get to college and places where they need | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
to go. Why shouldn't they pay for example the whole thing? They pay | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
two-thirds. And you can't have it turning into a complete rich man's | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
toy, so nobody can afford to go on the railways at all. You have to | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
get the balance right. This Government has not got the balance | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
right. They're too interested in enenabling the train companies | 0:08:33 | 0:08:38 | |
making more money, to give power to raise fares by more. It is possible, | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
for them to not have these fares go up as much. We would want them to | 0:08:42 | 0:08:48 | |
do tkha. What do you say about the reports tonight that, Virgin could | 0:08:48 | 0:08:53 | |
lose the franchise are for the west dost main line? We have to wait and | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
see, what happens tomorrow, we think. But, it looks like likely | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
this bid is going to be lost by Virgin. I think the Government has | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
to ask itself, three questions. I'm concerned about passengers losing | 0:09:07 | 0:09:13 | |
outs whoever wins this. I'm not in favour of one bid or another, I've | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
not seen all the details yet. None of us have. Government should ask | 0:09:16 | 0:09:21 | |
themselves a number of questions. Is the bid realistic, the winning | 0:09:21 | 0:09:26 | |
bid realistic? We've had examples on the East Coast Main Line, where | 0:09:26 | 0:09:31 | |
companies overbid, then hand it back the keys. We've had examples | 0:09:31 | 0:09:36 | |
of companies, now involved in these bids, who have gameed the system by | 0:09:36 | 0:09:41 | |
not taking on the extra years when they ended up, they would have been | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
paying money back to the Government, thus avoiding paying money back so. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
The Government needs to make sure that passengers don't lose out | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
whatever happens. One way, of stopping it being a rich man's toy | 0:09:52 | 0:09:57 | |
would be to take it back into public ownership, either piece by | 0:09:57 | 0:10:02 | |
piece, as the franchises come up. What is wrong with that, the RMT | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
want that? You could do something now, which doesn't involve the | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
changing of the infrastructure in the industry. That is keep the fare | 0:10:09 | 0:10:14 | |
prices down and stop the private companies gaining the system. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
kofd that, but could you foresee taking the railways at least partly | 0:10:18 | 0:10:24 | |
into public ownership? In our policy review, which hasn't come to | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
conclusions yet, we're looking at getting better value for the | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
taxpayer, fare payer, and railway that doesn't waste money. It is | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
said that it would be better for the taxpayers, you wouldn't rule it | 0:10:38 | 0:10:43 | |
out? We will put a policy, about this. We need to make sure | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
passengers and taxpayers get the best value for money out of this. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
It is not ruled out yet. It is still something you're considering? | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
Our view is on going, but what I say is, today, the Secretary of | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
State could do something to help hard-pressed commuters by stopping | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
the gaming of the system, and putting passengers right. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:07 | |
strategic resource, we've shown as a nation, we can do big projects | 0:11:07 | 0:11:12 | |
and run the Million Pound Drop Celebrity Games, it woon be | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
unthinkable to bring British Rail back? We're not interested in our | 0:11:16 | 0:11:23 | |
review, in taking steps that there cost taxpayers, and passengers | 0:11:23 | 0:11:28 | |
pairs, we're looking at lessons learnt in Europe, where you can see | 0:11:28 | 0:11:32 | |
fares and costs lower. But that doesn't absolve the Government | 0:11:32 | 0:11:38 | |
taking action they could take today and now, to relieve that pressure | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
on fare-payers, and taxpayers. Thank you. Now, Britain's Standard | 0:11:42 | 0:11:48 | |
Chartered bank agreed to pay �340 million, dollars rather, to New | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
York banking regulators in a row over breaking the American banking | 0:11:52 | 0:11:58 | |
embargo in Iran. The bank accepted it involved transactions of at | 0:11:58 | 0:12:03 | |
least $250 billion and these were hidden by American regulators. What | 0:12:03 | 0:12:08 | |
is this about? You recall a week ago, we were stuned when the last | 0:12:08 | 0:12:13 | |
remaining ethical bank, supposedly, Standard Chartered were charged | 0:12:13 | 0:12:20 | |
with hiding $250 billion in cash from US regulators, they were | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
called a rogue constitution, the bank den need that today in the | 0:12:23 | 0:12:30 | |
last few hours, they have settled for 340 million. They had monitors | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
installed from the bank, from the regulator, and reputation that is | 0:12:34 | 0:12:39 | |
been damageed as a result. That's the result today. Who is the winner | 0:12:39 | 0:12:48 | |
in this, because they've voicely didn't do it, do they want it to go | 0:12:48 | 0:12:53 | |
away? Either regulator who gets 340 million dollars, they didn't have | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
the blessing of the Department of Justice in the US and other | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
regulators, so they look like their reputation is damageed not co- | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
ordinateing this, and looking for publicity and political ambitions | 0:13:03 | 0:13:11 | |
for the head of the DFS. Standard Chartered, price collapsed last | 0:13:11 | 0:13:16 | |
week, recovered since then. And then the dirty laundry, the | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
embarrassing e-mail, released from, by the regulator, where a director | 0:13:21 | 0:13:28 | |
said that, you effing Americans, who are you to tell us we can do | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
business with. That's one the reasons Standard Chartered wanted | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
to settle, they didn't want that aired and the bank is distanceing | 0:13:36 | 0:13:43 | |
themselves from the e-mail. idea of a bank having the words | 0:13:43 | 0:13:49 | |
"rather", money laundering" and banking "sincere threatened as well. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
Standard Chartered does most of the business through dollars, which has | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
to run through the American system, probably through New York, if they | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
lost the license, that's the bank finished. The monthly unemployment | 0:14:00 | 0:14:05 | |
figures are out tomorrow. In the past few months they surprised | 0:14:05 | 0:14:10 | |
economists. In the middle of hard recession, the British economy has | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
been creating jobs, but what kind. More and more of us are offered | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
what is called Zero Hours contracts, meaning you have a job, but no | 0:14:18 | 0:14:24 | |
guarantee of actually getting any work, and therefore no guarantee of | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
wages. Allegra Stratton call a flexible labour market and others | 0:14:28 | 0:14:38 | |
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Define "job". Noun, a paid position of regular employment. Look around | 0:14:47 | 0:14:52 | |
Britain today and there are two bits of that definition that should | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
give the Oxford English dictionary pause for thought. What if a job is | 0:14:56 | 0:15:02 | |
not regular and not always paid? Unemployment over the last few | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
months has not been as bad or high as many expected. That's partly | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
because of the rise of work that is not full time work. You have the | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
rise of the part-time job, the rise of self-employment and persistence | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
of something called a zero hour contract. They are exactly what | 0:15:18 | 0:15:24 | |
they say on the tin, you're in work, it is just you're not very often at | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
work. You have a minimum wage but not a minimum number of hours. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:34 | |
Britain is working, but what type of work is it? In a suburb, on | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
Monday morning, ana, not her real name is waiting to learn whether | 0:15:38 | 0:15:45 | |
she will get work today. Every day around 11.30, she's told whether | 0:15:45 | 0:15:51 | |
she's needed at 1.30 on the bagging line of a factory. We arrived at | 0:15:51 | 0:15:57 | |
the time of the text message. Is this it? Anna cannot look for other | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
work because she's supposed to be available for the picking and | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
packing job. She let us look back through the phone at the | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
correspondents with her employer. We don't detail the number of | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
shifts but it is half work, half day off. Occasionally the text | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
messages contain a few pleasantries, sometimes a smiley face, sometimes | 0:16:16 | 0:16:22 | |
a sad face. It seems in Britain today, we have employment by emote | 0:16:22 | 0:16:27 | |
come. It is shocking, what is concerning is how widespread this | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
is. We've been surprised by how many people are working under these | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
conditions. That's because the sectors, where this is common are | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
the sectors of our economy that are growing, this isn't a problem | 0:16:37 | 0:16:42 | |
that's going away. We're not talking guy norm mus numbers but in | 0:16:42 | 0:16:48 | |
the official numbers, Zero Hours contract are numerous, and 2005, | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
there are 54,000 of them, now they have tripleed. These contracts | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
should be a good thing, allowing employers flexibility to take | 0:16:56 | 0:17:02 | |
people on, even if they fear a downturn. They can hire, but on a | 0:17:02 | 0:17:09 | |
zero hour contract it doesn't take long to fire. They may not get | 0:17:09 | 0:17:13 | |
shifts in the remaining three months. For the employee, they have | 0:17:13 | 0:17:18 | |
some work if not much. While there are some using it as a valve | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
regulating the fringes, there are those using them for long-term | 0:17:22 | 0:17:27 | |
members of staff. This young man has been on a zero hour contract | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
from McDonald's for close to five years. Sometimes you'll get given | 0:17:31 | 0:17:36 | |
your shift late Sunday night or early Monday morning, you need to | 0:17:36 | 0:17:41 | |
be in mid-morning, but didn't realise that. You get a phone call, | 0:17:41 | 0:17:46 | |
saying you are meant to be in work. Some weeks you'll get more hours | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
that you can work, and some you will be looking for extra shifts | 0:17:49 | 0:17:54 | |
because you have no money. The only people who have contracted hours | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
are managers, salaried and they have to work 40 hours a week to | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
earn the salary. Fast food nation, and fast food occupation. Those | 0:18:02 | 0:18:09 | |
jobs look OK, but they don't fill up your family finances. There's no | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
law preventing zero hour contracts. You think there should be? Yeah. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
Because they're not fair or right, they're exploitative. The free | 0:18:17 | 0:18:22 | |
labour market is for the companies, it is not for us, I'm not free. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
a statement, McDonald's explained your use of zero hour contracts. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:31 | |
They said the majority of the 87,000 people employed in the UK | 0:18:31 | 0:18:38 | |
are employed on an hourly basis. Into this suits the majority of our | 0:18:38 | 0:18:43 | |
employees, McDonald's said "since they're looking for shift patterns | 0:18:43 | 0:18:48 | |
to fit flexibility for paid work around childcare and other | 0:18:48 | 0:18:53 | |
commitments" so McDonald's feel they're nurturing employment but | 0:18:53 | 0:18:59 | |
employees think Tess precarious work. Experts agree, it is open to | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
interpretation. A good zero contract makes no difference | 0:19:02 | 0:19:07 | |
between the rights and protections of the people on the zero hour | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
contracts and regular workforce. The only difference is in the hours, | 0:19:09 | 0:19:14 | |
that you actually work. And that gives us flexibility without | 0:19:14 | 0:19:20 | |
exploitation. A bad Zero Hours contract we're seeing elsewhere, is | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
people having wages forced down and fewer rights and having fewer | 0:19:24 | 0:19:29 | |
protections. And that's not just about flexibility but exploitation. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
This year, Natelie thought they had secured her dream job, her first | 0:19:33 | 0:19:37 | |
one in five years. She was kerpld to take it, but then told not to. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
There was no way they could Madge Yo-Yoing shifts with a young son. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:47 | |
Basically, I couldn't take the job. Because if I did, I would be worse | 0:19:47 | 0:19:52 | |
off, I wouldn't have got working tax credits, help with childcare, I | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
would be down �74 and still expected to pay for childcare. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
Where would I get that money. It wasn't going to happen. Not only | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
that, with Zero Hours, if I was doing a few hours one week, and | 0:20:04 | 0:20:10 | |
more the next, I would never know where I'm supposed to be, how would | 0:20:10 | 0:20:15 | |
I know where I could take my son. When you spoke to the people at the | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
jo interest and said there's no way I can take this Did they understand | 0:20:20 | 0:20:25 | |
or think you're problem? Yeah, basically it was my problem. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:30 | |
they say that? They didn't say to me, don't take the job, because | 0:20:30 | 0:20:34 | |
they're not allowed to say that, they said if you're not going to be | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
better off, which I knew, then not to take the job. And to look | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
elsewhere. Basically, start from the beginning. Parents have a tough | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
time when they need childcare, providers need you to book in in | 0:20:46 | 0:20:51 | |
advance, if you don't know how many hours you're working it is hard to | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
secure your childcare place, and you have to pay for hours you don't | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
use, because you don't need them for work. There's an hours' rules | 0:20:59 | 0:21:06 | |
related to tax credit. For single parents it is �16 a week, and | 0:21:06 | 0:21:12 | |
coupled parents, �24. If you don't know the hours, it is hard to reach | 0:21:12 | 0:21:17 | |
that rule. And finally, the other issue is you have to keep herself | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
herself informed of our changing hours, because the last thing you | 0:21:20 | 0:21:25 | |
need is a parent on a low income, to get a bill you can't afford to | 0:21:25 | 0:21:33 | |
pay back, because you've received too many tax credits from HMRC | 0:21:33 | 0:21:38 | |
because you've worked fewer hours than you thought, it is a difficult | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
balancing act. Two standards the Government set themselves, they | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
said the labour market should be competitive, but they also said it | 0:21:44 | 0:21:49 | |
should be fair. In the Autumn, we expect measures to further | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
deregulate the workforce. The challenge for the Government is to | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
wean people off benefits and make being in work pay. The problem with | 0:21:56 | 0:22:01 | |
something like a zero hour contract, is that you're in work, it is just | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
not paying. The Government is adamant they want to end the | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
complex brownite system of tax credits and benefits, but does that | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
place a responsibility on them to ensure a certain quality of job? Do | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
they in short, have to take on corporate Britain? What do you | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
think they should do about the Zero Hours? They need to get rid of them. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:26 | |
It doesn't make no sense. I thaunds, there's not a lot of work out there, | 0:22:26 | 0:22:31 | |
but, it is not fair, because we need to know where we stand. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:38 | |
Because, how are we supposed to pay your bills? Sarah Veale is head of | 0:22:39 | 0:22:45 | |
employment rights at the TUC and Nadhim Zahawi on the business and | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
select committee. Do you see there's a problem here, sts | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
stressful for the young woman, she wants to better herself and finds | 0:22:54 | 0:22:59 | |
it difficult? We heard in your piece, a good Zero Hours contract | 0:22:59 | 0:23:05 | |
can work for people who want that flexible, whether study or look for | 0:23:05 | 0:23:09 | |
permanent employment. It is not imaginative way to create a | 0:23:09 | 0:23:14 | |
nextability Labour market. We can be more imaginative. We can look at | 0:23:14 | 0:23:20 | |
Mini and mid-y jobs, if you have a mid-y jobs, 400 your yos a month, | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
you are taken out to pay any tax, it is the Grozny is the net you get | 0:23:25 | 0:23:30 | |
in the bank account and the employer pays a flat rate. Anded | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
mid-y is increasing Social Security payment on both the employer and | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
employee. You would be happy if we didn't have the zero hour contracts | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
at all, because there are other things that would be better? We can | 0:23:42 | 0:23:46 | |
be more imaginative. The growth of the contracts, they haven't set the | 0:23:46 | 0:23:51 | |
world alight. In your own report the numbers is 161,000. There are | 0:23:51 | 0:23:57 | |
more now. But my point being, is we need a flexibility labour market. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
Germany recognise that. Vince Cable didn't say that. I interviewed him | 0:23:59 | 0:24:04 | |
a month ago, he said we have a number of problems with the economy, | 0:24:04 | 0:24:12 | |
but the one which is not creating jobs is adopting flexibility in the | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
labour market? I would respect flee disagree, the American market is | 0:24:16 | 0:24:22 | |
the other extreme, you can let people go with two weeks' notice. A | 0:24:22 | 0:24:30 | |
key employee, when I was using work, a brutal employee can leave you | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
with two weeks' notice. The flexibility in the market allows | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
business toss make the decision toss employee extra people, with | 0:24:37 | 0:24:41 | |
the knowledge they can right-size back again F the strategy goes | 0:24:41 | 0:24:46 | |
wrong. Do you buy that, if you have a more flexible market, businesses | 0:24:46 | 0:24:51 | |
will take risks and that's good for snerve There's no evidence, we had | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
de-regulation of the labour market, we had one of the lightly regulate | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
markets in the world. There's no cause or link, ever established | 0:24:59 | 0:25:03 | |
between the amount of employment regulation and propencity of people | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
to take people on. There are other reasons for taking businesses | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
taking people on. There's no evidence, we've never seen serious | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
evidence, that what stops them, at that point where they're thinking | 0:25:14 | 0:25:19 | |
of taking on somebody, is the possibility they might pursue | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
unfair dismissal claim or being difficult. It doesn't seem to be | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
the issue. When you hear that the stories we heard from people in | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
that report, do you not think this is very, very difficult for them, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:36 | |
but, it may be better to have some work, than have no work and this is | 0:25:36 | 0:25:42 | |
unpleasant and horrible but better not to sit at home and not work at | 0:25:42 | 0:25:47 | |
all? Let's assume people do nothing, there's a point, the jobs are so | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
appalling they're not worth doing. The woman interviewed at the film, | 0:25:51 | 0:25:56 | |
made it clear, she advised to carry on getting serial security because | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
of her childcare issues, in her situation, working simply would not | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
pay. We must be doing something right when Spain has 25% | 0:26:04 | 0:26:08 | |
unemployment and we don't have. It may not be perfect but it is better | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
than Spain? The Spanish Labour market is different to the Spanish | 0:26:11 | 0:26:15 | |
economy is different. But, unemployment is very high in this | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
country, and the trouble is that when unemployment is that high, and | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
we've seen this in the past, employers use that as license to | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
exploit. They can get people to work on the dreadful contracts | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
because people are desperate. As the economy picks up and employment | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
starts to grow again, people will walk out of the jobs, that isn't | 0:26:31 | 0:26:35 | |
very good for the companies that use the contracts. Because they | 0:26:35 | 0:26:41 | |
won't have a predive maybe market. They want people to disappear, the | 0:26:41 | 0:26:46 | |
second anything else comes up. It is hard to believe McDonald's is | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
not worried the reputational damage this will be doing them. What would | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
you like the Government to see when the Government talks about this, in | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
the Autumn, what kind of things? heard there's no evidence. We can | 0:26:56 | 0:27:02 | |
look at Germany, when they introduceed in 2003, the Mini and | 0:27:02 | 0:27:07 | |
mid-y job concept, they created 1385 million 348 new jobs, helping | 0:27:07 | 0:27:12 | |
especially the young people, so 20, and younger, and can I finish my | 0:27:12 | 0:27:17 | |
jobs, helping those over 60, and especially female workers, the | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
evidence is overwhelming from Germany. We ought to, if nothing | 0:27:20 | 0:27:25 | |
else learn from the economy in Europe that has unemployment down | 0:27:25 | 0:27:30 | |
to over 5%. If you want to look at Germany, they have national | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
collective bargaining with trade unions, that determine the wages | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
throughout industry, regardless whether the people in the workplace | 0:27:37 | 0:27:43 | |
are in the unions, if you want we will be happy to discuss it. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
not disagreeing with you, all I'm saying is I have experience in York | 0:27:47 | 0:27:53 | |
working in Germany, what they did with the two concepts, in 2003, | 0:27:53 | 0:27:57 | |
they realised labour market was not as flexible as the UK, and they | 0:27:57 | 0:28:02 | |
were going in the Euro, they decide today create the min and mid-y jobs | 0:28:02 | 0:28:07 | |
and transformed the labour market. It is worth learning. Given the | 0:28:07 | 0:28:12 | |
Vince Cable said, you both parties can agree on this Vince Cable is | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
doing a lot of this already. You look at the settlement agreement | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
they're introducing in the bill, that is going through Parliament, | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
where it helps employers have a settlement to the employee, before | 0:28:24 | 0:28:31 | |
going through a tribunal. They don't agree, Vince Cable said the B | 0:28:31 | 0:28:37 | |
croft proposals, produced for David Cameron, by an entrepreneur was | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
"bonkers" and we were not going to have a labour market had a rested | 0:28:40 | 0:28:43 | |
on the ploilt yeas of the workforce like that. I can see there's a | 0:28:43 | 0:28:47 | |
massive rift between the two of you on that. You can't pretend or paper | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
over the cracks between you. The Liberal Democrats are committed to | 0:28:51 | 0:28:57 | |
fairness at work. And the Conservatives are not. We are | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
making recommendations. Thank you very much. Now, once Monday a time | 0:29:00 | 0:29:05 | |
in America, during a hot, hot summer, a Republican presidential | 0:29:05 | 0:29:10 | |
candidate, trailing in the pollings tried to revital lies his campaign | 0:29:10 | 0:29:15 | |
by picking an unexpected vice presidential mate. They were awash | 0:29:15 | 0:29:20 | |
with excitement with a heardland heart throb but he lost. That was | 0:29:20 | 0:29:23 | |
the story of Senator John McCain and Sarah Palin four years ago, | 0:29:23 | 0:29:28 | |
could it be the story of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan this year. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:32 | |
There's a big difference, even those who dislike Paul Ryan's ideas, | 0:29:32 | 0:29:40 | |
admit he has some. And they are shaking up the campaign. Here Paul | 0:29:40 | 0:29:44 | |
mayon on Ryanomics. He's unknown here and was not much known in | 0:29:44 | 0:29:50 | |
America until this year. Meet, Paul Ryan the man picked to be Mitt | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
Romney's Vice-President in less than a week, he polarised US | 0:29:53 | 0:29:58 | |
politics, for this is a man with a plan. The fact are very, very clear. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:02 | |
The United States is heading towards a debt crisis the only | 0:30:02 | 0:30:07 | |
solutions will be painful for us all. That doesn't have to be our | 0:30:07 | 0:30:11 | |
future. The way we respond to this challenge will ultimately define | 0:30:11 | 0:30:15 | |
our generation, we can choose a path to prosperity. Let's take a | 0:30:15 | 0:30:24 | |
look at how we can do did. Paul Ryan is not any old Conservative, | 0:30:24 | 0:30:29 | |
he gave a jolt by producing his budget plan. The aim was to force | 0:30:29 | 0:30:33 | |
the right to think big and long- term about the mountain of debt | 0:30:33 | 0:30:39 | |
they've helped create. And now the plan is to get America to think the | 0:30:39 | 0:30:44 | |
unthinkable: We will cut spending. Washington's unsustainable spend | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
something driving the nation's permanent plunge into debt. This | 0:30:48 | 0:30:53 | |
line, shows state spending in America, according to President | 0:30:53 | 0:31:01 | |
Obama's projections, climbing 2% of GDP to 26% in the next ten years. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:09 | |
This line is Paul Ryan plan A rapid cut in the federal state, taking 5 | 0:31:09 | 0:31:16 | |
trillion out of the spending. think, Obama has to be happy about | 0:31:16 | 0:31:20 | |
his plannings, the extent the election is about long-term budget | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
policy and fiscal issues, not about the short-term and the high | 0:31:23 | 0:31:27 | |
unemployment rate. What the Government can do to get us out of | 0:31:27 | 0:31:33 | |
the stagnation we're in, it will be President is comfortable. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:39 | |
COMMENTATOR: Health care reform is budget reform, you're right, we | 0:31:39 | 0:31:45 | |
agree, Medicare has a $28 trillion in empty promises, to my parents' | 0:31:45 | 0:31:49 | |
generation, our generation, our kids' generation,:. President Obama | 0:31:49 | 0:31:56 | |
is used to be secureed by Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan wants to remove between | 0:31:56 | 0:32:01 | |
25-30 million state from the health care system and cut the food stamp | 0:32:01 | 0:32:06 | |
programme, 47 million people rely on. Tames will be slashed and | 0:32:06 | 0:32:14 | |
growth would follow. I think it is:. For the Democrat heart throb, it's | 0:32:14 | 0:32:24 | |
not gone down well. You know what, it's funny, it's funny because eye | 0:32:24 | 0:32:28 | |
wantance, we like to be respectful of one another and peaceful and | 0:32:28 | 0:32:35 | |
listen to each other, these ladies may not be from Iowa and Wisconsin. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
I hear these are great snow cones. Suddenly American politics on all | 0:32:38 | 0:32:42 | |
sides is about who you are, and where you're from, and how you like | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
your ice shaved. I can tell already the consistency. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:53 | |
Many of you know, I grew up in Iowa, where I know shaved ice, this is a | 0:32:53 | 0:32:59 | |
finely, shaved ice, this is outstanding, right here. With | 0:32:59 | 0:33:03 | |
Ryan's selections some say it allows President Obama to toe cuss | 0:33:03 | 0:33:08 | |
on the big idea logical issues that divide America. By choosing Paul | 0:33:08 | 0:33:12 | |
Ryan, Mitt Romney doubles down on his position, that rewants to lower | 0:33:12 | 0:33:16 | |
taxes for the wealthiest Americans. This will be something that the | 0:33:16 | 0:33:20 | |
Obama campaign is going to pounce on, it will become a clear choice | 0:33:20 | 0:33:24 | |
for voters as it whether they believe that tax cuts for the | 0:33:24 | 0:33:30 | |
wealthy should be continueed or even brought lower. The fact is | 0:33:30 | 0:33:36 | |
even in the short-term, the US is facing a looming debt crisis, last | 0:33:36 | 0:33:42 | |
summer unable to agree to a budget, they had a fiscal cliff, budget | 0:33:42 | 0:33:48 | |
cuts, that would plunge the US into a sharp recession. This line, shows | 0:33:48 | 0:33:52 | |
the overall I will pact of US federal and state level spending | 0:33:52 | 0:33:56 | |
changes on the economy. Positive in 2009, slightly negative ever since, | 0:33:57 | 0:34:02 | |
if the Government decides to fall off the fiscal cliff, that would | 0:34:02 | 0:34:07 | |
wife 4% points off growth in a year. For the past two years, the word | 0:34:07 | 0:34:11 | |
"debt cries skis "applied exclusively to Europe, but now | 0:34:11 | 0:34:15 | |
America is stum bring towards one. Paul Ryan's statement is if you cut | 0:34:15 | 0:34:22 | |
the state growth will follow. That's a major throw of the dice. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
Ryan's selection prompted this attack ad by supporters of the | 0:34:26 | 0:34:31 | |
President, non-too subtlely suggesting what the Ryan plan does | 0:34:31 | 0:34:36 | |
for the elderly. Welcome to the US election 2012, in which no | 0:34:36 | 0:34:45 | |
prisoners will be taken. Anthony Scaramucci runs a hedge fund and | 0:34:45 | 0:34:50 | |
supported President Obama, now he is one of the fund raiseers for the | 0:34:50 | 0:34:55 | |
Romney campaign. A national finance co-chair. I asked him why he | 0:34:55 | 0:34:59 | |
switched sides? Well, first of all, I supported the President because I | 0:34:59 | 0:35:04 | |
thought he was going to be a centrist politician and going to be | 0:35:04 | 0:35:09 | |
a transformive politician in the sense of healing the nation. So, I | 0:35:09 | 0:35:14 | |
didn't expect the President to be as left-leaning as he is, and | 0:35:14 | 0:35:18 | |
divisive as he's become. If you look at the negative campaigning of | 0:35:18 | 0:35:22 | |
the President, he's building up a lot of evidence to support what I'm | 0:35:22 | 0:35:28 | |
saying. As a release of finding another choice, in 2009, after | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
spending time with Romney and having Romney speak at our | 0:35:32 | 0:35:36 | |
conference in 2010 and building a close personal relationship with | 0:35:36 | 0:35:39 | |
him, visiting at his home and getting a understanding of the | 0:35:39 | 0:35:45 | |
personality he has, his character, his decision-making, and his love | 0:35:45 | 0:35:50 | |
of country, and frankly as a can-do, fix-it person, who wants to help us | 0:35:50 | 0:35:54 | |
and the world get out of the economic malaise we're in, I | 0:35:54 | 0:35:59 | |
thought he was the right guy for the job, and thankfully the | 0:35:59 | 0:36:04 | |
nomination process, proved that to be correct. Right but the choice of | 0:36:04 | 0:36:09 | |
Paul Ryan does that help the people that you talk with, raise money for | 0:36:09 | 0:36:14 | |
the campaign? Yes. I think there's no question about that. Paul Ryan | 0:36:15 | 0:36:20 | |
is one of the truth-tellers in our nation. OK. Many of the politicians | 0:36:20 | 0:36:24 | |
and the western democracies, want to lie to their repics, and tell | 0:36:24 | 0:36:29 | |
them things that are not true, they can get entitlements and spending, | 0:36:29 | 0:36:33 | |
and free things from the Government that frankly none of us can afford. | 0:36:33 | 0:36:38 | |
But, if in effect does it mean the kind of austerity we have seen in | 0:36:38 | 0:36:43 | |
many countries in Europe, which are cut very hard on the deficit and | 0:36:43 | 0:36:48 | |
actually Europe's in recession, it is not working OK. Well, you see, | 0:36:48 | 0:36:52 | |
that I can't speak to Europe, because I don't live in Europe and | 0:36:52 | 0:36:56 | |
I don't understand you guys as I understand the United States. Here | 0:36:57 | 0:37:01 | |
what is I understand in the United States, we are spending more than | 0:37:01 | 0:37:07 | |
we areer' taking in, we're spending 40 cents of every dollar. We need | 0:37:07 | 0:37:12 | |
to right-size that, and have a economic plan to guide federal | 0:37:12 | 0:37:19 | |
spending down to 19% GDP level. That means no tax breaks for richer | 0:37:19 | 0:37:23 | |
Americans, the Obama campaign is saying what you want to do, is you | 0:37:23 | 0:37:30 | |
want to give tax breaks to the rich and pay for it by the poor? | 0:37:30 | 0:37:37 | |
That is absolutely, falsehood. It is a misstatement. It is more | 0:37:37 | 0:37:42 | |
liberal shrists lifts brought forward by the Obama campaign, that | 0:37:42 | 0:37:48 | |
don't make sense. We're not saying that. We are saying we want tax | 0:37:48 | 0:37:51 | |
fairness, and pro--growth strategies, so we can grow our way | 0:37:51 | 0:37:57 | |
out of the problem, like we did in the 1980s. I wonder, a final | 0:37:57 | 0:38:02 | |
thought, if things are as bad as you say, given governments across | 0:38:02 | 0:38:07 | |
Europe, have been voted out because things have been bad, why is Obama | 0:38:07 | 0:38:13 | |
so far ahead in the opinion polls? I don't think he's far ahead in the | 0:38:13 | 0:38:18 | |
opinion pls. He's roughly even with governor Romney. I think the | 0:38:18 | 0:38:24 | |
President is very worried, he wouldn't have spent $110 million on | 0:38:24 | 0:38:26 | |
negative campaigning, and driven a deficit in terms of what he is | 0:38:26 | 0:38:30 | |
bringing in and what he is spending if he wasn't worried. The truth of | 0:38:30 | 0:38:34 | |
the matter is he can not run on his record, he has a failed economic | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
policy. We've had 44 months of above 8% in terms of the | 0:38:38 | 0:38:44 | |
unemployment rate in the country. He cannot run on the Mall lace he's | 0:38:44 | 0:38:48 | |
create. We all know an overburdenensome Government makes | 0:38:48 | 0:38:53 | |
it more difficult for poor people because they can't get hireed by | 0:38:53 | 0:38:58 | |
people who are creating the jobs. We all know that, and now we need | 0:38:58 | 0:39:01 | |
to tell the truth by the American people and make them make a choice. | 0:39:01 | 0:39:05 | |
If you want a cradle to grave welfare state, choose President | 0:39:05 | 0:39:10 | |
Obama. If they want to return to a society of self-reliance, and | 0:39:10 | 0:39:14 | |
upstart society with green shoots and economic opportunity and once | 0:39:14 | 0:39:19 | |
again a restart of class movement, I'm the product of class movement | 0:39:20 | 0:39:23 | |
I'm a middle class kid that built two successful businessness this | 0:39:23 | 0:39:29 | |
country. If they want to return to that, we've given them a stark | 0:39:29 | 0:39:34 | |
choice. They can chies room room room and Paul Ryan or stay in the | 0:39:34 | 0:39:39 | |
situation with Obama. That's their choice. Anthony Scaramucci thank | 0:39:39 | 0:39:42 | |
you very much. Thank you I enjoyed it. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:47 | |
Now, a generation brought up on sex in the city, might not know the TV | 0:39:47 | 0:39:51 | |
series and the kind of women it presents would not be possible | 0:39:51 | 0:39:54 | |
without Sex and the Single Girl. That was the title of a book | 0:39:54 | 0:40:01 | |
published 50 years ago, by Helen Gurley Brown. The editor of | 0:40:01 | 0:40:07 | |
cosmopolitan in New York. She died, a man haten iconic femist. We look | 0:40:07 | 0:40:17 | |
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back on a life that tried to have Long before 50 shades of grey, this | 0:40:19 | 0:40:24 | |
woman brought a blush of pleasure to a publisher's cheek. | 0:40:24 | 0:40:34 | |
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# They call it girl talk "sex is wonderful, and to be a sex | 0:40:35 | 0:40:39 | |
object is fabulous". Helen Gurley Brown, from Arkansas, | 0:40:39 | 0:40:43 | |
became internationally famous at 40, where her book, Sex and the Single | 0:40:44 | 0:40:48 | |
Girl. The BBC had her on to defend her | 0:40:48 | 0:40:53 | |
unbuttoned attitude to sex outside marriage. We are still in inferior, | 0:40:53 | 0:41:00 | |
we are dependent on men, 2 hours a day, it won't just do. The last | 0:41:00 | 0:41:05 | |
thing in the world I think is women are not equal to men, it is just a | 0:41:05 | 0:41:09 | |
single girl doesn't have a rewarding life, it seems to me, | 0:41:09 | 0:41:18 | |
unless they has men in her life. For more than 30 years, for more | 0:41:18 | 0:41:26 | |
than 30 years, girlie Brown extended an iron nail extension, | 0:41:26 | 0:41:31 | |
espouseing the needle point motto, Good Girls Go To Heaven - Bad Girls | 0:41:31 | 0:41:36 | |
Go Everywhere. What we're telling Cosmo women is go for it, get your | 0:41:36 | 0:41:41 | |
foot in the jobs, it doesn't have to have the best job, because you | 0:41:41 | 0:41:51 | |
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Helen was unapologetic about encourageing women to use their | 0:41:57 | 0:42:01 | |
feminine wiels to get what they want. She certainly did that, and | 0:42:01 | 0:42:06 | |
embodied that in her own life. She didn't really mind sexual | 0:42:06 | 0:42:10 | |
harassment in this matter of fact she defended those men who were | 0:42:10 | 0:42:14 | |
later unkofd, because she had gone through 17 secretarial jobs when | 0:42:14 | 0:42:20 | |
she was a young woman, before she got anywhere. And she allowed men | 0:42:20 | 0:42:24 | |
to play pinch and tickle with her, and enjoyed some of the gifts that | 0:42:24 | 0:42:30 | |
came with that. She was part vixen as well as a visionary. That was | 0:42:30 | 0:42:34 | |
great. Where did you learn to cook like | 0:42:34 | 0:42:42 | |
that. Cosmo toll pan. The Cosmo brand crossed the pond to the UK. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:46 | |
Where did you get the idea of coming over here on the holiday. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:52 | |
Cosmo, page 13. Everything was up for grabs, for Helen Gurley Brown's | 0:42:52 | 0:42:58 | |
girls, including a butt naked Burt rein nolds. Children were absent | 0:42:58 | 0:43:02 | |
from the form lafplt No gums, no do you remember, feminist anger, and | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
no motherhood. Jiefplt Helen wanted everyone to | 0:43:05 | 0:43:13 | |
have a tool. For her, having a tool was a career, happy marriage, and | 0:43:13 | 0:43:18 | |
I'm sure incredible sex but she was not against women having children. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:23 | |
That was a choice she made. Great in bed, it is so disappointing, it | 0:43:23 | 0:43:30 | |
is like getting a bad bottle at the start of season. There may be no 35 | 0:43:30 | 0:43:34 | |
box sets without boun boun boun. She anticipated the girms in so | 0:43:34 | 0:43:40 | |
many ways, not least at table. Skinny is sacred. Anybody plunking | 0:43:40 | 0:43:48 | |
down a plate of fried do you cheapy would be trying to poison me. | 0:43:48 | 0:43:52 | |
the talk this week is of legacy, and now that gets for Helen Gurley | 0:43:52 | 0:43:56 | |
Brown too. Should we really be encourageing young girls to look up | 0:43:57 | 0:44:02 | |
to these women or to a different kind of model altogether? Not much | 0:44:02 | 0:44:06 | |
doubt where the former Cosmo editor stood. I might be guilty of having | 0:44:06 | 0:44:11 | |
every single woman in the pages of Cosmo be a raveing beauty because | 0:44:11 | 0:44:15 | |
we are not all raving beauties, because that's unrealistic. And yet | 0:44:15 | 0:44:19 | |
you can be more beautiful. You can do so many things, you can get your | 0:44:19 | 0:44:29 | |
nose fixed and hair coloured. Cosmopolitan, page 114. | 0:44:29 | 0:44:33 | |
, Cosmopolitan, first issue out today. | 0:44:33 | 0:44:41 | |
Into # They call it girl talk # | 0:44:41 | 0:44:46 | |
Now, just before we look at tomorrow's papers, news that came | 0:44:46 | 0:44:52 | |
too late. Outgoing, general mark Thompson has been just appointed as | 0:44:52 | 0:44:55 | |
President and Chief Executive of the New York Times. We have the New | 0:44:55 | 0:45:01 | |
York Times, but we do have the York Times, but we do have the | 0:45:01 | 0:45:07 | |
British papers for tomorrow. The I has got anger over rail fare hikes | 0:45:07 | 0:45:12 | |
may force U-turn. Standard Chartered story is on the front | 0:45:12 | 0:45:22 | |
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page of FT. Telegraph has story about sports fund for schools. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:30 | |
Games legacy as rules change. That's all from Newsnight tonight. | 0:45:30 | 0:45:36 | |
Because we know you miss the Olympics, here is our mash up from | 0:45:36 | 0:45:46 | |
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the internet. Mo Farah running away Hello there. Summer is not over but | 0:46:20 | 0:46:25 | |
we will see a blip in proceedings. It will turn west from the south- | 0:46:25 | 0:46:29 | |
west through the day. Strong winds and rain. It will cater for two or | 0:46:30 | 0:46:36 | |
three hours of wet weather. Heavy rain, sliced through the | 0:46:36 | 0:46:42 | |
Midlands. Maybe the odd rumble of thunder. Behind that, things will | 0:46:42 | 0:46:48 | |
brighten up. Sunshine for Devon and Cornwall. Blustery though, despite | 0:46:48 | 0:46:54 | |
demptures doing well, perhaps not feeling all that pleasant. Wet | 0:46:54 | 0:47:02 | |
weathertor Wales and Northern Ireland. Met has claimed nasty | 0:47:02 | 0:47:07 | |
conditions for the time of year. Further north across Scotland for | 0:47:07 | 0:47:14 | |
much of the dayel be dry. Looking further ahead, it stays disturbed | 0:47:14 | 0:47:18 | |
through Thursday, blustery showers in the west, but further east, | 0:47:18 | 0:47:22 | |
plenty of bright and breezy weather. That's good news for the Test match | 0:47:23 | 0:47:28 |