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across Turkey. But what are they after? Anger and rocks. Tear gas and

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arrests. And yet it hardly seems to be organised. These are ordinary

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members of society, educated and mainly middle-class. The great

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mystery to the Turkish government is why they are here and in such

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massive numbers. Under him, better off pensioners would lose more

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money. Ed Balls says Labour can make a better job of running the British

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economy. I'll be talking to the Shadow Chancellor. And forget Samuel

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Pepys. Soon we'll all be using our glasses and our clothes to record

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every moment of our lives. What could possibly go wrong? Technology

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evangelists shall tell us the answer shortly. It has turned into the most

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violent and environmentally unfriendly eco-protest ever. But

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what began with resistance to plans to replace a part in Istanbul with a

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shopping mall, has now turned into protests across Turkey. They don't

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care for a government which has been seen elsewhere as a bridge between

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East and West, is lamb and Europe. Many of them think it's betraying

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modern Turkey's secular tradition. Paul Mason is in Taksim Square in

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Istanbul. The crowd you see behind me just a

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small of the 20,000 people who have been occupying the square below and

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the gardens next to it for the best part of a week now, since the police

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moved in to clear a small tent camp, which was there to try and

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defend the square against redevelopment. So the Prime Minister

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calls them terrorists, improvisers and extremists. I can tell you for a

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fact that that description doesn't accord with the fact they are mainly

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young, quite secular, quite urban and quite middle-class. In that,

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they are quite similar to the people who made the occupied protests and

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the people at the beginning who were in tarry a square. With one

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difference. What you see below me is a space which is quite extensive,

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that has been free of policing for three nights. The police had to

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retreat and the whole place has been more or less held together with

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Turkish folk music, and a lot of goodwill. They've been bombarded for

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four hours with tear gas, fairly indiscriminately. They do fear that

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the police will come in again tonight. I was up at 4am, to see

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what happens when the police tried that last night. This is how riots

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start. After four nights of clashes, police vacated the part of Istanbul

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around Taksim Square. The protest is found out, building barricades on

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all approaches. When the clashes came, they were brutal. CS gas,

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rubber bullets, water cannon. And the protesters made use of what they

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could. Then, perfectly ordinary people formed human chains to rip up

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the pavements and build. They fought sporadically late into the night.

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Even now, at 3am, the rioting is still going on, right here in

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central Istanbul. And the people around the not some extremist

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hard-core. These are ordinary members of society, educated, mainly

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middle-class. The great mystery for the Turkish government is why they

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are here and in such massive numbers. Meanwhile, there was

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violence in four big Turkish cities, in Ankara, the capital,

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reports of tens of people injured. This was the scene in is mere. In

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all cases it was young, urban, secular people fighting it out with

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the police. But their real beef is with the AK Party. Moderate Islamist

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who they say are pushing things too far. We are protecting the modern

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Turkish Republic. He is trying to make his own country, an Islamic

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country. He hates modern people. This is not about alcohol. We are

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not here... We're here for revolution. It's a mixed bunch.This

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is something that is good for us. This is going to help us have a

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dialogue with everyone around us. We need your help. Not to protect

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democracy, to protect our rights. This is about humanity. This is

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never going to end, not this soon. Everyone is here. We are all Muslim.

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The police now facing charges of overkill. In this footage, shot by a

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local journalist, a mosque turned into a makeshift hospital treats

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injuries consistent with CS gas rounds hitting people's bodies.

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Later, the police tried to break in here to make arrests. And at the

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main hospital, even the medics were having a tough time. They are having

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so many traumas because of the tier bombs they have been shooting. And

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they were shooting tear gas... close range? I have been shot by a

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tear gas bomb. By day there is calm. But at this university, where

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they are getting a liberal education, even a bar is banned from

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serving alcohol. Not by law but by the personal order of the Prime

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Minister. This politics professor told me the issue of preserving one

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part is just a final straw for the urban young. The secular part of the

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population is probably about 35 to 40% of the electorate. It includes

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the liberal minded, the Democrats, the urban comedy middle-class, the

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well-educated the religious minorities. They are all part of the

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secular minority. It is a minority but it's not a small minority, it is

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40% sometimes, depending on the issues it can be over 50%. They feel

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threatened by the policies. Today, the Turkish PM called the protest is

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extremist elements, arm in arm with terrorism. It might play well with

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his electoral base, but analysts believe he is in danger of

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alienating an entire generation, above all women. Women should give

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birth to three children at least, he says. We should have a population

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policy where each family has to have three children at least. He talks

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about abortion. He talks about Caesarean being may be legal,

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because it's not right. They'd spent the day singing and reciting

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poetry. But at nightfall, a huge, pervasive cloud of gas descended on

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the square. This is already bigger than any of the X occupied protests

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or anything seen in Greece at the height of the troubles there. What

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stops it being in Egypt type moment is this. It may be that the

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secularists, liberals and youth are ranged here in tens of thousands,

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but a good 50% or more of Turkish society is Islamist, does support

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Prime Minister Erdogan and does not support the people here or their

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lifestyles. But on these streets, where solidarity is doled out in

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squirts of anti-tear gas fluid, all they've got in the face of that is

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defiance. I'll be joined shortly by a protest from Istanbul and by an

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academic. First, let's go to Morocco, where the Turkish

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government minister is there on a visit. He is able to talk to us.

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Minister, when you see these scenes of protest is being tear-gassed,

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it's not doing your country much good, is it? I have to make a

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correction, I'm not the minister, and the vice-chair of the party for

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foreign affairs. Tell us what you think. Regarding what is going on in

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Turkey right now, it started with an innocent protest. Later on it has

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been used by some of the radicals. We never say that the whole people

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at Taksim Square or somewhere else in Turkey are the radicals, but

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there are marginals who misused this atmosphere and then vandalise the

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city. They have been breaking down the cars, civilian cars, private

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shops, cash machines, police cars and ambulances. They have been

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attacking even the people... The thing is, we can never actually,

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neither in Turkey nor in Germany nor in France, as it happened before, or

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in the UK, it happened recently, we can never support excessive power

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used by the police, tear gas or pepper spray, whatever you call it.

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An acceptable in any democratic society. And therefore at the

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beginning, the police actually used excessive force. Later, the Prime

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Minister called for an investigation. Now the police have

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withdrawn from Taksim Square. I've just received good news that the

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people coming to Taksim Square had a good dialogue with the police,

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agreed that there will be a peaceful demonstration and the police let

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them go. We need this calm demonstration in Turkey. To an

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outsider, a lot of this is very hard to understand. For example, what is

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this issue about alcohol? started... If you come back to

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alcohol, we're not banning alcohol. This is false information. The

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government or the Parliament just regulated the sales of alcohol, as

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it is in the UK. The pubs close at ten p.m. During weekdays and 11 p.m.

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During the weekends. No longer. It used to be like this when I was a

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student there, until recently. In the United States also there are

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many regulations. You cannot buy alcohol on Fridays, the whole day.

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Is this anything about the secularism? This is a kind of

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regulation in Turkey. It is not banning. It can be different. I can

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say something else, even though I'm representing the party.

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Nevertheless, if you bring in another line, like the government is

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banning the alcohol because of the last -- Islamist policies, this is

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not true. You know the Prime Minister very well start how worried

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is he? Worried about what?Worried about the situation in your country?

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The Prime Minister has the self-confidence, he is

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distinguishing the people who are demonstrating peacefully and the

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radicals who are vandalising the city. Breaking down of private shops

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and destroying the streets and buildings and everywhere. The Prime

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Minister is very well distinguishing between these two groups. I think it

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should also be distinguished by yourself as BBC and by the press. We

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have respect for the people who are demonstrating the wishes or desires

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at protesting against the government, what is going on in a

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peaceful manner. As I see on the main news channels, we are building

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a shopping mall at the square. This is also fake information that I have

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two correct. In this project there is no shopping mall, only the...

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Thank you for joining us. Now we are joined from the protest by one of

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the protesters. And we are joined also in the studio by our academic

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guest. Tell us what is it that you are protesting about? OK. So, as you

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all know, it all started with the police attack to the peaceful

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demonstrators, the protesters that were sleep sleeping at 5.00am and

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turned into a large-scale country-wide movement, a sort of

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social awakening. We are protesting against the authoritarian, the

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repressive regime of the government and it's an accumulation of

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everything. I'm sorry... Why didn't you just vote him out of office if

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you don't like him? I don't understand... Turkey is a

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functioning democracy, why don't you vote your government out of office

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if you don't like it? OK. So, voting is just one aspect of democracy. One

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other aspect - a very important aspect - is the peaceful

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demonstration and the peaceful protests. Now, we are using that

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right. We are right to hold these protests if the government, if the

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Prime Minister is not letting us in all the decision-making processes.

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So I have to disagree with the Minister, with what he said about

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the alcohol regulations. What we care is not about banning or not

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banning something. It is about the mentality lying behind it. So, in

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order to enact laws, in order to apply them, you have to consider all

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the segments of society. You have to consider the sensitivities. After

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this ban, you cannot go and say that, OK, so what the religion step

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lates cannot be -- stipulates cannot be wrong. This discourse is really

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dangerous. OK. Thank you very much. We are against this mentality.

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you. What do you make of what is happening in your country? Well, it

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is a complicated story to tell. Turkey is a complicated story. I

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know it would be nice if we could summarise everything in just a

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soundbite. I don't think that is possible. I have been looking

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forward to this conversation with you to try to interrogate, to try to

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understand what is happening. better gallop through it! What is

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happening - I agree, my interpretation agrees with the

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protester there. I think this is about people's desire to live their

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lives the way they want to in their own cities in public spaces and to

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make their own decisions about their lives. It is as simple as that. It

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is a desire for freedom. I know it sounds very abstract, but you would

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believe it if you were in Taksim Square right now. What is problem --

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what is the problem, it is a democracy? What we are dealing with

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is the problem of democracy altogether. We all know about the

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majority. We recognise the K Party - let's say they got 50% of the vote,

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52% of the vote what are the bounds of that authority? What can you

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intervene in? What kind of laws can you make with that kind of mandate?

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Before you ask me another question, I want to say also that the very

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meaning of democracy is at stake here. I think what we are seeing in

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Taksim Square, and across Turkey, is very much an experimentation with

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direct democracy. It is an effort to imagine other ways of living

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together. It is not simply about winning the majority in

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parliamentary elections. Thank you very much.

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In a moment, how wearable technology could change our lives.

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There are still two years to go, but the Labour Party told us how they

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will manage the economy if they get another chance at it. They told us

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it will be tough and what they will do about a few small things. The

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last time we saw them in power, they claimed to have abolished "boom and

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bust". If they get returned to office, they will be more rigorous,

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according to the Shadow Chancellor today. I will be talking to him in a

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moment. It's 60 years ago since this

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crowning glory and a Coronation generation nourished by a welfare

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state for all. As the diamond anniversary comes into view, the

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welfare state doesn't get as many commemorative tea towels as Her

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Majesty. Now the state's �700 billion annual budget is one, some

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politicians, feel they must tame. Labour's Shadow Chancellor could

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always be counted upon to be an exception, until today. We know

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these plans for current spending in 2015/16 are likely to face a

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significant burden on public services. The relentless focus of my

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colleagues must be on how to reprioritise money within and

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between budgets for current spending rather than coming to me with any

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additional proposals for new spending. This was quite some

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movement by the Shadow Chancellor, but he went further. Ed Balls

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itemised cuts, ending free school places, abolishing Police

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Commissioner Police Commissioners, and then on this sunny day in June a

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cut... The Labour Titan was within spitting distance of the Coronation.

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Then he trumpeted universalism in the early stages of the welfare

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state. Ed Balls has called him his hero. But today he was accused of

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breaking with the tradition. accept this is a very limited

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reduction in universalism for those at the very top in one area. The

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right-wing, the Tories and the Lib Dems, want to dismantle the whole of

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these benefits. I don't think Labour should be opening the door to them.

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One colleague of the Labour Leadership described this as a

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pivotal moment? It is important to remember that the Winter Fuel

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Allowance is a recent invpbion. It doesn't rank up there with child

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benefit as important universal benefits that you would wish to

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protect. We are talking about small sums here. It is symbolic of the

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shift Labour needs to make. It is not about axing. This morning, the

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Tories were rubbing their hands with glee. Senior Conservative and Lib

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Dem figures in the coalition have long suggested but always shied away

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from ending universalism in elderly benefits. Now that Labour, the

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so-called defenders, have gone in for the kill, many coalition MPs

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think these benefits are now fair game. Free pensioner bus passes were

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not on the agenda. What did right-wing spending experts think?

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It was really important. It will be remembered. The ko coalition has

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damaged that principle with child benefit, taking that away from

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richer parents. I think we are heading towards a more means-tested

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welfare state. What about ending all universal pensioner benefits? Well,

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research by the Resolution Foundation showed Winter Fuel

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Allowance and TV licences cost the Treasury �2.7 billion. Add in bus

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passes and prescriptions, you get �4 billion. If you means-tested Winter

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Fuel Payments and TV licences by only dispersing to pensioners

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eligible for pensioner credit, you save �1.4 billion. In the autumn,

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the Chancellor intends to set out another benefit cap. This time,

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including items like the housing benefit budget, some �20 billion. He

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thinks Labour won't be able to match him on that. Ed Miliband intends to

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prove him wrong. Today, Labour, keepers of the post-war welfare

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flame, moved. Toughening up on welfare spending, freeing them, they

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hope, to emphasise massive capital spending and for the time being, if

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she wants to, the Queen can keep her free TV licence.

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The man himself is here. In principle, do you believe in

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universal benefits? Of course. A universal state pension, free

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prescriptions for the elderly. I think the free bus pass is something

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which is about mobility in old age, but in every generation, you have to

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find the right balance between things you can do for all and things

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where you have to target. We are make making... Isn't this a belief

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in universal benefits, but not a belief in universal benefits?

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course. You always have a universal foundation and some areas where you

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do more for those who need it most. Those are the two principles. That

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makes it a just welfare state. idea was it to cut this winter fuel

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supplement to better-off people? proposal today? Yes.It was

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something that Ed Miliband and discussed... When did he change his

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mind? I don't think he has.Watch this. We have a cliep here of Ed

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Miliband expressing belief in universal benefits? My way in which

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those at the top should be paying responsibility is not by cutting the

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top rate of income tax. I think that universal benefits, which go across

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the population, are an important bedrock of our society. That is

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unambiguous? Which is what I have just said. There are certain

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benefits, like the pension, or the bus pass, or free prescriptions...

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He wasn't talked about all benefits being universal? Because in the

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welfare state... Is he likely to tell us about any others he has

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reservations about? There's always been some which are universal and

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some which are targeted. When we introduced the winter allowance, we

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introduced it universally. So...I think it is fair to say that we

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shouldn't pay it to the richest 5%, but I want a universal pension,

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universal free prescription and bus pass. Television licences?You have

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to be pragmatic about that one. Tell us - we need to save money,

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according to you. A bit like 1945. Let's not talk about that. I want to

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talk about you and what you plan to do to us if you get elected. For

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example... I'm not sure you will be one of the losers on the winter

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allowance! I don't suppose you know, do you? I have no idea.Right. Let's

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look at what you would do if you were elected. You would save by not

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giving old people, richer old people, this winter fuel supplement?

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Yes. How much of that will save? �100 million. It shows a Labour

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Government will be willing to make tough chances and to do so in a fair

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way. It is not going to reduce the deficit. I'm asking you to make a

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tough choice now. What proportion of the deficit is it? It is about a

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thousand. You think that is worthwhile? If it is �100 million,

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and it is easy to do, why wouldn't the Chancellor have done it? That is

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the best you can do on a flagship policy, is it? I think we went

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rather further than that. What I said was... How much further? Let's

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talk about something that you thought was wrong, the abolition of

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the 50p tax rate. Would you reinstate that? Yes.You would?

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Will you after the election? there is a manifesto now, yes. But

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in two years' time, we don't know what the circumstances will be. I

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won't make tax policy two years ahead. I would rather get tax rates

:28:41.:28:45.

down if I could, but I can't make that promise now on the top rate of

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tax. At a time when living standards are falling, for pensioners, too, is

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it a priority to cut taxes only for people over �150,000? So if you are

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Shadow Chancellor going into the next election, it is something you

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will wish to do? In three weeks, we would reverse it. I'm not going to

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make a promise two years ahead. I don't know where we will be.

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think George Osborne's strategy might be working? How do you mean?

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You think the economy will have improved enough for you not to need

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to make the change? It is an important principle that you don't

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make commitments two years ahead when you don't know the economic

:29:26.:29:29.

circumstances because I don't think it would be responsible to do it

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:29:39.:29:46.

that way. You have principles applied? I can't plan now that this

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plan would be better in two years time. Have you got a credibility

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problem? You used the word iron discipline today. You also the man

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who wrote Gordon Brown's speech in which he talked about iron

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discipline. Yes.Were you being ironic? We introduced Bank of

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England independence. We didn't join the single currency, which was a

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very good call. We made some important and tough decisions. Did

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we get every decision right? Of course we didn't. When you talked

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about iron discipline being your guiding light, if you ever get back

:30:27.:30:32.

into government, then you were talking about the sort of iron

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discipline we saw under Gordon Brown, that's what you meant?

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a very different circumstance. wrote his speech and you wrote your

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speech today. And you meant the same thing in each case. We will have to

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have tougher and even more iron discipline because we are going to

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inherit an economy which is failing, a deficit which is high...

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More iron discipline? Absolutely. When we came into government we

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inherited a national debt of 42% GDP. We registered until the

:31:03.:31:13.
:31:13.:31:19.

financial crisis to a lower level than America, France, Germany and

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Japan. It was the right thing to do. You think you handed on a golden

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inheritance to the coalition, do you? There was a global financial

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crisis and we were part of that. a man or woman approaches you,

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offering you lots of money for very little in return, any sensible

:31:35.:31:38.

person might smell a rat. But not some of the people who make our

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laws. The latest hidden camera footage of our lawmakers tarting

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themselves round to lobbyists have done the institution no favours.

:31:47.:31:50.

This afternoon, Downing Street promised a new statutory register of

:31:50.:31:54.

lobbyist and, for good measure, a mechanism to find out how money

:31:54.:31:59.

members trades unions really have. We're supposed to be impressed, are

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you, David? The government have come up with a set of measures that would

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have stopped the rush of damaging headlines that we've seen over the

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last few days. But not perhaps for the reasons that many people might

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have hoped. It would have stopped anyone pretending to be a lobbyist,

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because anyone who feared they might be part of some journalist sting

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operation would have simply been able to consult a register, and

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therefore they would have been able to see if they were being stung.

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What will this register do? It only deals with third-party lobbyists,

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these are people who work for hire. They are not the people, like our

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:32:47.:32:55.

friend Fred Michelle who was working inside News International to lobby

:32:55.:32:58.

members of the government and others, to try and smooth the way

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for the takeover at BSkyB, he wouldn't be covered. And it wouldn't

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cover, interestingly, any lobbying of ministers. Why? We are told that

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already those meetings with ministers are documented, so there's

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no need to replicate that in another form. How did the Treaty News get

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dragged into this? It's not clear. This measure wasn't in the

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consultation. What the government say will happen alongside the

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statutory register, is that the unions will be required to end self

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certification of the union roles. Why does this matter? There have

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been questions about whether some union ballots were lawful. So they

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will be required to open their books and allow... What has that got to do

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with it? It's not evidently clear why they should be rolled into this

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set of legislation. However, if you were looking for a set of

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proposals, and Ed Balls is giving me a clue to the answer here, a set of

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proposals that were rolled into this to make it very difficult for Labour

:33:49.:33:53.

to support it, then this might be the measure you would pluck and put

:33:53.:33:58.

into this set of proposals. Indeed, Labour have described it as shabby

:33:58.:34:04.

and panicked, correct me if I'm wrong. Three years ago, David

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Cameron and Nick Clegg said, we will crack down and have a lobby

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register. They've done nothing. It's a scandal what's happened this

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weekend. We've not got the register. What are they going to do to try and

:34:17.:34:20.

divert attention? Let's shift the attention to Labour and the trade

:34:20.:34:24.

unions. It's pathetic. If they've got real proposals, we will look at

:34:24.:34:29.

them. If they want to reform -- reform party funding, absolutely, we

:34:29.:34:33.

will go for that. They want to divert attention that David Cameron

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utterly failed to sort this out. The world we live in! Would you like to

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know lots and lots more about your life, how much you've eaten, how

:34:44.:34:48.

many steps you've taken today or how you slept last night? Very shortly

:34:48.:34:52.

you will be able to do so, and to revisit all the things you did

:34:52.:34:57.

today, all of them, through wearable technology. Very soon, doubtless,

:34:57.:35:01.

there will be a piece of technology which tells you where you left your

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glasses. If you were already worried a while -- about what corporations

:35:05.:35:08.

know about your life without you necessarily knowing that you know,

:35:09.:35:12.

it's about to get a great deal worse. Things will not only be

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created but be seen to be created. Rory Cellan-Jones is the BBC's

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Thousands of images of people and places, miles driven, walk, cycle,

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all disappearing as the memories fade. But what if you could

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capture, store and then share your day? Well, now you can. All kinds of

:35:51.:35:55.

wearable devices are emerging with the power to document our entire

:35:55.:36:00.

lives or turn us into cyborgs, depending on your point of view.

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Wearable technology is the hot trend of the moment and, with the arrival

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of Google Glass, it appears to have hit a tipping point. I'm wearing

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four other devices which show something of its capabilities. This

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is an activity monitor, which sets the daily target. I'm not doing too

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well. This does something similar, but also measures how many steps I

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go up and down each day. This, too, is an activity monitor, but it also

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looks at my sleep patterns. This is a camera which takes thousands upon

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thousands of photographs of everything I do, wherever I go. An

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awful lot of data about me and my daily activities. Paul is a web

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designer in Dorset and is one of the early adopters. He's a guinea pig in

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a research project at Goldsmiths University, looking at how people

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may use wearable technology. He is also part of what's called the

:36:54.:36:57.

quantified self movement, gathering lots of data from his wristband that

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allows him to record and analyse his life. Often you go through life in a

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bit of a stupor, one thing to the next. For me, this kind of

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technology makes you more aware. It's more aware of what my mood is,

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more aware of how much I'm moving, more aware of whether I'm sleeping

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or not. Paul has suffered from depression in the past and believes

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that collecting this data about himself is helping him feel better.

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In the case of depression, just being able to know that, yes, I am

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getting out and doing the exercise I'm supposed to be doing, yes, I

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sleep and I got hard data to prove it, encourage as you and keeps you

:37:53.:37:55.

going. Paul is only collecting a fraction of the data about himself

:37:55.:37:58.

that will soon be available as these technologies advance. So what could

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a fully tooled up quantified cellphone look like? Smart textiles

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will capture biometrics like heart rate and blood pressure. Headbands

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will keep concentration levels and stress levels monitored. All of this

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will be synced with the web. The head of computing at Goldsmiths

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University has been looking into the future of wearable technology.

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will blink to take a photograph of anything we want, video recordings

:38:16.:38:18.

will be similar way. We will have this archival system which will be

:38:18.:38:24.

real-time, are virtually infinite capacity. If you yourself want to

:38:24.:38:28.

join other people that are sharing in your activities, you will

:38:28.:38:31.

immediately be able to identify where that is located and join in.

:38:31.:38:36.

It's the concept of a smart city and thus augmenting it. It's not a

:38:36.:38:46.
:38:46.:38:48.

cyborg, it's a human cloud. It's not just individuals who have seen the

:38:48.:38:51.

potential. Some companies believe wearable technology has the power to

:38:51.:38:57.

make employees better. One such firm is a software business which is

:38:57.:39:01.

issuing its staff with wearable tech. It tracks their activity,

:39:01.:39:09.

mood, food and sleep patterns on a voluntary basis. Lawrie, who runs

:39:09.:39:11.

this American firms European operation, says wearable tech has

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been taken up enthusiastically by her team, with over half now

:39:16.:39:24.

participating. I can take a look and see when he slept. We've had about

:39:24.:39:27.

100 employees that have lost a stone or more in the last several months.

:39:27.:39:34.

Last month alone we collectively walked about 17,000 kilometres.

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These are all things that make us feel better together. It makes us

:39:40.:39:43.

better employees and people. One of the interesting things for us in the

:39:43.:39:49.

US, we've been able to use the fact that we've got this programme to

:39:49.:39:53.

negotiate a $20,000 decrease in our insurance bill in the States.

:39:53.:39:58.

Wearable tech is potentially big business. Google Glass has sparked

:39:58.:40:04.

huge interest long before it's available to consumers. Other

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products have investors and enthusiasts queueing up to get

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involved. On a Shoreditch rooftop, I met one of the investors hoping to

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serve the wearable ways. She has put money into a wearable camera, and

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believes the UK is well placed to prosper in this field. The target

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market is even greater than that of the general internet, or that of

:40:28.:40:35.

PCs, laptops and phones. It has a pedigree of being very strong in

:40:35.:40:38.

hardware in semiconductors, in devices, in design and technology

:40:38.:40:42.

and now software as well. It's the marriage of all of those assets that

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will make this sector, this next phase of computing which is now

:40:47.:40:51.

wearable and accessible for everyone, more important and more

:40:51.:40:57.

interesting for the UK. While some embrace wearable technologies as a

:40:57.:41:01.

means to empower the individual, others see them as tools for

:41:01.:41:04.

corporate surveillance. Google Glass has already sent privacy campaigners

:41:04.:41:09.

around the world to the barricades. One Australian senator said it would

:41:09.:41:19.
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end privacy as we know it. nightmare scenario is the data is in

:41:19.:41:23.

the cloud, out of people's control. Even if you want to delete it, the

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company say they own it, you don't. Then technology like facial

:41:28.:41:31.

recognition can be used to mine that data, so you are walking down the

:41:31.:41:35.

street, someone walks past you, they take a picture of you with their

:41:35.:41:39.

device, get home and say, show me everywhere else that the picture has

:41:39.:41:44.

been uploaded this person. Very quickly, someone else can build up

:41:44.:41:47.

an incredibly detailed picture of your life without you ever knowing

:41:47.:41:53.

about it. Let's see how long I slept four. Five hours and 13 minutes.

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Quite a lot of that was light sleep. What all of these devices have in

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common is they are collecting a vast amount of data, whether it's my

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movements, where I've been, how much energy I've expended all the

:42:06.:42:09.

thousands of pictures being collected by this. A lot of that

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data is going to end up in the cloud. Then the question is - who is

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going to have access to all a bit and what exactly might they do with

:42:16.:42:23.

it? The answer will often be giant multinational companies. But

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fortunately, they have very detailed privacy policies and will seek our

:42:27.:42:32.

consent before they share our data. So that's all fine, isn't it?

:42:32.:42:38.

Essentially, these companies are saying, trust us with your data in a

:42:38.:42:42.

non-encrypted way, having signed a policy that allows us to share it

:42:42.:42:49.

with selected third parties. Without any technical means like encryption

:42:49.:42:52.

or legal restrictions, it's very hard to trust companies with this

:42:52.:42:59.

kind of intimidator. As we document and share more of what we do, what

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we do, who we meet and what we buy, we'll create a rich pool of data for

:43:05.:43:07.

ourselves, but also for our employers and the company is trying

:43:07.:43:13.

to sell to us. The debate about the etiquette and ethics of wearable

:43:13.:43:23.
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technology has only just begun. With us now is Robert Scoble who has been

:43:23.:43:25.

trialling Google Glass. He says he will never live another day without

:43:25.:43:31.

them. And Jaron Lanier, from Microsoft, who invented an early

:43:31.:43:38.

forerunner. It was a beautiful spring day today. It was awesome.In

:43:38.:43:43.

what way was possibly enhanced by wearing that thing on your head?

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Told me how to walk to Big Ben when I asked it. I don't live in London,

:43:50.:43:53.

so I needed directions. I could have pulled out my smartphone, but then

:43:53.:43:58.

I'm looking down as I'm getting directed through the streets. Now

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I'm looking at you, the world around me. What are you seeing apart from

:44:04.:44:08.

me or this studio? Nothing right now. It only comes on when I compel

:44:08.:44:12.

it to come on by touching it or talking to it. Then it comes on and

:44:12.:44:19.

I say, OK, take a picture, for instance. All I could say I need

:44:19.:44:23.

directions to Big Ben. It would take me there. It would show me where I'm

:44:23.:44:30.

looking. It is a lot different than holding a smartphone. Would you ever

:44:30.:44:37.

have one of these? The devices are great. Aside from any practical

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benefits, some of which which I think very real, they are also

:44:41.:44:45.

tremendous fun. If it is done artfully, what you experience can be

:44:45.:44:49.

quite beautiful. The problem is how they are used. The problem is not

:44:49.:44:53.

any device, it's become Peter the device connects to. If that is

:44:53.:44:56.

creepy, then all of a sudden you have the creepy device. The problem

:44:56.:45:00.

is not the technology, though, that's a great thing. I'm really

:45:01.:45:03.

concerned about the business models of the particular firms that are

:45:03.:45:13.

bringing these out. Let me get to that in a second or two. The cast of

:45:13.:45:18.

mind that you have got, Robert, you even posted a photograph of yourself

:45:18.:45:25.

in the shower wearing this thing? did. This is a device for total

:45:25.:45:32.

narcissist, isn't it? No.Are you really that interested in your life?

:45:32.:45:36.

Well, I'm partly a journalist so I'm pushing the technology to see how

:45:36.:45:46.
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far it goes and what the dangers are. Tell us what they are, then?

:45:47.:45:52.

The problem is that some of the companies that are promoting this -

:45:52.:45:57.

I have friends at Google, I love Google - but the way Google is doing

:45:57.:46:00.

business right now compels them to grab more and more data about you

:46:00.:46:07.

and to use it to place advertisement advertisements at the pay of third

:46:07.:46:12.

parties. We can get by with that for now. It is no way to run a

:46:12.:46:22.
:46:22.:46:26.

civilisation. We have to reform the way we run these technologies. All

:46:26.:46:31.

of the incentives are pulling them... One of the first things you

:46:31.:46:38.

want to do with this and say show me the Starbucks... You haven't...

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is advertising, Robert! It is, but it is different from the advertising

:46:42.:46:47.

you and I grew up with. LAUGHTER You have tRefRed the initiative from

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yourself to a great corporation which may have a change of policy?

:46:51.:47:01.
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Might have, yes. -- transferred the initiative from yourself to a great

:47:03.:47:08.

corporation which may have a change of policy? There is a benefit to

:47:08.:47:13.

this technology. Can I say one other thing about the creepiness

:47:13.:47:17.

potential? I love this stuff. I probably experience this before

:47:17.:47:21.

anyone else on the planet because I used to build these. The thing is, I

:47:21.:47:26.

don't like what I heard about the company that is giving it to its

:47:26.:47:28.

employees because it promotes this conformity that everybody should

:47:28.:47:33.

have the same body which, having seen you in the shower, will be your

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:47:43.:47:46.

body, Robert! LAUGHTER I don't think so. I'm concerned that this is going

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terribly awry because of imagining this computer database as being this

:47:52.:47:55.

centre driver that tells us how to live, that knows where the right

:47:55.:48:02.

coffee is. Computers are stupid. If we follow on that course, we will

:48:02.:48:06.

behave less intelligently. You know, I'm wearing a monitor that monitors

:48:07.:48:13.

my health, my steps that I'm taking... You are obsessed?I am. Do

:48:13.:48:17.

I exercise that much more? Not really. Humans are good at ignoring

:48:17.:48:25.

these things. They are interesting. I find that beneficial. Thank you

:48:25.:48:30.

both very much. That is about it for now. We will see you tomorrow. Good

:48:30.:48:40.
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for most of us today. It will start off chilly first thing tomorrow

:48:46.:48:52.

morning. It will warm up quickly in the sunshine. Some patches of cloud,

:48:52.:48:56.

particularly bubbling up in the north, and that may lead to one or

:48:56.:49:01.

two sharp showers. Some low cloud, mistiness around some of these

:49:01.:49:06.

coastal areas of Scotland. One or two sharp showers over the hills and

:49:06.:49:14.

mountains. 20 degree also be a typical figure for England and

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Wales. Around the coast, it will be a touch cooler here. In the

:49:22.:49:31.

sunshine, 20, 21 is quite likely, possibly hitting 22 further west. UV

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levels will be high in most places. A good-looking day. Maybe a bit more

:49:37.:49:46.

cloud around as we head into Wednesday. Further south,

:49:46.:49:52.

temperatures hitting 20, 21 Celsius. Wednesday could start off grey and

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