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Across the western world shock at the murder of 49 people at the Pulse

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club in Orlando. In London vigils are being held for the dead and the

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wounded but how did one man killed so many? Tonight the key figures in

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American politics are reacting. We cannot continue to allow

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thousands upon thousands of people to pour into our country,

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many of whom have the same thought And with ten days to go to the key

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decision, drug macro is on the road. I am about as far away from London

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as you can be where local figures have their own views. We have

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brought our very own referendum road trip to Glasgow to you the

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passionate arguments driving the debate as it becomes increasingly

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clear that the Scottish vote may be pivotal.

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Good evening from Orlando, a city rocked to its core by the tragedy

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that left 49 dead and 53 injured in the Pulse club behind me, a city

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once synonymous with Disney World has been shattered by reality at its

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most devastating and painful, tonight new details have emerged as

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to how the gunman called 9/11 from the bottom of the club and pledged

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allegiance to the leader of Isis. He was known to the FBI, yet it seems

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able to buy firearms freely. President Obama says there is no

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evidence that the gunman was directed by so-called Islamic State

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but Donald Trump, this afternoon, said that if elected he would

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suspend immigration from areas of the world with a proven history of

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terrorism against the United States or their allies. We'll get into the

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politics in a minute. Gabriel Gatehouse joins me now.

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There was of course a huge element of, phobia in the choice of this

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vibrant gay nightclub in downtown Orlando. The question, to what

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extent was it terror or as you mentioned in your introduction

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directed by the group calling itself Islamic State. We know of the claim

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of membership in the 911 call, the question is, how much was it

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directed, the FBI director today says he believes he was almost

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certainly home - radicalised, here in the United States. He was born in

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the United States. These are some other things still being questioned.

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The other details we have had coming out today in forensics detail is

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what actually happened inside the club on the night itself. You will

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see some of pictures in the report that is just coming up you will find

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distressing. It is Latino night at Pulse,

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a buzzing gay nightclub in downtown By closing time, the dance

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floor was nearly full. At two minutes past 2am, Omar Mateen

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starts shooting into the crowd. An off-duty policeman working at the

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club exchanges fire with the gunman. Eddie Justice texts his mother from

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a bathroom inside the club. Mummy, I love you. In club, they shooting. At

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nine minutes past 2am the club posts on its Facebook page, everyone get

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out of Pulse club and keep running. Mr Garcia, a former DJ at the club,

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was out with a group of friends including Mercedes Florez. Once we

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knew this was real, everyone ducked to the floor. He was right next to

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me. I had blood all over my arms. It was actually from him. The shooting

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just continued and continued. As soon as it stopped, I kind of hurt

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him reloading, I got up and run to one of the back doors. Amanda

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records one final video on Snapchat. GUNFIRE

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She and her best friend, Mercedes, later confirmed dead. Now, Omar

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Mateen, armed with an assault rifle and handgun, begins to take

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hostages. He calls 911, pleading allegiance to Islamic State and

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makes a reference to the Boston Marathon bombings. 2:39am, still in

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the bathroom, Eddie Justice sends another message to his mother. His

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coming, I'm going to die. He too has since been confirmed as one of the

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dead. At five-minute spot 5am police and SWAT team members moving. They

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forced their way into the club with explosives and a battering ram. In

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11 of his as exchange gunfire with the shooter, 30 hostages rescued.

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5:48am, Orlando police to eat, we can confirm this as a mass casualty

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situation. -- Orlando police tweet. At 5:53am Lees confirmed that the

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shooter, Omar Mateen, is dead. -- police confirm this. 7am. As the

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authorities begin to search for answers, investigators inside the

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club the other mobile phones of victims ringing as family members

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desperate for news try to contact them. Police say is a specialist

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devices were found on the gunman and in his car. The Florida Department

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of Law enforcement special agent in charge calls the shooting an act of

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terrorism. Any time that we have potentially dozens of victims in any

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of our communities, I think we can qualify that as a terrorist

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activity. At 10:30am Law enforcement officials confirm that 49 people

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including the gunman are dead and 53 are injured. As America morning,

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Orlando adds its name to a growing rest, San Bernardino, Charleston,

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Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine and more. But the mid and it at the

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Pulse club sets itself apart in scale and context -- but the murder

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unleashed there. Families and friends come to terms their personal

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lost, the deadliest shooting in this country's modern history has set of

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an explosive charge right across America's most divisive political

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fault lines. Now known as the biggest single mass shooting in

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modern American history, you heard from Gabriel Gatehouse.

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I'm joined by Pedro Julio Serrano, a gay rights activist and the first

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openly LGBT person to run for elective office in Puerto Rico.

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Now this is relevant, particularly, Pedro, because we know that nearly

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half of the people killed in the tragedy were of Puerto Rican

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descent. This must feel like a sore from all sides. Yes, in the 20 years

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I've been an activist I've never felt so much sorrow and so much

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pain. I knew some of the victims, I'm not family to them so I come and

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even imagine what they are going through. It's devastating. Some of

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them came to Orlando looking for a better life echoes of the crisis in

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Puerto Rico, they were fleeing the crisis that we have, and to be here

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in the hands of hate, it's uncomfortable. You had friends in

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the club? It could have been me in that club because I have been there,

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I am gay and buttery can, it comes close to me, I've had rifles similar

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to the one that could have ended my life, because they told me, we are

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going to kill you, fag and, we are going to terminate your life, and

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fortunately I fled and I'm alive but those 49 lives will never be again.

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It is a horrible tragedy. And it comes from every side. It is because

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they are that you know, they are LGBT, it is because of radical

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Islam, all of these things compounded into one another -- they

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are Puerto Rico. Sometimes I don't even have words. How do you find

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America's and the world's response to what has happened here? There is

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a lot of solidarity of course. I think that we will become a better

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society because of this but we cannot forget that this doesn't

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happen in a vacuum. We have leaders like Donald Trump and other

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religious and political leaders who are fundamentalists and have been

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inciting violence against the LGBT community for too long. And they are

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as responsible as the killer for this tragedy because when they

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inside violent against us they are giving permission to individuals

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like this can lead to attack us. I wonder how you interpreted some of

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the words from Donald Trump today? He sounded as if he was appealing to

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the gay vote, talking about the importance of the LGBT community,

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setting that very much a part of the minority to be protected. Did you

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feel reassured by that? I wish I could say on air what I really

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think! I'm just going to leave it out, hate cannot be combated with

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hate. They cannot fight hate with hate. We are not going to let this

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event is divided us. This is not a war against Islam. Islam is a

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religion of peace, and we have Muslim friends and people that we

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hold dear. And we are not going to let Donald Trump divide us. This is

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not going to be about a fight between Islam and the LGBT

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community. It's not a fight between Muslims and LGBT people. I think the

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answer to all of this love. Love well Trump, and I use the word Trump

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carefully, levelled from hate. We need to stop this. America needs to

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open its eyes because what the world is seeing is that they are letting

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this product of the tea party and all these radical right-wingers be

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the voice of America in this moment and they need to stop this. Pedro

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Julio Serrano, thank you, some heartfelt language there, you will

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fully understand the emotion that is in the city and the LGBT community

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tonight. This perfect storm of American crises, a sense of free gun

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laws and the possibility of Islamic radicalisation and a hate crime all

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in this one appalling crime. Gabriel Gatehouse

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is back with me now. It is not surprisingly the possibly,

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that, five months from an election, this has already got incredibly and

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heated to be political. This tragedy unites two of the most divisive

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issues in American politics. Number one gun control, number two Islamic

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terrorism. Often with these shootings which are about gun

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control and it dies away. No one needs reminding that we are in an

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election year. If you put these issues together it's not surprising

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that the candidates have talked about this. Remember Donald Trump in

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the aftermath of the Paris shootings last November. He came out with this

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statement calling for a temporary ban on the entry of Muslims into the

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America. A statement that became notorious in some quarters and was

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applauded and others. In the aftermath of this shooting he has

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not held back. We can hear some of what he said now.

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I will suspend immigration from areas of the world

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where there is a proven history of terrorism against

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the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully

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We cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people

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to pour into our country, many of whom have the same thought

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Many of the principles of radical Islam are incompatible with Western

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That was Donald Trump, we also heard from the Democratic candidate,

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Hillary Clinton, what did she say? The administration has for some

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days, in the run-up to this, been talking about what they say is a

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crazy situation where they can put American citizens on a no-fly list

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but cannot buy them from buying the kind of assault weapons that caused

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this carnage. So knows a prize that when Hillary Clinton spoke she

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emphasised that aspect of gun-control -- no surprise that when

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she spoke she emphasised that aspect of gun-control.

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Sadly, we do not have that clip. Produce a body said? Hillary Clinton

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basically said we must look at the means by which these attacks are

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carried out it is difficult to stop every single home grown, if that is

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the case, radicalised person from wanting to carry out an attack.

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Hillary Clinton was placing the emphasis on the material, the guns,

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that carry out these attacks. This election year is not like previous

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election years. Not like President Obama this is Mitt Romney or even

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versus John McCain. This puts a candidate from the establishment

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against a candidate who portrays himself as wanting to overturn the

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establishment. It is an incredibly feeble atmosphere here and events

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like this can push things off course. President Obama said the

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country was united in grief and in resolve. That may be so but very

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divided in the answers to this problem thank you. We can speak now

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to one of Durham Trump's foreign policy advisers, Waled Phares. Thank

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you for joining us. I wonder if you can clarify some of

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the comments from Donald Trump. He said he would suspend immigration

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from all countries with a proven history of terrorism against America

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or its allies. What does that entailed? That basically is a

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transformation of his initial statement made last year, 2015,

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about the so-called ban on Muslims. Now he is narrowing it to the

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countries where there have been jihadis. That is conditioned, if

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he's elected he's going to meet with the heads of agencies, leaders in

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Congress and in the Arab world to figure out how to determine who is a

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Jihadist and who isn't so he can apply this. He has said that he will

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suspend when he will have the capacity to make that

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differentiation between Jihadist and not. Of course many will say that it

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completely misses the point of a murderer, someone guilty of the

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deaths of 49 and wounding 53 others, who was born in New York and who is

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a Native American. Oh, absolutely, there are many jihadists in America,

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Great Britain, as you know, Belgium, France, who were born in those

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countries and had a passport. It isn't about being foreign and being

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non-foreign, it is about being a member of Salafi jihad is. The

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French and the Egyptians know it isn't about having a passport -- you

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had is. If you support the ideology of the movement, that should be

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addressed. -- jihadism. Then you will understand that the immigration

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question does not come into it as these people are in your country

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already. That is true, that is why Mr Trump is saying that firstly we

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must stop further penetration. He isn't saying that everybody coming

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to the United States, he was clear, we are a country of immigrants, we

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bring in immigrants but now the jihadists are using that to come in,

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so we are going to slow the flow, shut it down until we Figueroa at

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how we can make the distinction and then everybody who is a lawful

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immigrant will be welcomed -- until we figure out. There will be many

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watching I'm guessing who will say, each politician finds their own

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narrative to this and for Donald Trump, he just wants to reinforce

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the anti-Muslim narrative so he is making it all about anti-Muslim

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immigration. It is divisive and isn't going to solve any problems.

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He could be looking at gun crime, for example. Look, the agenda of

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those opposing Mr Trump, the Democratic party, the Obama

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administration, and of course the Muslim brotherhood and others are

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opposing him, they accuse him of being Islamophobic. There is nothing

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in his history, no books or articles, that show this. His

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companies have all kinds of Woolwich as groups and in his speech he said

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that he would work with countries such as the UAE, Egypt, Jordan and

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others. There is nothing Islamophobic about it, it is about

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national security. So do you think this is all just a petition to win

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an American vote from an Islamophobia within his voter base,

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then? He is basically attacking on the ground of Islamophobia but he

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has clarified it is nothing about that, it is about finding jihadists.

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In the Arab world, they called them by their names, why is it that the

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Obama administration and Hillary Clinton are not using this

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terminology? It is the political season and he is responding, no

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doubt about it. Thank you for joining us. It seems extraordinary,

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doesn't it, that's just a few days ago, this state and indeed the whole

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of America was celebrating the anniversary, a year of gay marriage.

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It seemed as if for many in the LGBT community this was a place that was

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becoming freer, more open and accepting of its LGBT community. But

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an act like this goes straight to the heart of terror and it is up to

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America to figure out what kind of place it wants to be. Over to you,

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Evan. Well, not withstanding events

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in the US, the referendum campaign here in the UK has been

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intensifying, immigration But with ten days to go

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now, Newsnight is out We don't have a battle bus,

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but our Newsnight truck helpfully transforms into instant studio,

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from which we'll be getting fresh perspectives, we'll be asking

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you questions and debating They say all politics is local

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and we'll be stopping in a diverse selection of localities,

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from the industrial hub of Middlesbrough, to the football

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mad City of Leicester, to the postcard pretty market

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town of Chipping Norton. We'll end up in the southern seaside

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resort of Bognor Regis on Friday. I've come to the Outer Hebrides,

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to the Isle of Lewis. Many say Brussels is remote,

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too distance to Many say Brussels is remote,

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too distant to connect to our needs. Nowhere in the country can say that

:20:46.:20:47.

with more conviction Further geographically

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from the heart of the EU In our last Europe referendum,

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the Western Isles were one of only Unfortunately it's a little

:20:54.:21:00.

expensive to get the truck here, so I hopped over to Stornoway

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by plane and have left it We'll join Kirsty a little later

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for that Glasgow perspective. But one big issue in this

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campaign is distinctiveness. Everywhere in Europe,

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everywhere in the world, And many feel that membership

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of a big, sprawling EU Well, there are not many places

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in the UK or the EU that are as truly distinctive

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as the Isle of Lewis. The top left-hand corner of Britain,

:21:38.:21:42.

a beautiful location. It scores unusually high

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on religious observance; certainly don't come here for shopping

:21:49.:21:50.

on the Sunday sabbath. It's low on population density

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and diversity; and it is hideously light at this time

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of year and night. So is Brussels a friend or foe,

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to an island like this? John Sweeney has been here,

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sounding out local opinion. You're listening to Annie on Isles

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FM and she is excellent. We certainly are, it is 8.34

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and a half, I'm very pleased to welcome into the studio

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from Newsnight, John Sweeney. Outer Hebrides, please,

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let's get this right. You've come up to do a piece

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about the EU referendum What's fascinating about this place

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is that there is very little little inward immigration,

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which is a big issue and in England and the rest of

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Britain. Here, you can look at the economic

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argument pretty purely, in a way, As well as the fact that it is one

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of the most beautiful places MUSIC: "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) -

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The Proclaimers referendum, the Isle of Lewis

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was one of only two places So, 40 years on, will the most

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north-westerly community If you seek the beauty

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of the European Union, Scalpaigh Bridge, a poem

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in steel and concrete. Cost, 6 million quid,

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more than half of it paid Proof, if proof were needed,

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say Remain, that the European Union If we get out of the European Union,

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we have control over If we want to build

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a bridge, we can. This whiskey distillery is not even

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a year old. Its setup costs were part funded

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by the EU and for that, seen over the last 20,

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30 years has had the European badge on it, saying

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it is it is part-funded. So in the simplest terms,

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it has provided funding, We used to have single-track

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roads all over the place. You might notice if you drove

:24:20.:24:30.

from Stornoway today, Every piece of that road has got

:24:31.:24:33.

European funding in it. We have to produce a very,

:24:34.:24:37.

very high quality product here and charge a good price for it

:24:38.:24:39.

to make sure that we can get it to market, get it to people

:24:40.:24:43.

with a profit margin. Europe is obviously going to be

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a huge market for us because it's close, so the logistics

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are easier to deal with. But now to the most famous

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export of these islands. Harris Tweed, it's worn by everyone

:24:53.:24:55.

from Vivienne Westwood And every inch of it

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comes through here. So this is wet wool,

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which has a distinctive smell that No, no, it's just a very

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distinctive smell! At Harris Tweed Hebrides we are very

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much for remaining part of Europe. We depend very heavily on trading

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with our European partners, trading with different

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countries in Europe, France, Germany and Italy

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in particular and we find that These are all markets we are looking

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to grow and expand the coming years. It is nine o'clock and

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the catch is being landed. Do you think if we pull out

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of Europe tomorrow they are going We have a massive Spanish and French

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fleet fishing off the west Coast of Scotland but we have a very

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limited quota for white fish. But they can fish UK water,

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on our doorstep, but we can't. The Common Fisheries Policy just

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hasn't worked in the UK as a whole. Kipper fillets, we have

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smoked mackerels. Some of Ross's fish

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will end up here, in This is the old kiln, this was one

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of the original kippering kilns. Kippers used to be loaded

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from the top down with ladders This is what we use

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for our own salmon. Our own smoked salmon

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is done in here. As you can see, the walls

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are covered in a thick layer of tar. The EU is a vast, vampiric

:26:45.:26:48.

bureaucracy feeding off itself I defy you to go out

:26:49.:26:53.

of here and find anybody who can tell you the distinction

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between the European Council, the Council of Europe,

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the European Parliament, In '75, this part of

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the world voted to leave. It will do, most of the customers

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who come into our The Outer Hebrides was Labour

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and is now SNP and both How the vote will pan out,

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no one knows for sure. Excuse me, sir, please

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don't swim away. Well, let's get a little

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more of the debate here. I'm with Mary Anne McIver, who runs

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a tourist business in Stornaway. And Robert MacInnes,

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who has a building firm. Thank you for joining us. You are

:27:58.:28:07.

leaning towards out, I think, Robert. Why is that? Before we

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joined the EU, the harbour was full of local fishing boats and now there

:28:15.:28:19.

are next to none. The French, the Spanish, the Dutch, they are allowed

:28:20.:28:23.

to come into Scotland, catch twice the quota we are allowed, from day

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one. If we leave, is the fishing industry going to come back, do you

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think? It will never come back to where it was, they've cleaned it

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out. You are leaning, you are not quite as firm as Robert. What would

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make you want to stay? I've been involved into arisen for the last 30

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years and I've seen huge investment in infrastructure, training and

:28:56.:28:59.

quality standards, marketing, everything has benefited from

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Europe. At the airport we can see a plaque saying that the airport was

:29:05.:29:07.

paid for party with funds from Europe. What do you make of that,

:29:08.:29:13.

Robert? If we didn't give the money to Brussels in the first place and

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the UK Government directly gave it to the tourist industry or directly

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to the farmers in Britain and directly to the fisher in Britain,

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there would be more -- to the fishermen. Maryanne, who do you

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think is more in touch and who is going to be looking after the

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western isles more, Brussels or London? I'd have to say London,

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absolutely, certainly in Scotland we'd have to say Edinburgh. We are

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looking out for our own people, who stand up for us. I think we have

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lost a bit of that through Europe, through the kind of governance in

:29:58.:30:00.

many respects. That's why you are still wavering? Yes, I'm not sure

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and to be honest it will be on the day that I decide. One reason why so

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many people in Scotland I think what to vote to remain is that perhaps

:30:12.:30:15.

they see it as a counterbalance to the power of London. You are a

:30:16.:30:19.

supporter of the SNP, so you don't want to be dominated by the English,

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I think that's obvious. You don't see Brussels as balancing power in

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London? No, it is even further away that the money is being sent, the UK

:30:32.:30:36.

Government send it to Brussels, they send ?100 and get ?70 back. We are

:30:37.:30:43.

supposed to be grateful. The debate here is a bit distinctive, fishing

:30:44.:30:47.

played a big part in the decision, the vote to come out last time. What

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about immigration? If you watch the news and look at the debate in

:30:54.:30:57.

England, it is full of immigration. Is that playing here at all? Not at

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all. We've got a few people coming from the Eastern bloc who have come

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here and they are very welcome, they are integrated and they are a

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necessary part of what we do. Especially in the tourism industry,

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they are necessary to do the jobs, they have children who go to school.

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I have seen little evidence of any Eastern European migration. There

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are Polish people here? Have implied four polish people, great workers,

:31:33.:31:36.

work hard, pay their taxes. I'd certainly welcome more. There are

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fish factories here totally run by Latvians... When you watch the way

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the argument is going, how connected is it to the issues here? To be

:31:47.:31:54.

honest, for people like me, Joe Published, we've had so much

:31:55.:32:00.

politics in the last few years, with the referendum, we are bombarded

:32:01.:32:06.

with Leave or State, or whatever so we are quite distrustful of what we

:32:07.:32:10.

are hearing, what is being reported. That is why people are not sure

:32:11.:32:15.

which way to vote. Thank you both very much.

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I've chatted to people asking them to predict the result.

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And I've had entirely contradictory answers.

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How about in other parts of Scotland though?

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Kirsty is with the Newsnight dormobile, in Glasgow.

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of Kelvingrove Gallery, which has suitably

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European connections, built in the Spanish Baroque style

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for the Glasgow International exhibition in 1901.

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The arguments in the debate broadly in Scotland are over

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the economic impact of the EU, but migration is not the issue

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We'll be talking about that in a moment with the psephologist

:32:58.:33:00.

extraordinaire Professor John Curtice, but first let's go

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to our political editor, Nick Watt, who has learned about a possible

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News that the Solder has formally backed Brexit. A surprise? Not

:33:06.:33:15.

really, it has not been a great friend of the European union over

:33:16.:33:23.

the years. Remember that headline Up Yours Delors. The newspaper takes

:33:24.:33:28.

pride in reflecting the ideas of swing voters and is relentlessly

:33:29.:33:33.

political because it homes in on the argument giving sleepless nights in

:33:34.:33:35.

three straight which is that the riskiest option is to stay in and

:33:36.:33:41.

those won't be helped by a YouGov poll in the times tonight which

:33:42.:33:45.

suggests that Leave is seven point head. Another set of figures is

:33:46.:33:50.

causing concern, the suggestion that support among Labour voters is

:33:51.:33:54.

falling. This is where the PM has seceded the campaign for Remain to

:33:55.:34:00.

Labour at the moment. You saw Gordon Brown campaigning although there are

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divisions inside the Labour Party. Many are concerned that Jeremy

:34:05.:34:08.

Corbyn 's celebration of immigration is not helping the blue-collar

:34:09.:34:12.

natural Labour voters who identify with the Vote Leave warnings on

:34:13.:34:15.

immigration. The Shadow ministers are careful what they say yet Ed

:34:16.:34:20.

Balls and Yvette Cooper and former Cabinet members were able to come

:34:21.:34:23.

out and say that if we remained in the EU we could have controls on

:34:24.:34:29.

immigration. We could use the UK presidency of the EU next year to

:34:30.:34:35.

persuade Jenkin countries to perhaps but in border controls. We will be

:34:36.:34:38.

seeing the Prime Minister a game, the Chancellor will make a big

:34:39.:34:42.

speech at Mansion house on Thursday night on economic risks with Mark

:34:43.:34:46.

Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, and on Friday, the big day,

:34:47.:34:50.

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF will against big about

:34:51.:34:55.

what Brexit could mean for the economy. That is because Downing

:34:56.:34:59.

Street firmly believes that the referendum will be won on the

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economy. The lesson they took from the Scottish referendum was that

:35:04.:35:07.

Project Fear did win the referendum. It wasn't a pledge of further

:35:08.:35:13.

devolutionary powers to Hollywood, it was Project Fear, the economic

:35:14.:35:15.

risk and that is the territory that they want to get back onto. Nick,

:35:16.:35:18.

thank you. What is the latest position in the

:35:19.:35:33.

polls? The evidence is beginning to Camilla and that Leave has made

:35:34.:35:38.

progress. One poll shows a 3-point swing, and mother of four point

:35:39.:35:41.

swing. If we look at all ten opinion polls done over the Internet, since

:35:42.:35:47.

the government has no longer had access to the civil service machine

:35:48.:35:52.

and has dominated headlines by producing paper after paper warning

:35:53.:35:56.

us of the allegedly dire consequences of leaving the EU,

:35:57.:36:00.

since then the opinion polls done over the Internet have on average

:36:01.:36:05.

per delivered to's at 51.5. Before that those polls have always said it

:36:06.:36:11.

was 50-50, and even split. Those polls are still on average better

:36:12.:36:18.

for Remain but in the last couple of weeks including one today we had

:36:19.:36:23.

telephone polls putting Leave head. And on average in those polls only

:36:24.:36:29.

52% support Remain. This referendum is looking much closer than ten days

:36:30.:36:35.

ago. What is the split Nationwide? The truth is that Scotland is

:36:36.:36:39.

certain to Remain although the polls here have given Remain two thirds of

:36:40.:36:44.

the vote and Leave only one third of the vote. Equally in Northern

:36:45.:36:48.

Ireland, it looks as if there will be a 60-40 split in favour of

:36:49.:36:54.

remaining. It's must undoubtedly the case whereas in England and in Wales

:36:55.:37:01.

Leave are ahead. Might it be that Scotland pulls England in? If we are

:37:02.:37:07.

looking at a situation where we may get only 51% support for Remain, in

:37:08.:37:13.

that event, Scotland and Northern Ireland will have been pivotal in

:37:14.:37:17.

keeping the UK inside the European Union. Nick mentioned that speech by

:37:18.:37:19.

Gordon Brown. an audience of university students

:37:20.:37:21.

and it was interesting to note that his closing pitch to them

:37:22.:37:25.

stressed his view of Britain's What sort of message would we send

:37:26.:37:27.

to the world on June 23, if we, Britain, who consider ourselves one

:37:28.:37:32.

of the most internationally-minded countries of the world,

:37:33.:37:34.

who consider ourselves to be outward looking, engaged, decided to walk

:37:35.:37:38.

away from our nearest neighbours? This is not the Britain I know,

:37:39.:37:42.

this is not the Britain I believe in, this is not the Britain

:37:43.:37:46.

we should aspire to be. We should be a leader in Europe

:37:47.:37:50.

and not leaving it, and that's But could Scotland

:37:51.:37:53.

keep the UK in the EU? With the prospect that

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Nicola Sturgeon could But that would reduce

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the likelihood of another Scottish referendum, which a

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Brexit might trigger. To discuss this I'm joined

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by Glasgow multimillionaire businessman John Boyle, who is

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leading a one-man charge to leave, the SNP's Alisdair Allan,

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and the writer Denise Mina. Good evening. First, Alisdair,

:38:26.:38:32.

hasn't David Cameron sort of been using the SNP to say, basically, if

:38:33.:38:38.

you vote to Leave will have another referendum and that could mean a

:38:39.:38:42.

split in the UK. You could be called David Cameron's poodle, doing his

:38:43.:38:48.

work for him. I think that's a far-fetched reading of the

:38:49.:38:50.

situation. We face a simple choice next week about whether we want to

:38:51.:38:54.

be in the EU. That is the question that will be on the ballot paper.

:38:55.:39:00.

It's no secret that I want Scottish independent, so does the Scottish

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Government, yet that is not what we are being asked. It could be like

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Project Fear, he says that if we vote to Remain less chance of

:39:11.:39:13.

independence. I don't think people see it in those terms, people are

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starting to see it as the campaign gets tighter, see what's happening,

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people are beginning to think of the positive case for being in Europe.

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And also thinking about what is the prospect that Leave site offers as

:39:28.:39:32.

to how we coexist and trade with the rest of Europe in future? John, a

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lot of what was said in that film will be no deal. You have businesses

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all over the UK, undoubtedly -- it will be known to you. That

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distillery has been open for your... The fact is that the one thing

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becoming increasingly clear is that this nonsense that if we vote to

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Leave, Europe somehow will not trade with us. It's nonsense. We run a

:40:00.:40:05.

trade deficit with Europe of ?9 billion a month. We give them ?9

:40:06.:40:14.

billion... There's a huge deficit. The idea that the French, when we

:40:15.:40:23.

put in ?1.3 billion of their wine -- that we import that, would tax us

:40:24.:40:29.

when we export ?480 million of whiskey, it's absolute nonsense. Sir

:40:30.:40:34.

James Dyson at this weekend highlighted this. I think people are

:40:35.:40:39.

becoming increasingly susceptible to the fact that the economic argument

:40:40.:40:44.

survey does not stand up. Denise. Ray mac and John, they are looking

:40:45.:40:48.

at a broader spreadsheet, looking at trade with Britain, they get this

:40:49.:40:54.

much profit from it. They also looking at trade jeopardised with

:40:55.:40:58.

other European countries. If Europe fractures they will have to

:40:59.:41:01.

negotiate tariffs and deal with all those other countries so... Why

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would Europe commit economic suicide by imposing tariffs on us but not

:41:10.:41:14.

reasonable when they sell more to us than we do to them? Because they are

:41:15.:41:21.

looking at the value of having the European Community. It is

:41:22.:41:24.

interesting that your passion is not matched by what we're hearing from

:41:25.:41:30.

Leave in Scotland, they have been muted, to do regret that? It has

:41:31.:41:35.

been rated, there's a possibility of election fatigue Scotland. I think

:41:36.:41:39.

John Curtis was right, Scotland will undoubtedly vote, not as I think

:41:40.:41:46.

because I think a lot of people in Scotland will vote Remain because

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they fear the prospect of another referendum, and they are now having

:41:51.:41:54.

second thoughts because there was another referendum, bring it on,

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we'd win even more convincingly. Let's look at the question of

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migration. Is it not true that overall migration is the same

:42:04.:42:07.

roughly as it is in England but it is fair to say that we don't have

:42:08.:42:11.

the concentrated areas in Scotland as they do in England and that's the

:42:12.:42:18.

problem. People become ghettoised. It's a sign that people are not made

:42:19.:42:23.

welcome and don't feel safe in disparate communities. But I think

:42:24.:42:28.

people do feel safe here. People from other countries have made a

:42:29.:42:32.

huge contribution to Scotland culturally and economically. It's

:42:33.:42:36.

important to say that we are talking in Scotland about communities from

:42:37.:42:40.

across the EU whose future will be very uncertain if we're not part of.

:42:41.:42:46.

Not only that, it is a two-way street because there are plenty of

:42:47.:42:49.

British people living in countries in Europe whose future would be

:42:50.:42:55.

equally... Earlier in this campaign we went to Boston, Lincolnshire,

:42:56.:42:59.

where 10% of the population from Eastern Europe. If that happened in

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a town like Stirling it would feel different. People who come here from

:43:05.:43:10.

Europe, coming to make their home in Scotland and big us that complement

:43:11.:43:14.

our making a net contribution economically and culturally to

:43:15.:43:18.

Scotland. They are less likely to be claiming benefits than anyone, more

:43:19.:43:25.

likely to be claiming tax. I think it is unfortunate that elements of

:43:26.:43:28.

the Leave campaign have chosen to make this an unpleasant debate about

:43:29.:43:34.

migration. This is exactly where Remain have gone wrong. They have

:43:35.:43:40.

consistently, the Prime Minister and particularly the Labour Party,

:43:41.:43:43.

refused to discuss immigration. I would concede wholeheartedly it is

:43:44.:43:48.

less of an issue in Scotland than in England but when you have 330,000

:43:49.:43:55.

people coming from the EU into the city the size of Coventry, no matter

:43:56.:44:01.

what benefits there may be, the pressure that it puts on schools and

:44:02.:44:07.

the NHS is... It is nonsense to suggest that we can sweep that under

:44:08.:44:11.

the carpet. It has not been swept under the carpet. The point is

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leaving the EU will not necessarily resolve migration. Control our own

:44:17.:44:25.

borders, of course it will. It won't make that much difference! The world

:44:26.:44:30.

is fundamentally changing. The coming philosophical question of the

:44:31.:44:34.

edge, how do you maintain a cultural identity in a globalised

:44:35.:44:39.

environment. It is not the EU, it's a globalised environment. You are

:44:40.:44:43.

telling me that... One of the reasons we are democratic is we

:44:44.:44:48.

control our own borders, laws and taxes. If we control none of those

:44:49.:44:53.

we want the country. Can I ask you to address this briefly, Alisdair?

:44:54.:44:58.

If Remain is successful, do you admit that it will push the idea of

:44:59.:45:01.

independence in Scotland into the long grass? I don't accept

:45:02.:45:14.

the premises of these questions. There is a simple question being put

:45:15.:45:17.

to us about the positive case for remaining in the European Union and

:45:18.:45:20.

that is what people in Scotland are thinking of. Of course if Scotland

:45:21.:45:22.

is put in a position where it is tracked out of the European union

:45:23.:45:25.

against its will electorally of course that will have an impact and

:45:26.:45:29.

create new pressures around the case for independence, for the case

:45:30.:45:33.

independence. The case for independence has been around for a

:45:34.:45:38.

long time and it isn't going away. Briefly, Denise, you want to stay in

:45:39.:45:42.

the UK and you accept that if we leave we are more likely to have

:45:43.:45:45.

another referendum. I think people are exhausted, you are right, they

:45:46.:45:50.

are exhausted being asked to write in to constitutional questions, we

:45:51.:45:54.

have to be bound by the outcome of the referendum, whether it is what

:45:55.:45:58.

we would like not. Thank you. That is all from here tonight, there will

:45:59.:46:02.

be more from Emily in Orlando and will be moving on with our Road

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truck tomorrow. From all of us in Glasgow, good night.

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