05/10/2016 Newsnight

For the referendum was not just a vote to withdraw from the EU.

That the world works well for a privileged

We will not allow their children to have the

same opportunities that wealthier children enjoy.

Time to reject the ideological templates provided by the socialist

Theresa May tells Britain a change has got to come.

Tonight, Newsnight has learned of a major shift in economic policy

The prime minister spoke of the unfair side effects

I understand the government's warming up to a more Keynsian fiscal

One of the Prime Minister's closest advisors joins us live,

and we'll discuss the impact of the whole speech.

This week was about one woman - and one speech.

Today, we heard from Theresa May - full throated in her pitch

We'll come onto the land grab in a second.

But first, Newsnight has learnt of a brand new direction that her

Theresa May talked of the bad side effects of quantitative easing.

So are we about to see a quiet revolution there too?

Our political editor Nick Watt has the story and he's with me now.

What have you learned? I understand that Theresa May wants to embark on

a major shift of economic policy. This is to move away from what

George Osborne described back in 2009 as monetary activism which

brought us low interest rates and quantitative easing. Her view is in

the future the emphasis should be more in the direction of fiscal

policy, to you and me that means tax and spending. This is what she said

in her speech in Birmingham earlier today.

Because while monetary policy with superlow interest rates

and quantitative easing provided the necessary emergency medicine

after the financial crash, we have to acknowledge

that there have been some bad side-effects.

People with mortgages have found their debts cheaper.

People with savings have found themselves poorer.

A change has got to come and we are going to deliver it.

Her speech today came after a speech from Philip Hammond on Monday. He

said as the government response to the Brexit vote, fiscal policy may

have a role. Downing Street are making absolutely clear that

monetary policy is solely the preserve of the Bank of England

which is independent. But I understand that her view is that as

we move forward, and possibly as early as the Autumn Statement on the

23rd of November, we will see an emphasis away from monetary policy,

although the Bank of England is still in charge of that, in favour

of fiscal policy. And, whisper it carefully, when Theresa May talks

about public investment and getting a better return on the investment,

it feels to me as if we may be moving mildly and slowly to a more

Keynesian approach. What do you sense is driving this shift? There

is one simple explanation which is changing times require changing

circumstances and responses. This tells us a lot about her philosophy.

She said these low interest rates have hit low income earners who have

seen their savings suffer, and uses those are the sort of people who

feel disaffected and were more likely to vote out in the Brexit

vote. She was saying her big message today was that vote on the 23rd of

June was not just about leaving the European Union, it was a cry of

desperation from people who feel alienated from the system and that

it is those people that she wants to champion and it is those people she

says are leading her to try and redefine the centre ground of

British politics. We will pick-up on that in a moment.

Most leaders appeal to the centre ground.

Some leaders create the centre ground.

Theresa May was in no doubt which one she wants to be.

She attempted to stride the harbour - like the medieval vision

of Colossus - left foot firmly in praise

of state intervention, right foot placed on the pulse

It was a big gesture - and a towering presence of a speech

which name checked not just Cameron, Major and Thatcher

Miliband and McDonnell may well have heard echoes - or more

But as any classics scholar will tell you, Colossus snapped

at the knees as an earthquake sent the statue tumbling to the ground.

So tonight, we ask the big question of the May premiership.

And can she remain upright in her attempts to occupy so much of it?

First, a reminder that perhaps not all of Theresa May's vision is

entirely new. To stand up for the week and to

stand up to the strong. He may be strong at standing up to the week,

but he's always weak when it comes to standing up against the strong. A

director who takes out massive dividends while knowing that the

company pension is about to go bust. Under Labour there will be no more

Philip Greens at all. Our lower skilled workers with less education

to compete directly against vulnerable American workers and they

are hurting a lot of our people that cannot get jobs. Someone who finds

themselves out of work or on lower wages because of low skilled

immigration, life simply doesn't seem fair. We need is an economy

with that works for every part of this country so that no community is

left behind. To build a country that works for everyone, not just the

privileged few. We mean -- we need to make sure that our economy works

for everyone, not just those at the top. Clement Attlee, with a vision

to build a great institution. Clement Attlee who presided over a

great Labour government. That is why when markets are functional we

should be prepared to intervene. Some people blame the companies but

ultimately, I don't think that is where the blame lies. I think it

lies with government on not having the strength to take it on. Not

having stood up to the powerful interests. Lots of echoes there, if

you think you have heard it all before, you might have heard some of

it before. George Freeman is Theresa May's

designated thinker, I want to come onto the philosophy

that you and she are setting out, but just a word on the story which

Nick brought us there. Does that sound right, the resetting economic

policy away from what we have seen, the concert is easing towards

something which seems much more Keynesian? Yes, Philip Hammond will

set this out in the Autumn Statement. Theresa May has been very

clear that this model of bail out the banks and stabilise the economy

has had a profound effect on distribution of wealth. Those with

assets have done very much better than those without. We have to

listen to the roar that we heard this year and we have to think that

with money available at 0%, we want to drive industrial strategy and get

infrastructure built, we have to make sure we have all the mechanisms

to make sure money flows properly. So this is a green light to all

things we can expect to come? I don't know about all the things. If

we are to build a model of economic growth with opportunities, creates

hope that through the pain of getting through the debt crisis that

there is growth and sustainable growth for tomorrow, and the people

in places that have been left behind, and see infrastructure and

opportunity. Does she shut off the QE tap? It is up to the Bank of

England to set out with their mandate how they handle that, but

she is signalling loud and clear that we have to understand what

affect this model of growth has had for those who are paying for it, the

citizens of this country, and we have to make sure the economy works

for them. OK, let's get the big speech. There is talk of the quiet

revolution but it was not quite at all, Brexit, it is the biggest thing

to happen to this country in decades. It was certainly a

revolution. There was a moment of shock. She has done three big

things, firstly to signal we heard it, we heard that shock and the roar

behind it. Yes, people have voted to leave the EU but we are also hearing

something else and we cover this party, are listening. She was rates

clear that we will be reformers and we will put in place the change to

deal with it. Secondly, when you think of the division in the spring

in this country and the Conservative Party, she has unified us and she is

talking about unity of the country, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England

and Wales. But this was a big land grab. Ed Miliband will have heard

echoes of many of his speeches, even the predator speech which he was

condemned for and Aaron Banks said she has relabelled the Conservative

Party as Ukip. Does that make you happy? Not at all. She has signalled

that we will go into the territories that Labour have abandoned. Labour

have abandoned their working-class roots and Ukip are stealing a march.

She mentioned the working class seven times. Who are the working

class? She was also cleared to call out the sneering dismissal of the

basic needs, desires and aspirations of the working class. She meant it

in a very generous way... But who is that? They work and want the simple

things in life. They want to know they are not being taken for

granted. But are they the same as alarm clock Britain or the strivers

or the hard-working families? Is she talking about a different set or is

it another word? Why does she bring class back into it? I think she is

trying to make clear that there is a cohort of people in this country, I

don't think she was meaning anything derogatory at all, there is a group

of people in this country who have tightened their belts, spend less,

worked harder. Many families, everyone in the family working and

this model of growth has not been working for them and she is

absolutely determined, if the Labour Party are to abandon them, we will

not. You think you can talk tough on immigration. Some language has been

called xenophobic and you can appeal to the left, if you like, the

traditional left? Banker I completely reject. Xenophobia has

come from Ukip, filling the space which has been left by the Labour

Party and this model of growth. The third thing today's she has put

herself up there with a speech, a vision, omission, we have now got to

it into policy and deliver it. She is signalling that we will go to the

next stage and make sure everyone can play in this game, not just the

few. Thank you. But enough for a moment from us -

the journalists and speechwriters and commentators -

the newly-named and shamed What of all those she was really

appealing to with this speech? John Sweeney gathered

a roomful of Labour voters, Tory voters, Remainers

and Brexiteers in Birmingham. Six Birmingham people in a room,

Stuart Hansen, Ukip activist. Jackie Cummins, floating voter. An

economics student labour, a doctor, Tori. A floating voter and a Tory

who voted for Brexit. Theresa started them up all right. Do we

have a plan for Brexit? We do. Are we ready for the effort it will take

to see it through? We are. Can Boris Johnson stay on message for a full

four days? LAUGHTER

She is not Ken Dodd but she had a go. A relaxed feel. You felt relaxed

listening to her. She was more relaxed in last year's conference

speech I thought when she was Home Secretary. There was more of levity

this time round and I think she is comfortable in the she is in now.

We are truly the party of the workers, of public servants, of the

NHS. APPLAUSE

It was interesting the way she has taken the Conservative Party more

into the middle. Talking about social fairness and justice. And

wanting to be able to reach both parts of the Conservative Party as

never before. Surely this is bad news for Labour? Stealing their

boats? It is a huge risk for Labour, stealing Labour's clobazam language.

At the same time, with all of the language, I think Labour voters are

intentionally Labour Ukip inclined and she has thrown red meat to the

traditional Tory voters. I would agree, there was a lot of rehashing

of old policies and mantras without necessarily the substance behind it.

Come with me and we will write that brighter future, we will make that

change. What is a verdict of the Birmingham judges? It was delivered

well. It came across well. I would have to say she is nothing like

David Cameron, which is a positive. Jackie, you voted for Labour in the

past? I have, yes. Did she rock your boat? She did and I am waiting to

see what she can deliver, if she can stand to her word. Well delivered,

she was pitching to Labour voters strongly and she sounded like the

last Labour manifesto. The test if she can deliver it. I thought you

set had very clear visions of the revival of the nation. I was a

little bit enamoured, shall we say! You used to be Lib Dem? Where you

turn on and off? Middle ground. She came across reasonably well, but

parts of the speech were a little bit soppy. I thought your priorities

are uniting the country that needs to go through a lot of change and

she got that across really well. Soppy? Yes, the Brownlee brothers,

that is a great story to watch. As other competitors ran past, he

stopped, reached out his hand. And gently carried him home. I thought,

pass me the sick bucket! To sum up, thumbs-up?

LAUGHTER I could not count those films! We

will come back to that later. Joining me now, Julian Glover,

former speechwriter and Jonathan Friedland

from the Guardian. Julian, you have written speeches

were David Cameron, how do you see this? A brave speech? Certainly

break, a great success, she came across as somebody who really

believed what she was saying, this is something she has been storing up

many years, she has finally get the chance to get it over and she said

that well and interrupted her own applause at times, it was not

completely fluent but heartfelt and it will have impressed voters and

had extremely strong ideas at the core and that

helps the speech. You told us earlier you thought it was rather

cowardly? In the form that it deposited itself as a uniting

speech, everyone, this party is but everyone in Britain and it created a

character of immediate predecessors, George Osborne, David Cameron, the

liberal elite, people like myself and Jonathan, were accused of having

sneered at the working class. And Melanie, also! I am outnumbered! I

think we all fall into the metropolitan elite somehow and we

have to just... Confess and move on! But the call of that but he did

suggest there was a group of people who somehow meant harm to Britain

and she is speaking for a fresh centre ground and she reinvented the

centre ground. That was a little bit cowardly and not a fair description

of her predecessors but in terms of ideas it was strong. You are Times

columnist, that is very establishment by the judgment of

most people, do you think this speech reached the heart of Britain?

I think she has put her finger on an important point, that the division

now is not between left and right, these are meaningless concept and it

is not between parties, any more, it is within parties and the great

division, and it has been like this for at least three decades, she is a

first politician to articulate this, the great division is between

putting the individual first, myself, my lifestyle, I cannot tell

anybody else how to live, my culture is no

better than anybody else, it is liberal internationalism that were

part of a brotherhood of man, there is something unsavoury about the

nation and the particular and identifying with a particular

community with a particular nation and particular culture... What are

you saying that people are not allowed to admit to? Were not

allowed to identify with the particulars of the nation expressing

itself through democratic self-governance. This is until

Brexit, reflecting a particular culture, tradition, set of

traditions, religion, literature and the rest of it. Do you think that

has been dead and? And left and right have been complicit, an unholy

Alliance, on the left, what I would call social liberalism,

internationalism, and on the right, economic liberalism, and both have

put the individual alone at the heart of politics. This is quiet

revolution? Melanie is projecting her own and issues. This is not

necessarily what Theresa May signed up for, a nation without patriotism,

until June 23, and then we switched onto some other people. David

Cameron, he would have spoken in collective terms of his predecessors

also. This was a very big deal, this speech. It was formidable and a very

effective speech. And a chartered a lot of ideas. The big one for me

was, here is the second woman Prime Minister breaking from the view of

the first one, touching on individualism, there is more towards

us and individuals, there is a society and it really does include

the state so this was a plea for active interventionist government.

Ed Miliband, Heseltine could have delivered it. We have this admission

there will be a Keynesian economic policy. Was this essentially

borrowed... The editor of the Daily Mail could have written other chunks

of this! It was remarkably clever or means nothing? Things are changing.

And the old labels, things fall apart, so the centre cannot hold, it

is being reformed before our eyes about where politics lies. I guess

she would just be the Prime Minister for Brexit? And she is trying hard

not to be that. She has, in strongly and sensibly with the first speech,

the good that the state can do, that is a powerful idea. Because that

Melanie is referring to is the big debate in politics at the moment is

inside the Conservative party between George Osborne and everybody

else in the Cabinet agreeing with Theresa May. Open versus closed.

George Osborne should be the leader, quite frankly. That is the division,

social liberalism versus nation and community and the poor, for whom the

left are supposed to stand for, have been left high and dry by economic

and social liberalism. We need community. Labour has set its face

against this, saying people who stand up community in the sense of

the nation by xenophobic, bigoted and all the rest of it and Brexit

was a result of those people against the sneering metropolitan

intelligentsia. You are painting the idea of the people had an issue of

migration, that has automatically been branded and that is not right,

you can believe still in the nation, you don't have to sign up for the

rest of what you describe. This point of believe and remain

distinction is the big fault line in politics within parties and outside.

That does go to open and closed. People who to be independent of the

EU, to restore them a chronic -- democratic self-governance have been

called xenophobic. Nothing to do with immigration... The word was

parochial. The first term I had the word being used without it being

derogatory. She has a word about -- she has a point about the

metropolitan elite? Representing areas of Britain that have been

ignored. For me, it'll be the people in the outer suburbs of times like

Derby, seats like North East Derbyshire Newal Road I live, is it

the Conservative Party nearly one, traditionally Labour, quite right

wing in many cultural attitudes, Labour has walked away from that

seat and the Conservative party has a chance and I think it is true that

at the glossiness and the London angle of politics did not speak for

those people. She wants to be defined by being non-London? In the

way that people find very reassuring. The word parochial is

interesting because parochial as Bilic of abuse but there are huge

swathes of people for whom the parish and the community is where

their whole lives and well-being are rated. The famous metropolitan

intelligentsia... They are not linked that way. Let us not pretend

this is a new device, to reel against the hated elite. There is

something of the strawman in this, the idea of the elite on their

yachts but they are also the same people who are also liberal on

social issues. It is a very convenient device. It can be the

many against the very few. It is the self, I am making money and free to

live exactly as I choose and to hell with everybody else. That is -- that

is an entirely on their representation at David Cameron, he

talked about the big society, he worked for these things and it is

unfair to say that Cameron and Osborne, that legacy and Tony Blair

and Gordon Brown, that people dying. It has been airbrushed. It is a

little bit and we have record employment here, and with people

from the UK. I think they will challenge Theresa May with some of

the easy promises that might be made to people are not delivered, she did

not talk about the deficit. We have run out of time. I am so sorry!

Thank you all so much. One reason there appears to be

so much centre ground, of course, is the absence of what she sees

as any workable opposition. She dubbed Labour

the new nasty party. And she made a clear appeal to Ukip

- a party who as of today - cannot even say for sure

who leads it. After Diane James quit less

than three weeks into the job - the party is wondering

what or who comes next. Steven Woolfe - who memorably missed

the deadline last time around - has thrown his hat into

the ring today. Aaron Banks, the businessman who has

bankrolled Ukip in recent years I asked him about the lack

of authority that Diane James complained about in her resignation

letter. Well, I think it has been clear

to everybody that there is a rift in the party and we have this time

of faction led by Neil Hamilton and They made his life very difficult,

particularly in the referendum. And it was those two

who made her life difficult, was it? I wouldn't say that exactly,

but what I would say is she got elected on the idea of her reform

agenda, which she obviously felt So for the party to go forward

there is going to have to be You talked about a new direction,

a kind of momentum for the right. Is that where you would still

like to go? As a result of the referendum

campaign, we had nearly And we think that is quite

powerful and we certainly If you look at what is happening

in Italy with the Five Star movement, I think there

is still scope for an online movement but you would really have

to say to yourself, if you looked to Theresa May's speech today,

it was really Nigel Farage It is all the policies he has been

condemned for for a very long time. And what it does show is that

in the end, pressure does pay off, particularly if it has

got public support. So she is stealing your

voters, pretty much? I don't know whether

she is stealing. She has basically today rebranded

the Conservative Party Ukip. Many people would say

he is but I don't think he is. He got in with some very

specific objectives, If the Tories have adopted Ukip,

you don't need to exist? If you look at the General Election,

Ukip finished second all over the north, in places the Tories

cannot possibly win. And, in fact, the analysis

of the General Election result showed that it was Ukip votes

in marginal seats that gave So I think there is a huge

opportunity to take on the Labour Party and actually

make a huge difference. It is jolly weird when somebody

like Steven Woolfe, who today said he is standing, nearly defected

to the Tories himself? Politics nowadays is

pretty weird, isn't it? Give us a sense of who

you are backing. I don't blame him, by the way,

in a sense because it was treated In the last leadership election

he was not allowed to put his name forward because his forms were 17

minutes late, despite the fact he had been trying

all day to submit them. So this is all about personality

rifts and not policy rifts? I think the party has

to professionalise, it has to get its act together,

but Steven Woolfe could actually do that, particularly in the Labour

heartlands, he is I know the media like to write off

Ukip but Ukip have fundamentally I don't think anyone is writing

you off but we are Your money would follow Steven

Wolfe? I will back the party

if it is reformed and has You called the last lot out

of their depth in a paddling pool. Can I ask if it was Susanne Evans

or Paul Nuttall or Raheem Kassam, I think Steven Woolfe is the one

candidate who could do it. So without Steven Woolfe, basically,

Aaron Banks' money isn't in Ukip, He is going to win overwhelmingly

so I don't think it is really Can you rule yourself out

of the contest? I don't think Ukip needs

a leader that is more For all the bad press it gets,

the financial services industry employs more than a million people

in this country - indeed - it's something we do well -

most of the world's biggest banks A scheme called passporting allows

them to trade all over Europe, and the worry up till now has been

what happens after we leave the EU. Well, the City, it seems,

is putting its faith Adam Parsons asks if it really

is the answer, and crucially if our European friends really

want to help London. Are there cracks appearing

in the City of London, the very heart of our

financial services industry? This place has known some heady

times and some very public crises. But it remains an incredible machine

for generating billions But now the future is

becoming rather confused. The industry is facing huge,

almost existential, questions We will be hit in two

years down the road. The problem at the moment

is we don't quite know We don't know where we are going

to end up and we don't know So why all those nervous

looks and furrowed brows? It's the system that

lets our financial institutions - that's everything from insurance

giants to hedge funds and our big famous banks operate

easily across Europe. It means that a Spanish

bank can work in Italy or an Italian insurance giant can

sell its products But the biggest beneficiary has been

Britain. Companies come from all over

the world to base themselves here. Partly because of the access

that passporting gives It is a system that has

worked pretty seamlessly. Pull out of the EU and you pull

out of passporting. With no certainty about

what will follow. Well, if you walk the halls

of offices in the city or in Canary Wharf right now,

of course there is a lot Just as there is across the economy

and society in general because we just don't

know what Brexit means. Is it a soft Brexit, a hard Brexit,

what are the implications of that? If passporting is not an option,

then some believe there is still a way through the fractures,

and it is a process It is about proving that

a country's system of laws, rules and regulations

is the equivalent of those that govern countries

across the European Union. Do you, for instance, have the same

rules about foreign exchange trading Prove all that and you can

finally claim equivalence. And a license to

trade across Europe. The point about equivalence is it

does the job of passporting Because these firms have the right

to sell into the single market on the same terms as anyone

in the single market. The problem is, it is relatively

untested, untried and untested. And the rules, essentially,

once we leave the EU, Equivalence has to be granted

by the European Commission so it is not guaranteed

and it is not timely. More than 30 countries from all over

the world have already Seeing as our regulations

are based on European laws, It looks easy but when Switzerland

tried to do it, they couldn't. We shouldn't kid ourselves

that it is going to be Of course, I hope that it

will be easy. But I just sense that the Germans

and the French are particularly keen on making all sorts of statements

about how big financial institutions will be terribly welcome

in Frankfurt and Paris. By definition, equivalence

is all about following European legislation and that creates

an important question. So what happens if European

regulators want to bring in new rules that we don't want

and don't agree with? If we end up signing up

to all the same things that we had before, all those people who said

they wanted to leave to try to get around things like the bankers'

bonuses provision that was imposed upon us by Europe may find that

we're still going to have to comply with that in order to get access

to the European market. One of the leading academics behind

the Brexit campaign insists it's about choice - that we should

embrace equivalence but also be prepared to walk away

if the rules change. The EU has not a very good track

record in the way it treats We have had proposals

for the financial transactions tax, we have had things

like the bonus cap. All of which are hostile,

really, to what they regard The basic point is, actually,

from the point of view of the city and the national interest,

we don't care. He thinks the city will prosper

regardless, but with no equivalence deal in place,

plenty of financiers I have spoken They are making sure that whatever

happens in negotiations that go forward, and we don't know

how they will play out, that they will continue

to serve their customers. All of the banks, the international

banks and the UK banks, are making contingency plans to make

sure that they can carry on serving their customers

across Europe in terms of looking at what operations they might have

to move to other The UK relies on its financial

services more than any Trade with European companies

and governments has been And that is why

negotiations will be tough. The moving parts here

are absolutely staggering. And I think it is going to take time

and I think it is going to take goodwill on both sides

to make this work. But I would also say that for the UK

and for the EU, there are still massive incentives to find

a solution that works All the while, the Brexit countdown

goes on and the longer we go without a deal,

the more that nerves will fray. We know there is a strong

possibility it is going to be a hard We will start to get really hurt

and get really nervous Right now, we're putting boards

in front of our windows to make sure We understand that

our alternatives are. One senior banker told me these

will be the negotiations The city is the financial capital

of the world and right now it is having to deal

with a changing, To the unsuspecting ear,

the hits of Michael Jackson, George Benson and other soul stars

might have come from the heartlands In fact, many of them

owe their origins to the hardscrabble, bluesy

delta of...Lincolnshire. They were written by

Cleethorpes's own Rod Temperton, whose death was announced

today, just 66. He said, I want to put a harp on the

front of it. I said to Rod, if you do that, no one will play it.

American soul radio will not play it and radio one will not do it because

it does not fit any genre. He said, that is why I want to do it. It is

the great untold story of pop that almost everyone has heard by now,

the maestro of black music who turns out to have been a pallid fish

batter from Cleethorpes. Quincey always talks about thinking I must

have been black, before he met me, because of the music of Heatwave.

Jones was looking for a writer for Michael Jackson's first solo album.

One night we were in the studio working and the phone call came

through. I was really shocked because this was a guy I used to

listen to his records on Saturday afternoons in Cleethorpes with my

mates. I was really flattered. # rock with you... The whole thing

took two weekends and the whole thing was amazing. By the time it

was over Quincey and I have become such buddies and he said I want you

to work never think I am doing, so I said, OK, great. Those albums, the

Dude and Give Me The Night were just amazing records to make because

there were so many people involved. Everybody is giving it up and it is

just a lot of fun to be involved in a situation like that. Rod Temperton

also wrote Michael Jackson's Thriller, including a wrap for

Vincent Price scribbled in the back of a cab. I am frantically writing

in the back and when I got to the studio I saw this limousine pulled

up to the front and out stepped Vincent Price. I said to be cab

driver go round the back, so we raced round the back. I jumped out,

went through the back door, grabbed hold of a secretary and said,

photocopy this, quick! I raced through and that it on the music

stands and Vincent walked in and just hit it, two takes. Darkness

falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand, creatures

crawl in the search of blood, to terrorise your neighbourhood. I

remember when Michael Jackson toured England, either the Daily Mirror or

the Sun sent reporters up to my hometown. There was a great headline

and I have still got it: Grimsby fish the litter wheels in to Ashman

reels in fortune for what code Dzeko!

Remembering the music of Rod Temperton.

We leave you with Theresa May's Birmingham peroration.

We weren't sure it was clear enough quite what the takeaway was,

So to everyone here this morning, and the millions beyond, whether

Leavers or Remain, I say, come with me and we'll write

Come with me and we'll make that change.

# And you'll be in a world of pure imagination...#.

Come with me if you want to live.

Come with me and together let's seize the day.

MUSIC: Mr Blue Sky by ELO.