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Here in the North East and Cumbria... | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
An emphatic win for Labour in the Middlesbrough by-election, but it | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
is UKIP again making the headlines. How far can the party go in the | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2136 seconds | :01:34. | :37:10. | |
Hello and a warm welcome to your local part of the show just for the | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
North East and Cumbria. My guests this week are the Labour | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
MP for Houghton & Sunderland South, Bridget Phillipson. | :37:16. | :37:19. | |
And hot from the Palace, where he received a CBE this week, | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
Conservative Jeremy Middleton. In a moment, as new figures show | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
the South continues to get the lion's share of transport spending, | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
we ask if the region's ambitions to dual the A1 or build a Tees Valley | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
Metro will ever be met? But our top story this week is | :37:34. | :37:36. | |
Labour's victory in the Middlesbrough by-election. Andy | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
MacDonald was elected to the seat with a majority of more than 8.000, | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
taking 60% of the vote. He said is was a message from the voters of | :37:45. | :37:53. | |
Teesside to the coalition government. We sent a message to | :37:53. | :38:00. | |
David Cameron any government. You do not understand us. You do not | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
speak for us and you are a government that does not care about | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
The Liberal Democrats and Conservatives were not expected to | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
win in what is, after all, safe Labour territory, but they could | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
hardly have been happy being shunted into third and fourth place | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
by UKIP. Their candidate took second place, the party's best ever | :38:17. | :38:27. | |
result in the North East. I think that UK Independence Party is | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
pouring even better in the north and it is in the south. And it | :38:32. | :38:41. | |
makes it a light that we are any sudden, was the Conservative Party. | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
I hope we will be sending a member of the European Parliament back in | :38:46. | :38:56. | |
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2014. This was a very poor result for you, wasn't it? Yes, I stood in | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
the Hartlepool by election and duly finished 4th, despite been a | :39:07. | :39:17. | |
marvellous candidate! But we came back and effectively won the | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
general election. The last by- election in this part of the world | :39:22. | :39:29. | |
was in Sedgefield and we were third in that one, but when it came to | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
the general election, we were in second place. These are mid-term | :39:34. | :39:42. | |
effects. By it are you going backwards? I know Middlesbrough is | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
a Labour seat, but you found be a late 1,000 people wanting to vote | :39:46. | :39:53. | |
for you. In mid-term by-election, the Conservatives did not do very | :39:53. | :40:03. | |
well in Middlesbrough. The Liberal Democrats did slightly better. I in | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
the past, when there was a mid-term by-election, used to rally round | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
the liberals of the wanted to make a protest vote. Now, because the | :40:15. | :40:17. | |
Liberal Democrats are in the coalition, the are looking for | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
another party to do that and in this case, it appeared to be UK | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
Independence Party. It was a fantastic result for us. It was a | :40:28. | :40:35. | |
low turnout, but we actually increased or share of the vote. It | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
is a great vote for Labour. By but it was a sea you were going to win. | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
It does not saying much of the message out? I thing it is | :40:46. | :40:52. | |
important that in Andy McDonald, we have a lot lumpy -- n p 8 there | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
will be speaking out on local issues on behalf of local people. | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
Up and down the country, whether it is Middlesbrough or Croydon or | :41:05. | :41:12. | |
Corby, we are doing very well. People are so angry about cuts, | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
which the election was largely fought on. Is it very disappointing | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
that the turnout was just over one quarter? He is, turnout is always | :41:23. | :41:31. | |
an issue on a cold and wet November day. By-election turnouts are | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
notoriously low. It was not as bad as some of those we have seen | :41:35. | :41:42. | |
recently. This was the good result for Labour and I am delighted that | :41:42. | :41:50. | |
I have a new colleague in Andy McDonald joining me in Parliament. | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
But this could actually lead to a threat to you're Euro seats in the | :41:54. | :42:04. | |
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North East, Germany? When people come to the main issue, they are | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
going to see the difference between the Labour and Conservative Party, | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
come the general election, they will see that the economy is | :42:15. | :42:23. | |
improving. A but a one point, the Liberal Democrats over to the | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
Conservative Party into second place in the North East. Is there | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
not a worry that UK Independence Party may now take the place of | :42:32. | :42:40. | |
both of your party's in that respect? The problem we have at the | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
moment is too much debt, but they do not want to vote in the Labour | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
Party, who will make that debt higher. That will be the main issue | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
which will decide to the want to be Prime Minister - David Cameron or | :42:55. | :43:03. | |
Ed Miliband. Thank you both very much for now. | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
Now, MPs on the Transport Select Committee have this week heard | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
claims that the North East is falling well behind when it comes | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
to spending on roads and railways. According to Treasury figures, the | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
region will have less money spent on transport infrastructure over | :43:14. | :43:24. | |
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the next five years than anywhere else in England. The A1 in north | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
Northumberland. For decades, the police from businesses and drivers | :43:29. | :43:39. | |
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to the government, please give us the money for at dual carriageway. | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
While London is getting millions of pounds of shiny new transport | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
projects, what can we expect in the North East? According to one | :43:49. | :43:59. | |
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transport expert in Parliament, we can expect one of these. Lunn did | :43:59. | :44:06. | |
well received 84 % of transport spending, compared to six % in the | :44:06. | :44:16. | |
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North East. It is only amounting to �5 per head for the North East. Be | :44:17. | :44:23. | |
even if we spent all were transport finance on the A1 this year, we | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
would only be able to put a dual carriageway on one mile of the road. | :44:27. | :44:36. | |
It would take another 36 years for the job to be finished. It has led | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
to a lack of investment for many decades. It takes a long time to | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
build a road and for that investment to come or not come. | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
government has made the A1 he writ of strategic importance, but the | :44:52. | :44:59. | |
coalition partners are frustrated by the lack of funding. He it is | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
very frustrating. That is why I am keeping on battling forwards. We | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
need a clear economic voice to speak to the government with. And | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
to here is another transport project for the future. These | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
parties's pictures are for E �220 billion Tees Valley Metro. It would | :45:19. | :45:28. | |
like Teesside to Darlington. Six years on, we have new artist's | :45:28. | :45:35. | |
impressions because the Tees Valley Metro is still not here. There will | :45:35. | :45:41. | |
be a new station at the James Cook hospital and other train stations. | :45:41. | :45:51. | |
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It is not exactly great progress, but officially, at Maine 10 mmac -- | :45:54. | :46:01. | |
Tees Valley Metro is officially up and running. The way will have the | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
station at the hospital up and running shortly and the art of this | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
are looking at fees to. It would be lovely if it was done as the Big | :46:10. | :46:16. | |
Bang, but it cannot be done. We will see improvements to the rich | :46:16. | :46:26. | |
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and improvements to stations in the next few years. Improvements are | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
promised for the stations, but commuters say that is not what they | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
were promised. We are of a lovely hanging baskets and the stations, | :46:36. | :46:45. | |
but that is not what we are promised. B E D Tees Valley Metro. | :46:45. | :46:52. | |
Vital improvements are still awaited. But his transport money | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
better spent in the prosperous south or where it is needed most, | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
in the less prosperous north? Transport is one of the key issues | :47:01. | :47:03. | |
identified in a report into the economic future of the North, | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
published this week by the IPPR think-tank. But how sound is the | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
economic case for more transport spending? With me Ross Smith from | :47:09. | :47:16. | |
the North East Chamber of Commerce. We would like the money to be spent | :47:16. | :47:22. | |
in the north, but there are insane traffic problems in the south and | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
given the prosperous nature of that part of the country, is the money | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
not better spent there? If we do not have the infrastructure | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
investment in the north, we will be fighting with one arm tied behind | :47:35. | :47:44. | |
our back. Why does the company's not put their hands in their | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
pockets? If it is so advantageous to them, why did they not get | :47:49. | :47:55. | |
involved? Infrastructure Investment has to be delivered by the United | :47:55. | :48:01. | |
Kingdom government. By if private business was to put the money in, | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
we did not encourage the government to be the match that sort of sum or | :48:06. | :48:12. | |
encourage them to get involved more? The amount of money pales | :48:12. | :48:20. | |
into insignificance compared to what the United Kingdom needs to | :48:20. | :48:26. | |
pretend to pretend to the port in terms of investment. If you could | :48:26. | :48:33. | |
persuade the government to do one thing, what would it be? Ironically | :48:33. | :48:42. | |
enough, or project has not include any infrastructure spending. We | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
need to have flights direct from the North East to the United States | :48:45. | :48:55. | |
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of America. Labour did not pretty dual carriageway on the A1 or build | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
the Tees Valley Metro. Are the guilty of failing to invest in the | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
infrastructure? I do not think we got everything right. We should | :49:09. | :49:16. | |
have done more to bring down the disparity in spending between the | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
south and the North East. There is a strong case for the dual | :49:19. | :49:26. | |
carriageway of the A1. But in my constituency, there are problems. | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
Be do not have the real like in my constituency in that is holding | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
back investment. I accept that times are tough, but we need to use | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
the money we have more wisely, which is why I have been | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
campaigning for a better bus service. We do not even have the | :49:44. | :49:51. | |
decent bus service denied constituency, never mind a train | :49:51. | :50:01. | |
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link. Is the big increase in infrastructure spending require? | :50:01. | :50:08. | |
agree completely that there is an investment problem. The Treasury | :50:08. | :50:14. | |
report also points out that it only takes into account spending in the | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
region, but does not take into account spending between regions. | :50:19. | :50:26. | |
It does not take into account, for instance, improvements to the north | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
coast east coast line, where they ate a lot of money has been | :50:29. | :50:39. | |
invested. A use that is why but then with the situation? -- argues | :50:39. | :50:49. | |
satisfied? Non, not at all. We need to get more spent here. We have got | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
the Investment on the East Coast line and electrification of the | :50:53. | :51:03. | |
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Trans Pennine writ. You have got hundreds of millions coming in. | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
the north the scene still have done worse than the north-west and | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
Yorkshire. Is it because we have less conservative voters here? | :51:17. | :51:23. | |
think you have to ask why some Conservative Party's parts of the | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
country are doing better than in Labour controlled council parts of | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
the country and vice versa. It is keen to see investment in | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
infrastructure. What you have to do is make a great business case for | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
it. If you look at the likes of Manchester, they are coming | :51:41. | :51:47. | |
together and putting forward the good case. That is the argument. | :51:47. | :51:54. | |
The North East has failed to put its case forward. It is one of a | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
number of areas that we have to look at. I think it is the question | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
of finding which will deliver the best benefits for the region. It is | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
true that the North East is suffering in comparison to other | :52:08. | :52:17. | |
areas. We have so far more so than other areas, whether it is cuts to | :52:17. | :52:22. | |
council services, we have seen disproportionate cuts in the North | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
East and it is hampering investment and jobs in this part of the world. | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
And tomorrow evening the BBC's Inside Out programme looks at how | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
much congestion on the A1 is costing the region's economy and | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
how it impacts on our health. That is at 7.30pm on BBC One. | :52:35. | :52:37. | |
Now, budget restrictions in our local councils are affecting | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
everybody, but are young people in particular losing out? | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
In Newcastle, the council says it soon will not be able to offer | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
youth services, while in Cumbria, a �1 million cut in the budget will | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
mean that many unemployed teenagers will no longer get access to | :52:50. | :53:00. | |
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careers advice. Choosing the right job, one that all awful in the you | :53:04. | :53:12. | |
happy and pay the bills. It is easier said than done. I am corner, | :53:12. | :53:21. | |
I am 16 and I want to be a teacher. Lock of options, but how do you get | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
to where you want to be? They ADB career advice and put me through a | :53:27. | :53:37. | |
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number of interviews. I am now doing a Certificate in catering. | :53:37. | :53:45. | |
This scheme is paid for in part by Cumbria County Council. But they | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
have �1.1 million cut in spending next year and this will have the | :53:49. | :53:55. | |
serious impact. It is highly likely we will have to cut our services | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
and schools in the future. It is really important that we can work | :53:59. | :54:06. | |
with young people in the early years, because the best way to stop | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
youth unemployment is to stop young people becoming unemployed in the | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
first place. The cow so needs to save �18 million over the next here. | :54:15. | :54:21. | |
They say the most vulnerable people will still receive help to get into | :54:21. | :54:27. | |
work. But outside the classroom, the worry is that will be left to | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
charities to provide the guidance, charities where budgets are already | :54:32. | :54:38. | |
stretched. It just gives you the chance to have a future and move on | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
in life. Taylor and his friends are hoping that the skills they learn | :54:44. | :54:52. | |
here will stand them in good stead for the future jobs market. But cut | :54:52. | :55:01. | |
like, at 8011 to 18 year-olds are in danger of not either been in | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
unemployment when they leave school or not been in any sort of training | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
or education. We can plug some of the gaps, but only in places where | :55:11. | :55:17. | |
we get that funding. Young people need direction and advice, even | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
when the reach their twenties. We get great advice in school, but we | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
need it elsewhere as well. They county council is consulting on the | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
budget plans until January, but people are hoping hear that it will | :55:31. | :55:38. | |
not threaten the job foundation courses in the future. Councils | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
have no duty to provide this advice, which is probably why it has been | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
cut, but you see how much of a difference it makes when it is such | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
a struggle to get a job. Here is, as used on there, the most | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
important thing is to create the jobs. One of the top priorities of | :55:56. | :56:03. | |
the government is to create more youth jobs. You have got the work | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
experience six scheme, which hundreds of thousands of young | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
people are getting involved with. Young people say the biggest hurdle | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
to getting a job is not having experience. That is addressing that. | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
We have over �1 billion in subsidy going to employees to take on young | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
people. It is underpinned by the biggest ever apprenticeship | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
programme in the country. New jobs are getting created and the are | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
getting created here in the north. Took councils have to take some of | :56:35. | :56:42. | |
the blame here? Why are they putting such a fundamental service? | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
They're facing great difficulties. They are having to cut across the | :56:47. | :56:55. | |
board. The but they do have a choice. They are opting to cut | :56:55. | :57:05. | |
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services to young people. We have seen some great success is in job | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
creation programmes, in comparison to the current ones being run. But | :57:11. | :57:17. | |
youth unemployment is at absolute crisis point it might constituency. | :57:17. | :57:25. | |
The government is not acting to put that right. The figures from the | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
work programme short that, despite what you're saying, you have not | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
got to grips with getting young people back to work. Due there are | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
a great number of prop programmes. The figures were pretty | :57:41. | :57:48. | |
catastrophic. Youth unemployment in this country than the European | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
Union average. It is lower than the average in the United States and | :57:52. | :57:59. | |
lower than the likes of Spain, which have huge youth unemployment. | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
The irony catastrophic position because they spent too much money. | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
It is going in the right direction here. Youth unemployment is going | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
down. You have to have the right economic policy for this to happen. | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
I do very much. It has been a week of torrential | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
rain and flooding, not to mention some severe frost, but it takes | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
more than that to deter our intrepid reporter Megan. She has | :58:23. | :58:26. | |
donned her wellies and thermals to wade right into the middle of this | :58:26. | :58:33. | |
week's political news. Mind you, she only managed it for 60 seconds. | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
A project to generate energy from waste on Teesside is the first to | :58:38. | :58:44. | |
benefit from the government's Green Investment Bank. It will receive �8 | :58:44. | :58:49. | |
million. An open cast mine would blight the local community, | :58:49. | :58:57. | |
according to the local MP. Another is to close to houses. Election | :58:57. | :59:02. | |
should be hell for those who run a national parks, such as North | :59:02. | :59:08. | |
Yorkshire and Cumbria. We want thriving businesses and thriving | :59:08. | :59:13. | |
communities and we need to make sure that they are undertaken by | :59:13. | :59:18. | |
people chosen by the people. They will respond to them an answer to | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
them in the decisions they make. A Teesside MP faced the 600 pound | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
repair bill from a car hire company, even though he said the car was not | :59:28. | :59:37. | |
damaged. He has golden for tighter rules to protect customers. -- | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
called for. And that is about it from us. It is | :59:41. | :59:44. | |
the Autumn Statement on Wednesday and BBC local radio and Look North | :59:44. | :59:46. | |
will be assessing what it means for this region. | :59:46. | :59:50. | |
And I dare say I will have something to say too, if you would | :59:50. | :59:53. |