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Morning, folks. Welcome to the Sunday Politics. Ed Miliband's on | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
the war path over pay day loans, your energy bill and what he calls | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
the bedroom tax. His spinners say he's resurgent though the polls | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
don't show it. We'll be talking to his right hand woman, Labour's | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman. From resurgent to insurgent. Nigel Farage | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
won an award this week for being a political insurgent. We'll be | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
talking to the UKIP leader. In the South West: The concern for | :01:02. | :01:16. | |
jobs at Devonport Dockyard and as the council funding row continues, | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
we ask if the Tories are losing the countryside. | :01:21. | :01:34. | |
It is free choice. In London, the row over the super sewer rumbles on. | :01:35. | :01:47. | |
And with me, fresh from their success at yesterday's Star Wars | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
auditions, Darth Vader. Obi Wan Kenobi and R2D2. Congratulations on | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
your new jobs. We'll miss you. Nick Watt, Helen Lewis and Janan Ganesh. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
First, the talks with Iran in Geneva. They ended last night | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
without agreement despite hopes of a breakthrough. America and its allies | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
didn't think Iran was prepared to go far enough to freeze its nuclear | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
programme. But some progress has been made and there's to be another | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
meeting in ten days' time, though at a lower level. The Foreign | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Secretary, William Hague, had this to say a little earlier. On the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
question of, or will it happen in the next few weeks? There is a good | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
chance of that. We will be trying again on 20th, 21st of November and | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
negotiators will be trying again. We will keep an enormous amount of | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
energy and persistence behind solving this. Will that be a deal | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
which will please everyone? No, it will not. Compromises will need to | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
be made. I had discussions with Israeli ministers yesterday and put | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
the case for the kind of deal we are looking | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
the case for the kind of deal we are interests of the whole world, | :03:11. | :03:10. | |
including interests of the whole world, | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
the world, to reach a diplomatic agreement we can be confident in in | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
this issue. This otherwise will threaten the world with nuclear | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
proliferation and conflict in the future. The interesting thing about | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
this is that it seems future. The interesting thing about | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
prepared to go far enough over the Iraq heavy water plutonium reactor | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
it is building. The people who took the toughest line - the French. | :03:43. | :03:54. | |
France has always had a pretty tough line on Iran. They see it as a | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
disruptive influence in Lebanon I am reasonably optimistic a deal will | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
be done later this month when the talks reconvene. Western economic | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
sanctions have had such an impact on Iran domestic league. They have | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
pushed inflation up to 40%. Dashes-macro domestically. The new | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
president had a campaign pledge saying, I will deal with sanctions. | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
I actually think, by the end of this year, we will see progress in these | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
talks. Should we be optimistic? The next round of talks will be at | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
official level. The place to watch will be Israel. The language which | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
has been coming out of there is still incredibly angry, incredibly | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
defensive. They do not want a deal at all. Presumably John Kerry has to | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
go away and tried to get Israel to be quiet about it, even if they | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
cannot be happy about it. They cannot agree to a deal which allows | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
the Iraq reactor with plutonium heavy water. You do not need that | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
with a peaceful nuclear power programme will stop that is why the | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
Israelis are so nervous. If there is an international deal, Israel could | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
still bomb that but it would be impossible. The French tactics are | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
interesting. It says the French blocked it in part because they are | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
trying to carry favour with Israel but also the Gulf Arab states, who | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
are really nervous about and Iranians nuclear capability. Who is | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
that? Saudi Arabia. Newsnight had a story saying that Pakistan is | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
prepared to provide them with nuclear weapons. You are right about | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
Saudi Arabia. They are much more against this deal than Israel. Who | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
is Herman van Rompuy's favourite MEP? It is probably not Nigel | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Farage. He plummeted to the bottom of the EU president's Christmas card | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
list after comparing him to a bank clerk with the charisma of a damp | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
rag. And he's been at it again this week. Have a look. Today is November | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
the 5th, a big celebration festival day in England. That was an attempt | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
to blow up the Houses of Parliament with dynamite and destroy the | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Constitution. You have taken the Dahl, technocratic approach to all | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
of these things. What you and your colleagues save time and again you | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
talk about initiatives and what you are going to do about unemployment. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
The reality is nothing in this union is getting better. The accounts have | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
not been signed off for 18 years. I am now told it is 19 and you are | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
doing your best to tone down any criticism. Whatever growth figures | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
you may have, they are anaemic. Youth unemployment in the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Mediterranean is over 50% in several states. You will notice there is a | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
rise in opposition dashed real opposition. Much of it ugly | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
opposition, not stuff that I would want to link hands with. And Nigel | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Farage joins me now. Let me put to you what the editor of the Sun had | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
to say. He says, UKIP will peak at the European election and then it | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
will begin to get marginalised as we get closer to 2015 because there is | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
now that clear blue water between Labour and the Tories. What do you | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
say to that? There may be layered blue water on energy pricing but on | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Eastern Europe, there is no difference at all. When Ed Miliband | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
offers the referendum to match Cameron, even that argument on | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Europe will be gone. The one thing that will keep UKIP strong, heading | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
towards 2015, is if people think in some constituencies we can win. I | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
cannot sit here right now and say that will be the case. If we get | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
over the hurdle of the European elections clearly, I think there | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
will be grounds to say that UKIP can win seats in Westminster. You are | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
going to run? Without a shadow of a doubt. I do not know which | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
constituency. The welcome I got in Edinburgh was not that friendly | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Edinburgh is not everything in Scotland. I think we have a | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
realistic chance of winning those elections. If we do that, we will | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
have the momentum behind us. You might be the biggest party after the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
May elections. The National front is likely to do very well in France as | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
well. They have won the crucial by-election in the South of France. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Have you talked about joining full season in Parliament? The leader has | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
tried to take the movement into a different direction than her father. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
The man she beat, to become leader, actually attended the BNP | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
conference. The problem she has with her party and we have with her party | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
is that anti-Semitism is too deep and we will not be doing a deal with | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
the French national government. You can guarantee you will not be | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
joining such groups. I can guarantee that. Let's move on to Europe. Let's | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
accept that the pro-Europeans exaggerate the loss of jobs that | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
would follow the departure of Britain from the UK. Is there no | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
risk of jobs whatsoever? No risk whatsoever. There is no risk at all. | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
There have been some weak and lazy arguments put around about this We | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
will go on doing business - go on doing trade with Europe. We will | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
have increased opportunities to do trade deals with the rest of the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
world and they will create jobs The head of Nissan, the head of Hitachi | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
and CBI many other voices in British business, when they all expressed | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
concern about the potential loss of jobs and incoming investment, we | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
should just ignore them. With Nissan, the BBC News is making this | :11:13. | :11:22. | |
a huge story. The boss did not say what was reported. He said there was | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
a potential danger to his future investment. They have already made | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
the investments. They have built the plant in Sunderland, which they say | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
is operating well. We should be careful of what bosses of big | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
businesses say. This man said they may have two leaves Sunderland if we | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
did not join the euro. I do not take that seriously. As for the CBI, they | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
wanted us to join the euro and now they do not. Even within the CBI, | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
there is a significant minority saying, we do not agree with what | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
the CBI director-general is saying. The former boss of the organisation | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
is saying we need a referendum and we need a referendum soon. It | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
depends on the renegotiation. There is not the uniformity. What we are | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
beginning to see in the world, is, manufacturing and small businesses | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
are a lot more voices saying, the costs of membership outweigh any | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
potential benefit. If you look at the polls, if Mr Cameron does | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
repatriate some powers and he joins with Labour, the Lib Dems, the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Nationalists in Scotland and Wales, most of business, all of the unions | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
to say we should stay in, you are going to lose, aren't you? In 1 75, | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
the circumstances were exactly the same. Mr Wilson promised a | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
renegotiation and he got very little. The establishment gathered | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
around him and they voted for us to stay in. I do not think that will | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
happen now. The scales have fallen. We do not want to be governed by | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
Herman Van Rompuy and these people. These people are Eurosceptic but | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
they do not seem to feel strongly enough about it that they are going | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
to defy all the major parties they vote for, companies that employ | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
them, unions they are members of. I am absolutely confident there will | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
be a lot voices in business saying, we need to take this opportunity to | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
break free, give ourselves a chance of a low regulation lowball trader. | :13:40. | :13:52. | |
-- global trade. In 1970 53 small publications said to vote yes. I am | :13:53. | :14:08. | |
not contemplating losing. The most important thing is to get the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
referendum. If UKIP is not strong, there will not be a referendum. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Earlier in the year, your party issued a leaflet about the remaining | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
sample parents being able to come to this country. The EU will allow 29 | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
million Bulgarians and remaining is to come to the UK. That is | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
technically correct but we both know that is not the case. It is an open | :14:40. | :14:51. | |
door to these people. Why take the risk? By make out there are 29 | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
million people? I stand by that verdict. It is an open door. 29 | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
million are not going to come. They can if they want. Also 29 million | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
people from France can come. After these countries have joined, we will | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
do another leaflet saying that Mr Cameron wants to open the door to 70 | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
million people from Turkey. That is scaremongering. I would not say | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
that. We have a million young British workers between 16 and 4 | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
without work. A lot of them want work and we do not need another | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
massive oversupply in the unskilled labour market. Why did you have such | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
a bad time on question Time this week? The folk that did not buy your | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
anti-immigration stick. Do you think that group of people in the room was | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
representative of the voters of Boston? What would make you think it | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
was unrepresentative? When the county council elections took place | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
this year in Boston, of the seven seats, UKIP won five and almost won | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
the other two. I don't think that audience reflected that, but that | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
doesn't matter. How an audience is put together, how a panel is put | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
together, on one programme, it doesn't mean much at all. It shows | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
that your anti-immigrant measure doesn't fly as easily as you hoped | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
it would? The opinion polls which will be launched on Monday that we | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
are conducting and nearing completion, they show two things. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Firstly, an astonishing number of people who think it's irresponsible | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
and wrong to open the doer to Romania and Bulgaria, secondly and | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
crucially, a number of people whose vote in the European elections and | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
subsequent general elections may be determined by the immigration | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
issues. This does matter. It would be the perfect run group the | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
European elections in May for you if a lot of Bulgarians and remainians | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
flooded in. You would like that to happen? I think it will happen. | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Whether I like it or not, it will happen. You think it will be good | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
for you, it will stir things up If you say to people in poor countries, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
you can come here, get a job, have a safety net of a benefits system | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
claim child allowance for your kids in Bucharest, people will come You | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
are ready with the arguments already? You will be disappointed if | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
only ten turn up? Whether lots come or not we should. Taking the risk | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
and yes, we are going to make it a major issue in the European | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
election. Let's leave it there. Thank you very much, Nigel Farage. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
The summer of 2013 was not good for Ed Miliband, with questions over his | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
leadership, low ratings and complaints about no policies. He | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
bounced back with a vengeance at the Labour Conference in September, | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
delivering a speech which this week won the spectator political speech | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
of the year aword. In that speech he focussed on the cost-of-living and | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
promised a temporary freeze on energy prices. Even said this. The | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
next election isn't just going to be about policy. It's going to be about | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
how we lead and the character we show. I've got a message for the | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
Tories today. If they want to have a debate, about leadership and | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
character, be my guest And if you want to know the difference between | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
me and David Cameron, here is an easy way to remember it. When it was | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Murdoch v the McCanns, he took the side of Murdoch. When it was the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
tobacco lobby versus the cancer charities, he took the side of the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
tobacco lobby. When the millionaires wanted a tax cut as people pay the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
bedroom tax, he took the side of the millionaires. A come to think of it, | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
here is an easier way to remember it. David Cameron was a Prime | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
Minister who introduced the bedroom tax. I'll be the Prime Minister who | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
repeals the bedroom tax There we go, that will go down with the party | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
faithful on Tuesday. There will be a debate on the bedroom tax. Labour's | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, joints me now. Let's begin with the | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
bedroom tax or bedroom subsidy. Nearly 11% of people who've come off | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Housing Benefits all together after their spare room subsidy was | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
stopped, isn't that proof that reform was necessary? No. I think | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
that the whole way that the bet room tax has been attempted to be | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
justified is completely wrong. What it's said is that it will actually | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
help take people off the waiting lists by putting them into homes | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
that have been vacated by people who've downsized by being | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
incentivised by the bedroom tax so basically if you are a council | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
tenant or Housing Association tenant in a property with spare bedrooms, | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
then because the penalty is imposed, you will move to a smaller property. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
That is the justification for it. But actually, something like 96 of | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
the people who're going to be hit by the bedroom tax, there isn't a | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
smaller property for them to move into. I understand that. Therefore | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
they are, like the people in my constituency, if they have got one | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
spare bedroom, they are hit by 700 a year extra to pay and that is | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
completely unfair As a consequence of people losing the subsidy for | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
their spare room, they have decided to go out and get work and not | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
depend on Housing Benefit at all? 11% of them. What's wrong with that? | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Well, they are going to review the way 2 the bedroom tax is working. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
What is wrong with that? But that's not working. That's the result of | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Freedom of Information, 141 councils provided the figures, 25,000 who've | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
come off benefits, of the 233,0 0 affected, it's about 11%. These | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
people were clearly able to get a job was having the Housing Benefit | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
in the first place? But of course the people who're on the benefits | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
who're not in work are always looking for work and many of them | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
will find work which is a good thing, but for those who don't find | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
work, or who find work where it s low-paid and need help with their | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
rent, it's wrong to penalise them on the basis of the fact that their | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
family might have grown up and moved away and so you have either got to | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
move out of your home, away from your family and your neighbourhood, | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
or you've got to stay where you are and, despite the fact that you are | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
low-paid or unemployed, you have got to find an extra ?700 a year because | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
of your rent. So it's very unfair The Government that was | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
commissioning independent research on the impact of this work change | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
and welfare policy, particularly on the impact on the most vulnerable, | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
some of which you have been talking about there, shouldn't they have | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
waited until you have got the independent research, that | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
independent investigation before determining your policy? No. In | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
fact, the Government should have waited until they'd have done their | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
independent research before they bought into effect something and | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
imposed it on people in a way which is really unfair. They could have | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
known. Why didn't you wait? What they could have done is, they could | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
have asked councils, are people going to be able to Manifest into | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
smaller homes if we impose the bedroom tax and the answer from | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
councils and Housing Associations would have been no, they can't move | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
into smaller homes because which haven't got them there. They should | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
have done the evaluation before they introduced the policy. We are | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
absolutely clear and you can see the evidence, people are falling into | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
rent arrears. Many people, it's a terrifying thing to find that you | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
can't pay your rent, and some of the people go to payday loan companies | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
to get loans to pay their rent. It is very, very unfair. The | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
justification for it, which is people will move, is completely | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
bogus. There aren't places for them to go. On the wider issue of welfare | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
reform, a call for the TUC showed that voters support the Government's | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
welfare reforms, including a majority of Labour voters. Why are | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
you so out of touch on welfare issues, even with your own | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
supporters? Nobody wants to see people who could be in a job | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
actually living at the taxpayers' expense. That's why we have said | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
that we'll introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, so that if you are a | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
young person who's been unemployed for a year, you will have to take a | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
job absolutely have to take a job, and if you have been unemployed as | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
somebody over 25, there'll be a compulsory thing after two years of | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
unemployment. So if you have been on welfare two years? So the main issue | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
about the welfare bill actually is people who're in retirement who need | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
support. We have said for the richest pensioners, they shouldn't | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
have to pay their winter fuel allowance. My point wasn't abouts | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
the sub stance, it's about how you don't reflect public opinion -- | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
substance. The Parliamentary aid said the political backlog of | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
benefits and social security is "not yet one that we have won. Labour | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
must accept that they are not convincing on these matters,". Well, | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
redo have to convince people and explain the policies we have got and | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
the view we take. So, for example, for pensioners, who're well off we | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
are saying they don't need the Winter Fuel Payment that. 's me | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
saying to you and us saying to people in this country, we do think | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
that there should be that tightening. For young people, who've | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
been unemployed, they should be offered jobs but they've got to take | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
them. So yes, we have to make our case. OK. The energy freeze which we | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
showed there, on the speech, as popular. The living wage proseles | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
have been going down well as well. Why is Labour's lead oaf the | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
Conservatives being cut to 6% in the latest polls? Ed Miliband's own | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
personal approval rating's gotten worse. Why is that? I'm not going to | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
disdues ins and outs of weekly opinion polls with you or anybody | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
else because I'm not a political commentator, but let me say to you | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
the facts of what's happened since Ed Miliband's been leader of the | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Labour Party. We have got 1,950 New Labour councillors, all of those... | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
But you're... All those who've won their seats against the | :25:25. | :25:25. | |
Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats and no, Andrew you don't | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
always get that in opposition. In 1997 after Tony Blair was elected, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the Tories carried on losing council seats. Exceptional circumstances and | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
these days Mr Blair was 25% ahead in the polls. You were six. The economy | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
grew at an annual rate of 3% in the third quarter just gone. Everybody, | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
private and public forecasters now saying that Britain in this coming | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
year will grow faster than France, Italy, Spain, even Germany will grow | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
faster. Your poll ratings are average when the economy was | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
flatlining, what happens to them when the economy starts to grow | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Well, I've just said to you, I'm not a political commentator or a pundit | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
on opinion polls. We are putting policies forward and we are holding | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
the Government to account for what they are doing and we think that | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
what they did opt economy pulled the plugs from the economy, delayed the | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
recovery, made it stagnate and we have had three years lost growth. I | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
understand that, but it's now starting to grow. Indeed. If you are | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
no political commentator, let me ask you this, you anticipated the | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
growth, so you switched your line to no growth to this is growth and | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
living standards are rising. If the economy does grow up towards 3% next | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
year, I would suggest that living standards probably will start to | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
rise with that amount of growth What do you do then? We have not | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
switched our line because the economy started to grow. All the way | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
along, we said the economy will recover, but it's been delayed and | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
we have had stagnation for far too long because of the economic | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
policies. We have been absolutely right to understand the concerns | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
people have and recognise that they are struggling with the | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
cost-of-living. Sure. And we are right to do that. What kind of | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
living standards stuck to rise next year? -- start to rise next year. I | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
hope they will. For 40 months of David Cameron's Prime Ministership, | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
for 39 of those, wages have risen slower than prices, so people are | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
worse off. I understand that. You will know that the broader | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
measurement, real household disposable income doesn't show that | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
decline because it takes everything into account. Going around the | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
country, people feel it. They say where's the recovery for me. Living | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
standards now start to rise? If that happens, what is your next line | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
There is a set of arguments about living standards, the National | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
Health Service, about the problems that there is in A, which caused | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
-- are caused by the organisation. I can put forward other lines. All | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
right. Let me ask you one other question If no newspapers have | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
signed up to the Government-backed Labour-backed Royal Charter on press | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
regular lace by 2015 and it looks like the way things are going none | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
will have, if you are in power, will a Labour Government legislate to | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
make them? They don't have to sign up to the Royal Charter, that's not | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
the system. What the Royal Charter does is create a recogniser and | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
basically says it's for the newspapers to set up their own | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
regulator. They are doing that. My question is... Let me finish. If | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
they decide to have nothing to do with the Royal Charter that was | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
decided in Miliband's office in the wee small hours, will you pass | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
legislation to make them? The newspapers are currently setting up | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
what they call... I know that, Harriet Harman. Just let me finish. | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
OK. Because the newspapers are setting up the independent Press | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
Standards Organisation. Right. If it is independent, as they say it is, | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
then the recogniser will simply say, we recognise that this is | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
independent and the whole point is that, in the past when there's been | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
skaen deals a tend press have really turned people's lives upside down | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
and the press have said OK we'll sort things out, leave it to us | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
then they have sorted things out but a few years later they have slipped | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
back, all this recogniser will do is check it once every three years and | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
say yes, you have got an independent system and it's remained independent | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
and therefore that is the guarantee things won't slip back. Very | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
interesting. Thank you for that That's really interesting that if | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
they get their act right, you won't force the alternative on them. We | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
want the system as set forward by Leveson which is not statute and | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
direct regulation. I want to stick with the press because I want to | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
ask, is this a British institution or an out-of-date image for a by | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
gone age. The Sun's Page 3 has been dividing the nation since it first | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
appeared way back in 1970. That s 43 years ago. Harriet Harman's called | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
for it to be removed, so we sent Adam out to ask whether the topless | :30:09. | :30:25. | |
photographs should stay or go. We have asked people if page three | :30:26. | :30:37. | |
should stay or go. Page three. What do you think? Nothing wrong with it | :30:38. | :30:47. | |
at all. I think it is cheap and exploits women. It is a family | :30:48. | :30:58. | |
newspaper. Should it stay or go Go. I will look like the bad guy. It | :30:59. | :31:09. | |
should go. You have changed your mind. It is free choice. Girls do | :31:10. | :31:18. | |
not have to be photographed. Old men get the paper just for that. Know | :31:19. | :31:32. | |
when your age does that? Not really. Dashes-macro know what your age. | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
Page three girls, should they stay or go? I am not bothered. There are | :31:37. | :31:47. | |
other ways of getting noticed. Page three of the Sun newspaper every | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
day, there is a woman with no top on. We got rid of that about 40 | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
years ago in Australia. I am not in favour of censorship. It has been | :32:01. | :32:08. | |
long enough. It can stay there. What is wrong with it? We want to | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
encourage children to read the newspapers. I do not want my | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
children to look at that. It is degrading. Do you think we will see | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
the day when they get rid of it? Yes, I do. I am wondering if I can | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
turn this into some kind of a shelter. It is tipping it down. I | :32:32. | :32:43. | |
think the council should do shelter. It is tipping it down. I | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
something about their car parks! Mother nature, the human body. It | :32:49. | :32:57. | |
should stay. Is some people like it, that is fine. I have nothing against | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
it. You know what has surprised me, lots of women saying it should stay. | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
Maybe they are seeing it as empowering. As I have a baby | :33:09. | :33:15. | |
daughter in there, I am happy to see it go. Imagine my grandad opening up | :33:16. | :33:26. | |
his paper and they're being my bats! It should go. There is nothing wrong | :33:27. | :33:36. | |
with it. He wants it to go. What about people who think that page | :33:37. | :33:43. | |
three should be banned? Idiots. Do you know a girl called Lacey, aged | :33:44. | :33:53. | |
22, from Bedford? Good luck to her. I do not know her as a person that I | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
have heard she is nice. What about her decision to be on page three? | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
Nothing to lose. Do you think she has made Bedford proud? That is not | :34:07. | :34:15. | |
hard. What have we learned? More people want page three to stay down | :34:16. | :34:24. | |
for it to go. Most people do not really seem to care, do they? You | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
have heard a range of views. I am not arguing it should be banned. I | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
have not argued for it to be banned but I have disapproved of it since | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
the 1970s. You do not think it should be banned? I do not think | :34:43. | :34:53. | |
there should be dictating content but I do think, if you arrive from | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
outer space in this country in 21st-century Britain, and asked | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
yourself what was the role of women in society... To stand in their | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
knickers and nothing else, I think women have more to aspire to than to | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
be able to take their clothes off in public. The sun no longer has the | :35:13. | :35:22. | |
circulation, or the political importance, that it had in the 1980s | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
when page three was at its height. Aren't people just voting with their | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
feet anyway? The market is sorting this out. Half the number of people | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
buy it now than they did 20 years ago. Until the time the sun does not | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
have page three any more, I am entitled to my view that it is | :35:45. | :35:51. | |
outdated and wrong. I am happy to establish that you do not want to | :35:52. | :36:00. | |
ban it. What should happen? Should people boycott the paper? I have | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
never implied or said it should be banned. I have always been | :36:06. | :36:12. | |
forthright. Should people boycott the paper? I have not called for a | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
boycott. The women's movement, of which I am part, and this is not | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
about politicians censoring the press. I am part of the movement | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
which says women can do better than taking off their clothes and being | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
in their knickers in the newspapers. Why don't you do something about it? | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
I am doing something about it by saying it is outdated. I am not | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
doing anything more about it. Should people buy the paper as long as | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
there is a page three? Would you like to say to viewers, as long as | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
page three is in the sand, you should not buy it? Dashes-macro be | :36:59. | :37:07. | |
Son. I am saying, wake up to what the role of women in society should | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
be, which is more than page three. If they changed it in Australia, | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
which is where Rupert Murdoch came from, why can they not change it in | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
this country? You're watching the Sunday Politics. Coming up in just | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
over 20 minutes... I'll be talking to man leading the | :37:27. | :37:37. | |
Hello, I'm Lucie Fisher. Coming up on the Sunday Politics in the South | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
West: As the council funding row continues, we ask if the Tories are | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
losing the countryside. And for the next 20 minutes, I'm | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
joined by the Labour MP Alison Seabeck and the Lib Dem MP Adrian | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
Sanders. Welcome both of you to the programme. Let's begin with the | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
concern that this week's defence announcement could result in job | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
losses at Devonport Dockyard. When it was announced last month that the | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
survey ship HMS Protector was being moved from Portsmouth to Plymouth, | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
the Portsmouth MP, Penny Mordaunt, argued it would make sense to move | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
Plymouth's destroyers and frigates to her city so that Portsmouth could | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
be the "home of the surface fleet". Well, this week Portsmouth suffered | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
another blow with BAE's decision to end shipbuilding there and some say | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
that's strengthened the city's case for getting its hands on Plymouth's | :38:26. | :38:36. | |
frigates. Alison, you're not going to allow that to happen you? Know. | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
It is unlikely at the moment. That is a good case for them based `` | :38:41. | :38:51. | |
being based on some Internet fans in Portsmouth. The aircraft carriers | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
have got 11,000 people working on them. You would have expected her to | :39:01. | :39:09. | |
do it. She is the Defence Secretary's assistant so she is | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
quite influential. You can't say that you'll get special favours | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
because you are close to the Defence Secretary. This decision has to be | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
taken strategically. Lots of people have been talking about this. So you | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
don't think the concern is justified at the moment? No and we will be | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
fighting for it as a city. Adrian, as this matter to you? `` is this | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
matter. It affects the whole of the south`west economy. Do you think you | :39:44. | :39:53. | |
can Avenue once? I do. If you look at it there are more MPs with an | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
interest in Devon and Cornwall than there are within interesting | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
Portsmouth. High petrol prices and relaxed | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
planning rules are just two of the things on the list of issues turning | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
rural voters away from the Tories, according to a recent poll by the | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
Countryside Alliance. Another bugbear is the council funding gap, | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
which was back on the agenda at Westminster this week. In a moment, | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
we'll be joined by the rural Conservative MP Neil Parish, but | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
first this report from Jenny Kumah. It seems the price of petrol in the | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
countryside is causing more grief than ever. This week the petrol | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
retailers Association revealed the increasing rate at which their | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
members are going out of business. Motorists are feeling the squeeze. I | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
think it is a great tragedy. The government say they support rural | :40:47. | :40:56. | |
things but over and again you see they don't. According to a recent | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
poll from the Countryside Alliance, petrol prices are one of many issues | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
annoying rural voters. Others being the so`called unfair funding deals | :41:06. | :41:15. | |
for country councils, the perceived building of wind farms because of | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
relaxed tanning guidance and the government's failure with the | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
hunting with dogs banned. All parties have accepted this as a | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
dreadful piece of legislation. We think that would be one thing which | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
would give a significant symbol to the countryside that concerns were | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
being addressed. According to the Countryside Alliance only 66% of its | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
members would vote Conservative if they were an election tomorrow. A | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
drop of almost 20% in just a couple of years. While 13% would vote UKIP. | :41:49. | :41:58. | |
Three quarters of their members feel politicians are more interested in | :41:59. | :42:00. | |
the views and values of city dwellers. This man joined at the end | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
conservatives in the 80s and voted for the party on the 2010 election | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
but he now supports UKIP. This term has just proved that anybody that | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
had a traditional conservative background was betrayed. David | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
Cameron will say something on Friday, he'll have an opinion poll | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
on Saturday and he will diluted on Monday. `` he will do a U`turn. I'm | :42:26. | :42:35. | |
irritated with the way things are. He moved to Devon two years ago and | :42:36. | :42:38. | |
says he's noticed rural councils don't seem to get a fair deal. It | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
makes you feel terribly angry and it makes me feel that all the pledges | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
this government makes to rural England, they are empty promises. | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
This week MPs representing constituencies in the countryside | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
presented a petition to the government. It calls the councils in | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
the countryside to get a fairer share of the funding cake. A few | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
days later, ministers said they were considering more helpful country | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
motorists with a possible extension of the rural fuel duty discount. But | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
on the big issue of council funding, the government has in offering | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
little sympathy. Jenny Kumah reporting and Neil | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
Parish joins us now from Westminster. Our UKIP becoming your | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
biggest threat? We need to listen to what the country voters are telling | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
us and we need to be firm in our policies. In coalition sometimes | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
it's difficult to deliver all the robust policies you need. As far as | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
of the hunting act is concerned they will be some amendments which were | :43:46. | :43:48. | |
delayed. We have to deal with the wind turbines and solar farms by | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
reducing the huge subsidies so they are not driven all across the | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
countryside. We do need to do a lot more. You are very keen on local | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
issues and your party came in on a wave of localism and yet it doesn't | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
actually seem at ground level that people are feeling that. Is that | :44:10. | :44:19. | |
frustrating? I have got parish councils with flooding is going on | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
and planning is going head for houses so the localism has not come | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
through a strongly as we like. But I believe the planning policy will be | :44:28. | :44:30. | |
more robust overtime we get to April. Do you feel your party and | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
not really listening to you and the Tory people on the ground? I shall | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
shout louder and I lead a debate on the fascia of the rural authority to | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
make Chile get `` make sure we get proper funding for our council tax | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
funders. We have to deliver better services. Those are the key issues | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
people feel strongly about. I am going to bring Adrian in because | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
UKIP may be a threat to the Tories but it's also a threat to you. | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
Traditionally people would leave Tory and go Lib Dem. Now they seem | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
to be choosing UKIP instead of the Lib Dems. I am not sure that is | :45:10. | :45:23. | |
true. The real issues that people and related talking about light | :45:24. | :45:25. | |
transport costs, job opportunities, housing costs, the Tories had a | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
whole day in Westminster on Friday to talk about Europe. They are | :45:31. | :45:38. | |
fixated on losing vote UKIP. Rather than addressing the issues that | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
affect people in religious. The people of this country what they say | :45:43. | :45:51. | |
on Europe. I am pleased to be delivering a referendum so people | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
can have a real say as to whether we should be in or out of Europe and | :45:55. | :45:57. | |
let's settle this matter once and for all. I don't take a lecture on | :45:58. | :46:08. | |
being a peer. It is as big an issue in the rural areas as it is in the | :46:09. | :46:16. | |
urban areas. We are also dealing with the fuel problems and we have | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
to make sure people don't have high fuel bills. It is no good pushing | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
more and more taxes for wind turbines and solar farms. We are | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
doing a lot. People are very concerned about Europe ruling us and | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
that is why this referendum is essential. But this Countryside | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
Alliance survey suggested 13% of people are leaving. Alison, what do | :46:38. | :46:49. | |
you make of the Tory policies? It would be an thinkable for Labour to | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
go against the heartlands in the north`east. This is about people | :46:54. | :46:59. | |
looking for scapegoats in difficult times. This coming year, councils | :47:00. | :47:06. | |
are going to have to find cuts equivalent to the cuts they've had | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
already making the last three as. That affects you whether you are | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
urban oral. There are issues of sparsity and itching just in the | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
local government Association is saying let's go back and revisit the | :47:19. | :47:31. | |
former. `` the formula. I listened to the gentleman in the film and | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
there are issues on all sides. What is your message to seven of these | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
people were so disaffected with the Tory party they have turned to UKIP? | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
I would say stick with us. We have stopped the 12p rise on duty for | :47:45. | :47:53. | |
petrol. We will deliver this referendum on Europe. We are going | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
to be making amendments to the hunting act. We have dealt with TB. | :47:59. | :48:07. | |
I did want to ask Adrian, you said UKIP is not a threat to the Lib Dems | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
but Nigel Farage is predicting UKIP with all the sake Lib Dems in terms | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
of members within two years. `` will overtake. Is that something you're | :48:19. | :48:30. | |
worried about? We have 57 MPs and they don't have any. The issues | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
about cost of living and housing, yes I would like a referendum on you | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
that. The Lib Dems have pledged to that. I think Labour has got a | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
similar policy. We would have the vote in the future. But the idea | :48:48. | :48:56. | |
that the Tory party get a majority Tory government would waste | :48:57. | :48:58. | |
Parliamentary time bringing back hunting I think says it all in terms | :48:59. | :49:04. | |
of their priorities. Thank you for joining us. | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
It was a case which shocked the region and one which has sparked | :49:08. | :49:10. | |
debate in Parliament this week. Three years ago, Harold Philpotts is | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
believed to have set fire to a house in Cornwall killing himself, his | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
wife and ten`year`old son. The case was mentioned by an MP raising his | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
concern that domestic violence victims can be put at greater risk | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
because of patient confidentiality. This report from Anna Varle begins | :49:25. | :49:35. | |
with an extract from his debate. Ten`year`old Ben Philpott will | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
always be remembered by his teachers with his hand eagerly in the air and | :49:40. | :49:46. | |
the beaming smile. He was a positive spirit and a popular member of his | :49:47. | :49:53. | |
school community. A boy who showed enthusiasm for everything he | :49:54. | :49:56. | |
undertook. He was a key member of his local foot will team and was a | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
natural sportsman. It is nearly four years since the death of Ben and his | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
mother following the fire at their home in Newquay. The prime suspect | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
died from burns a week later. He had psychosis and was suffering from | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
depression. The case was one of huge distress not only to the community | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
but also to the extended family and those of us in local government. We | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
felt it was a case that should never have happened. A serious case review | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
found no agency could have foreseen the tragic outcomes but it did | :50:36. | :50:40. | |
recommend better sharing of issues between teams like the police and | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
social services. They had been threats against the wife and threats | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
against the child. But those were not communicated. The health | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
professionals wish a conclusion that the family were not at risk. It is | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
not part of my debate to say they were wrong but what I'm saying is | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
that the wife should have been able to make their own assessment. She | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
was not able to because she didn't have all the information. In his | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
speech Jonathan Evans questioned whether it was right that patient | :51:12. | :51:14. | |
confidentiality should trump public safety as he claimed it had then in | :51:15. | :51:19. | |
the `` this medical case. He said more could be done to ensure | :51:20. | :51:22. | |
professionals don't miss warning signs and pointed at that in many | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
family annihilation cases there is a history of domestic abuse. My | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
purpose is to urge the government to build on the Home Secretary's review | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
of the effectiveness of dealing with domestic violence. Every ten days in | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
England and Wales one child is killed at the hands of a parent. In | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
Devon alone there were more than 4000 referrals of domestic abuse | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
cases to agencies such as the police and local authorities last year. | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
1500 children were in homes which were deemed medium or high risk. Of | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
course not all domestic violence cases end in death. The research by | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
Birmingham city University show the number of family annihilation cases | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
it arising. It is an indicator of a wider social problem. The family is | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
becoming a pressure cooker. It is one symptom of that. The government | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
does not accept that instances are increasing. It says much has been | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
done to help agencies work together to protect those most at risk. But | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
it did concede there is much more to do. | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
Anna Varle reporting and we're joined by Sue Wallis from North | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
Devon Against Domestic Abuse. How hard is it for social services to | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
spot which of these cases may turn into something worse? I would say it | :52:42. | :52:50. | |
is extremely difficult for anyone to tell whether or not something is | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
going to escalate from what we would recognise as a domestic `` domestic | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
abusive situation into a family annihilation. But it is around the | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
training issues of recognising what domestic abuse is in the first | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
place. In this case it does throw up some inadequate and sees `` | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
inadequacies. Harold Philpotts had told a doctor he wanted to kill his | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
wife and son she was not told that because of patient confidentiality. | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
Can something be done about that? What we actually need is a framework | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
and an understanding of when it is acceptable to break patient | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
confidentiality or any confidentiality. We are all under an | :53:42. | :53:50. | |
obligation to ignore confidentiality when it is about safeguarding the | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
child. GPs to have a huge difficulty and it is a training issue and they | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
need to know they can have the confidence to report something like | :54:02. | :54:08. | |
that to the correct place. And presumably no when to do it and not. | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
Could the guidance be clearer? Yes. If you look at the practice | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
happening in Plymouth, the sharing of information between police and | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
schools for example, so if there has been an incident at home with the | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
police in Plymouth will now advise the school so the school is away. | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
Previously that did not happen. There needs to be information | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
sharing. It is about having the confidence to do that in those | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
circumstances. I have had people in my constituency surgeries on the | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
phone who have expressed real worries about child safety. They | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
have not felt able to take any action but I have been able to do | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
so. You cannot sit back and not do anything. You come back to support, | :54:59. | :55:05. | |
funding and mental health issues as well and support for that. Adrian, | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
are we learning enough lessons from these cases? Theresa May has ordered | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
a coherent review of different bodies. Are you hopeful that will | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
throw up some answers? The government is doing quite a few | :55:22. | :55:27. | |
things. The government is learning all the time. There is no automatic | :55:28. | :55:34. | |
reporting of death so there's a proper review. That did not use a | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
happen. There are some pilots like play's law. `` clear's law. Better | :55:44. | :55:54. | |
training for the police. All these things cost money. There are funding | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
cuts in the pipeline. How will they affect bodies like yourselves? The | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
difficulty is that millions of pounds are being spent on serious | :56:06. | :56:12. | |
case reviews and less money is being spent on ground level with that | :56:13. | :56:15. | |
service can be delivered to people so they can understand what domestic | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
abuses. And how to protect themselves from it. That is the most | :56:20. | :56:28. | |
important thing. I would keep the refuge is open. They are being | :56:29. | :56:37. | |
closed, including the one in Torbay. People mentioned Torbay to you | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
didn't they? The real difficulty is that social workers and police are | :56:42. | :56:49. | |
all very hard`pressed now. They have taken cut after cut their services. | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
We've had social workers where we've expressed concern about the family | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
and they have said, I don't have time to listen to you. That is the | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
voice of an overworked social workers and of somebody who is not | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
being supported in their role. You've also got the bedroom tax and | :57:11. | :57:17. | |
people are being caught by the bedroom tax because they have a safe | :57:18. | :57:24. | |
room to go to in their house. I am looking at a way to highlight that | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
elsewhere because that has to stop. People have to be allowed to have | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
safe rooms. If the review did not pick this up what we do? We have to | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
trust the professionals in the front line to make decisions. That is one | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
thing we really have to do. Thank you all for joining us. | :57:47. | :57:49. | |
Now, our regular round`up of the political week in 60 seconds. | :57:50. | :58:03. | |
On a visit to farm of Lord Heseltine said Cornwall was more prosperous in | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
real terms than a generation ago. Look at the cars. They are a totally | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
different states are the ones 30 years ago. The future of all | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
Devon's council run care homes was put under a cost`cutting review. | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
There will be real concerns amongst residents and their families and | :58:27. | :58:32. | |
loved ones. Somerset's article fell five point short of its 70% target | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
even after the three`week extension. They are playing the figures uncover | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
the fact it has been a complete failure and they have killed badgers | :58:43. | :58:48. | |
for no reason at all. A proposal to transfer the Duchy of Cornwall from | :58:49. | :58:50. | |
Prince Charles to the people was discussed in Parliament. And | :58:51. | :58:56. | |
inspired by this ceremony in Exeter, the people of Plymouth were asked to | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
nominate lost war heroes for street names. If you could name a street | :59:01. | :59:14. | |
after anyone who would it be? I would go for Robin Stubbs who scored | :59:15. | :59:17. | |
a hat`trick in the third round of the FA Cup in 1966 the Torquay | :59:18. | :59:25. | |
United against Tottenham Hotspur. Allison, have you got a personal | :59:26. | :59:31. | |
hero? If we are looking at war heroes it would be the first | :59:32. | :59:35. | |
Plymouth Sylvia lost in the First World War. Who was that? I don't | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
know. They were far too many victims but that would be the person I would | :59:41. | :59:47. | |
name a street after. What about transferring the powers of the Duchy | :59:48. | :59:50. | |
of Cornwall from the Prince of Wales to the people, is that something you | :59:51. | :59:55. | |
would like to see happen? That is a big question for two seconds. We | :59:56. | :59:58. | |
need to have a detailed discussion. Yes and no? I think it is | :59:59. | :00:07. | |
inevitable. That's the Sunday Politics in the | :00:08. | :00:21. | |
South West. You can always watch this show again online. Thanks to my | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
guests, Alison Seabeck and Adrian Sanders. Now, back to Andrew in | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
London. Enjoy the rest of more equipment so they can see | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
cyclists. Back to you, Andrew. We learned this week that no more | :00:29. | :00:42. | |
warships will be built at Portsmouth, the home of the Royal | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Navy since the days of the Mary Rose and Francis Drake. But has the city | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
been sacrificed to save jobs on the Clyde in Scotland? Is England the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
loser in an effort to keep the United Kingdom intact? Let's speak | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
to Eddie Bone, he leads the campaign for an English Parliament. Is | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
England the loser in this attempt to keep the | :01:09. | :01:09. | |
doubt, Andrew. We would look at it from the campaign for the English | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
Parliament that the British governance is bribing the Scots to | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
stay with the union at the cost of English jobs. What is the best | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
outcome for England when Scotland votes in the referendum next year? | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
We have got to have an English parliament. What I mean by that is | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
an endless governor and with a first minister speaking on behalf of the | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
people of England. -- and English government. If Scotland votes for | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
independence, that is the union coming to an end. It will be | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
dissolved legally. England would be going to negotiating table without | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
true representation. The union continues but it continues without | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Scotland. I want to come back to my... That is the constitutional | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
position. You may not agree with me but that is the constitutional | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
position. Do you want Scotland to vote for independence next year We | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
want a fair deal with equality for England. If that can be maintained | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
or England can have a fair deal within the union, that is brilliant. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Let's have a federal system are all the nations are treated equally If | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
that cannot happen and Scotland decides to stay, if Scotland goes, | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
it is an independent England, isn't it? If Scotland votes to leave the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
union, what is left of the United Kingdom would be so dominated by | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
England at Westminster would, in effect, Beale English Parliament, | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
wouldn't it? I do not agree with you. I think that is a British, deny | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
list approach. The act of union was a fusion with the King of England to | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
the King of Scotland. That would come to an end. The Welsh are very | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
concerned. They are a very small nation. If you have a botched | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
British come English Parliament the Welsh would be in a very vulnerable | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
situation. They would not be listened to. Also a situation with | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Northern Ireland. There are voices in Northern Ireland talking about | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
trying to reunite Northern Ireland. It would be a very volatile | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
situation. Would you prefer England to become an independent nation | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
separate from what was left of the UK, which would be Wales and | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Northern Ireland? Would you like to see England have a seat in the UN? I | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
want their representation for the people of England. English jobs were | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
sacrificed because the British government wanted Scotland to | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
remain... You have answered that very quickly. I am -- very clearly. | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
Would you want England, without Northern Ireland and Wales to become | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
a separate nation state? If that is what it takes for people of England | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
to have their representation - representation that looks at | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
policies of the NHS, education very different from Wales and Northern | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Ireland - then so be it. Independence will need to be the way | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
forward. We have a small window of opportunity that the federal system | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
might still work. D1 indenting have a system like Scotland? -- do you | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
want England to have a system like Scotland? What we need to do now is | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
implement the process is to get their representation for England. I | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
would urge your viewers to join our campaign because it is the only way | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
to protect jobs in England, protect the NHS, protect education. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Otherwise we will see the people in England continually penalised by the | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
British government is trying desperately to save the union by | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
giving more to Scotland and Wales. Nice to talk to you. Helen, on this | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
business of the Clyde versus Portsmouth, it would have been | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
pretty inconceivable of the British government that believes in the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
union to have allowed the Clyde to close. That would have been a | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
disaster. It would have been. It's dumped Nicola Sturgeon. Hang on a | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
minute, if there was Scottish independence, England were not allow | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
its warships to be built in a foreign country. She was unable to | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
admit there were any downsides to Scottish independence. It would be | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
dangerous for Scotland to talk about this. You have a Lib Dem and a | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Conservative MP with reasonable majorities. They will find that a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
killer on their doorstep in the next election. There are no results in | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
this for Mr Cameron. He has one MP and he will be lucky to have two. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
And the South of England, I know Portsmouth is quite an industrial | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
area, but the South of England is overall Tory territory. He has | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
backed the Clyde where there are no Tory votes. The Tory problem in | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Scotland is crucial. The trend to look out for is the rise of English | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
nationalism within the Conservative Party. They have the word Unionist | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
in their official title. If, in election after election, they failed | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
to win a significant presence in Scotland, and they are failing to | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
win a majority in Westminster because of that, it is not hard to | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
imagine that in ten years time that would be a party which has more | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
autonomy. One person we know who does not sign up to that. David | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Cameron is a romantic Unionist at heart he may say that are not any | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
vote in Scotland but he want to keep the union together. With the Clyde, | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
you saw a rival together of economic and political interests. It is | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
economic or the case the greatest shipbuilding capability in the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
United Kingdom is in the Clyde. It is politically very helpful for this | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
government to say to people in Scotland, look at the benefits of | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
being in the United Kingdom and under their breath, or in the case | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
of Alistair Carmichael to a camera, look what might go if you leave | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
That came together very conveniently to the government. Now, how do you | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
like your politicians? Squeaky clean with an impeccable past? Or are you | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
happy for them to have a few skeletons in the closet? Well, last | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
week the Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted smoking crack cocaine. He | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
said he took the drug about a year ago whilst in a drunken stupor. So, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
what impact do confessions have on a political career? In a moment, we'll | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
hear what our panel has to say, but first, take a look at this. Yes I | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
have smoked crack cocaine. Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Probably one of my drunken stupor is, about a year ago. I have used | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
drugs in the past. I have used class a drugs in the past. About 30 years | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
ago at university, I did smoke cannabis. I took cannabis is a few | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
times at university and it was wrong. Have you snorted cocaine I | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
tried to but unsuccessfully years ago. I sneezed. The people around | :08:54. | :09:18. | |
you who took cocaine, they went .. Is it better to confess or the that | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
get you into even more hot water? It is absolutely better. The confession | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
by Jacqui Smith was without glamour. Finding a Labour politician who once | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
smoked cannabis 25 years ago... I do not think it makes you think that | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
she cannot be a serious politician. Politicians should brace thing about | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
them which everyone knows. In the case of Ed Miliband, he should not | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
deny being geeky. That would reek of in authenticity. The Tory MP meant | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
to be regarded as a rising star turns out he was claiming to heat | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
his horses stables at the expense of the tax payer. He had made a | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
generous claim for energy bills in his constituency home. He went | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
through the papers and found he had been using it to heat the stables | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
and he laid it all out and did the right thing. He was completely | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
honest. Is that the end of it? It will still haunt in because energy | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
is such a big issue. He was right to be honest about it. Helen was | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
saying, absolutely, you need to be honest about your past. Harriet | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Harman said she smoked pot at university. If you have smoked pot, | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
you can have a front line career. If you have taken class a drugs, you | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
cannot have a front line career There is the politician confessing | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
and the remarkable willingness of the public to forgive. It is | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
enlightened and progressive to forgive a politician for an affair | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
or taking soft drugs at university. To smoke crack cocaine and demand be | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
mad of following the Mayor of Toronto does astonishes me. There | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
was an example in America a few years ago. It was crack cocaine He | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
was elected having confessed to smoking crack cocaine. I draw the | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
line around class a drugs. We will put the team on to investigate him. | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Help to Bible come back into the headlines again. Mr Cameron will | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
surroundings by the people who are benefiting from buying their homes | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
on this scheme in the same way that this is that you used to visit those | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
who had bought their council houses. It will become hugely politicised. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
The Bank of England thinks that unemployment will drop late 201 , | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
early 2015. They will put interest rates up. Those with 95% mortgages | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
will have two find an extra ?40 a month to pay them off. I would not | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
be surprised if David Cameron is setting up himself with this | :12:15. | :12:26. | |
trouble. They will not want to raise interest rates. Mark Carney was very | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
careful to give himself three get out clauses. If unemployment hits a | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
certain level, Key has three measures which have to be fulfilled | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
before he goes ahead and raises interest rates. As a Tory | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
strategist, would you rather go into the election with low and implement | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
or low interest rates? I think they would stick to low interest rates. | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
-- low unemployment. It is not just panellists who are raising questions | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
about it, it is senior figures people in senior economic positions. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
They are saying the scheme is fine at the moment. David Cameron will be | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
surrounded by people who have taken mortgages out at low levels and it | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
is all fine right now but if interest rates go up, it will not be | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
cosy. That's all folks. The Daily Politics is back tomorrow on BBC Two | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
at midday. I'll be back next Sunday at the normal time of 11am. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Remember, if it's Sunday, it's the Sunday Politics. | :13:34. | :13:44. |