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Good morning, folks. Welcome to the Sunday Politics. It would be | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
extremely difficult, if not impossible, for an independent | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Scotland to join the European Union, so says the President of the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, in a significant | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
development in the independence debate. It's our top story. He has | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
the power to bring travel chaos debate. It's our top story. He has | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
the nation's capital. Bob Crow joined us for the Sunday interview. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Another by-election and Spain has been opposing even the | :01:23. | :03:07. | |
recognition, for instance, so it is a similar state. It is a new | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
country. I believe it is great to be externally difficult, if not | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
impossible. Well, he says he doesn't want to interfere, but he has just | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
dropped a medium-sized explosive into the debate on Scottish | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
independence? A huge story. Alex Salmond must be wondering what is | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
going to go wrong next. His pitch to the Scottish people is based on two | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
things, the currency union with England and the rest of the United | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Kingdom, which was blown apart last week, and this morning, | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Kingdom, which was blown apart last that Scotland would automatically | :03:43. | :05:26. | |
Kingdom, which was blown apart last having much sway. Are the polls | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
tightening slightly? They could be within the statistical margin for | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
error. They are, but not much. Alex Salmond's main page is one of | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
reassurance. He wants to say you can vote for independence, a pound in | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
the pocket will be the same as before and you will still be a | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
member of the European Union. In the last three or four matter days, both | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
of those claims have been blown apart. Angus MacNeil has already | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
told BBC Radio 5 Live that the remarks are nonsense and he is | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
playing more politics. We hope to remarks are nonsense and he is | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
speak to the SNP's finance minister, John Swinney, | :06:05. | :07:48. | |
speak to the SNP's finance minister, the news figures. We are being told | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
only 3% of people use the booking offices. That's not true. In | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
research done, if somebody does to a booking office with somebody sitting | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
there and asks for a ticket of less than ?5, they are not allowed to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
sell them a ticket, it is madness. Do you use the ticket office? When | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
it is open, yes. You said to ITV that he didn't. I don't know what I | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
said to ITV, I don't know what time people use them, sometimes they are | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
open and sometimes they are closed. People make out that these ticket | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
office staff are people that sit behind barriers like a newsagent. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
I'm not behind barriers like a newsagent. | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
however, these people were the behind barriers like a newsagent. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
people treated like behind barriers like a newsagent. | :08:28. | :10:09. | |
know. What I choose to do... I'm not attacking you for doing that... | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
You've got a picture up there, I've got to say, why don't they go and | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
follow Boris Johnson when he was away on holiday, when the riots were | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
taking place in London, and he refused to come back? Why don't they | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
go and view the editors of newspapers, where they go on | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
holiday? Why do they look at you when you go on holiday? They | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
sometimes do, actually. The basic pay of a tube driver will soon be | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
?52,000. Ticket office workers are already | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
?52,000. Ticket office workers are mind a holiday on Copacabana beach, | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
or membership by your house mind a holiday on Copacabana beach, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
you have done for them? When mind a holiday on Copacabana beach, | :10:48. | :12:29. | |
wages. It's I'm all right Jack? The have put a pay freeze on by | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
conservatives and liberals. The police constables, so have the | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
teachers. We have had the ability to go and fight. The reality is, at the | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
end of the day, as I have said before, no one is going to put up | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
the cause for workers. Not one single party in parliament are | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
fighting the cause for workers. They all support privatisation, they all | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
support keeping the anti-trade union laws, they all support illegal wars | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
around the world. Unless they have a fighting trade union, our members | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
pay would be as low as some fighting trade union, our members | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
You said we could not care less conditions for the workers. But you | :13:06. | :14:51. | |
have made Labour so expensive on the underground that management now has | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
a huge incentive to substitute technology for Labour. And that s | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
what it's going to do, it is closing the ticket offices and very soon, | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
starting in 2016, the driverless trains coming. What I am saying is | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
that your members should enjoy this because it's not going to last. | :15:08. | :15:19. | |
Driverless trains are not coming in, it is not safe. We have them in | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
Nuremberg, Shanghai, Sao in, it is not safe. We have them in | :15:26. | :17:11. | |
ticket office. You cannot compare for example Chesham with the likes | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
of Heathrow. Are you telling me people are going to be on a long | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
transatlantic flight, arrived at Heathrow and cannot get a ticket. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
The stuff will be redeployed on the concourse. The simple problem is | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
that it is not just about the booking office, it is about people | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
having a visual. If you are partially sighted, you | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
having a visual. If you are the machines. If British is not your | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
first language, you cannot the machines. If British is not your | :17:48. | :19:30. | |
more staff to deal with them. Let's look at your mandate to strike. Of | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
your members who work on the Tube, only 40% bothered to vote. Only 30% | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
voted for the strike, so 70% actually didn't vote to strike of | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
your members, but the strike went ahead. Isn't it right to have a | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
higher threshold before you can cause this disruption? It would be | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Tories took that away. We used to Tories took that away. We used to | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
I'm trying to say Tories took that away. We used to | :20:09. | :21:52. | |
badly run as you think, why don t you run for mayor? That is down the | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
road, it has not come up yet. I m not ruling anything out. I'm not | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
ruling out getting your job on the Sunday Politics. You have got to | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
retire as well, you have got to put your feet up. I will get you to | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
renegotiate my package. Shall we go on strike first? If I could have | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
your wages, I would have two trips to Rio every year. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
your wages, I would have two trips that he wanted to lay out that | :22:29. | :24:18. | |
Scotland should be in no doubt that if they vote for independence they | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
will have to apply for European membership and they may not get it | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
if it is vetoed by other members. What he didn't say is that no state | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
of the European Union have indicated they would veto Scottish | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
membership. The Spanish foreign minister has. They have said that if | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
there is an agreed process within the UK | :24:48. | :26:30. | |
there is an agreed process within will have to accept the euro. We | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
have set out an option on the currency arrangements which would be | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
to establish the currency union You would have to adopt the euro. That's | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
not rate because you have to be part of the exchange-rate mechanism for | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
two years before you can apply for membership and an independent | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Scotland has no intention of signing up to the exchange rate mechanism or | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
the single currency. We are concentrating on setting out | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
the single currency. We are arguments for maintaining the pound | :27:05. | :27:06. | |
the single currency. We are sterling, which is in the interests | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
of sterling, which is in the interests | :27:09. | :28:51. | |
wanted to win. My mistake. How are you feeling? It is a Labour | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
stronghold, we always knew it was going to be a fight. Labour were | :28:56. | :29:03. | |
running scared of letting us present our arguments. UKIP's campaign in | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
Wythenshawe didn't point to the right but to the left, with leaflets | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
that branded Labour as a party of millionaires who didn't care about | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
the working class. It wasn't a winning strategy but it did help | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
them beat the Tories who focused on dog mess and potholes instead. | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
Professional UKIP-watcher Rob Ford from Manchester Uni thinks they | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
could be on the right track. He s analysed the views | :29:28. | :31:10. | |
could be on the right track. He s time. Not helping, Nigel? I had | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
major surgery on the 19th of November and I am still weak as a | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
kitten. I can barely lift a pint with my right hand, it is as serious | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
as that. The answer is, Carreon chaps, you're all doing a very good | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
job. There will be carrying on to the European elections in May, which | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
will provide more evidence of if the UKIP and wagon is powering on or if | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
will provide more evidence of if the it is just parked. -- bandwagon | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
will provide more evidence of if the With me now is the Conservative | :31:41. | :33:30. | |
will provide more evidence of if the They vote that because they want | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
change. The problem is, Patrick s party have had MEPs since 1999 and | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
they cannot deliver that change They can't because they don't have | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
seats in Westminster. It was on that video, the only way we are going to | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
get the change we want in Europe is to have that referendum and have the | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
renegotiation, and that means vote Tory. What do you say to that? Let's | :33:53. | :34:01. | |
get real, the Conservative Party has not won | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
get real, the Conservative Party has 22 years. But the only way you will | :34:05. | :34:06. | |
get a referendum, 22 years. But the only way you will | :34:07. | :35:51. | |
going to say, vote UKIP, get Ed Miliband. What would you say to | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
that? I would say we have probably maxed out the Tory vote we are going | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
to get because David Cameron has been incredibly helpful in sending | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
them in our direction. Our potential for growth now, would we are | :36:04. | :36:09. | |
concentrating on, his those disenchanted former Labour voters | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
and more and more of them are coming towards us on things like | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
immigration and law and order. We want to renegotiate our relationship | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
with Europe. We need to have people who are going to turn up to | :36:23. | :36:24. | |
negotiate with people like Barroso. who are going to turn up to | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
That meant a Prime Minister that is not Ed Miliband but | :36:29. | :38:10. | |
have said that money is no object in clearing up floods, but is that | :38:11. | :38:12. | |
true? Should we accept that we cannot protect everywhere that might | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
be at risk of flooding? First let's meet the two politicians who are | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
with me for the next 20 minutes. Chris Wood is with UKIP. Amy is the | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
Conservative MP for Hampshire East. Smoking. There are laws against | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
smoking in cars with children in Canada, Australia and parts of the | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
USA. Why did you vote to not have that law here? I want parents to | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
think about it and make a decision. If you pass | :38:49. | :40:32. | |
progress and mature as a society, attitudes towards Public change. We | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
are asking the police to do an awful lot, aren't we? I struggle with the | :40:36. | :40:43. | |
police at the moment. Asking them to do something else with traffic, when | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
they have been cut by 20%, is a struggle. It never rains but it | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
pours. That could be the motto for this winter. Gales have battered the | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
coast and brought disruption. businesses and homes have been | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
engulfed by rising floodwaters and it has been another week of misery | :41:05. | :41:06. | |
for families across the South. to upgrade in the future if we get | :41:07. | :42:54. | |
more rain like this. Absolutely. If you take a town like Romsey, in | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
Hampshire, the drains are antiquated. They are looking at | :42:59. | :43:05. | |
major house`building. There are projects going on for new | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
properties, and that's water has to drain somewhere. Building all those | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
houses means there are no feels to soak up the water. Absolutely. There | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
are two problems and one of those is that the flood plains are not there. | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
Maybe the government will have to specify just drains that can take | :43:27. | :45:10. | |
fight climate change, do you think? There is no doubt that loading | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
resilience in the face of an increased pattern of extreme | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
weather, yes, of course. You do not want to connect it to climate | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
change? I did not say that at all. I have always been very clear that it | :45:26. | :45:33. | |
is very probably the case, and I also think it is probable that this | :45:34. | :45:41. | |
is to do with human activity. It is very likely that there is climate | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
change happening. There are a few in your party would not | :45:48. | :45:48. | |
they invest long`term and look at the way the system works, it is | :45:49. | :47:33. | |
going to happen again and again and again. The decisions that will need | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
to be made going to be more far reaching. We have to prepare for | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
hotter summers as well stop we have had seven record summers as well. | :47:47. | :47:52. | |
Absolutely. It does mean wetter periods and greater storms, that it | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
may mean longer droughts in the summer as well there is more | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
uncertainty. Surely, it means investing in a greener future and | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
committing to that. I do not see that David Cameron has | :48:10. | :48:10. | |
the future, is it not? Thank you for coming to talk to us. We have talked | :48:11. | :49:54. | |
a lot about city deals in recent. The other government's schemes to | :49:55. | :49:57. | |
boost economic activity in different parts of the country. Brighton is in | :49:58. | :50:05. | |
the pipeline, Portsmouth and Southampton got their joint deal | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
signed off last December. It has promised great things but how much | :50:10. | :50:16. | |
will be delivered? Our reporter has been combing through the small | :50:17. | :50:17. | |
print. Unveiled at the know that and we have the plans in | :50:18. | :52:11. | |
place, will people sign up. In Southampton, we have this location, | :52:12. | :52:18. | |
the flagship City Deal all projects. A small patch of land here but it | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
promises 5000 new jobs and the creation of a new cinema, restaurant | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
and shop. The government is pledging 7 million pounds. It is money that | :52:29. | :52:36. | |
we bid for but it was rejected but we persuaded the government to | :52:37. | :52:42. | |
relinquish that money. It is money that we would not have got but we | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
are getting because we have a City Deal. Portsmouth are potentially | :52:47. | :52:49. | |
to come good on their end of the bargain. It all sounds magnificent, | :52:50. | :54:36. | |
doesn't it? Chris, you were selected as a candidate for UKIP for Gosport | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
this week. You have been a local councillor since May. Do you believe | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
all this? You have come to politics fairly fresh and the public are | :54:49. | :54:56. | |
asking what happens on the ground. You finding it in Hampshire? All the | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
schemes we have, especially the ones in the Solent enterprise zone, they | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
sound very good, the investment is going | :55:07. | :56:50. | |
private sector money to create jobs, homes, and leisure facilities. | :56:51. | :57:01. | |
I suppose, unlike a big government grant, it is being watched more | :57:02. | :57:06. | |
carefully. Exactly. The city takes on more responsibility for its own | :57:07. | :57:09. | |
planning and own future, and gets more freedom. Why not? As Chris | :57:10. | :57:16. | |
says, the people who know most about Portsmouth, for example, are the | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
people in Portsmouth. Will the people of Portsmouth make sure the | :57:20. | :57:27. | |
politicians do it? People have to engage in politics for | :57:28. | :59:10. | |
mopping up the week in Oxford, and bearing promises of new cash for | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
roads and more resilience. I resist a joke about Eric Pickles there! | :59:18. | :59:27. | |
People see politicians and they go, what use are they in an emergency? | :59:28. | :59:31. | |
It is a good point, and the politician is not the expert, | :59:32. | :59:39. | |
usually, on floods. I think it is important that politicians hear what | :59:40. | :59:45. | |
they are saying on the ground. Critically, with the Prime Minister | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
and Defence Secretary, and Eric Pickles, I think it is important | :59:50. | :59:51. | |
because they are going Pickles, I think it is important | :59:52. | :01:34. | |
Act, so he has to stick to that line or his life 's work goes up in | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
smoke. When he passed it, there was Westminster consensus. Now the | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Tories are beginning to appeal off. UKIP has definitely peeled off. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Labour and Lib Dems are sticking to their guns, there is now a debate? | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
It has moved from consensus to very fragile consensus. It's an | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
interesting tactic for Ed Miliband to take. He could either approach | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
the floods talking about government failures and handling, instead he | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
has gone for the intellectual argument, try and turn this into a | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
debate about ideology argument, try and turn this into a | :02:06. | :03:54. | |
expert, saying, actually, the jet stream is not operating further | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
south because of climate change Or if it is, it is beyond our | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
knowledge. He flies in the face of what Ed Miliband as saying. He's | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
saying the wet weather is caused by global warming, the head of science | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
at Exeter University says the IPCC originally looked at whether climate | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
change could affect what happens to the jet stream and, because it had | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
no evidence it had any effect, it decided not to include it at all in | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
the IPCC report. The problem we have got is that any individual | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
phenomenon is difficult got is that any individual | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
to climate change. But got is that any individual | :04:29. | :06:13. | |
Nigel Farage, and it is really a vote for Ed Miliband. Patrick is a | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
very good journalist, a very good commentator. He answered almost as a | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
commentator rather than head of communications for a political | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
party. The Government are still trying to rid itself of troublesome | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
priests, an attack on welfare reforms from the Catholic Archbishop | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
of Westminster. Let's have a look and see what he said. The basic | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
safety net that was there to guarantee that people would not be | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
safety net that was there to left in hunger or in destitution has | :06:46. | :08:31. | |
safety net that was there to trying to paint them as lefties | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
ideological driven. I think that is hard in this case, an assault made | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
deliberately in the Telegraph from somebody who feels they come from a | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
centre-right position. I think there will be a bit of awkwardness about | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
this intervention. It is not the kind of thing they wanted to see. Is | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
it politically damaging for the Government? It is if it makes them | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
look mean-spirited. But that is the problem with welfare reforms. You | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
can say all sorts of things about Iain Duncan Smith's competence. But | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
the whole thing springs from a moral mission, as he sees it, | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
the whole thing springs from a moral the poor and extend opportunity | :09:07. | :10:50. | |
the whole thing springs from a moral four among 14 in the Shadow Cabinet. | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
Also, the fact that women, younger women in particular, are much less | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
likely to vote Tory than five or ten years ago. David Cameron, it drives | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
and furious, he is obviously aware this is one of the biggest potential | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
demographic problem is that they have. It also reminds us of how the | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
public can actually see the wiring behind a lot of the stuff. Do they | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
really think your blog so stupid that they will not notice that the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
following week the front bench is packed with women? I think it just | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
increases contempt for the entire rocket. It is an | :11:26. | :13:10. | |
increases contempt for the entire top, but the Labour Party is going | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
to be increasingly donated by women. Do you think there will be a Labour | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Leader before Theresa May becomes leader of the Conservatives? I think | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
it is ultimately about Osborne trying to stop Boris. I think I | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
would be astonished if she managed it. The first female Labour Leader? | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
I would pick Rachel Reeves the way it is currently going, she knows her | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
stuff and does well on TV. That is all for this week. We have a week | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
off now. | :13:47. | :13:47. |