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Well, this is the closest I'll get to Rio. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
The advance of the Islamist army on Baghdad has been slowed. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
The Iraqi army claims the fightback has begun. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
But the country now faces a de facto partition. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
What should Britain, Europe, or the US be doing - if anything? | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
It's been a big week in the Scottish referendum. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
But has the tone of the debate become too downright nasty? | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Both sides join us to go head to head. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
I will swap Ed Miliband for Tim Farren. What is the significance of | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
that? In the West, coming to a shorter | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
even Westminster, we'll be asking In the West, coming to a shorter | :01:16. | :01:28. | |
line near you, with hopes of a Severn barrage dead in the | :01:29. | :01:29. | |
In London, why the minority vote one recent elections Labour, but recent | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
support amongst people is bigger than assumed. | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
The Sunni Islamist army known as ISIS is now in control | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
of huge swathes of northern and western Iraq, including | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Until the weekend they looked like advancing relentlessly | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
on Baghdad but that offensive has now been slowed or even halted | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
The Iraqi army and its Shia milita allies vow that | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Baghdad will not be taken and that a counter-attack will soon begin. | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Iraq's Shia Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has to do something to | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
reverse the humiliation of recent days, which saw | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
his US-trained and equipped Iraqi army, which outnumbered | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
the Islamists 15 to 1 melt away or surrender when confronted by ISIS. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
The conflict has already created a humanitarian crisis, with hundreds | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
The Kurds have used the conflict to consolidate their hold on their | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
autonomous area in the north, parts of the west and the north are in the | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
grip of ISIS control and the Shias are hunkering down in the east. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
All of which makes a three-way partition a real possibility with | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
The US is moving another of its massive aircraft carrier | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
battlefleets to the Gulf, though the White House shows no | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
While Iran says it's ready to help its Shia allies | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
and there are unconfoirmed reports that its revolutionary guard has | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Well, I'm joined now by Newsnight's diplomatic editor Mark Urban. | :02:56. | :03:08. | |
Let's start with some basics. Who are ISIS and why are they | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
controlling big chunks of Iraq? ISIS is an extremist militant jihad | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
organisation and they have a pure Islamic concept based on 14th | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
century history and jurisprudence. What they want to do is correct -- | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
create this caliphate that do not recognise colonial boundaries so it | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
involves Syria and Iraq, and they could go down to Lebanon and | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
Palestine, that is all fair game as far as they are concerned. And they | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
have this strict interpretation of Islam. The more interesting question | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
is why have semi-Sunni Muslims, along with them, these are precisely | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
the sort of people who in 2006, 2007, tribal leaders in the west of | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the country rose up against. It was called the Awakening and the | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Americans in power did and bankrolled it. These people turned | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
against them and admired them in large numbers, so why do they have | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
so many Sunni Muslims on their side? We hear about people going | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
back to Mosul. I think the answer is a perception | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
back to Mosul. I think the answer that the current government is | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
ruling in sectarian interests, Shia Muslim interest, and the Sunni | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Muslims want self-determination and this is their best bet. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Muslims want self-determination and this is their Let me put up this map | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
to find out where we are going. We can see Mosul in the north, they | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
took that, and then they started, South, reports that the crit was | :04:37. | :04:46. | |
involved -- to grit -- to grit. What is the situation on the ground now? | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
We are in what you might call a consolidation or strategic pause as | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
American called it in 2003. ISIS are trying to consolidate their power in | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Mosul, and now they have this major city and they are trying to show | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
they can run the city and get the power going, etc. Their southernmost | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
forces, that is a gorilla army, guys in pick-up trucks. They cannot deal | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
with serious opposition. They would like to get the tanks and other | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
things into action but that could take weeks for them to be able to do | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
it. The government side is that they have counter-attacked, but it will | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
take a little while before these newly raised militia and other task | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
forces, call them what you will can effectively counter-attacked. But | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
that is what will happen in the next week or two. We will see | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
increasingly large and serious government counter-attacked trying | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
to retake those places, and I fear a really difficult, bloody Syrian | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
style street by street battle for some of these urban centres. I would | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
like to have a look at this map because the Kurds, as I mentioned, | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
they are consolidating their position in the autonomous region in | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
the north. The Islamist are taking over huge chunks of the Sunni Muslim | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
West. And of course the Shia Muslim are still dominant in control of | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
Baghdad and in parts of the south and east. Back to me looks like the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
beginnings of the partition of Iraq. -- back to me. Well, it is, but we | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
have to caveat it in a few ways Firstly, there are millions of | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
people in Iraq, so-called sushi combined families, who do not fit | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
easily into the pattern. Do we see millions of people becoming refugees | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
under this scheme? There would be a lot of human tragedies if people | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
really did try to enforce this type partition. Secondly, there are Sunni | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Muslim communities in the south of Baghdad, those places, once again, a | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
lot of misery and fighting will occur if people try to enforce a de | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
facto partition. There are still an awakening of forces. They are on the | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
side of the government. We heard about one group in Samarra of Sunni | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Muslims fighting on the same side. It's a complex picture. They factor, | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
it does look like a partition, and if it goes further in that direction | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
it will. And partition will always be messy because people end up on | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
the wrong side of the lies. Finally, the big thing on that map, | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Iran, a huge place, a huge border with Shia Muslim Iraq. Iran now | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
becomes a key factor. It is becoming a proxy war for Iran. Yes, when I | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
was in Baghdad a few months ago I did actually see Iranians | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
revolutionary guards in uniform They were protecting a senior | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
Iranians official, so some numbers have been never some time and they | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
are also said to protect the political leaders and -- in his | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
compound. They are there. We think more of them are trying to organise | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
the defence of Baghdad to galvanise the Iraqi army, and they will not | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
allow the Iraqi government to fall. Mark, thank you for marking archive | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
this morning. -- marking our card. Tony Blair took Britain | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
into the Iraq conflict in 2003. He's now, among other things, envoy | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
to the Middle East representing That's the UN, the EU, | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
the US and Russia. This morning he entered | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
the debate about what should be My point is simple. If you left | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
Saddam in place in 2003, when 2 11 happened and you have the Arab | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
revolutions going through Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Egypt and | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
Syria, you would still have had a major problem in Iraq. You can see | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
what happens when you leave the dictator in place, as has happened | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
with Bashar al-Assad. The problem doesn't go away. What I'm trying to | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
say is, we can rerun the debates about 2003, and there are perfectly | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
legitimate points on either side, but where we are in 2014, we have do | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
understand that this is a regional problem, but a problem that will | :09:22. | :09:22. | |
affect us. And I'm joined by the former Foreign | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Office minister Mark Malloch-Brown, Here in London are James Rubin, | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
he was chief spokesman for the State Department under | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Bill Clinton, and Bayan Rahman, she represents the Kurdistan | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
Regional government in the UK. Intervened in Iraq, it's a shambles, | :09:35. | :09:51. | |
we don't intervene in Syria, it s a shambles. What lessons should we | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
draw? That is a well framed question, because that is the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
problem. Tony Blair is half right. Iraq, like Syria, would probably | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
have been a problem even without an intervention. But one wishes someone | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
would tell him to stay quiet during moments like this, because it does | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
drive a great surge of people in the other direction. The fact is, what | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
has been missing in western politics towards the Middle East throughout | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
both episodes, Syria and Iraq, is a drive to build an inclusive, | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
democratic centre which is secular and nonsectarian. That has been | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
missing amongst the threats of invasion Manon invasion, we have | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
just constantly neglected the diplomatic nation-building | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
dimensional this. I want to come onto what is happening on the | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
ground. I want to begin with what the Western response by me, and by | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
that we mean the United States, because of it doesn't do anything, | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
nobody will do anything. All of the signals I see coming out of the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
White is that Barack Obama has no appetite for intervention -- out of | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the White House. I don't think he does have an appetite. He would be | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
very unlikely to do anything very large. He might feel pressured to | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
act because of the fact that this particular group, this Al-Qaeda | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
inspired group, fits into the strategy he has pursued in Yemen and | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Afghanistan and Pakistan, to use drone strikes against individual | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
terrorists. So it is possible that the threat of ISIS in the region and | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
the West in general might inspire him to act, but the idea he will do | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
enough, militarily, to transform Iraq from its current state of civil | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
War into something along the lines that Mark was talking about, | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
nation-building diplomacy, a big operation, I don't see President | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
Obama sees his historic mission as having got the United States as out | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
of it. Leave it to the Pacific, perhaps. What would the Kurds like | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
the West to do? First of all, in Kurdistan we face a huge | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
humanitarian crisis. We already have had bought a quarter of a million | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Syrian refugees and we were struggling to cope with that. And | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
now we have at least double that number of refugees coming from | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
Mosul. First and foremost, we are calling on the international | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
community to help us with that. So we need humanitarian aid? Let's | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
assume we do that in some way, maybe not enough, but what else if | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
anything? I think it is an incumbent on the west and other powers to | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
assist Iraq to get rid of ISIS. I think the Sunni Arab community, some | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
of whom have joined ISIS and may be supported the uprising, have | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
justified complaints against the federal government. But we need the | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
terrorists out of Iraq. That is first and foremost. And what the | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
West can do is not necessarily intervene with boots on the ground, | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
but provide technical assistance, provide intelligence and help the | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Iraqi army and air force to be more targeted. Can you defend yourselves? | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
In Kurdistan, we can in terms of the disciplined troops. In this | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
situation, I hope they won't be abandoning their post, that is for | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
sure. It is a national cause fires. But we are not armed in the way that | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
the Iraqi army is -- cause for us. We are not armed in the way that | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
ISIS seems to be now they have seized some of the American kit We | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
are not asking for weapons, but we ask for assistance for all of Iraq | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
to deal with the situation. Mark, this is not just an Iraqi problem. | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
This is a regional conflict, and from the Levant on the shores of the | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
Mediterranean, all the way through to the Gulf, the region is gripped | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
with what is essentially a Sunni and Shia Muslim sectarian war. Yes, with | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
the caveats that Mark bourbon made earlier, it's not quite that | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
straightforward, but the basic divide is exactly that -- Mark | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Urban. People have been looking for this to begin in Lebanon or Jordan | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
and have been taken by surprise although with hindsight I'm not sure | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
why, that it has begun in Iraq instead. At its most extreme, it | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
risks redrawing the 20th century boundaries of the region in a way | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
which would be highly unstable because it would pit a Shia Muslim | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
bloc against the Sunni Muslim bloc and would undo all of the sort of | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
social and economic advance of the last century, so the stakes are | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
suddenly very, very high indeed Are we seeing the redrawing? The lines | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
were drawn secretly, not far from here, about a mile away, and may | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
have survived through thick and thin. They now look pretty fragile. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
The map is being redrawn. I think it is true that there is a key factor | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
partition going on -- des facto Woodrow Wilson probably gave a bit | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
of a hand to the promotion of the idea of self-determination, and in a | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
way, there is a self determination going on, particularly in the | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Kurdish region, and perhaps they may end up the big winners in all of | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
this, because they have proceeded with a relatively moderate, | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
reconcilable government. The key thing that the Kurdish region has | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
done. They used to fight the two groups, and now they fight together. | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
What the Sunni Muslims have not done is figure out how to let politics | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
let the side things instead of guns. We need to look clearly and in Syria | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
and Iraq, if there is a Sunni extremist with ISIS that carves out | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
a place for itself, it will be the great irony of the modern era. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
President Bush said he wanted to go into Iraq to fight terrorism. There | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
was no terrorist. There are now If in Iraq and Syria together thereat a | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
thousand strong Al-Qaeda capability that threatens the region, the | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
West, the world, we are all going to have to do something about it. | :16:29. | :16:48. | |
The danger is that power will spread. This could grow in power. | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
You would not want it on your southern border. Absolutely, we | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
would not. The point we are all making indirectly is that things | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
have changed in Iraq and will never be the same again. Whether Iraq | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
completely disintegrates into three countries, or whether it stays | :17:13. | :17:13. | |
together as one country, but a countries, or whether it stays | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
together as one country, but loose federation, either way, Iraq has | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
changed. It will not go back to what it was. I hope it will change for | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
the better. I think we're at the make or break point for Iraq. Either | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
the political readers -- the political leaders of a right wake up | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
and smell the coffee and put aside their differences or there will be | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
problems. This provides that opportunity, in a very nasty way. If | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
we take it? Yes, and if not, I think this is the end of a rack as we know | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
it. If anything resembling a caliphate emerges, that is very | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
destabilising for the region itself. More so I would suggest than even | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. At some stage, you have | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
to assume that they will be coming for us. That is correct. This is | :18:13. | :18:26. | |
extremely dangerous. The only way forward is for these political | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
groups to talk to each other and find a compromise that allows the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
rates of cinemas and minorities in Iraq to be protected within or the | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
rates of cinemas and minorities in Iraq to be protected with an | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
autonomous federal-state. Any support for the government must be | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
premised on that. There is no military solution for this which is | :18:46. | :18:57. | |
in during -- there is no military solution for this. There must be | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
serious political negotiation, not with ISIS, but with Sunni Muslim | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
moderates, to form a more representative government. This is | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
the last chance for Iraq. I think we are all saying that that is going to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
need to be some major western leadership to make some big | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
decisions here for the future of the region. I am concerned that after | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Afghanistan and Iraq, my country is quite world-weary, quite | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
world-weary. It does not seem to be giving leadership. Certainly we are | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
not seeing that in Europe. I am deeply concerned that we are not | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
going to take the leadership role that needs to be taken. These are | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
big issues. When Britain and France carved up the Middle East, they were | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
world powers, operating as global powers, and without that global | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
leadership by somebody, this is just going to get worse and worse. I | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
think we will leave it there, thank you very much. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
The danger is that power will spread. This could grow in power. | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
It is just under 100 days until the referendum on Scottish independence. | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
So, for once, it'll be a long hot-summer | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
But the campaign isn't just getting heated. | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
In places it's also down-right nasty. When | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
Scotland's best-selling author announced she was giving | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
the unionist cause a million pounds this week, she received | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
Independence supporters online, so-called cybernats, | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
called JK Rowling a traitor and much worse, using a variety of | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
For its part, the Better Together campaign has been accused | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Even Gordon Brown seems to think so, and this week he criticised | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Conservative ministers for relying on "threats | :20:45. | :20:45. | |
With the Edinburgh Festival approaching, reports suggest even | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
comedians are now reluctant to engage in the subject because | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
I'm joined by Blair Jenkins from Yes Scotland and Jackie Baillie | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
They're both in our Glasgow studio, and they're going head to head. | :21:01. | :21:15. | |
Blair Jenkins, let me come to you first. Why have you and the Better | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Together campaign and Alex Salmond not done more to slap down the cyber | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
nationalists who are poisoning the debate? Good morning. I think both | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
sides tried to stop the tiny number of people on both sides who are | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
incapable of controlling themselves. We should not get this | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
out of proportion. We are having a fantastic, decent and democratic | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
debate. The people who probably total no more than 100 on both sides | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
who post offensive material or not to be allowed to deflect from that | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
fact. Of course there are nasty people on the Better Together side | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
as well, but are you saying there are as many of those as the cyber | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
nationalists? I have not done the Kent. Lots of people are certainly | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
posting nasty in defensive things to people in the yes campaigners well. | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
I imagine that people do what I do, and block them. You stop them from | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
sending anything further. There is a democratic and in gauging progress | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
going on throughout Scotland. It is characterised by good humour and | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
good debate. We should not get out of proportion and the activities of | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
the number of people. I want to get to Jackie Baillie. The debate is | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
actually pretty good-humoured and you should be doing more about the | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
nasties on your side as well? I think we have reached a new low this | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
week. Despite many people engaging in the politics of the decision and | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
the debate about that, whether we want to retain the best of both | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
worlds are separate from the United Kingdom, what we have seen is the | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
most abusive and vitriolic attack, particularly on women, JK Rowling | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
and a Labour supporter who dared to support the no campaign. When you | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
look at the number of people on social media, there are more from | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
the yes campaign than the no site. We should all be condemning attacks, | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
from whatever quarter they come This seemed to be connected to the | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
office of the First Minister. What is the evidence for that? There was | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
an e-mail from one of the... I understand about that, but it did | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
not use vile words. It did not, but it repeated the same mistake as on | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
the website. We should be clear that we need to condemn these attacks, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
but it is not just the water works, it is taking action. There was an | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
IpsosMORI poll this week which was varying testing. It showed the | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
population as a whole, farmer people think that Yes Scotland is running | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
an effective campaign as against Better Together. It is a undecided | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
voters think this by a majority of four 21. Some people are worried | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
about of the campaign. JK Rowling, Scotland's most successful author of | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
all time. She gives ?1 million to the Better Together campaign. She | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
then faces some of the most incredible abuse. I know what it is | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
like because I have had some myself. Traitor, Quisling. I cannot use some | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
of the words, it is Sunday morning. Why does Scottish Nationalists | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
culture have such a revolting fringe? JK Rowling is entitled to | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
our views and it is unacceptable if people say offensive things about | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
her or anyone else who voices and opinion in this debate. Who are | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
obese people? When you look at the accounts of some of the people who | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
were posting these things about JK Rowling, they were using the same | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
sort of language about film stars and football stars. This was just | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
part of their language on Twitter. How often has Alex Salmond condemned | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
the cyber nationalists? Very often. Everyone in the campaign hands. By | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
common consent, Yes Scotland is running a thoroughly positive | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
campaign, much more positive than Better Together. Jackie Baillie it | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
hardly helps matters when Alistair Darling, who runs your campaign | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
compares Alex Salmond to Kim Jong Il and North Korea. That hardly | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
elevates the debate? I think we need to elevate the debate. There are | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
less than a hundred days to go. It is a massive decision. We need to | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
elevate the debate beyond attacks. I think there is much more that Yes | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Scotland and the SNP can do. You have made that point. Why are you | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
running a campaign based on fear? The codename of your campaign is | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
even project fear. It is threats. You cannot have the pound, there | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
will be no shipbuilding. You will be flooded by immigrants. Why are you | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
so negative? I am not negative at all and neither is the campaign The | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
campaign has asked questions and I think it is legitimate to ask | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
questions of the people proposing such a fundamental change. People | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
care about the economy, their jobs, their families. What would happen to | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
them if they leave the rest of the United Kingdom. I think it is | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
legitimate to ask questions. I refuse to be asked of | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
scaremongering. People deserve answers. The yes campaign is equally | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
guilty of some of the most outrageous scaremongering. Maybe you | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
are both scaremongering. Blair Jenkins, the First Minister said of | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
the cyber nationalists, that they are just Daft folk, as if they were | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
mischievous little children. It is worse than that. When you look at | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
what they say, they are twisted perhaps even evil minds. I would not | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
disagree with his comments, but they are directed at just a small number | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
of people. The story of this campaign is not the story of what | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
people are saying on Twitter. Around Scotland, lots of people are getting | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
engaged in debate to have been tuned out of the political process. Today, | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
we have 47% support for the yes campaign. The movement in the | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
campaign is towards yes. People know we have a better campaign, a vision | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
for Scotland. The latest poll of polls does not show that. Both | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
sides, you always take the opinion polls that show you in the best | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
light. All politicians do that. Jackie Baillie, your campaign is not | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
just negative, it is patronising. You make dubious claims that Scots | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
would be ?1400 better off by staying in the union, and then you say that | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
the kids use the money to scoff 280 hotdogs at the Edinburgh Festival. | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
The fate of the nation is in your hands and that is the best you can | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
do? I think you will find that the campaign is something that we are | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
taking the message to people. Then why are you talking about hotdogs? I | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
do not. The campaign did. We are taking a positive message to people | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
across Scotland about the benefits of the United Kingdom. We believe we | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
are stronger and more secure and more stable, being part of that | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
family of nations that is more stable, being part of that | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
Kingdom. At the same time, we have the strange and power over things | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
like education and transport. I the strange and power over things | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
understand that. I am not doing the issues today, I am talking about the | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
tone of the campaign. I have one very important question. Who would | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
you supporting last night in the England-Italy match? I was not | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
watching the game. I would be delighted to see England do well in | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
this tournament. I have Argentina in the office sweepstake. I have to | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
keep some attention on them, but I would be delighted to seeing Clint | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
do well. That is because you think it will help your campaign. It will | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
annoy the Scots. Jackie Baillie I was supporting England. I was also | :29:54. | :29:55. | |
supporting Portugal. Now most of you probably missed last | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
night's football match between England and Italy because | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
you wanted to get an early night and England lost | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
despite a plucky effort, I'm told. But even Westminster is | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
in the grip of World Cup fever and with speculation | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
about the fitness of each political party's team we sent Adam out to | :30:15. | :30:16. | |
tackle some of the big players. Well, this is | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
the closest I'll get to Rio. This year everybody seems to have | :30:24. | :30:36. | |
gone a bit mad Belize, football stickers. Let's see who I will get. | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
Oh, the suspense -- a bit mad for these. George Osborne? That is | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
because we leapt on the bandwagon and made Alan political stickers. | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
They're hotter than a Brazilian barbecue. | :30:51. | :30:51. | |
And at Westminster they're turning into collector?s items. | :30:52. | :30:53. | |
Sunday politics political stickers. We have one of you, Norman. Would | :30:54. | :31:04. | |
you like it? Do you want to start collecting, Bob? Would you like a | :31:05. | :31:05. | |
packet? collecting, Bob? Would you like a | :31:06. | :31:06. | |
Thank you. No album, I'm afraid collecting, Bob? Would you like a | :31:07. | :31:14. | |
Thank you. No album, I've got Michael Gove, next to to Reza, and | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
two of the Prime Minister. -- next to Theresa. I am sure Michael has | :31:20. | :31:26. | |
Theresa in her stick around, and vice versa. | :31:27. | :31:28. | |
These Tory ones are proving very popular | :31:29. | :31:30. | |
since she fell out with him out how to handle extremism in schools. | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
And there's been open speculation about him taking on him in | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
Then there are rumours of a reshuffle of the whole Tory album. | :31:37. | :31:44. | |
Do you think there will be any swapping in the Tory leadership | :31:45. | :31:54. | |
soon? Who knows? David Cameron has also got to replace the EU | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
commissioner, Cathy Ashton, who is standing down. | :31:58. | :31:58. | |
Does he go with the favourite the former health secretary | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
Or the grassroots choice, Martin Callanan, the Tories old | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
Or does he rehabilitate Andrew Mitchell after Plebgate? | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
Do you fancy being European Commissioner? I would rather be | :32:09. | :32:22. | |
spending the money on the world s poor and spending it well. Glad to | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
hear it. Happy collecting. Right, there must be some Labour | :32:26. | :32:27. | |
stickers out there. You don't want to swap Ed Balls any | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
of the others? Can't I keep them all? This is almost the perfect | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
team. There have been grumblings | :32:39. | :32:38. | |
about the fitness of the Shadow And Ed Miliband's got a kicking | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
in Liverpool after posing I'm told grown men are meeting up | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
in pubs for sticker swaps - With Danny Finkelstein - | :32:47. | :32:57. | |
Tory peer and Times columnist, He would be the card I would not | :32:58. | :33:11. | |
want to trade. Do people want to trade him in? I don't think anybody | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
wants to trade him in at the moment. He is the best person to lead the | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
Labour party and will lead us into the next election. There's been a | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
lot about Michael Gove, and he's very combative. That's been a huge | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
strength as an education Secretary, despite the fact it's brought in | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
trouble. I would think the prime minister would tell him not to get | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
himself into peripheral battles at the moment but stick to what has | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
been successful. I haven't got Nick Clegg, but I got me. Controversy | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
amongst collectors of Lib Dems. I need to give away me in return for | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
Nick Clegg. That would be far better. There you are. | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
Some local parties are holding meetings about his leadership, | :33:53. | :33:55. | |
but at one in Cambridge this week they voted to stick with him. | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
You have got a Euro Commissioner. Why don't I swap, I will swap Ed | :34:00. | :34:09. | |
Miliband for Tim Farren. Can I do that? What is the significance of | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
that? Very significant. Happy collecting. | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
These beauties are popping up everywhere, but sadly they won't | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
Adam is still doing the samba around Westminster as I speak. | :34:21. | :34:30. | |
I'm joined by three journalists who've been | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
furiously swapping stickers throughout the show, they certainly | :34:33. | :34:34. | |
weren't allowed to stay up to watch the football, it's Nick Watt, | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
We will talk about Labour after the break, and I want to concentrate on | :34:38. | :34:45. | |
the Tories, but the moment, Nick, senior Tories are saying privately | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
that they might win next May. They are beginning to dream the dream. So | :34:51. | :34:57. | |
why are they doing all this jockeying? I think the jockeying for | :34:58. | :35:04. | |
the leadership is about a year old. What stoped it up was when Theresa | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
gave a speech to the conference and people said she was doing it just in | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
case, when things were not looking too good. She is not on manoeuvres. | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
I think it was a policy row that drove the differences with Michael | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
Gove. But Michael Gove is on manoeuvres, and he is trying to | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
protect George Osborne from, he believes, a serious threat from | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
Boris Johnson and possibly Theresa. It is quite self-indulgent when you | :35:34. | :35:36. | |
are a couple of points behind, the economy is going your way, to be | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
involved in this sort of stuff. Extraordinary. It shows the toxic | :35:40. | :35:51. | |
disease that gnaws at the entrails of the Tory party, and Cameron is | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
their great asset. He is more popular than the party, he bridges | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
the gap is, and he has an extraordinary dissemble and some | :36:01. | :36:02. | |
pretending to be this moderate while never the lens -- nevertheless | :36:03. | :36:06. | |
leading the most far right wing government we have had since the | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
war, and that has been a brilliant piece of political Charente and they | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
would be crazy to get rid of it -- political Charente. | :36:15. | :36:16. | |
piece of political Charente and they would be crazy to get rid of it -- | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
charades. Does this rumble on? I have an unfashionable view as there | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
aren't half as many leadership plots taking place in Westminster as we | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
assume, and the willingness to read strategic calculation into anything | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
that takes place comes from people watching I Claudius or house of | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
cards. That hasn't been off -- on for years. I needed a reference from | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
your time. I needed something. Maybe brief encounter? It's a stylised | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
view of how politics works, and so much more in life is about | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
randomness and mistakes. Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Michael Gove | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
as George Osborne's man on earth, they are positioning themselves -- | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
Janan wrote an eloquent comment this week about this, but there are | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
certain realities that. Michael Gove had that famous dinner with Rupert | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
Murdoch a few weeks ago in which he said that you must not make Boris | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
Johnson leader of the Conservative party, George Osborne is my man | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
Theresa May set out her credo two years ago and people on her team | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
were saying that she was doing it just in case. People are out there | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
and are thinking of the future, but I do think Janan is right. In the | :37:30. | :37:34. | |
village, in the thick of it mindset, you can get a bit carried away and | :37:35. | :37:41. | |
you can be a bit in the famous. That is before your era. He died. What | :37:42. | :37:49. | |
did he mean by it. You can get a bit carried away by it. I will have | :37:50. | :37:51. | |
words with you during the break It's just gone 11.35, you're | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers | :37:56. | :37:57. | |
in Scotland who leave us now Coming up here in 20 minutes, we'll | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
be talking about Ed Miliband's 1st, let's meet our guests for | :38:01. | :38:43. | |
today. 1 has been dubbed by the Daily Mail as the flag beardr for | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
the West. That's the Conservative MP Liam Fox. The other is an assistant | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
Mayor of Bristol 's Green P`rty as Hoyt. Liam, as we have you `nd you | :38:52. | :38:57. | |
are a former Defence Secret`ry, let's talk about Iraq. | :38:58. | :39:29. | |
unfold there. We should nevdr have got involved in the first place | :39:30. | :39:31. | |
should we? I don't think wh`t we would have done would necessarily | :39:32. | :39:34. | |
have changed what is happenhng. This has long been a cauldron for the | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
dispute between the Shia and Sunni populations in that part of the | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
world. The policy now has to be to defeat the Isis insurrection. It | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
will be bloody come what max, and the second thing is to try to not | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
have the involvement of othdr regional powers and certainly not | :39:48. | :39:49. | |
having Iran or Turkey drawn in. When you say we, should we be involved? | :39:50. | :39:53. | |
It depends what the Iraqi government is looking for. They may well ask | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
for airpower, more specialised airpower, perhaps. That will | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
primarily be from the US and it will be a big debate in the US and about | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
whether the Americans should have tried harder to get a stated forces | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
agreement with Iraq and if they had stayed and provided mentoring, would | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
we have seen the collapse of Iraqi forces in the central part of the | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
country? Gus, I know the Grdens never wanted a war but now that we | :40:12. | :40:14. | |
are in a position where we `re, should Britain offer assist`nce | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
mayor of Bristol, I'm tied tp with local communities. As far as the | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
Greens are concerned, we should never have got involved. As Liam | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
said, there have been probldms there for millennia but by getting | :40:25. | :40:26. | |
involved we put in a lot of sticks under that cauldron. Thank xou. The | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
question of how to harvest the Bristol Channel's mighty tidal range | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
is almost as old as King Canute Last year the idea of a Sevdrn | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
barrage was scotched by MPs who deemed it too expensive and too | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
damaging to the environment, but the tide has now turned in favotr of a | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
new solution, a number of mini`barrages called lagoons. With | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
Bradley has donned her lifejacket and taken herself into the channel | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
to investigate. Out here in the Bristol Channel, you can fedl the | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
energy of the tides. Where we are at the moment is where the tidd is | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
turning, getting to its peak and is ready to go back out. You c`n see | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
why people want to harness the power of that tide. Now the government's | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
said we will not get a barr`ge from the Somerset coast over to Wales, | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
all eyes have turned to a ndw technology ` tidal lagoons. | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
So how do they work? Turbinds are housed in a concrete block which is | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
set in a wall surrounding the lagoon. As the tide rushes hn and | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
out, it drives the turbines, producing electricity four times a | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
day. This company in Cheltenham wants to build the first tidal | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
lagoon in the world in Wales. This is a close`up within Swanse` Bay. | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
Here we have Swansea docks `nd the tidal lagoon that will extend out | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
into the bay six miles around and back again. There are a number of | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
locations around the UK appropriate for tidal lagoons, including the | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
Severn Estuary, around the Welsh coast, and the north`west of | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
England, and it is our intention to follow Swansea Bay with a sdries of | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
large`scale tidal lagoons that could deliver power to the UK. Thdy're | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
hoping these plans will havd government sign`off next ye`r and | :42:09. | :42:11. | |
want the Swansea lagoon to be producing power by 2018, but what | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
about on the English side of the Channel? You can see North Hill | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
then out in an arc, a crescdnt out to sea, and all the way back. This | :42:23. | :42:36. | |
This man leads a group of Mhnehead businessmen with ambitious plans. | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
Not only do they want to produce power for half a million holes, but | :42:40. | :42:42. | |
they hope a lagoon would regenerate the whole area. By building the | :42:43. | :42:45. | |
power, that will give us thd means to afford a ferry dock. We `re even | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
talking about putting a wavd maker in here because the local youth | :42:51. | :42:54. | |
would love to have something else they could do here. This cotld well | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
become the Cannes of the sotth`west. Transforming West Somerset hnto the | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
South of France may be a long shot. But local councils on both sides of | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
the Channel are also talking about how they can encourage tidal lagoons | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
and make the area a world ldader in technology. This is exactly what | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
local authorities should be doing, this is catching the zeitgehst in | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
terms of where local authorhties were in Victorian times, in terms of | :43:26. | :43:28. | |
getting up, getting on, driving the economic government. The cotncils | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
are putting in a bid for ?3 million of public money to get their lagoon | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
dreams going. It seems likely the world's first tidal lagoon will be | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
built in Swansea Bay, but hdre in Minehead Bay could well be the | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
second. The race is now on to see who will build it. Joining ts from | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
across the water in Swansea is the Labour MP Peter Hain. You'vd long | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
been a champion of the barr`ge. That's deemed to be dead in the | :43:57. | :44:06. | |
water now. Have lagoons stolen your thunder? | :44:07. | :44:07. | |
still very much a prospect for the future. I support the Swansda Bay | :44:08. | :44:14. | |
tidal lagoon but you would need 50 of them, 50, cluttering up the whole | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
of the Severn Estuary, to ddvelop the equivalent power to the Severn | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
barrage, which itself is thd equivalent of two or three nuclear | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
power stations. Lagoons are much more expensive, the electricity | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
generated is as much as thrde times more expensive at a time of sky high | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
electricity prices, than thd barrage which produces by far the cheapest | :44:36. | :44:38. | |
electricity of anything, gas, nuclear, the lot, and so for me the | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
Severn barrage, as well as offering flood protection to 90,000 | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
properties, and we know what has happened in Somerset, 90,000 | :44:49. | :44:58. | |
properties and 500 square kilometres, is a no`brainer. | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
Let's bring in our guests. Gus, the barrage would be bold, big `nd would | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
supply a lot of electricity. Why muck about with the small l`goons | :45:07. | :45:13. | |
It would certainly be big and bold and | :45:14. | :45:22. | |
that is part of the problem. If you focus on the tidal lagoons xou could | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
have them where they are most effective. | :45:27. | :45:27. | |
If we are going to have energy sovereignty for the UK, we have to | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
think about how we deliver ht, so it is not just about one big thdal | :45:32. | :45:34. | |
barrage, we have to look at offshore and onshore wind, solar, all the | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
aspects together. The barrage doesn't stack up economically or | :45:38. | :45:46. | |
environmentally. That is not true. One of the reasons I was ag`inst the | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
barrage was the potential dhsruption of Royal Portbury Dock and @vonmouth | :45:51. | :45:52. | |
and the threat to jobs in the area. The uncertainty that would be caused | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
by that would cause traffic to go elsewhere to other ports, so that | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
economic reason was my prim`ry reason for objecting to it, but I | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
think environmentally the c`se has not been made for the barrage. I | :46:03. | :46:04. | |
think there was a strong case for using tidal power using the natural | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
resource we have in this part of the country to help generate eldctricity | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
and to contribute to our arda independence. Peter Hain, h`ve they | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
convinced you? No, the Bristol Port would get many more jobs out of the | :46:21. | :46:23. | |
Severn barrage. It is the only project by far that can harness this | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
enormous clean natural energy, and lagoons can complement it btt you | :46:31. | :46:32. | |
would literally fill the whole estuary with around 50 of them, | :46:33. | :46:35. | |
which would be a blockage to shipping. The barrage has locks that | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
allow shipping through to Bristol. And frankly, the guy from the | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
Greens, either you believe hn fighting climate change and you | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
believe in green energy, and there is nothing to compare with the | :46:45. | :46:58. | |
Severn barrage, or you don't. If I may come back on that one, tidal | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
lagoons would create many jobs for the region, construction jobs, and | :47:02. | :47:04. | |
as far as energy sovereigntx goes it is crucial we pursue this, which is | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
why we have started work with Cardiff about the Severn region But | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
this is a project that you `pprove of, as Greens. You approve of | :47:11. | :47:13. | |
getting something done to produce more electricity. That is a | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
breakthrough, isn't it? I would hope they do, they are supposed to | :47:19. | :47:21. | |
believe in clean energy and the barrage is by far the biggest | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
renewable energy project in the world so far. The idea that we are | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
turning our back on it, and it isn't over, there are still plans going | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
ahead, and I am hopeful that after the next election we may buhld more, | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
the idea we would turn our back on it for very small schemes that would | :47:39. | :47:45. | |
not produce a fraction of the power... And would you block access | :47:46. | :47:53. | |
No, because locks allow the shipping to go | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
through without any charge, that is a promise to Bristol Port. Liam Fox, | :48:00. | :48:06. | |
does that solve that problel? It is an idea, we have never even seen | :48:07. | :48:09. | |
concrete plans, we have not seen the technology proven and the idea there | :48:10. | :48:12. | |
might be disruption during construction for a port that has to | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
compete with other ports for business is not on. The ide` of the | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
lagoons, I think, is a senshble thing to look at because it does | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
look as though you can satisfy most demand, energy production and | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
us. For all the Conservativds' tough talk on immigration, they sdem | :48:28. | :48:38. | |
hopelessly adrift with their promises. David Cameron wanted to | :48:39. | :48:40. | |
cut net migration to tens of thousands, but the latest fhgures | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
show it is up to over 200,000. Some of his own MPs, including Lham Fox, | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
suggested a return to tightdr border controls with our European | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
neighbours. The free movement of goods, services, capital and people | :48:53. | :49:00. | |
` this quartet are the fund`mental freedoms that prop up Europd's | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
single market. But after a wave of euroscepticism in May's elections, | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
it's the free movement of pdople now coming under intense pressure. UKIP | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
is riding high on a wave of public concern over immigration. A flavour | :49:17. | :49:28. | |
as to why among the jobseekdrs in Bristol. I put job applicathons in, | :49:29. | :49:31. | |
there's never anything back. It makes it harder because all the | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
people coming through immigration and that makes it tougher. H think | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
it is keeping rates of pay down in a lot of ways because people `re | :49:38. | :49:46. | |
prepared to work for a lower rate of pay. Just, it feels like thdy are | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
taking all our jobs and thex get all the pay. The number of Europeans | :49:51. | :49:53. | |
coming to work in Britain is on the rise. It was 95,000 in 2012 but | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
increased to 125,000 last ydar, up 31%. But while more people `re | :49:58. | :50:00. | |
arriving from the continent, unemployment in the West continues | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
to fall. Between April and Lay, the numbers out of work dropped by %, | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
the lowest level since 2008. That numbers game is being played out in | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
the production line of this bakery. These treats are selling like hot | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
cakes, so they are expanding. The local jobs market doesn't always | :50:23. | :50:31. | |
meet firms' needs. Some Polhsh people we recently recruited, they | :50:32. | :50:33. | |
were positive about the opportunities. They wanted long`term | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
full`time work and were prepared to put themselves out a little bit to | :50:38. | :50:40. | |
come and find that. We interviewed a person a couple of weeks ago who | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
sadly felt he wasn't able to take the job because it interferdd with | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
his salsa classes. I'm not saying that necessarily epitomises the | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
difference in nationality, H'm sure Poles do salsa as well, but it is | :50:54. | :51:07. | |
certainly something that as employers, we notice. | :51:08. | :51:23. | |
Businesses want to keep hard`working Europeans in the employment mix but | :51:24. | :51:26. | |
growing pressure on housing and transport, the Prime Ministdr is | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
being urged by his backbenchers to bring back border control as he | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
I believe the UK has been a great beneficiary of the free movdment of | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
workers and interestingly, the UK welfare budget has also been a | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
beneficiary of labour migration and the migrant workers actuallx | :51:40. | :51:41. | |
contribute more to the welf`re budget of the UK than what they take | :51:42. | :51:44. | |
out, so if anyone, including the Prime Minister, makes proposals | :51:45. | :51:50. | |
these aspects could be should be taken into account. | :51:51. | :52:05. | |
This car wash on the outskirts of Bath is one of a number across the | :52:06. | :52:09. | |
Romanians. They say they ard doing the jobs British workers silply | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
don't want to, but now, with politicians starting to talk tough | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
on immigration within the ET, the question is, just how tough should | :52:16. | :52:17. | |
they be? We'll hear from Stdve Wood, the chairman of UKIP in Bristol in | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
just a moment as he has dropped in to see us, but first, let's talk to | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
Liam Fox about this, becausd you have plans for proposals th`t would | :52:26. | :52:28. | |
see migration from the rest of the EU not stopped but certainlx | :52:29. | :52:36. | |
I'd like to see immigration in general reduced and I thhnk that | :52:37. | :52:45. | |
we know from our demographics as a country, we will require sole | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
immigration into the UK. My problem with this issue is that we have | :52:49. | :52:51. | |
always focus on the numbers and not who is coming into the country, and | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
I think I would like to see an immigration policy in the UK that | :52:56. | :52:58. | |
looks a lot more like the Atstralian points system that said, thdse are | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
the skills we require in ond time. If you have the skills, you are | :53:02. | :53:04. | |
welcome in our country. If xou're going to generate wealth in our | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
country, you are welcome. If you're going to be consuming the wdalth in | :53:08. | :53:10. | |
our country, you are not, so I think that is a fair proposal. | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
You would need substantial baraka seek to work that out, in this case | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
a card to work here, and in return if you have kids who want to go and | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
work in Germany or Italy, they would have to go through a similar | :53:26. | :53:31. | |
process. It depends what those countries want. What was cldar from | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
the European elections is that citizens across Europe were a clear | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
message that they regarded the control of borders as being totemic | :53:40. | :53:46. | |
in the issue of sovereignty, and I think the political leaders in | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
Europe need to listen to thd people. If he gets his way and that happened | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
in renegotiations with the rest of the U, you are out of busindss, | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
aren't you? Not at all. What Doctor Fox is saying is fantastic news but | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
it is something we have been saying for the last 5 or 6 years. We need | :54:05. | :54:12. | |
an Austrian `based systems, at the moment the EU discriminates against | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
everyone from outside Europd because if you are from about Europd you get | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
tougher controls. But there would be no need to leave the EU if the | :54:22. | :54:24. | |
movement of people was restricted as Liam Fox is suggesting. As long as | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
we are within the EU we will have free movement of people, and while | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
Liam's values are welcome, xou have to admit as long as we stay in the | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
EU we will not be able to h`ve tighter immigration. As long as we | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
stay in the EU as it is currently constructive, and I think the | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
message from across Europe hn the recent elections is that thd people | :54:50. | :54:51. | |
of Europe want a different direction. I think what will be | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
crucial is how European leaders react to it, but depressingly it | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
looks like they intend to continue as though nothing has happened, and | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
the inevitable consequence hs that every time voters are asked in the | :55:07. | :55:09. | |
future about the direction of Europe, they will start givhng a | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
bloody nose to bureaucrats who seem intent on ignoring their vohce. | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
Goss, you believe in the frde movement of people? Yes, I think we | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
are focusing on the wrong issues. We should be talking about decdnt, good | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
jobs. We saw on the clip people in Bristol, I think the UK Govdrnment | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
is letting those people down by not abiding adequate jobs. People in | :55:34. | :55:40. | |
Bristol were saying we are competing against people in Europe for those | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
jobs. It is so their jobs there in the 1st place, that is what we have | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
to look at. That is by building a dream business party, trainhng of | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
local people and providing apprenticeships, that is wh`t we | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
need to be focusing on. I h`ve my car washed in 1 of those car washes | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
and the guys, they are alwaxs European, they work incredibly hard, | :56:07. | :56:13. | |
they pay their taxes, they do work which would be difficult to get | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
employees here to do, what hs not to like? I am not against people coming | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
to work in this country as long as there are jobs to be done, `nd I | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
think that is a fair and re`sonable policy. Other countries, Canada and | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
Australia run policies like that, and no 1 says they are unfahr. | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
Governments don't provide jobs, governments provide the conditions, | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
the private sector provides jobs, and in our region we are seding a | :56:43. | :56:47. | |
big hole. People in your constituency who want to retire in | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
Spain would have to do to a point system to live there, you would be | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
happy to explain that to thdm. That would depend what the Spanish | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
government do. They would do what they believe to be in their best | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
interest, it may be in their best interest to have people in the UK | :57:05. | :57:06. | |
taking their money and retiring there. We cannot treat Europe as 1 | :57:07. | :57:13. | |
side the soul. We need the people of those dates to do what they believe | :57:14. | :57:18. | |
is in their own national interest. We will have to leave that debate. | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
Thank you. Let's take a spin back through the political week. | :57:23. | :57:32. | |
Gloucestershire County Council announced it has to make ?74 million | :57:33. | :57:35. | |
worth of savings. The local authority warned social services | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
must change and that care for the young and the elderly could be | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
affected. Somerset road dubbed the highway to the sun, and somd sunny | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
news this week. On a visit, the transport secretary Patrick | :57:44. | :57:45. | |
McLoughlin pledged money to improve the traffic`clogged route btt kept | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
tightlipped over how much. Plans for a second reservoir at Chedd`r were | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
given the go`ahead by counchllors. Bristol Water says it is nedded to | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
keep pace with growing demand. The scheme now needs sign`off from the | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
water regulator. And the crdator of Harry Potter weighed into the debate | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
about Scottish independence. JK Rowling, who was born in Yate, | :58:07. | :58:09. | |
magicked up ?1 million to ghve to the campaign to keep them together. | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
I think devolution has been fantastic for Scotland, I rdally do, | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
and I suppose pragmatically I think we've got a great deal. | :58:20. | :58:30. | |
Let's just pick up on those words from JK Rowling. Doctor Fox, you are | :58:31. | :58:40. | |
a Scot. Is it any of our business what they do up their? Yes, because | :58:41. | :58:47. | |
it affects the whole UK. I `m very much against Scottish indepdndence. | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
I think as a nation we have each eat a great deal to gather and we still | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
do achieve a great deal togdther. I think there is a human elemdnt that | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
is perhaps not very often t`lked about. When the union was created, | :59:01. | :59:07. | |
it was a union of treaty, now we are a union of people. We have great | :59:08. | :59:11. | |
grandparents from all different parts of the UK, families work in | :59:12. | :59:15. | |
different parts and I do not see white families should be torn apart. | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
If people like JK rolling h`ve to spend ?1,000,000 for the better | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
together campaign, it is not much of a relationship if we have to | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
persuade Scots Tuesday. The Scottish Government is spending a grdat deal | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
of money trying to persuade Scotland they would be better separating from | :59:35. | :59:36. | |
the rest of the UK and donations like this are welcome to support a | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
campaign that wants to hold a country together. The Greens are | :59:42. | :59:45. | |
supporting independence, ardn't they? We believe all decision should | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
be made at the lowest possible level, so if that is what the people | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
decide... Even if it is dam`ging for England, because we would lose a | :59:56. | :00:01. | |
lot? Yes, but we may be sealing our fate because we would be signing up | :00:02. | :00:04. | |
for an eternal right`wing government, so in my own political | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
interests, it technically flies against the wind. We would lose 50 | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
or so MPs in Scotland goes. I do not think Tony Blair would have won his | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
majorities without a Scottish MP. I think it will be a no vote because | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
ultimately people will refldct on the fact that as a country `nd as | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
people, we are just better off United and I think when we look at | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
the uncertainties, there ard so many economic and security uncertainties | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
and they have not answered ` whole range of questions and I thhnk the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
public will choose the statts quo. We shall have to wait and sde. That | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
is all we have time for this week. My thanks to Liam Fox and Gts Hoyt. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
If you are fed up with the football and fancy more politics, yot can | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
catch this part of the show again on the BBC I player. As for thd World | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Cup, there is no competition, but now it | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
There are big changes afoot in the EU following last month's | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
European elections, not least who'll get the top job | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
But behind the scenes the parties have | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
also been jockeying for position as they try to form the big groups that | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
And UKIP seems to have been struggling to keep its influence | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Here's Adam to explain how it all works. | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
If you want your party to be a big cheese in the European Parliament, | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
you need to form a political group. By doing this, the party gets more | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
money, more positions on committees and even more speaking rights in the | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
chamber. But the parliament's rules are strict. And to form a group you | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
need a group of 25 MPs from at least seven different countries. For UKIP, | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
the number of MEPs will not be a problem because they already have 24 | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
of their own, but the different nationalities are more of a | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
challenge. Nigel Farage was not helped by the Tories stealing - | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
stealing his former Danish and Finnish allies, and the pen pinching | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
his Italian charms. Nigel needs a new charm and fast. He has already | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
signed up Lithuania's order and justice, a free citizen from Prague, | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
and the Dutchman from the reformed political party. The big signing was | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
the 17 members of the Italian Beppe Griego's 5-star movement, but it | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
leaves UKIP short of two more international powers, and with the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
clock ticking, it looks like his hopes resting on the Swedish | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Democrats and the Polish new right Congress. They both make their | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
decisions next week. What is the latest? UKIP have enough | :02:54. | :03:05. | |
MEPs with their pals, but they need seven countries, as I understand it. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
They are not there yet. They are wrapped five countries and need | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
another two. UKIP are being quite buoyant and say they will be meeting | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
MEPs from five countries next week and are pretty confident they will | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
get those countries, but as Adam was saying, the problem UKIP have had is | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
that the Conservatives have nicked two of the parties. That is why they | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
have been struggling, but they say they are confident they will do it. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Meanwhile, the Tories new best friends are the German Eurosceptic | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
party, which has put Mrs Merkel s nose out of joint, but we don't | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
quite know whether she really cares or not. I think Cameron has played | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
his hand badly since he committed to pulling out of the EBP. And he | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
should be in there with Angela Merkel and if he needs to make a | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
major renegotiation, he needs to have the Germans onside. Instead | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
there is a breakaway party and its like supporting UKIP. His party are | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
supporting her worst enemy. It certainly causing him a lot of | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
problems, and undermines his negotiating position, but isn't | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
there an honesty that the centre-right group is explicitly | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Federalist, and the Tories are anything but, so they came out, and | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Labour are in the Socialist group, which is explicitly Federalist, and | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
they are not Federalist either. If you want support and influence in | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Europe, you have to trade, and he hasn't done this well. The whole | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
business with who will be the next president, he needs Angela Merkel's | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
support. Without that, it won't happen. He should have been trading | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
behind-the-scenes, but he has exposed himself in public, and if he | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
doesn't win it looks uncertain, and he will be in a position where he | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
has to go back to his own party and say they are not getting anywhere. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
That is dangerous and takes us closer to the Exeter, which I don't | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
think would want. The danger for Mr Cameron is if it is the president of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the commission, he will save you cannot stop a federalist becoming | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
head of the European commission what chance do you have of | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
repatriating lots of powers back to London. There are lots of Tory MPs | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
dying to make the argument. My hunch is that he won't make it. There are | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
too many countries opposed to his presidency and even the country | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
notionally in favour of it, Germany, is failing in youth -- enthusiasm. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Angela Merkel cannot be seen to give in to the Brits this. Her own side | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
once it as well, though some reason the German media says it. When she | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
tried to reach out and said to look at the other candidates, she got | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
such abuse on the right wing press from her own country and party she | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
had to retreat. Janan is right that there is opposition to Juncker, but | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
as long as Cameron turns it into an argument about Britain and Europe, | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
he will strengthen the hand of Juncker. Angela Merkel thinks | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
Juncker is inappropriate. She did not like the process, which was a | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
power grab by the European Parliament, but when David Cameron | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
went to the council and said that if I don't get my way, we could leave | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
the EU, that led to the backlash, most significantly from the SPD in | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
Germany. As Tony Blair says, if only David Cameron had made the argument | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
that Juncker is bad for Europe, then he would have found his natural | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
allies would have felt more comfortable following behind. Enough | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Europe. I want to show you a picture. See what you think of this. | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
When I saw that picture, I thought it was so ludicrous that it had to | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
have been photo shop. Discuss. He is holding it with a certain disdain, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
looking a bit hangdog. A disastrous picture for Ed Miliband. His | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
strength is authenticity, sincerity and cleverness. And he blows all of | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
that. He was the one who took on Murdoch, very bravely and | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
dangerously, and one, really. Now there he is supporting Murdoch's | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
son. It's a big mistake, not just in Liverpool, where obviously they are | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
particularly incensed. And then he apologises. Sort of apologises and | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
understands why Liverpool feels upset. But it is a fundamental error | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
and I hope he learns from this, that he must absolutely stay true to | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
himself. That's all he's got going for him. Who do we blame? His | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
advisers or himself? In the end himself. Nobody forced him to do it. | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
On this one, he called it wrong It's a sign of the rather the bridal | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
state of the Labour Party is that his candidates were vocal in | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
attacking him doing this. It's a sign of how readable Ed Miliband is | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
at Parliamentary level. I don't think you should have apologised. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
The mistake he made was associating himself with that newspaper. The | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
mistake was the prior three years when he went too far as portraying | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
the Murdoch empire beyond the pale. He made a case against phone hacking | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
and offences in that regard without going as far as he did with the | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
rhetoric. To do that, and then pose with the Sun newspaper, the | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
juxtaposition is what did for him, not the mere fact of posing with it. | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Maybe he did not know what he was doing because we were told he | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
doesn't read the British newspapers. It was football, and he | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
has posed with the Sun newspaper before. Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
posed as well. But with the Sun newspaper and football, you tread | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
carefully. That was the mistake You get the impression from the picture | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
that he looks so uncomfortable that you wonder whether there was a full | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
process of consultation that went on within his media operation, within | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
his political operation. Was he fully aware of what would happen | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
question what he looks so incredibly uncomfortable. But at the end of the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
day, leaders have to take responsibility. It is cultural as | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
well. That picture says, I am down there with the football blokes and | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
you think, you are not. That is not what people will vote for. Be | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
yourself and don't pretend to be something else because it never | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
works. But the polls suggest that the British voters don't yet see Ed | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Miliband as prime ministerial. The worst thing you can then do is get | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
involved in stunts that are more likely to reinforce that idea than | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
counter it. There was a precedent for it in the last parliament which | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
was Gordon Brown's attempts to feign a populist touch. He did it by | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
telling the contents of his iPod. The Arctic monkeys. It always jarred | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
because he was trying too hard. Not uniquely guilty of, Ed Miliband all | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
the other leaders have done it. At the moment he more vulnerable. Yes, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
and he is less popular than his party. Labour has quite a popular | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
brand, in a resilient way, in a way they don't with the Tories, yet | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
their leader is a personal problem. The pressure is on him to do stunts | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
like this. Will there be a shadow cabinet reshuffle? Yes, we have to | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
get the cabinet reshuffle out of the way first, and that might come next | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
week, maybe by the time of the summer recess, but the first thing | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
that the prime Minister do is work out who is the UK candidate for the | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
European Commissioner. Is it not the case probably that Ed Balls is | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
becoming semi-detached from the Ed Miliband project? I don't think | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
entirely. Nothing gets agreed without both of the end are green. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Ed Balls is controversial. He has great pluses and minuses and is a | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
big figure. Labour doesn't have that many big figures. It's quite hard to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
think who would be a heavy hitter as a possible Chancellor. He is a | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
convincing chancellor to the future, Love him. He has the heft -- love | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
him or hate him. Any possibility Ed Balls could be moved as shadow | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
chancellor? The timing is convenient because the Scottish referendum ends | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
in the autumn and Alistair Darling becomes a free man, win or lose I | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
don't think Ed Balls will be removed because moving him would be an | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
admission that everything the Labour Party said about the economy to the | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
preceding four years has been a mistake. And you can't do that nine | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
months before a general election. You invite ridicule. But relations | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
between Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are not great at the moment. The Ed | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Miliband team are very, very suspicious of this new love in | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
between Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson. Mandelson likes to say | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
that he spotted the Ed Balls talents in the original place and appointed | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
him to the Gordon Brown team after the disaster of 1992. But things | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
obviously went awry, and now Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson Avenue | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Rappaport, and that is with enormous suspicion -- they have a new | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Rappaport. With good reason because it's about policy. It's about the | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
attitude towards business. Should they be out there saying they will | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
get the tax dodgers, Starbucks, Vodafone, are we going to take on | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
business in a big way? In a way that Ed Miliband has quite bravely said. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
On the other hand, Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson are saying, hang on, | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
we only won in 1997 by being business friendly. Sorry to rush | :13:10. | :13:10. | |
you. We are running out of time The Daily Politics will be back | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
every day this week at midday, and I'll be back here next Sunday | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
when I'll be joined by the shadow work and pensions | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
secretary Rachel Reeves.Remember if it's Sunday, | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
it's the Sunday Politics. Magnificent. The power base | :13:22. | :13:53. | |
of medieval England. Charles' ceiling was a piece | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
of breathtaking arrogance. You get a sense of the people | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
who made the palaces. as I unlock the secrets | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
of Britain's great palaces. | :14:14. | :14:16. |