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Blood coming up and happen are, why a multi-millionaire Yorkshire | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
football club chairman claims the 50 pence tax rate is a no-go for | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1711 seconds | :02:01. | :30:33. | |
Good afternoon. He were watching the Sunday politics for Yorkshire, | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
Lincolnshire than the North Midlands. Coming up: it tycoon's | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
tax warning. The owner of Yorkshire's highest place football | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
club is worth as much as the Queen. He thinks the 50 pence tax rate for | :30:48. | :30:58. | |
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top honours is unknown goal for our economy. Our guests, welcome. Less | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
than 72 hours away from the budget, what should be Chancellor be doing | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
to boost the economic prospects here in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire? | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
A desperately need a budget for jobs and growth. We need to see | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
infrastructure investment brought forward, not to 2014 but to today. | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
We also need to see a temporary VAT drop which would help stimulate | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
demand in the retail sector. We need a stimulus to help young | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
people get into jobs and we need more investment in the economy to | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
see the rock that will help us out of the crisis we are run. | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
Should we listen to that advice? I am fairly sure that we will be | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
listening to the advice of many people. Are the most important | :31:51. | :31:56. | |
thing about the Budget is to ensure that we sustained a sensible course. | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
We obviously want to see investment and to see the economy growing but | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
we want that on the long term and not just a short-term fix. | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
There is plenty to talk about because the Chancellor is | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
reportedly looking at cutting the top rate of income tax for the | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
highest of earners. It is a move criticised by Labour but will be | :32:17. | :32:24. | |
welcomed by at least one supporter of Ed Miliband. As some Allam is | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
the owner of Hull City football club. He believes the continuation | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
of the higher tax rate will drive many entrepreneurs out of the | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
country. The recent Sunday Times Rich List | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
has suggested that Assem Allam was once a little under �300 million. | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
East Yorkshire based businessman says he is fed up with handing over | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
half his income to the taxman. of my friends who have leapt -- who | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
have Wells have left the country. When people leave the country to | :33:00. | :33:08. | |
avoid the 50% and their export their capital with them. The same | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
thing -- there is a government scheme to invite foreign | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
businessmen to come here. Look after your own people first because | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
they leave the country because of this high taxation system. | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
At the moment, there is a big debate going on in government over | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
the future of the 50 pence top rate of tax which applies to people who | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
are over �150,000 per year. There has also been top of a mansion tax | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
and some Liberal Democrats would like to see a specific tycoon tax. | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
That is one of a number of ideas that we have as a party. I think it | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
is a very interesting idea. It could help to ensure that we make | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
sure that the wealthiest of this country pay their fair share of tax. | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
The top rate of tax was introduced under Labour. Many in the party | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
believe it should remain. We have to get the deficit down and | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
to do that, it means higher taxes, cuts in spending and getting jobs | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
and brought back on track. It is right that those with the broadest | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
shoulders share some of the pain of getting the deficit down. | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
The think it is right that wealthy people should pay their fair share? | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
Yes, but we live and a small world and there are no borders now. If | :34:31. | :34:39. | |
you tell me, work hard, and I pay 50%, and I can swim to Holland | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
where I pay 20 or 30%, you are risking, and it is actually | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
happening, that many people with millions of pounds have left the | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
country. All of the says he does not support | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
one political party, he invited Ed Miliband to watch Hull City play | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
last Saturday. Despite the Labour leader cancelling an appearance at | :35:02. | :35:09. | |
the protest due to ill health. The gathering for National Health | :35:09. | :35:19. | |
was cancelled because there was doubt about him coming. But the | :35:19. | :35:29. | |
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football match is there, regardless, The success of Assem Allam's | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
generator company in the East Yorkshire has led to the Egyptian- | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
born businessman becoming as wealthy as the Queen, but it will | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
be up to the Chancellor to decide how much he and many others pay to | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
her Majesty's Treasury. Fabian Hamilton, the 50 pence tax | :35:49. | :35:53. | |
rate was introduced under Labour. What you make of that claim that | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
many entrepreneurs will leave the country unless the tax burden is | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
reduced? With great respect to him, who is a | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
very good business person, I think that is a load of rubbish. I do not | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
see people leaving this country because of the 50p tax rate. | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
�150,000 per year there's a lot of money and it is more than the Prime | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
Minister learns. It seems to me that nobody needs that amount of | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
money. If they pay an extra �10, then that is the wealthy paying | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
their way to help the screes medal and the poorest in our country to | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
help pay off that deficit. I will bring in Helen Alexander. A | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
single mum of three from North Yorkshire and also part of the | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
occupier leads protest last year, the anti-capitalist protest. Would | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
you like to see the rich paying less tax? | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
Absolutely not. This proposal, at a time like now, it is disgusting. If | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
we needed proof that the coalition government and politics in general | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
does not listen to the average working person and families in | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
general, the fact they can suggest this is the proof. | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
Do you think Mr Osborne will cut the top rate of tax? | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
I have no idea of what the Chancellor's is planning -- the | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
Chancellor's plan is. But this has come from backbench MPs and the | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
media, slightly unfair to say it is the coalition government not | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
listening to people. But we have to work with pragmatism. There is a | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
philosophical argument about taxation and that is fine and the | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
left and the right never agree about that. But the pragmatic | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
argument is, what is raising the most money at a time like this? We | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
are hoping and I'm sure you will pay -- he will raise the bottom | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
threshold for paying tax which will have a lot of people out of | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
taxation, but if the figures show that less income tax has been | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
collected through the 50 pence tax, that needs to be addressed. It is | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
not a philosophical argument but the pragmatic argument for me. | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
it is symbolic. Helen is right. If you are saying to people who are | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
really screes and having trouble raising three kids as a single | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
parent, that we are going to lead the Reds of a little bit of tax, | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
that is patently unfair. I entirely agree. But what I want | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
to see is the best way of getting the tax out of the people who can | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
afford to pay out and if you are paying -- taxing to a level where | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
it is very easy for rich people to jump over the border where they | :38:35. | :38:42. | |
don't pay as much tax, that is not a solution. | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
Let me go back to Helen. Isn't there an argument that we need | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
entrepreneurs and wealth creators. We need them to pay tax year so | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
that we can pay child benefit and tax credits. | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
Absolutely, we need them here but we need them to take a moral | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
decision to contribute to their own country. It simply is not | :39:02. | :39:11. | |
acceptable to say, I will lead this country to pay less tax elsewhere. | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
-- leaves. While we do like to see from this | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
Budget? A I would like to see something that would actually help | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
my family. A some redress of the tax credit | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
changes that are coming which will reduce my own family's income by | :39:30. | :39:38. | |
�530 per year. It seems ridiculous that my family faces that kind of | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
cut to our income and yes somebody on �150,000 per year it is going to | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
be given a tax break. Can you justify that? Many are | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
single mothers facing cuts to their tax credits but the reds are | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
getting the cuts? We have made just clarify, I think | :39:58. | :40:04. | |
Helen is a single parents, and its you talking about the fat you | :40:04. | :40:11. | |
cannot get to 16 hours or 24 hours per week, because 16 hours is for | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
single parents and couples will be extended to 24 hours to get their | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
cut -- their tax credits. There will be a period of disparity but | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
hopefully by raising the income tax threshold and various other tweaks | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
and the increase in child benefit, child benefit tax credits, | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
hopefully that will balance this out in some way. | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
The problem is that as we had this debate in the House of Commons just | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
over a week ago, it is very difficult for a lot of people who | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
have to raise their hours of work per week actually finding those | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
hours. Employers are saying they do not have the hours available. | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
If you could finish off, Helen, and you could wave a magic wand and | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
have one was from the Chancellor, what with that be? | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
They say a economy that recognises the efforts of working people and | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
isn't giving will -- ridiculous tax breaks to the rich. | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
We will see. A special programme tomorrow night looking at the | :41:12. | :41:19. | |
Budget. It will look at people in all walks of life looking at the | :41:19. | :41:29. | |
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cost of living and her financial It is time for the week's political | :41:34. | :41:44. | |
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The big guns have turned up at what must be one of the shortest | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
campaigns in by-election history. Apart from the three main party | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
candidates, another five are standing in the Bradford West by- | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
election which takes place in just under two weeks' time. With David | :42:04. | :42:14. | |
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Cameron in Washington, the deputy taunted Nick Clegg. Man-to-man, | :42:16. | :42:26. | |
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what does he really think? There are now 261,000 jobless | :42:27. | :42:33. | |
people in Yorkshire and the Humber. The unemployment rate is now 9.8%. | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
By Emily, Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell claims the lives of a | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
politician is not attractive to Britain's top graduates any more. | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
It is a combination of the role, the difficulties in doing it and | :42:46. | :42:54. | |
the salary. I think there is a suggestion that | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
the �65,000 per year salary for MPs is not enough to attract the right | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
calibre of people into politics. Do you agree? | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
It is a lot of money, I think it is perfectly adequate. The standard | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
and quality of the new intake of MPs on all sides is outstanding. I | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
totally refute that argument. You are a relatively new MPs. Do | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
you think equality of politicians has dropped? | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
I can only draw on what experienced people in the house have said and | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
people like Jack Straw are saying that the current intake is one of | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
the highest calibre or he has ever seen. Where I that fundamentally | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
disagree is the fact is that you don't going to politics to make | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
money. You going because it is a Colling and you feel that you can | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
help people, this is a vocational job does like teaching, nursing or | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
being a vicar. The Bradford West by-election is in | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
full swing. Has it gripped Westminster? | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
Not really, nobody is really talking about it. The people that | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
are talking about it are just very sad that he had to step down. That | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
is what people are talking about. There will be a special programme | :44:14. | :44:21. | |
next week. It has been billed as the antidote to the Oscar-winning | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
blockbuster, the Iron Lady. They play about the life of Arthur | :44:26. | :44:36. | |
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Scargill starts in Barnsley this A or, God! Thatcher is dead. It | :44:42. | :44:48. | |
wasn't in the Guardian. This play has a very different | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
opening to the Oscar-winning Iron Lady. | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
This is Meryl Streep, the DVD sales will go through the do so. | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
A 74-year-old Arthur Scargill working on a book with his | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
publisher in his London flat discovers his arch enemy is dead. | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
It says off a chain of events and recollections that test the | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
strengths and weaknesses of the controversial leader of the year- | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
long miners' strike and the subsequent near destruction of the | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
industry. The magnificent way and reds are | :45:24. | :45:34. | |
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young people in this industry have... -- in which. | :45:37. | :45:47. | |
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It is unlikely that the play will In January members of the miners' | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
wives support group calling themselves the real Iron Lady's | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
picketed aid cinema in Chesterfield on the day that the film was | :45:56. | :46:04. | |
released. A where there is discord, may we bring harmony. | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
What did they make of it? Two of them were in the audience on | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
opening night sitting alongside a couple of retired miners' union | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
leaders and two stance conservative Thatcherite. | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
Disappointment was the word on my mind. I do not find the characters | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
really believable. That absolute sense of resentment | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
and anger about the destructive course that was one least on the | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
miners and miners communities, that came through quite strongly. | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
I was hoping for a more accurate portrayal than the Iron Lady. | :46:40. | :46:46. | |
The row at aspects of it but just not realistic. A live what? | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
Barter's gargle never uses a computer and never has as long as I | :46:50. | :46:55. | |
have known him. The acting is superb. But I think | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
the content is not quite what I expected. There is so much emotion | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
and I wanted to see more of the facts. | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
One of the aims we have been Barnsley is to create circumstances | :47:06. | :47:12. | |
which would allow a new industry to be brought into the area. | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
Constantly harking back of the events of 30 years ago have is not | :47:16. | :47:22. | |
helping in that respect. In fact, it might do more harm than good. | :47:22. | :47:29. | |
Why did you do it? Why did you leave -- lead the National Union of | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
Mineworkers into that struggle? Why didn't to compromise? I will tell | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
you. Because I was right. It has not really been examined in | :47:40. | :47:46. | |
this way before. The misunderstood almost under -- misinterpreted | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
character, whatever way you look at him, he was interesting. | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
The offer of a Seeds was turned down by Arthur Scargill. It will | :47:55. | :48:03. | |
now go on tour. I am going to step out into a | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
country that no longer contains a living Margaret Thatcher. Enjoy it. | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
I will. Quite controversial, a play that | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
effectively celebrates the death of Margaret Thatcher, will some | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
Conservatives be upset? I think, to celebrate the death of | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
anybody is slightly beyond the pale. It always amazes me that there are | :48:26. | :48:31. | |
those on the at extra money star ASH extremities who celebrates | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
death and destruction -- certain people at the extremities to | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
celebrate death and destruction. Anything that qualifies anybody | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
dying is wrong. A do we really want to have a | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
retrospective on the miners' strike, are pretty dark period in your to | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
history? I don't know. It is supposed to be | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
an entertainment. I would agree that I don't want to celebrate | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
anybody's death, I would rather celebrate the death of her ideas | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
but they are enjoying a resurgence at the moment which is a shame. | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
Entertainment is fine but the premise that we should celebrate | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
anybody dying is rather sad. Let's look at the ideas and the | :49:15. | :49:21. | |
principles, the values. That is what is important, I think. | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
Do you think it is important for young people to learn about this | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
period in our history? I think it is very important. It | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
should allow a debate on the issues and on the political loss of these | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
at the time, where it came about. One thing which I was always clear | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
about and I am clear about now it is that he was a union leader who | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
ignored or did not want to carry out a ballot of all of his members | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
because he wanted to change the delicate -- the democratically- | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
elected government of the country, and in my opinion he took a lot of | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
hard working people up the garden path. | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
A I would agree with much of that but it is sad that he turned out to | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
be right about the death of the coal industry and what he and the | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
union leaders it was trying to do was defend the future of the coal | :50:10. | :50:16. |