22/12/2013 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our bite-size look... Oh, dear. There you are. We

have settles down. The look at the newspapers. With me are Tinbergen

from Reuters and Daily Telegraph columnist Lucy Cavendish. -- Tim

Bergen. The independent's FrontPage, no way back for Britain's joining

the Syrian fight. Theresa May, doing something she said she would do some

time ago but it is an exclusive anyway. The numbers are descriptive.

Citizenship stripping powers is probably overstating it a bit. In

April she said they would step up the use of these powers. If you

fight as a jihadist, they will take away your passport. This has been

exercised 30 times since May 2010, much more than happened previously.

It is not an unpopular policy. Many people did not object to this. If

people lose their passport, they could be subjected to torture.

Probably not much sympathy for them in this country though. But Theresa

May is doing what she said she was going to do. There you go. Top

story! It is not going to be unpopular with anybody. Well they're

not be any comeback at the European Court of Human Rights? -- will there

not be? Possibly. You have to prove they are a jihadist and that will

take some time. People do not go to Syria on holidays lately. Not

particularly. Lets go onto another story because we don't have much to

say about that. Rivers of blood panic. Vince Cable speaking out.

Saying there will be no cap on remaining than Bulgarians and

anybody else for that matter coming from elsewhere in the EU. Yes, this

is very interesting. Tom is also pointing out that the Lib Dems want

to differentiate themselves from the Tories. This is an area that they

will be doing it in. We talk about the fact that there is a lot of

panic about remaining than Bulgarians coming in. I think there

is scaremongering going on by the Government that it will be awful and

dreadful and nobody will have any work and they will be swamping in. I

did think that is necessarily true and I think it is pandering to the

UKIP potential voters. I like Vince Cable. It is a big analogy. The

rivers of blood is so divisive, a very strong analogy to make. It is

not quite what he has been saying, is it? Not using appalling images,

have they? I think it is strong language but if you look around

Europe, European leaders have been describing Britain as positioning

themselves as the nasty people. I have been to Romania and lots of

them are doing work in different countries and they come back to

their families. There is this fluid idea. The sense that they will up

sticks with all members of their family and plonk themselves in the

middle of London or wherever, I think that is the panic too far,

personally. Soldiering on over the festive holiday worse for the NHS.

Many of us putting up with ailments. This is a strange message that too

many people are swamping A practices because they are

malingerers and now the NHS is saying that we do not seek medical

attention early enough. It is quite confusing. He is not suggesting

necessarily that you should go to A with every small ailment. Go and

see your GP. You can't because you cannot get an appointment. I could

not get my poor daughter in for her Paulinho. What do you do? Sit in a

anywhere it is nice and warm? Get the chocolate bar from the vending

machine on Christmas Day? It would be quite exciting. On the one hand,

we are told not to go and bother people in A but on the other what

are you supposed to do? The Financial Times, Mikhail

Khodorkovsky, pledging to refrain from Vladimir Putin challenge. He

has plenty of money so he could bankroll other opposition figures.

It is interesting because other headlines were saying the opposite

in some cases. He has made enigmatic comments and he has not made it

clear what he is going to do. He has a lot of funds, so he could be a

thorn in Vladimir Putin's sides. Does he have enough for some

polonium? Who does not want to go back in a hurry. He wants to make

sure that you can leave again if he does go back. That was it. Tom and

Lucy will be back and we will have a proper go at them at 11:30pm. Time

for the weather forecast now. Hello. We have got some rough

weather to content with over the next couple of days in the run-up to

Christmas which is likely to cause