:00:00. > :00:00.of their scores was the biggest in Olympics history. Chelsea also
:00:00. > :00:13.played at West Bromwich Albion, and I will have the results.
:00:14. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing
:00:19. > :00:21.us tomorrow. With me are Pippa Crerar of the London Evening
:00:22. > :00:29.Standard newspaper, and comedian and writer David Schneider. Let's have a
:00:30. > :00:34.look at some of tomorrow morning's front pages. The Independent is
:00:35. > :00:39.leading with all of the floods. A picture that of the swollen River
:00:40. > :00:43.Thames in Surrey, and the Prime Minister's warning that the
:00:44. > :00:47.situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. The Financial
:00:48. > :00:53.Times features news that Barclays is to cut hundreds of jobs in the UK,
:00:54. > :00:58.saying the Chief Executive is on the back foot after deciding to boost
:00:59. > :01:03.bonuses. The Daily Telegraph leads with David Cameron's pledged to
:01:04. > :01:07.spend whatever is necessary on rebuilding affected areas. That is
:01:08. > :01:15.also the top story on the front page of The Metro. The Guardian is
:01:16. > :01:23.focused on the flood funding pledge their too, and the Mail's front-page
:01:24. > :01:29.is focusing on its own proposal to divert money from foreign aid to
:01:30. > :01:35.flood victims in the UK. We are going to start with the flooding -
:01:36. > :01:39.the story of the decade! The Independent. Britain's water
:01:40. > :01:43.torture. No matter how much money you throw at this, if the water
:01:44. > :01:49.doesn't go away, it will be a nightmare. It could be another few
:01:50. > :01:53.months. We have already had the wettest January since records
:01:54. > :01:58.began. It doesn't bode very well for springtime for most of us,
:01:59. > :02:01.especially for those living close to the Thames. The Independent is
:02:02. > :02:09.warning that the Severn and the River Wye are the latest rivers that
:02:10. > :02:15.the Environment Agency are keeping an eye on, because the levels are
:02:16. > :02:19.rising. Hundreds of people have been evacuated in the last few days, and
:02:20. > :02:24.we could see many, many more in the next few months. The picture in the
:02:25. > :02:28.Independent is striking. It looks like a lake, where the Thames used
:02:29. > :02:35.to weave through Shepperton and Surrey. It is very interesting. We
:02:36. > :02:40.have had days and days of the floods of leading the newspapers. Normally
:02:41. > :02:43.you get to the point where story fatigue takes over, and they feel
:02:44. > :02:47.the need to break into something else, but if we have months of these
:02:48. > :02:55.stories coming up, how can we ignore it? A cynic might say that Cameron
:02:56. > :03:00.has now said, let's stop the blame game, mainly because he was starting
:03:01. > :03:04.to get the blame. He has just started to come out and do
:03:05. > :03:09.something. Cynics would say that it is just because we are seeing
:03:10. > :03:13.pictures of Shepperton in Surrey, the home counties that are
:03:14. > :03:19.vulnerable. But if that is your house, it is a terrifying prospect.
:03:20. > :03:26.A lot of these communities have been inundated with water today, but also
:03:27. > :03:33.MPs! Flooded! They have had to put out sandbags to keep out Miliband!
:03:34. > :03:37.It has been terrifying. It has been a very difficult balancing act,
:03:38. > :03:42.especially for David Cameron. The last few days, I felt he has been
:03:43. > :03:49.trying to make politicians about it. He has said that the lack of
:03:50. > :03:52.dredging is was not his cuts, it was about something else. But
:03:53. > :03:58.politicians are out there getting heckled. They are almost like
:03:59. > :04:03.punchbag. They are taking the abuse. And there is infighting
:04:04. > :04:07.within his own party. I was struck today by some of the TV footage of
:04:08. > :04:14.individuals who had been affected, saying, we don't care about the
:04:15. > :04:18.politics of this. I don't care about Eric Pickles and Owen Paterson. What
:04:19. > :04:22.I care about is the fact that the help is not going through now, and I
:04:23. > :04:28.need it. That is why Cameron is trying to rise above it, and saying,
:04:29. > :04:35.all that matters is sorting out the situation. In the Telegraph, Mr
:04:36. > :04:40.Cameron says money is no object. If it takes a lot of money, he is
:04:41. > :04:44.willing to spend it. It is interesting that suddenly we have a
:04:45. > :04:49.lot of money! I think it is indicative of the short-term view of
:04:50. > :04:54.this government. They have cut and cut and cut, and that is all great,
:04:55. > :04:58.until something like this happens. There was limits on what the
:04:59. > :05:03.Environment Agency could spend. That was because we had austerity. But
:05:04. > :05:08.suddenly, you are faced with a real disaster, and it is a false economy.
:05:09. > :05:14.You have to put out more than you would have done if you had prepared.
:05:15. > :05:18.There is definitely the argument that why didn't you pay for it in
:05:19. > :05:24.the first place, if money is no object? I interpret this as a
:05:25. > :05:29.response to UKIP and Nigel Farage, who is calling for some of the
:05:30. > :05:37.foreign aid budget to be diverted to help people in the UK. Does this
:05:38. > :05:42.shoot the Mail down? I think it is attempting to. We are a wealthy
:05:43. > :05:47.country. Austerity or not, we can afford to build flood defences and
:05:48. > :05:52.help out local businesses, and even householders who haven't insured who
:05:53. > :05:57.are going to get some hope. We will see about that, because they have
:05:58. > :06:02.been sucked right, the hardship funds, over recent years. They are
:06:03. > :06:06.claiming that the money is there and they don't need to get into the
:06:07. > :06:12.foreign aid budget. I think a lot of the comparison between the floods
:06:13. > :06:16.we've seen in Bangladesh, where tens of thousands of people die, lose
:06:17. > :06:20.their homes and livelihoods, and awful though these floods are in
:06:21. > :06:24.Somerset and the Thames Valley, it is just on a different scale. I
:06:25. > :06:32.think most people can recognise that. Onto the front page of the
:06:33. > :06:38.Guardian. PM's high-stakes flood plains. The army marches in.
:06:39. > :06:44.Apparently, they forgot their wellies as well! It is a high-stakes
:06:45. > :06:52.pledge because he is saying money is no object. Where does that stop?
:06:53. > :06:57.There is a problem that no amount of money can stop the floods, but then
:06:58. > :07:02.again, that's why it is all very well pledging this and dealing with
:07:03. > :07:06.UKIP and the Daily Mail, and dealing with the politics of having to tell
:07:07. > :07:10.people, I'm here, I'm your Prime Minister, but it is indicative of
:07:11. > :07:15.the lack of planning of this government, and the fact they have
:07:16. > :07:24.not addressed by Mitch H. That is the planning we should be looking
:07:25. > :07:29.at. He dodged the opportunity to discuss climate change, because he
:07:30. > :07:34.has an Environment Secretary who is in climate change denial. I think
:07:35. > :07:38.there is the wider issue, not just the knee jerk response. Should he
:07:39. > :07:46.have said, what ever money is needed, it will be there? Rather
:07:47. > :07:53.than a blank cheque? Has he just chosen the wrong words to sell this
:07:54. > :07:59.response? Possibly, but I think he is probably wary because of his
:08:00. > :08:05.reaction to the floods in 2007, when he was in rue Wanda with his Shadow
:08:06. > :08:10.Cabinet, and his constituency was deluged with water and he didn't
:08:11. > :08:14.come back. He got a real battering over that. Compared with Gordon
:08:15. > :08:19.Brown, who was prime minister at that point. I think it was days or
:08:20. > :08:24.weeks after he took over as prime minister, and his response to the
:08:25. > :08:29.floods crisis at that point, and making money available, was seen as
:08:30. > :08:34.being one of the things that bolstered his leadership. He
:08:35. > :08:38.advanced in the polls, but Cameron will be remembering what happens if
:08:39. > :08:49.you don't be seen to lead from the front. The consensus is among many
:08:50. > :08:53.people and within the government that they have not got on top of
:08:54. > :08:58.this soon enough. But that is his style. It is almost back to the
:08:59. > :09:05.wall. Let's not tackle the crisis until you absolutely have to. But
:09:06. > :09:08.when it reaches a crisis point and he realises he has to act, he throws
:09:09. > :09:13.everything at it. And then he appears the elder statesman and
:09:14. > :09:19.looks calm and collected and runs this new Cabinet committee. Money is
:09:20. > :09:23.no object. Whether the readers, voters and people affected by the
:09:24. > :09:26.floods see it the same way or whether they think he should have
:09:27. > :09:31.acted sooner... I wonder what the people of Somerset feel about this
:09:32. > :09:36.new, macho COBRA man who is coming and sorting it out. They have been
:09:37. > :09:39.suffering for five or six weeks. It is all very well as saying that he
:09:40. > :09:44.has kicked into gear in the last few days. This did not make the papers
:09:45. > :09:48.initially. It has only been in the last week or two at the Somerset
:09:49. > :09:53.Levels flooding has been on the front pages. It was not in the lead
:09:54. > :09:58.story on the BBC. It is not just the politicians who have been slow to
:09:59. > :10:03.catch up. But it is their job to keep on top of things. You could
:10:04. > :10:09.argue that the Somerset Levels floods every year. I mean, it does.
:10:10. > :10:12.It is just a question of scale. It is the continuing effects of all
:10:13. > :10:17.these storms blowing in from the Atlantic. The Metro says, message
:10:18. > :10:22.from 10 Downing Street. Apparently, there was a shark in these waters. I
:10:23. > :10:27.wonder if there is a connection between the Metro's ability to come
:10:28. > :10:35.up with a pun everyday. When they have run out of ponds, we will see
:10:36. > :10:42.the floodwaters recede, I suspect! Finally, let's get on to the
:10:43. > :10:46.Financial Times. Barclays chief on back foot over bonuses and job cuts.
:10:47. > :10:52.They are cutting a lot of jobs at Barclays, and yet the bonuses have
:10:53. > :10:57.gone up. It is wearying a familiar. The number of times we have sat here
:10:58. > :11:07.and discussed banks paying out huge bonuses. I think there bonus pot was
:11:08. > :11:12.2.3 billion. And that is up since last year. As you say, 12,000 jobs
:11:13. > :11:18.are being cut at the same time. And the profits they are paying out to
:11:19. > :11:23.shareholders are down as well. It has just brought back the whole
:11:24. > :11:29.question of bonuses and whether individuals should be rewarded for
:11:30. > :11:35.success or failure. Clearly, money is no object here either? Isn't that
:11:36. > :11:39.the weird thing? I think Antony Jenkins, the Barclays chief
:11:40. > :11:42.executive, is the man probably desperately doing a rain dance at
:11:43. > :11:46.the moment. This would be a big splash in the papers if it were not
:11:47. > :11:51.for all the flooding. No pun intended with the splash. I think he
:11:52. > :11:53.is pleased about that. But it is wearying Lee familiar. When you
:11:54. > :12:03.think about the sum involved and how that could help with the flood
:12:04. > :12:07.efforts... That is a good idea. He has a reputation as St Anthony, so
:12:08. > :12:11.here is a chance for him to keep his halo. You will both be back in an
:12:12. > :12:15.hour to look at more headlines on the front pages. Stay with us for
:12:16. > :12:23.that. At the top of the hour at 11, much more on the flooding problems
:12:24. > :12:41.around the country. Now, time for Sportsday.
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