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