16/05/2014 The Papers

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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. With me are Jennifer Howze, journalist and

co`founder of Brit Mums and the Sunday Post's Westminster

correspondent James Millar. Tomorrow's front pages, starting

with The Mail leads with claims that migrants who don't speak English can

buy language certificates, helping them en route to British

citizenship.The Independent has a picture of a British`born man it

says is suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria.

The Mirror claims NHS bosses pocketed hundreds of millions of

pounds in extra pay last year, as nurses were hit by a 1% fall in

their wages. The Express says the taxpayer is paying for asylum

seekers to be secretly housed in hotels. The number of people being

investigated by the HMRC has doubled according to the Telegraph. The

Financial Times leads with India's election and the historic victory by

Narendra Modi and the BJP. The Guardian's headline has allegations

that child protection services are going to be privatised. And the

Times leads with a report from war correspondent Anthony Lloyd

describing the moment he and a colleague were kidnapped in Syria

this week. So let's begin. We will. With `` we

will start with the Scotsman. This is a terrible story, there have been

two explosions. They have gotten hundreds of holidaymakers back into

the UK, they have cancelled flights until October. In addition to the

effects on the families of those involved with the bombings, there

are going to be long`term effects because of the tourism. Tourism has

been hit. People are not going to resorts, safari parks, I think it is

too bad for Kenya overall on both elements. Very much so. And for

innocent and hard`working Kenyon is connected with the tourism industry,

it is their second biggest industry and will take the floor out from

underneath their feet. It is an arresting picture on the front,

people being taken to hospital, it sums up the situation in Kenya.

Kenya is in pain. It has been hurt as a country by this. They are going

to suffer for sometime because of this through no fault of their own.

It is disappointing for British tourists out there but it looks like

the Foreign and Commonwealth office is did the right thing at this stage

of getting people out. On to the Telegraph, the headline "innocent

victims of tax raiders". Tell us what this is about. This is the news

that HM RC have investigated a lot more people for potential tax fraud.

The Telegraph seems to think that this is a bad thing and suggests

that these could be innocent people making innocent mistakes. They do

not have a lot to back that up, there are no figures about the

number of people who have been convicted as a result of these

investigations. Given that the country is bust, surely we should be

collecting as much tax from all of the people who owe it as possible?

Whether they are so`called soft targets or anyone else? Nobody would

dispute that, Jennifer, but the thing is, filling in a tax return

self assessment is complicated and this is arguing, I think it lists

doctors and teachers, they may have innocently made a mistake and being

pursued. That is the tone of the article. Exactly, these are soft

targets, I think, individuals who make mistakes on their taxes. They

all... Not that regular folk do not make mistakes. But, pursuing

individuals, we have heard similar stories about tax avoidance from

wealthy individuals and corporations. It seems to me that it

is harder of course for HM RC or the government to close loopholes or to

go after the big guys, who are based in other countries. And make it more

difficult. But, reaping returns every year, let's go after these

people who have made mistakes. They know that most law abiding citizens

will not fight it or complain but just pay. If they are law`abiding

citizens, they will do it. If I got a letter saying that my tax return

was wrong, I will say, "no it is not. " it takes up a lot of time,

anyway. Some people would just settle if it takes up a lot of time.

I don't know, it is not a problem I have! Onto the times, and the story

about Syria, I thought of him as a friend, but then he shot me. What an

arresting headline matters. This is the very disturbing story that I

liked. `` that is an arresting headline. This is from one of the

journalists, it shows how chaotic and framing it is for journalists

going into these war zones. We can become complacent as readers, they

ended up being abducted by people they trusted and worked with.

Someone who had been part of the Islamic front, and then other people

from the Islamic front came in and demanded their release and helped

them. It shows how confused those situations are. And what journalists

go through to get us a story. It is a good Saturday story, it does not

have to be hard news. It almost reads like a novel. You get dragged

into the story, and then when you get to the fourth column, you get

hit by the horrible stuff, it is ready horrible, but you have to read

on because it is so well written and you want to learn what happened, it

makes you care, it makes you care about Syria. It seems far away and

is complicated. They had known each other for two years. It was not like

they just picked up these people. It is a very well written piece, isn't

it? It is a good Saturday story. Onto the Guardian, this suggesting

that child social services are for sale. But, reading through this, it

is quite difficult to see that that is a definite proposal, possibly one

of several proposals by the look of it? Perhaps, I hope though it is

something that does not go through. We deal with all sorts of families,

we have more than 6000 members, we deal with specific problems. It

seems wrongheaded for the government who is involved in taking kids away

or safeguarding them in the family environment, to outsource that two

companies who answer to shareholders, or answer to owners.

``to. Putting that into the market seems like the wrong idea for me. It

seems that you are essentially privatising it and would encourage

innovation and outcomes, but for every innovation in the privatised

companies like energy and railways, people have stories of things that

have gone horribly wrong, and trains are later than they have ever been,

and more full. I am not sure that privatisation is necessarily a good

idea, and certainly when you are dealing with vulnerable children and

families, you have to be definite that it is going to work. Jennifer,

you speak to a lot of different mothers, the services are far from

perfect. What are the sorts of things that might, looking at the

story, could be improved? That might be improved with...? With the

service as it stands. You heard of social workers getting the wrong end

of the stick in terms of family situations. And intervening at

runtimes, or not intervening, we have heard those high`profile

stories. `` intervening at the wrong times. We are struggling as a

society with how to safeguard children in a better way. This

philosophy as to whether it is better to keep children with

families and parents, or always take them out, when it looks like there

is any danger... Yes. It is not an exact science. It is very

difficult. Resources shrink, they need to find a better way of doing

it. Anyway, I am pretty positive that it is not getting private

companies involved. Let's move on to the Financial Times, we touched on

this story earlier, they are the only paper I have seen so far and

have got the election of Modi in India on the front page. It says

sweeping to power, and it looks that way. Absolutely, it is a landslide.

As interesting as it is that it is only on the front page of one

paper, it is a huge election. India is one of the rising countries, one

of the bricks, with Brazil and Russia. What happens here has an

impact everywhere. With our historic links, it is a big trading partner

for us. It was on the issues here, and with the issues we have been

talking about, there was a large youth vote, it was about innovation

and corruption. And basically, the economy. The economy has been

faltering in India, this election will be interesting to see what he

is going to do now and whether he will fulfil those pledges. I am no

expert on the Indian economy, but the global country is picking up and

he could be lucky that he has this power at a good time. And he will be

able to deliver jobs and investment and cutting in bureaucracy. It is

the same issues we are having here. Even down to, as described, a"

tectonic shift". UKIP love to talk about tectonic shifts if they win,

head of the election. There is a lot of similarities. Staying with the

Financial Times. And the second story there that they have. This is

about mortgages, there have been these new regulations, have a

mayor, to try and make the whole process of those borrowing money and

needing finances to make sure it is done aboveboard and everything. ``

haven't there. It is now causing a logjam, and putting deals at risk?

Many people said that as it should be, they are looking into these

finances more and making sure that you can pay them back when you get

them. Last time I was on, the story had just broken and we were talking

about it, one of the things pointed to was that if you are taking more

time and you have these interviews that last up to three hours talking

about your background and how much you are spending on personal

grooming, then that is going to take more time and basically the story is

all about that. With several estate agents quoted as saying that the

market is moving so fast but mortgages take too long. Sales are

falling through, as agents are worried about the buyers finances.

These finances are being checked more thoroughly, so they are a sound

of that than they were originally. There was a headline about do you

stay? When you go to the gym? It seems that there is a more rigourous

process `` do you eat steak? But up to a point. Newspapers are pulling

out a bit, some of the crazy thing is to highlight it, like spending on

pets. It is hard to imagine that breaking anyone's bank! Yes, it is

good that we are looking into mortgages and they are trained to

lead properly. Just very briefly slipping back to that story we were

talking about with the Guardian, there is a statement now from the

government Department of education, saying they want to improve the

government and efficiency of social care. They are trained to use

expertise to improve their work, and extend these freedoms we can look at

and better ways of delivering services. They will take into

account responses. We will finally move to the times. This is the story

we have been looking at on E`ON. What is interesting in the Times is

that the Chief Executive's bonus has been slashed by a quarter. It is

still quite significant. This is the E`ON story through the prism of pay

packages. His pay package, his bonus has been slashed by a quarter to a

mere ?510,000. I suppose in comparison to some of the other

bonus is we have seen, it is not that big a deal. It is fun to see a

possible that `` bitterness. The most vulnerable customers are going

to get ?35 back. This chap is walking off with half a million in

bonuses. Something is wrong. What I am struggling with is that there is

a litany of problems. But they say, there was no organised attempt to

mislead. Isn't that worse? Then the CEO gets this kind of bonus. It is

the innovation through privatisation. And with regard to

E`ON, it is the biggest fine, but everybody has been investigated and

sanctioned in some way. ?100 million in fines in the past four years.

Thank you very much. That is it for the papers. Thank you to our guests

this evening. Stay with us. At midnight, as hundreds of British

tourists are evacuated we bring you more on today's attacks in Kenya's

capital. Coming up next, it is