23/05/2014 The Papers

have their hands on the challenge cup. That is all in Sportsday in 15

minutes. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Hugh Muir,

diary editor at The Guardian and Sue Matthias, Editor of the FT Weekend

Magazine. Unsurprisingly, the local elections is on lots of the front

pages. The Independent shows a cheerful

Nigel Farage, celebrating the local election results.

It's much the same on the front of the Daily Mail, the paper reporting

that the shadow cabinet's turned on Ed Miliband following the polls.

Nigel Farage is on the front of the Express the main story though is the

discovery of a protein that could protect against dementia.

The FT's lead is their investigation into the French economist who, the

paper claims, got his sums wrong in his bestselling book.

Nigel Farage is a hurricane, says the I, reporting that the era of

four`party politics has begun in Britain.

The discovery of the Cheeky Rafiki's hull in the Atlantic leads the Daily

Mirror. Labour's been thrown into crisis by

the local election results, says the Telegraph.

And, little mention of the elections in the Times the paper leads with

claims that supermarket bosses regularly ignore expiry dates on the

foods they eat at home. Let's begin, as we have to with

Nigel Farage who is on the front of so many papers. Is described as a

hurricane in. The ear for party politics in England after the UKIP

rake through. I imagine it is one of the scriptures he would be quite

happy with. Will have a very happy weekends. It is strange, if you step

back a bit, UKIP have clearly done well but not quite as well as they

would have wanted. They are actually six points down on last year. They

did not do it very well at all in London. The only got 7% of the vote

there. They will want to ponder on that. As you mentioned, they took

about this being the beginning of the year up of four party politics.

I am not sure about this. I am still not convinced that this is just not

a humongous protest vote. I think the electorate has... It knows what

he wants a particular time and at the moment he wants to send a

message to the other parties and it sees UKIP as a good way of doing

that. Whether or not means that UKIP has a locked in constituency, I am

yet to be convinced. The two real subject that people are protesting

over by beating bought UKIP is immigration and the EU. Neither of

which, local councils can do anything about. No, absolutely. He

is looking very happy because he has managed to change the political

weather. He knows that he is not going to have to do anything about

it himself. He can stand back and enjoy his drink and know that he has

thrown the parties into complete disarray. Because, they are being

challenged on, what will we do about Nigel at this Farage. Stage, one

year before the next general election, they would have hoped to

do better. Even though they have gained nearly 300 seats in taking

control of councils that they have long wanted to take control. That is

politics. How can you have a date where you win 256 and you are still

unhappy. But they are in position. They still aren't pulling away from

the Conservatives. If you look at the projections, they are not where

they would want to be. There will be some skittishness within the Labour

Party. We are hearing about it already. People saying it was a

pretty abysmal election campaign and Ed Miliband needs to think about his

strategy. And maybe he does it the whole idea is that UKIP will take

more seats away from the Tories and make his job easier because a big

wake`up call of this is that he has to consider how many seats will UKIP

take from Labour? Is quite interesting that Ed Balls suddenly

comes in and a go. Talking about kicking a mount when he is down. ``

a man when he is down. It is not exactly a united front, is it? Ed

Balls says we have to do better. Maybe he was talking about himself.

Speaking of Ed Miliband, he is on the inside of the sun. A big

headache. A kick in the ballots. Headline writers dream. What has Ed

Miliband got to do? In London, he did not have to much of a problem.

Sadiq Khan was looking after things for the campaign. It is one thing to

say, we are listening and we have to do some indifferent but what? I

imagine that they are asking themselves the same question. We

were saying earlier just before we came on that actually, they have

hired somebody who ought to be able to help them which is David

Axelrod. Who was Barack Obama's adviser with blue exactly. No doubt

at some expense to advise exactly on this kind of situation. Where do

they go from here? One of the problems that Ed Miliband does face

at the moment is the fact that he projects a nice guy, he projects

policies which are interesting and which are thoughtful. He just

doesn't project the image of a leader. At the moment. And he hasn't

got long to turn around. We were saying that, maybe David Axelrod may

be able to help with that. Maybe with a personality issue, in

American elections, personality is a huge issue. A presidential elections

you are looking at the character and the image of a particular

individual. Character and image is his problem because if you look at

the policies that he comes up with, if you look at many of his ideas,

people agree with them. They just have a problem with his

personality. It's not going to be the same for the dish prime minister

as the US president. `` British prime minister. It is completely

different. The question of leadership still remains. Put him

against any of the candidates, Nigel Farage against David Cameron or Nick

Clegg and somehow, Ed Miliband does not look like the guy who is going

to be prime minister. The voters smell of only very quickly. What

they have got to do with Ed Miliband is try and find a version of him

that had they can present to the electorate that is authentic. If

they try and compare him with some of the other party leaders to make

him as genial as Nigel Farage or as slick as Cameron. Remember that

terrible clip that did the rounds where some body had a go at changing

Gordon Brown. And sort of... It did not work for him at all. You have to

be careful with the changes you make. Let's move on to a different

leader. The Conservatives and the Prime Minister, pressure to do a

deal with UKIP. There will be no pact ordeals with UKIP, he says.

David Cameron telling his backbenchers. Given that UKIP did

not do as well this year, whether it would be a crazy idea to throw your

lot in with UKIP on the strength of just this set of election results.

Surely not. I think this is an instant reaction, playing to the

events of the day. They don't want to seem to be arrogance. That is one

of the problems that this Tory leadership does have. I think they

are trying to present the idea that they are listening and that they are

taking an interest in the concerns are raised by UKIP. I think it would

be extraordinary if the Tories were to go into any kind of pact with

UKIP. They have 12 months to change their policies then. To nuke the

problems. A short`term and long`term problems. A short`term and long`term

problem. The short`term is what they will do at the next election and I

think what they will seek to do is to move in UKIP's direction not so

they become UKIP at so they can extract from UKIP the soft

supporters it might halve. `` might have. The long`term issue is that if

you look at Tory election share of the vote over the election, it is

going down. There are people having structural discussions about where

to the party go? Where will our support Comp Robert? A lot will come

from areas that they are very popular at the moment. From women,

the north and with ethnic minorities. There will be a problem

if they go in the UKIP direction particularly picking up the big

minority vote. They will have to square that circle between the

short`term imperative and the long`term imperative. Let's move

away from the local elections. Police Federation elect new chairman

on a possible according. Which is quite an interesting way of deciding

who is going to be in charge. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, had

some interstate to the federations annual conference this week with a

warning that if they don't reform themselves, she will do it for them.

One of your previous incarnations, you are home affairs a specialist? I

did a lot of police reporting. You must take an interest in the

machinations of organisations like the Police Federation Ozil I think

it is marvellous that they have taken everything that Theresa May

has said to heart. Everything about reform and modernisation. They need

a new leader is because a coin. I think it is extraordinary. Part of

the thing with the organisation, they try to have a new start they

had gone through a period of self harm. The committee looked at the

Police Federation and did not like what you saw at all. Internally, it

had serious problems. Theresa May, she was critical to the point of

brutal with them. They have a new chairman now elected on the toss of

a coin and perhaps, he will be able to lead them into more tranquil

territory. The Police Federation needs a period of calm. They were

embroiled in the Plebgate affair with Andrew Mitchell and have had a

terrible time. Absolutely terrible. And all entirely of their own

making. I think this is completely bizarre. Just the image of all these

men standing behind closed doors in secret and then deciding to sort of

through a coin. We should all just be grateful that the man who got it

seems to be the reforming candidate, rather than the other

one. Talk about public image! Honestly, what are they doing? It is

a shambles. I do not know why we bother with elections, we should

just tossed coins. It would save a lot of money wouldn't it? Let's stay

with the times, seaside house prices rose by 42% in a decade. If only we

bought a house by the English Riviera! I was looking at it,

thinking, this is interesting. House prices have gone up in places by the

sea, but who is buying these houses? What is this story about? The report

does not tell us that. These places are going up in price. Our local

people buying the houses that those prices, perhaps not. Are they second

houses, or second homes, sorry. It is an interesting weekend story

about housing prices which is obviously on everyone's minds.

Woodward talking about the overheated housing market, it is

presented as if it is a great thing. `` we were talking. It can be a

rotten thing, if it means that people born and bred there cannot

buy property, in their own locality. This is a selected few seaside

towns, I read this, and I think of all of the other seaside towns, some

of which are ailing pretty badly. They could probably do with an

injection of these kinds of funds. The same does not go for all seaside

places at all, does it? Not at all, others are in a terrible state and

people buying into these towns could people buying into these towns could

show some more originality? Let's finish with Matt, the cartoon in the

Daily Telegraph, he manages to conflate two different stories, we

have two people here sitting, in their trembling sitting room, and

the caption is" is this a political earthquake or have they started

fracking? " . Nigel Farage manages to indirectly make this way into the

Matt cartoon. `` make this way. Whether we will have the tremors for

very long, we don't know. With all of these efforts to make it. He

manages to bring two different stories together `` his. All stories

will feature him for a while, Farage, at least for 24 hours!

That is it for The Papers this evening, we will see you both later,

thank you to both of my guests. At midnight we will have more on the

results of local elections the next it is time for Sportsday. `` but

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