27/05/2014 The Papers

succeeding Tim Sherwood. It will also tell you how Andy Murray got on

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

us tomorrow. With me are psychotherapist and writer Philippa

Perry and Simon Watkins from the Mail on Sunday. Pretty much all the

front pages are in. The Financial Times carries a warning from the

head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, that delays to banking reforms risk

destabilising the global economy. An Egyptian soldier is pictured

guarding a polling station on the front of the Independent. But it

leads on what it calls the "botched coup against Clegg."

The Metro has more detail from Rolf Harris's court case. Mr Harris and

his daughter Bindi are also pictured on the front of The Daily Express.

But it headlines that ?30 million pounds a year of child benefits is

sent abroad. The Daily Telegraph reports on new

guidance that a third of the population should be sent to state`

funded slimming classes. That story is also on the front of

the Daily Mail. And finally The Guardian reports on

the rising tide of race prejudice across Britain. We are going to

start with a story about wanting from the paper to David Cameron we

are seeing red. By the ago, we do paper told you, the Prime Minister

that EU immigration must be curbed after boat is devastating verdict.

Now it is time to get your finger out. I hope that the main parties

don't capitulate to this sort of pressure, actually. But it sounds

like Cameron is capitulating with his two big, too bossy, to

interfering. It sounds a little bit like a toddler. I feel like it is

too much like UKIP rhetoric to meet rather than anything else. It is so

simplistic. When we are in a sticky situation, financially. When we are

suffering austerities to get, let's run away from Europe, let's blame

the immigrants, blame the EU. When actually, rather than finding things

to project our fear and blame onto, we should be thinking about how to

make more jobs. Growth is a big issue but the fact is what can

actually David Cameron do about immigration? It is fundamental to

the whole European market, capital and business and with that comes

free movement of people. Some of them have gone out of the country

and are still claiming their benefits. We will discuss that later

on. We forget that, deadly? Just as immigrants can come here, we can go

over there. There are many thousands of Britons abroad. There is very

little you can do about this. This has been the problem he has put

himself in. He has been making pledges are the immigration when a

fundamental part of it is simply out of his control. Just as another

point from the business community, the regard the EU is extremely

beneficial. They regarded as being... Bringing skills in. The

idea that it is automatically a negative economy is to say the

least, arguable. But Villa Park, UKIP have moved attack on this. They

are ignoring the economic argument because all the data seems to

suggest that migrants actually help the economy. What you can's argument

seems to be now is what it does on another level and that is social

cohesion. It is causing problems for cohesion. It is

local councils are having to do with 150 languages in a school for

instance. That is you can's argument. Does that have any

residents for the majority of people? What UKIP is doing is up

fear. Fear is an emotion that grabs you and they are sort of stirring it

up and then using it to say, I am making is very frightened but then

vote for us and then you won't have to be frightened any longer. It is

just fear mongering. We are giving so much attention to UKIP and it

feeds our addiction to fear as well. We like the drama of it. There's not

that much that is happening compared to the fuss we are making about it.

The Greens increased their seats by 50% in the EU and I don't see all

the headlines being about that. UKIP is just sort of a story worthy

because they do seem like, not a very serious party. That of very

Brussels are leaving tonight, Brussels are leaving tonight,

meeting tonight. The fact is, some of these parties, they have made

inroads but they are not wiping the floor with the rest of the European

parties and the pro`European parties are still very much in the

ascendant. One of the interesting things about the European elections

in the UK, is that turnout was about 36%. I think very roughly, UKIP

vote, which one would have thought if you're a UKIP supporter, this is

the one election you would turn out for. They would have had a better

can then other parties. And they got about 25% of the vote. That

represents something like 10% of the British population. They voted UKIP.

There is a risk that we get a bit of proportion the idea that there has

been a sleeping UKIP vote across the UK. It has been dramatic in lots of

ways. I think we are more addicted to the drama of it and it actually

being that significant. Interesting. You could did not do very well in

London. Indeed. It is interesting that point about the fear of

something other and actually, oddly, London is where will one can see the

melting pot that is modern Britain more than anywhere else. The

syllabus performances of UKIP have been in part of the country where,

you do not see immigration, it be that melting pot. Those other parts

of the country that have done very well for UKIP. Very interesting. The

front of the times, Lib Dems consumed by infighting. Nick Clegg,

the party to put out very swiftly a refutation of the suggestion that he

was willing to stand down. This is going to sound like a taking a cheap

shot but I am not. I think that surely, he considered standing

down. It would be inconceivable if he didn't. The idea that it never

crossed his mind I find incredible. But what I think is intriguing about

this and we talked earlier about the poll that was done by Lord block

shot which has caused some rows inside the Lib Dems. It was seen as

destabilising Nick Clegg. And here we have Lady Williams saying that

she felt she believed he had considered resigning. This feels

like the beginning of a kind of rot. What is this kind of thing begins in

a political party, it is very hard to stop it. There a danger for the

Lib Dems that becomes self fulfilling that the row just builds

because how you come something like this down. And it seems a relevant

that leading Williams had actually misinterpreted remarks that Nick

Clegg made which was that he would stand down if he felt he was hurting

the party. And he said he does not think he is so he didn't say he

would stand down. She misinterpreted what he said. But that doesn't

matter. No. It was that the bulk of the Lib Dems that if it did got his

mind, it would be extraordinary. One would be rather shocked. Is it

really all about the leader? Is that about changing your mind on tuition

fees? Is it about being with the left party before the election and

then moving the other weight. That was his big mistake. In the

cartoons, he has been shown up as being under Cameron's farm. That has

made him a bit of a laughing stock. Whether he is or not, I do not know

but that is how he is portrayed so of it in the media. And through

satirical magazines and what have you. Whereas, Vince cable is shown

as standing up to David Cameron. But he is the underdog at the moment,

even though he is the leader so that will make him popular again with the

British public. OK. Let's stay with the Daily Mail. Weight Watchers free

on the NHS. GPs to prescribe slimming courses for obese patients.

The trouble is with how we have got used to thinking about medicine and

the NHS is that we tend to think that is a magic will, a pill for

everything. We don't think we have to actually do any work or any

preventive managed `` measures to maintain our health. We have a

passive idea of it may be because we have had 50 years of the NHS that

has been looking after so well that we have got very passive any idea of

our health. Actually, people eat too much, maybe I am speaking for myself

but on the whole, people eat too much in order to soothe themselves.

To make up for a lack of contact with other people in their lives. If

you feel you have avoided, it is quite nice just to stuff it with

food. The good thing about the group like Weight Watchers is that it

gives you contact, it gives you support and so you are far more

likely to lose weight if you do join such a group. I hope my GP

prescribes it for me because I think it would be alien. So you think it

is a good idea? It should be on the NHS was yellow it should be on the

NHS. It is so much better than waiting for someone to be ill then

you have to medicalise. This is way of preventing complications that

arise due to being overweight. Should the British taxpayer, through

the NHS, be paying for people who are too busy stuffing cakes and

biscuits and what ever or have some kind of weight problem? I am

probably with Philip on this. We have got weight, health in this

country. We should regard this as a health problem and not something

that, it is just people 's fault. I think it is reasonable for NHS money

to be spent trying to address that. In the long run, it will save NHS

money. If we can adjust the agree to which we have an obesity problem, it

will save money for the NHS and the like. Whether Weight Watchers is the

perfect solution I do not know. I do not know enough about how effective

it is. I have to say, I googled this issue just before we came on. There

were some research that was quite positive about Weight Watchers being

effective. Not something to dismiss, I think. It is actually very good

fear health. If you have regular contact with a group of people, it

does boost your immune system. Even if you don't lose weight and cause

you may be have no control over your appetite or something, it might

still be beneficial. I wish there was more of these health groups,

smoking group, an anger management group that are also paid for by the

state because I feel as though they would save us money in the long run

and make for a happier population. Very interesting. It go to the

Guardian. Capitalism is doomed. If ethics vanish say Mark Carney

Stockley this is part of a conference taking place with many of

the financial sector including Mike on `` Mark Carney. The headline is

quite personal. I think a lot of the pushback was coming from the

financial services industry. Against regulatory change. A lot of people

in the world regard regular treat pressure as something that is

anticapitalist when in actual fact, capitalism needs to be saved from

itself in some circumstances by having some revelatory pressures

placed on it. If it is to survive. to you? It makes a lot of sense to

me. We all need regulating, actually. If I can get away with

parking on a double yellow line because the wardens never go there,

I will do it because I am corruptible. I won't see the double

yellow lines and think, oh, I mustn't park that even though the

wardens never come here. I will park there. And, I don't think it is any

different if you are a banker and you can get away with stuff that

benefits you, you will do it if no one taps you on the shoulder. If

someone taps you on the shoulder, if the warden is there, we will have

proper regulation. We are all susceptible to being corrupted. I

don't think bankers or capitalist are any different. We need this

regulation and we needed it five years ago. I think a lot of people

will be surprised that five years on after the crash, the kind of

regulation or the kind of smart regulation people have been calling

for, it doesn't seem to have been implemented. We go to the Guardian.

The front page. Google is launching smart watches. We are still in the

middle of this technological revolution. We have only just

started. Indeed. That is where these tech companies are going. Bringing

technology more integrated into your life in some way. I am still amazed

by the revolution we have had with touchscreen up and tablets. I think

they have been a substantial shift. Bringing them into glasses and

watches, it is clearly the next step. I have not tried the glasses,

I believe you had they made a lot of sense. Luna the guy who lent them to

me had to wrestle them from me. `` the guy. Someone told me that people

don't like to wear stuff. That's right. Since we have got the phones,

we have ditched the watch. We run out of time. Simon and Philip, it

has been great having you, many thanks. `` we have run out of time.

At the top of the hour we have more of the meeting of the European

leaders in Brussels to work out how best to deal with UKIP and the like.

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