:00:00. > :00:00.also have the rugby results and a look at some winter sports action.
:00:00. > :00:18.That is after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look
:00:19. > :00:21.ahead to what the papers With me are David Torrance,
:00:22. > :00:24.columnist for the Herald, and the writer and broadcaster,
:00:25. > :00:32.Alice Arnold. Many of the front pages
:00:33. > :00:34.are already in. The Independent leads with claims
:00:35. > :00:37.by four senior Labour MPs that Jeremy Corbyn's leadership is
:00:38. > :00:38."unsustainable". The same story is on the front
:00:39. > :00:41.of the Times which says that senior Labour figures have sought
:00:42. > :00:43.legal advice as they plot unprecedented discounts
:00:44. > :00:52.until Christmas in the Telegraph. The Mail also focuses on Black
:00:53. > :00:56.Friday but says it was a flop on the The Daily Mirror prints
:00:57. > :01:00.a letter to Father Christmas from seven-year-old Christian
:01:01. > :01:17.Hickey who was shot on his doorstep. We have to start with Jeremy Corbyn
:01:18. > :01:28.who is on the front of many of the front pages. Here is The
:01:29. > :01:32.Independent's headline. The left winger is accused of putting the
:01:33. > :01:35.party in a terrible mess. We should be talking about the prospect of
:01:36. > :01:42.people in the comments by air strikes on Syria, but no. It has
:01:43. > :01:48.three when the spotlight back on to Labour. The Independent has Labour
:01:49. > :01:52.MPs breaking cover and calling for Jeremy Corbyn to go. It seems as
:01:53. > :01:56.though things have come to the crunch point and this has been often
:01:57. > :02:03.predicted since Jeremy Corbyn became the reader. It has not taken long?
:02:04. > :02:08.No, but it shows you how unpredictable politics is. The
:02:09. > :02:13.attacks in Paris and throw in the Labour Party into turmoil. The focus
:02:14. > :02:17.is on splits and the split is multilayered. There is a split
:02:18. > :02:21.between Corbin and the parliamentary party and the parliamentary party
:02:22. > :02:29.and the Labour membership and between the party and the general
:02:30. > :02:33.voting public. It is complicated. Hilary Benn was suggesting that it
:02:34. > :02:38.was complicated but they can come to some accommodation editors it is a I
:02:39. > :02:42.am not sure what Jeremy Corbyn is meant to do about this because he
:02:43. > :02:46.doesn't think that we should be sending air strikes into Syria. He
:02:47. > :02:51.is the Leader of the Opposition and the government think that we should
:02:52. > :02:54.be. It seems to me that as the Leader of the Opposition that is a
:02:55. > :03:00.reasonable position to hold and it is a position held by many members
:03:01. > :03:02.of the Labour Party, so he may be representing his Shadow Cabinet but
:03:03. > :03:14.he probably is representing members of his party and and every Mac --
:03:15. > :03:21.and a free vote is probably the way he will have to go. Otherwise people
:03:22. > :03:28.will think he is representing them. The party and the Cabinet is split.
:03:29. > :03:32.The Times says there is a secret bid to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn and they
:03:33. > :03:38.have been told that they can dump their leader. Do they not just need
:03:39. > :03:42.to have the vote to get rid of him? They have to make sure he is not on
:03:43. > :03:48.the ballot because they get on the ballot there is every chance that he
:03:49. > :03:56.get re-elected. They need to find someone to lead instead. Not an
:03:57. > :04:00.obvious one. The lack of an obvious and compelling alternative could
:04:01. > :04:05.sustain Jeremy Corbyn for longer, but there is a precedent for
:04:06. > :04:12.political geeks like me. In 1980 new clinic was challenged by Tony Benn
:04:13. > :04:17.for the leadership and Neil Kinnock wiped the floor on that occasion.
:04:18. > :04:22.The fear is that they as Tim and then he is re-elected because he is
:04:23. > :04:27.extremely popular with Labour Party members, all the polling shows that.
:04:28. > :04:37.No one is named in any of these articles. No one is mentioned in any
:04:38. > :04:40.of them. The Daily Mirror has an exclusive poll showing that the PM
:04:41. > :04:48.has failed to convince people about war in Syria. If David Cameron has
:04:49. > :04:51.managed to convince people then they are supporting what Jeremy Corbyn is
:04:52. > :04:54.saying, that there is not a good reason to carry out these air
:04:55. > :05:00.strikes because it might make things worse for us here. For all the
:05:01. > :05:03.difficulties the Jeremy Corbyn is getting, he is more closely aligned
:05:04. > :05:09.with public opinion than the Prime Minister. It is early days and the
:05:10. > :05:13.vote may not be told next week, but the polling so far, and a detailed
:05:14. > :05:18.one in the mirror, shows that the majority of people are not convinced
:05:19. > :05:22.that we should go for air strikes and 59% think that if we do it will
:05:23. > :05:29.increase the risk of terrorist attacks in the UK, which is an
:05:30. > :05:35.important point. 59% of men want to go for air strikes that only 38% of
:05:36. > :05:39.women. That did not take me by surprise. We have seen the
:05:40. > :05:46.intelligence, we know what the threat is. We have been there before
:05:47. > :05:53.and we know. The general public are not hugely in favour of this and
:05:54. > :06:02.someone needs to represent them, maybe Jeremy Corbyn is doing that.
:06:03. > :06:09.The SNP will be against. That has been very consistent. Nicola
:06:10. > :06:12.Sturgeon said she wasn't listening mode and rather not last very long
:06:13. > :06:21.and now they will march into the no lobby. One of the papers shows that
:06:22. > :06:30.20 Tory MPs who were potentially going to be Dell have fallen into
:06:31. > :06:45.line. -- that were going to rebel have fallen into line. Were you
:06:46. > :06:50.tempted? I mean in the shop. There are several pages of this in the
:06:51. > :06:53.mail. It is mostly talking about what happened last year but it does
:06:54. > :07:00.talk about people queuing up in their pyjamas. I thought, how long
:07:01. > :07:04.does it take to be close on? Why would you go in your pyjamas?
:07:05. > :07:13.Perhaps this person. They were going to be in a crash and they had to be
:07:14. > :07:23.there early. Quite a lot of people work at five in the morning and
:07:24. > :07:27.managed to get dressed. Why would you go in the cold and the wet and
:07:28. > :07:33.queue outside the shop until you open it when you can do it online
:07:34. > :07:36.and have it delivered. Some shops opened early because they thought a
:07:37. > :07:42.lot of people were going to come through the door. Braehead in
:07:43. > :07:47.Glasgow opened at 5:30am and there were only 30 people waiting.
:07:48. > :07:56.Virtually no one apart from the media turned up. The journalist got
:07:57. > :08:00.some bargains but no one else. The consequence of this is that we are
:08:01. > :08:06.going to have sealed the last until Christmas, so will we need the
:08:07. > :08:13.Boxing Day sales? It is The Telegraph. Were we need the Boxing
:08:14. > :08:19.Day sales? Know one will have any money left. This is a new thing
:08:20. > :08:24.since the Black Friday thing was imported from the States, this ill
:08:25. > :08:27.start before Christmas, which is Great to want is you can do your
:08:28. > :08:31.Christmas shopping cheaper, but it does call into question whether
:08:32. > :08:40.there is any need. The New Year sales of Boxing Day, but in the old
:08:41. > :08:43.days it was New Year and January when people got rid of the winter
:08:44. > :08:55.stock. Now they may not be doing that. As someone said on Twitter
:08:56. > :09:00.earlier, they do not care, they will sell it online. Some shopping is
:09:01. > :09:05.done online and that has been general trend. Another trend has
:09:06. > :09:08.been the gradual expansion of post-Christmas sales to
:09:09. > :09:14.pre-Christmas sales and now the last month. Part of me regrets the Boxing
:09:15. > :09:18.Day sales going, it is a bit of a fixture. I used to enjoy it. I'm too
:09:19. > :09:28.old and tired for Boxing Day shopping now. But on Boxing Day you
:09:29. > :09:32.couldn't do your Christmas shopping. But is that not messing up the whole
:09:33. > :09:38.concept in prose Christmas sales start before Christmas? They will
:09:39. > :09:44.need to change the name. In the Financial Times David Cameron is
:09:45. > :09:49.under fire for green cuts. One person is saying that they should
:09:50. > :09:52.stop changing the subsidies to renewable energy as people cannot
:09:53. > :09:56.plan and does not inspire confidence. It is worth remembering
:09:57. > :10:01.that when Cameron was first Tory leader and Prime Minister he
:10:02. > :10:06.promised to be the greenest government and history, but that is
:10:07. > :10:10.a thing of the past. The basic thing is planning. Lots of companies
:10:11. > :10:14.including Tesco have signed this letter to the Prime Minister has
:10:15. > :10:18.spent years preparing beds for green funds and now we see from the
:10:19. > :10:25.comprehensive spending review that another billion pounds of money has
:10:26. > :10:31.been scrapped. All that planning has gone down the tubes and they're not
:10:32. > :10:38.happy about that. Next week we have the climate change conference and he
:10:39. > :10:43.does say repeatedly that it is incredibly dangerous and it is one
:10:44. > :10:46.of our main priorities. He did the same with wind energy and people
:10:47. > :10:53.invested in that of any he took away the tax breaks and people were
:10:54. > :10:58.left. People like security, they like to know what is going to
:10:59. > :11:03.happen. There is a gap between the rhetoric and the practice. A record
:11:04. > :11:07.number of countries have committed to some really serious cuts in their
:11:08. > :11:09.admissions, some very ambitious targets, and we are among that
:11:10. > :11:18.number, so they have to do something. The Scottish Government
:11:19. > :11:24.makes great play off its ground-breaking carbon reduction
:11:25. > :11:28.targets, but they have not met them once. It has become a cynical
:11:29. > :11:31.political trick. Make the headline commitment and it looks like you're
:11:32. > :11:35.doing something but then there is no follow-through. I expect the UK
:11:36. > :11:40.Government is going down the same route. It is easier to make the
:11:41. > :11:47.commitment that actually do it. Finally on the Financial Times,
:11:48. > :11:54.Osborne's stealthy tax White gives top football is a kick in the
:11:55. > :11:56.testimonials. Please explain. This is about testimonial matches which
:11:57. > :12:02.in the old they were held for retiring sportsmen, cricketers or
:12:03. > :12:07.footballers, who did not earn a lot and their careers and then they
:12:08. > :12:11.could earn some money in the last match to set them up in business
:12:12. > :12:16.afterwards, to give them a retirement fund because they have to
:12:17. > :12:20.retire so early. I had no idea that these were not taxed, but apparently
:12:21. > :12:25.they haven't been. Some surprise and players are getting there. Wayne
:12:26. > :12:29.Rooney is due to have his testimonial, just occasion his fault
:12:30. > :12:35.when he starts earning his salary, and is expected to raise ?2.3
:12:36. > :12:42.million. I was deeply surprised to see that they were not taxed. They
:12:43. > :12:48.are income, like a little retirement pot, but I did not know they were
:12:49. > :12:54.not taxed. But now someone in the Treasury has noticed it. It shows
:12:55. > :13:00.how counterintuitive George Osborne can be. A lot of his critics depict
:13:01. > :13:04.them as a Thatcherite, but Heery is going after wealthy people which is
:13:05. > :13:12.not with you would expect. Testimonies are still held for a
:13:13. > :13:16.county cricketer who would have a modest income I don't know what they
:13:17. > :13:22.would expect to earn. There is a detail that says they will, the new
:13:23. > :13:29.rules, take into account a lot of the proceeds can go to charity. That
:13:30. > :13:31.is what Wayne Rooney is doing. Even I wouldn't notice that.
:13:32. > :13:37.Thank you to my guests, you'll both be back at half eleven
:13:38. > :13:47.for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow.