27/11/2015 The Papers

also have the rugby results and a look at some winter sports action.

That is after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look

ahead to what the papers With me are David Torrance,

columnist for the Herald, and the writer and broadcaster,

Alice Arnold. Many of the front pages

are already in. The Independent leads with claims

by four senior Labour MPs that Jeremy Corbyn's leadership is

"unsustainable". The same story is on the front

of the Times which says that senior Labour figures have sought

legal advice as they plot unprecedented discounts

until Christmas in the Telegraph. The Mail also focuses on Black

Friday but says it was a flop on the The Daily Mirror prints

a letter to Father Christmas from seven-year-old Christian

Hickey who was shot on his doorstep. We have to start with Jeremy Corbyn

who is on the front of many of the front pages. Here is The

Independent's headline. The left winger is accused of putting the

party in a terrible mess. We should be talking about the prospect of

people in the comments by air strikes on Syria, but no. It has

three when the spotlight back on to Labour. The Independent has Labour

MPs breaking cover and calling for Jeremy Corbyn to go. It seems as

though things have come to the crunch point and this has been often

predicted since Jeremy Corbyn became the reader. It has not taken long?

No, but it shows you how unpredictable politics is. The

attacks in Paris and throw in the Labour Party into turmoil. The focus

is on splits and the split is multilayered. There is a split

between Corbin and the parliamentary party and the parliamentary party

and the Labour membership and between the party and the general

voting public. It is complicated. Hilary Benn was suggesting that it

was complicated but they can come to some accommodation editors it is a I

am not sure what Jeremy Corbyn is meant to do about this because he

doesn't think that we should be sending air strikes into Syria. He

is the Leader of the Opposition and the government think that we should

be. It seems to me that as the Leader of the Opposition that is a

reasonable position to hold and it is a position held by many members

of the Labour Party, so he may be representing his Shadow Cabinet but

he probably is representing members of his party and and every Mac --

and a free vote is probably the way he will have to go. Otherwise people

will think he is representing them. The party and the Cabinet is split.

The Times says there is a secret bid to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn and they

have been told that they can dump their leader. Do they not just need

to have the vote to get rid of him? They have to make sure he is not on

the ballot because they get on the ballot there is every chance that he

get re-elected. They need to find someone to lead instead. Not an

obvious one. The lack of an obvious and compelling alternative could

sustain Jeremy Corbyn for longer, but there is a precedent for

political geeks like me. In 1980 new clinic was challenged by Tony Benn

for the leadership and Neil Kinnock wiped the floor on that occasion.

The fear is that they as Tim and then he is re-elected because he is

extremely popular with Labour Party members, all the polling shows that.

No one is named in any of these articles. No one is mentioned in any

of them. The Daily Mirror has an exclusive poll showing that the PM

has failed to convince people about war in Syria. If David Cameron has

managed to convince people then they are supporting what Jeremy Corbyn is

saying, that there is not a good reason to carry out these air

strikes because it might make things worse for us here. For all the

difficulties the Jeremy Corbyn is getting, he is more closely aligned

with public opinion than the Prime Minister. It is early days and the

vote may not be told next week, but the polling so far, and a detailed

one in the mirror, shows that the majority of people are not convinced

that we should go for air strikes and 59% think that if we do it will

increase the risk of terrorist attacks in the UK, which is an

important point. 59% of men want to go for air strikes that only 38% of

women. That did not take me by surprise. We have seen the

intelligence, we know what the threat is. We have been there before

and we know. The general public are not hugely in favour of this and

someone needs to represent them, maybe Jeremy Corbyn is doing that.

The SNP will be against. That has been very consistent. Nicola

Sturgeon said she wasn't listening mode and rather not last very long

and now they will march into the no lobby. One of the papers shows that

20 Tory MPs who were potentially going to be Dell have fallen into

line. -- that were going to rebel have fallen into line. Were you

tempted? I mean in the shop. There are several pages of this in the

mail. It is mostly talking about what happened last year but it does

talk about people queuing up in their pyjamas. I thought, how long

does it take to be close on? Why would you go in your pyjamas?

Perhaps this person. They were going to be in a crash and they had to be

there early. Quite a lot of people work at five in the morning and

managed to get dressed. Why would you go in the cold and the wet and

queue outside the shop until you open it when you can do it online

and have it delivered. Some shops opened early because they thought a

lot of people were going to come through the door. Braehead in

Glasgow opened at 5:30am and there were only 30 people waiting.

Virtually no one apart from the media turned up. The journalist got

some bargains but no one else. The consequence of this is that we are

going to have sealed the last until Christmas, so will we need the

Boxing Day sales? It is The Telegraph. Were we need the Boxing

Day sales? Know one will have any money left. This is a new thing

since the Black Friday thing was imported from the States, this ill

start before Christmas, which is Great to want is you can do your

Christmas shopping cheaper, but it does call into question whether

there is any need. The New Year sales of Boxing Day, but in the old

days it was New Year and January when people got rid of the winter

stock. Now they may not be doing that. As someone said on Twitter

earlier, they do not care, they will sell it online. Some shopping is

done online and that has been general trend. Another trend has

been the gradual expansion of post-Christmas sales to

pre-Christmas sales and now the last month. Part of me regrets the Boxing

Day sales going, it is a bit of a fixture. I used to enjoy it. I'm too

old and tired for Boxing Day shopping now. But on Boxing Day you

couldn't do your Christmas shopping. But is that not messing up the whole

concept in prose Christmas sales start before Christmas? They will

need to change the name. In the Financial Times David Cameron is

under fire for green cuts. One person is saying that they should

stop changing the subsidies to renewable energy as people cannot

plan and does not inspire confidence. It is worth remembering

that when Cameron was first Tory leader and Prime Minister he

promised to be the greenest government and history, but that is

a thing of the past. The basic thing is planning. Lots of companies

including Tesco have signed this letter to the Prime Minister has

spent years preparing beds for green funds and now we see from the

comprehensive spending review that another billion pounds of money has

been scrapped. All that planning has gone down the tubes and they're not

happy about that. Next week we have the climate change conference and he

does say repeatedly that it is incredibly dangerous and it is one

of our main priorities. He did the same with wind energy and people

invested in that of any he took away the tax breaks and people were

left. People like security, they like to know what is going to

happen. There is a gap between the rhetoric and the practice. A record

number of countries have committed to some really serious cuts in their

admissions, some very ambitious targets, and we are among that

number, so they have to do something. The Scottish Government

makes great play off its ground-breaking carbon reduction

targets, but they have not met them once. It has become a cynical

political trick. Make the headline commitment and it looks like you're

doing something but then there is no follow-through. I expect the UK

Government is going down the same route. It is easier to make the

commitment that actually do it. Finally on the Financial Times,

Osborne's stealthy tax White gives top football is a kick in the

testimonials. Please explain. This is about testimonial matches which

in the old they were held for retiring sportsmen, cricketers or

footballers, who did not earn a lot and their careers and then they

could earn some money in the last match to set them up in business

afterwards, to give them a retirement fund because they have to

retire so early. I had no idea that these were not taxed, but apparently

they haven't been. Some surprise and players are getting there. Wayne

Rooney is due to have his testimonial, just occasion his fault

when he starts earning his salary, and is expected to raise ?2.3

million. I was deeply surprised to see that they were not taxed. They

are income, like a little retirement pot, but I did not know they were

not taxed. But now someone in the Treasury has noticed it. It shows

how counterintuitive George Osborne can be. A lot of his critics depict

them as a Thatcherite, but Heery is going after wealthy people which is

not with you would expect. Testimonies are still held for a

county cricketer who would have a modest income I don't know what they

would expect to earn. There is a detail that says they will, the new

rules, take into account a lot of the proceeds can go to charity. That

is what Wayne Rooney is doing. Even I wouldn't notice that.

Thank you to my guests, you'll both be back at half eleven

for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow.