14/12/2015 The Papers

from Roger Federer, who has big plans for next year. That is coming

up in Sportsday. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be With me are the economist

Bronwyn Curtis and the broadcaster and former football administrator

David Davies. We are going to start with the i.

You will see a number of different coloured boxes of Nurofen. A blue

one, an orange one, a red one, if I can zoom in, and a purple one. The

suggestion is, according to the Australians, that although these

boxes... You are in Australia? I am indeed. Although they are different

colours, they have the same stuff in them? Yes. That is the allegation.

The competition authority in Australia are saying they are

exactly the same. It is misleading. Get them off the shelves. That is

what is happening in Australia. But it is coming here as well. The

company has said, just because that has happened in one region, it is

not applicable to others. Here, the advertising standards authority is

now taking a look at this. It is after they have had a series of

complaints, earlier this year. It seems to have taken the Australians

to pull the trigger. They are exactly the same! What does that

mean? An Australian backache is different from a United Kingdom

backache? A layperson like me cannot understand. It is like this. You

look in your cupboard, I've got some year offence, or ibuprofen. --

Nurofen. If it is not brand, it is cheaper. I better go and see if they

have anything specific for backache. You go to the chemist, it is called

product differentiation, I think. You can charge double for it. I go

to a wonderful chemist. Because I had an illness earlier this year, I

have had more medicine in the past six months than in the past 60 plus

years. That is the first point. And I have got increasingly worried and

depressed by, when I go and see all of these different painkillers, this

story in Australia just makes things even worse. Cold cures are the same.

It's only because I've got an excellent chemist in my village who

says, have that and do not have that. If you don't happen to have an

excellent chemist, or there is not a chemist, somebody to talk to you, or

a doctor on the end of the phone or whatever, this does mean if you go

into a pharmacy and UC for back pain, for a headache,

it. That has been allowed, to a point, in the advertising

here, they might not be breaking any laws? They might not. There have

been complaints here. If you look at the back, I am sure the company has

had focus groups that have said, well... Some of the public wanted?

They will buy it. If it says Nurofen Express, does that mean you get

cured more quickly? That is the idea, it gets absorbed into your

bloodstream. And I being cynical, that is just the same... That is not

something we can go into, let's not be subject of a court ruling.

Britain to quit EU over migrants, we know that David Cameron is trying to

negotiate a different relationship with Brussels. He has put feelers

out, it is not looking too good, particularly on cutting the benefits

of new migrants arriving in the UK. A new poll showing that Europe is

unpopular because of the migrant crisis. Hardly a sensation. From the

pro-European point of view, you have to do worry that David Cameron is

actually allowing the wrong questions to be asked in this

so-called negotiation. Is that cynical? It is a negotiation. It is

going today, particularly later in the week. Are there bigger

questions? Is Europe's safer, for the UK and its citizens, if we are

in or not? That seems to be a fairly basic question, when I hear Sir Hugh

Orde and former police chiefs saying that we need to be in Europe to

share the important security information. To me, that seems

fundamental. It is difficult to get away from the whole migrant and

refugee question. So many people are trying to get in here, it has been

all over the media for two years, practically, that has become a

central question of the whole debate. Or, is, as David is saying,

the staying in camp is allowing it to be the central question, and not

making it more of a side issue? As you can see, it makes a great

headline. Blame it on the migrants. People are a bit frightened by it as

well. Who is coming in? Can we control them? So it is easy to play

to those emotions. Either way, this particular survey in the express was

by a company called Servation, I've never heard of them. They are

commissioned by the Lines For Direct Democracy In Europe, an alliance of

parties including Ukip. I am not saying they have not done their job

properly, but I think they brought out the things that they wanted to

bring out. As you say, there are other things. Europe is our biggest

trading partner. We sell most of our goods to Europe. 60%. Having said

that, there clearly is, according to polls, and Servation is a reputable

company, no question about that. People seem to be leaning towards,

according to these polls, towards a situation where perhaps they don't

want to be in. You could be excused for thinking that there is a get

Britain out campaign and a little bit of a staying in campaign. The

biggest name that I am aware of at the moment, who is active, is Will

Straw, the son of the former Foreign Secretary. Maybe they are having

trouble getting the message out. Are you seeing what the bookies are

saying, 63% are going to say they will vote to stay in? I listen to

the bookies sometimes. Even the ones that say Louis van Gaal is going to

leave... We'll not get onto that! We will talk about pension bonds,

saving rates are slashed by half. These pension bonds, they were

announced a year ago. One year, and I think three-year bonds. They had a

great interest rates. The one-year, 2.8%. The three-year, 3%. They are

not going to continue with the one-year bonds. Well, they are going

to continue with them, but they are dropping the rate to 1.45%. That is

not only outside the top ten, it is 0.7% below the best rate you can get

for a one-year bond. We didn't hear anything about that in the Autumn

Statement, did we? I didn't hear anything. Funny, that! I don't think

there is an election this year, is there? Probably not. Why are you so

cynical? Because, being a person of a certain age, in January of last

year, the other side of the pond, I spent hours trying to get through to

National Savings And Investments, to buy some of my bonds. I fought and

fought, and I worked the computer in Mexico. I got some bonds. I have a

view on this. This sort of retrospection... You got to be

careful, it is not a retrospection, it was a one-year bond. What about

the three-year? What they are saying is that when that mature as they not

necessarily do that either. I think they won't. I think this... These

are fantastic rates. There was no suggestion that they would carry on?

At all? I suppose people felt they would. The application was? So we

got suckered? That is what you are trying to say. But you got that good

rate for a year. If you put it in for three years, you made it for

three years. Doing all right. But only for a small amount of money.

You got suckered, David, sorry! Have this bloke. He is going into

space! Tim Peake. He is leaving Russia

tomorrow, Kazakhstan, sorry, and he is going to the International Space

Station. It's going to be a very special day for the UK. I know there

will be people that are saying tonight, what a waste of money, what

are we doing up there? All of the rest of it. I think it is great,

Boy's Own stuff. I would love to blast off, and some people would be

glad that I did, blasting off from Kazakhstan. He is achieving a

lifetime ambition. I saw his mum and dad, sitting, as you do, in

Kazakhstan. They were so proud. And rightly so. And credible. Is it

Boy's Own stuff for you? Is Definitely Boy's Own stuff. Gil's

Own stuff? The only thing that would have made a better would be a

British woman going. It is a great story. We have had a lot of really

depressing story so far. This is a really nice, feel-good story. Of

course, it does mean that, you know, they are blasting off from

Kazakhstan, it means that Britain Kazakhstan, it means that Britain

is, you know, working with all of these other countries as well. That

is really good. A lesson for us in Europe? I think it is a lesson for

Europe. We might get in trouble for that. Many thanks for that, you will

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