:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are the journalist and broadcaster Eve Pollard and
:00:23. > :00:25.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:
:00:26. > :00:28.The FT leads on an investigation by Revenue and Customs
:00:29. > :00:34.into claims foreign sellers on Amazon and eBay are dodging VAT.
:00:35. > :00:37.Agencies are creaming off up to half of fees paid by NHS hospitals
:00:38. > :00:52.for locum medics, according to an investigation by the Telegraph.
:00:53. > :00:53.The Metro says that Christmas shoppers queued
:00:54. > :00:57.in a six-hour traffic jam to get out of the Bluewater centre in Kent.
:00:58. > :01:00.Figures showing more than a million migrants entered the EU this year
:01:01. > :01:04.That story too in the Guardian, which carries a photo
:01:05. > :01:06.of refugees arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos.
:01:07. > :01:09.And the Mail says that 100,000 illegal migrants were stopped
:01:10. > :01:15.The i says that five of the world's big investment banks paid no
:01:16. > :01:19.corporation tax in Britain last year despite making billions in profits.
:01:20. > :01:21.The Times says that tens of thousands of European Union
:01:22. > :01:34.officials are to recieve a payrise worth 100 million euros.
:01:35. > :01:42.The Times seems to be suggesting that it is a nice Christmas present.
:01:43. > :01:52.Pay rises and bonuses to cost 100 million. Is this just the straight
:01:53. > :01:55.reporting of Christmas bonuses? Straight reporting I'm sure, but it
:01:56. > :02:02.will have its influence on the EU debate. Nigel Farage is quoted here,
:02:03. > :02:09.surprise surprise. Guess what, he is not happy about it. It seems to be a
:02:10. > :02:17.lot of money, the bogeyman of the recent debate, Jean-Claude Juncker,
:02:18. > :02:24.he will get and extra ?8,300. I like the fact that they mention Aaron
:02:25. > :02:32.Mannan, Lord Hill, he looks to be in line for an extra ?2200 -- they
:02:33. > :02:37.mention our own man. We know that the banks will be dishing out
:02:38. > :02:42.millions and millions in bonuses, just after Christmas is over in the
:02:43. > :02:49.New Year. What is the big deal? I can see what you might get a bonus
:02:50. > :02:53.if you have done your job. Do you know how many people work for the EU
:02:54. > :02:58.in Brussels? Occasionally it has to move to Strasbourg it is otherwise
:02:59. > :03:11.people would get upset, but do you know how many work for them? Rather
:03:12. > :03:13.a lot. 55,000, bonkers! This is the beginning of the EU debate and I
:03:14. > :03:17.don't want to vote emotionally, because if I did that is the sort of
:03:18. > :03:24.story that makes me want to leave. We would be walking out tomorrow.
:03:25. > :03:36.But it does seem that 55,000 people to run this... To run this huge
:03:37. > :03:40.organisation. When we went into this, I called my children Claudia
:03:41. > :03:44.and Oliver so they would have European names and we would be all
:03:45. > :03:50.full of free trade and working everywhere and speaking French,
:03:51. > :03:59.well, they both do, but this is not what I signed up for. All of this
:04:00. > :04:04.cash going out to bureaucrats. What are they doing all day? Once you
:04:05. > :04:08.have seen the figures and had the outrage, what do you do? One could
:04:09. > :04:12.argue that if we were better at play in Brussels, if we played a more
:04:13. > :04:16.constructive part in Brussels then maybe this sort of thing wouldn't
:04:17. > :04:29.happen and we wouldn't spend so much time moaning about it from the
:04:30. > :04:31.sidelines. They will not write off Brussels expenses, because the
:04:32. > :04:37.accountants say they don't add up. We complain about the way Brussels
:04:38. > :04:40.works, but perhaps if we were more involved in it and we sent better
:04:41. > :04:47.people, our best people to represent our country, Brussels might not be
:04:48. > :04:52.so dysfunctional. I would beg every newspaper to get a private
:04:53. > :04:57.undercover staff in Brussels. It would cost a fortune, if you have
:04:58. > :05:01.ever had a cup of coffee in Brussels it costs a fortune. I have indeed
:05:02. > :05:08.had quite a few and they are expensive. The Guardian, just over a
:05:09. > :05:14.million refugees have tried to reach Europe or have reached Europe this
:05:15. > :05:18.year alone. I think that is an enormous figure, but I'm not
:05:19. > :05:22.surprised because the news has been full of people coming from the
:05:23. > :05:28.Middle East, from Turkey, from wherever. It is quite interesting
:05:29. > :05:32.that two thirds of them have landed in Greece, and we still don't know
:05:33. > :05:36.what to do with them, we still haven't sorted out peace for them so
:05:37. > :05:43.they can go back to where they came from. Of course, a lot of those
:05:44. > :05:49.refugees are economic refugees... Not a lot of them but a certain
:05:50. > :05:53.percentage. It is a terrible problem for Greece and for Europe, and yet I
:05:54. > :05:57.feel very sad for them because what kind of Christmas are they going to
:05:58. > :06:01.have? As you say, some of them are economic migrants, but the majority
:06:02. > :06:10.of them are Syrians, people fleeing war. And once you reach the refugee
:06:11. > :06:16.Convention, it says that you can claim asylum in the country where
:06:17. > :06:20.you land. And that is Europe. One of the things that worries me when you
:06:21. > :06:24.see these pictures, they are obviously distressing in their own
:06:25. > :06:27.right, but I feel that we haven't even begun to grasp the scale of
:06:28. > :06:38.this. There are massive flows of people, conflicts that are driving
:06:39. > :06:44.people to leave their homes, and they have the ability to move, by
:06:45. > :06:48.one way or another, they are moving and I think that we tend to deal
:06:49. > :06:53.with these things piecemeal when actually we need... Actually, a lot
:06:54. > :06:59.of people say that they will want to go back to Syria. Well, once you see
:07:00. > :07:07.film of Raqqa, and then you see Europe, I'm not sure that many
:07:08. > :07:10.people will want to go back. This is certainly what the UN would say, the
:07:11. > :07:16.debate about migration has been about how different states can stop
:07:17. > :07:21.it, put up barriers, not actually adapt to it and deal with it and
:07:22. > :07:25.make the systems and processes within individual countries workable
:07:26. > :07:31.to deal with this kind of thing, because you are not going to stop
:07:32. > :07:38.these people. As you say, compare Syria with... Oxford Street... Which
:07:39. > :07:43.would you choose? The terrible thing is that there is no plan or cohesive
:07:44. > :07:49.plan, there is no real advice from the United Nations either, frankly.
:07:50. > :07:54.The idea that you can just have basically walls all barriers and
:07:55. > :07:59.that. People, it won't. That is the beginning of the end of the EU,
:08:00. > :08:07.isn't it? That is the whole thing about Schengen. Australia, they put
:08:08. > :08:14.up walls, they lock people up in camps. Hungary is building walls.
:08:15. > :08:19.Some of those countries that have emerged fairly recently from being
:08:20. > :08:26.under the Communist foot, they will think, I am not giving up this whole
:08:27. > :08:29.future I dreamt of of capitalism and entrepreneurialism because we have
:08:30. > :08:35.all these strangers in our midst. Once Donald Trump has built his wall
:08:36. > :08:41.across the border of America and Mexico, then... Let's worry about
:08:42. > :08:46.Europe first! The Daily Mail continues this, the number of people
:08:47. > :08:53.trying to get to the UK has doubled. 100,000 illegal people stopped at
:08:54. > :09:02.the UK border. The UK border force has filed 30,000 attempts, and it is
:09:03. > :09:07.quoted that this is something that will occupy the minds of ministers
:09:08. > :09:12.for sometime come. You would wish it would, but it probably won't,
:09:13. > :09:15.because they seem more interested in the battle they are having among
:09:16. > :09:18.themselves about whether we should stay in Europe or not. There are
:09:19. > :09:22.real things happening that they should be applying their minds to,
:09:23. > :09:28.but they are not really. What one was hearing today of some of the
:09:29. > :09:34.truckers who are caught up in this situation, particularly at Calais,
:09:35. > :09:37.you feel great sympathy for them. They are just trying to do their
:09:38. > :09:49.jobs and feeling that they are being menaced and no one is helping. These
:09:50. > :09:55.people who are climbing on trucks and threatening to kill people, they
:09:56. > :09:58.are living in France. There is no danger in France, there is no war in
:09:59. > :10:06.France, why won't they stay in France? Why do they want to come
:10:07. > :10:12.here? More jobs here? Are there more jobs? What I want to say is that
:10:13. > :10:18.there is something about the way Europe is treating these people,
:10:19. > :10:21.perhaps. I have to say, possibly as a woman, I would rather live in
:10:22. > :10:37.France if I was awesome and I didn't have wear a headscarf, but these are
:10:38. > :10:41.men. I think you are looking at this from a Western perspective, you are
:10:42. > :10:49.thinking of red wine and cheeses. Nothing wrong with that. I think if
:10:50. > :10:59.I had the choice I would live in Britain. I think if you have
:11:00. > :11:03.community connections within the Ethiopian diaspora or the Afghan
:11:04. > :11:09.diaspora, they are here, they are not in France. I understand that,
:11:10. > :11:12.and Algerian and Moroccan ones in France, in which case you could
:11:13. > :11:19.probably get the OK to come and live here she went through formal things.
:11:20. > :11:22.The French have made it difficult for asylum applications, and the
:11:23. > :11:28.process is much trickier over there for some reason. Maybe the French
:11:29. > :11:38.know something we don't know. Let's quickly move on, the independent
:11:39. > :11:42.front page, the Brits are going back to Helmand Province. At the moment
:11:43. > :11:47.it is just ten advisers, that looks like the Taliban could overrun the
:11:48. > :11:53.place. It does, and we have been asked to go in again and help out.
:11:54. > :12:01.Very distressing for the families of the soldiers who went there, many
:12:02. > :12:05.soldiers died, British soldiers died or were badly injured, and many will
:12:06. > :12:10.feel that they are almost back at square one. We ask a lot of our
:12:11. > :12:18.service people, which is perhaps why we should think twice before cutting
:12:19. > :12:28.the Armed Forces, as we seem to do. Eve, beneath that picture, top five
:12:29. > :12:32.banks pay no UK corporation tax. The Chancellor said that he was going to
:12:33. > :12:37.come down on this kind of thing, didn't he? I thought he did and I am
:12:38. > :12:40.waiting for him to do it. It is rather like those companies that
:12:41. > :12:46.sell a lot of stuff in Britain and then pay no tax. We shouldn't
:12:47. > :12:50.reinvent the wheel, we should make sure that we follow the same rules
:12:51. > :12:54.that other countries do so that all these banks and companies that sell
:12:55. > :13:00.and do very well in Britain, pay their taxes here. It must it
:13:01. > :13:07.possible to see what other countries do. Very difficult, the most
:13:08. > :13:12.Chancellor can do is sabre rattle. It can't be that difficult, in
:13:13. > :13:19.America if you are bank pay tax to the IRS. They are tough. I think it
:13:20. > :13:22.has to come from the top. I guess they will say, George, if you are
:13:23. > :13:28.tough with us, we will take our business elsewhere. They always say
:13:29. > :13:34.that, but who is going to leave London? You are going to leave
:13:35. > :13:39.London, you want to go to France! Finally, the Daily Telegraph.
:13:40. > :13:47.Nativity film banned for being too religious. Isn't this crazy? I think
:13:48. > :13:51.you will remember a few weeks ago these cinemas said they would not
:13:52. > :13:56.have the Lord's prayer as an ad, and they are now stopping a Nativity
:13:57. > :14:01.film saying that they have a policy banning the political or religious
:14:02. > :14:07.advertising. At least they are consistent. This is a Church of
:14:08. > :14:16.England country, the last time we watched. We are down here, Church of
:14:17. > :14:20.Scotland further north. Yes, as much as I admire the advertising media
:14:21. > :14:23.society, when you are in the cinema you are looking at where you can put
:14:24. > :14:27.your coat, will the woman in front stop jumping up and down, how soon
:14:28. > :14:32.will be ads be over and can you watch a film? My feeling is, show
:14:33. > :14:37.all the ads you want. As long as they follow the rules of advertising
:14:38. > :14:43.and behave themselves, I think it is outrageous they don't have this is
:14:44. > :14:45.shown in cinemas. Cinemas are run by commercial companies, if they have
:14:46. > :14:51.made a mistake was in the blue the public will let them know. I suspect
:14:52. > :14:55.you will find that these newspapers are more outraged than the public
:14:56. > :15:03.are. Sure. I suspect that is probably the case. Thank you both
:15:04. > :15:08.are coming in. Stay with us, you stay at the top of the hour, but
:15:09. > :15:10.now, Sportsday. --