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