10/01/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our Sunday morning edition of The Papers.

With me are Jo Phillips, the political commentator.

And Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday People.

The Independent on Sunday leads with claims that Jeremy Corbyn

is planning to fast-track changes to party policy on Trident.

School discipline is the lead in the Observer, which claims

the Prime Minister is to suggest that parents should have a say

in how their children are disciplined.

The front of the Sunday Times also carries a photo of the suspect

Arthur Simpson-Kent, but its main story is about the junior doctors

The doctors' strike is also the lead in the Telegraph,

with the Health Secretary claiming the walk-out could hit A units.

And finally the Sun splashes with allegations about the private

life of the singer Cheryl Fernandez-Versini.

Let's begin. The Sunday Telegraph. Doctors told strike will harm

patients. The Health Secretary makes a last-minute appeal. That it could

force wards to close. It is stating the obvious. The doctors' strike

going ahead on Tuesday and several thousand operations have been

cancelled already and at this time of year the NHS is under pressure

and I suppose you would not expect Jeremy Hunt would not do anything

else other than put out a last-ditch appeal saying, please do not go on

strike. Within the last week, suggestions the Chief Medical

Officer was involved in a letter that went past the Department of

Health and Jeremy Hunt, which I do not find surprising, because you

would expect it to be cleared by the Department. You have the BMA and

government on a collision course. One problem, if you look at the last

30 years, what sort of people we trust, we trust doctors. Jeremy Hunt

knows this and he knows we do not trust journalists in general and we

don't trust politicians, that is part of the problem. He has a

presentational problem because we love doctors. He has a practical

problem in the way he went about doing it. I am behind him about the

idea of a seven-day NHS. Saturday and Sunday should be no different

from other days. The NHS should not be run for the convenience of

doctors, but patients, that is fine, but it needs funding. You do not

make changes and say to the doctor, we will give you a pay rise, but you

will actually lose money. Because they can add up! It has to go back

to the whole of the health service. This strike is about hospital

doctors, junior doctors. I agree, people trust doctors. I am not sure

the public supports them going on strike. Unless you get GP surgeries

also doing seven days a week, and this idea of the Labour Party, the

Labour government brought in when doctors could opt out and bring in a

locum, doctors have had it easy, particularly at GP practices. And

they are paid well. 100,000 plus for GPs. We expect the police and fire

brigade and Ambulance Service to do a seven-day week. We will move on

because the Sunday Times has a different aspect. The Labour hard

left to pick out hospitals. This is as they put it, Jeremy Corbyn's hard

left supporters, talking about can -- Momentum, and the relationship of

the Labour Party. Momentum is telling members to go along and

support the striking doctors and go to picket lines. This would not be

secondary picketing, because that is illegal, but to go along to take a

cup of tea, to support them. This will not be helpful to Jeremy Corbyn

and the Labour Party because it looks like this is the hard left and

setting up the battle between doctors and government. What is

interesting is Sally Davies, who has been busy this week telling us not

to exceed 14 units! Especially on Tuesday! She is warning industrial

action will endanger patient safety. Saying very sympathetic to the

doctors, but please think again. There are two aspects, but again, to

say that left-wing political activists will not support a strike

against the government, of course they are. Why wouldn't they? It is a

free country. If they support Jeremy Corbyn, Joe is right, do not turn

up. They will get sympathy because they are doctors. The moment you get

Momentum involved in shouting on picket lines, it becomes political.

Keep the issue about pay and conditions, don't get into the

politics. If Momentum turn up... You mean the first time somebody outside

the hospital is CHANTING: Is out, they do support? I think it would be

a mistake to do that. The issue is over their conditions. It could be

any government they were having a go at, it is not party politics.

Momentum turns up and it will not do Jeremy Corbyn any good. I spoke to a

Jeremy Corbyn supporter who said every time the Presto stories like

this about Jeremy Corbyn, among young people, who are disaffected

about politics, he said they increased support for Jeremy Corbyn.

Just getting people supporting you because you say something like,

bring it on, it does not make you fit to lead the country or a

political party. Instead of focusing on the issues where Labour would do

a better job, as they should as the opposition, we have seen them focus

on an appalling reshuffle. What did you call it? The night of the long

forks! You are right, this thing about the picket line, if you look

at the Labour conference last autumn, when journalists were being

spat at and abused and people going into conference, the Tory

conference. Will you turn up for your outpatients appointment and get

shouted at? An interesting question. The Independent newspaper, fast

track to ditching trident, basically manoeuvring to get an end to

Trident, replacing Trident as Labour Party policy. A fast track to

ditching Trident would involve getting elected! At the moment, when

the vote comes up and there will be a vote on Trident replacement in the

next few months and the chances are that Trident will be replaced

because it will just carry through. This is a bit irrelevant, however,

one thing Jeremy Corbyn needed to do from the Cabinet reshuffle... To do

it would have been a start. To get it done in less than three days...

Was to sort out the Trident issue. He has a shadow Secretary of State

for Defence who is with him in scrapping Trident. This goes one

stage further, the idea now is that he will let the national executive,

which is Labour's ruling body, they will start making policy. They are

sympathetic to Jeremy Corbyn so they will be against Trident also, and

take it away from the Shadow Cabinet. Another row is coming up.

All over this country, where people are worried about jobs and pay and

flooding, somebody doing something at the national executive of

something or other, it will not particularly... It may work in the

party but will it get people'sfeet tapping? I do not. It is what you

were saying earlier. This will take away the power from the

Parliamentary Labour Party, elected MPs and Shadow Cabinet. It will give

it to all of these people who apparently support Jeremy Corbyn

hugely. Bearing in mind a lot of those people are former militants,

who have rejoined the party. This is like turning back the clock, going

back to the 1980s of composite motions, the NEC. You cannot govern

the country with a national executive. Some people call it

resolutionary. This is saying parents should take lessons in how

to control children. This is probably a good idea. This

is about families. The practical side is more parenting classes. Why

not. Make it available to as many people as possible, it seems like a

good idea. Double the funding to 70 million for relationship charities.

Relate, Marriage Counselling, which will help people to stay together.

It will help the children. That is the idea. In principle, it seems to

me quite good on the basis that you are not forcing anyone to do it? His

critics will say why did you get rid of sure start, but of the good

things the Tony Blair government brought in and was seen as a great

help, children's centres, which a lot have closed because they have

lost funding. This is not the first time David Cameron has done this, he

is big on family and society. In 2011, after the riots, the

government invested a lot of money in a thing called a parent pilot, it

was only a pilot, but 2900 people signed up, very few men. It with

that on the vine. Somewhere along here, you either have to make it

compulsory, which everybody would hate, or... Because the parents who

perhaps most need it least likely to take it? I am sure there are a

million teachers reading this, thinking that would be great, it

might stop them turning up shoving chips through the door, parking on

double yellow lines and moaning that children have homework to do. I

wonder if parents are thinking, what we need is affordable childcare

because that is a real problem when particularly both parents work. That

is coming in. The Tories are not always wrong. We are getting

affordable childcare. Something like antenatal classes, which are

popular, why not extend that? When I was a parent of young children, I

would have liked to know how to deal with toddlers. You were terrified!

You just wanted an instruction book! This needs to be in schools, this

needs to be part of education for children. It needs to be joined up.

It needs to start with children in primary school, and then you learn

to talk to your baby brother and sister. It is a bit late when people

get to being parents, if they are not very good parents, or they are

struggling, to have lessons. Interesting to see how it will

develop. A story that caught my eye, given what we were discussing

earlier. You should not drink anything at all except water,

apparently! Landlords appealed to regulars, carry on drinking. They

plan for UK pubs. Pub closures are soaring. And if we are told to drink

less... And dry January, people who decide to binge over Christmas and

go completely dry over January, according to one pub, every time you

go dry for January, a bartender dies! I think that is a little over

the top! I wonder how they encourage their customers to drink. Pubs have

had a rough time, but if they are closing at the rate of 29 per week,

it is difficult, but you cannot base health advice on whether the retail

sector will suffer from it. You could make the same argument about

smoking. Add chicken shops. What do you think about this? Talking about

serving more coffee, but many pubs do that. It is tough. Hotel and

catering, pubs, it is a top business and a lot of pubs have managed to

survive because they have turned into gastropods, concentrating on

food. It is not new. Drink-driving, the cost of transport, all of that.

Cheaper supermarkets. People drinking more at home. Where I live,

which is a town that used to have the highest number of pubs per

capita, it is interesting. The traditional pubs, some of them are

empty, but we have a booming trade in micro-pubs that are doing well.

That tells you something about the relationship between pub landlords

and the breweries. A lot of places struggle the cars... It is not the

rent, it is the compulsory... Being tied to a brewery. I know a place

where pubs have closed book two micro-pubs have opened, one of which

has a wall on which mobile phones are nailed with six inch nails and

there is a sign that you are not allowed to use your mobile phone in

this pub, or you give money to charity. That is a niche market. All

that is happening is that some inventive pub landlords are

reinventing themselves. And some are not. There was a report during the

week from Morgan Stanley that said people might stay alone because of

fears of going abroad and terror and it may be if we have people staying

here to have holidays, pubs might well do well in the summer. It

happened in 2009, and people stated. This is from the Sunday Times,

diabetes fear over Coca-Cola being cheaper than water. Talking about

sugar and the question of sugar taxes coming back. I think there is

going to be pressure on the government to look at this. I am not

sure whether a sugar taxes the answer because there will be a

complaint that it will hit poorer families harder. It seems to me what

you need to do is encourage food manufacturers to use less sugar to

start with, which goes back to things about salt and fat, with

people saying they are now putting in less. You wonder why they did not

to start with. This is quite a bit of research, that Coca-Cola drinks

in a supermarket, their own brand, is cheaper than bottled water. It

tells you something about bottled water, as well. It is like all of

these stories, you can turn it into what you want. The biggest pressure

on the health service, apart from the ageing population is diabetes,

because of the knock-on effect and cost of that. A huge amount of the

NHS budget. Apparently we will all get bodies like this model if we do

not eat sugar! Next week, we will be doing this without clothes! You

could look at minimum pricing. It seems ludicrous if you sell four

litres of cola at 90p and minimum price might do it. They tried it

with alcohol in Scotland, so why not do that? The Sunday Mirror has an

exclusive, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, I am getting a divorce. It is quite

sad. She is popular with a lot of people. She will have to change her

name stop the difficult surname will have to go and something different,

maybe she will go back to her former name. What is interesting, she has

?20 million, there is no prenuptial agreement, what happens to the

money? The lawyers get it. That is what does not help with parenting.

There are no children involved, but this celebrity, it is on, it is off,

I have got bored with this person, I am getting rid of them. It does that

help, it puts out the message that when you get fed up, you can go onto

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