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Europa League matches, a flat performance from English teams and a | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
bad night again for Louis Van Gaal. That is in Sportsday in 15 minutes | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
after the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:23. | |
at what the papers will bring us tomorrow morning. With me journalist | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Henry Bonsu and former Trade Minister Lord Digby Jones. Welcome, | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
with you both back together I think this may be why Clive took the | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
evening off! It could be a coincidence. Just before we get | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
going with you, let's look at what the papers are saying. We will start | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
with the metro, the front page, what do you make of this, Digby Jones? I | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
am not surprised the Prime Minister, the democratically elected leader of | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
a nation, says he will battle for his country. That is, what wouldn't | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
you expect? Of course, in a way, it is symptomatic to my view of why | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
this is coming off the wrong base. I believe in a reformed Europe but it | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
is not a reformed Europe in my view that should be particularly for | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Britain, but for Europe. As an unemployed kid in Greece, 21 years | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
old, who hadn't worked with no prospect of employment, what we have | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
to do is get Europe, instead of marching violently towards 1970, get | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
it on the page of the 21st-century. This is a sure's century, Britain on | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
the 19th, America run the 20th, Asia will run the 21st. 520 million | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
people living in peace, which is a fabulous achievement, having taken | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Eastern Europe out of the Soviet bloc without tyranny is a big | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
achievement, a huge achievement. Now we are condemning these people to, | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
frankly, a pretty cold life, simply because we are trying to agree to | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
work to a set of rules set in 1957 at a different time for a different | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
world. I don't blame the Prime Minister for saying he is battling | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
for Britain, that is what you do when you lead a country. In my view | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
he has the wrong precedence. Digby is in danger of challenging Francois | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Hollande in saying this is about the whole EU. Jeremy Corbyn is also... | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
He is thinking about the most downtrodden, oppressed people of | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Europe, not just Britain in splendid isolation. The metro has a positive | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
spin talking about Cameron and the Battle for Britain, presenting him | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
as an eminent Churchill Ian or challenging Margaret Thatcher. This | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
is the antidote to thin gruel from Rees Mogg. He is of course | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
sceptical. If you look at what the papers are saying about the | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
discussion so far it isn't going the Prime minister's wait, you will need | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
all three of those shirts because going down to the wire it will be | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
long haul. Quite a lot of Eastern long haul. Quite a lot of Eastern | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
European countries don't want to give him what he wants. The Guardian | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
picks up on part of this point, Digby. You will have seen this from | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
the inside us Trade Minister in Gordon Brown's government. The | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Guardian has been briefed by other EU leaders, he has one chance, if | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
you can't get a deal tomorrow, forget it. At that level, there is | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
without doubt, the word on the street, that the best way of dealing | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
with it get a better deal is come back with not a lot, referendum | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
throws it out, then Brussels does what it did with the French, Dutch | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
and Irish referendums, which is to vote again and again and again till | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
you get it right, because Brussels doesn't understand democracy. That | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
is the chat on the street and they are trying to kill that by saying | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
this is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. Is it brinkmanship? For | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
sure. My concern is, I am not at all certain that the leaders of Europe, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
and they include Cameron in this, are on the right page of this. I | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
will give you good example, one of the businesses I chair, we cannot | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
get enough skilled engineers, and we have job offers out to Indians from | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Bangalore, cannot get the movies. They would come and earn good money, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
I am not talking of Lope -- cannot get them of these, they pay tax, | :04:46. | :04:57. | |
generate profits, we would pay more corporation tax and build schools | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
and hospitals, we cannot get the Visa because the British government | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
says they are not coming in because they are cutting down on | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
immigration. Everyday we have five or six Romanians who cannot speaking | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
wish knocking on the door for a job. That doesn't help global | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
competitiveness, it doesn't help Britain becoming more productive, | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
and at the end of the day it doesn't help the Romanian cyber. This is the | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Farage- Carswell arguments. Don't personalise it. He wants more of | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Commonwealth. If those remaining staff killed engineers I would have | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
them, it is not about them being in Europe but the fact that we are not | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
getting Europe globally competitive. For Francois Hollande to dance on | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
the pinheads of whether Cameron will or will not get a brink Manship | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
deal, frankly, they all deserve to wake up and smell the coffee and | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
understand the real competitiveness argument. I am told they will wake | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
up and smell bacon and eggs because we are told they will have an Ingush | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
breakfast. Is that the confession we will get, do you think? I think what | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Francois Hollande is trying to do is talk tough, because of course he is | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
standing for election next year, he doesn't want to roll over and give | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Cameron what he wants. But Angela Merkel, who is still the most | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
powerful leader in Europe even though she is having problems with | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the German immigration crisis, wants to do everything she can short of | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
rolling back free movement of people to help Cameron because the other | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
leaders recognise the new would be poorer without Britain's. So do you | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
think we will get some kind of deal? I think so, if not they will go -- | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
at it again next month. The common agricultural policy, created as a | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
time when the world was different. We have condemned Greece to | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
saying... Base your economy on exporting olives and importing cars | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
and don't go bust. It is beyond me and you have Francois Hollande | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
saying you cannot touch the common agricultural policy, this is sacred | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
to the French way of life. It is bonkers. Let's stay with economics. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
It is economics, they take a lot of tax office! I stand corrected, but | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
this is on the front of the Daily Telegraph, the call from FTSE 100 | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
chief is saying yes to Europe. These are some of your old mates! What?! | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
You are in very personalising form tonight! We are talking about our | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
biggest companies, eight of them, and those who run them saying they | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
want to see Britain remaining in Europe, they think it will be good | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
for business. Although they haven't put their names in any letter or | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
anything the Telegraph can accurately quote, it understands | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
from sources unknown that they will be in favour of Britons staying in | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Europe. If you were a small business person in Yorkshire, Birmingham | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
Cardiff and read that, you would say you were not surprised. All these | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
big companies have 80 or 90 advisers, lobbyists, in Brussels, | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
and they fashion the regulatory framework of the EU to suit | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
themselves. That is what they do. Therefore of course a big company | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
wants to stay in because they have the framework that suits big | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
business, and at the end of the day they will work with that. As a small | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
business in Marbella, in Stockholm, it is hell on earth because you are | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
trying to get by with the sales prevention team sitting in Brussels | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
saying they will mess up your life, mess up the way you can create | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
wealth and an extra job, whereas China must think it is Christmas | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
Day. I am not personalising this but you are a great believer in trickle | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
down so that person in Greece or Grimsby or wherever is working | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
through the supply chain in the end towards that big business, so it is | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
successful and will help that person at the bottom. As long as this is | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Fortress Europe, what we are doing is saying, the rest of the world | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
doesn't matter, we will just trade with ourselves. There are 8 billion | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
people on this planet and the other seven and a half billion do not give | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
a dam, and they are getting on with their lives. They are creating | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
wealth for themselves. That seems a good point on the frankly my dear I | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
don't give a dam argument! Clark Gable, 1938! To move away from | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Europe for now because we will come in our next review. Everyday for the | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
next three months! Let's stay with the Telegraph, wonderful photograph | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
of Pope Francis. He looks like he is about to take off! Let's hope he | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
doesn't drop back on the other side into the United States because he | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
may face the wrath of Donald Trump. He may because he is quoted offering | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
Donald Trump not a Christian. Not Christian, not not A Christian. He | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
says his principles are wrong. He didn't mentioned him by name but | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
said if you want a was instead of bridges, love your neighbour, which | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
is one of the principles, you cannot be Christian. Donald Trump is | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
furious because although he is not known for living his life according | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
to those principles he says he is a proud presbyteries in. This is a | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
paper review. It is nearly over, be quick. Let's compare the Telegraph | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
with the International New York Times. I would think the Telegraph | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
readership don't read the New York Times but in the Daily Telegraph he | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
is quoted as saying, Donald Trump "Not a Christian". The New York | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Times said he said it is "Not Christian." You are right, the | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
difference is enormous, so if you read the Telegraph you think you | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
said Donald Trump is not a Christian, in New York it is not | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Christian. You would know if you had watched the paper review! We will be | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
back in an hour, Digby and Henry, thank you, we will be back at 1130 | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
the M4 another look at the papers. Now it is time for Sportsday. | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
This is Sportsday from the BBC Sport Centre. | :11:41. | :11:48. |