23/08/2016 The Papers

Coming up in a moment, the Papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to all of the papers, the

broadcaster Lynne Ford and the journalist Sean Dillon. Let us have

a look at some of the front pages. We are going to start with smiles

and selfie is at Heathrow Airport, as they concentrate on the

homecoming of Team GB. And, the i describes the row between Jeremy

Corbyn and Richard Branson as a bizarre row. And the Guardian have

the medallists and the now famous train journey. The paper also, the

Daily Mail also puts Jeremy Corbyn on the front page. They say that it

calls his credibility as a leader on the line. On a Daily Telegraph says

that UK Kimmich and have access to Skype and phones to help keep

contact with family. And the express leads on a story on a Calais refugee

camp, saying that the number of people trying to cross the channel

has doubled in the last two months. We are going to start with trained

date. Rail gate, ticket gate. The Daily Mail. All of the stuff that is

happening in the world, and we have got oodles of space,. It is on

pretty much every cover, you know why? It is pretty funny. It is not

that it is funny, it is sad that we have got a politician who is trying

to make a point that is easily shot down and then you have got Richard

Branson, Corbin's point is that he wants to privatise the well rate, --

the railway. If they were nationalised we could run them

better. And of course Richard Branson who owns the training

question, and who doesn't want to give up his ownership comedies now

rubbishing Corbin, so it is a terrible shame. Just take people

through. The Daily Mail, Jeremy Corbyn, the first class hypocrite.

He is making the point that he was on a train that was full so he had

to sit on the floor and he filmed this but virgin saying that the

train wasn't full. It wasn't, was it? Heat is 11am, trains can be

really full and really annoying and maybe there is a 26-year-old woman,

she couldn't get a seat. But the thing that struck me, first of all

the difference between the different stories on this. Daly but the Daily

Mail starts with "Jeremy Corbyn's credibility is in shreds after CCTV

suggests that he lied about having to sit on the floor". Let us look at

the timing, I have sympathy for Jeremy Corbyn who must feel slightly

discombobulated about the fuss, that this has caused this evening, but I

think the suspicion is, when you look through the photographs, you

see him walking past reserved or not reserved, if there are no empty seat

you go by reserved. The suspicious journalist in me, ultimately he

wanted to make a report about something to show that, maybe you'd

get the train at 9am but not 11, the suspicion is that they have almost

storyboarded this, to demonstrate the point that he is making, and it

is a bit embarrassing, it is a nonissue, he got on a train, he has

a very sincerely held view, some people think that is amazing and

some people will hugely disagree with it. It has blown up a little

bit as a result but how much of that is the issue and the answer? If you

go on the train and he is going to give a speech in Newcastle, and he

knows where he's going, you booked ahead because it is cheaper. He's

also making the point that the trains are expensive and they are

actually compared to other ones? We don't know that he didn't miss a

train in fairness. Quite a gang of them, but the point is that he has

come out of King's Cross, and you can see on your news channel that

there is a number of reserved seats that haven't been taken up. Everyone

knows that once the train has moved off, you grab those seats. If you

have somebody who is Prime Minister, you need somebody whose Prime

Minister, who can save areas and empty seat. But we have alluded to

the contrast that the papers have taken, the Daily Mail essentially

attacking Jeremy Corbyn, the Guardian saying that Jeremy Corbyn

fends off the attack. He defends his claim of ramped pack trains. This

sums up the relationships between sections of the press, and the

Labour leader. Ever since the went to the top of the party? He is a

hugely divisive character. I think his strength and his weakness can be

boiled down to this, he doesn't say anything he doesn't think, but he

opens up a can of worms because he doesn't appear to think anything

that he doesn't say. I think many of us can respect somebody who has

actual principles and something to contribute but what we are seeing

and the Labour leadership election will prove this, is the divide

between the Parliamentary party with Harriet Harman attacking him for

sitting in front of the loo in the first place and not booking. Is in

that part of the appeal for Jeremy Corbyn, he doesn't focus group what

he says. He doesn't test it with the public and he says what he means and

people like that. He has stuck to it for 30 years and the problem is he

has been a rebel for 30 years, he is a very nice chap but do you want the

very nice chap running your opposition party who has always been

a rebel and who thinks that this is with his team a good way to handle

his story? This was a sitting duck for the press. He was sitting

literally on the floor. He has got such bad publicity, and you think,

more sympathetic in the Guardian, but it is not completely Rand

packed. And you can see, interestingly Sean, Richard Branson

getting involved, in virgin they clearly see him as an extension

threat, Mr Corbyn. Either that, or Richard Branson is Newsnight this

morning, he wants more privatisation so that he can buy more trains,

naturally that is what we call enterprise and Jeremy Corbyn has the

opposite view. It could be, that they would answer it back. Letter

scope to the Daily Telegraph, prisoners me Skype phones on their

trains apparently? I have a of sympathy with this story and the way

that the headline makes it look as if they could make contact with a

drug dealer, but actually, Her Majesty 's Inspectorate are making

the point, that they need contact with their families. Something like

70% of prisoners come back into the inside again afterwards and for them

to have better relationships with their families, if this is

controlled properly I think it is a jolly good thing for them to have

more contact with the outside because at the moment they are

smuggling in phones for various purposes. And if they can clamp down

on that, one reason they say they get hold of those is because they

never have enough time to talk to their families. So I am sympathetic.

I know some people say it is outrageous, that there are drug

deals. It talks about rehabilitation so few are reintroducing somebody to

society. Andrew Rossendale quoted the Romford MP saying, you're not

going to treat them nicely effectively. It is part of building

up responsibility surely? I think it is punishment enough to be taken

away from everything you know into prison. You guys are in agreement on

that one, that is good to see. As long as it is controlled. Indeed,

the Financial Times, commercial property deal slips. We had the June

and July sales figures. So what is going on with this? If you have a

Brexit voter coming out of the EU, with an transplant in, not coming

out of the Council of Europe. If you are in big is this you will be

slightly reticent to invest because you don't know what the market is

going to do. However when you say that the interest rate is at an

all-time low and we are gained to keep it because the worst thing the

world is Brexit, people are buying houses all the way around the United

Kingdom. So it would be interesting, anyone with a notion of place good

economics would probably say that if the housing market is pretty good,

maybe some of these other buildings and commercial enterprises will be

looking up to capitalise on that. What they are saying here is that it

is not a surprise that this is one of the first areas to be hit. They

are using language like one of the first areas to be hit. It is

spending in the summer because we suddenly had a son and people spend

money. But we have saved it really and the housing market, and it is

costing us less to borrow and it is costing us nothing. Buy a house they

are brilliantly good value at the moment stopping you can't buy a

house. It might be business. You have still got to get a mortgage

even though interest rates are low. It is interesting, public seem to be

weathering the whole Brexit thing a little bit better, than business

owners, bosses and indeed commercial property. That is the winter of our

discontent. People have been having a very nice time feeling good about

the Olympics. We haven't gone there yet because we are going very

quickly. XP HS owner says he cannot afford to file taxes. -- to travel

by taxi. This is the former owner of BHS who has gone bust. He has got

2.6 million from it before it collapsed and he is in a 1.6 million

manor house, he says he's in hardship because his nearest

bus and trains are miles away. I am in tears but I tell you what, the

front page of the Daily Mail, the ladies are not in tears, they are

smiling. We are home with goals. Great things have been happening,

her lovely picture. And support of the Olympics after 2012, frankly

people didn't care, now, people in Rio are saying that they will really

miss the fixed -- people the UK. The medals on them have Rio 2016 in

Braille. Not difficult to do but it is part of universal access. Can I

get world on Dominic Chappel. We have talked enough about him. That

is it for the papers tonight, don't forget all of the front pages are

online on the website. By thanks to my guests and of course to you for

watching. The headlines are next, goodbye for now. Hello it has been a

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