28/10/2017 The Papers

being ordered on board

all Royal Navy submarines.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the journalist

and broadcaster, Penny Smith

and the commentator and broadcaster,

Charlie Wolf.

Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with...

The Mail on Sunday leads with fresh

allegations of sexism

at Westminster.

The Sunday Times claims

some prisoners sentenced

to less than a year could be

allowed to go home to vote,

under new government plans.

The Sunday Telegraph says that

chaotic organisation of the health

service is putting patients' lives

at risk, according to

the NHS medical director.

On the front page

of The Observer, claims that senior

Tory donors have urged Theresa May

to walk away from Brexit talks

rather than accept

an "unsatisfactory

and unfavourable" deal.

And the Express leads

with the crisis in Catalonia,

as Madrid seizes power over

the regional Parliament.

We will start with that Conservative

Party donor story on the front page

of the Observer, Charlie. More

pressure on Theresa May, but not

from her own MPs, but those who prop

up the party.

The ones with the

money. And they are right, these

people in business who do this every

day are saying, be ready to walk

away. It is nothing to be scared of.

I was at a meeting Governor with

these people. It is almost like

Groundhog Day. The first rule of

negotiating, this is the only thing

I know about negotiating, is having

an end cut-off date to say, sorry,

we are not going to make a deal

here, and walking away. In this

case, it is different because we are

not walking away from everything, we

are walking away from a deal with

the EU but obviously keeping Brexit.

It is time to say, we have two

months to make a deal. It is not

satisfactory, we are leaving.

The

clock is ticking.

Except that the

amount of money we are talking about

is so vast, and the money is for all

the things would have been planned

which might fail which we have

committed to in the past and they

are saying... You have committed to

it now. It is like buying a car on

hire purchase and then suddenly

discovering that it was a

Rolls-Royce and you thought you had

put a deposit down for a mini. It is

getting bigger and bigger. It is

like the worst payday loan you have

ever had.

It is like the guys who

form a band they quit before the

band makes good. If you walk away,

you walk away. In this case, there

is nothing to worry about.

But that

is not just about money, it is about

people and jobs.

My country walked

away without a deal back in 1776,

and we seem to have done all right.

Things were quite different then.

Every time we do a Brexit story in

the paper, we could talk about it

all night, let's move on. It is on

the front page of the Observer if

you want to read more. Two stories

on the front page of the Sunday

Times. The headline says top BBC

women expose sex pests. It has a

secret group of the BBC's top female

presenters has uncovered a string of

suspected cases of sexual harassment

at the corporation, including a

senior sports presenter. All of this

with the current climate of the big

backdrop.

There has been a statement

from the BBC saying, we can't

comment on individuals but treat any

allegations seriously and have

processors for investigating them".

Anyone who has reached an age, such

as me, has had this sort of thing

going on at a fairly low level

throughout my working life. If you

ever complained in the past, people

would always say, why didn't you

complain at the time? Well, most of

us did, but what we got was "For

goodness' sake, get a sense of

humour, you didn't mean anything by

it". There was a general feeling

that they were OK and that you were

just being a bit silly. And the word

silly kept coming up. Don't be

silly, as though this was a

ridiculous thing. For goodness'

sake, that is what goes on. And you

look back at it and think, why did

we put up with a? But that was an

era when we were watching things

like the black and White minstrel

show when now you just think, what?!

It is also almost confusing from a

man's point of view. We are a bit

lost. In this environment, we are

all luvvies and it is all TV and

darling, and there are people I

would hug and kiss a cheek, with

nothing meant by it. Nowadays, you

start to second-guess yourself. In

today's environment, I look at the

women I work with here. I wouldn't

dare do anything sexually harassing

to you, Penny!

Because I would

karate chop you.

You are a strong

woman.

It is a good point. There are

a lot of men read stories like this

who are shocked that there are men

who still do this and get away with

it.

Yes, and a good thing is that

women do now feel that they can

stand up and be counted and people

will believe them and will not treat

them as just overdoing it.

It is

also confusing again from a male

standpoint because I look at this as

a more free time. Women have come on

page and women do have relationships

with men at work, and men with women

and men with men and women with

women and all of that. It almost

seems hard to imagine it going on.

The wider issue is that women are

now being given a voice. The

statement from the BBC says "We have

processes for investigating this",

and thank goodness. Let's hope we

are turning a corner, even if it

means facing an ugly past. The other

story on the front page of the

Sunday Times... Prisoners gain vote

in human rights U-turn. This has

been going on for some time. Police

chiefs were warning over terror

cuts.

It is also about how there are

certain people such as high-class

detectives who are now having to go

into local police forces because

there is such a problem with crime

at the moment. But there is this

other story about the prisoners.

When you commit a crime, part of the

punishment is giving up a right. You

give up the right of freedom and to

me, you should give up the right of

voting.

That is the case in America,

isn't it?

You would normally give up

that right until you are no longer

incarcerated. I gather this is

coming from the EU.

It is the

European Court of Human Rights.

This

is why it has been going on for a

long time. Let's move on to the

Sunday Telegraph, hospitals failing

to tackle safety crisis. This is

coming from the NHS medical

director.

Sir Bruce Keogh, who has

been the most senior doctor for ten

years and he says the problem is

that there is the central advice.

It

is the latest cry for help.

He said

it is a desperate organisation with

no centre, yet it is supposedly the

most centralised organisation after

the Soviet army, isn't it? That is

what used to be said. Again, I hate

to put on the American thing, but

this sort of system, as

well-intentioned as it was and as

lauded as it should be, and I would

like to continue with a system where

you can show up at a hospital, but

from a management standpoint and a

funding standpoint, it doesn't work.

What he is saying the problem is, he

also blames the watchdogs. He says

there are too many boards and too

many watchdogs. Too many cooks

spoiling the broth. Terrible things

are being done to save people from

death and disability. There are

small things that everybody should

be doing, and not everybody is doing

it.

Everyone has a good NHS story

and a bad NHS story. Now, Catalan.

That is on the front page of the

Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday

Express. Catalan leader faces arrest

as he calls for civil disobedience.

Penny, many analysts tonight at the

BBC are saying that civil

disobedience is going to kick in.

They are saying he faces 30 years in

jail. I don't know why I find that

quite staggering.

And he might not

be the only one.

No. And he has been

replaced. He then went out and had

dinner and photos with people

drinking a glass of red wine. On

Monday morning, there might be two

presidents turning up for work.

Because you have Carles Puigdemont

and you have the guy who has been

putting by Madrid. So the

responsibility of them both turning

up and fighting. Pencil cases at

dawn.

Federal troops will probably

be there.

And it is talk like that

that is evidently keeping tourists

away, with mounting tensions. Penny,

you do talk radio. How much do

people care? Are they worried about

what is going on in Spain?

There

have been people who are saying,

maybe I just won't go. I did an

interview this morning with somebody

who is out there and I said, is

there a problem? And he said, no,

you wouldn't notice. But then I

remember being in Bolivia in La Paz

and all of a sudden, a coup went on.

It was a bit scary, but perfectly

normal until then.

Charlie, is Spain

on a knife edge?

It can be. Society

is falling apart can happen

extremely quickly, faster than you

can imagine. You only have to look

at what happened a couple of weeks

ago with the voting, that

referendum. On one level, I support

the Spanish in the sense that you

can't have individuals suddenly say,

we are holding a vote when they are

not the government. The way they

handled that was, to put it nicely,

miscalculated. Going roof with

batons and what have you. But I can

understand why they might give this

man 30 years. It is seditious. It is

like me saying, I don't like what

Theresa May is doing, I think I will

be Prime Minister, or Penny should

be Prime Minister.

But people do

have the right to have a say in how

their lives are controlled. It will

be argued about whether this is

being done in the right way by the

Catalan authorities. There are

various states in America that

wouldn't mind breaking away from the

rest.

Civil war was fought over

that.

Is Spain heading that way?

Again, it is hard to imagine in

today's world, but maybe that makes

the case for the Second Amendment.

It is hard to imagine. Shall we go

to some cheery news?

I love this. I

was watching a bit of it earlier.

If

these are our future players, we

might end up winning the World Cup.

Let's just start slowly and enjoy it

for what it is. There is another

picture on the front of the

Independent and the Observer.

Let's

enjoy it for what it is. They are

not talking to their agents about

sponsorship deals. This is like 1966

all over again.

We haven't even

mentioned what we are talking about.

The under 17 England World Cup team

have won the World Cup in a 5-2

victory over Spain. Spain didn't

really need this, but England needed

it. And of course, the under 20s won

as well.

They were so chuffed at the

end, and the coach.

Charlie is with

me, Penny.

I will be dead by 2066!

I

spoke to a father of one of the

players and he said he sent a text

before the semifinal saying, you are

not playing well, and his response

was a hat-trick. Brewster was his

name. Amazing news for them, but it

is an insight into future talent

didn't does show that with

investment in which a sport, we can

produce fantastic performances.

Almost like the American women's

team. At one point, they had more

World Cup goals than Beckham did. We

had one of the all-time teams, but

it was our women's team. So if we

can do it, you guys have a shot as

well.

Thanks, Charlie! Charlie and

Penny, we will do it all again at

11.30, with more stories. See you

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