29/12/2017 The Papers

The RAC says driving conditions

will be very difficult,

if not impossible,

in the worst-affected areas.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Jason Beattie,

Head of Politics at the Daily Mirror

and Tim Stanley from

the Daily Telegraph.

Tomorrow's front pages.

Thank you for coming in. Thank you

for staying.

I have nowhere else to

go.

We do have two Barbie doll. --

bar the door. The front pages...

And it's Saturday Knight Fever

for the Daily Mirror,

which focusing on Bee Gee Barry Gibb

becoming a 'Sir' in the New Year

Honours List.

While it's the ballerina turned

Strictly Come Dancing judge

Darcy Bussell picked

by the Daily Telegraph

to grace its front page.

She's been made a Dame

in the Honour's List.

The paper's main story

is about conflicting advice given

to drivers about whether or not

they can use Satnav apps

on their mobile phones.

The Daily Mail has both Barry Gibb

and Darcy Bussell on its front page,

but its main report is that banks

have shut 800 branches

across the country this year.

The Times headlines that travel

firms are misleading holidaymakers

with claims of cheap deals,

which the paper reports are not

as good a discount as

the marketing suggests.

The weekend edition

of the Financial Times leads

on the rallying of stock

markets around the globe,

reporting that the FTSE

All World Index has seen its biggest

increase since 2009.

We begin with the new Year Honours,

which have only been released

officially in the last hour or so.

We have been speaking to some of the

happy recipients. The Daily Mirror

has Saturday night Fever, because

Barry Gibb is getting a knighthood

perhaps with others who are long

overdue. Why are you laughing?

I

only just noticed the pun.

It is a

tragedy.

LAUGHTER.

It is so lovely to drag you into

2018. Anyway, a marvellous picture

you have picked on the front. Also,

Darcey Bussell, she is on the

Guardian, looking completely

magnificent when she were still

dancing, of course, she is maybe not

so well-known to a loss of people

until she became a judge on

Stickley. And you have an of that.

It is not even a Bee Gees song. My

gags are off as well.

You are all

over the place.

Keeping with the

honours system, I think,

conceptually, on the one hand it has

become more meritocratic since the

1960s, there is a certain element of

celebrity culture entered into it.

On the other hand, because of the E

on the end of it, it feels a bit old

world. Which I like. Culturally,

something is starting to Jahr about

the two things. Some people, when

they do feel resentment, certain

people are getting awards, I think

that has to do with it. Our focus is

upon the famous people, Ringo Starr,

Jillie Cooper, but lots and lots of

people who are not well known we'll

get it to their working charity.

And

you prefer that.

You are trying to

get a controversy out of me.

I am

not.

Some people don't deserve it. I

thought about it and that was a bit

mean-spirited. There are lots of

elements of celebrities like you

aware of. Jillie Cooper writes a

racy, saucy books which my mum

rates, but on the other hand she

also is very good on animal rights

and welfare and she probably

deserves in a word -- and what

about. -- an award for that. Come

back to me in 12 minutes and I will

have a witty Bee Gees pardon.

Will

you keep taking part in the paper

review while you do it. Maybe it

will be down to you. Thank goodness

you are here.

We will talk about the

papers a bit more. I have a slight

issue about who gets honours and who

doesn't. It is very much behind

closed doors. A loss of interference

goes on. They get handed out to MPs.

Nick Clegg gets one.

He was Deputy

Prime Minister.

He also misled

people over tuition fees.

And he

didn't, he was in coalition.

He said

he would not and he did. What does

it mean about trust in politics when

they come out the other side and get

this automatic gong? It mars it for

those deserving winners.

It is

always a subjective judgement. It is

based upon a slightly invisible

system of suggestion and nomination.

And some favours and be cronies.

How

should it be done?

There is tension

between it being a monarchical

institution and on the other hand

Democratic, if you did it completely

openly, a completely different set

of people would get the awards, but

it would lose some of that

connection with charity. You might

see people getting awards to a

different group of people find

objectionable.

Should it be a public

vote?

That is terrible. Sometimes

the wrong people when it.

But only

in your opinion.

Many people get it.

I lot of people who should be

awarded but who were not well known

for what they do or who are shy and

would not want to talk about it...

Do you think tax a club like Ringo

Starr should get one.

You presume

that I know anything.

You assume I

know who Ringo Starr is.

There was

this bad in the 1960s. He banged

things.

Was he the walrus

this bad in the 1960s. He banged

things.

Was he the walrus?

Shall we

move on? Adonis quits calling

Theresa May be voice of UKIP. This

is Lord Adonis. By sharing the

infrastructure -- tearing the

infrastructure commission, he served

as a Labour transport Secretary

stability for that he was a LibDem

and before that a journalist. He

said that his views have not

changed. He said that the party he

could express those views within,

they moved.

This is where he is

damaging Theresa May because he is

seen as being on the right of the

Labour Party and he cannot work with

the Conservative government. The

impression is that they have moved

even further from the centre ground.

I am not surprised by his Thai raid

against Brexit. He was a well-known

Remainer. -- tirade. They bailed out

a private company who bid money to

run the East Coast Main Line and

taxpayers as a result have been

pulling out of the contract and

could lose up to £2 million. That is

quite substantial.

He also talks

about the fact that there is no

capacity within the government to

deal with anything other than

Brexit. Other important decisions

are not being made properly. Is that

they are so preoccupied with Brexit

that it is why things like this

bailout has been allowed to happen.

That was made by Anna Melbourne, the

accusation. The same charge he said

the government did not happy wit to

do so -- did not happy. There is a

slight contradiction in the

resignation letter, an extraordinary

document and well worth a read. On

the one hand you might interpreted

generously and say he feels that the

progress of the EU withdrawl Bill

and the government's ridiculous

Ansan Brexit negotiations means that

a point has been reached that he

cannot ignore it does make the

Govan's Brexit negotiations.

Not in

the Times.

It is not a surprise from

him. This government committed

itself to leaving the EU. It will

leave many people saying you are

asking for a new term in government.

We should acknowledge and we are

getting there, it is being

acknowledged that Brexit is simply

so big it dominates both foreign

policy and parliamentary time, that

we have to be honest and say

traditional battles of the left and

right and some traditional goals of

government have to be slightly

parked until we have this done. It

is too big.

How will it happen? I

was talking to an advisor that Wippa

David Cameron. He said that when he

was negotiating his minor

concessions from the EU and head of

calling for a referendum, he said it

took up all of Downing Street's

energy -- ahead of. If it were

Theresa May is trying to do now is

that to the power of 1000. So

basically all business is stalled.

The amount of legislation going

through Parliament is at its lowest

for decades. They have fallen by

about half in the last year. There

is no business going on. The worry

about this is that it is a massive

endeavour, but the stuff that needs

doing, schools need reforming,

hospitals need sorting, the country

is worse off as a result of it.

I

might add that concessions are not

just being made in terms of time,

but from a Conservative point of

view in terms of the as well. There

are key conservative reforms and

aspects that are simply being

dropped because they know they are

controversial, they will not get

through Parliament because of the

arithmetic, and they would rather

focus on Brexit.

Shall we look at

the Financial Times. Bless the RB

millennials, they will inherit

double what their parents did --

blessed are the millennials. They

can't afford a house, but when their

parents are no longer here they will

inherit a loss of money.

The amount

of money passed on by inherited each

year has doubled over the past two

decades. It will more than double

again of the next 20 years as well

when the baby boomers die. Right now

the economy is back. People of my

generation may not be making a great

deal of money and saving almost

nothing, but...

We only get £10

from...

Stock, you will get the

sacked again. But because our

parents got lucky and bought

property, the inheritance, because

the value of the property has gone

up so much, we will, in theory, cash

in. It is an interesting theory but

I would dispute. Let us not forget

that mummight be worth quite a lot

of money, but as a consequence,

related to that, every house around

her is worth quite a lot of money --

mamma's house. I would probably have

to get something smaller.

What frustrates

What frustrates me

What frustrates me mildly is that

What frustrates me mildly is that

these are FT reading millennials. A

majority will not inherit from their

parents. They are struggling to get

on the housing ladder, particularly

those on low incomes and struggling

with high rent and the fact that a

view in two generations time will be

okayed...

And inheritance tax?

Also

social care cost. Also, my point is

I agree with you. This doesn't

affect most people but even for

those in the south-east who it does

a fact, you are living in a part of

the world where the cost of living

is so high, things like

transportation, not just rent and

council tax and things like that

that frankly anything on paper that

looks like a big inheritance gets

whittled down, which is one reason

why many people, even normal labour

supporters are against property

taxes on the houses because on paper

they may be rich but when it comes

to their actual income they are

really not.

Shall we finish with

banks on the Daily Mail? 800 bank

branches shut in one year. Lots of

different banks are choosing to do

this. Because fewer and fewer people

are going into branches.

The problem

is the people who use banks now, and

these are the people affected by it

are small-business owners who need

to take their cash up money to the

bank and the elderly, who dislike,

plus Tim, who dislike modern

gadgetry and are uncomfortable using

an Apple phone to make financial

transactions. A majority of us,

particularly the younger generation

but they only use their phone to do

all the stuff they used to do when

they had to queue in a long bank and

talk to a dowdy fellow wearing beige

and a comb over haircut.

There is no

need for that!

I apologise to all

bank tellers now.

This is actually

quite devastating, they are due to

slash 60 of its outlet. We are

talking a radical change at the

high-street. Banks and post offices

were are particularly Central part

of a smalltown village life. It is

true that a lot of us do stuff

online, some of us slightly resent

this feeling that because people in

head office think they can save

money by sacking everyone and moving

stock offshore, I resent that my

choice as a consumer at is being

limited.

The other sort of person

who when the car came along would be

known with a blacksmith. Change

happens, it is uncomfortable and it

is difficult. This is, you know,

banks are closing because people are

not walking into banks to use them

and because you can do almost

anything you want now online.

It

also means that if 100 branches have

closed, thousands of people will

lose their jobs.

Of course! I

disagree that all changes are part

of cycles or revolution, it is a

choice we make to move towards a

human must work front, a consumer

market will you don't interact.

It

is a choice of. Will you can go to

post offices and Saint-Jerome parcel

without having to interact. If you

choose to.

I don't approve of that,

it is down to the consumers. -- post

a pass. I do try to queue and avoid

the self-service because I would

rather a local supermarket or bank

was employing a human being who

speaks to me directly than to get

everything from a machine.

You

promised us a punt on a Bee Gee's

lyric. However we owe you a apology.

So you win again was hot chocolate,

if I cannot figure out why you can't

give me that anything that everybody

needs, I shouldn't let you keep me

down like my baby. The Bee Gee's,

you win again. You were almost

right. Is that at depressing? You

win again. Go on the. -- that.

Televisions would chatter, dogs

would howl.

Next time. That is it.

I

would pay you a cheque that.

Jason,

it Tim, everybody. Aren't we glad

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