:00:27. > :00:31.On The View tonight, protests, parades and policing. The three Ps
:00:31. > :00:35.have dominated headlines for months, but has the political deadlock on
:00:35. > :00:41.demonstrations left the PSNI exposed when it comes to managing
:00:41. > :00:44.the marching? The Chief Constable, Matt Baggott, joins me live in the
:00:44. > :00:51.studio. Plus, rubber ducks, teddy bears and Snowy the dog, are
:00:51. > :00:57.politicians using social media as a way to reinvent themselves? The
:00:57. > :01:07.provesors share their wiz doom with us on the week's events. You can
:01:07. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:19.follow the programme on Twitter at BBCtheview Are we heading for a
:01:19. > :01:25.perfect storm? Some people say we might be, thanks to the turbulent
:01:25. > :01:28.mix of protects, parades and challenges to policing. With the
:01:28. > :01:34.marching season approaching, our correspondent has been looking at
:01:35. > :01:38.the issues facing the police and the politicians and with a what the
:01:38. > :01:42.Orange Order might do next. Officers did their best to take
:01:42. > :01:45.cover until shelter was found. A new Parades' Commission to take
:01:45. > :01:50.unpopular decisions out of the hands of police. The Commission was
:01:50. > :01:56.never popular with the Orange Order. The Parades' Commission is brought
:01:56. > :02:00.in as part of the Republicanan shopping list. They demanded it
:02:00. > :02:04.following Drumcree as one of the prices. That was delivered. There
:02:04. > :02:10.is a new challenge. The weekly protest march into Belfast city
:02:11. > :02:15.centre over the flags issue. further warnings will be given.
:02:15. > :02:19.Parades' Commission hasn't bothered to rule on these marches. Why?
:02:19. > :02:24.Because it's not legal -- it sought legal advice and was told it didn't
:02:24. > :02:29.have a power to rule on marches where no-one had bothered to notify
:02:29. > :02:32.the police first. I think the police are left, as ever, holding
:02:32. > :02:37.the parcel in all of. This the police are left, at the end of the
:02:37. > :02:42.day, to deal with what happens on the streets. However, violent it
:02:42. > :02:46.becomes. The police are saying they can't stop a parade if it is not
:02:46. > :02:50.notified. Although it's illegal to take part in such a march, police
:02:50. > :02:53.have been reluctant to act. Concerned with public safety and
:02:53. > :02:57.other human rights legislation. More than 100 people have been
:02:57. > :03:03.charged with taking part in flags protests, only two have been
:03:03. > :03:07.charged with taking part in an illegal parade. Police are simply
:03:07. > :03:12.appeasing the protesters and the rioters, in many cases, by saying,
:03:12. > :03:17.you can do what you like. You can stop the business in Belfast every
:03:17. > :03:22.Saturday,. You can march across the bridge. Now, you can't have that in
:03:22. > :03:26.a civilised society. The Chief Constable told MPs that the
:03:26. > :03:30.Parades' Commission was being undermined of late. It's understood
:03:30. > :03:34.this raised haggles inside the Commission. Others think he is out
:03:34. > :03:39.of his depth. I fear this is the wrong Chief Constable, at the wrong
:03:39. > :03:43.time. I don't think that he's got the skill set to deal with the
:03:43. > :03:47.divisions in Northern Ireland. I don't think he has the skills selt
:03:47. > :03:52.to cope with the operational demands that there are -- set. He
:03:52. > :03:56.has been too slow in calling for additional resources. I think that
:03:56. > :04:00.he is far too idealistic for the rough-and-tumble of Northern
:04:00. > :04:06.Ireland society. Critics say the Secretary of State should have
:04:06. > :04:11.acted by now. Where I think the police are wrong is when they say
:04:11. > :04:14.there is no such thing as an illegal march, yes, there is if the
:04:14. > :04:18.Secretary of State bans the march. She has been in hiding for three
:04:18. > :04:20.months. I couldn't say on camera what I think of the Secretary of
:04:20. > :04:24.State's attitude. The Secretary of State gives me the impression she
:04:24. > :04:28.has no idea what is going on here or what is likely to happen here.
:04:29. > :04:32.She looks like a doe trapped in headlights. There are concerns
:04:32. > :04:37.banning a protest march will lead to more trouble. Fears the police
:04:37. > :04:41.don't have the resources to back up such a decision. A resident of the
:04:41. > :04:44.Short Strand is taking a legal challenge both the Secretary of
:04:44. > :04:50.State and the police claiming they are allowing illegal marches to
:04:50. > :04:53.take place. A decision isn't due until April, however. The two
:04:53. > :04:57.things the Secretary of State needs to do urgently is reform the
:04:57. > :05:01.Parades' Commission to make it more open and transparent and make it
:05:01. > :05:06.proactive and relevant and to override the opposition from the
:05:06. > :05:11.local politicianes who have failed to come up with an alternative
:05:11. > :05:15.themselves the second thing she must do is to take urgent steps to
:05:15. > :05:18.increase recruitment to the police. The Orange Order, which wants the
:05:18. > :05:21.Parades' Commission scrapped, has it is own message for the Secretary
:05:21. > :05:25.of State. She will have to get off her hands and do something about
:05:25. > :05:30.the Parades' Commission and where we are going with that and take a
:05:30. > :05:36.lead and rather than sitting back waiting for something to happen.
:05:36. > :05:43.Whatever she decides the Orange Order may be about to exploit
:05:43. > :05:47.political deadlock. We will do what we need to do to get our parades
:05:47. > :05:50.and culture celebrated in a way which threatens no one. We have
:05:50. > :05:54.learnt that the Orange Order is considering changing tactics and
:05:54. > :05:57.may stop notifying the police about their own marches. We will seek
:05:57. > :06:02.legal advice, that could be a possibility, yes. Why? Simply
:06:02. > :06:06.because you fill in the form you could get charged with an offence.
:06:06. > :06:09.You don't fill in the form and you are not committing the offence
:06:09. > :06:13.other than if you broke another law. What is the point of filling in a
:06:13. > :06:18.form and ending up with a criminal conviction? It would be an offence
:06:18. > :06:23.to knowingly take part in an unnotified parade. Might the police
:06:23. > :06:27.find it easier to identify those oranging an Orange march making
:06:28. > :06:35.prosecution of the Orange more likely than a flag protestersor?
:06:35. > :06:38.That is a point the barristers will make money on over the summer.
:06:38. > :06:44.wonder that the Assistant Chief Constable is warning of trouble
:06:44. > :06:51.ahead. A view echoed by others. fear this summer is the most
:06:51. > :06:55.dangerous we face. The most uncertain since August 1969.
:06:55. > :06:58.mood music isn't good for this year. We shouldn't work for a peaceful
:06:58. > :07:02.summer. We asked the Secretary of State to take part in tonight's
:07:02. > :07:06.programme, but she wasn't available. A spokesman for the Northern
:07:06. > :07:10.Ireland Office insisted, however, that the circumstances don't exist
:07:10. > :07:12.for the Secretary of State to exercise her powers under parades
:07:12. > :07:16.legislation. No-one from the Parades' Commission was available
:07:16. > :07:20.to join us either. I'm pleased to say the Chief Constable, Matt
:07:20. > :07:24.Baggott, is with me in the studio. Thank you for joining us. Pleasure.
:07:24. > :07:27.We have seen a situation in Northern Ireland for 11 weeks now
:07:27. > :07:31.where major roads have been repeatedly blocked by protesters.
:07:31. > :07:35.Why aren't roads being cleared so that ordinary citizens can go about
:07:35. > :07:38.their lawful business? We take an approach that is entirely
:07:38. > :07:41.consistent with our responsibilities, which is first
:07:41. > :07:45.and foremost the protection of life and public safety. On some nights
:07:45. > :07:50.in the last two months there has been over 80 protests, thousands of
:07:50. > :07:54.people on the streets. It isn't a problem you can simply arrest away.
:07:54. > :07:59.What we doo-doo, we have been warning about the consequences of
:07:59. > :08:02.people's actions. I have a team of over 70 detectives working at the
:08:02. > :08:05.evidence. 190 people have been arrested to date. We have
:08:05. > :08:09.identified another 200 who we will be dealing with in the next few
:08:09. > :08:12.weeks. I have a team of Met detectives working through the
:08:12. > :08:17.evidence and CCTV looking at the footage of serious violence. There
:08:17. > :08:20.will be more arrests following. problem, is because there is a
:08:20. > :08:25.process to be gone through, it looks to an awful lot of people,
:08:26. > :08:29.obviously, as if the law can be broken with impunity? We are being
:08:29. > :08:35.utterly consistent in our approach this year, as we were last summer,
:08:35. > :08:39.as we were the summer before. Our responsibilities to the Policing
:08:39. > :08:43.Board, and under devolution is Article 2 of the Human Rights Act,
:08:43. > :08:49.that is the protection of life. Our approach in the last two months has
:08:49. > :08:53.led to not a single serious injury. That is an achievement by itself.
:08:53. > :08:58.If we we tried it arrest people off the streets in a crude way, not
:08:58. > :09:01.only would we not comply with that duty there could be a more serious
:09:01. > :09:06.problem we could be facing. What about the cost to ordinary
:09:06. > :09:09.individuals who want to go about their lives without disruption? The
:09:09. > :09:17.estimated cost to business by mid January was �15 billion according
:09:17. > :09:21.to the CBI. 127 officers injured, a policing bill in early February of
:09:21. > :09:25.�15 million. They are big consequences for the economy. Big
:09:25. > :09:29.consequences for people's lives. They look to you for leadership.
:09:29. > :09:33.They want you to deal with the problem. They think you are pussy
:09:33. > :09:39.footing around? That is not true. Many people I deal, with including
:09:39. > :09:42.a visit to Derry last night with hundreds of people there they fully
:09:42. > :09:47.understand and endorse the police approach. We are dealing with it in
:09:47. > :09:51.a thorough and measured way. Ourjob -- job is to protect life and make
:09:51. > :09:55.difficult decisions, but do it in a measured way. Not a single person
:09:55. > :09:59.has been seriously injured. There has been consequences to this which
:09:59. > :10:01.are economic. Not consequences of the police making. There will be
:10:01. > :10:05.more arrests, there will be more charges. There will be hundreds of
:10:05. > :10:08.people brought before the courts. That is utterly consistent with our
:10:08. > :10:13.approach we have taken in the last few years. You say you are in a
:10:13. > :10:16.position you don't want to be in, do you feel let down by the
:10:16. > :10:18.Parades' Commission, is that what you are suggesting? It's not a
:10:18. > :10:23.question of blaming the Parades' Commission for this. We have
:10:23. > :10:27.legislation that was made in 1998 at the time of direct rule. I'm not
:10:27. > :10:33.sure that the pannalities are a sufficient deterrent for a summary
:10:33. > :10:36.only offence of participating, organising an unnotified parade.
:10:37. > :10:42.There are some strong evidential thresh holds we have to reach in
:10:42. > :10:47.terms of creating the case for the Public Prosecution Service to take
:10:47. > :10:50.to courts. There is debate around Article 11 for freedom of
:10:51. > :10:54.expression. It is time for that legislation to be reviewed and
:10:54. > :10:56.brought uch up-to-date. The consequences we are facing at the
:10:56. > :11:00.moment are because many people have gone to the streets to protest. A
:11:00. > :11:05.lot of that has been peaceful protest. Let me be clear about that.
:11:05. > :11:08.We have seen, unfortunately, outbreaks of serious disorder which
:11:08. > :11:15.have required significant police resources to deal with them.
:11:15. > :11:17.have a situation where the Orange Order, we have just heard Reverend
:11:17. > :11:22.Gibson saying that that organisation is looking at how
:11:22. > :11:26.these parades have been policed and -- has formed the view it might be
:11:26. > :11:28.worth considering the possibility, this coming marching season, of not
:11:28. > :11:32.actually applying to hold the parades in the first place. Just
:11:32. > :11:37.going ahead and doing them. Actually, nothing is going to
:11:38. > :11:42.happen? Let me make two points. In a responsible democracy, civic
:11:42. > :11:46.leaders, church leaders, political leaders respect the rule of law.
:11:46. > :11:51.The Parades' Commission was set up for the issues of public safety. If
:11:51. > :11:54.you don't have a regulatory body, if you don't agree with the way it
:11:55. > :11:58.works you have a distinct possibility of people losing their
:11:58. > :12:01.lives. It is a time for calm reflection on some of these
:12:01. > :12:06.comments. Second point I would make, there is no inevitability about
:12:06. > :12:11.this order in the summer. None at all. People make choices as to
:12:11. > :12:16.whether they will be responsible and deal with marches in a way that
:12:16. > :12:19.doesn't create conflict at interface areas. That is a choice
:12:19. > :12:22.people make. There is no inevitability about this at all.
:12:23. > :12:26.There is no inevitability there will be unrest or violence. It
:12:26. > :12:30.seems the Orange Order might want to go-ahead with parades that don't
:12:30. > :12:35.have certain limits put upon them by the Parades' Commission. What is
:12:35. > :12:39.your message tonight? With calm reflection the Orange Order will
:12:39. > :12:44.think about the consequences. 190 people have been arrested to date.
:12:44. > :12:49.200 more have been identified. We will be knocking on doors for
:12:49. > :12:56.people involved in unnotified complaints and obstructions and
:12:56. > :13:02.serious rioting. Your message is this, is it, if I'm paraphraseing
:13:02. > :13:06.you correctly, if they go down that road you would treat those parades
:13:06. > :13:09.in exactly sameth same way you have treated pat raids over the last 11
:13:09. > :13:14.weeks you would seek to gather evidence and bring those
:13:14. > :13:17.individuals taking part in unnotified parades before the law?
:13:17. > :13:21.We will put protection of life first. If we can enforce the law at
:13:21. > :13:25.the time, we certainly will. People who take part in illegal action
:13:25. > :13:29.will have to face the consequences. This is a time for quiet reflection.
:13:29. > :13:31.I look to our civic leaders, our political leaders, particularly our
:13:31. > :13:41.church leaders to make the statements required for the law to
:13:41. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:49.That the statement says, the law is clear, it is an offence to organise
:13:50. > :13:54.or participate in a parade that had been notified to the police. Wary
:13:54. > :13:58.parade is not so notified, it is a matter for the police to deal with
:13:58. > :14:03.a under various options, that could include stopping the parade of
:14:03. > :14:07.gathering evidence for prosecution. Do you agree? We have a number of
:14:07. > :14:10.options, but if you have hundreds of thousands of people on the
:14:11. > :14:16.streets, you have to deal with things under a sensible and
:14:16. > :14:20.pragmatic way, that is our responsibility. What about Saturday
:14:20. > :14:24.coming when those responsible for organising the weekly parade from
:14:24. > :14:27.East Belfast to the City Hall want to take appropriate to your police
:14:27. > :14:31.headquarters? A lot of people are concerned, there is the dual
:14:31. > :14:36.carriageway, issues of public safety and disruption where people
:14:36. > :14:40.might not be able to move from self de East Belfast on a Saturday
:14:40. > :14:45.afternoon. If it is a peaceful protest, we will facilitate that,
:14:45. > :14:49.give clear for at -- give clear adviser bow ball Law, and make sure
:14:49. > :14:54.people's lives are protected. If they break the law, we will deal
:14:54. > :14:58.with it. Why not send out a message today that people should not take
:14:58. > :15:04.part in on a notified parade on Saturday afternoon and if so, they
:15:04. > :15:10.will face the full rigours of the law? One Cizek was a protest and
:15:10. > :15:14.that can be peaceful, part of living in a democracy is that --
:15:14. > :15:19.what you said. If there is a protest, it worked to make sure
:15:19. > :15:24.people are safe and we will enforce the law at the time and later, as I
:15:24. > :15:28.have said. I spoke about this in December and January and said at
:15:28. > :15:32.the we put the protection of life first, there would be consequences.
:15:32. > :15:36.Hundreds of people are already appearing before the courts and
:15:36. > :15:40.there will be more, and there will be consequences, if that is utterly
:15:40. > :15:43.consistent with our duties and responsibilities. I am held
:15:43. > :15:47.accountable for complies with the Human Rights Act, for the
:15:47. > :15:51.protection of life and property, and for the enforcement of the law,
:15:51. > :15:57.the approach has been thorough, for full, measured and responsible. And
:15:57. > :16:03.I hope we will have some more cynical commentators start to add
:16:03. > :16:06.knowledge about what the PSNI has done has been a magnificent job in
:16:06. > :16:10.difficult and complicated circumstances -- acknowledged.
:16:10. > :16:15.looked so you have facilitated the demonstrators more than anything
:16:15. > :16:20.else. 11 weeks on, not much has changed, the protest continued, and
:16:20. > :16:24.another is planned on Saturday at your front door! A lot of heat has
:16:24. > :16:28.come out of the protests. In December and January, the intensity
:16:28. > :16:32.of the rioting which we contained with a very severely, we have given
:16:32. > :16:39.the opportunity for sensible voices to be heard and they hope for
:16:39. > :16:42.Saturday will see a break from the illegal parades -- and I hope this
:16:42. > :16:47.Saturday. But there will be consequences for people who have
:16:47. > :16:52.chosen to break all law. I cannot let you go without asking you about
:16:52. > :16:56.the James Fenton case at that dominated the agenda today. The
:16:57. > :17:01.Police Ombudsman delivered a stinging criticism of the police's
:17:01. > :17:06.handling of the case. He went missing in July 2010 but it was 10
:17:06. > :17:09.weeks before his body was found less than 40 metres awake in the
:17:09. > :17:14.grounds of the Ulster Hospital, has embarrassed when you buy that
:17:14. > :17:18.criticism today? We have been clear in apologising to his family and I
:17:18. > :17:22.will not defend the action of the police which were not professional
:17:22. > :17:27.and good enough. I am sorry the family has been through that trauma.
:17:27. > :17:31.We deal with over 7,000 missing persons every deer and the vast
:17:31. > :17:34.majority we deal successfully and I am sad we were not able to find his
:17:34. > :17:39.body, and we will have this conversation with the family and
:17:39. > :17:44.apologised to them. A lot of people are surprised and frustrated we do
:17:44. > :17:47.not know what disciplinary action was taken against the 12th officers
:17:47. > :17:53.her against him sanctions were taken, why not? They're wrong legal
:17:53. > :17:57.reasons and I am not at liberty to discuss that have -- that our legal
:17:57. > :18:01.reasons. Half officers have an opportunity to appeal to me. You do
:18:01. > :18:07.not need to name them, you just need to say the level of sanctions
:18:07. > :18:10.take and, that would be more transparent. You can be assured the
:18:10. > :18:13.action would be proportionate to the issues that have been raised by
:18:13. > :18:18.the ombudsman. Her the ombudsman is reviewing the policy of not
:18:18. > :18:22.revealing details of disciplinary sanctions in post offices in future.
:18:22. > :18:26.I am happy to work on that, and if that is an issue of public
:18:26. > :18:30.confidence, we will have conversations and see if we can
:18:30. > :18:34.resolve that. Thank you for joining us. They say
:18:34. > :18:37.it is addictive once you start. Twitter, I am talking about. So we
:18:37. > :18:40.decided to take a look at what our politicians have been sharing in
:18:40. > :18:50.the Twitter world. Who knew about Gerry Adams' love of the rubber
:18:50. > :19:18.
:19:18. > :19:26.With me now is a man who tweets more than most and keeps an eye on
:19:26. > :19:31.a local political scene. Welcome, then Keith Wood joining us. We have
:19:31. > :19:38.all collectively been rather fascinated with Gerry Adams and his
:19:38. > :19:42.recent entry on to the Twitter stage. He has revealed a lot about
:19:42. > :19:48.himself, perhaps in respect people did not expect. Were you surprised
:19:48. > :19:52.by some of what he has talked about in such a public way? Certainly, I
:19:53. > :19:57.expect to see a little bit about a politician's private life on
:19:57. > :20:05.Twitter, but she did not expect to find out about his bathtime habits
:20:05. > :20:09.and the rubber duck, about his teddy bear, Snowy the dog, it is a
:20:09. > :20:14.whimsical set of scenarios he is putting out, along with the odd
:20:14. > :20:18.tweet about meetings he is going to and party events. It is quite a
:20:18. > :20:25.fascinating insight into a senior politician and a figure who has got
:20:25. > :20:30.a lot of notoriety. Is that because he is in a very calculated fashion
:20:30. > :20:34.at trying to show the human side to his political persona, forests that
:20:34. > :20:40.the real Gerry Adams and that is the way he is? He is not a man I
:20:40. > :20:44.have met and had a conversation with. His other online persona on
:20:44. > :20:49.his blog is in little whimsical and it is based around characters and
:20:49. > :20:53.stories rather than policy, so this is quite consistent with that. But
:20:53. > :20:57.he does appear to be a man who is intentional about what he does and
:20:57. > :21:03.I would be surprised he was -- a surprise if he was not thinking
:21:03. > :21:06.through this. I wonder about his legacy, is he putting his legacy on
:21:07. > :21:11.Twitter and changing how people perceive him as he heads towards
:21:11. > :21:15.the twilight of his political career? In a short period of time,
:21:15. > :21:20.his huge number of people are interested in what he has to save.
:21:20. > :21:26.He has got 14,000 followers after a couple of weeks, three times the
:21:26. > :21:36.number I have! I wish I had that many followers! Peter Robinson has
:21:36. > :21:37.
:21:37. > :21:41.got 9,000 followers, so you can see that he has caught a lot of
:21:41. > :21:46.people's attention at. It will be interesting to see how that trend
:21:46. > :21:50.goes, there is a lot of talk about it in the Irish newspapers and we
:21:50. > :21:55.are talking about it here, a serious subject and now whimsical
:21:55. > :22:00.subjects, so a lot of people are interested. He has taken a lot of
:22:00. > :22:06.criticism, took a lot of people have been poking fun. If I wrote
:22:06. > :22:10.about a teddy bears and rubber ducks, I would expect to take
:22:10. > :22:14.criticism. You would expect he is looking for gravitas, he is a
:22:14. > :22:19.President of the party, we are not discovering about policy, but about
:22:19. > :22:26.his private life. That is not the kind of thing people expect.
:22:26. > :22:31.much of his party colleagues are ferocious on Twitter and they are
:22:31. > :22:38.very active at Stormont, who else do you follow and pink is in sight
:22:38. > :22:44.for? All who else has a quirky take on political happenings? -- and
:22:44. > :22:49.think. There is little insight, 140 characters can night that win votes
:22:49. > :22:54.or convince people about policy. But Niall O Donnghaile, from Sinn
:22:54. > :22:57.Fein, has been on Twitter for a long time and he would go out of
:22:57. > :23:03.his way to talk to people and answer back if people raised
:23:03. > :23:08.questions, he will into -- he will interrupt conversations. A council
:23:08. > :23:11.was in an event on Monday-night talking about flags, two after were
:23:11. > :23:17.talking to people who were listening back at home, that is a
:23:17. > :23:22.good way of using it. But I still feel Twitter is somewhere we will
:23:22. > :23:27.not get a big change. But you may learn more about the kind of
:23:27. > :23:33.personality that turns them on. is fascinating, and it is
:23:33. > :23:41.absolutely addictive! It is! Nice to see you. We can hear the
:23:41. > :23:47.combined wisdom of our commentators now. Brick, just to pick up on a
:23:47. > :23:52.previous conversation with Alan on politicians and what they tweet --
:23:52. > :23:59.Whitrick. You have been taking a look at the account of Gerry Adams,
:23:59. > :24:07.were you surprised? What struck me when I first started looking at it,
:24:07. > :24:13.you wonder if he is trying to be the political equivalent of O'Brien
:24:13. > :24:19.in his brilliant novels. Maybe he is trying to carve out that Neish,
:24:19. > :24:24.they are slightly strange. Some people have thought this was
:24:24. > :24:28.flippant and he should be focusing on more serious matters. With all
:24:28. > :24:32.respect, I do not think you should take this too seriously because
:24:32. > :24:35.people will come to this either like he always giving him, this is
:24:35. > :24:43.not a wake to suffer and -- to soften public opinion on Gerry
:24:43. > :24:49.Adams. And there have been other pessimistic opinions on what Gerry
:24:49. > :24:55.Adams has been doing. A lot of people have said negative things.
:24:55. > :25:00.You are relatively new to Twitter, but you are enthusiastic, who have
:25:00. > :25:05.not got as many followers as Gerry Adams in two weeks. I will not ask
:25:05. > :25:11.you to name the number, if but you are enthusiastic, have you been
:25:11. > :25:16.glued to his postings? -- but you are. I would say they are
:25:16. > :25:23.unsettling and bizarre. Do you want to leave yourself open to ridicule?
:25:23. > :25:32.He talks about his teddy bear and his rubber duck, he comes across as
:25:32. > :25:38.a Mr Bean a figure. He talks about his toothbrush and you think, what
:25:38. > :25:43.is going on? What Persaud not are you trying to paint? -- persona up
:25:44. > :25:47.are you trying. I did come across a one-legged dog, so there is
:25:47. > :25:51.something seriously wrong in the countryside! For years, and I
:25:51. > :25:58.thought his voice was voiced over by an actor, perhaps he needs an
:25:58. > :26:03.actor for his tweets, they are bizarre! Your moment of the week?
:26:03. > :26:07.The publication of the end child poverty report which was published
:26:07. > :26:14.yesterday, and that revealed one in five children in the UK is living
:26:14. > :26:18.in poverty. West Belfast, 43% of children are living in poverty. And
:26:18. > :26:26.the Institute for Fiscal Studies is predicting this figure could grow
:26:26. > :26:32.by 400,000 by 2015, and up to 800,000 by 2020, and we have the
:26:32. > :26:38.welfare Cup -- welfare cuts coming. It is like a late Victorian period.
:26:38. > :26:43.There was a story about a child in West Belfast suffering from rickets
:26:43. > :26:50.in 2013! What an indictment on society. To some extent, that ties
:26:50. > :26:56.in with your Mum that of the week. Very similar, the Northern Ireland
:26:56. > :27:01.Audit Office report on improving literacy was a damning indictment,
:27:01. > :27:05.40% of school league this -- of school leavers are at GCSE standard
:27:05. > :27:10.have not reached basic literacy and numeracy standards. These children
:27:10. > :27:13.will not be able to reach their potential and it will not have
:27:13. > :27:17.opportunities and be able to participate in society, and what
:27:17. > :27:24.are we doing? The Education Minister says it is an indictment
:27:24. > :27:30.of his policies, I find that very, very worrying. Moved on to your
:27:30. > :27:35.tweet of the week. That is the right royal rumpus, the piste and
:27:35. > :27:45.the London Review based on a lecture two weeks ago, from the
:27:45. > :27:47.
:27:47. > :27:53.Chief political editor of the Que has been an enormous discussion
:27:53. > :27:58.and conversation, some people regarding Hillary man tell as a
:27:58. > :28:02.Republican out to diminish Kate Middleton's persona. But she was
:28:02. > :28:07.pointing out the hook -- pointing out the hypocrisy of the past and
:28:07. > :28:13.painting a parallel with the way the media treated Diana and St,
:28:13. > :28:21.back off! The same powers criticising her Penpont - then
:28:21. > :28:25.turned on Hillary about her weight, etc. And there have been reports
:28:25. > :28:30.over the progress of her pregnancy. And when you take six lines out of
:28:30. > :28:34.an article of 1,000 words, it is understandable. Your tweet of the
:28:35. > :28:41.week, Deidre. Is it is from John Prescott, who has developed an
:28:41. > :28:51.entertaining presence on Twitter, and he refers to the Comic Relief
:28:51. > :28:52.
:28:52. > :28:57.single with a guest appearance from He is being called by Harry! One
:28:57. > :29:02.Direction needs no direction, there is so much in that Comic Relief
:29:02. > :29:07.single not like to get up so -- to get upset about, not the least,
:29:07. > :29:12.they may drink of teenage kicks! The best will all weight -- the
:29:12. > :29:16.first will always be the best. A quick word on the east a by-
:29:16. > :29:24.election. The bookies are St the Liberal Democrats will hold it,
:29:24. > :29:28.good news for Nick Clegg. -- the bookies are saying it. Because
:29:28. > :29:31.servitor of candidate has become the Serra pay winner of politics,