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Tonight, we have two big political hitters on the programme: one past | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
one present. Theresa Villiers, the new Secretary of State, just a few | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
weeks into the job, gives her first live television interview. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
On the eve of the covenant centenary, Lord Bannside looks back | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
at Carson's legacy, lock, stock and barrel. That is one of the wooden | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
guns that the person supplied his men with. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Our commentators look back at the week that has been and ahead at | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
what is still to come. And in other news, I will reveal | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
which Emily once they Esat another. You can follow the programme on | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
Twitter. -- which then held a once they be sat another. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
It was three weeks ago that David Cameron called his transport | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
minister Theresa Villiers into Number Ten to give her the good | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
news that he wanted her to join the Cabinet. How did she react when she | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
found out it was the Northern Ireland job that was on offer? | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
First, a quick look at the politicians to have had that same | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
call up during the years. The current position of Secretary | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
of State was introduced with direct rule in 1972 and since then a total | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
of 18 people have held that post. Some Secretaries of State have had | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
more success for runs than others, some have been accident prone. In | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
1992, Peter Brooke signed my darling Clementine up on the Late | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Show on the day that eight Protestant civilians had been | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
killed. He was replaced sharply after. His successor, Patrick | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
Mayhew, also proved gaffe-prone after a comment after Sears rising. | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
At the end of this opera, everyone is dead. It is a very serious thing | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
from what I hear. There was a complete change of tone | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
when after the 1997 Labour win, Maugham took up residence. Popular | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
with the public, she was not loved by Unionist politicians who thought | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
her bias towards -- who thought she was biased towards national list. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Now, another woman has taken the keys of Hillsborough Castle. | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Welcome to review. Thank you. did you feel when the Prime | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Minister offered you the Northern Ireland job? I was delighted, very | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
excited. When you get told these things there is an agony of | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
suspense as you are waiting for the Prime Minister to get to the end of | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
his sentence to see what the job is, and I was really pleased when he | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
said it was Northern Ireland. Honestly? No sense of | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
disappointment gym not at all, I did not expect a motion. We all | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
speculate madly before a reshuffle, and you are poring over the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
possible options, and I had thought that Northern Ireland would be a | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
great, great job to do. But you did not have any inkling that this is | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
what he would offer a few? Know, I had started to get positive | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
feedback and thought that the news might be good in the day or so | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
before the reshuffle, but I had no idea what it would actually be. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
must have been disappointed, you were a Shadow Transport Secretary | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
and do not make it into the Cabinet because the Prime Minister had to | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
share the positions out with the model Democrats or in coalition | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
with your party, so you lost out. You must have been disappointed. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
The good news is that you have made it to the Cabinet. I was | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
disappointed when I did not make it into the cupboard when the | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
coalition Government was formed, but the experience of being | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Transport Minister was great and I have learned a huge amount. It | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
makes me better-equipped now to do the job I have been given. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
question is, how up to speed were due on Northern Ireland politics | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
before you walk into the office and got the job? I certainly wasn't an | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
expert, like anyone in UK politics and was aware of the developments | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
in Northern Ireland and had followed the long process that led | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
to devolution and peace in Northern Ireland, so I was certainly | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
resupply up to speak but of course I have learned a lot in the few | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
weeks has been appointed. It is a big job, but not as big a | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
job as it was in the past now that we have devolution. What at the | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Dick pressing issues in Europe remained? Boosting the Northern | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Ireland economy is crucial, support for the devolved institutions and | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
also the goal that I have in helping keeping people in a | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Northern Ireland safe and secure, because there are some security | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
responsibilities that are still retained by the United Kingdom | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Government. Les Stocker that corporation tax, I gather that | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
you're at the CBI lunch today and you had your ear bent by many | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
people in the business community who wanted to be get happy to get | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
the level down. Were you surprised? I was unsurprised at will, their | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
message was loud and very clear. Almost everyone I have met since | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
becoming Northern Ireland Secretary has raised this issue and I know | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
how important it is, as I have made very clear. I would like to make | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
this change happen and I will make the case with my colleagues in | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Government. So you would like to see it happen? I certainly would | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
like to see it happen, there are some quite difficult technical and | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
practical issues and it would also be a significant constitutional | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
change, so we cannot yet say what the incision of the Prime Minister | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
will be on this but I will make sure he is well aware of the strong | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
support for the change in Northern Ireland. Let's be clear, Simon | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Hamilton who is going to be the next finance minister instalment | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
sat in the siege you are sitting in last week on the view and he said | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
that he needs Theresa Villiers to be a real persuader for a reduction | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
in corporation tax, it is not enough for you to be neutral, he | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
wants you to fly the flag. That is what you're doing? Yes, I will be a | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
persuader, I am already engaged in conversations with my colleagues in | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Government about the merits of this change, as I have said, I would | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
like to see it happen. We do not yet know whether it is going to be | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
possible to make it happen because of the practical concerns and the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
wider constitutional issues. What about the Treasury? The Treasury, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
not surprisingly, is playing hardball and there is a discrepancy | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
in the figures that the Northern Ireland team have put into the | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Treasury. Do the maths add up? Is it worth the gambit for the | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
potential benefit? Much work has been done on the practicalities of | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
how it would work, and active real credit to the work that has been | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
done by the Treasury on this. you think it'll happen? I cannot | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
yet say what decision the Prime Minister will make on this, because | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
as I have set it could be a bit changed and there are some very | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
difficult issues around this change. Better than fifty-fifty? I will not | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
get into speculation about that kind of thing, I will put the case | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
had been the persuader that I'm being asked to be. What about the | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
issue of legislative change to allow a proper constituted | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
opposition at Stormont? There is a crop -- process of consultation | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
your predecessor stepped what is due in November, do you think that | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
is a movie would be supportive of? I think as the Prime Minister said | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
when he was in Northern Ireland, there is a case for looking at a | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
more normalisation of Northern Ireland politics, but any change | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
would have to come and stroll cross-party consensus and it would | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
have to continue to embrace the principles of power sharing and | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
inclusiveness. They have responsibility for the parading | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
issue at the moment, it seems to be a bit of an intractable issue, | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
there is a lot of nervousness ahead of Saturday's covenant great, are | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
you concerned? I think everyone is nervous about how it will go on | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Saturday, but I also think that huge efforts have gone into | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
dialogue, to conversations, huge efforts are going into trying to | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
ensure that it is an occasion that can be commemorated or risk -- and | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
looked at any Toland way. The plan is that the marchers will | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
take full responsibility themselves? A devolved solution | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
would be preferable, the Government has always been open to that. If | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
there are proposals that would command cross-party support we are | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
prepared to look at them, we would like to see a move to a devolved | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
solution, but it has not proved possible so far. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Your colleague Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip, is rarely out of the | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
papers these days, he is under pressure for allegedly calling to | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Downing Street will be spent leads when they would not wheel has -- | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
would not let him read his bicycle out of the main gates. Have you | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
ever told anyone apes that? It is not a word that I would use. Do you | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
think that Andrew Mitchell is telling the full truth when he said | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
he did not use that word? Beer so adamant that he debt. I am sure he | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
is telling the truth, he has been very clear that he did not use the | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
language that is attributed to him. He is telling the truth then the | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
two policemen are -- two policemen have got it wrong. He has | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
apologised and clearly flew off the handle, he has apologised. I think | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
we must draw a line under it. just the kind of language that a | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
senior member of the Government should be using, as the respect to | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
anyone. He has apologised, and as he has said, he did not use the | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
language attributed to him. might be slightly cross with you, | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
because I gather whenever you left the Prime Minister, whenever he | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
offered to the Northern Ireland job, if you were allowed to wield your | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
bicycle outside the main gates. was. Why did you get favourable | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
treatment? I don't know, but the sad thing is that is when -- that | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
is the last time I was able to ride my bike, I have been in a bullet- | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
proof car ever since. I am talking to find a way to bring it back but | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
I'm not sure. You have a big garden at Hillsborough Castle, you can | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
cycle around that. We will talk again, but must leave | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
it there for now. Thank you. Thank you. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Still to come, we have heard what Rees of ILEA sticks, but how would | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
you feel about being called a lead. Some people of certain background | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
might take offence to it, but if someone calls me that then it | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
wouldn't bother me. A tomorrow is also today, 100 years | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
ago 1,000 should their opposition to Home Rule by signing the Ulster | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
solemn League and Covenant. Unionism has had many leaders and | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
for the past four decades one figure has stood out. For many, Ian | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Paisley is the very personification of Unionism. He gives few | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
interviews these days but her political reporter has been | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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His home is an Aladdin's cave for students of history. There are | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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books and weapons from days gone by. That is one of the wooden guns. The | :11:58. | :12:08. | |
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volunteers use them. How long have you had that? About 50 years. | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
clear the covenant and Edward Carson mean much to him. It was a | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
tremendous story. Somebody had written a story like that and said | :12:21. | :12:30. | |
its was a good story, but we are dealing with facts and multitudes | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
of people. We are dealing with something that can never have | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
happened if there had not been an Edward Carson. You think Unionists | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
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and nationalists can take something from this? I think they can. It is | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
important in the time we are passing through in our six counties | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
to be reminded to of how this came about, the determination of Our | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
Fathers, to see the country not tied up and imprisoned in | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
republicanism, but to stay within the United Kingdom and under the | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Queen. When you went into power- sharing with Sinn Fein, do you | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
think that is something Edward Carson would have approved of? | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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think it would have been. When we entered power sharing, it in no way | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
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touched the union and the union's Foundation and its strength. People | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
knew that Ian Paisley was not going to surrender anything. What do you | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
think he would have made of the state of unionism today? I would | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
have thought he would have felt like shutting up a large number of | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Unionists who are weak on the matter of the preservation of the | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
Union. I think he would engage himself with those who said the | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
union must come first. Do you have concerns about Saturday's parade? | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
Any parade in Northern Ireland out the present time needs to be | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
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carefully handled. And this celebration needs to be well | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
organised and all things kept legally the way they should be kept. | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
I think it is a sad thing that in such a demonstration we should have | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
the arguments that have been put forward, that the Orangemen and the | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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rest of us must explain and ask is it all right for us to play a | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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gospel here -- gospel hymn. I believe in civil and religious | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
liberty for all, and I think I have the right to walk past a building | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
and if I am singing something, I have a right to do that, provided I | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
am not trying to incite anyone. What about those who say the Orange | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
Order should beach out more to residents? I do not think the | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
Orange Order is aggressively opposing people. Ulster people are | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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sensible people. They are a loving people. They might be blamed for | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
been strong in their arguments. And in their beliefs, and so they are. | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
That does not make a man an evil man. He will mark the Covenant | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
centenary by watching the parade, something that was not able to be | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
thought of seven months ago when he was critically ill. Many people | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
will be interested in your health, how are you? I am very well. God | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
has been gracious. He has answered the prayers of thousands of people | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
across the whole world, who have written to me and said, we remember | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
due in prayer. Those prayers have been answered. I do not look a sick | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
man, do why? And man said to me the other day, your blooming. We have | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
seen you at public events, will we see more of you? You will indeed. | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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It is important and it is important to me because if I had been living | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
in the days of that I would have been signing up. I will be | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
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returning to the House. They do not have elections in that House. They | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
are beyond democratic rule! We can get a different view of | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
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political life now. In other news this week it has | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
emerged that DUP member Terence Brannigan sat on the May's | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Development Corporation appointments panel, stood down, was | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
replaced, applied for a job on the board. Sinn Fein said it had nobody | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
-- no objection to any one tunnelling in. The Parades | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Commission said the parade can only play hymns when it passes St | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
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Patrick's. God Save the Queen is a hymn. And MLA of the DUP paid | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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tribute. I have known Nelson He might have something to sleep | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
with that Beach Boys lullaby! To the tune of God Save the Queen! The | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
object seen across Northern Ireland last weekend before disintegrating | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
was obviously Mike Nesbitt! There are no reports of an impact. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Belfast will get a new investment in its mobile telephone and | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
internet services. Experts say that as Orangemen get fatter, we need | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
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more bandwidth. Sinn Fein map -- To put his mind at rest, this is a | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
picture of Dublin. It is my picture of Dublin. It is my | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
favourite overseas destination! And now we can hear from our | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
regular team of commentators. Listening to the Secretary of State | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
Theresa Villiers, anything particularly grabbing your | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
attention? It was hardly surprising she said she felt it would be ideal | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
if the parades issue was a devolved issue. That would be one of the | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
things I would want out of my in- tray if I were her and commentators | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
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are saying it should be devolved issue. Local politicians point the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
finger at the Parades Commission yet want to take no responsibility | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
for decisions that should be made at a local level. On the issue of | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
parades, we are no closer to becoming a devolved matter. Though | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
were proposals two years ago that the Orange Order vetoed. They are | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
gathering dust and could come back. There is a disposition among some | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
to resuscitate some proposals. It does not mean devolving be issued | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
to local politicians, it would enable the Executive to establish | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
an alternative. The other related point was the announcement by the | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Orange Order of decentralising decisions to as it were larches at | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
local level. The old adage about politics, all politics being local. | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
We have to wait until we get to the wire for those decisions. At the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
start of the month we have the assistant Chief Constable urging | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
people not to wait until the 11th hour, to talk locally and it did | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
not happen. They are stuck in the middle. I agree with that. We have | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
seen a succession of this over a long period. What it means, -- what | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
it means is what the local commission could do. Corporation | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
tax, how she signed up? She sounded convincing. I am surprised. It is | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
the equivalent of Monty Python... It is non-committal. She said she | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
supported it and thought it was an idea but it was up to the Prime | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Minister. She may think it is a good idea and try to persuade the | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Treasury but David Cameron will make the call. She pointed to | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
barriers we know exist. We need a timescale. She did not say it was | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
important to have a decision this side of Christmas or that she is | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
pushing for a decision, she said she supported, but I thought she | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
was non-committal. A word about Lord Bannside talking about the | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
Ulster Covenant. For him, given his involvement in Unionist politics, | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
this weekend is not insignificant. This is a signal event in the | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Unionist Callander. The legacy of 100 years ago and a major | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
celebration. The fact that it threatened them insurrection is by | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
the by, but in terms of history and identity, this is central to that | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
identity. We can go back to another issue I raised with the secretary | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
of state, Andrew Mitchell's found himself in hot water over the use | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
of the word plebeian. They have been calls for his resignation. How | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
offensive is that word. It must be used something to Robert | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
tree. Say if somebody call you that, would you take offence? By would | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
have to look in the dictionary! means a working person. In some | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
encore to that, would you be offended? No. 90% of people are. | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
Most people are workers. A would you take offence by that? I have | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
been called worse. It is not fair. They have to take stick, it is part | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
of the job. That is a word I would not use. It is offensive. If | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
somebody call me that I would not be happy. We are all equal. Some | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
people of certain backgrounds might take offence, but personally, not | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
at all. The Act is the view on the street, | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
some people are offended, other people not -- that is the view on | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
the street. Does the word body you? Be issue is that it is | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
condescending and arrogant and confirms the public's were | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
suspicions that the inner circle of David Cameron is snobbish, public | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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school education. Your story of the week? It is Mr Martin venting his | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
spleen at the First Minister and deputy. It is unusual we get the | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
boxing gloves off from a political leader in the south looking towards | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
the north. He argues the whole debate, the motion by the DUP to | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
get the Irish government to acknowledge their role in the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
Troubles. He said it was deeply offensive. He argued that it was in | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
the interests of the DUP and Sinn Fein because it deflected attention | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
from their respective roles and tried to point the finger of blame | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
to Dublin. Your favourite story? have two. I will cheat. David | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
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Cameron mass -- David Cameron's Magna Carta or moment. That is what | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
�30,000 Diego's year at Eton College! And he did not know who | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
wrote the words to Rule Britannia. -- �30,000 a year. My second is | :26:34. | :26:43. | |
more local, very local. It was the image of McRae and the debate in | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
the Assembly. I thought he looked disconsolate. I wondered whether it | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
was a hangover from Mike Nesbitt's speech on Saturday. The tone of the | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
debate became very divisive and ill-tempered. I wondered whether a | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
lot of people out there in the Ulster Unionist community felt the | :27:05. | :27:14. | |
same. A sense of disappointment and disillusion -- de -- | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
disillusionment perhaps. In the Financial Times, it says after | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Financial Times, it says after Andrew Mitchell that is two leaders | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
regretting talking to plebeians. regretting talking to plebeians. | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
The Queen and friend gardener. can only echo that this compounds | :27:34. | :27:44. | |
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the view of the Tory party and posh voice. The Ryder Cup. I was | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
interested on the colour of the sweaters, which is great for the | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
three Ulster man! Darren Clarke the vice-captain. I hope the covenant | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
parade goes off peaceably. On Wednesday, the first of the | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
presidential debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
will be riveting television. We will see an assured performer for | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
President Obama, against a man who when he goes off script cannot | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
handle the pressure. It will be interesting to see how much content | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
informs the debate. What are we judging these individuals on? If | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
President Obama is a good a rater and he will -- orator and he will | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
perform well. It will be about how he is presented. Mitt Romney will | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
attack on the American economy. Let me get another word in! He will | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
attack on the economy and President Obama will attack on governing, one | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
of the other themes, particularly the reference to this beach Mitt | :28:54. | :29:04. | |
Romney made to the faithful about 40 -- 47%. -- his speech. He said, | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
President Obama, that he was for all the people. It will be | :29:10. | :29:15. |