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Tonight, This Week presents a Downturn Abbey Christmas special. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Hard times in Blighty, down stairs and down. Will it get p worse in | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
the new year? Tough economic conditions meanwhile our deficit is | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
forecast to fall, instead of taking three years to get our debt falling, | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
it will take four. It is a recession made in Downing Street. | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
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Lord of the manor Quentin Lett, and Mr McGuire we view the year. The | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
year was not a total omnishambles, as the nation celebrated glorious | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Olympics and a Diamond Jubilee. In the kitchen, Rosemary Shrager and | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
Paralympian Ade Adepitan. Stuff the turkey. We have a Christmas cracker | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
for you. Ho-ho-ho! This week serves you the | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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traditional down turn Turkey. No change. Even all, welcome to | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
This Week. With the ancient Mayan calendar about to run out of the | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
road and the end of the world moments away, where better place to | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
lose your will to live than with us? To think the British | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Broadcasting Chaos & Confusion Corporation, the BBCCC has been so | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
cavalier in its responsibilities, it's got us to hold your trembling | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
hands. As you drain the dregs from your box of Blue Nun. Say your | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
goodbyes to your ger bill and stair doomsday in the face, who can argue | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
we've not been warned that the four horsemen of the apobg ka lis are | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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not already with us - war, famine, death. U I, 14 points in the -- | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
UKIP, 14 points in the polls. I am joined on the sofa by proof | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
that three is not the magic number. The three Bee Gees of late-night | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
political chat. I speak of course of #manontheleft | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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Alan 'AJ' Johnson, #sadmanonatrain Michael 'choo choo' Portillo and in | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
the immortal words of Beyonce, "if you like it you better put a | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
#putamingonit Sir...Menzies...Campbell. Your | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
moment of the year? For me, it has to be the name that Daniel Craig | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
made his way into the study of Her Majesty the Queen. I was watching | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
and there was a figure seated at the desk. I said to myself - that | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
doesn't look anything like Her Majesty the Queen. She turned | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
around and I.... Well I let out a four-letter word! What, gosh? | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
could not believe Her Majesty was actually playing herself. It is a | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
moment of the year. It's been an amazing year for the Queen. That | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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was an amazing moment in her tef riffic year. In -- in her terrific | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
year. Your moment of the year? Mine is | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Obama's re-election. I think electing a black President once was | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
extraordinary, for him to be re- elected - I think he may have | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
changed American politics as well. Republicans would have had to come | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
to terms with the electorate how it is now. If you think of it the | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
other way around - that would not have been good. As you know, I am | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
obsessed about sport and not about politics. That is whyvy been | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
invited on this evening! Olympics for me - wonderful performances. Mo | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Farah, having won gold was asked if he would not rather run for Somalia, | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
the country he was born. In an impeccable English accent, he said | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
"why should I do that? This is my country." Last Christmas, you will | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
remember Lord Letts and McGuire were living in a council flat - | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
poor, but happych they are back in Downturn Abbey and back to old | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
fashioned ways. We cannot claim it makes any sense to us. We hope it | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
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makes sense to you. With our Down Many -- Come on, Cleggy, time for | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
your morning walkys! Good, God, there's a man on the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
roof! Maguire, Maguire? It's the filthy protestors pinching the lead. | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
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SCREAM What have you done? You've hit | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
Santa. I don't believe! Neither do I. How did he get through customs? | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
I bet he didn't pay tax on half this lot. What you going to do? | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Look on the bright side. No Santa means no presents, that means | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
spending on the economy faster than you can say, "Triple dip | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
recession." You have to put it right. I can not believe you are | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
making me do this. Have you got your list. Yes. Check it twice. For | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
Dave, an iPad, with fruit ninja. For Boris, Dave's iPad. | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
Relax for our friend in the north. You know, a chance, or take our | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
lives, but never take our freedom! Oh, brave heart DVD. Check! | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
Take me to Australia. And for little Lord Nick. A little toy | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Maude. I am afraid we lost that one. Look mer, Maguire, before I leave I | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
have to tell you Downturn is in bad luck and we have to sack the staff. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
A no faults dismissal. We will rehire them on January the 1st and | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
we don't have to pay them a Christmas bonus! | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
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And a very happy Christmas! You're not going to sack them at | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Christmas, are you Mr Miller. course not. I will not be pushed | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
around by a posh boy who did not know price of milk. | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
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Well, that has blown the budget. It's the last time I take financial | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
advice from his butler. Have you seen the books? They are an | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
omnishambles. You may say that Mr Maguire. I tell you what - things | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
have never been the same since Mr Hilton quit as estate manager. You | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
need someone who knows how to take us into the modern era. Take your | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
eyes off my job, young Boris. may laugh, Mr Maguire, but I have | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
just the thing to turn around Downturn! It's called - the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
wireless. What we do is we go around the house and we gather up | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
the four wirelesss. We then flog them off. I tell you what... It's | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
not the place of a fatman on how to lecture superiors on how to run | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
Downturn. Go off and... I wonder how his Lordship is getting on. | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
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anyone tell me where I am. I am By now, I may be on a limb now, you | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
probably worked out you are not watching it. No, you are not. We | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
are joined by Gillian Tett from, the Financial Times. You were with | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
with Prime Minister in New York. How did it go? He was in New York | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
giving a speech about the British economy and he was keen to talk | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
about the unemployment rate. In fact what the Americans wanted to | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
ask him about was the Queen and Downton Abbey. Really? I wish we | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
could broadcast that in New York. On the serious note, people are | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
curry about how the Chancellor can bring any festive cheer to the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
British economy, given the problems in Europe and given the big debt | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
burden and the fact, as we have seen, he's now predicting four more | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
years of pain. Michael, you began the year as a supporter of Mr | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
Osborne's plan A, are you a supporter of plan A at the end of | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the year? Absolutely. There is as Margaret Thatcher used to say, no | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
alternative. Although it's not leading to growth, there is an | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
alternative, which is a great deal worse, which is a Government that | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
loses its commitment to austerity and therefore ends up with the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
British Government having to pay more for its debt. That would move | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
us from the position of being the United Kingdom to being like Spain | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
or Italy, paying five percentage points. You say the choice at the | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
moment, at the end of 2012, is between being bad or being very | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
bad? I am saying exactly that. It's not even a choice. The Liberal | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Democrats are alongside the Conservatives on this. I have not | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
heard any real provisions within the coalition on the austerity | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
programme. Although Ed Balls, while in opposition, is saying his | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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policy... I very much suspect if they were in power... If 2013 is a | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
repeat of 2012, which is a suggestion it will be by and large. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
It may even be worse, that's got to put pressure, I would suggest, from | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
the grass roots and the backbenches of the Lib Dems on him? I go to a | :12:13. | :12:22. | |
certain amount with what he says about the alternative. Now we have | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
stability in the bond market, the Stock Market and the rest of it, | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
there is surely scope for a much greater emphasis in growth if you | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
remember n the Autumn Statement, really a mini-budget, �5 billion is | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
to be used for that purpose. It seems, if that works and confidence | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
can be maintained, then that could be the key to open the door to a | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
far greater emphasis. �5 billion in a �5 trillion economy is neither | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
here nor there. We looked at the announcements not in the 2012 | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
Autumn Statement, but in the 201 Autumn Statement. Barely one of the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
new road programmes has begun. They are not shovel-ready. That I have | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
lost the shovel! That does not mean to say that the principal is not | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
worth adopting. One other point, which is this, you have to get hold | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
of the banks, get them to start lending. I get people in my | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
quirbgtsy surgery every week, -- constituency surgery every week who | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
have paid their overdrafts and they cannot get a cent out of the banks | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
when they want to expand their businesses. There is Plan B, which | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
is to go slower. At least to think about the issue of how you balance | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
the need for some austerity w the need, as Ming says, some effort to | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
promote growth as well. I predict one of the key themes for 2013 is | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
going to be the question of fairness. At the moment, everyone | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
can see there needs to be some pulling in of the horns right now. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
If people feel people are trying to pull together, that would be more | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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An element of plan B is in the new Governor of the Bank of England. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
The interesting thing for Labour, Alan, the party's ahead in the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
polls bay decent amount - not a huge amount but a respectable | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
amount - but when you come to economic competence, given the | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
state of the economy, given the huge squeeze on living standards, | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
it is remarkably how poorly Mr Miliband and Mr Balls do. I would | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
suggest if the economy were to get better Labour would be in trouble | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
on the economy. Maybe, after the budget the Tories had a decent 37% | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
until after the budget. That's when it reversd. I think what Michael | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
was doing is redefining failure as success. Industrial production, the | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
lowest level for 20 years. The trade gap on goods, is highest it's | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
been since records began. In terms of being below our pre-recession | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
peak, it is still the worse in a century. Our economies is 3% | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
smaller than it was in 2007. If you look at countries with control of | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
their own currency, including in Europe, they've all done much | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
better. They have so far. You say plan A or plan B, he is | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
implementing plan B. In 202010 he said he would borrow �350 billion. | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
He is now borrowing �520 billion. And still the economy is going | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
nowhere. It is not a question of a beauty contest. It's an ugly | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
contest, because almost every country in the western world is in | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
deep trouble on the debt problems. Partly because of that investors | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
are giving the UK a free pass. It does mean there is more wriggle | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
room for the Government right now. But there are more problems from | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
across the Channel. Alan is right to that until recently the European | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
economies were doing better than us, other than the peripheral ones. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
Italy is in deep recession. Spain we all know about. France has moved | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
into recession. Germany is teetering on recession. Overall the | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
eurozone is now if recession and it is predicted to stay there for all | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
of 2013. That's another huge drag on us. As indeed the United States. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
Except it's growing. But not all that quickly. The truth is that we | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
have, both the eurozone and the United States are immensely | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
important to us. Let's go back to the point about Budget. I don't | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
think it was the substance of the Budget so much that caused a shift | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
in opinion but the incompetence, the pasty tax, the caravans. That | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
just suggested that there was a lack of economic competence. If we | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
lost our AAA rating, which the Chancellor has put so much stock by. | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
He doesn't mention it so much now, because we probably are going lose | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
it. If GDP is down, how much will it matter in international markets? | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
If there was ever a good time to lose your AAA rating it is now. The | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
US has lost it, France has lost it. I'm sure the bond markets would be | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
relatively calm about it given what's happening elsewhere in the | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
world. As the argument of the economy has taken root, on the | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
Conservative side economic lack of success has been myrrh order by | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
huge rises in Tory euro scepticism. Would you agree that's one of the | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
hallmarks of 2012 politics? Yes, although it has been a long time in | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
gestation. It struck me the other day, when the Tories were last in | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Government, the backbenchers were very anxious that John Major was to | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
take them into the euro and were rebel unions, including me, because | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
we might be going deeper into Europe. Now the backbenchers are | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
rebellious because the Prime Minister will not lead them out of | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
the European Union altogether that. Gives you a snapshot of how | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
radically the party has shifted in the Euro-sceptic direction.. In the | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
time you've just described there were 25 rebels. Now there are many | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
more on the Conservative backbench es who are sympathetic to the | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
notion of coming out altogether. On the eve of the Prime Minister's | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
visit to Europe, in order to discuss the Budget, they undermined | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
him to an extraordinary extent by supporting the opportunism of | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
Labour. And essentially giving him a mandate he couldn't fulfil. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Gillian? One of the questions the Prime Minister had thrown at him | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
this week is will Britain stay inside the European Union? It is | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
clear that it is going to be increasingly difficult to | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
accommodate a three-ped system with Britain on the outside. But the | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
eurozone leaders meet all the time to talk about this tirt union. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
Meanwhile the eurozone is in massive relative economic decline. | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
They never talk about the things that are going reverse that | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
economic decline. The obsession with the currency, which will | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
probably be with us for five, ten or 20 years, stops Europe dealing | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
with its real problem - how to be competitive with China, India and | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Brazil. In fact Europe is still moving in the wrong direction. The | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
French say as we go through these problems with the eurozone, we have | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
to compensate European citizens for what they are suffering by creating | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
a bigger social Europe, a bigger welfare state. But at the same time | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
the voice of Britain, not some player in Europe but Britain, is | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
harking on about repatriating employment law. Minuscule stuff. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Even if you agreed with it it is hardly agenda sect. While we should | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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be involved in this, the Common Agricultural Policy, making sure | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
our output rises. From Mr Major to Mr Blair they talked about taking | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Britain into the heart of Europe. If you are not in the eurozone it | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
is a meaningless phrase now Alan. That is the essential difference. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
We are not in the euro and neither were the Conservatives when they | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
were in office or Labour when in office took introduce the euro. I | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
say thank goodness and let's build a statue to Great Britain that we | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
were not in the euro. A small one or a big one? Will will it be, in | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
your garden? There is an important point here, people on the | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Conservative backbenches say when they want to create a more | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
integrated system, that's the point we should say we'll only go along | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
with this if you let us repatriate some of our competencies. Would you | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
agree with this? No, the success of the eurozone is fund known the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
economic success of the United Kingdom. What makes you feel that | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
the eurozone will be successful? Because it daren't be anything else. | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
So far it isn't. The 20-year-olds, 50% of whom are unemployed the | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
Spain, Greece and in Italy, they will be thrown over the fences to | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
try to keep this show on the road. How many more young lives are we | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
going to squander? It is not the problem of the eurozone that caused | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
these difficulties. It is problems of the Governments in the eurozone | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
who didn't fulfil their possibilities under the terms of | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
the treaty. I want simple answers to. This Mr Cameron, as we come to | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
the end of the year, is he stronger or weaker? Weaker. Weaker. Weaker. | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
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I would say weaker too. 5-0 Mr Cameron. Our floor manager said he | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
was strong. 5-1. They wear funny sweaters and there | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
is no holder them back. Glad I'm not wearing one! Mr Miliband, | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
stronger or weaker? Stronger. change. Weaker. What was that? | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
Sounded like 3-2, but I can't remember which way. You give him | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
the responsibility and he shirks it. A shirk tore my strive. Mr Clegg, | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
stronger or weak snefrpblts stronger. You had to say that. If | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
you said weaker it will be in the papers tomorrow. Tell us what you | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
mean. You can trade if you like. Differentiation. Nobody knows what | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
that means. I'm going for no change. Strong than at the beginning of the | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
year but it is difficult to be weaker than he was then. That's too | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
complicated. We are halfway through this Parliament, assuming it's a | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
five-year term, give me the result of the next general election. | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
Labour. What else am I going to say? This isn't Question Time. We | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
expect people to break the party mould. You don't come back unless | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
you give honest answers. There we go. The honest answer is too close | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
to call. Too close to call! I've spent the last year trying to | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
predict the American election. was easy. Obama was always going | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
win. You are right about that. Hung. Oh, I see! I thought you were being | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
rude! The Tories won't win. In the sense that they won't get an | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
overall majority. Do you think they won't even be the largest snaert | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
think they won't be in Government but they might be the largest | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
economy. -- won't even be the largest party? | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
It is so late it's no longer funny. Indeed lit soon be time for | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
breakfast. If the norovirus isn't keeping you up, I'm sure we can | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
make you feel just as squeezey. Waiting in the wings and looking | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
back at a year of stomach-churning joy is Paralympics presenter Ade | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
Adepitan. If you want to see the online equivalent of the vomiting | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
bug, follow us on the fleece books and the Interweb. It is time to | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
return to Downturn to see what's become of Lord Letts, or should we | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
just call him Santa now. Our films can be confusing and I know it is | :26:02. | :26:11. | |
very late, dear viewers, but don't adjust your sets. A good deal of | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
:26:21. | :26:21. | ||
Blue Nun eggnog was made during the making of this small screen epic. | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
Mr Maguire come upstairs quick, his Lordship's niece has returned from | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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My Lady, how was your holiday - I mean business trip? Dreadful. They | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
asked me to leave. My uncle doesn't know I was out there does he? He | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
will get awfully cross. I told him I was staying with my aunt Louise | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
in Corby, New York I mean. didn't you go to your uncle's | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
villa? Tricky really. He said he was hellbent on getting rid of the | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
place and then he changed his mind. He promised to sell it and now he's | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
putting off the decision until next year. He's trying to run the place | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
from here. Where is my uncle anyway? I don't know about this | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
thing but apparently my next delivery is over there. In the | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
:27:49. | :27:50. | ||
river. Tell me Maguire, how is Downturn? | :27:50. | :27:59. | |
Not good my Lady? What about the hopscotch tournament? My uncle was | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
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banking on that to raise his Unfortunately mam instead Parish | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
Councilor Johnson seems to have bun awfully well and is now popular | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
with the staff. Well, what about Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee? That | :28:34. | :28:44. | |
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was guaranteed to get the staff I don't think we'll be able to | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
afford a variety show this Christmas. It doesn't have to be | :29:07. | :29:14. | |
complicated. As my cousin, Pippa says, there's lots of top tips if | :29:14. | :29:23. | |
you are thinking of cooking, have a kitchen. If you roost a turkey, | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
have an oven. If you boil water, simply have a kettle. Simple things, | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
but so many overlook. You, over there, lend him a hand. | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
It's been a very unexpected journey. Hang on! Why there's only one of | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
you. Now the games are over, he has decided to scale down security. | :29:46. | :29:53. | |
Dreadful man. Letts, a dreadful man. What you call austerity, I Lord | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
Letts might call efficiency. There's a good fellow, open up the | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
gates. You have to go in through the tradesman entrance. I own this | :30:03. | :30:13. | |
:30:13. | :30:38. | ||
place. I thought you lot were Merry Christmas. It is good to have | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
you back. Thank you, Maguire and happy Christmas to you and to you | :30:44. | :30:51. | |
my dear niece and to you thingys. This isn't so bad, is it? We only | :30:51. | :30:58. | |
have another five more years of this! | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
Wait! Come back! I thought we were all in this | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
together! Oh, well, at last, I have the place | :31:07. | :31:17. | |
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to myself. Happy Christmas to all He wears that hat in bed. Our | :31:18. | :31:26. | |
thanks to the dancers and we are joined by star of I'm a celebrity, | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
Rosemary Shrager and Paralympics presenter, Ade Adepitan. We | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
depressed everybody in the first bit of the show by talking about | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
how bad the economy is. Cheer us up by reminding us what a triumph of | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
the Olympics and the Paralympics were. This is probably, this has | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
probably been the best year in the UK in my lifetime. It was just | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
unbelievable this year. The joy everyone felt. The changing | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
perceptions for sport and the change in people's perception of | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
disability. You think that has happened? I definitely do. I mean, | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
I get stopped in the streets now and people come up to me and they | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
talk about the paraoim ownerships and they want to talk about it. | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
Another thing they ask, is when can we get more? They want to get more | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
and they understand the sport more as well. We are so good at putting | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
ourselves down. You have been watching this show - week after | :32:21. | :32:27. | |
week, this man in a funny sweater, running it down - it will be a | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
disaster. Another omnishambles. And we shouldn't... We done well, | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
didn't we! I think what the Olympics did for | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
us was actually to cheer us up. I think they did something - they | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
brought something back tho this country, that is, it's | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
fundamentally us. We know how to put on a spectacle. We know how to | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
perform. We know how to give. We've got amazing athletes. We have shown | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
what we can do. I think we should be proud of what we've done W the | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
jubilee, with everything and I think we were all ready for this. | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
We had, as you say, a load of depression, there is nothing but | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
doom and gloom. Everybody out there is having terrible troubles and | :33:09. | :33:16. | |
we're all suffering. In fact, I say, put all the MPs in the jungle! | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
Having one was not enough for you? Exactly. I tell you what struck me | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
- I remember the opening of the Chinese, of the Beijing Olympics | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
and it was an enormous spectacle of regimentation. Everybody dressed | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
the same. Everybody doing the same beat. Ours was diverse. It was a | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
knees-up. It was a kind of party. To you think the head of State of | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
China would have jumped out of a helicopter? Not at all. I am not | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
entirely sure ours did, either! They would not be able to make a | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
joke about it. It is Britain. Boris n Beijing, said our opening | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
ceremony would be very different, that it would reflect a different | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
culture and he was right. We didn't try and compete on that kind of | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
regimented basis. But, wow, was it an opening ceremony! It was | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
probablery the best ever! It was breathtaking. That moment | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
where the GB team came out, I was there - it was just incredible. It | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
felt to me like it was a moment the country had been waiting for. You | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
know, there was like, yes, this is our time. It wasn't just the big | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
mopltd for the athletes, it was a big -- moment for the athletes, it | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
was a big moment for the UK. It was a great success. I don't think you | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
do remember, but in the run-up to the Olympics, we were told by the | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
authorities in London that the transport would be chaos, that the | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
public transport would be overcrowded. That you would not be | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
able to drive the car. Who said that? Well, I do remember - all the | :34:58. | :35:05. | |
authorities were saying that. To lower expectations and make us | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
feel better. Then we had this other remarblgable thing - when you think | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
-- remarkable thing - when you think of all the institutions going | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
through a tough time, think of the BBC, go on to newspapers, to the | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
Parliament and the police too, which is a developing story, as we | :35:25. | :35:32. | |
speak here tonight. Pleb-gate has become God-gate now. Is it called | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
gate-gate-gate. I knew we would get a gate-gate-gate one day! It is | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
part of the joy of the nation. is a "feel-good factor". That is it | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
- this moment we had with the Olympics, with the monarchy, two | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
lovely people getting married, but also, we're moving on to a | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
different generation. We're moving on to a slightly different monarchy | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
in the future. Very much so. That's what it is all about. It's almost, | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
it's hope. We have hope. And that's what we all want. What I thought, I | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
choose as my moment - the Queen getting into the hl and so on, the | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
point about the Queen is not only famously is she extraordinary | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
discrete, so after 60 years of being our Queen, she's not put a | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
foot wrong, what makes it more remarkable is she does have a very | :36:23. | :36:29. | |
great sense of humour. I would say, almost a wicked sense of humour. | :36:29. | :36:35. | |
Somehow she never lets it trip her up into an indiscretion, which is | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
quite remarkable. What you could say has happened to the monarchy | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
may give hope to institutions which are currently down because I | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
remember in the early 1990s, I remember because I played a role in | :36:46. | :36:53. | |
doing it - the monarchy was at its lowest ebb since Queen Victoria, | :36:53. | :36:58. | |
immediately after she became a widow. There was a rise of | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
republicannism. They have gone through some bad times. Maybe other | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
institutions - it was a terrible year, to take a leap out of the | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
monarchy. The late '90s, when Diana died too. | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
That continuity over that long period of time and as Michael says, | :37:19. | :37:25. | |
not putting a foot wrong. I think the Monarchy has no public support | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
to have anything oh than the Monarchy there. It's not a goodEr | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
To be a republican is it? Particularly in America. | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
The answer to all questions is leadership. She's been a great role | :37:41. | :37:47. | |
model for William and Kate and Charles as well. They are the | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
modern, cool monarchy. I would suggest that, in the history books, | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
the history won't be about this year being another miserable year | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
in the economy, because we've had plenty of miserable years since the | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
end of the Second World War. It will be about the Diamond Jubilee | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
and this incredible British success, probably, wouldn't you say, the | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
greatest year ever for British sport? Definitely. Easily the | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
greatest year ever. I think it's, we called it this year, the game- | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
changer. Certainly for Paralympic sport, in the way that people | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
looked at it, they took it seriously. So many people now now - | :38:31. | :38:39. | |
- now know our Paralympics. If you were to asked people to name three | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
people they would not know. Now they know. It came into the | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
Olympics and didn't take much notice in the old days. This | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
country made the Paralympics. Britain has been the biggest pusher. | :38:53. | :39:00. | |
It is the spiritual home since 1948. That was back at Stoke Mandeville. | :39:00. | :39:09. | |
What was it like being in the jungle? Interesting. | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
Come on, a little indiscretion at this time of night. Is that why you | :39:12. | :39:22. | |
:39:22. | :39:25. | ||
got me on here. No-one's watching! The thing about it is she was quite | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
controlling. She realised she didn't want to embarrass | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
Westminster in anything she did. This is what it was all about and | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
so on and so forth. Didn't that defeat the object of | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
why she went in there. It was her choice, at the end of the day. For | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
me, she had her own reasons to go in. The only thing is I don't think | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
it was a political forum for her. So, I have to say I am sure it was | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
not my place, but in terms of why she did it, it was her decision. | :39:54. | :39:59. | |
She did it for her own reasons. Maybe that's where the Prime | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
Minister's Question Time should be held - in the jungle! | :40:04. | :40:12. | |
We've got a little quiz. I want you to stay and help me. Have we got | :40:12. | :40:20. | |
buzzers. Here's my advice... We like surprises here at this time of | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
year. That is why we have decided to give the BBC Trust a collective | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
Yuletide heart attack with a special Jimmy Savile quiz. Only | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
quizling! Just a joke! Yes, we bottled it, as usual. We don't want | :40:37. | :40:43. | |
to get moved side ways F that happens, you get a big -- if that | :40:43. | :40:52. | |
happens, you get a big pay- off. Which bell end gave the Government | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
a headache this year. Bell end? Was it Big Ben? | :41:00. | :41:08. | |
No. Run the take. Here it is. Oh, yes. | :41:08. | :41:14. | |
It was after that he was made minister of health! | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
Which A clanger! Which soul singer won the popular | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
vote this year? Soul singer? Barack Obama. Well done. Let's see | :41:26. | :41:34. | |
the tape. # And | :41:35. | :41:44. | |
# So in love with you # There you go - that was Al Greene | :41:44. | :41:52. | |
Obama! Which of Michael's, his political | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
heroes continue to have problems with his accident-prone zipper in | :41:59. | :42:08. | |
2012?Th I know it. You don't. Boris. Oh, yes. It is being ironic. I have | :42:08. | :42:18. | |
:42:18. | :42:27. | ||
He wears his trousers well! At least he's not the Mayor of | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
London... Oh, sorry, he is the Mayor of London. Which stadium | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
performance at the Olympics truly drew the nation's breath away this | :42:38. | :42:46. | |
summer? You will not get this. Show us the tape. | :42:46. | :42:52. | |
Shami Chakarti. She was just carrying the flag behind Ban Ki- | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
Moon. I have always wanted to say that | :42:56. | :43:06. | |
name - Ban Ki-Moon. Do you want to say it? Ban Ki-Moon. That's your | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
lot. We return in January. We have more | :43:11. | :43:18. | |
pickled wisdom from the bottom of a late night wine glass. We are off | :43:18. | :43:28. | |
:43:28. | :43:28. | ||
to Annabelle's club - it is too late to go to the real thing. | :43:28. | :43:38. | |
:43:38. | :43:44. | ||
Nighty, night - don't let Mohammed # Very, very cheap | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
# One for fish # One pound each | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
# One pound Hsh one pound | :43:54. | :43:57. |