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Tonight, This Week presents a festive return to Downturn Abbey, or | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
should that now be Upturn? As the economic outlook improves will it be | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
enough to see off the cost of living crisis? Britain's economic plan is | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
working. This was a year where cost-of-living prices hit working | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
families. Lord of the Manor, Quentin Letts and Head Butler, Kevin | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Maguire, review the political year. I hope we can get back to Christmas | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
shopping. I've been scrutinising the accounts and our incomes are only | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
1.4%. Easy, we must learn to do more with less. We also look ahead to | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
2014, a big political year, with European elections and a Scottish | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
referendum. And the other TV sofa sensation of the year - we'll have a | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
very special Gogglebox Christmas Quiz. She don't mess about. They | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
look like criminals. He's a Ging. She looks bad. Would you do that for | :01:24. | :01:35. | |
me? No. Evenin' all. Welcome to This Week and a very special round-up of | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
the political year. Because as you can probably tell, we've partaken of | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
the Christmas spirit here on This Week and by that I mean the Blue Nun | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Christmas Royale Special Brew. So we're ready to celebrate what makes | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
this time of year just so damn wonderful. A time of year when | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
hard-working families - do politicians know any other kind - | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
are busy borrowing up to the hilt to pay for the yuletide festivities, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
stocking up on canned fruit and turkey twizzlers from the festive | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
food bank, excitedly wrapping the kids' pay-day loan presents and | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
thanking the Lord that Christmas jumpers are in fashion once more and | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
not so much an accessory as an essential, given they can't afford | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
to put the heating on anymore. Ah, Christmas - only a scrooge, or Boy | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
George Osborne, would deny that It's a Wonga-full Life. Speaking of those | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
who are out of their depth and up to their necks in it, I'm joined on the | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
sofa tonight by two Westminster stars jostling to be the fairy at | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
top of the tree. Think of them as the Plum Sugar and Plum Duff of | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
late-night political chat. I speak, of course, of #sadmanonatrain | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
Michael -step-away-from-the track-Portillo and #londonnightmayor | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
Diane-back-by-absolutely-no-public-- demand-whatsoever-Abbott. And not | :02:42. | :03:02. | |
forgetting #mollythedog. It's Michael. Who would have thought it? | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
What's your moment of the year, other than you being in a onesie? | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
The funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Partly for me because it was an | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
amazing State occasion with all the pomp and ceremony and partly because | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
it was the reunion of the class of the 180s, but also to misquote | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Shakespeare, to take her for all in all, we shall not see her like | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
again. She was an extraordinary leader. A woman of amazing courage | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
and conviction of certainties. And these things are not common these | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
days. Molly is a bit bored about that. Your moment of the year? I | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
think I would have to say the funeral of Nelson Mandela. If you | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
are on the other side. You two are cheery. It's because he theyed | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Thatcher. If you are on the other side of politics in the 1980s, | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
antiapartheid was the international campaign. And London was the centre? | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Yes. And the marches and picketing and boycotting and to live to see | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
him released and the first democratic election as the President | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
that is a big thing. Although, not everything is perfect in South | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Africa, his great thing that he did was he ensured a peaceful | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
transition. It wasn't a bloodbath. You can't take that away from him. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Very interesting. Molly is so interested she has left the studio! | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Now, get your camera phone and tinsel out for the boys, because | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
it's the Twelfie Night of Christmas. Yes, we're flogging a dead reindeer | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
and asking you to tweet us once again. This time with your festive | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
twelfies. Remember how it works - we want you to tweet us pictures of you | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
watching This Week. With extra points for any Christmas balls or | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Blue Nun in shot. And if we get more than half a dozen, we'll try and | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
feature as many as we can in our end credits. Now, it's been a very long | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
year and just like a coalition away day, we've completely run out of | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
ideas. So let's recycle last year's drivel with a return to Downturn | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
Abbey. And what a difference a year makes. Fortunes are on the rise | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
upstairs, but down below there are dark rumblings of discontent among | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
the servants, though that may have something to do with the horsemeat | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
canapes. Joining Quentin Letts, Kevin Maguire and Nick Watt this | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
year, is a very familiar face. Get on with it. Faster, faster. Get | :05:29. | :06:22. | |
on with it. The the mail is so much more efficient since I privatised. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
My Lord, my Lord, I've been looking at the bill and we appear to be | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
overcharged. What have you done now? Chas all this lot. Don't worry about | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
that. Now that the finances are back on the up, I thought we could do | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
some proper Christmas shopping. How can we afford all this? I've studied | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
the estate accounts and our income is only up 1.4%? We must learn to do | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
more with less. And as my chum Lord Cameron says, we only have to make | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
do with a few cuts downstairs. Never mind about that sort of thing. Pull | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
yourself together, woman. Typical Tory, every Christmas it's | :07:02. | :07:20. | |
one rule for him upstairs and another for us town here. How will I | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
cut back? Poor Polly is on a zero-hours contract. One lump or | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
two? You're an angel. I was talking about coal. Quay can't afford it. It | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
will have to be half a piece. I don't know how we'll afford to heat | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
this place this winter. It makes me want to knock the whole place down. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
# I came in like a wrecking ball # I never felt so bad | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
# All I wanted was to break you up # All you ever did was wreck me... # | :08:00. | :08:12. | |
# I flinch, you hide up in the sky... # | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
I think I've just seen the most extraordinary thing. Maguire | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
tweshinging. -- twerking. Calm down, you'll wake baby George. I'm fed up | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
with the way that downstairs keeping on complaining about the cost of | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
living. We've never been doing better. I like to think that | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
marriage is a team effort and I have something to do with the change... | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Some people are too daft to know how to get on with life. I don't think | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
there would be a recovery without me. You don't listen to a word I | :08:44. | :08:55. | |
say, do you? Maguire, we've got a bit of a | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
problem upstairs. Is that a whole lump of coal? We have that ban Balls | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
upstairs sticking nis nose into the estate finances making a nuisance of | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
himself. Face has gone bright red like a beetroot. Would you like me | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
to set the dogs on him? No, he's doing a marvellous job. Put him on | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
the payroll and don't forget it's the Chris imagine ball tomorrow, so | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
don't scrimp on the can pays. -- canopes. Sack someone if you have | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
to. That's it. Choosing between eating and heating. Mrs May we'll | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
have to make a few changes to the Christmas menu. | :09:37. | :09:50. | |
I bet you're really glad that's only the end of part one and there's more | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
to come. Look what Santa has left under the tree, leading lady mare | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Rand da Greened -- Miranda Green and we have an extra special present, | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Nigel Farage. Welcome both. Michael, how long before a recovery -- | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
recovering economy... Oh, sorry, we wanted you to feel at home. Sadly | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
health and safety won't let you have a fag as well. Cheers, everybody. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
Cheers. Why are we on the water and he's got the beer? Back to the | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
politics. How is the beer? Rather good. How long before a recovering | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
economy equals a recovery in Tory poll ratings? Possibly a very long | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
time, because my theory is that living standards will not improve. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
Because wages have been stuck flat for a very long time and prices are | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
continuing to rise. The Government is now trying to decrease the rise | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
in prices, but I would have thought between now and the election not | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
many people are going to see a rise in their real wages. What some of | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
them will see is a rise in their property prices which will make some | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
people feel better. If it doesn't translate into recovering, it means | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
that there is no chance of a Tory victory? I have never thought there | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
was much chance, I'm saying even any chance, of a Tory majority, but the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
decisive thing is we are getting nearer and what people will think of | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Ed Miliband. Will they think he's Prime Minister material? On the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
whole, I don't think they will. It doesn't mean that David Cameron | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
won't be Prime Minister. That brings me to Diane. If Labour, according to | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
the polls lack credibility on the economy, when the economy was | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
tanking, how does it win credibility when the economy is growing? Because | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
people won't feel things are better for them. I don't think that Ed | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Miliband being Prime Minister is going to be the killer thing or not. | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
It's the Reagan question. Are you better off now than when I first | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
came to power? He's Reagan? No David Cameron is Ronald Reagan. People do | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
not feel better. People's living standards have been squeezed much | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
more recently than they are to be next year. Michael is right, they'll | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
be squeezed, but all the polls show Labour has no credibility on the | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
economy. But the stuff we are talking about with living standards | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
is hitting home. Ed has dominated the agenda for the past three months | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
on energy. Will he carry on? I believe he can. It's good to know | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
they've put the loyalty chip back into the head. Right, will it | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
translate into Lib Dem votes? I think you have to look at it other | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
the way around. If George Osborne and his plan had not worked, then | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
the Liberal Democrat would have bet the whole farm on a disasterous | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
card. In fact, they just have to make something of it. It's very | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
lucky for them that the plan is starting to work. Will it translate | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
into votes? I think they're spooked. Earlier in the year, after the | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
victory in eastly, which was -- Eastleigh, which was quite a | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
surprise, they were confident and they thought they could hang on and | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
people like our MPs and they have to work hard, because they are not in | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
safe seats, but they're quite spooked and that's why you're | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
getting Nick Clegg making a speech on green issues and Europe, on free | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
schools. Let me try for a third time. Will it translate into votes? | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
it will translate into votes. Everywhere? Not everywhere, but they | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
are confident about the South and South West, those Tory facing seats. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
They are not getting those student communities. They are very difficult | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
to hold. Does the recovering economy spike your guns? Not particularly. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
It is a London led recovery and eight property led recovery, partly | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
fuelled by the Help to Buy scheme. I do not think people feel better off. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Manufacturing orders are at the highest level since 1992. Things are | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
definitely slightly better and that is good, and there is divergences | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
between the UK economy and the eurozone, which is a good thing and | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
validates the fact that some of us campaigned against joining the | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
euro. Economics has aways been important in elections but there are | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
other factors. It is well and good talking about unemployment coming | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
down, but get away from London and get to parts of the country where | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
actually youngsters cannot get jobs and feel discriminated against in | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
terms of getting jobs, and believe me, immigration is the number one | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
issue in this country and it is something people will vote on. There | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
is also the issue of interest rates. Unemployment coming down is good | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
news for the government at Mark Carney has said that if unemployment | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
gets below 7%, they might start to raise interest rates. You then bring | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
a whole category of middle classes into feeling worse off. Actually, he | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
has not said that clearly. He has said he will think about it, look at | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
it. He has not said he will change it and the closer it gets to the | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
election, the less likely he will get involved, just as the Federal | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
reserve in America removes itself from interest rate changes in the | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
run-up to the election. If unemployment is 7% in June next | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
year, then the government is in trouble over interest rates. Has the | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
coalition ended the year in better shape than it started? Hugely | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
better. It is hard to remember that this time last year we were thinking | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
about a double dip recession, even triple dip. And we did not even go | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
for double. Nigel mentioned the divergences between the British and | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
European economies. The prediction is that for the next four years, the | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
margin between the British rate of growth and the eurozone rate of | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
growth will be 1.8% in the first year and all the other years, around | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
1.5%. It is an enormous divergences. I think Lib Dem activists are more | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
unhappy than ever, champing at the bit to have some sort of polite | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
divorce. We are all speculating about what is going to happen to the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
economy and what the effects will be in 2015 and we have all forgotten | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
that there is an election on May the 22nd. In terms of the Lib Dems, the | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
Lib Dems are on a knife age. They could get wiped out in European | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
elections. We are coming there. Stick to the running order. Is Ed | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
Miliband is now seen as a potential future prime minister, or is the | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
jury still out? I think so. I think he has had a good year. Have you | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
been offered another job? He is almost choking on his mince pie. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Clearly, he is not going to sweep us to victory on his own but he has had | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
a good year. He has dominated the agenda. He has had a good autumn | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
into winter, but they terrible summer. There is no question that he | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
has set the terms of trade in many ways, but I am asking if he is now | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
seen as a Prime Minister? Whether he is seen as that is not the key fact. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
The key fact is how well off people feel. So you do not think he is seen | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
as prime ministerial. I think he is seen as prime ministerial enough. I | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
do not think so. That is because you are a child of Thatcher. Clement | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Attlee did not look Prime Minister Arial. That is exactly what he | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
looked like. He was not the stereotype of a leader. I am talking | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
about Neil Kinnock, William Hague, Michael Howard, Iain Duncan Smith. | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
Iain Duncan Smith was not there at an election. They are leaders about | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
whom the public made up its mind that they are not Prime Minister | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Arial. How can you say that about William Hague. Because I have not | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
been given a chip in my head to stop me from seeing clearly. | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Now, it's late, very late, too late to do anything but a meaningless | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
gesture to cope with Romanian and Bulgarian benefit tourism. So get | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
stuck into another layer of the Blue Nun chocolate liqueurs, because | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
still to come the Gogglebox This Week mash-up quiz of the year! And | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
the return of #twelfie, which you can tweet to us on The Twitter. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Plus, we're still ignoring all feedback on The Fleecebook and the | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Interweb. Right, time now to return to our second and possibly last ever | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
instalment of Upturn Abbey. And it's the estate Christmas Ball. Who will | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
be invited? What will be on the menu? And will Baby George say his | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
first words? I am afraid it is no secret, things | :19:44. | :19:59. | |
between her ladyship and me are not good. Really? Things are not right | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
between me and his Lordship. Sometimes I wish I had stayed in the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
kitchens. I married beneath my station. The trouble is, I married | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
above my station. At first it was lovely. I gave her roses from the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
garden. The trouble is his bleeding family. It is her family. They can't | :20:27. | :20:38. | |
stand me. They can't stand me. Sometimes I think about Mr | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Miliband's proposal. I have seen the way she looks at that farm hand, | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
millipede. But he did save you from a dangerous trip to Syria. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Nonsense, it would have been my finest hour. Do you think she will | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
ever... Take me back? I have 100 people to cook for and the horse | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
will not be raising himself. That is quite enough of that. Cut my | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
toenails. I will get the garden shears, my lord. Right, look smart, | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
it is the Lord's cousin, the Duke of Salmond. Is something the matter? He | :21:26. | :21:39. | |
is refusing to get out. He says the car is a shared asset. He has paid | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
his share of the engine oil and he will not get out until his cousin | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
acknowledges it in writing. Tell him if he does not get out, we will send | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
Andrew Neil back. That is a great idea. | :21:56. | :22:23. | |
Reindeer pate, my lord. I know we have had our ups and downs. You are | :22:24. | :22:35. | |
complacent and out of touch. I have a plan and you have not. You stand | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
up for the wrong people. We both do that. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
I would like you to know that what happens next year with Europe and | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Scotland, even if I am no longer here, I would like you to know that | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
I will always think of you as a butler. My lord. Quiet. Baby George | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
is about to say his first words. We are all in this together. That's my | :23:04. | :23:15. | |
boy. Merry Christmas! You might never see that again. I | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
like to bring Christmas cheer. Michael, things have gone quiet for | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
UKIP recently but is anybody in any doubt that 2014 will be a good year | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
for them? No. The real talk is about what is going to happen in 2015. And | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
if you come top of the poll in the European elections, what are the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
implications for British politics. Things have not gone quiet for UKIP | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
in the last few months. Every Thursday there are by-elections up | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
and down country. The results show that UKIP get 27% minimum of the | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
vote wherever it stands, hard labour areas, safe Tory areas. We are | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
picking up votes across-the-board. In particular what matters is which | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
seats in the European elections can we win by a big margin? Which seats | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
do we look like possible potential winners under the first past the | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
post system in 2015? Molly would like to disagree. She is not | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
disagreeing. What are the implications of you coming first in | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
the European polls? If people believe in us and think we can win | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
in our target seats, if people think, in two or three dozen | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
constituencies, that voting UKIP means getting UKIP, there is an | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
ardent that says UKIP could hold the balance of power in Westminster in | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
2015. -- there is an argument. That is not going to happen. On the | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
contrary. If people thought voting UKIP would get you UKIP, they would | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
run terrified. It is safe in the European election but people will | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
vote efficiently in the general election. People like you said it | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
would never happen in a domestic election, and it did happen. What | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
they said was that UKIP would not win a seat in the UK Parliament. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
That is all we can find ourselves to. I am prepared to stake a mince | :25:27. | :25:38. | |
pie on it. Just a mince pie? A whole packet, if you like. I have listened | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
to this for ten years, and all the way through, the Westminster bubble | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
have not believed it is possible for a fourth party that is not based on | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
socioeconomics to do it. Our poll ratings are strong. Miranda has to | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
speak. The problem is that David Cameron has played along too much | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
with the UKIP agenda. If Nigel's party does well next year in the | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
European elections, David Cameron will be destabilised by that. He has | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
a ready promised a referendum after the next election, should he be | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Prime Minister again. Should he have a majority. If Nigel's party does | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
well, his own right wing will push and push and destabilise. That will | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
affect the 2015 election considerably, whether or not Nigel | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
wins parliamentary seats. If the Lib Dems come fourth or fifth, it will | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
destabilise Nick Clegg. They have been there before. The Lib Dems have | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
been tested in this fire before. The Greens overtook them in the European | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
election. Again, it did not turn into parliamentary seats. In 2015, | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
UKIP will get enough votes probably to stop the Conservatives getting a | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
majority. And therefore there will not be a referendum on Europe. This | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
is total and utter rubbish. Only one in three of the people that intend | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
to vote UKIP in 2015 voted Conservative in 2010. The fact is we | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
are picking up a large chunk of old Labour voters. We are picking up one | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
in five. It is quite difficult with you to get a point across. What you | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
are saying is not relevant. There will not be a referendum on Europe. | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
Actually, the ink -- the impact clearly is that actually in many of | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
the coastal marginals in which UKIP is strong, the only party that can | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
beat Labour is the Conservatives, because the Tories are now a poor | :28:01. | :28:08. | |
third. You are protecting Ed Miliband and Michael Portillo | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
tonight. There will be two effects of UKIP doing well. One will be that | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
we would get a referendum. The other would be that it would drag the | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
terms of debate on immigration to the right, because immigration will | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
be your big subject. After Europe, is immigration your biggest issue? | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
Without any shadow of a doubt. The interesting thing is that the great | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
footage public are now realising that Europe and immigration are the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
same thing. -- the great writ issued public. That is because it is a | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
fact. When you are a member of the EU, there is nothing you can do | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
about it. What is interesting is what the Labour position will be on | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
a referendum. Miliband is saying there will not be a referendum but I | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
predict that in the run-up to the European elections, he will pledge a | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
referendum as well. Which you would want, wouldn't you? I don't think he | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
wants to do it, but he may have to give in to pressure. Where from? It | :29:11. | :29:19. | |
is a strategic thing. It is the toxic effect of UKIP on the | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
political debate. There is a strategic argument which says you | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
have to trump the Tory promise of a referendum. Mr Miliband, do not | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
pledge yourself to a referendum because you will find that two years | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
into your premiership you would suddenly have a referendum on an | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
issue you did not believe in and you could find that people vote against | :29:40. | :29:41. | |
you in vast numbers just because your government will be unpopular. | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
You expect them to take advice from a man in a reindeer suit? Mr | :29:48. | :29:57. | |
Miliband, if you're watching, don't, just ignore what's said. His | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
medication will arrive shortly. What will be the impact be - we don't | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
know how many Romanians and Bulgarians are going to come, but if | :30:09. | :30:18. | |
they come in fair numbers that creates a bit of a headline, what | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
will happen to the political debate in Britain? It's really crucial, | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
because we don't know what the effect will be. We don't if it will | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
be destabilising to individual communities. It's a story. There | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
will be a underward spire Israel and UKIP will take every advantage -- | :30:38. | :30:46. | |
spiral and U kill will take -- UKIP will take every advantage of it. Why | :30:47. | :30:59. | |
do you say that? With Romania, being able to stop people coming into | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
Britain who are criminals. Do you think that's a underward spiral or | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
do you think it's good to let them in? Nurses are registering with the | :31:12. | :31:25. | |
NHS who would like to come in. Without immigration the public | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
services would collapse. We need it. Nigel, what would be the impact on | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
how the European Union operates if parties like yours and those to the | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
further right like the National Front, end up with about 35% of the | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
seats in the European Parliament? It will be a disruptive European | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
Parliament next time around, which would be rather fun. It will come | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
not just from the far right, but a think a lot of the Communist parties | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
in the south are becoming very, very anti-EU. The far left will do more | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
too? There will be a broad spectrum of euro-sceptic. Whether it will | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
make much difference, I don't know. I suspect if we got to the point | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
where the Parliament was really able to stop and delay legislation they | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
would probably just change the rules. I should point out that Molly | :32:18. | :32:25. | |
has no life-threatening diseases otherwise Diane wouldn't be sitting | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
beside her. Scottish referendum, September 18th. Does the union | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
survive or break up? Let's hope it does, but I think the problem.. . | :32:34. | :32:41. | |
Yes or no? No-one believes the polls. Does it survive or break up? | :32:42. | :32:49. | |
It's in danger. Does it survive? You can't prepare for failure. I'm not | :32:50. | :32:58. | |
going to get an answer. The union will survive and go on. IeshingS too | :32:59. | :33:09. | |
close to call. There are a lot of don't knows. Too close to call. | :33:10. | :33:24. | |
There are a lot of don't knows. For the moment, I agree with what Nigel | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
is saying. Two for the union sticking together and one too early | :33:32. | :33:42. | |
to say and one we have no idea. I say it's too early to say. Now, iin | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
2013 the world bade a final farewell to figures of huge international | :33:49. | :33:51. | |
influence and political stature. As well as Chris Huhne, Godfrey Bloom | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
and Diane Abbott, who was summoned to the leader's cubicle to be told | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
her career prospects were going downhill faster than Ed Balls' | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
reputation. Now, for many This Week viewers, this was one of their | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
highlights of the year, but we wondered which other events made | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
such an impact and so we've turned to another sofa-based hit TV show | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
for a very special Gogglebox This Week Quiz of the Year. So, the | :34:11. | :34:19. | |
question to our studio team is this - what news story from the past 12 | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
months are the Gogglebox viewers watching? Take it away Gogglebox. I | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
suppose we have seen that coming for a long time, but all the same it's - | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
one feels sad. She don't mess about. No. She talked like her mum. She | :34:40. | :34:47. | |
looked like a man from the side. Tote Marmite case, if ever there was | :34:48. | :34:57. | |
one. First and locking last. It's like when I had my first child. I | :34:58. | :35:05. | |
don't think you can trust anyone who talks about themselves in the third | :35:06. | :35:07. | |
person. Margaret Thatcher? Definitely. It's | :35:08. | :35:18. | |
the correct answer, because the average IQ in the studio is in | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
simingle figures -- single figures. That was the death of Margaret | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
Thatcher. What programme were they watching to elicit these comments? | :35:30. | :35:38. | |
That's a Greek tragedy. A pair of twits. I'm delighted to hear it. | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
They should have taken the bike to work. What is it she does for a | :35:45. | :35:53. | |
living, though? Lock all now. They look like criminals. They do | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
actually. At least Bonnie And Clyde stayed friendly before they were | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
shot. Look, that is new. Would you do that for me? No. All right, what | :36:07. | :36:17. | |
were they watching? Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce. I can't better that. | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
She's right. She is indeed right. It was Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce. OK, | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
what were they watching to elicit these comments? Well, it is what it | :36:31. | :36:39. | |
is. There it is. After all these days and weeks of waiting. Finally, | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
there is it is. It's exactly what we expected it to be. Shall we have | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
have a knees up. I'll happy. I want more. They didn't do that on the | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
national health, did they? Bloody country's going hysterical about | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
something that happened God knows how many times every day all over | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
the world. It happens every second. Another one for the taxpayer to | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
support! I think they should call it Ging. -- Ginge. Who were they | :37:10. | :37:19. | |
talking about? Prince George. I didn't like the Republican tone, but | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
it must be Prince George. Off with their heads. I knew if we made them | :37:24. | :37:33. | |
ease than they ask on the X-Factor you would answer that. On right of | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
centre, which politician has had a good year and which has had a bad | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
year? I'll go with George Osborne for the good year for obvious | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
reasons with the economy and symbolically on the bad side I would | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
say Sir George Young. He was the Chief Whip who was there when | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
Parliament was summoned in the summer in August, for a vote on | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
Syria and the Government lost the vote. In a way it wasn't George | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
Young's fault because he's the Chief Whip, but I'm saying we should | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
remember that at catastrophe befell the Government in the middle of the | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
year. It was very for tuS Tuesday, because if they had been landed with | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
the Syrian war they would be in dead trouble. George Osborne, good year, | :38:19. | :38:28. | |
George Young bad year? Yeah. On the Labour side, which politicians had a | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
good year and which one had a bad year? Ed Miliband has had a good | :38:33. | :38:44. | |
year. His brother has gone off to America. That is a good year. Ed | :38:45. | :38:47. | |
Balls has not had a good year, but he's one of the most effective | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
members of the Cabinet. The Mac economics are going George Osborne's | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
way though. And that has put him in a bad way. Mr Balls bad and Mr | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
Miliband good? Yes, at this point. Among the Liberal Democrats? I think | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
it's been an upward turn year for Dan Lex Lex, because when things -- | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
Danny Alexander, because when things were going bad he was the whipping | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
boy for the party for make too many concessions to the Tories. As the | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
economy starts to come good, he is the person who has indicated that | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
the role he's played has been... Any other people? Probably not. | :39:29. | :39:38. | |
Reindeers maybe. An answer there. And the bad person? I don't think | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
anyone has had a worse year than Chris Huhne. That was an easy one. | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
Not difficult. Have you got enough people to have a good and bad year? | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
I think I've had a fairly good year. I have to say that. I shall be very | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
happy if next year is as good. Godfrey? He's great fun and a friend | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
of mine, but we got to a point where it was impossible. You've had the | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
good and the bad. That's your lot for tonight folks, until the new | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
year. But not for us, because it's Mission Accomplished Night at Lou | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
Lou's and now that David Cameron and footballer, Michael Owen, have | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
declared final victory in Afghanistan, we're off to celebrate | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
with a Kabul Cocktail or three - apparently they're explosive, but we | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
leave you tonight with further disturbing evidence that there | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
really are people out there who think watching this programme is a | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
sensible use of their time and beer money. Genteel viewers of a nervous | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
disposition may want to turn away now. Nighty-night - please don't let | :40:38. | :40:38. | |
the Twelfie Night of Christmas bite. # There's a new beginning | :40:39. | :41:04. | |
# Dreams of Santa # Dreams of snow | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
# Fingers numb, faces aglow # It's Christmas time | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
# Mistletoe and wine # Children singing singing Christian | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
rhymes # With logs on the fire and gifts on | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
the tree # Time to rejoice in the good that | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
we see... # | :41:34. | :41:42. |