16/01/2014 This Week

Tonight, climb aboard the This Week scooter for a late-night political

joy ride. A French President, a beautiful actress, and an oversized

crash helmet. joy ride. A French President,

Francois Hollande's private life is under scrutiny. Frenchman and

footballing grand fromage, David Ginola, revs his engine. This week,

the eyes of the world have been on my home country, France. The French

president has been experiencing difficulty.

Back on the streets of Westminster, MPs are under attack for spending

taxpayer money on having their portraits painted. The Sun's Jane

Moore, gets out her paintbrushes. Renaissance man Ed Miliband wants to

paint a picture of himself as a man of all the people, taking on the cap

Mac city, but written's banking boss has given him the brushoff.

And if you thought slavery had been abolished years ago, it's time to

think again about the modern day slave trade. Action hero journalist

Ross Kemp reports back from the front line. The fact is, there are

more slaves in the world today than there ever have been.

Allo, allo. Did you order a large one with extra hot chillies?

Evenin' all. Welcome to This Week, a week in which the world just got

stranger, especially in Paris. A week in which, if you open your

front door to somebody in a motorcycle helmet, you can't be sure

if it's the pizza delivery boy or the President of France. And if a

large man with a gun enters your bedroom in the morning, you don't

know if you're about to be robbed or he's just delivering the coffee and

croissants. A week in which it was not Mr Hollande's affair with an

actress that caused French consternation but the fact he used a

three-wheeled scooter to get to his liaisons dangereuse. Now that really

did undermine the dignity of the republic. Mind you, it's been just

as strange on this side of La Manche. Obviously you'd never shell

out ?11,500 of your own hard-earned money for this.

But actually, you did! In fact you've shelled out ?250,000 for MPs

to have their portraits painted at the taxpayers' expense. Clever of

the artist, however, to catch Mona Diane just as she'd been handed the

bill at Annabel's. Speaking of those who are no oil

paintings, I'm joined on the sofa tonight by a late night affair that

breaks all our hearts. Think of them as the First Lady and First Mistress

of late night political chat. I speak, of course, of

#sadmanonatrain, Michael Portillo, and #baffled, Diane Abbott. Your

moment of the week? For the second week in a row, my moment is provided

by Robert Gates, who used to be Defence Secretary of the United

States. This week he said he regrets that Britain has put itself in a

place where it can no longer provide defence across the spectrum, in a

billing it to co-operate with the United States across the spectrum.

This has been met with denials in the UK but it seems to me to be a

statement of the obvious. Actually, going back to our performance in

Basra and in Helmand province, it seems the Americans have concluded

we do not have capability across the spectrum. In those cases, our main

problem was we did not have enough troop 's. It seems paradoxical that

the response of the government has been to cut savagely the number of

troops that we have. I thought Robert Gates was speaking nothing

less than the truth. Interesting coming from you as a former Defence

Secretary. On my painting, it was painted ten years ago and I did not

ask to have my portrait painted. You do not look a day older. Actually,

it is worth a lot more than ?11,000 now. That is what the House of

Commons arts committee told me yesterday. Paintings are the only

things the House of Commons spends money on that appreciates in value.

However, my moment of the week was today, and George Osborne saying he

supports a rise in the minimum wage. It is a reversal of the historic

Tory position, but it also shows they are deadly serious about

winning the next election. Lots of things from Labour and the Tories

now are dubious economics and very good politics.

Now, President Hollande gave a two-and-a-half-hour press conference

this week. It was carried live on news channels because of their

commitment to covering French economic policy. But since most of

you have the attention of a gnat we know few of you watched it in its

entirety. So in the spirit of public service, for which this show is

famed, we have prepared a precis. That's a French word, you know. Here

it is. "Monsieur le President, are you

shagging that actress"? "No comment".

"All right. Let's talk about the economy. Why is it a basket case"?

"OK. I am shagging zat actress". You get the gist, or le fin mot, as

they say in France. But maybe something's been lost in

translation. So we turned to famous French footballer David Ginola. This

is his take of the week. This week, the eyes of the world

have been on my home country, France. French President Francois

Hollande has said he is experiencing difficult times, and he can't

understand that, and especially in his private life. As a foot taller

macro, it does not matter for the fans if I am having in my private

life some problems as far as my foot or is concerned and the results are

life -- the results are right. And as a politician, it should be the

same. It should be exact me the same.

At the moment, we live in a crisis period in the entire world.

Politicians should be judged by the things they do to change that, and

to make a better world, and not being judged by the things they do

outside their job. We all do mistakes. I do mistakes. People do

mistakes. Our president in France does mistake is, but I don't see why

it should be seen as mistakes. If he does love someone else, it is part

of life. You can have the right to love someone else. People shouldn't

be aware about his private life. But, having said that, you can't ask

able to deny the fact that they want to know. They want to know about

it. They want to know, actually, everything. We are talking about

Francois Hollande being seen all around the world, and the things he

has done. I am not sure people will be really concerned. They are just

concerned about, oh, strange, we did not think he was capable of doing

such things. In a way, it surprised many people, even me. It surprised

me a lot. But it does not mean I am looking at him in a worse way. He is

human, after all. David, welcome back, good to see

you. You are quite right, everybody has the right to a private life,

even public figures. But it does not give them the right to do whatever

they want, and not expect disclosure, not expected to become

public. Of course, especially these days. These days, it is more

complicated. You cannot avoid the fact that people are interested in

what you are doing as a politician, as a sports man. They want to know

everything about you, about your life, what you are doing outside the

game, outside politics. This is the worst-case scenario. You to be a

role model. When you are a politician, people expect you to do

the right thing, to say the right thing at the right time, and this is

all about that. When I say that we are all human and I talk about

weaknesses in people, we are all going to be judged one day, by God.

This is the only one who can judge us. Most of the time when I look at

it and I think about myself, people will write something. Someone will

write a story, does he look at himself in the mirror? Who is he to

tell people other people's story? That is the only thing that annoys

me. Talking about the difference between France and England, we are

starting to act the same way. The French do not say that. The polls

show that around 75 to 80% of the French say they do not care what the

president does, where he goes on his motor scooter, but the fact is that

the magazine was a sell-out. We have both just come back from France and

it is on all the broadcasting. Everybody is talking about it.

Because I think this is an amazing story, first of all, because people

in France were not expecting Francois Hollande to do something

like that, to see him on a mope aired, going with a crash helmet to

visit his mistress. It came as a surprise, which is why people wanted

to know more about it and how it was possible. Because when he was

elected, most of the words used against Sarkozy were clear. There

was a lot said about the previous president. So it came as a

surprise. People just wanted to know, which was why they bought the

magazine, to see the pictures. Because of the French attitude to

privacy, people talk about this country being class ridden, but

France is a two class system when it comes to political gossip. The Paris

in a league has known about this for a long while, as they knew about

Mitterrand and Chirac. The ordinary people did not. We live in a very

difficult time. We talk about the financial crisis and everything else

in the world and Europe, and also in France, and people are expecting, I

guess, Francois Hollande to be one of the kind, he was elected to make

a change. He was elected by the people because people thought that

he was going to work for the people. It does not come as a

disappointment. It comes just as, wow! What is going on? It does not

make him bad, or a bad person. Do you know what I mean? That is why I

said he is human after all. It is all about that. In terms of the

media coverage, the keeper of France's nuclear deterrent is

running around France on a scooter with minimal security, having an

affair and a love nest connected to the Corsican Mafia, he cannot tell

us who the first lady is but there is a woman installed as one at

taxpayer expense. As a French taxpayer, I am hoping to pay for it.

Why is it not in the public interest that we should know that? That is a

series of very British questions from a former British editor of a

newspaper, not the way that the French see it. I am not sure that is

true. I think it has been a wonderful illustration of the

difference of two different political cultures that exist within

a few miles of each other. I have noticed that all week British

journalist have been trying to invent reasons why the President's

privacy should be... What is wrong with those reasons? Because they are

fatuous. He is going to fire the nuclear deterrent this week, is he?

You really think the head of state should be out with one bodyguard

going around Paris on a scooter? I think he should do it much more fun.

That is a good answer. I think the president of the United States

should go to baseball games. Andrew, Jack Kennedy's sex life did

not alter the fact that he is widely regarded as one of the greatest

American presidents. Not widely by me. Winston Churchill allegedly

drank too much. Just cause somebody has a private life that does not

bear examination does not mean they cannot be a great statesman. But the

French elite has used these attitudes, from politicians, by the

way, who do not like the media are doing it, the French elite has used

this privacy law to do what they want. Mitterrand praised -- placed

his whole unknown second family into French state apartments paid for by

the French taxpayer. So? I think you have the right to know that, but...

That is the argument. Things have changed significantly in the last

ten or 15 years. I think we try to cut the cake -- we try to copycat

the English system in terms of gossip, newspapers, magazines.

Before that, there were only one or two magazines on a Sunday which were

talking about gossip and the life of people in general. Now, there are

tens of them. Even so, there is a different and I think it goes to the

point about European political union. We are fundamentally

different, politically, across Europe. We have completely different

cultures. Can I take you away from the EU and back to Francois

Hollande? I think French and journalists were right to ask only

one question, on who he was having a relationship with, because he was

announcing in that press conference a move to the centre right,

announcing new payroll taxes, promising to cut public spending.

Those are all far more important issues for the French than who he is

going to bed with. 70% of the French population think that people are

entitled to a private life. That is what they say. Your party suffered

on that. Are you telling me that if David Cameron was jumping on a

motorbike in two hours' time and nipping around to have an affair

with some actress in a dodgy flat owned by the Turkish underground,

any paper that revealed that, you would attack? You've... You would

attack? You have conflated criminality and actresses and

motorbikes. I stick with what David Ginola said so beautifully. People

are entitled to a private life. Let me say something about that? As far

as you are not breaking any law. I don't see anything bad in that.

Obviously, I was talking about a role model, you should have, as a

politician. Overall, this is funny. You don't think it is bizarre that

the President of France can't tell us who the First Lady is? He will be

able to. People are entitled to a private life. It is a different

world. That should be respected, too. We should know about it? He is

entitled to a private life. We shouldn't know that she is in

hospital because of what happened? That should be secret, too? We do

know about that. I know about that. People are entitled to a private

life, so long as they are not doing something strange with money or

breaking the law. Three the one is unfair because there is only the

three of them! David, good to see you. . Pleasure.

Now it's late - and you're probably drunk enough to paint a portrait of

Diane Abbott, but don't clean your brushes with your Blue Nun just yet.

Because waiting in the wings, laughing in the face of This Week

danger, documentary film-maker and all-round action hero Ross Kemp is

here to report back on the scale of modern-day slavery - what he's

witnessed and recorded. And if you think we're bothered what you think

of us, two little words - Katie Hopkins. Only a show with total

disregard for public opinion would have her as a guest. But don't

forget you can still moan until the cows come home on The Twitter,

complain until your Blue Nun in the face on The Fleecebook, and demand a

refund of your licence fee on the Interweb.

Now it's been another busy week at with heated rows over the economy,

bankers' bonuses, Europe and - I'm sorry, none of these are REAL

stories. Can we just have a reminder of our story of the week, please?

Yes, there it is. ?11,750 - just imagine how much Blue Nun 12 grand

could buy. So with that in mind, we sent the Sun's Jane Moore off to art

school for her round-up of the week at Westminster.

Quarter of a million for various shades of grey men - and a couple of

women? If they had asked me, I would have done it for half the price!

Never seen a Lowry before(?) Unless you become Prime Minister, you can

pay for your own vanity project and while you are at it, stick it in the

down stair's loo of your taxpayer-funded second home! This

week, inflation fell to 2%. Only four years late! The PM is not ready

to show us the Monet just yet! He does have a clever wheeze to refill

Treasury paint pots by telling the country to go and frack itself! It

is a lot of money. As soon as a well is dug, the local community should

get ?100,000, they should get 1% of the revenues over the life of that

well and today we are announcing that the local council should keep

100% of the business rate. ?100,000? That won't buy you ten portraits of

Diane Abbott! Many in the energy markets doubt whether fracking is

all it's fracked up to be. Labour Leader Ed Miliband thinks that we

should be drawing from another potential well - bankers. So, this

week, he tried to push the PM into limiting bonuses at the bank of you

and me, a.k.a. , RBS, to no more than ?1 million. How will they

manage? When ordinary families are facing a cost of living crisis,

surely he can say that for people earning ?1 million, a bonus of ?1

million should be quite enough? What I have said very clearly is that the

remuneration, the total pay bill at that investment bank, must come

down. He rises up with all the authority of Reverend Flowers and we

still - where is the apology for the mess they made of RBS in the first

place? Oh well, that was the end of the supposedly new-look less

gladiatorial PMQs - it only lasted a week! No-one is going to paint you

looking like that, dear! # I had a picture

# Of you in my mind # Never knew it would be so wrong...

# Ed wants to be taken seriously as an

artist. Keen to paint himself as a people's champion, a man of many

colours, not just Red Ed, silly! On Monday, he was the save your of the

middle-classes. Tomorrow, he is expected to call for a cap on the

big five banks. But the Governor of the Bank of England reckons he

should go back to the drawing board. I'm calling this one "Ideas". Just

breaking up an institution doesn't necessarily create a viable, a more

intensive competitive structure. # I have been looking so long

# At these pictures of you... # Many small businesses reckon it is red

tape from Brussels that's holding back the economy. And this week,

more than 90 Tory MPs wrote to the Prime Minister demanding that

Britain should be given the power to veto EU law unilaterally. Nah! We

want a different relationship with the European Union that allows

democracy, democracy is about the right to make and change your own

laws. That's what we are asking Parliament to take back. Clearly,

they wish to stiffen their leader's resolve to take on Europe. And of

course UKIP, still painting its rosy picture of life outside the EU. The

letter prompted an angry brush-off from Tory high command, but a

lighter, more pastelly approach from George Osborne. They will have to

choose between joining the euro, which the UK will not do, or leaving

the European Union. Can't argue with that. Hang on a minute... What I'm

not up for is what the Conservative Party appear to be doing more

widely, is flirting with exit from the EU, which will be an act of

economic suicide. So, the PM is patching up holes and painting over

cracks. But when politicians start talking about subjects they really

don't want to, it's a clear sign that there is one thing on their

mind - an election. Just when Cameron thought he had repositioned

the Tory Party as the caring, touchy-feely guys, this happens.

People ought to know that if they stuff themselves silly with high

calorie rubbish foods, they will get fat. It's their responsibility.

Don't beat about the bush Norm(!) Say what you think. My masterpiece

is ready. What do you think, Andrew? I tell you what, mate's rates! Yours

for ten grand! It's no oil painting! Jane Picasso Moore there. Welcome

back. This much-billed speech on economic policy by Ed Miliband

tomorrow, turns out not to be about economic policy, turns out to be

banking reform. He has had a good run on energy prices. That was a

while back now, back to the Labour Conference. He's had a reasonable

run on cost of living crisis, but that's beginning to run out of steam

now that wages are beginning to overtake prices. Can banking reform

fill the gap? Banks are extremely unpopular. It depends what he is

saying. He is referring them to the Competition Commission? Yes.

LAUGHTER That's excited you(!)! Politically,

I see why he is doing it. Michael, what do you think? Help her,

Michael. I don't believe what the bankers say about how much pay they

need in order to avoid their people being pinched abroad. When goi to

Germany, I found the banking system in very good order. I found the gap

between the bottom and the top in pay very much narrower than it is

here. I don't find Germans are leaving Germany to come and work in

Britain. I find when I speak to Germans about this, they say because

we pay our people less, for example in the research facilities, we can

employ more people. Germany has only major investment bank. That's where

the real money is? What I'm saying is I think the Remuneration

Committees of banks and the Chairmen of banks are terrified. The

shareholders are terrified. I think at some point this terror, this

bluff has to be called. I understand that. That would be very popular.

That won't be done by a referral to the Competition Commission? No. It's

the beginning of a process. Everything the EU does is terrible.

I'm not sure trying to limit bonuses is so terrible. Diane... You have to

begin somewhere. He has said something nice about Europe? There

is that. Shall we have a minute's silence? London has become a casino.

Was a casino. It's all been run down now. New York dominates investment

banking now. London is over. Then all the more reason. Well, it means

you don't have to do very much. Ed Miliband is floundering a bit at

PMQs. The polls haven't been going too well. What would you advise? He

seemed fine to me. Can you say that with more enthusiasm? What he has to

zero in on - and he is - is the fact that even though the macroeconomic

numbers look good... They are getting better. They are looking

better. Ordinary British voters feel worse off. There's that discrepancy

between what the numbers say and people's lives. That's where we have

to plant our tent. That is what makes this year so interesting. The

pace of recovery has got to be matched by, if the Tories and the

coalition want to do well, by a feeling that I'm benefitting, too?

Absolutely. You have got the signs that wages might start to pick up.

It's been a big delay between the economy starting to recover and

people's take-home pay starting to improve. You have had this big move

from George Osborne today saying I'm going to recommend correcting the

minimum wage back up to... Vince Cable recommended the same thing in

September. That is fine, a bit of coalition unity wouldn't go amiss.

That is fine. It's all part of this really important theme which is, you

know, everybody sharing in the recovery. I think what is

interesting about this new Ed Miliband intervention this week

saying we are going to rebuild the middle-classes, it is interesting,

it might work. I slightly worry for them, though. Who, the

middle-classes? For the Labour Party. There is a danger of being

seen as a commentator, you know, on public disgruntlement. That is not

really enough... What would Labour do to improve the plight of the

middle-classes? We talked about a whole series of things. Issues

around childcare, fuel prices. Issues around making it a more

stable world. What frightens people is uncertainty. Don't look at me

like that! Now you have said issues, issues, all the unternty has gone.

That is my point. All right, Lord Rennard. Is it not fair to say the

Lib Dems have made a mess of the affair? Yes, that is utterly fair.

It is really damaging the way this has turned out. We have ended up

with a report which was supposed to close it, which is utterly

inconclusive. The statement says that on the one hand the women's

stories are credible, but on the other hand, the party must not do

anything under its own rules. It is a ridiculous situation. Except ask

for an apology, which implies responsibility. What would you

advise me collect to do? -- Nick Clegg. I think this is one of the

moments when the Lib Dems have to realise that their past as a party

not in the spotlight is behind them and more ruthlessness is called for.

I am told that make Clegg has been speaking to the Lib Dem Chief Whip

in the Lords, and privately he wants to withdraw the whip. That is what

he wants to do, but under the Lib Dem rules, apparently he needs a

majority of Lib Dem peers to agree to this, and he is not sure there is

a majority. There is a generational thing here. I think these older Lib

Dem peers think he has not really done anything wrong. Maybe been a

bit stupid, but he has not done... Which is not what the younger people

think. You are right to identify the divide between how the generations

view the crimes and misdemeanours under discussion. But also, there

are two parallel universes. There is this legalistic universe, the idea

that you need a criminal standard of proof for workplace harassment,

which is ridiculous, and then there is the real world in which several

women came forward with stories that a QC found credible. To ignore it is

ridiculous. There are people like that in every party. The Lib Dems'

problem is that he was so powerful for a period that all roads lead to

him. You could not leave the room or change the subject. The fact is that

Nick Clegg needs to clean house. What does Mr Cameron do with his

backbenchers, who are banging on about Europe, no matter how much he

tells them not to. That is what gets coverage in the Tory press, rather

than unemployment and inflation coming down and economic growth

picking up. It is a party that longs to fall apart and fight itself on

this issue. And to a large extent, it longs to be in opposition so it

can have the leisure to do so. It must be exhaust breaking from David

Cameron was my point of view, because after all, he made this

extraordinary commitment to hold a referendum, should there be another

Conservative government, on and in out vote. That was intended to buy

off these people. Ten minutes later, 95 of them write a letter

saying they want a position for Britain which is wholly inconsistent

with membership of the European Union. They are insatiable. They say

history doesn't repeat itself but the Tories are destroying themselves

over Europe, once again. Now, slavery. We think of it as a

blight on generations past, which a more enlightened world has long

since banished. Except that it hasn't. Barely a week goes by

without horrendous tales of human trafficking becoming public, and

that's because the scale of modern-day slavery is far bigger

than many people ever imagine. So on the day British-directed and acted

12 Years A Slave receives nine Oscar nominations, we've decided to put

slavery in tonight's Spotlight. In the week where historical drama

12 Years A Slave triumphed at the Golden globes, we are given a

sobering reminder that slavery is not necessarily a thing of the

past. I have come to India to try to understand its biggest secret dash

human trafficking. Ross Kemp witnessed it first hand. The first

episode of his new series exposes the vastness and cruelty of human

trafficking and child slavery in India. You are saying that you do

kill them, that they are killed? This is closer to home than we would

like to think. Appearing before the liaison committee this week, David

Cameron answered questions on how to root out modern day slavery in the

UK. But it is genuinely shocking and Parliament, the House of Commons,

has done quite a good job at raising the profile of this issue, opening

people's ties to the robber of modern-day slavery.

If he caught Benefits Street on Monday he would have seen Romanian

immigrants furious about their treatment by their UK employer.

Taking our jobs, or exploited for their labour? So, are we too quick

to dismiss slavery as a thing of the past. Is it time to face facts and

recognise that slavery is not just in the house on Mars? -- in our

movie theatres. If anybody thinks slavery is a thing

of the past, they will be thinking differently after your show. There

are more slaves now than there ever have been. The reason for that is

people being displaced, corruption in certain countries, and the

disparity between money around the world, the haves and have-nots. It

is also cultural, it depends what country you go to. No one really

knows how many slaves there are. They estimated to be 30 million

people, but no one really knows. I would suggest it is far more than

that and it shows no sign, wherever I go, of decreasing. No one is doing

anything about it. In India, we were told officially 30,000 girls go

missing into the sex trade as slaves every year. We found out it is

nearer 100 vows. There are 30 detect it is looking for those 100,000

girls and they have three computers. -- detectives. Lots of the police

are involved in trafficking those girls to major cities. The people

involved are never held to account. They reckon there are 100,000 people

involved in the trade in India. We have it in Britain, too.

Undoubtedly. Wherever a culture transfers itself they bring their

culture, and it is natural base do so. People do not know much about

the Chinese culture here, but sex trafficking among the Chinese is

kept under the wire. When I was doing a programme about sex

trafficking people from Eastern Europe to hear, we discover that the

Vietnamese now control most of the marijuana plants in the UK. And

young boys are sold, given by their families in villages to come all the

way here, too supposedly work in a restaurant, sometimes given money by

the traffickers because they think their son will come back with money,

or with a trade. He ends up locked in a suburban house, basically

growing marijuana, and the only English that they learn is, I am

under 16, so they will not get a sentence. They are fed, given food

once a month, and they are locked in and all that they have to do is look

after the plants. They electrocute the houses so that if other

criminals try to come in, they will get a shock. And if the kid tries to

leave, he gets shocked. That is happening under our noses. We broke

into six houses in a suburban road in house lump -- south London.

Hydroponic plants. There must have been 1000 plants, worth a lot of

money. It seems it is on such a scale and probably growing. It is

probably worth $1 billion a year. And the forces of law and order are

inadequate to the challenge. Here, I do not think we understand the scale

of the problem in the UK. People do not want to talk about it. And when

do you say, what is bondage, what is slavery? It is not necessarily about

having physical handcuffs around you. In India, for instance, if you

are tied to a bed, as happens to most of these girls, they are tied

up for a year, chained to the bed, only released to go to the toilet

and for food, and then chained to the bed. They can never go back to

their village. They are shamed. They can never face their families. From

that point on, we end the film, because the reason there has been an

explosion of HIV is because many people go to India, particularly

from other countries in the region, to have unprotected sex because they

believe it can cure them from having aids. We finished the film. I say,

this is a fantastic country and it spends more money on arms than

almost any other country, it has a space programme and it is not really

looking after the mothers of its children. It would seem, after the

success of 12 Years A Slave, the next Hollywood movie should be

slavery today, now. I think slavery is not just a question of cult show.

It is also an economic thing. Do you remember those Chinese people who

died in Morecambe Bay? They work slaves. You find some people and the

gang masters doing agricultural work. We used to call it indentured

labour. It is bonded labour. You inherit a debt you have to pay off.

They either go up to their waste and water, picking prawns. But

generally, you are fourth-generation paying off a debt your

great-grandfather owns -- owes. So you are never going to pay it off

because the interest they place on it gets higher and higher. Well, I

am in shock. I have not had the benefit of seeing this Kim entry

yet. I was going to say I look forward to it, but you know what I

mean. I need to see it because I had no idea there was anything like

this. We think battles have been won and fought against slavery - the

American civil war, Wilberforce, a national hero in this country. After

Britain's appalling industrialisation of slavery, before

then, the role of the Royal Navy in stopping the slave trade from

happening. Actually, those problems, the problems now are on

almost as great a scale. On a larger scale, and showing no sign of

improving, I am afraid. We are not doing enough about it. In the UK and

across the world. What is happening is that people are turning a blind

eye, because we know what is happening in some of these

agricultural, and even, as you say, the houses where they grow

marijuana. Most of the marijuana purchased on the streets of Britain

now has grown in Britain. We are turning a blind eye. We should not

turn a blind eye. Where there are poor and vulnerable people, and

there are people willing to exploit them, you will have conditions of

quasi slavery. If one of these young girls tries to run away, they just

shoot her. Worse. There are many ways of doing it. They honey trap

them. The parents are told that the child, rather than growing up in a

brick kiln, or up to her waist in 50 degrees heat picking prawns, she

will go and work in a town and she will get an education. One of the

girls, under the age of ten, I cannot go into detail, but she was

raped everywhere for two years. She escaped when she was 12, so she had

two years of being abused, sexually abused and as a domestic slave,

both. It is commonplace, and it is also accepted. It is the way they

look at the class system. The first pogrom goes out on Tuesday at 9pm on

sky one. Then we go to Papa New Guinea, where I get held up in the

jungle. And we look at the anarchy there. 99% of the women in the north

of the country have been abused, a horrific fact. There are more

programmes after that. We have run out of time. But I wanted to talk

about this. It is a must watch series.

That's your lot for tonight, folks. We are going straight to the closing

titles.