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Tonight on This Week, join us for some political drama. | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
Making waves across the pond, US Presidential hopeful and business | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
magnate Donald Trump says Muslims should be banned from entering | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
British politician, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh says | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
the apprentice politician should banned from the UK. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Frank Underwood said we are nothing more or less than we choose | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
to reveal and Donald Trump revealed his true self this week. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
In Westminster, David Cameron and the Labour leader give | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
But who took advantage of their absence? | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
Lurking in the shadows, the BBC's John Pienaar. | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Did Angela Eagle fancy Jeremy's job this week? | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
And the chemistry between Frank and his wife in House | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
We take a look at personal relationships in politics, | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
with stars of hit TV show First Dates, maitre d' Fred | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
This Week is like a bottle of fine wine. Well, the longer you keep it | :01:13. | :01:28. | |
corked up, the better. As we say on This Week, | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
friends make the worst enemies. Welcome to This Week, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
the dangerous no-go area in the mean streets of BBC current affairs, | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
where we've decided on a total and complete shutdown of anybody | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
watching this show "until we figure Now, you may find that | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
a little extreme. But it's not as if we're stopping | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
a particular race or religion Nobody could be that | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
bigoted, obviously. We're banning everybody, so there's | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
no discrimination involved. The problem, as regular and now | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
former viewers will know, is that figuring out what the hell | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
is going on has never So this ban on viewers, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
which will affect at least seven homes across the land, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
including two in Cumbria who can't see us anyway because the floods | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
have knocked out their electricity, And when we've figured out | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
what the hell is going on, we haven't yet figured | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
out how to tell you, since you've been | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
banned from watching. The best idea so far is to tweet out | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
#you-aint-no-diane-abbott-bruv. Then you'll know the ban has been | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
rescinded and it's safe Speaking of futile gestures, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
I'm joined on the sofa tonight by two Westminster birds | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
eyeing their prey. Think of them as the golden eagle | :02:40. | :02:40. | |
and Angela Eagle of late I speak, of course, of #jesswecan, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Jess "did you book me And #sadmanonatrain, | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Michael "choo choo" Portillo. Your moment of the week, Michael. | :02:49. | :03:05. | |
The pathetic failure of the government to make a decision about | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
airport capacity in the south-east. It makes me really despair of our | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
democratic system, because the reason for this obviously is that | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
the Conservatives are worried about the mayoral election. Very clearly | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
indeed. And when local political difficulties get in the way of | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
making a decision that is important on National grounds, that makes you | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
depressed about the democratic system. I think it is making us a | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
laughing stock around the world. To have our main airport still only | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
having two runways makes us far behind other countries. They went | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
through the rigmarole of getting an independent commission to take it | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
out of politics. And they postponed it to the other side of the general | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
election, which was a delay of about four years anyway, and this builds | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
upon delays that have gone back decades. We really are in a pathetic | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
position. Your moment of the week. Angela Eagle at the dispatch box. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
Seeing a strong woman and a happy Labour Party was, you know, | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
different from last week. We will talk more about that. Our moment of | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the year is the report that you told Diane Abbott to F off. What did she | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
do? She obliged. She went forth. Now, a This Week | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
public announcement. It's our Christmas show next week, | :04:35. | :04:35. | |
and we've decided to spoil you with the long-awaited | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
return of the Twelfie! So get ready to whip | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
out your decorations next Thursday night, because we'll be wanting | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
festive-themed Twelfie pictures As always, proof that you're | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
watching This Week is a must. Extra points for any Santa hats | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
and Blue Nun in shot. Naked pictures will not be broadcast | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
but discreetly passed to Michael Now, the race to become | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
the Republican presidential candidate took a controversial turn | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
this week, after front-runner Donald Trump called for a total | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
"shutdown" of Muslims entering His comments followed a mass | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
shooting in California which turned out to be the worst terrorist attack | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
on US soil since 9/11, inspired, if not organised, | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
by Islamic State. His remarks provoked condemnation | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
across the American political And here in Blighty a petition | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
to ban him from visiting Britain has become the most popular campaign | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
ever on the British Government's website, with nearly half a million | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
signatories as of this evening. Yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
condemned Mr Trump but resisted That's not good enough for the SNP | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh. There is a hate speaker at large, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
and the Home Secretary needs to show And in this instance, | :05:45. | :05:57. | |
I'm not talking about a terrorist death cult, but someone who's been | :05:58. | :06:10. | |
given a platform to speak to millions of people | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
across the world. Donald J Trump is calling | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
the United States, until our country's representatives can figure | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
out what the hell is going on. # The thrill is gone # The thrill | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
is gone away...# America, | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
the leader of the free world, potentially the next president | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
of the United States, whose prejudice stokes the fires | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
of Islamophobia and makes this world a less safe place | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
for us all to live in. Anti-Muslim attacks have skyrocketed | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
since the atrocities in Paris, with Muslim women who wear the hijab | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
feeling particularly vulnerable. Political leaders set the tone | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
in national debate, and Donald Trump, whether he is | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
elected or not, is responsible The Home Secretary has banned 84 | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
people from the UK already # You know you've done me wrong, | :07:18. | :07:31. | |
baby, and you'll be sorry someday... We can't have one rule for hate | :07:32. | :07:45. | |
preachers and another for rich, Yes, freedom of speech is important, | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
and people have a right to be wrong, but when that tips into affecting | :07:48. | :07:58. | |
the safety of others, or directly helping a terrorist | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
cause, we have to draw the line. Donald Trump says he will make | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
America great again. From masterpieces of literature | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
to a collection of dusty old tomes left on the shelf here | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
in Westminster, Tasmina Welcome to the programme. Michael, | :08:23. | :08:36. | |
yes or no, should Donald Trump be banned from the UK? No, don't think | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
so. This may be a man we have to deal with anyway. I strongly | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
disapprove of his remarks. I'm getting extremely depressed about | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
the fact that he is front runner for the Republicans and could become | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
president of the United States. You think he could become president? | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Well, this will seem controversial but it reminds me of the rise of | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Hitler. When Hitler was rising, people said, we will be able to stop | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
this man when ever we want, there will be a moment when we just turn | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
him off, and subsequently looked back and said, when was the moment | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
we could have stopped him? The Republicans have been saying for a | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
long time that he will fall by the wayside and he has not done yet. You | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
do not think he should be banned. No. I don't want to see him here but | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
I think banning him plays into the political correctness gone mad | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
brigade. We want to show him that we are not like him. I do not like the | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
way very right wing people feel they are the ones being criticised and | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
marginalised by a rising multicultural society, and banning | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
him might just give him another thing to allow other on about. Do | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
you agree that he is a hate speaker and a fascist? I do. I would add | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
that he is a massive full as well. Would you go that far? I don't think | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
we have proof that he is a fascist, and I am not sure this is quite hate | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
speech. I think it is on the verge, on the margins. But I do get quite | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
worried about banning people for what they have said. And I think | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
there has been quite a lot of that around this week, with remarks | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
people have made about homosexuality and abortion. Why not get him over | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
here if he wants to come? He tends to go to Scotland, but why not get | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
him over here and take him on in debate instead of banning him? He is | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
seeking to ban me from the United States and I have done nothing at | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
all. I am asking that the UK Government is consistent in the | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
approach to hate speakers. What Donald Trump did the other day was | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
to say there should be a complete ban on Muslims entering the United | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
States. When people behave in that way on UK soil, we have the | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
opportunity to ban them from entering. That has happened on 84 | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
occasions. I have just come back from America and I watched him being | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
interviewed on TV. In my view, the American interviews, even those on | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
the more left-leaning channels, were rather soft with him. Why not put | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
him on Question Time, get him on TV shows and give him a bit of British | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
steely interviewing? He has been condemned across the United States | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
and the Pentagon made the statement that if you are going to pit the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Islamic religion against the United States, that does not deal with the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
values. Why not bring him here and subject into some British | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
inquisition? Because the man is dangerous. He is on US soil espousal | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
horrible virtues, talking about Muslims as if they are all bad | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
people. We interviewed dangerous people all the time. Are you | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
suggesting we should allow him to come to the UK and do the same thing | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
when it is within our gift to prevent him doing so? We have done | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
so on previous occasions. There was a Dutch MP who was banned from the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
UK. Why is Donald Trump different? Is it because he is a rich American | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
man? When did you decide he was dangerous because not long ago your | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
party and your leader Alex Salmond were cheerleaders for him. When he | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
started talking about Muslims in such terms... Were you and Alex | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Salmond wrong to be cheerleaders for him? This is a serious issue. This | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
is a dangerous mantle can about the entirety of a religion. But was it a | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
mistake to embrace him in the way the SNP and the previous Labour | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Administration in Scotland did? If anybody knew that at this point in | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
time we would be facing a potential leader of the United States who | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
would want to ban an entire religion from entering the United States, | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
what can I say to that? Nobody could predict he would behave in such a | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
ridiculous manner. But you do know now. He is in the middle of a ?200 | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
million upgrade of a famous golf course on the West Coast and has | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
talked of further investment in his Aberdeen golf course. Do you still | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
want that investment in Scotland? This is not about money, Andrew. But | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
do you want the investment? Lets see how Scotland has dealt with this. | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Nicola Sturgeon has removed... I am not asking you that. Do you want him | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
to continue to invest in Scotland, or not, given that you think he is a | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
dangerous man? I don't want to see Donald Trump in Scotland or the UK, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
and the UK Government has an opportunity... Do you want his | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
money? No. The UK Government has an opportunity, as they have with other | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
hate speakers... I want to be clear, you don't want him to continue to | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
invest in Scotland? Unless he withdraws his remarks and apologises | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
to the entirety of those who practice Islam, I don't want | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
anything to do with him at all. We don't often get is clear is that | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
from politicians. Are we to prone, Michael, for something we don't | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
like, our default position is to ban it. It seems to be happening in | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
universities quite regularly, even down to Germaine Greer being banned | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
recently, and you cannot get more right on and progressive than her. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Obviously there is a spectrum of things here and there are certain | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
things that people would say, incitement to violence and so on, | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
which would be a crime if uttered in this country. But I think that | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
across the spectrum it is too easy to start to try to ban people who | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
say things, either that we don't agree with, or that have passed from | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
being fashionable. A few years ago it was perfectly possible to debate | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
abortion, perfectly possible to debate homosexuality. Now it seems | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
that if people have certain views on these subjects, they are to be, for | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
example, excluded from being Sports Personality of the Year. It is | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
nothing new. All that I am asking is that the UK Government is consistent | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
in its approach. Why is it a different set of rules for Donald | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
Trump and four other people? I think that is a bit naive. The reason it | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
is different is that he may be President of the United States. So | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
the way to get round this, let's be clear, is if I was a presidential | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
candidate it would be all right for me to say such things but for | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
ordinary people it is not all right and they should be banned? A | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
different set of rules for different people. | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
We have banned people not just for espousing violence, but the Dutch | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
politician, there was a shock jock from America, Michael Savage, we did | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
ban them from what they said, not because they were encouraging | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
violence, so there is precedent for this. Yes but what Tasmina Aliza two | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
things together, she said it's all right to say this, it's not all | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
right, I said it's naive to think we were going to ban someone who might | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
be president of the United States. You are not going to because | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
systems. She makes a fair point, just because he's rich and has a | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
high position in America, he should stand trial with his travels of the | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
UK just exactly the same as anyone else and I totally agree with that. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
However, I do think we've gone a bit too far in running what people say | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
and the sports personality. -- banning what people say. The boxer | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
who said those horrible things about how women are better on their backs, | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
he has a personality, I don't think he should be banned from going on | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
sports personality, but he shouldn't win it. It's not the BBC who | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
chooses, it is viewers who choose in the end who it is. We've got freedom | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
of speech, are we should distinguish it have freedom of hate speech as | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
well? These people come unstuck very quickly, when the BNP put leader | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
went on Question Time everyone was up in arms but he totally bombed and | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
it was a good thing. Then the BNP... I accept that, but what he is saying | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
is that I... Would you ban Tyson Fury from being on the sports Palace | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
does -- sports personality short list? His comments are really an | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
acceptable. Would you ban him? I wouldn't like to see anyone like | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
that getting an award for anything. If you are being intolerant in your | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
behaviour. He would only get that if people vote for him. Should he be on | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
the short list for people to be able to vote for him? I would rather he | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
wasn't there. There are people in the House of Commons with those | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
views. We better not go there in case you | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
name someone! Her Majesty's lawyers will be looking. Tasmina, and you | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
stay with us? I'd be delighted to stay. | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
Which means a sleepless night, because waiting in the wings, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
From hit Channel Four show First Dates, maitre d' Fred Sirieix, | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
and waitress CiCi Coleman are here to talk about personal chemistry. | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
And remember, if you can't find a date tonight, | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
you can express your lonely thoughts on the Twitter, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
the Fleecebook, and Gordon Brown's world wide web sphere. | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Now, Christmas came early for the Shadow Business Secretary | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
this week, who's waited long for her moment in the political spotlight. | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
On Wednesday, that moment arrived with bells and whistles, | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
as Angela Eagle stood in for Comrade Corbyn | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
at Prime Minister's Questions and put in a well-received | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
performance against the boy-who-would-be-king, | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
She even poked fun at Jezza's habit of quoting correspondence | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
from the public, with a well-timed joke about the President | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
of the European Council, Donald Tusk, I guess you had | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Perhaps Angela will be writing her own letter to Santa | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
to ask for more PMQs outings in the new year. | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
We sent the BBC's John Pienaar down to his own grotto | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
at the Royal Albert Hall to find out. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
This is his roundup of the political week. | :19:11. | :19:24. | |
Welcome to my little place here at the North Pole. | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
Just be glad you don't live in Cumbria. | :19:35. | :19:49. | |
I know, it's hard to be Christmassy when your home is under six | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
And if you're one of those who believe humans are at least | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
partly to blame for climate change - I know we can't all whizz | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
about the skies on eco-friendly reindeer power - well, | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
at least my little helper at the ministry seems | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
The Environment Secretary's predecessor was, as we know, | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
not someone prepared to acknowledge the risks posed by climate change. | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
Does this Secretary of State agree that extreme weather events are, | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
unfortunately, increasingly a feature of British weather, | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
and that Government policy has to adapt accordingly? | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
The honourable lady is absolutely right about the extreme weather | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
As we say, it is consistent with the trends we are seeing | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Although I suppose a bucket would be more useful right now. | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
Labour MPs were very cheery this week. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
No, not just because Jeremy was having a break while Dave | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
Angela was standing in, teasing Dave about trying to get | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
a deal in Europe and threatening to take Britain's ball home. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
She even used Jeremy's "I've got a letter" technique. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
And he writes, "uncertainty about the future | :21:04. | :21:25. | |
of the UK in the European Union is a destabilising factor". | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
While we are quoting missives, there is someone called Tony | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Happens to be the most successful Labour leader in history, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
and he is describing the Labour Party is a complete | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Mr Speaker, I prefer this quote from Tony. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
"Just mouth the words "five more Tory years" and you feel your senses | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
and reason riposte by what they've done to our country". | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
# Santa, honey, one thing I really need... # | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
He's been greeting his new MP after the Oldham by-election, | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
as proof that voters like him more than most of his MPs. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
True, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is more of a Corbynista | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
than the new MP, Jim McMahon, but a win is a win. | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
Jeremy and Jim because Labour won, and George Osborne because, well, | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
Labour won, and that means Jeremy's going nowhere, the one thing | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Jeremy's friends and enemies can all agree on. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Now let's take Jim in to start work on opposing this Tory Government. | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
At Tory headquarters, Lord Feldman is still there | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
as chairman, but the pressure is building over allegations | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
of bullying, after a young activist sadly took his own life. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
The young man's father, wants the party chairman, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
who is also David Cameron's friend, to go. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
It's quite clear to me that David Cameron is | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
He should consider where his loyalty should be. | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Should be to his friend, or should it be to justice? | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
No amount of goodwill from Number Ten will make this one | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
But if you want to get everyone at Westminster singing | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
from the same carol sheet, just mention Donald Trump. | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
In all fairness, he does say he is no bigot, but I must say, | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
whether or not Donald Trump is a bigot, he will certainly do | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
I think the best way to confront the views of someone | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
like Donald Trump is to engage in a robust, democratic argument | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
with him about why he is profoundly wrong about the contribution | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
of American Muslims and indeed British Muslims. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
And that is the best way to deal with Donald Trump and his views. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
# Santa, cutie, fill my stocking with a duplex and cheques | :23:57. | :24:08. | |
# Sign your X on the line, Santa cutie | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
# And hurry down the chimney tonight... # | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
I must say, I've never seen a British Government tear | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
into a presidential wannabe like that. | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
But then there's never been a presidential wannabe quite | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
like young Donald, or a Tory leadership quite so keen and eager | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
to appear centre ground and socially liberal. | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Don't ask me to take sides, I'm Santa, and I've got enough | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
In any case, Donald says he has lots of Muslim friends. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
I expect he's inviting them all over for Christmas carols. | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
# I'll wait up for you, dear | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
# Santa, baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight... | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
You know, it's more fun here than a Stop The War Christmas dinner. | :24:56. | :25:09. | |
Father Christmas there with a little help from John Pienaar | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
at his magical grotto at the Royal Albert Hall. | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
Other grottos are available, I'm told. Tampa -- Tasmina is with us | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
here. As we watched PMQs, it seemed as though what was going on really | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
cheered at the Labour benches. Is that right? Her performance was | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
absolutely magnificent and George Osborne was nowhere near as good as | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
David Cameron is, he has a good many years of practice in front of him. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Both times George has had to do it, he has missed the mood of the house | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
somehow and doesn't play to it. But Angela was totally composed and | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
whilst I did get a few punches it felt like we were landing punches on | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
them. After last week, it was bound to raise the chair. What happened on | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Wednesday that was missing in previous weeks? There's an obvious | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
thing... I'm not very smart. Spell it out for me. I think Jeremy has | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
been a lot better at PMQs than most people expected. The geography | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
teacher star has become legendary. But I think one has to brace | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
yourself when you are in BM cues from both sides about what is going | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
to be said -- PMQs. A lot of that was said to Angela but she took it | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
in her stride. It's quite personal when they are attacking Corbyn and | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
you think, oh gosh, what is going to be said. What did you make of Angela | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Eagle's performance? I thought she did quite well. Osborne did not have | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
a good PMQs on Wednesday, not least because Angela approached him and | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
when Angus Robertson ask a couple of questions about the transfer of | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
nuclear material from Dounreay to Wick, he had no idea what we were | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
talking about and that was very clear from his answer. If you are at | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
the dispatch box you need to know what's happening with nuclear | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
material across the country and he was completely lost. He wasn't | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
across his brief at all. One of the roles of Prime Minister's Questions, | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
for either the Leader of the Opposition or the Prime Minister, is | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
although it's not watched by millions and millions, it's the lift | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
the enthusiasm, the confidence, the esprit de corps of your own side and | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Mr Osborne didn't really do that. I agree, he's not very relaxed in the | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
position and that's what made Angela Eagle's performance so | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
extraordinary. I was watching the clip, her sense of timing when she | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
talks about, I have a letter from Donald of Brussels, and she allows | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
the House to laugh, she waits for it, takes her time, then delivers | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
the next line, absolute composure. It's very difficult to be so | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
composed in those situations. If you've never done it before, either. | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Exactly, which is extraordinary. George hasn't done it often and it | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
shows. How important, this time last week, we were gearing up for the old | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
by-election which fortunately finished by 1:30am, the good people | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
of Oldham had account quickly, how important was that result in shoring | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
up all consolidating Mr Corbyn's position? Well, I think the whole | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
atmosphere in Westminster this week is completely different from the | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
atmosphere last week. Obviously there was lots of fractious | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
goings-on last week over the Syria vote and we did have a divide in our | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
party, a very clear divide, that can be written on a list. This week, Jim | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
was there, he was being sworn in, there was a happy feeling, and it | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
took quite a lot of the flak off Jeremy actually and whilst people | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
have been trying to get the Stop the War thing to run and run it seemed | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
to fall flat and Westminster was more cheerful so it did him a huge | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
amount of favours this week. Isn't it in the SNP's interests for Mr | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
Corbyn to consolidate his position, or is it better that things are seen | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
to fall apart, because there are 56 SNP, two have lost the whip, at | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
least 54, who, you can see ourselves as being a formidable opposition? If | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
Mr Corbyn becomes that, then you don't? We've been described as the | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
effective opposition foreign number of weeks now and I'd seek to deny | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
just a victory in the Oldham by-election but it was telling when | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
Angela Eagle went to the dispatch box there was a resounding cheer | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
from the Labour benches and although Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
Labour party I don't believe he's leading the Labour Party and they | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
are deeply divided. It's for them to get their act together. While that | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
is still ongoing there needs to be an effective opposition at | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
Westminster holding this government to who are having a relentless | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
assault on the poor and vulnerable of this country and we are stepping | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
up to the plate. I would have said the Oldham by-election as a tactical | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
success of the strategic disaster for the Labour Party because... It | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
means nothing, Ewan-macro in a safe Labour seat. If you had lost it | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
would have meant something. Jeremy Corbyn is more entrenched and as far | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
as you're concerned he is the problem so the problem has been | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
cemented in position. Let's speak of a Tory problem, it seems to get | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
bigger and bigger, and that's Europe and the renegotiation, and the lead | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
up to the referendum. Does anybody by this speech from the Prime | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
Minister that if he doesn't get his way he's going to lead the out | :30:46. | :30:46. | |
campaign? I'm not aware of anyone believing | :30:47. | :31:00. | |
that. You don't believe it either. It is impossible to believe, yes. I | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
would suggest the European leaders know that as well. Of course. So not | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
a good negotiating position. No, that is where he started and that is | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
where he is now. From the beginning he made clear he wants to keep | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
Britain in the EU, so from the beginning he has undermined his | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
negotiating position. Is he getting anywhere in negotiations? Not that I | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
am aware. It feels like his swansong. If he falls apart on your | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
people say, I said I was going to go, goodbye. This is the problem for | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
Mr Cameron, because if it goes pear shaped from his point of view on | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
Europe, that is probably the end of his career on -- as Prime Minister. | :31:46. | :31:53. | |
How unfortunate! Yes, it is impossible to imagine he would | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
survive that, particularly because we would only vote to leave the EU, | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
I assume, if the majority of the English had voted for it and | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
probably a minority of the Scots. The next thing would be a new demand | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
for a referendum in Scotland. Would there be? Well, if we are dragged | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
out of the EU against our will there is a much a case for the Scots | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
saying, we want to do things ourselves. David Cameron at the | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
moment is creating nothing but enemies, acting like a spoiled | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
schoolboy, at a time when we are involved in conflict and have a | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
refugee situation, when we should be working together, not against each | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
other. You all agreed that things are not going well for him and I | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
understand that. But if this country voted to leave, and I know that in | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
Downing Street they are more worried of that than they were couple of | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
months ago because he has kind of lost control, I agree. So if it goes | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
the wrong way from his point of view and we vote to leave, but Scotland | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
had actually voted to stay in, but a majority of England voted to leave | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
and the numbers meant we had a majority to leave, would that | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
trigger, in your view, a second referendum? Would the SNP demand a | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
second referendum? That would demonstrate again how we look at | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
things in different ways and have different aspirations for our | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
country of Scotland. It has been mentioned before, it certainly could | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
be considered as a trigger. But it would not automatically trigger a | :33:31. | :33:32. | |
referendum because there are a number of things you have to go | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
through. First, it has to be in your manifesto, then you have two win an | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
election, to be the government, and then you have to win the referendum. | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
We will get the sense if the people of Scotland want that. Surely, | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
Nicola Sturgeon if, as the polls suggest she will be re-elected and | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
the SNP will still be running Holyrood, if she wanted a referendum | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
she could call 41. She could, as a result of the European referendum. | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
This may be a referendum but we act as a democracy and Nicola is a | :34:08. | :34:09. | |
Democrat and will not make a decision on her own. She will speak | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
to the people and take a feel of what they want to do. If the opinion | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
polls show you would not win, you would not hold one. Another | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
revelation, we knock on doors in Scotland and speak to people. I | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
worked that out. They do in Birmingham, too. Michael does not | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
knock on doors. I don't any more. I think the two of you underestimate | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
the situation. It is not only that we are going to vote to leave, it is | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
that we would then leave. It is such a change, it rewrites the political | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
landscape completely. I think the way you are saying, we would have to | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
take a view, of course Scottish people would say, we demand a | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
referendum. It is not just as simple as saying, see you later. Thank you | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
for being with us. Now, the reason This Week is so god | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
damn popular is no mystery - Whether it's Michael | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
Portillo and Alan Johnson, Michael Portillo and Gisela Stuart, | :35:10. | :35:12. | |
or just Michael Portillo the This Week camera lens has | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
got pretty damn steamy. And that's before we've even | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
mentioned Diane Abbott, who hadn't known a love like Michael | :35:25. | :35:25. | |
since that East German motorbike holiday she took with Comrade Corbyn | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
back in the late 70s. And you know what they say | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
about East German motorbike holidays - what happens behind | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
the Berlin Wall, stays behind That's why we're putting | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
the politics of "personal chemistry" There is only one happiness in this | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
life - to love and to be loved. Lessons in love, but do politicians | :35:45. | :35:55. | |
need to learn a thing or two They've been connected for years, | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
but will Jezza stand up Stop The Labour leader's guest of honour | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
at the group's annual Christmas party, proving that | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
even if his Parliamentary party They say a close relationship | :36:12. | :36:13. | |
is about give and take. David Cameron celebrated his 10th | :36:14. | :36:20. | |
anniversary as Tory leader this week by letting his nearest and dearest | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
take his place at PMQs. To leave his best friend in the best | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
position to replace him. I think my right honourable friend | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
the Prime Minister did But does a winning | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
formula in politics... ..always mean good chemistry | :36:38. | :36:39. | |
in person? It certainly got icy between this | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
duo, after they moved So when it comes to chemistry | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
on a big date, maybe you should just Just ask the staff at | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
the First Dates restaurant, who've seen more crazy | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
experiments than most. Do you have any political | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
views yourself? I shouldn't say it as if it's | :37:03. | :37:04. | |
a dirty secret. The This Week chemistry lab - | :37:05. | :37:13. | |
always causing strong And I'm joined in the This Week | :37:14. | :37:15. | |
restuarant by CiCi Coleman You throw together two complete | :37:16. | :37:39. | |
strangers in a restaurant, both single and looking for love. And you | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
then from the encounter. It sounds really awkward. Well, it is awkward, | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
slightly. When you have an understanding of what you are doing, | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
you know you are going on a date, so you are preparing yourself. It is | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
awkward but it doesn't need to be awkward. Can you tell if people are | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
going to hit it off? When they come in the door, yes, sometimes you have | :38:06. | :38:07. | |
a strong inclination that it is going to work. The way people look | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
at you, their body language, I contact, and the vibe they give you. | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
Somebody walks into the restaurant and you see straightaway that it is | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
going to work or not. You can tell. Can you tell, too? I like to think I | :38:23. | :38:32. | |
can. I have an idea. What kind hit it off, and is it because they are | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
similar, like-minded, same interests, or are there examples of | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
opposites attract? There are so many elements to why people like each | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
other. You could talk about anything. You could have a | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
connection, or no connection, in terms of different star signs, your | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
parents are from different areas, whatever. But if you have that thing | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
called chemistry, then you can't deny that. It is real. You can't | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
deny that. There must be examples of one of the two thinking, we are | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
getting on like a house on fire, and the other one can't wait to get out. | :39:12. | :39:19. | |
It does happen. What Cici is saying about chemistry, it is unconscious. | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
You cannot control it, it happens or does not. Sometimes chemistry can be | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
short lived, and it may be just that you are very excited. It does not to | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
be sexual, you just want to have a conversation because you are | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
interested to find out more and go deeper into what they have to say. | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
With others, it may be just last chemistry. The one I am interested | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
in is long-term chemistry, where you want a relationship, not necessarily | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
with a man a woman you want to have sex with. It can just be a | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
relationship where you want to connect and have deep, meaningful | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
conversation. It is about that connection. You have the cameras | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
running, each side, if they fancy the other side, they are trying to | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
impress the other side as well. It is kind of artificial, is it not? | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
When people walk in, they know they are coming on a TV programme but it | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
is a first date. They walked in and the cameras are on the side and you | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
can see them but after a while you forget about it. People actually | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
genuinely wants to find love. When they are just talking, even though | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
some people may be controlled, they completely open up. This is what you | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
see and the beauty of the programme, it is almost like anthropology, the | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
study of people, a social experiment. It is warm and beautiful | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
to watch, isn't it? One of the singletons was so nervous that he | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
thought the way to break the ice was to talk about politics. Liberal | :40:52. | :40:59. | |
Democrat, works every time! Jess, you have been on a blind date with | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
649 other MPs, since you are new to Parliament. Any political or | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
personal chemistry going? I have you -- I hear you have a thing for Jacob | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
Rees-Mogg. Here's a man who in the Venn diagram of things we agree on, | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
we could not find one single one. But he is so well brought up. He | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
opens the door for you and stuff. I have never known anyone do that sort | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
of thing. He is really lovely and we definitely have chemistry. But your | :41:31. | :41:37. | |
show is amazing. I love it. It is so awkward, sometimes it is brilliant. | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
It is the awkward bit that you like? I like it when people do not know | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
what to say and they say things like, I am a Liberal Democrat. Any | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
political relationships at work because of chemistry? Diane Abbott | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
and me. We have known each other for a very long time, and if you have | :42:00. | :42:06. | |
done that, you are likely to have chemistry. Chemistry is about | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
sincerity and confidence and strong self-esteem and knowing who you are. | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
You can share something and be on the same level. You have to have | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
that grounding, otherwise you can't share anything because one is here | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
and one is down here. Any chemistry here? Jess has got her legs crossed | :42:24. | :42:35. | |
the wrong way. I like trains! Half of you is all right. David and | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
George, that is chemistry. That is important chemistry. Maybe some of | :42:42. | :42:48. | |
it has to rub off from Mr Cameron to Mr Osborne. Just before we go, Fred, | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
I am told you have a pop-up restaurant at Thamesmead prison. | :42:54. | :43:00. | |
Today I was there at 9am. We opened a pop-up in Thamesmead. It is the | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
launch of a new charity called a clean slate to open pop-up | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
restaurants and teach people the skill of the hospitality industry | :43:11. | :43:12. | |
and the value of the hospitality industry. We opened it with 20 | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
prisoners. And then we cooked for 40 guests. It was unbelievable, the | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
energy. The prisoners were so observant and they were listening | :43:26. | :43:28. | |
and so attentive to everything we did and said. The good thing is that | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
some of them are going to be released shortly. One is released | :43:33. | :43:35. | |
tomorrow and he is going to give me a call and hopefully we can get him | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
a job, depending on what he is looking for. And there are vacancies | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
available? In the industry there are so many vacancies and you cannot | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
find staff. It is important to find people from this country because | :43:50. | :43:52. | |
there has never been a better time to be in the industry. You cannot | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
find waiters, chefs, managers. People can earn up to ?40,000 | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
easily. And the average salary in the UK is 18,000. Hopefully we can | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
open more around the country. And U2 are together now, on the sofa. We | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
have chemistry, but not that kind of chemistry. | :44:14. | :44:15. | |
Because it's the annual Stop the War Christmas disco | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
We're off to pull Comrade Corbyn's cracker and blame Western | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
intervention for the fact that there's never any toilet paper | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
The TV equivalent of the Government's position on a third | :44:27. | :44:41. | |
Nighty night - don't let the total void bite. | :44:42. | :45:08. | |
Said, "I love Christmas pudding and would not go without | :45:09. | :45:11. |