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Tonight on This Week, we're strapping on our proton packs, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
and in the mood for some paranormal political activity. | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
It's 30 years since the original but they're re-booting Ghostbusters. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
In Westminster, are some Labour MPs trying to spook their leader, | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
Jeremy Corbyn and scare him from office? | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Feisty union leader, Mark Serwotka warns he'll be | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
firing his 'marshmallow goo' in their direction. | :00:35. | :00:44. | |
Jeremy Corbyn does not need marshmallow man. He has the tools | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
and the talent. Let local party members decide who represents them. | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Hi-tech equipment may be needed to locate the truth in the fight | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
We've sent The Mirror's Kevin Maguire to go in search of strange | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Can you smell something? Is that the Queen supporting Brexit? | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
And, an all-female team star in the Ghostbuster re-make. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
We've decided to talk about the supernatural power | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
I ain't afraid of no ghost. But I am terrified to be on this week. | :01:14. | :01:28. | |
This Week, you're going to call This Week. | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
Unfashionable, under-funded, but top of the league, | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
the Leicester City of BBC current affairs. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
And you join us tonight for an 'earthquake' after The Sun | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
newspaper alleged that Nick Clegg was once considered important enough | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
to be invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
And, despite security concerns was allowed close enough | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
to the monarch to engage her in conversation. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
According to The Sun, the exchange took place at a lunch | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
in 2011, with the Queen stating the EU was "heading | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Faced with the accusation that she once gave Nick Clegg | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
the time of day, Buckingham Palace has moved to deny any knowledge | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
of Mr Clegg, insisting they never comment on rumours or innuendo | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
linking the royal family with Liberal Democrats. | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
But the hunt for the leak intensifies. | :02:24. | :02:24. | |
Suspicion has fallen on Michael Gove, a keen Brexiter | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
who was at the Windsor Castle lunch with Clegg. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Friends of Gove claim he's innocent and his spokesman said, | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
"We don't comment on private conversations with the Queen". | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
The Sun is sticking to its guns, and says it "was based | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Moving on, in other entirely unconnected news, Mr Michael Gove | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
and his wife Sarah were guests at the weekend at the wedding | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
celebration of Miss Jerry Hall and Mr Rupert Murdoch, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Chairman of News Corporation, and owner of The Sun newspaper. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Also in attendance were Mrs Rebekah Brooks, | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
News UK chief executive, and publisher of The Sun newspaper | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
and Mr Tony Gallagher, family friend, and editor of The, | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
I'm joined on the moral high-ground tonight by two people | :03:07. | :03:20. | |
who still haven't taken in any Syrian refugees. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
Think of them as the Nicola Sturgeon and Yvette Cooper of | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
I speak, of course, of #jesswecan Jess Phillips and we all missed him | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
#sadmanonatrain Michael 'choo choo' Portillo. | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
Your moment of the week? The ailing European Union economy have received | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
emergency medical help today from the European Central Bank, a most | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
unexpected amount of stimulus given to it. Why? Because the growth | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
figures are disappointing. Why? Because it appears to be tumbling | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
into deflation. For those who are part of Project Fear, making us | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
worry about jobs and economic prosperity if we leave the European | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Union, this makes the argument quite difficult. We are actually attached | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
to the sick man of Europe, and its beginning in some way is to resemble | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
a corpse. Interest rates so low that if you put money with the ECB, you | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
have to pay the ECB to take your money. We are now having to pay | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
people to go out and lend the money. Aside from us winning a vote for | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
once, my moment of the week has to be being able on International | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
women's Day being able to give voice to 120 women who have been murdered | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
since last International women's Day. It was a privilege to be able | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
to do it. Now, you put your left leg in, | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
your left leg out and shake But it's not the hokey cokey, | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
it's the Labour Party where left-wingers who either felt | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
the party wasn't for them, or who were actively excluded, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
are now returning to the fold. So with Comrade Corbyn at the helm, | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
is it now time for committed activists to take back | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
control in the party, And are Labour MPs right to fear | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
they might face de-selection if they don't get | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
with the new programme? Re-entering the Labour fray after 25 | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
years on the outside is trade union Tony Blair rather stupidly said that | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
anyone who supported Jeremy Corbyn I am actually a patient waiting | :05:25. | :05:46. | |
for a heart transplant, and not only do I support | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Jeremy Corbyn, after 25 years, I have rejoined his Labour Party | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
because now the days of New Labour We are now entering a really | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
exciting political moment, where opposition will be really | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
left-wing, unlike the Tony Blair years, where he worshipped | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
the private sector and had Peter Mandelson telling us how | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
relaxed he was about Hundreds of thousands of people | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
voted for Jeremy Corbyn because he represents | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
an alternative to austerity. Austerity has meant a million | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
people using food banks, many people desperately needing | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
houses, and in the public sector where we have seen a decade of pay | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
restraint and hundreds of thousands And the many hundreds of thousands | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
of people who, like me, are excited by this new politics, | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
deserve to see a Labour Party that That's not a purge, | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
that's actually democracy. Those on the right of the party | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
bleating about purges should reflect It was they who used to support | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
the parachuting in of New Labour candidates into constituencies | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
against the will of local activists. In fact, during the Tony Blair | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
and Gordon Brown era we saw a cynical abuse of power, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
where the leadership would impose like-minded candidates onto local | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
parties, often without even asking Contrast that approach | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
to the one that I support, which is in a democracy, | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
local party members should decide If people want Chuka Umunna | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
or Tristram Hunt, But if, like me, they want radical | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
representatives who support Jeremy Corbyn, then they should be | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
allowed to choose them. Indeed, given the Government's | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
boundary changes, many local parties are going to have to choose | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
their new MPs to stand I think it's essential that no | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
obstacles are put in any party's way, so that people can | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
choose who they want. And now we hear about those MPs | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
scheming to keep Jeremy Corbyn off the ballot paper in the event there | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
has to be a new leadership election. This just goes to show how scared | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
of Jeremy's popularity some So a few hundred MPs may not | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
like Jeremy Corbyn but they need to remember that hundreds | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
of thousands of party members do, And people should remember, | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
it's their party too. From Bookmarks socialist bookshop | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
in Bloomsbury to making little to no mark on political discourse | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
on This Week, Mark Serwotka Welcome to the programme. Jess, are | :08:47. | :09:02. | |
you glad to see Mark back in the Labour Party? I am delighted when | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
people come back. We have had not as many as in London, where there | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
seemed to be thousands who have rejoined. We have had 40 or 50 new | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
members and I am delighted. I very much hope you are delivering | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
leaflets, Mark. The has a bag with him. You were barred from voting in | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
last year's leadership election on the grounds that you did not share | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
the aims and values of the Labour Party. Have you changed your views, | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
or has the party changed since Jeremy Corbyn's election? The party | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
has changed. The irony of being barred was that it was never | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
explained what the aims and values were that I did not share. Nobody | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
spoke to me, I just got a letter saying he would not count my vote. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
You have not changed? I have not and I am excited about the fact that I | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
can now join a party where the leader and Shadow Chancellor are | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
clear they want economic alternatives to austerity, a fairer, | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
more equal society. It is an exciting moment in British politics. | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
If you have not changed, are you a Marxist? I call myself a radical | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
socialist. What is the difference? I believe we need a radical change in | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
the way society is ordered, it should be run for the needs of the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
many, not just profit for the few at the top, and we need real changes, | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
which I think Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell are advocating. You have | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
been associated with Trotskyite groups in the past. Are those with | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Trotskyite history or connections, do you feel they are now welcome in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
the Labour Party? Peter Mandelson was a member of the young com in | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
this league, and Jack Straw was a member of the commonest party. But | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
you tell me you have not changed your views. I have not changed my | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
views in terms of voting for a fairer society. We all felt things | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
when we were younger that we maybe do not feel the same way now. But I | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
joined the Labour Party not because I think there will be a socialist | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
revolution but because we have the prospect in 2020 of a Labour | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
government that is radical and can make a change for millions of | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
people. That is why it is exciting. You do not think Labour can win in | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
2020. At the moment, if you look at the polls and the gerrymandering | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
that the Tory party are doing with the boundaries that you talked | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
about, it is going to disproportionately affect Labour | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
seats. At the polls in 2016 cannot tell you anything, surely, about | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
2020. Who knows? Let's hope the Tory party start to eat their own tales. | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
So why do you think you can't win? At the moment it does not seem the | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Labour Party is in any shape to face an election but luckily we do not | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
have two until 2020. I think the Labour Party can win in 2020. If | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
they stick with Jeremy Corbyn, in 2020 people will have a real | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
political choice where they will see absolutely the difference between | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
what the Tories are advocating and what a radical Labour government are | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
advocating. My problem in the past was that whilst there was a | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
difference between parties, there was such a consensus towards the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
centre that many people did not vote Conservative, they did not vote, or | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
they tragically voted Ukip. We have four years to get those ideas | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
across. In the hundred seats with the lowest turnout, Labour has 96 of | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
those already. So we can absolutely increase our vote share but we won't | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
necessarily increase our share of the seats. At the moment we are at | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
real risk of really losing great swathes of the South, great bits of | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Yorkshire that used to be Labour heartland. Why? Well, we did lose | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
them, we have to win them back. Why won't you? I can't see at the moment | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
the Labour Party, as presented at the moment, reflecting what I hear | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
on the doorstep, some of which will come from media pressure, I | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
understand that, but at the moment I don't think the Labour Party is | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
cutting through. The Conservatives are much better presenting hope | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
which, to me as a socialist, seems unbelievable that they could present | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
hope to anyone when they are damaging thousands of disabled | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
people. There are people queueing up who can't find houses. But the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Labour Party is not cutting through, the message is not getting through, | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
we are talking to the converted. Is it good news for the Conservatives | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
if people like Mark RE joining the party? I am afraid absolutely it is. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
To begin, I want to analyse what Mark has said. He says there is a | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
place for an anti-austerity party. I think this parliament will have more | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
austerity than we predicted before. And anti-austerities parties have | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
done quite well in Greece and Spain and so on, so I understand the | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
proposition. But against that one has to say the British public has a | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
pretty clear political position on the centre ground. The British | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
public would not vote for Ed Miliband, for Neil Kinnock, not even | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
for Gordon Brown. The only one they voted for again and again was Tony | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Blair. I think this is a fact of life. Even if we go through a | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
five-year parliament, which for many people was pretty grim, there is no | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
evidence in history of British voting patterns that they will vote | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
for a left-wing candidate. Let Mark respond to that? I'm an | :14:59. | :15:12. | |
optimist. Who thought Bernie Sanders would be winning States. He is not, | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Hillary Clinton is. But he's doing better than anybody would have | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
believed. He's still not winning. The right is rampant in France, even | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
in Sweden, Finland, Poland, Croatia, growing in other parts of Europe | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
too. There's no mass Marxist revival? Well, my argument is, and | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
take Ed Miliband as an example, people didn't vote for him because | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
he's too left-wing, they thought there are two parties broadly | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
offering, within the same narrow constraints, the same economic | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
solutions and the differences were marginal and people thought, we'd | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
rather go with the true believers. What Jeremy Corbyn will offer is | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
something totally different. When people realise if they vote for | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
that, they'll get more investment in their Public Services there,'s going | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
to be better investment in schools and hospitals. Provided you can | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
create the wealth to do that? Yes. It's easy to talk about investment, | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
more difficult to create the money that will pay for the investment? I | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
believe that if you have a fairer tax system, get people into work | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
earning decent wages and paying tax and you can raise revenue and don't | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
obsess about clearing the deficit in a ridiculously small period of time, | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
the economy can grow. That's what people need to hear about. I agree | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
with Jess, Jeremy probably isn't cutting through, but to be honest, | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
east not getting this chance to put the alternative to the people | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
because too many of the stories we are getting are briefings against | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
him, we are being side tracked by things like not singing the National | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Anthem, non--issues, but let's give some hope to people and keck see | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
politics transformed in Britain. Labour politics has a lot of new | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
members and there are boundary changes coming up which will give | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
the new members a chance to Keys knew candidates if they want. Why | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
shouldn't they? I'm not saying they shouldn't. Every Labour Party has | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
the democrat Iing right to hold, where new seats are created, and | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
seats are completely, you know, they are very diverse and so it's only | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
right that the new body of membership should be able to look at | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
who their members want. So you wouldn't mind if Chuka Umunna, | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
Tristram Hunt, Stella Creasy, are targeted? If they are targeted, | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
ex-pecks them to fight back. They haven't got the membership? Well, I | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
mean again, I can't predict what they are going to have. There is a | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
different membership in the Labour Party now isn't there? It's changed? | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
It's clearly 100,000 new joiners and I think that... A lot of them are in | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
London. No, but the party has massively increased. My view is that | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
you should be a democrat. So, as I said, if Chuka Umunna's local party | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
believe he's still the man for them, they should have him. There | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
shouldn't be anything from the top. Leave to it the constituency. My | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
point in the past was that we did see him in positions. In Yorkshire, | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
where a constituency selected a left-wing candidate like Liz Davies | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
in Leeds, the central party ruled it out. I want to see some democracy. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
What is inevitable, is that so many new members going in excited pill | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
change, they'll want to see the MPs... We all want democracy. I | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
disagree with the idea of putting in mandatory reselections. I don't | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
think you have called for that, you have said the boundary change is | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
given opportunity. My view is, without changing the rules, there is | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
the boundary changes. Do you like mandatory reselection? To reselect | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
if they wish. Do you want mandatory? Councillors have to be standing for | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
reselection every four years, I have to stand for it. So you do? I don't | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
see how anyone can argue that the candidate should be endorsed every | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
time by their local party, but even without changing the rules and | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
having mandatory reselection, it's already the case that local party | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
members can change a ballot. A one final question for you. If Jeremy | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
Corbyn goes to the country with a proper socialist manifesto of the | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
type that you approve and Labour gets thumped again the way it did in | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
1983, will you accept there is not an appetite for that kind of | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
socialism in Britain? I won't accept that my views will change. I didn't | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
sigh that? What I would say is at that particular point, the | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
electorate will have made a specific choice and I'm a great believer that | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
you should campaign for what you believe in and hope to convince | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
people and if at first you don't succeed, keep triing. I would rather | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
fight for something that you really believe will have a fairer society | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
than give up. I'm done that for the last 35 years and intend to carry on | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
trying. Mark, thanks for being with us, good to see you back to health | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
as well. Thanks, hopefully next time I'll have had my heart transplant. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
You are looking well on it Thank you very much. | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Now it's late - Donald Trump's very small hands late - | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
but we're packing so much more than The Donald because waiting | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
in the wings, Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac is here to discuss the idea | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
And if you want to see how little solidarity really exists | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
in the human race, just follow us on The Twitter, | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
The Fleecebook and Gordon Brown's Intergalactic Web Sphere. | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
Now, we're only a few weeks into the EU referendum campaign | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
and already it feels rather lacking in 'tang'. | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
But you can always rely on BoGo Johnson to pick up | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
a metaphor when one comes loose from the back of the scrum | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
So when he was asked this week to explain Britain's future outside | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
the single market via the medium of marmalade, the part-time | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
London Mayor was in his sweet spot, waxing lyrical on British-made | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
preserves and their appeal abroad, however many pips... | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
So we sent The Mirror's Kevin Maguire to the London Jam Factory | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
This is his Roundup of the political week. | :21:35. | :21:56. | |
Like me, that fruity Mayor of London, Boris "BoGo" Johnson | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
found himself in a bit of a jam this week. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
When BoGo wasn't likening the European single market to making | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
marmalade, he was distancing himself from a sticky memo from an aide | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
banning City Hall staff from disagreeing with the boss on Europe. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Only 24 hours earlier, BoGo had accused pro-EU campaigners | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
I think I've made a bit of a cock up with this? | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
It's not something that I agree with, and my staff, my team, | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
have complete freedom to say what they want. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Indeed, they already are and have been for some days. | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Let a hundred flowers bloom, folks, OK. | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
BoGo sweetly quoting Chairman Mao is a taste of the bitter | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
polarisation ahead of June's referendum, with leavers roasting | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney for raising unappetising risks | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
The issue is the biggest domestic risk to financial stability. | :23:09. | :23:25. | |
This is what I think is doing your reputation | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
and the reputation of the Bank of England harm, that you are coming | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
out with the standard statements of the pro-EU group. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
It is speculative, and beneath the dignity of the Bank of England | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
to be making speculative pro-EU comments. | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Carney blew a raspberry back but a far juicier public figure | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
of much greater magnificence, also objected to being | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Her Maj's royal warrants appear on some inferior preserves, | :23:57. | :24:08. | |
but the monarchical damson in distress was not amused | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
when the Sun screamed, "Queen backs Brexit", | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
based, supposedly, on a conversation at a Windsor Castle | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Buck House complained to the press regulator, | :24:20. | :24:31. | |
Ipso, and the argument over Britain in or out of Europe | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
I think it's appalling that the people who want to pull | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
the United Kingdom, to drag the United Kingdom out | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
of the European Union are now trying to drag the Queen into | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
As for the story in the Sun, it's nonsense. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
The right royal row in Britain followed a European Union deal | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
to pay Turkey a king's ransom to stem the flow of refugees | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
and economic migrants, in turn keeping mum about the new sultan | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
in Ankara crushing dissent and seizing control | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn's bouts are rarely tasty, | :25:20. | :25:31. | |
producing little heat and shedding even less light. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
If we really do have the strong economy that the Prime Minister | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
claims, then why did the Chancellor warn last week, I quote, "We may | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
The disabled, pensioners, young people, women? | :25:47. | :25:58. | |
Is he going to rule out attacking those groups? | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
He will see the Budget next week when my right honourable | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
friend the Chancellor, who has an excellent record | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
of steering this nation's economy, will stand up to give that. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
With George Osborne bottling the big pension reform that would have been | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
a single rate of tax relief benefiting all workers, | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
the Chancellor is in a sticky position of his own, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
and needs a new recipe in next week's Budget to revive his jarring | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
And it was supermarket baskets at dawn when the Scots Nats joined | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
Labour MPs and Tory rebels to oppose Government plans to let supermarkets | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
open all hours on Sundays in England and Wales. | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
I and my SNP colleagues are not prepared to gamble with the pay | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
packets of some of Scotland and the UK's lowest paid workers. | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
Why is it that in this country this Government thinks we should | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
put the free market above everything else? | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
So it's jam today, jam tomorrow and jam between 11 | :27:05. | :27:17. | |
Kevin Maguire there making a mess at the London Jam Factory. | :27:18. | :27:37. | |
Michael, do you believe the Sun story that says Madge backs Brexit? | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
No, absolutely not. I mean, Her Majesty's not given political | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
opinion in 90 years and I don't think suddenly her resolve broke | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
down at this compelling lunch with Nick Clegg and Michael Gove. Do you? | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
I'm glad we are speculating about the Queen, she's still alive. I'm | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
delighted it's not just dead people we care about how they might have | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
voted in the European referendum. But do you believe it? I don't think | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
that the Queen usually passes comment like that. I think that it's | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
a sort of desperate Scrabbling of people trying to come up with a | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
reason. If it was true, there would be a generational split since Prince | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
William was in favour of staying in. That does happen in families, you | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
know. Particularly extended families. The Governor of the Bank | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
of England, was he not entirely within his rights, he was asked to | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
what the biggest domestic uncertainty would be to the British | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
economy and he says it would be if we left the EU. It doesn't mean it | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
would be wrong to do so, but in the medium to long-term, everything | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
could work out fine. But there would be uncertainty and risk in the | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
short-term would there not? There's uncertainty now obviously. It's a | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
big factor. I wouldn't attack Mark Carney on this. I think what | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
happened, if you remember at the global summit in China, where | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
suddenly it appears in the minutes that all the global leaders who had | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
much more important things to think about thought that Brexit was one of | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
the great uncertainties of the economic future. I think that smelt | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
badly of interference by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I think | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
you are right that Mark Carney must admit there is uncertainty over | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
this. I mean, you know, the uncertainty is, we may move into a | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
bright new future of independence. How is the reference dumb playing so | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
far outside London, outside Westminster? | :29:36. | :29:46. | |
I have heard ten e-mails about the EU and 400 about bees. Everybody has | :29:47. | :29:57. | |
an equal vote on this so they don't need to lobby me because they get | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
their own say, but that is not coming up on the doorsteps. People | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
do not volunteer whether they are in or out, people rarely ask me | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
questions about it. I have had far more e-mails about housing. If you | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
are right, it raises an interesting point about the turnout in this | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
referendum. I think it will be quite difficult for pollsters to gauge | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
this one, partly because there is a difference between metropolitan | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
opinion, it is a hot topic in London, and non-metropolitan | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
opinion. If we firstly don't know what people are thinking and we | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
don't know which people are going to turn out to vote, it will be | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
difficult to predict. At the moment it would look like a majority of | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Conservative voters would vote to leave, which means for the remaining | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
to win, you need the Labour Party. Is that going to happen, will the | :30:53. | :31:00. | |
Labour vote be mobilised? We need to do an awful lot to make it seem as | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
if it is a Labour issue and it has Labour at its heart. Are you going | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
to be able to do that? I will try my hardest. When we are out there | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
knocking, which we do every week, we ask people the question. It is | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
difficult when you have to campaign altogether but I think the public is | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
better than that. I don't think they want to see us squabbling. Of | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
course, it is not only Labour support that would be needed, but | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
Scottish Nationalists support. It is an interesting referendum because | :31:36. | :31:37. | |
presumably we will see the Scottish lists and the Labour Party fighting | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
to make sure David Cameron keeps his job. -- Scottish Nationalists. It is | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
difficult to sell to some activists. And apparently women are going to | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
swing it. It has been quite male dominated so far. It seems quite a | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
lot of shirts talking about figures, as we saw in the video with Mark | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
Carney and Jacob Rees-Mogg. You are a leading member of the Labour for | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
camera movement, aren't you? I would not say was anything for Cameron. | :32:16. | :32:22. | |
Don't rise to the bait! The backdrop is important. For those who wish to | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
remain, the backdrop is not encouraging. This deal which Angela | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
Merkel is trying to do, trying to do it with the Turks, when you look at | :32:34. | :32:42. | |
it, it almost smacks of desperation. Firstly, doing a deal with the | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
Turkish government which is rapidly extinguishing any vestige of a free | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
press, becoming totalitarian and unpleasant in all sorts of ways. But | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
also, just the detail of the deal. But every refugee who is deported, | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
and we wonder about the legality of that, from Greece to Turkey, every | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
Syrian refugee, one will be exported to the European Union, presumably on | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
a plane, rather than overland. If this gets traction, that is a large | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
number of Syrian refugees who will be settled in the European Union. We | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
know the reaction before from European countries to Mrs Merkel's | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
last proposal, which was that Germany should take a very large | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
number, 800,000 refugees. There will also be a reaction to this and | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
people in Britain will want to know exactly what is their role in this | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
large number of Syrian refugees who will be settled in European Union | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
countries other than Greece. When we last had the referendum to stay in, | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
in 1975, the backdrop was one of the British economic difficulties and a | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
really successful, growing, prosperous European Community as it | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
was then called. That will not be the backdrop this time. It is not | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
the backdrop this time. One of the reasons I feel we should stay is | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
partly because of solidarity, and to try and keep things working. You say | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
solidarity. We are not going to allow free entry of Turks. That is | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
just for the Schengen area. Is that right? I think we need to take more | :34:21. | :34:27. | |
refugees, especially children. I have repeatedly said we are not | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
necessarily doing our bit and we could do more with regard to | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
unaccompanied refugee children. There are thousands of kids. In a | :34:36. | :34:42. | |
democracy, with a free press, how do you forcibly remove thousands of | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
migrants? What are we going to do, push them back into the sea? That is | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
my question. The legality of it is questionable. The television cameras | :34:54. | :35:01. | |
will be there as people are loaded onto buses, taken to ships and | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
planes. Fearful staff. Sunday trading, which England will not have | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
liberalised thanks to the Scottish and the lists and some Tory rebels, | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
what ever happened to English votes for English laws which the Tories | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
were meant to promise? It is a nonevent. Despite provocation by the | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
Scottish Nationalists in voting down this thing which really only has | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
effect in England, I don't think we are hearing a lot from the | :35:31. | :35:32. | |
government about English votes for English laws. I owe it to you, the | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
insight that this was put in a UK bill, rather than put into English | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
and Welsh Bill. That would have made it more difficult, very difficult | :35:44. | :35:49. | |
for the Scottish Nationalists to vote against that. It is | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
interesting. I suppose the government is worried about further | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
revocation of the Scots. Everything is on hold. In the film there was | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
reference to the dropping of pension reform. I think George Osborne would | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
like to go down in history as the Chancellor who reformed pensions but | :36:09. | :36:10. | |
because of the referendum that cannot be done. We cannot have a | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
Barney with Scottish Nationalists over Sunday trading, because of the | :36:17. | :36:17. | |
referendum. Now, when jezebel Diane Abbott | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
upped sticks and left us here on This Week, rekindling her | :36:21. | :36:22. | |
romance with Casanova Corbyn, I mean, what's Jeremy | :36:23. | :36:25. | |
got that we haven't, other than incriminating | :36:26. | :36:33. | |
photos from the infamous But we've come to terms | :36:34. | :36:34. | |
with our loss, and moved on. So when Jess Phillips responded | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
to our advances and agreed After all, what's not | :36:39. | :36:40. | |
to love about Jess? Other than the all those | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
nasty things Diane wrote Just ignore her, Jess, | :36:45. | :36:46. | |
she's not worth it. And that's why we're putting female | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
solidarity and 'the sisterhood' It's surely not the only opportunity | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
To talk about the issues concerning sisters the world over, | :36:56. | :37:09. | |
but there were certainly lots on the agenda this International | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
Women's Day from body hair An image of liberation | :37:13. | :37:14. | |
or #degrading? Some question Kimi's decision | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
to mark the occasion with the nude While he refrained from keeping up | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
with the Kardashians by posing for his own naked pics, | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
Jeremy Corbyn still found himself under fire for suggesting the sex | :37:32. | :37:33. | |
industry should be decriminalised. One Labour backbencher gained | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
plaudits for raising awareness Here are the names of the women | :37:39. | :37:40. | |
who died since International Women's Day last year: Lucy Iris, | :37:41. | :37:49. | |
Alison Wilson, Sarah Fox... It was a show of sisterly solidarity | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
on Centre Court with Serena Williams commending Maria Sharapova's honesty | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
over the doping scandal. I think most people were happy | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
that she was upfront and very honest In the week of Nancy Reagan's death, | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
is another former First Lady hoping America's women will help vote | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
in their first Madam President? Hillary Clinton might have been | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
beaten in the Michigan primary on Tuesday but she's only lost | :38:23. | :38:24. | |
the Democrats' female vote in two states so far which begs | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
the question, is there any union We are joined by Annie Mac. Thank | :38:28. | :38:47. | |
you for coming on at this ungodly hour. This is mourning for me. Is | :38:48. | :38:54. | |
the sisterhood a real thing? Yes, I think so. I think it definitely is. | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
Personally, I gravitate towards women. I like to feel I support | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
women. I think it is important to do that. There are certain divisive | :39:06. | :39:13. | |
things about the word sisterhood. That Kim Kardashian selfie has | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
really divided people. It is just self publicity from a self | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
publicist, isn't it? She is working the brand pretty hard, but there are | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
a lot of women saying she should love her body, she is liberated and | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
should be empowered to do that. There are other women who are | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
saying, why doesn't she use her huge power and influence to shout about | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
the fact that she is a great businesswoman and she has made | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
millions of pounds from doing that side of things. You regard her as | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
part of the sisterhood? I don't really know what you mean by | :39:49. | :39:58. | |
sisterhood, to be honest. It's not a gang! Does it mean anything, or not? | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
Sisterhood? It does if you have loads of Powells who are women. But | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
it is not a support mechanism to help women help each other to get | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
on? I think women naturally want to help people, but then they also | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
don't. In all of these things, it just has to be an equal pairing with | :40:19. | :40:25. | |
men. So there is no reason why, what is the male version of sisterhood? | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
Rutherford, I guess. Do you ask men about brotherhood? Jess is still | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
celebrating the election of our first woman Prime Minister back in | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
1979. I am delighted that happened! IFS, I think there is a sisterhood. | :40:47. | :40:54. | |
I think obviously women, we are not exclusively great to each other and | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
we can drag each other down just as well as we build each other up, but | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
I think there is a sisterhood. I feel a sisterhood. I feel a group of | :41:02. | :41:08. | |
women I do not know pushing me forward at all times. Because there | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
is such a lack of role models in the public eye with women. When I saw | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
the Kim Kardashian selfie I was like, this is so boring. Stop! Do | :41:18. | :41:23. | |
something interesting, something that will make us... A witty | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
one-liner. Can we leave Kim Kardashian now? Can we? Move on. | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
Have you been helped by the sisterhood? Yes, and I try to | :41:36. | :41:43. | |
support women coming up. What I do beyond broadcasting, as a club DJ, | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
there are not many girls that do it. It is predominantly men. So I have | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
come through my career being one of the soul women who do it. The first | :41:53. | :42:00. | |
time I was aware, the first time I felt weird or an comfortable about | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
it was when you start DJ in places like Ibiza or Vegas, and you are | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
surrounded by podiums of scantily clad women in bikinis, writhing | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
around and dancing, employed by the club. You look at women on the dance | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
floor and you think, you are being told this is as far as you can get. | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
There are not enough women being DJs. Girls are always saying to me, | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
I want to be a DJ because I have seen you do it. Just because I am a | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
woman. There are not enough women. Like Jess, people in positions of | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
power, female bosses, people making money, making decisions, not enough | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
women doing that. Whenever there is a woman doing it there is why is an | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
automatic push from other women going, yes, we need that. Do women | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
help other women? I can only big for the Labour Party. I used to work in | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
women's aid, so I only worked with women. Since I arrived in | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
Westminster, there is a sorority of, you have to be the best you can be, | :43:05. | :43:07. | |
and I feel the other Labour women helping me, and some Conservative | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
women. People like Terry is a fee. She makes sure we are all all right. | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
If she thinks things are going wrong. Harriet Harman, Margaret | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
Hodge, we are pushing each other forward. Men have always had support | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
systems around them, clubs and groups where they promote each | :43:28. | :43:35. | |
other. Even the Masons. I have on the whole lives outside these | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
groups. I am not bothered about it! I was going to say that I did not | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
think brotherhood existed in the same way as apparently sisterhood | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
might. And then I was going to say I wondered whether there was a | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
difficulty that sisterhood begins to sound a bit like victim hood, | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
something that women feel they have to do because of the position they | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
occupy, the suppressed position. I just wonder whether that is the way | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
you want to advertise yourselves. I agree. It has to feel equal, I | :44:08. | :44:18. | |
think. Men have certainly helped men in the past. Maybe the reason women | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
do help other women is because there is still a lot of work to do. There | :44:23. | :44:28. | |
is indeed. We have run out of time. Thank you for being with us. | :44:29. | :44:31. | |
That's your lot for tonight folks but not for us because it's soup | :44:32. | :44:34. | |
And with the latest Government figures showing that the number | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
of people forced to sleep rough has doubled under David Cameron - | :44:39. | :44:41. | |
that's right, folks, doubled - we're off to turn a blind | :44:42. | :44:43. | |
Nighty night, don't let the crisis on our streets bite. | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
# When you're alone and life is making you lonely | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
# When you've got worries all the noise and the hurry | :44:51. | :44:57. | |
# Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city | :44:58. | :45:05. | |
# Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
# You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares | :45:12. | :45:20. | |
# Things will be great when you're downtown | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
# You'll find a place for sure, downtown | :45:27. | :45:30. |