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Tonight on This Week, the nation struggles to get | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
I'm going nowhere fast, just like my TV career. | :00:10. | :00:21. | |
Strike fever hits the planes, the trains and the automobiles, | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
but intrepid reporter Miranda Green shows great initiative | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Come hell or high water, I've got to get to the This Week sofa. | :00:32. | :00:44. | |
A doctor Saleyha Ahsan returns from an emergency trip | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
She says talk of a humanitarian crisis in the NHS | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Sorry, Theresa May, but you're wrong, the NHS is facing | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
a humanitarian crisis, and I see it every day | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
And if the winter of discontent is getting you down, don't despair. | :01:01. | :01:15. | |
Hypnotist and mind bender extraordinaire Paul McKenna will put | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
I've been trying to stay upbeat but this show | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
You're going the wrong way. Bloody idiot. You're going in the wrong | :01:29. | :01:52. | |
direction. We're not going the wrong way. He's been on the Blue Nun. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Andrew, help! Let me begin by wishing | :01:57. | :02:09. | |
y'all a happy new year. And let me be clear, | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
happy new year means happy new year. It's not my job to give | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
a running commentary on 2017. It IS my job to give | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
a running commentary? Well, if that's the case what's | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the point of Newsnight? we await news of the latest | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Kompromat, the salacious and compromising material | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
the Kremlin has been gathering We know they've got a lot | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
on our Michael, which is why he's given up his political career | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
and circles the globe alone by train, like | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
an Ancient Mariner on tracks. And they obviously have a lot | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
on Diane because she's now a leading light in the Corbyn Project, | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
which is as good a way of ending your political career | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
as spending most of your life on the 06.13 milk train | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
from Chipping Sod-Off Speaking of folks on the trail | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
to nowhere, we're joined by two people who've got one thing | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
in common with Meryl Streep. Donald Trump thinks | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
they're both overrated. Chris #OhItsNotEdBalls Leslie, | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
and Michael #choochoo Portillo, who made it here only because he can | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
open his own doors. Your moment of the week? Well, I | :03:30. | :03:43. | |
thought the resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers, our ambassador to the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
European Union. It struck me that people like him, Mandarin, who are | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
accountable only through politicians to the public, have been in bedding | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
us in the European Union for the last 50 years. So they are actually | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the sort of people the British people voted against in the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
referendum. But it also strongly illustrated that one of the problems | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
the government has is how on earth to set about negotiating a Brexit | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
using mandarins, Foreign Office officials and other departments, who | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
absolutely do not believe in Brexit. It is a massive institutional | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
problem. My guess is we will have two years of inconclusive | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
negotiations followed by a political settlement. We shall see. Chris, | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
your moment of the week? Probably the contrast between Obama's | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
farewell speech in Chicago and Donald Trump's press conference in | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
New York. Because you had two presidents with a very different | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
message. Obama, talking about the importance of defending | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
representative democracy and citizens taking their | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
responsibility, and Trump sort of laying into the intelligence | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
agencies, the media. Not Putin, though, who got away without | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
criticism. It was quite a contrast. Shape of things to come. | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
The NHS took centre stage in our political discourse this week, | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Some hospitals say they're failing to cope with demand, some NHS staff | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Experts talk of a crisis and this time we're inclined to believe them. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
We're waiting longer for ambulances, waiting longer for treatment once | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
they get us to A, and resources are being stretched | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
As winter shows its icy teeth, will parts of the NHS crumble under | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
the pressure, or will we continue to muddle through? | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Here with her Take of the Week is A doctor and former | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
As an Army officer, I felt the anxiety and pressure when deployed | :05:38. | :06:05. | |
on military operations like Bosnia. Now, as a doctor working in | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
emergency medicine, I frequently get that same feeling. I recently | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
travelled on an aid mission to the Syrian- Turkish border, helping | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
build a children's hospital. Believe me, I know what a humanitarian | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
crisis is. When I heard the situation in the NHS described as | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
one, I wasn't baffled or outrage, I agreed. The Red Cross description | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
isn't irresponsible or overblown, as Theresa May claims. It's | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
proportionate. Anyone who has had to face the anxiety of more and more | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
patients rushing into resuscitation when there isn't any space will | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
understand this. What are we going to do when we run out of ambulance | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
space and corridor space? At least in the military they had resources | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
and the will to throw at a situation. In A it feels we are | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
hanging by a thread, ready to snap at any time. Yes, the NHS needs more | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
funding. Yes, we need more doctors, but we also need to sort out social | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
care. The last government reduced what was available in the community. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Now, most elderly patients, when discharged from hospital, are soon | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
back, trapped in a revolving door. The Health Secretary tries to | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
reassure us, but he has already lost the confidence of the NHS workforce, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
and the British public might not be far behind. His position is | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
untenable. Without a radical action, like any other humanitarian crisis | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
this could spiral out of control and risk more lives. | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
Special thanks to mayhem paint bawling in Essex for letting us | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
film. Welcome. We have just managed to thaw you out in the last few | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
hours. Thank you for joining us. Let's get rid of the nomenclature of | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
matter. The NHS is undoubtedly being stretched, in some cases to breaking | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
point, as we can see, but does it make sense, does it help the debate | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
to compare it to places like Aleppo? When I first heard that news story I | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
was actually on my way into a shift at 8am. I was driving in last | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Saturday from eye weekend shift. I had already been on for about three | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
days and we had been rammed. Round? We were rammed. We were busy, very | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
busy. I was driving in, I was still a little bit tired. I had not had | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
much downtime between busy shifts. When I drove in and heard that | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
headline I thought, that is about right. And I can qualify that, | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
because I have worked in humanitarian situations before. So | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
when I say, yes, I think it's comparatively, its comparator with | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
the way it makes me feel, the feelings it evokes when we are busy, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
when resuscitation is full and the nurses are coming up to you and | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
saying, which of these very sick people is the least sick, to take | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
out, so we can move another one in? And she is pointing at you to make | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
that decision. That is not far off some of the other situations I have | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
been in. I understand what you are saying. The NHS is always in some | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
sort of crisis but is this different, is it stretched in some | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
places to breaking point? I find that difficult to judge and so does | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
the Prime Minister. I think this comparison with a humanitarian | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
crisis has been very unhelpful. I think because on the whole people | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
will not believe it. I mean, you have talked about comparable | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
feelings, but that is not what we think of in a humanitarian crisis. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
We think of vast numbers at imminent risk of death, starvation, being | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
bombed, whatever. I think the comparison has been unhelpful and it | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
gave Theresa May rather an easy time because she could say in an outraged | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
way, to make this comparison is ridiculous. I can perfectly | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
understand the frustration of people in the National Health Service. It | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
is not just frustration, it is concerned. I can also understand the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
frustration of the government because as you say, we have been | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
here so often before. The NHS was asked how much money it needed, at a | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
time when there was an election and they asked for 8 billion, which the | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
government came forward with. And now they are being told they cannot | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
cope. The government also has a right to say, hang on, if we did | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
what we were asked to do, how is it that you are not able to manage? | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
Simon Stevens, the chief Executive of the NHS, went before a select | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
committee. Quite amazing scenes. He was literally holding up a copy of | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the daily may and saying, basically, we are lagging behind the rest of | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Europe. This is effectively a civil servant. From my own experience in | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
Nottingham, a big teaching hospital, emergency department, year after | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
year we get further from this 95%, four our waiting target. The Health | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Secretary, Johnny Hunt, is saying maybe the target is wrong, but it is | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
a good litmus test for the strain in the NHS. It has been abandoned in | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
practice. He says he will exclude non-urgent, which is an atrocious | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
way of dealing with the problem. If you can't hit the target, move the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
target. It is very stressful for a lot of people. Hospitals, it seems, | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
in this particular crisis in the NHS, have become the new front line. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
People are flooding into A because they cannot get a GP appointment. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
But hospitals are also chock-a-block because social care has been cut, | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
and particularly elderly patients can't be released into care. | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
Absolutely. So when I come onto a shift, the first thing I do is look | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
at the board. Do I have white squares that are empty on the board, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
or have all of those white squares got a name on them? And most of | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
them, if it is a day when it is full, quite a few of them will have | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
been patients who have been seen, accepted even the day before. We | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
have to write the date and time, and it is sometimes even the day before. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
These are often people who we have been unable to move into the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
hospital itself, because the hospital is full. So many of the | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
patients I have seen in the last two months, a fair proportion have been | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
elderly people who have nowhere else to go, or they have been seen, | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
discharged a few days before and they are back two days later. The | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
NHS got what it asked for for this year, but is not getting what it | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
asked for for upcoming years, which is why, per capita funding in the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
NHS is going to start to fall for the first time, really, in the NHS' | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
history. There was also a 4.5 billion cut in social care which | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
creates the problem of elderly people in beds in hospitals, | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
probably the worst place for them in many cases, with nowhere to go. It | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
seems to me, is it not indisputable that more money is required for the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
NHS and for social care? I don't know whether that is indisputable. I | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
think if you were in government you would feel rather impatient that one | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
demand after another is made. If I were in government I would feel very | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
impatient. The man should be running the show, asked for a certain amount | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
of money and was given it, then goes in front of Parliament and starts | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
attacking the Prime Minister. We have just heard that one of the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
elements is that GPs, apparently, some of them are shutting surgeries | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
at 3pm. What is Simon Stevens doing to manage that? Not everything can | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
be decreed by a Prime Minister. I have to speak up for my GP | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
colleagues. I have two sisters who are GPs. They are overrun and | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
overstretched. I don't know about those shutting at 3pm, but on the | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
whole they are worked to the hilt. But I thought you agreed that one of | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
the problems was that GPs were not taking patients who are being | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
diverted to hospitals. It is social care in the community, the whole | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
spectrum. You don't always need a GP at home for some of the things we | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
discharge patients for. Package of care, levels of care that we can put | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
in place. That can take, that is not a quick process. It can take a bit | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
of time. And until that is setup, the patients are often with us. What | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
we used to have in place were convalescence homes, for example, | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
community hospitals, cottage hospitals, something that is a | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
stopgap between acute medical and going home. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
You have to see the thing as a whole. In the Health Service, it's | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
vastly more because you have the drugs budgets going up And plus the | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
demands are much from the population. That is the problem. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
What is to be done is the question. As you look around the richer | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
European economies, Germany spends 11% of its GDP on health, Sweden the | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
same, France about the same as well. We are more like 9.5%, but where is | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
the political will to get up to that standard and what reforms will be | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
demanded and where would the money come from? Personally... My guess | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
would be the countries that are spending more, they are spending | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
from different pockets of money. Germany, Trade Unions played an | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
important part. More of an insurance? Yes. Although all money | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
in the end comes from the people, there's only one sort of money, it | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
really does make a difference if you have different pots from which the | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
money can come. I think it's not sufficient for Simon Stevens to say | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
the Germans are spending more, I think you would have to say, what | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
sort of reform would enable us to get to that level of contribution. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
After all, the country in the world that spends the most on health is of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
course the United States. But you see, don't forget, a lot of that is | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
administrative bureaucratic payments, the great beauty of the | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
NHS is that it's getting money to the frontline. My own view is it's | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
by partisanship for the cross party long-term serious grown-up politics | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
about how we are going to fund social care issues, not just NHS. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Remember, back when you were Shadow Chancellor I think you came straight | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
after Gordon Brown in 2002 or around then, you had that 1% increase on | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
national insurance which was actually a very popular move because | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
it was ringfenced for the NHS. Now, there are some difficult decisions | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
we have got to start talking about and be grown up about. A final word | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
from you, is it fundamentally money or are there structural changes that | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
have to be made too? What we don't need are more very expensive | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
top-down reforms that cost lots of money. What we don't need or do? We | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
don't need lots and lots of money going into restructuring systems. | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
You have had a lot of that. We have had a lot of that and that's | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
contributed to some of the situation we are in now. We are having around | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
?50 million being spent on this new role of physician associates or | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
whatever the half doctors they're called or whatever. What is the | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
headline? Number one, listen to the workforce, we say it's akin to a | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
humanitarian crisis because it is and it's not said lightly. Two, | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
cross party solution. It's got to be taken out of the political point | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
scoring system that it is now. We need a sensible approach and this | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
means everyone in. The third one? If you do not want to be getting the | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
backup of the workforce that you are relying on, so if the doctors say | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
you can't stretch us across seven days, don't try to. | :18:59. | :19:11. | |
Thank you for being with us. This time tomorrow I'll be two hours into | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
my night shift and I hope that you are right, that we are not in a | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
humanitarian crisis, I would love you to be right. Thank you very | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
much. Now it's late, Moscow's | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Ritz Carlton late. But enough about watersports, | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
we're all about a new-found zen Chris has stopped sticking pins | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
in his Jeremy Corbyn doll For those of you now desperately | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
trying to get rid of the idea of Michael in a downward dog | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
position, we've got hypnotist extraordinaire Paul McKenna | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
waiting in the wings. So join our sharing, | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
caring cuddly society, bring us your Twitter troubles, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
heal your Facebooboos because it's 2017 and we're | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
all about the snapcheer. High anticipation here at This Week | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
because it's the awards season. The Golden Globes, the Baftas | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
and London Men's Fashion Week, not that Michael | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
takes any notice of that. Jeremy Corbyn must surely win | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
an award for his starring Simon Stevens is shortlisted | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
for his controversial And Mark Carney's screeching U-turns | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
on the risks of Brexit in the latest Fast and Furious movie have Leavers | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
goggle-eyed as they munch But we were dismayed | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
when Donald Trump named Buzzfeed We really thought we had | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
that one in the bag. At least Britain's back | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
in the premier league Here's Miranda Green | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
with her round up of the week. I've only got 17 hours to get | :20:39. | :20:52. | |
to the This Week studio. As commuters battled | :20:53. | :21:10. | |
through the strikes, the PM started her New Year | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
by unveiling the shared It was an announcement | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
on mental health services. The mental health pledge was | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
overshadowed by a row about the NHS. At PMQs, Jeremy Corbyn told Mrs May | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
that she was in denial. She chose to attack | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
the Red Cross for calling it We've all seen humanitarian | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
crises around the world, and to use that description | :21:38. | :21:47. | |
of a National Health Service which last year saw 2.5 million more | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
people treated in Accident Emergency than six years ago, | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
was irresponsible and overblown. The Prime Minister might not | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
like what the Red Cross said, but on the same day, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
the British Medical Association said conditions in hospitals | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
across the country are reaching The Royal College of Nursing | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
has said NHS conditions The Royal College of Physicians has | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
told the Prime Minister the NHS is underfunded, | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
under doctored and overstretched. If she won't listen to the Red | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Cross, who will she listen to? Maybe the shared society | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
means sharing hospital May retorted, you can't fund health | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
and social without a strong economy. As the long, long journey | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
towards Brexit continues, debate rages over how to read | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
the economy's vital signs. And Mrs May confirmed that leaving | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
the EU will mean an end I've consistently said | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
that the referendum vote was a vote for us to change that freedom | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
of movement, was a vote for us to bring control | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
into our immigration system for people coming from | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
the European Union. There's a variety of ways | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
in which that can be done but I'm clear that that is part | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
of what we need to deliver. The Labour leader also seemed | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
to travel a long way from his original support | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
for untrammelled EU immigration. At least, that's what he | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
might have been saying. No one, not even his | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
MPs, was quite sure. We are not wedded to free movement | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
from the EU as a point of principle but I don't | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
want to be misinterpreted. The Transport Secretary was pictured | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
with some of the poor, Commuters, that is, | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
battling along the concourse We need to stop these strikes and | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
stop disrupting passengers' lives. There are lots of things to sort out | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
on this railway but we can't do that while they are on strike and working | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
to rule almost every day. Labour blamed the rail operator, | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
and Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC he'd happily join the strikers, | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
unlike the Labour Mayor Would you join the Southern | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Rail picket line? Yes, I would, because I think | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
Southern Rail have behaved Right, never mind the trains, | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
let's try the tube. Those Uber bosses | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
must be raking it in. The President-elect had a few other | :24:31. | :25:11. | |
inconveniences on his mind, namely allegations that Russia | :25:12. | :25:24. | |
is holding compromising Mr Trump chose to attack America's | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
spies as possible sources That nonsense that was released | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, but maybe | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
the intelligence agencies, which would be a tremendous | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
blot on their record, if they in fact did that, | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
tremendous blot, because a thing like that should never | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
have been written. It should never have been had | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
and it should certainly Can you get me to | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
Westminster, Dobbin? But there was no deal | :26:02. | :26:19. | |
in Northern Ireland where Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness | :26:20. | :26:31. | |
resigned over a scandal involving the DUP First | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Minister, Arlene Foster. We in Sinn Fein will not | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
tolerate the arrogance Sinn Fein wants equality | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
and respect for everyone. That is what this | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
process must be about. The sky's looking clouded, | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
the horizon's bleak and Dobbin Miranda made it! But the horse | :27:01. | :27:26. | |
didn't. Welcome. Michael, the Prime Minister gave a New Year interview | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
at the weekend, traditional one, not on the BBC this time. Are we nigh | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
the wiser what Brexit will look like -- are we any the wiser. Yes, I | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
think we are. It seems to me that for as long as the European Union | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
holds to the idea that free movement of people is fundamental, then we'll | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
not be in the single market. I don't think we'd want to be in the customs | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
union because that restricts the deals we can do with the outside | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
world, and then I think that leaves the question that if we are outside | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
the single market and the customs union, will the European Union want | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
to put up tariff barriers against their own trade into Britain and our | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
trade out of Britain into the European Union. That will take a | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
couple of years to resolve. How do you know though, she didn't say much | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
of that, did she? Well, I think she has. When she first said Brexit | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
meant Brexit, I think she meant there wasn't going to be a second | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
referendum and secondly, she was obliged to come back from the | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
negotiations with Parliamentary sovereignty restored and in | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
particular, that would mean control of the borders. So if our European | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
Union partners insist that free movement of people is a condition of | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
being part of the single market, then part of the single market we | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
cannot be. She's glifring a major speech on Brexit on Tuesday -- | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
delivering. I'm told they are having trouble getting to the first draft, | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
it's Thursday. Reassuring. Surely she has to give us some idea in this | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
speech of what Brexit would look like in her mind? I think that's | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
right. But I think actually we did edge clearer, as Michael was saying, | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
in her Sunday interview. On the single market? Versus freedom of | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
movement, also her mood music, if you look at all her speeches since | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
becoming PM and at the Home Office, it's clear that she thinks a | :29:22. | :29:31. | |
compromise that we put on... Political mistake. So we are out of | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
the single market in terms of membership, but we seek as wide an | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
access as we can get. We don't think we are out of the customs union? No, | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
and Philip Hammond having been in Germany this week trying to reassure | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
the Germans that Britain wants to make sure that Brexit doesn't damage | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
the rest of the EU economy and if it's all done in as friendly and | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
mutually agreeable way as possible and also of course this week we had | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
the rather interesting intervention from Mark Carney changing his tone | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
quite a lot on Brexit and no longer being the major risk to the British | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
economy. The U-turn introductions like fast and furious. Absolutely | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
there. 'S been change so people will need to clarify things. The | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
Government expects to lose its appeal I suspect to the Supreme | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
Court, meaning that Parliament will have to trigger Article 50. Is there | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
any doubt that it will? Well, I think most MPs want to | :30:27. | :30:36. | |
respect the result of the referendum but that does not mean this isn't a | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
moment to make sure we do not go careering off the cliff edge in | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
April 2000 19. I think the point of the Article 50 legislation is a | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
series of legitimate amendments to be discussed, just to ensure that | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
the government are doing the right thing in terms of tariff - free | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
access to the single market. The government would want that but may | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
not be able to negotiate it. We are about to trigger this thing where we | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
have no idea about what the objectives of the government should | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
be. For example, I think there should be a clear objective of | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
getting a transitional period. The head of the stock exchange yesterday | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
was talking about five years because you need that business certainty, | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
rather than just falling off that age. I am already thinking about the | :31:31. | :31:39. | |
series of amendments that could be viable. This is something where | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
there are different views across different parties. Could go on | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
forever, could be another Maastricht Treaty. I doubt it. I think the | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
clause bill to trigger Article 50 will move through both houses fairly | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
swiftly because in the end Labour MPs do not want to be in a position | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
where they could be accused by constituents, who mainly voted to | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
leave, of trying to sabotage the whole thing. When it gets to the | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
House of Lords, the Lords will not want to be in a position where the | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
government creates a number of Tory peers necessary carry the | :32:14. | :32:16. | |
legislation, which almost certainly could not be done without having a | :32:17. | :32:19. | |
another general election, in which the Labour Party would be | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
annihilated. One thing which will concern Mrs May is the crisis in the | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
NHS and the other is the strikes, particularly if you live in London | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
and the south of England. These are two challengers the Prime Minister | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
faces, crisis NHS, crippling transport strikes. What is the | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
evidence that she has any clue what to do about either? I think that | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
governments generally muddle through the NHS chaos each winter. They | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
somehow come out the other side and then the cycle is repeated the | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
following year. She might not be right to think that is what is going | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
to happen, but it may be what is going to happen, and it might be | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
what the government strategy is. As for the strikes, I think the | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
government absolutely has to win this. I know it is a dispute between | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
management and unions but obviously the government is on the side of the | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
management and believes the union is behaving irresponsibly. And there, | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
at some point the government may have to take action. But we don't | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
yet know. Labour has had U-turns on pay caps and free movement this | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
week, both of them in the space of 12 hours. It is quite hard to keep | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
up with it, if you are a journalist. Have mainstream Labour MPs like | :33:42. | :33:45. | |
yourself decided to let Corbyn be Corbyn and not influence what he | :33:46. | :33:52. | |
says, just let him get on with it? There was a relaunch. Jeremy was | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
being Jeremy, as you say, and that is kind of what we got this week. | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
The thing is, I think a lot of Labour MPs have spotted Theresa May | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
Bosz complete failure to grasp the seriousness of the NHS crisis and we | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
are very keen that that should be our primary area of focus so there | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
is exhaust rate when sometimes things get diverted, the | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
spokesperson goes off talking about Nato or whatever. But have you | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
decided to let him call the shots, wherever it leads your party, you | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
did not want him elected and tried to get him unelected, that failed. | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
Now, if he wants to talk about caps, saying it is wrong to put British | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
troops in Eastern Europe, is it just, let him get on with it? | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
Because it seems to me that is now your strategy. I think a lot of | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
Labour MPs recognise that members have made their decision and so it | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
is for the leader to lead and take responsibility for his views and to | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
answer what he thinks on pay caps and so forth. But where there are | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
things that need to be said, a lot of Labour MPs will not be afraid to | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
say that. For example, on high pay issues, whilst of course there is a | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
problem, and a lot worse since the FTSE 100 Chief Executive is up 30% | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
since 2010, but I personally think it is better to go down the | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
progressive taxation discussion and have an evidence led approach, | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
rather than necessarily dreaming up a random cap. Let me finish on the | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
gift that keeps on giving, Mr Trump. Instead of cowering before the | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
media, or trying to conciliate it, which most politicians do, Donald | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
Trump just thumps the media on the nose when it offends him. Could this | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
catch on? Maybe. I hope not. Other politicians might think this is the | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
way to do it. Watch it! I would hope that maybe journalists in Washington | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
would become braver in backing each other up. At the press conference | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
there was a suggestion on Twitter which I thought was excellent which | :36:05. | :36:07. | |
is that if he refuses to answer questions from one news | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
organisation, everyone else asks the same question, giving him nowhere to | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
run. That is like herding cats. Yes, but they could have a go. It is very | :36:18. | :36:24. | |
clever what he does. I think it is extremely clever and very | :36:25. | :36:27. | |
sophisticated because he basically lets people understand that any | :36:28. | :36:30. | |
emanation from any media organisation is the same and not to | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
be trusted. You muddy the waters to an extent where people don't | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
believe... We do not know the status of these allegations, but even | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
legitimate criticisms then have no weight. If it works, it will catch | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
on, so we will watch out for ourselves. Miranda, thank you. | :36:50. | :36:51. | |
No, I'm not taking up wakeboarding or scuba diving or any other | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
My New Year's resolution is to make this failing pile of garbage | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
So it's out with the snowflake naysayers who ran This Week's | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
And in with an upbeat production team, family, | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
friends and sycophants who I can really trust. | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
Who else but the young, talented Ms Iris Bailey?! | :37:13. | :37:22. | |
We will be the greatest TV producers God ever created. | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
That's why we're putting positivity in this week's spotlight. | :37:26. | :37:39. | |
Are you, like our Home Secretary, struggling to stride | :37:40. | :37:41. | |
Why not follow the Prime Minister's confident lead? | :37:42. | :37:51. | |
This Government has a plan, not simply to manage our withdrawal | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
from the European Union, but to take this opportunity | :37:56. | :37:57. | |
to fundamentally change Britain for the better. | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
Even President Obama was upbeat about the future as he bid | :38:04. | :38:05. | |
And that's why I leave this stage tonight even more | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
optimistic about this country than when we started. | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
He wasn't as positive as his successor on Wednesday. | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
created and I mean that, I'm going to work very hard. | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
Thank you Donald and welcome everybody to the first | :38:32. | :38:33. | |
Not everyone is rosy about the year ahead. | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
Nigel Farage thinks Mrs May might botch Brexit. | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
I honestly don't see this Prime Minister has got the energy, | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
I'm worried and I fear a very frustrating 2017. | :38:45. | :38:53. | |
Over in La La Land, Meryl Streep's miserable about Mr Trump. | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners | :38:59. | :39:00. | |
and if we kick 'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
Paul McKenna, you're a self-help guru. | :39:04. | :39:11. | |
Have you got any words to cheer up the This Week team? | :39:12. | :39:13. | |
How dare you even think you can compete with me, | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
And Paul McKenna joins us now. Welcome to the programme. Are you | :39:19. | :39:38. | |
feeling positive about 2017? Actually, I am. I am feeling | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
positive generally. I have had some challengers over the last few years | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
but had a lot of good things happen. I recently got married. I had been | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
living in the United States but decided to relocate here. I have a | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
number of projects lined up for the year. I have been boring myself on | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
radio and television with my new book, which is about getting control | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
of sugar. I am passionate about that because I believe it is important. | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
So you are in a positive state of mind, but are you positive because | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
good things are happening, what around you makes you positive, or | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
can you just have a state of mind that is positive whatever is | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
happening? What we find from research is that people have a | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
perceptual filter, or a reality tunnel, a way of looking at the | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
world. Some people, because of their upbringing, possibly their genetics, | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
they are naturally more positive than others. Some people have a | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
tendency to be depressed and that can be again a chemical imbalance in | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
the brain, or just unfortunate and terrible things that happened | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
earlier in life. When I became interested in self-improvement it | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
was because I wasn't feeling good about myself. I remember there was | :41:01. | :41:06. | |
one day in particular, I was sent to interview the local hypnotist when I | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
was working in radio. I was interested in yoga and meditation | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
but I was sceptical. I had broken up with my girlfriend, people were | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
keeping me awake at night, I had a row with my boss, one of those days. | :41:18. | :41:25. | |
I sat down and he said, I am not going to interview you, I'm going to | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
hypnotise you because you look worn out and stressed. I said, let the | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
healing begin. I was benevolently sceptical about half an hour later I | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
felt less burden and very optimistic about the future. I said, have you | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
got any books on this. I went away and read them and my life changed. | :41:43. | :41:49. | |
Are you in a positive frame of mind? Me? I have my moments. I think part | :41:50. | :41:57. | |
of positivity is having a go and working towards it. And you can | :41:58. | :42:07. | |
reach it if you work hard. As a Labour MP, contributing to the | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
community helps keep you positive. Are you a positive state of mind | :42:12. | :42:18. | |
chap? I am. I have a wonderful life. I have a to reflect career. What I | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
do for a living, which is basically travelling by train, which you make | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
fun of in every programme, it is so much fun. It is free publicity for | :42:30. | :42:39. | |
you. Do I get a free drink from it? Never. That is why I am not | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
positive. I would like to be but there is never any payback. I think | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
Paul is going to make you even more positive and feel even more | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
wonderful. Are you going to move over there? I get asked this a lot. | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
People say, what is the one thing that will turn the round? Not just | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
people who are down. Many people I work with are already high | :43:05. | :43:10. | |
achievers. They say, I want to feel even better. OK, so what we are | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
going to do is very simple. It comes in three stages. We are going to | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
clean up anything from the past. No details, keep it private, anything | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
that might be holding you back or was majorly upsetting. Then, I'm | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
going to get in touch with your values, what is important to you, | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
and then we will lock in some things you would like to have happen in | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
2017 and put them in your mind in a way that makes them feel tangible, | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
so that you suddenly feel more optimistic and driven. OK. | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
Brilliant. OK, think about something, don't tell me what, think | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
about anything that holds you back, any particular series of events. | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
Close your eyes and tell me when you have located that. I've got it. On a | :43:58. | :44:05. | |
scale of one to ten, how bad? Three. I need something much bigger. I'm | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
not sure I have something much bigger. How high? I will give you | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
six. I will reach over and touch the side of your arms. I would like you | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
to clear your mind and stop thinking about that and imagine we are | :44:23. | :44:28. | |
walking on a beach. By touching your arms, it releases more delta waves | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
in your brain. I would like you to count out loud with each footstep as | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
you walk on the beach. One, two, three... | :44:38. | :44:48. | |
I know this looks unusual. Scientific procedure. 15, 16, 17, | :44:49. | :44:59. | |
18... Feeling the surf. With your eyes closed, keep your head still, | :45:00. | :45:03. | |
move your eyes laterally to the left, to the right, to the left, to | :45:04. | :45:07. | |
the right, to the left, to the right, to the left, to the right. | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
Then what I would like you to do is just think about something you love | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
to do, something like playing a musical instrument or listening to | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
music or going to the theatre or watching a film, something like | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
that. What is one of your greatest hobbies or interests? I like | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
travelling by train. Yes! And meeting interesting people. | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
What is it about travelling by train that makes you feel so good? It's so | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
enjoyable and interesting. We'll stop and relax and come on back up. | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
When you think about that time, whatever it was, does it seem the | :45:43. | :45:50. | |
same or does it seem less important? I just feel marvellous thank you | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
very much, Paul. This is the first part. Great. The next thing is, I | :45:55. | :45:57. | |
would like you to close your eyes and if it's OK, in your imagination, | :45:58. | :46:05. | |
because I want to illicit your deepest values. Go to near the end | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
of your life and imagine you've had a wonderful life as indeed you said | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
you have earlier, but it's gotten even better than you thought. I | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
would like you to, looking back if you are OK with it, tell me what | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
made your life so good. Friends and family or career opportunities or | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
doing things you like? Tell me about it? It was the enjoyment of great | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
health and great friendship and terrific times. Great. If you could | :46:33. | :46:45. | |
give any advice to the you of the future, what would you say? Keep | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
everything in proportion. Great. Come back from this moment in time | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
now and I would like you to do one last thing in your imagination. | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
Imagine it's a year from now and... You've had the best year you've ever | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
had. Yes. If that's true, what must have happened in the major areas of | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
your life in your career, relationships, health, hobbies and | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
interests, in every area of your life, in maybe the spiritual side of | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
it, any area? Well, it was another lovely year of rail travel and | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
appearing here with Andrew week after week. Great. And everyone I | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
knew was just kind of very healthy and very fit. OK. Close your eyes | :47:29. | :47:35. | |
now and make a big bright picture of you having had a great year and put | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
it out there a year from now in your mind and then notice the events that | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
happened before that all the way back to here and now. Good. Then | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
brighten up the pictures. There you go, sorry about that, a little too | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
strong. Brighten up the pictures, rich, bright and bold. When you look | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
at 2017, how good do you feel? I feel fantastic! | :47:58. | :48:05. | |
LAUGHTER. As bright as Andrew's tie. I feel good. I feel great, thank | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
you, Paul. You are very welcome. Thank you for letting me demonstrate | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
my techniques. Lovely, my arms feel floaty. It's the Delta waves. I knew | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
it must be. Do you wish you had been up there, Chris? I'm feeling left | :48:23. | :48:28. | |
out. When he said it was a great year, I thought they were going to | :48:29. | :48:37. | |
play his journey on the train again. Things can only get better. That's | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
my theme tune as well. When my new life began. We'll stop on a high. | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
Paul, thank you very much for doing the best you could with Mr Portillo. | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
That's your lot. That's your lot for tonight folks, | :48:51. | :48:57. | |
but not for us, we're off to LouLou's for Donald Trump's | :48:58. | :49:00. | |
amazing and tremendously It will be a golden opportunity | :49:01. | :49:01. | |
for the President Elect Let's face it, the Donald deserves | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
a break from the steady flow of vile personal attacks coming | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
from fake news pedlars. Peeotus assures us it will be | :49:11. | :49:12. | |
the greatest, yugest, bestest, bigly celebration | :49:13. | :49:14. | |
of all the greatness that a Trump Presidency | :49:15. | :49:16. | |
will bring to Amercia. God can take the next four years | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
off, Donnie's in the White House. Nighty nighty, don't let | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
the fake news haters bite. If Putin likes Donald Trump, guess | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
what, folks, that's called an asset, Russia will have much greater | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
respect for our country when I'm leading it than when other | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
people have led it. Those states are going | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
to have a lot of jobs, a lot of security, a lot of good | :49:43. | :49:45. | |
news for their veterans. I watched yesterday, as you know, | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
our great senator, who is going to be a great | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
Attorney General. I think we have one of the great | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
cabinets ever put together. You're going to be very proud of | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
what we put forth, We're going to get those costs way | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
down and we're going to get the plane to be even better, | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
and we're going to have some competition and it's | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
going to be a beautiful thing. So many incredible | :50:16. | :50:17. | |
people coming here. They are going to do | :50:18. | :50:18. | |
tremendous things, So there's a great spirit | :50:19. | :50:20. | |
going on right now, a spirit that many people | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
have told me they've We're going to have a very, | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
very elegant day. The 20th is going to be something | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
that will be And I think we're going | :50:34. | :50:36. | |
to have massive crowds # Clap along if you feel | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
like a room without a roof # Clap along if you feel that | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
happiness is the truth.# | :50:48. | :50:54. |