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Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the referendum on our membership

Of course we voted to Remain, as most of us in the mainstream

A few months later Hillary Clinton became the first female President

As David Cameron reaches the mid-point of his second

five-year term there's talk of who the next Tory

I hear some of you touting the virtues of Theresa May.

It's as likely as Jeremy Corbyn giving the Tories a run

for their money in a general election and putting himself

in pole position to be the next Prime Minister.

And that's obviously loony-left fantasyland.

Next thing you'll be telling me the Tories are making

Yes it's been a quiet, uneventful, even dull 12 months.

Which is probably why we've become so susceptible to scare

I see some unscrupulous folk trying to stir up trouble by claiming we're

re-cladding council blocks in flammable material.

With all the building rules and regulations?

You probably think these council blocks don't have

Speaking of those whose judgement has been consistently wrong

since they came into this world, I'm joined on the sofa tonight

by two failed politicians who reinvented themselves as failed

pundits and who wouldn't have two pennies to rub together if it wasn't

for the misplaced generosity of BBC licence payers.

I speak of course of Alan #sadmanontheleft Johnson and Michael

Michael, your moment of the week. There's a lot of truth in what you

have just said. I was pleased to see the Prime Minister do something

well, the offer to EU citizens who have lived here five years to have a

settled status. But the decisive moment of the week was any moment

that Philip Hammond spoke and set out a very different vision of what

Brexit is going to be from what I take to be the official position of

the Government. So now we are talking about transitional

arrangements lasting for a long period. I think we are seeing a

transition from a hard disk and see the Brexit towards the softest. And

I would think that change will be apparent before the winter. I will

come back to that later in the programme and ask some questions.

Your moment? Interview yesterday with Boris Johnson, not because of

Boris messing it up, but the salience of the questioning, because

Theresa May's speech on the doorstep of Number Ten was striking almost a

year ago, and "Burning injustice" which has taken on a new meaning

after Grenfell Tower, she said the burning injustice of someone who is

poor dying on average nine years earlier than someone who is not. I

have searched since then post thing she has done about that and the

Queen 's speech was a star to do that. She could have said, I would

chair a Cabinet subcommittee because health and equality covers

seminarians, but nothing. So the assumption is that it was just

rhetoric. I will come back to that, too.

Westminster, Manchester, London Bridge, Finsbury

These have been testing, tragic times for Britain.

A time, you might think, for firm but fair political

But instead the election has only added to the uncertainty and created

new divisions and weakness from the top down.

In a troubled and perhaps increasingly divided society

we have a political system struggling to cope

Here's businesswoman, wannabe politician and former

Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry with her take of the week.

The political climate in Britain is worryingly heated.

Divided we stand on issues like Brexit, the future

of the union, and in terms of age, affluence, religion and ethnicity.

My fear, particularly with terrorists, activists

and political leaders seeking to exploit difference,

Yesterday, we were promised a day of rage in London.

It was organised to protest against the democratically elected

government, but its scope widened because of the Grenfell tragedy.

OK, so the rage didn't boil over this time,

but the threat of hard left activists donning their balaclavas

is not constructive, and neither is Labour's solutions

It's true, Theresa May made mistakes in handling Grenfell,

but a public lynching is not the answer.

Unity in finding solutions, finding resources, and Unity

But also unity in making sure this will never happen again.

Most of us want the same things in life, regardless

So why can't we get past poisonous party politics?

I stood as an independent candidate in Hull and I had volunteers

I received a shocking amount of abuse from Labour left supporters.

I always regarded this country is a place respectful of alternate

views, but now it feels bitter and divided.

One of the problems is that so many people feel ignored

and unrepresented by our system, but this didn't start with Brexit.

In fact, I'd say that the referendum was in part a consequence of this.

If we must stick with party politics, then we need

Left to me, I'd do away with the entire party and political

system and have a parliament filled with independents.

Our thanks to Flat Iron Square in Borough London.

Allen, are we really that divided? In the face of multiple terrorist

attacks in quick succession, you could argue that our resolve and

unity has been remarkable. I was thinking that when Michelle talked

about the reaction to Grenfell. That day over age, they are entitled to

do their marching. But of course, the families and the church which

was doing a lot of the work, they didn't want anything to do with

that. I think in general, whilst I agree with the conclusion at the end

because I have always been in favour of PR, I do not agree with

independent candidates making things better. You had a good run in my old

constituency where you come from. There have always been independent

candidates standing but the problem is that the public do not know what

they are going to do. You do not get a manifesto, you do not get the

opportunity to shape what you want and actually make the MP accountable

for their party position. I think you would find it very difficult to

have a house full of independent candidates. How divided are we,

given our reaction to the terrorist attacks, which seemed to bring the

country together? Look at the imam in Finsbury Park, in saving big eye

who had just tried to mow them down, and the surrounding community

response at Grenfell Tower, everybody coming together, that is

the best of British. That is wonderful. When I see those

individual responses I think it is excellent but that is not

representative of what is going on. They are individual things. We are

divided, we are abusive, we are conflicted, and I do believe that

party politics plays a part in that. I feel that too many people... If

you think of the main political parties, we are playing top Trumps.

What happens in an election is that parties say, I will give you ?1 if

you vote for me. She has promised ?1. I will give you ?2. ?2 plus an

ice cream. We are getting out of control. People feel unrepresented,

politically homeless and it is time for change. Maybe leadership is the

problem, Michael. Mrs May talks a lot about burning injustice but she

does not do anything about it, nothing in the Queen's speech. Mr

Corbyn, certainly a lot of the people around him, including John

McDonnell, they seem more interested in dividing than uniting. Maybe

there is a leadership problem. Yes, I think there is. Mrs May was doing

very well when she appeared on the steps of Downing Street and talked

about burning social injustices and wanting to do something about them.

One of the reasons I think she did well was that people thought, she is

not just another Tory, this is a new language. They thought it about

David Cameron when he introduced same-sex marriage, this is not just

another Tory. In summary, what happened during the general election

was that, as none of that rhetoric was followed through, and as the

election drifted onto grammar schools and fox-hunting, and as many

of her interviews were rather vacuous and defensive, people

suddenly thought, she is just another Tory. And I think that is

the great challenge for the Conservative Party. How to find

someone to lead it who will not look like just another Tory. We can all

agree that her actions will never come near the rhetoric. That is

pretty clear. But if you take Mr Corbyn or John McDonnell, why

encourage people to take to the streets when the police are already

stretched to the limit? To be fair to John McDonnell, he made the

announcement before Grenfell Tower. I'm not sure he has pulled it back,

though. But he made it before Grenfell Tower, so it was not

linked. There is division in society and Grenfell Tower showed it. There

are some obscene statistics. Michael Wilner because it is his

constituency, and I was born in North Kensington, you can get the

statistics between North and south Kensington and there is a huge gap

in mortality rates, and there is a real issue to be tackled there. But

Mrs May's rhetoric, if you remember when she announced the election, she

said, the country is united but Westminster is divided. That was

their reason for having a general election. Of course the country

wasn't United. I don't think it's about the reaction to terrorism. I

think it was about Europe. It was about David Cameron's adventure of

having a referendum on Europe when we didn't need to, and another

gamble of Theresa May going to the country when she didn't need to. But

the referendum only happened as a consequence of people feeling

completely unrepresented and not listened to. That might be the

result, but not having the referendum. You think it was the

cause? I feel too many people for too long are not represented in

Parliament. And I feel that the Brexit referendum was one of the

consequences of that. I always use the term "Politically homeless",

"Political top Trumps". What does that mean? Parties promise. Parties

number one will promise ?1, party number two will promise to pounce.

But there is no democracy in the world without political parties.

Maybe there should be. People have tried, the Americans tried. George

Washington did not want political parties when he became the first

President and within eight years, America had political parties. They

reflect the divisions, aspirations of society. But why is it OK for

political parties to promise us the world? What happens is that they sit

down and work out, how can I win an election, who do I want to appeal

to? I want to appeal to the elderly, here are my promises for you... That

is how political parties operate. Please let me finish my point

because the reality is that you make these promises and it is top Trumps,

trying to outdo each other, and then you let people down. So you get into

power, and you cannot follow through with what you have offered people.

On this election, more people return to the two main parties. If you were

right, people would be looking for independent candidates. Theresa May

said for a lot of people did not want to hear. Labour can't deliver

what they promised. You know they can't. The Conservative Party

actually did come out with a manifesto that took on some

difficult issues. And then ran away from it.

Michael, you wanted to make a point. There is a problem with democracy

everywhere which is that the parties are thrown into competition with

each other to over-promise and the result of all that is not only that

people are disappointed but it can only be done by sit financing so

that debts accumulate and are passed down to future generations. It's the

single greatest flaw with democracy. I do become slightly impatient with

the idea that people feel unrepresented. I mean, they've had

many occasions to vote recently and they've made enormously important

decisions, you know, that Scotland shouldn't become independent, they

shouldn't change the voting system. Now that we should have a hung

Parliament. I mean, you know, there is no reason why people should feel

unrepresentative. They have made important decisions. People feel

there is a sense of incompetence as well. We are a country, we are awash

with safety regulations yet we couldn't forbid combustible cladding

on buildings, or insist on fire sprinklers in blocks. I mean it's

not that difficult to do any of that, and Mrs May admitted that

there was an inadequate response to Grenfell Tower. This happened in the

heart of the richest, sophisticated, biggest, best resourced City in

Europe. Why was the response inadequate? I think people are angry

at this? Yes, but hold on, so what happened in Grenfell was a tragedy,

it was awful, everybody would agree with that. What I'm disgusted by is

the political point-scoring, so all of a sudden it's become Theresa

May's fault or it's become this person's fault, that person's fault.

What's happened in Grenfell is an absolute systemic and long-term

failing from various different Governments, councils, bodies,

regulatory figures. This should never have happened. It's not a

single party's fault. And what's happening though Andrew is that

people are jumping on it and using it to create divide. It's absolutely

wrong. And what I would hope is that we have unity in going forward to

never again let this happen ever. This is not the first tower block

that's burnt. Lessons should have been learnt a very long time ago and

they were not. OK. We shall see if the lessons are learnt this time.

Thank you. Now, it's late, death metal

serenades with Ed Miliband late. Which means we're not the only

broadcasting niche that antiquated political relics can turn

to when their careers But if Red Ed's venture into not-so

popular music leaves you desperately reaching for your Blue Nun,

fear not, because waiting in the wings is columnist

Melanie Phillips here to but the Anglosphere

in our Spotlight. So be a proper FaceBrit,

Snapchant the national anthem and tweet all the internets you can,

after all, we invented them. Now, like all of you, I'm sure,

we were really looking forward Michael couldn't wait

for Theresa May's greatest hits being wheeled out for the state

opening of Parliament. Grammar schools, the Energy cap, Fox

hunting, scrapping the triple lock, social care reform and,

of course, welcoming Alan even volunteered to hold

the Donald's hand if he were to ever Unable to command a majority

and secure a deal with the DUP, Theresa May was reduced

to announcing a rather Here's Richard Madeley with his

Round up of the political week. The week began with yet another

appalling terror attack, this time A van drove into a group of Muslims

congregated close to a mosque in Finsbury Park North London,

left one man dead, two The Prime Minister heavily

criticised a few days earlier, for failing to go and meet

with the victims and survivors of the Grenfell Tower

disaster, wasted no time. There is no place for this hatred

in our country today and we need to work together as one society,

as one community, to drive it out, this evil that is

affecting so many families. The local MP, and of course

Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, An attack on a mosque,

synagogue, church, is actually We have to protect each other's

faith, each other's way of life. That's what makes us a strong

society and community. The main event of the political week

was the Queen's speech. I was already in my best bib

and tucker and even dusted Apparently, Alan's been using this

to store twiglets in. Smells a bit yeasty

but hey good as knew... Then the Queen said she wanted

a dress down speech. Nobody does scruffy

quite like This Week. Some nights the studio looks

like laundry day at Momentum HQ. # I'm gonna box some tags, only got

twenty dollars in my pocket. Facebook apps, not sure they're

really me, Ivanka, not sure at all. Brexit negotiations began this week

and David Davis headed off I don't know, I think this actually

works, what do you think? Come on, Ivanka, you Metropolitan

milk toast, where's your optimism? There's no doubt that the road ahead

will at times be challenging, but, as Winston Churchill once said,

the pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity,

the optimist sees opportunity And so, bridging between Churchill

and Monet, I'm certainly Nobody doubts that the Brexit

secretary's a trier, but it's going to take a lot more

than bluff Bonomy to win over Of course he lost an early battle

on the timeline for negotiations, so many questions on trade

that the UK wants to settle But hey, chin up David,

at least the EU isn't That is why we will work

all the time with the UK There will be no

austerity on my side. I will display

a constructive attitude. Well, Philip Hammond has had

a post-election make-over. He used his Mansion House speech

to argue that Britain should wait for a new trade deal to be agreed

before ripping up the old one, Still, you don't stand out

unless you are prepared to break We'll almost certainly need

an implementation period outside the customs union itself,

but with current customs border arrangements remaining in place

until new long-term arrangements The collective sigh

of relief would be audible. While David Davis was grappling

with the EU, Theresa May was talking to the DUP to try

and secure her Commons majority. But do you know what, the unionists

don't seem to like her style. The DUP reportedly feel

taken for granted. What could make it up

to the sensitive souls? Two billion in health

and infrastructure spending? There's no individual

sticking point. All negotiations of this kind

can take a long time. With no Commons majority,

the Queen's speech was paired right Meanwhile, the Queen kept her crown

in her hand bag and instead she wore rather fetching little hat

in blue and yellow. My Government's priority

is to secure the best possible deal as the country leaves

the European Union. Completely missing from the speech

was any mention of those manifesto pledges like scrapping the triple

lock on pensions or ending winter fuel allowances for pensioners

or even free school lunches Oh, and of course no mention

of a state visit to the UK Travel ban for the Donald,

you limey losers. Theresa May is now looking

seriously out of fashion. The test for all of us

is whether we choose to reflect divisions or help

the country overcome them. With humility and resolve,

this Government will We will do what is in the national

interest and we will work with anyone in any party

that is prepared to do the same. Jeremy Corbyn, no stranger

to dressing down himself, was in seriously bullish form

but he didn't bow to Her Majesty. Labour later put that down

to a matter of protocol, He made it very plain that Labour

would oppose the Government whenever Well, I suppose if you've got it,

flaunt it, even if IT is a better We will use every opportunity

to vote down Government policies that have failed

to win public support. We will use every opportunity to win

support for our programme. Labour is not merely

an opposition, Mr Speaker. Outside the Commons,

a day of rage was under way, a fierce protest against the hated

May Government and austerity. But actually, as it started

after lunch, technically it was more Senior Labour figures

backed the protest, That's Gandhi on a really,

really bad hair day. People may call a day

of rage or whatever. They've got the right

if they want to be angry but they haven't got the right

to be violent. All protests have

got to be peaceful. If you want to see what an effective

protest is all about, As if slumming it with all those

scabby MPs wasn't enough, we've got a lot of crusty

protestors hanging around. God it's starting to

feel like Glastonbury. Liz, put the champagne on ice

and a tenner on the fave. And thanks to Beyond

Retro in East London. Let's start with something

counterintuitive. Let's agree for the sake of discussion that Mrs May

is useless at their election campaigns, but she is still Prime

Minister. Is it not still possible that over the next year she could

actually recover? I wouldn't have thought the Conservative Party would

want her to fight another election. I didn't say that, but over the next

year she could recover some of the ground she's lost? I think what

we've seen in the last week is the Chancellor of the Exchequer

changing, pretty fundamentally, the terms of the renegotiation. You say

that, but he is in favour of leaving the single market, he knows we have

to get out of the customs union, he knows we have to end free movement.

He is talking about a longer transition period. I don't think

that is where we are going to end up. If you look at the Labour and

Tory manifesto is, they broadly say the same thing on Brexit. Why would

it change at the edges? Why would you argue it has changed so

fundamentally? I don't think you would get hard Brexit through the

House of Lords. But I interviewed the Labour Leader of the House of

Lords yesterday on the Daily Politics. She said they were not

looking for a fight over Brexit. Well, I think the election has

completely changed the Brexit terms. I think a different sort of Brexit

is going to come about. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer will

lead in that direction and I would not be surprised if David Davis

moved his position, too. The Tory Remainer rebels, such as they are,

-- are out numbered by the Labour Leave rebels. There is still a

substantial majority in the Commons for the large part of the overlap on

Brexit that was in the Labour and Conservative manifestos. I would not

trust the Labour manifesto at all, and you can see that you cannot

trust the Conservative manifesto either. You have seen how much has

been ditched. Not Brexit. Not yet Brexit, or the form of Brexit. I

don't believe the Labour Party manifesto represents... We can ask

Alan, but I don't believe it represents the majority position of

Labour member of -- members of Parliament. We know that too

mystical bin and John McDonnell, that part of Labour, they don't care

much about Brexit. It is austerity, inequality that gets them up in the

morning. This Labour leadership is not looking for a fight over Brexit.

It wants a fight over plenty of other things but not this. But they

got it at salute the right on Article 50, spot-on, that you do not

overturn that referendum decision but you recognise that the real

issues will come further down the track. -- they got it absolutely

right. Just look at what Keir Starmer has been saying. Michael is

right, the whole tone has changed, the whole rhetoric, the kind of

"Difficult woman" stuff has gone. Boris Johnson, it is OK to fall out

on WTO terms, that has gone completely. But there is a consensus

between the frontbenchers on no longer being a member of the single

market. It is the transition that is the big difference. You can have a

longer transition period. There is a consensus that we have to leave the

customs union, that free movement has to end. The frontbenchers are

not arguing about these things, so where does the substance... The

process may change, the language may change, the transition period might

change, we saw Mr Hammond talking about a transition period, but the

destination does not seem that different. Maybe not, but we are in

a weaker position now. The other 27 member states have not collapsed, as

the leaders suggested. They are more united. The Italian growth rate is

twice ours, Germany's is four times. The Italian economy is smaller than

in 1990. The Italian economy has not grown for almost two decades. It has

to start growing some time. The European economy has not fallen

apart. Who, other than Nigel Farage, said the European Union would fall

apart? I call goes, Boris Johnson. We could show the rest of Europe, we

can lead the fight. But not that it would fall apart. I think we are

moving off the point and it is an interesting point. You are taking

very literally the fact that the Conservative Party's official

position has not changed, you are taking literally what was said by

the Labour Party leadership Ynys Mon festival about Brexit. I am just

asking tough questions to break this consensus between you. Otherwise we

become a 1-party state. We cannot fault you on that but from our

wholly different positions on Brexit, fundamentally different, we

both have a feeling we will end up in a completely different place from

what we imagined before the general election. You said that last week as

well and I am probing the reasons for that. You may be right but I

have not heard any convincing reasons to suggest that yet. It is

early days. We don't know how this is going to go, and the Labour front

bench will be crucial. If it sticks to its manifesto, I do not see your

problems. If it wants to cause problems, I think it could. It is

not just the Labour front bench, is it? Labour and Tory MPs have strong

feelings, quite apart from the front bench tells them. And even the

frontbenchers heavily divided on both sides. Are you worried that it

is the hard left that now runs your party? I am very worried that the

sectarian left, as I would call them, are running the party. But I

do not want to rain on Labour's parade. There is a mess out there.

The more you look at what is happening, a year after the

referendum we have only just got going on the debate. Last time I was

on we were talking about a three-month delay because of the

election. You were saying it would not matter because nothing much

would have happened. But it looks bad, it looks weak, the country

looks like a laughing stock, with a Prime Minister destined to go and

Boris Johnson popping up every five minutes on the media. We know what

that is about. I think we have done Boris. It is like shooting trout in

a barrel. But it feels humiliated that we are in this situation. So I

would have a Labour government any time. And really, the sense of what

happened in that election and the momentum, to use the term, towards

the end, means that they need to get back to the country as soon as

possible. That might fade away. Would you like to see these days of

chaos, this uncertainty, instability being used to rerun the referendum

for Remain to get the advantage again? Are you in the category of

one of these Remainers that says, of course I accept the result of the

referendum but I will now try to do everything I can to stop it from

happening? No. But I do think we will spend time and treasure trying

to get back to where we were in the first place, a good trade deal,

absence of bureaucracy when crossing borders, the right of citizens to

remain in this country. We are fighting and struggling to get back

to where we were. At some stage over the next few years, longer than two

years, people might come to the conclusion, let's think about this

again. The will of the people might change but that is not something

new. We have run out of time. When do you think the next election will

be? In three years. Three years?! I think within 18 months. The truth

is, it could be any time. We don't know, do we? We don't know. We don't

know how the 12 Scottish Tories will go because there seems to be a

streak of independence. There are 12 Scottish Tories? When did that

happen? 13, unbelievable. Now, are you Glastonbury

or are you Ascot? The three of us our obviously buzzin

for that glasto hype, Alan can't possibly miss

an opportunity for some comradely crowd surfing with Jezza Corbs

and Michael wants to be front row for Stormzy, Boy Better Know, JME,

Dizzee Rascal and Kurupt FM. His love of grime has

reached new heights, especially since he was roped

in as the new poster boy of Grime4Corbyn, With his shirts,

he's sure to fit right in. As for me, I can't be sat at home

with massive FOMO so I'll be seeing Major Lazer,

Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro, just as soon as one of our interns

explains to me what those are. And what this has to do

with putting the Anglosphere in the Spotlight I've got no idea,

but we are. So what does a dressed

down Queen's speech say Does disregarding pomp and ceremony

mean we've lost our self-confidence. Or is Britain's

greatness unshakeable? The Prime Minister reckons

the country will overcome a month of tragedies

and become even greater. We are a great nation

and a great people. We have been through and survived

the toughest of times Once again, we can

and will grow stronger The Governor of the Bank

of England appears concerned. Before long, we will all begin

to find out the extent to which Brexit is a gentle stroll

along a smooth path towards a land Meanwhile, on the other

side of the Anglosphere, Donald Trump seems to be promoting

American isolationism. After decades of rebuilding foreign

nations, all over the world, Melanie Phillips thinks

the Anglosphere has been Mr Trump in the White House, Mrs May

probably just went through the biggest self-inflicted, unnecessary

wound in modern British politics. So is the Anglosphere in decline under

these two? I thought the Anglosphere was in decline for the last 30 years

and I allowed myself a brief moment of optimism from last year's

referendum until now, for these reasons. I think the Anglosphere has

been in decline, Britain and America, the West, the English

speaking world, because of a profound demoralisation, which I

would date to the end of the Second World War. As a result of which

Europe lost its belief in itself. It believed it had to be saved from

itself. Britain ended up at the end of the war bankrupt, in hock to

America, lost the Empire. Its elites word tomorrow lies, vulnerable to a

slew of anti-Western ideologies which destroyed the education

system, told us we had no national identity, we have to be

multicultural and so on. A similar thing went on in America. The

Anglosphere is the English speaking world led by Britain and America.

Written is the originator of political liberty. But plenty of

English speaking nations are not in decline. Australia, Canada, New

Zealand. And since the Indian elite speak English, India certainly isn't

in decline. Depends what you mean by decline. Britain is a major world

economy, but what I'm in is that it does not have any confidence in

itself any more, in its own identity. It does not understand or

want to know what it historically believes in and supports, does not

have the ability to defend itself any more. What I thought about

Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, I think one has to put aside

the man from what brought him to power. I have great reservations

about Donald Trump, I think he has many psychological flaws, but what I

think brought him to power is what I think brought Brexit to being as

well, which was the belief by millions in Britain and America,

they wanted their country back, wanted to become once again a

self-governing western democratic nation. What does that have to do

with the Anglosphere? You only want to be a self-governing nation if you

believe in yourself. It is a benign circle. You have to become a

self-governing nation to believe in yourself again. America had a

different set of problems. America was internally guilty at its history

of race as a man came to believe it was responsible for the ills of the

world. Over many years it stopped being a force for good in the world.

It has to recover that again. What do you make of this argument? I

think Melanie is fundamentally right. There is something peculiar

and particular about the knighted States and Britain and the way in

which representative government has formed in those places. Magna Carta

is thought to be our inspiration but it is even more the inspiration of

the United States. There was a point at which they overtook us. But we

have a particular view about representative democracy. In 1941

there were 11 democracies in the world and there are now 105. They

are all rather young, including ours and the United States. When the

European Union began to embark on a project where democracy was a

secondary consideration, where there was not accountability, institutions

were not responsible to their populations, we entered a period of

great danger. Too many monologues here. I disagree completely. The

thing about the European Union, if it was a democracy it would be

replicating a country. Its whole issue as to why you don't have the

election of the Commissioners is because it doesn't pretend to be a

country. Does the Anglosphere appeared to be in decline and does

it matter? It seems to me the baby boomer generation has done very

well. The problems started, reflected in the EU referendum and

the Trump election from the crash onwards. People do not believe they

are sharing the proceeds of growth. The economy that was a tool of

society, it is now the other way around. Can be put back together?

Definitely but we have to do Brexit properly and Trump as to survive his

own inadequacies. Everything leads back to Brexit.

Breakfast TV is on next... It is not but it sometimes seems like that.

We're giving Lou Lou's a miss because we're hopping straight

Michael is beside himself with excitement.

But only because we're going by train.

Alan has arranged extra luxurious glamping for us.

He needs a nice place to sell signed copies of Volume 12 of his memoirs.

Nighty night, don't let Sean Spicer bite.

# Communication let me down, and I'm left here #.

At this point I have not asked, and I'm not fully aware of...

I mean, I'm aware of the testimony that occurred in the enquiries,

I've not asked the President since the last time we spoke about this.

I have not asked the President or his staff about that.

No, I haven't asked him about that, but I'm not aware of anything.

I have not had an opportunity to specifically talk

I have not had an opportunity to have that discussion.

I have not spoken to the President about this.

Look, I think I haven't spoken to the President

I don't know, I honestly haven't asked him that specific question.

I have not have that discussion with him.

Does he have confidence in his Attorney General?

I have not had a discussion with him on the question.

If I haven't had a discussion with him about a subject,

# Communication let me down, and I'm left here

FOO FIGHTERS: # Don't let it go to waste