the british conservative party m.p. a well. i'm in manchester with douglas collins well he's a conservative members of parliament he said the political system in this country is broken and in urgent need of reforms he's also renowned euro skeptic douglas gansler thanks for talking to us we use this catch all term euro skeptic what does that mean old style euro skepticism in this country used to be about trying to take this country back it used to be an inherently conservative movement that was about trying to take us back to a sort of one nine hundred fifty s. status quo i don't have much truck with that at all i mean you're a skeptic because i want change and i want to really change the way this country is run i think fundamentally europe is in the mess that she is today because she's trying to do too much by conscious deliberate design how currency is a mess because it's a product of conscious design agricultural policy have fisheries policy trade

policy you know we need to let go and we need to allow the different parts of the european continent to do what suits them best incidentally i would say that that's why the european continent grew to global prominence in the first place it's precisely because we never had the political centralization that russia had that china had the mobile empire had that the ottomans had that europe was allowed to prosper in the first place so we need a decentralized europe and i'm afraid i think that means rejecting the whole e.u. project completely so you think that person should leave the correct we should have an in out referendum and i would vote for us to come out of the european union the european union and one nine hundred fifty s. political structure it's an outdated architecture for a modern continent you know when we joined the european union or what became the european union in the early one nine hundred seventy s. western europe at that time accounted for thirty six percent of global g.d.p.

today the european continent accounts for far less than that by twenty twenty it would account for a mere fifteen percent of global g.d.p. we joined what we thought. was a prosperous trade block it turns out we shackled ourselves to a corpse i think we're better off out and you talk about an in out referendum but isn't there a middle way where we have a trade relationship with europe that without any of the politics involved in effect if we had only an hour referendum and most people voted for us to leave the european project as it is we know that your opinion and mass would still be there we would still have people with whom we want to be good neighbors personally i would like us to continue to have the free trade and the free movement of people between our countries we would still have to cooperate but i think that can best be done through bilateral structures or by ad hoc arrangements. i would personally like us to to stop being rather begrudging tenants in the european.

apartment and become good neighbors to the european countries that are next to us we need good relations with continental europe but we're not getting them by being in this one nine hundred fifty s. apartment block despite the fact that u.k. didn't actually join the euro but has taxpayers are still covering the currency to the tune of billions of pounds is that wrong it's absolutely wrong you know we have found ourselves in the ludicrous position of having to bail out a currency that we chose not to join and i think it's wrong for us to have increased british liabilities to over twenty billion to prop up a currency that i think needs to be allowed to break up it up within europe within recent years we have allowed a new currency to be created when slovakia broke away from the czech republic they did so very simply by creating a new currency when argentina had pegged to a currency to the u.s. dollar turned out to be a disastrous mistake brought about by politicians and when is ours when eventually

they had to break that link they were able to devalue the currency default on their debts and start again and as a result of that both slovakia and. argentina are doing pretty well that i think is the answer for for greece or portugal for ireland probably for spain and italy another way perhaps of looking at it is that maybe the german center of the euro zone should be allowed to establish its own currency whichever way you look at it it involves breaking up the euro and greece has recently said admitted really that it's not going to be able to meet its debt obligations certainly for the next year and possibly two years and current circumstances how much the british banks stand to lose in greece portugal and ireland well british banks are liable for quite a lot of money billions of pounds at least that used to be regarded as quite a lot of money until our government started printing it but each is the case the british banks are going to take a hit and they're going to take

a hit not because of some abstract problem in the euro zone they're going to take a hit because their investment teams on their fixed income debt bought greek and portuguese and other government debt that they regarded as fixed income but turned out to be a really bad investment now when my constituents buy shares in a company that's badly run and lose money the government doesn't step in and underwrite their loss so i'm very very concerned that taxpayers in my constituency will be asked to bail out banks that brought this upon themselves now if if it is the case that we are going to have to prop up some of these banks because these banks have been so badly run such victims of their own greed that unless we do so our economy will disintegrate then then at least let's prop up the banks here in britain that's not channel of all the money all the way of our athens values been of a third party countries if the problem really is that we don't want to allow banks in this country to face the consequences of their own fiscal folly then let's address that here in this country rather than channeling money through third party

countries but it's all very well to say british money to bail out british banks but then we're we're operating within a block britain is not not an isolated place yes of. course there is a large degree of interdependence in the global economy and a good thing too but the idea that. simply because if banks you know if there is a default in the eurozone british banks will take it therefore we've got to keep on signing a blank check that's absurd and think think through the logic of that you know ever since the bailout started eighteen months ago every single bailout has increased the amount of debt greece portugal and ireland while perhaps owns an exception but greece and portugal certainly have more debt today than they had when the bailouts began now at what point do we realize that these bailouts are not helping these the first bailouts in history that are scooping and ladling water into the boat eventually they're going to sink it you're sort of floating an almost an isolationist line how does that tally with for example

a person going into libya i mean isn't it sort of isolationism on the one hand and expansionism on the other on the contrary if you think that what i said was isolationist i probably didn't make myself very clear i want britain to be a truly global player i'm not locked in a small room in the north west coast of europe doing everything with two or three other countries i want to be truly global players it's right that we're global players by virtue of locking ourselves in the diplomatic room with europe i think we have less influence than we would have britain after all has countries around the world that will once in effect off britain australia new zealand even india the rising power of india has a common or system a parliamentary system like our own we have so much in common with the world why are we shutting ourselves away from it it is the european project that is making us an isolationist and let's go on about politics more generally is britain broken as

the prime minister sets where our political system i think has broken our political system i think in effect what we have is an eighteenth or nineteenth century system of parliamentary. democracy trying to hold to account a twenty first century size government it doesn't work it doesn't work. well in the interest of the taxpayer or in the interests of getting the best public policy again and again and again people vote for something it's not delivered and the people that they vote for end up simply providing excuses as to why it doesn't happen i think we need more direct democracy we need instead of delegating decision making to politicians who then delegate power to the whitehall elites in the mandarins we need direct democracy so that people can choose things for themselves in this country my grandfather's generation used to have food rationing what they had in their larder at home in their kitchen was given to them by government you

know those days are gone and a good thing two people can choose for themselves what they eat they can choose for themselves where they go on holiday they can choose themselves the clothes they wear why can't we have a little bit more choice about the public policy in which we dress ourselves as well as from the outside the situation in the u.k. looks present corruption in the media media's close links to u.k. politics particularly the conservative party these old boys' network the political system that is very slow to reform itself what kind of message that sends to people who are losing their jobs and suffering from state cutbacks you're absolutely right britain has had a series of crises of the elites and we've seen from the m.p.'s expense candle from the hacking inquiry and the close collusion allegedly between senior police officers and the media the banking crisis we've seen a series of crises where the political elite has got it wrong what all these crises have in common number one they were all unaccountable concentrations of power now what's extraordinary is that the age of digital democracy the age of the internet

allowed us to see what m.p.'s were doing the public money it allowed the whole thing to come out it allows people to hold to account. the rich and the powerful not just in this country but throughout the world so i think in a sense although these crises are a back they show which way the wind is blowing we're going to have more openness in government unaccountable concentrations of power whether they exist in banking the media or politics are going to be broken open everything that the internet touches it opens up it opens up to greater accountability that's going to happen in politics and a very good thing too now politicians minor like it political parties might lose market share to new entrants in politics there may be more competition to decide who gets to be our politicians but this is a good thing direct democracy is good and what is preventing you from pushing through the political reforms that you say clearly well i would like us to have gone much further in opening up the political system in britain to choice and

accountability you might say we need our own version of glasnost we need to make sure that the people in westminster are vulnerable to the wishes and the will of the people in a way that they're not we need openness we've gone some way to delivering that but we've not gone far enough and i think the reason why we've not gone far enough is bluntly because it suits the political class to carry on with some of the unsatisfactorily things we have at the moment we promised that we would allow the voters the power to recall. their own politicians they have it in california they have it in many american countries in fact most of your viewers i'm sure can be recalled from their line of work pretty much any day of the week yet politicians you can't sack them for five years and in safe constituencies even longer i would like to allow the people to directly hire and fire the political plus some changes have been made to make things better but not nearly enough and no prizes for

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championships. last pitch battle. after being fined over a million dollars for refusing to play. and restoring some six one defeat. to reach the quarter finals of the carling cup but first reassure up of his hopes of finishing the season as the women's number one has suffered a blow she needs to reach the final. championship and to have any chance of taking top spot but suffered a shock defeat. the world players are taking part in the last of the season and are divided into two groups that the semifinal place is. the number two seed was the favorite against the. group. six one and then the second seventy five to take and i'm like. i'm not quite i think you know obviously you want to try and you know your matches even in the round robin till my scaring

tape but of course is a good chance if you if you win two you sorry guess it's a matter of coming out here to marry giving it my best shot and hopefully i can get that second win. well it's also bad news for the other russian in the. shoulder injury she's picked up. picked up at the top in moscow last week the russian went down to check. the reigning wimbledon champion winning in an hour and a half six to six for the final school. and in the top. of. the. house held the world number one spot but thirty six consecutive weeks but it was not france which started more strongly. and took the first set seven five however the poll service broken four times in the second by wozniacki you won't see through that sixty and although the decider was close at one point it was tied at four games each one eight six four for the match i mean time

travel ban has been left out of the russia team for the fed cup final against the czech republic next month we'll talk be sheriff opting for the same team that beat italy in the semi and that means of it is of on video but again lead to full time champions and will be joined by state lawmakers nets and see a positive change about the katharina make out of. the city striker is threatening to sue the club's manager roberto mancini tevis was fined over one and a half million dollars off the man who's the argentine refusing to come off the bench and play in a game against by munich last september an internal investigation by man sitting back in the manager's maintains he refused to warm up and is now considering suing man cheney for defamation as has a fortnight to appeal to the club board against the charge and if that fails it could take the matter to a premier league tribunals. munched united have avoided further humiliation after

their six one drubbing at the hands of man city at the weekend last night they go to three no when i were fourth to side old a shocked in the fourth round of the carling cup united i made eleven changes to the side for this game at the tiny recreation ground and they went ahead after quarter of an hour a quick one two between par. for the first and the second came just before half time this time sliding the ball into the path of michael. and antonio valencia save the best for last the quality strike my side the vault wrapping up when united banishing the sunday's blues to book a place in the last. also into the quarter finals of his side's cardiff in crystal palace and. also are still fresh air strike on in scoring one and setting up the two youngs weigh that against bolton who was also a star fossils need to know johnny alex oxalate chamberlain the eighteen year old was bought the twelve million pounds from southampton in bangor believes he can

handle the pressure of being a young star. where the whole much i do know. is a good example. to war called the. example who goes to a was confronted by a rumor to describe. creatures where. words were control introduce a very early and both were very. good examples for four troubling things meanwhile have been hotting up in the russian premier league with big spenders angie in danger of missing out in a top a finish and the chance to compete for european football next season they lost five three to t iscar it is time not to see those in every other net buster from the weekend.

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that is a part of our state meanwhile the sport will get its first taste of a new this weekend the brand new good international circuit will be the venue for the country's first grand prix at the track is deemed to be among the fastest in the world especially vettel in this red bull team may have already clinched the drivers and constructors will titles but with three races left teams are still wanting to finish the season on a high and reckon the delhi circuit will throw up some new challenges. but we have a lot of up down up and down. down in that section and also mainly all the corner it's got a lot of. shore you basically more than companies backing you to your banking and the other characteristic of the truck is that many of the of the braking turning. into the corner blind right she's on sunday that's all the sport for moments more until at.

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e.u. summit casting doubts over the prospects of a solution being found in deepening debt crisis. and a new international study says the u.s. secret uranium based weapons in iraq causing high levels of cancer and birth defects talked to an author of the report. on air and online twenty four hours a day this is kerry johnston libya's new rulers are increasingly being accused of the kinds of abuses they were rebelling against when they overthrew colonel gadhafi inserts the number of people that actually executed has risen to three hundred this comes on top of criticism that gadhafi is body was put on public display inside the meat market.