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 for 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 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vote for us to come out of the european union the european union a nine hundred fifty s. political structure it's an outdated architecture for a modern continent. 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 will account for a mere fifteen percent of global g.d.p. we joined what we thought was a prosperous trade bloc it turns out we shackle their selves to a corpse i think we're better off when you talk about an in out referendum the.

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 a new 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 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 grudging 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 you k. didn't actually join the euro zone but as 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. within europe within recent years we have allowed new currencies 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 her currency to the u.s. dollar turned out to be a disastrous mistake brought about by politicians and when it's ours when eventually they had to break that link they were able to devalue their 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 is recently said admitted really that it's not going to be able to meet it that's not the case and 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 you know he's 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 year and saying they're going to take a hit because their investment team's 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 let's not channel of all that money all the way of 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 that means we're we're operating within a block. 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

if there is a default in the euro zone 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 well perhaps on an exception but greece and portugal certainly have more debt today than they had when the bailouts began 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 here how does that tally with for example britain 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 and not locked in a small room in the northwest coast of europe doing everything with two or three

other countries i want us 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 let britain after all has countries around the world that will want in effect offshoots of britain australia new zealand even india the rising power of india has a common. system in a parliamentary system like our own we have so much in common with the world why are we shutting off selves away from it it is the european project that is making us insular and isolationist and let's go on to talk about politics more generally is britain broken as their prime minister said our political system i think is broken our political system i think in effect what we have is there an eighteenth or nineteenth century system of parliamentary democracy trying to hold to account a twenty first century side's 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 and 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 now 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 pretty dire we've got corruption in the media media's close links to q.k.

politics particularly the conservative party these old boys' network the political system that is very slow to reform itself what kind of message saying that sends to people who are losing their jobs and suffering from state cutbacks you're absolutely right britain aside 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 do 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 with 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 you know i think in a sense although these crises. abbat 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's preventing you from posting through the political reforms that you say clearly does 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 in 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 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 class some changes have been made to make things better but not nearly enough and no prizes for guessing why that is douglas carswell thank you very much thank you. so. most comes with the coolness college trip to

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more news today violence is once again flared up the from these are the images before all has been seeing from the streets of canada as trophy china corporations are today. all the stories on our t.v. cheers and jeers over a gruesome death with western media as euphoric reporting of gadhafi is killing his family wants nato to answer war crimes charges. fresh cautious as the

wall street protests police in oakland california detained nearly a hundred activists and chased arrest software tear gas and legal grounds. the eurozone spade hands in the balance is e.u. leaders try to stop squabbling and serve up a solution instead which could see the biggest plan yet to tackle its runaway finances. i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes but first the sports news with richard. welcome to sports day great to have you with us as always with the headlines. stunned in istanbul maria sharapova shocked to see some styles are up and she had championships. which bus holds have is for instance through man city coachman cine on the billion dollars for fusing the playing. corruption crusade faith open

cases against the ten football officials and read scandal song he was rocking the sport's governing body. first maria sharapova hopes of finishing season but ward's women's world number one suffered a blow she needs to reach the final of the championships in istanbul any chance of taking top sports suffered a shock opening defeat to australia so the world's top eight players are taking part in the last twelve months of the season and the divided into two groups after the riots in the sun on the places to shop over who's been number two seed favorites and styles a new game in the one group the australian on the first set six one in the second seven five to take my monthly victory over oak trees and thinking about the semifinals just didn't play for the us are into the next. not quite i think you know obviously you want to try and we know you match the need in the round robin

tail my scaring table of course is a good chance a key if you win today so i guess it's a matter of coming out here tomorrow and giving it my best shot and hopefully i can get that second when. those also bad news for the other russian in the tournament get as one of the over shoulder injury she picked up the crimean cup and moscow last week the russian went down to check the bees and the trick lead to one straight sets around wimbledon champion winning in just under. an hour and a half sixty six for final score boards ranked dame caroline wozniacki in the topsy turvy tussle with her of court friend and poland. is now the ski have to come from a set down for the poles four times in the second set to waltz through violence to another over the side a close one point out of four games all was nowitzki wanted six four for the march she's been at the top of the rankings for the last thirty six weeks and has every intention of staying right there.

in the meantime sharapova as expected has been let out of the russian team of a fed cup final against the czech republic not next month coach top issue of opting for the same team to beat italy in the semi's that means we are as one of the over but again leave before time champs and she'll be joining us with one question it's all for us to see a problem you can put in my cart about. football now and fever has launched probes into another ten caribbean officials a bribery scandal continues to rock the sport's governing body or the committee widening their investigation which already resulted in a life ban the top executive mohamed bin the former president of the asian football confederation had been in the running for three for presidency earlier this year but it's a victory was charged with embroiders votes and pulled out of the race has been found guilty and a bit of a penalty in july on

a separate incident john warner also stepped down as vice president in june after allegations he asked for money in return for votes for england's two thousand and eighteen world cup that. exult munch the city striker carlos tevis is frightening to see the club's manager roberto mancini have is spined over one and a half million dollars on the man cheney accused the arch in time to come up the bench and play in a game against by munich last september for an internal investigation by man city back to their man just claims to have his maintains he only refused to warm up and is now considering suing for defamation with ted as as a full line to appeal to the club or dickens of a charge that fails he could take the matter to a premier league tribunal. in one month united have avoided a further humiliation after their six one drubbing at the hands of man city last weekend last night to get a free meal win for his side all shots in the forefront of the current cup when

united made eleven changes to the signed this game a tony recreation ground and we went ahead at a quarter of an hour a quick one to impart the song and tom cleverley setting up. a bottle for the first and second came just before half time. this time slot in a ball in the path of michael owen. and antonia the lead in syria see the best for last call to strike from outside the vaults wrapping up a win for united banishing sunday's blues to the place in the last eight. also in difficult to find alls championship sides cardiff and crystal palace and also all small russian strike shot in scoring one and setting up to humans when we're not against bolton also starts fossils new signing alex oxley chamberlain eighteen year old ball for twelve million tons of southampton believes he can

handle the pressure of the young star. is a good example. to. read about. he's a good example who goes to or was contracted very early career creatures with. control very early and both were very. good examples for fortune born in many more strikers samuel eto is reported to be on the long list of world football of the year award at the cameroon star as among fifty players receive an order moment came from barcelona when i will be announced a member of the first school for goals and switched on all this from into but he scored thirty five goals in one season so they just came inside five three defeat to save scum moscow at the weekend enjoyed violence and the risk of a strike from the russian premier league was goals galore. it's.

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