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british boardrooms by u.k. prime minister to raise i'm a has i was i've clarified today's meeting very clear we want workers representation on boards and workers on boards are also advocated by u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn so are the conditions right for a real revolution unlike russia nine hundred seventeen there's certainly class resentment over revelations from the so-called paradise papers detailing tax dodging by the rich the people will no doubt decide but joining me now is the british labor party's shadow emergencies minister chris williams and before we get to revolution the paradise paper has your reaction to these new revelations which is a seriously injured people from the manchurian or attack did not get medical help for an hour that's the may twenty second attack in manchester the grand concert hall that's incredibly troubling and certainly merits further investigation as to why that happened i mean i can speculate i mean one of the reasons i think potentially could be the fact that the services are massively underfunded and i've seen substantial reductions in government investments and that's pled to
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a reduction in staffing and consequently right across the piece the emergency services are struggling to actually cope with the pressures that being put on them through the government would deny the cuts had a big influence over the door all at once and they can deny that fell out when we do deny though is there isn't any any money and you guys have all the money is part of the problem the fact we don't have the money because of tax avoidance little like they were well it's very interesting i mean i think it suggests that something in the order of a seventy five billion pounds is avoided every single year in this country there is literally trillions of pounds so i don't in the tax savings and you know that's why we're calling for a public inquiry that's why we've said that we want to see a range of different measures brought in including a register of those who have holdings in particular british dependencies and we've talked about introducing measures such as withholding tax to. actually you know
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took the tax source as it were to make sure the when companies or making profits it is going to they pay their dues as it were because they know they benefit obviously from this economy they benefit from the infrastructure that's in place in this economy in the house to be paid for out of the public purse and by not paying their obligations in terms of the tax that they should be doing then clearly that's putting additional pressure public services or crying out for investment they or in a desperate state with any outnumbers of policing and adequate numbers of nurses weightiness going through the local government has been decimated social care in absolute crisis no government should be the head to represent the interests of the many not the few but it seems to me this government and indeed successive governments has got to be said over the last. four decades really have served the interests of the elites they've served the interests of faceless corporations or they've served the interests of billionaires formal then they have the interests of
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people in scottish government removed say that it was worse under blairite and labor they have tried to type up some guy loopholes i mean should there's a question they would your leader as well should the queen apologize for offshoring tens of millions to avoid well i mean i think frankly the creek queen is a sideshow i mean ten million pounds yes i think she should apologize but let's not get too focused on the queen ten million pounds versus literally trillions of pounds and lord ashcroft involvement in this i mean moving we've called for for example georgia for its former tory chairman absolutely but even more things are also calling for is for closer scrutiny of members of parliament and we do know. do have offshore accounts and you know frankly i'd like to follow the ecuadorian example where no public official is allowed to have any offshore accounts they had a referendum earlier the mother of the prime minister doesn't have a as well as i understand what do you make of the fact that her husband merges maybe twenty billion. dollars in tax dodging companies like amazon and starbucks as
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well the senior executive of capital group whether a clue clearly questions to answer there seems to be for the promise there and the could be conflict of interest here obviously very close family member partner husband. you know. and his business dealings i think do need to come under the spotlight here. you know we need answers i think to these very serious questions a been raised now as a consequence of the revelations in these paradise papers it just goes on and fundamental to british capitalist society where the right wing blogger is saying john mcdonald had a chance for his tax filings show that fourteen thousand pounds was involved in some pension in good i'm presuming that doesn't mean javagal back in of course as we talk about clutching at straws that's a that's a smear and the fact is john has no control over the way where the pension funds are nor does anyone well know but the point is. well now we deed but this is where we need. restrictions legislation and we talked about bringing that in but where
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you know complete do have control these corporations they have control these billionaire all agog these elites they have control and they choose to hold their accounts in these tax havens many of which are british dependencies very briefly when you're in parliament the disgraced defense secretary went how long do you think to raise it is the beginning of the end to raise awareness will have is the beginning of the end for this government because if they recently go she would just be replaced by another cardboard cutout who. you know subscribes to to to this is a revealing there is the end well i mean i think it's got it's got the stench of decay this government has to shore in theory they could last until twenty twenty two can't see them surviving that long as they are in a minority it has all the hallmarks of the john major government and so i think whenever the election comes are there and they're in a very deep trouble but we can't be complacent we've got to offer a genuine alternative to the system is this on offer at the moment when you know
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the wealthy the rich the corporations will benefit from you know i mean the end of the day these people are making so much money he said because spending they just their wealth pots just grow and grow and grow would be better if they were paying their way contributing to society contribution to the economy that would help the economy to grow it would help generate jobs they would benefit from that you know it just seems to me a client of addictive approach that they've taken chris williams thank you. well we just heard from shadow emergencies minister chris williamson and he was quite clear the paradise papers could not only be the final nail in the coffin for to resume but their entire party as well i'm joined now by the prime minister's trade on voight to nigeria conservative m.p. john howell yours it's as vice chairman of the conservative friends of israel john the expert coming on i mean we have ministers or declaring secret meetings with foreign governments we have people senior people of an allegedly endangered the lives of british subjects abroad is to resume finished no she's not finished and i
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think you've got to look at what each of those items individually to get the true picture of it there's no point in getting worked up and jumping on the on the back of them and i think it will be totally wrong to say that either theresa may or this concerted government is finished you think it was and. in this mission to god cause allegation that the thing you can't do is to is strong governments and i think that what morris said was. was actually appropriate and i see that as a normal critique of boris johnson and i think it was it was perfectly appropriate even if it endangered the lives of the rain ians are a terrible regime they are causing a huge amount of of of upset really that is your view surely the important issue is to save the life of a british subject and i understand the borat spoke to the iranians and i i don't know what is clearly both ways you trust the iranians of the boers agree with and
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you don't trust them before he said no i don't trust the iranians as far as i could throw the what do you mean iranians at work i've no idea what the iranians said i wasn't privy to that to that conversation but i'm sure he explained the situation to the iranians and we'll have to wait and see what the outcome of that is we know that this government since twenty ten the tories of obviously taking a tougher stance than gordon brown or attorney blair on tax avoidance and tax dodging. what did you what was your reaction to the fact that. tax dodging ceased to be going on industrial scale well i think the thing that you've got to remember here is the enormous hypocrisy on the part of the labor party because in the wash up to the general election they forced through changes that would have created eight point six billion pounds for the u.k. treasury and they simply didn't want to want to pursue them so i think that i'm not going to accept any criticism from the labor party. over the paradise papers
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you know worried that there is a maze her husband is involved has been is in effect a adviser on tax dodging i'm not i'm not in the slightest worried by that. i'm sure that he can defend himself on this but quite honestly i think there are bigger things that the khan's country needs to concentrate on and as i said it needs to concentrate on the hypocrisy of the labor party in turning down the offer to recoup a point six billion for the u.k. average weight of a partisan politics no no it's not a partisan politics it's an actual fact the before the general election in the wash up to the general election that's what the labor party did so they can't go back on this now but still a little of any public inquiry into the implications of the paradise paper i don't see that it needs a public inquiry ok well so the governor has a lot on its plate today six round talks at the e.u.
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i mean given the european union arguably the dork over the fact to brazil and to pro-democracy activists i mean how these negotiations going and how does one even negotiate with european union well i think that that's a very interesting question to make how do you negotiate with it with the european union and the short answer to that is slowly and carefully and there are many things that we need to be concentrating on in our trade relationships around the world and the new it's one of them you said that. should be going slowly i want to say that they deliberately block being linked from the by european officials to see britain in the end like other european nations so i took i am very keen to remain i voted to remain and i still think that that was the right decision but the country voted in a different way and i lost that that argument and we have to accept it and i don't
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think it's in anyone's interest either for the e.u. of for us to duck negotiations over future trade policy it certainly it certainly would be in both our interest if we got a good deal in place john l. thank you after the break. as the u.k. government did win. two thirds of survivors a still housed in emergency accommodation five months after the tragedy going to major dr william defoe tells of why he believes the capitalist model of competition is prioritize business over politics and the goal of simple coming up about to have going underground.
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i don't think the people are. suffering always or. responsibilities of coming from one country the seventy one or the seventy percent is coming from an idea i think that we have to see that we have to discuss. prove. to be a that the human being that. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but not signed up to be poisoned by our own people that was leaked or biological and chemical products said do not find the truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every
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soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay. for health and get the middle finger to be used to model or. delayed and. welcome back well while former u.k. labor pm gordon brown may be trying to make an audience at the l.s.e. forgets about how he oversaw a catastrophic economic crash in britain's economy alarming statistics about poverty have emerged in the past twenty four hours according to u.k. angio the trussell trust hundreds of thousands of children have nothing but food banks to feed them in austerity britain between april and september six hundred
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thousand three day emergency food supplies had to be given out to stave off hunger so what about the usa a country whose new liberal policies have long been revered by u.k. politicians we sent senior producer pete bennett to speak with the custom crew of a film. because. the florida project this friday in britain the film follows underclass survival in the shadow of multinational media corp the walt disney company. co-written and directed by sean baker the florida project follows the misadventures of three kids living on the highway to the most magical place on earth disney will florida star an oscar nominated legend willem dafoe and the cost of first time says the story is set in a budget motel now mostly home to america's hidden homeless i spoke to brave unlike say he was discovered through social media about how character haiti's experience of poverty motherhood and temporary accommodation halley as a young mom she's in her early twenty's she has
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a six year old daughter named money she's just trying to figure her life out financially struggling doesn't really have a lot of opportunity. and the film is just about her daughter mostly but it's about her kind of trying to figure out the struggles without putting them on her daughter not being able to pay or not being able to get where all those things are true and they and they go through these things regularly so it definitely trade real situations are really going on and these malthouse do you realize before the film about sort of this hidden homelessness situation in america how many people who are suffering i never know about that and it's not because i didn't want to it's just because it's not really spoken about. so it's really awesome that shawn is shedding light on a subject that's really important i feel like i really agree with shawn when he says housing is a fundamental right and i feel like it's not fair deserves a home but what it is is actually the recession of zero eight and the housing
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crisis that immediately followed it and you have a lot of transplants and for various reasons you know coming from mostly the new york area puerto rico and looking for a place in which they can they can find permanent housing so what they're doing is that they're using these budgets. tells as basically a place to keep a roof over their heads you know they're one step away from the streets they're there it's the last refuge before actually turning to shelters or the streets in the donation food truck where people are getting free food here in the u.k. we have feedback it's become a massive. issue with d.c. the first time people relying on the need to feed oh yeah you know it's that's that's one of the biggest concerns is that there isn't just simply there isn't enough funding from the government whether it's local state or federal and so many of the agencies that are providing social services to the needy are being backed
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by their philanthropists so the private sector i mean even disney itself had to give five hundred thousand dollars last year to the homeless impact fund which helps central florida so it it's about getting it's about getting basically the government then now to really step up and and provide funding for affordable housing and low income housing so then that's kind of symbolic in a sense that's happening on the doorstep of disney you know the second biggest media company in the united states that is exactly why we decided to have our story take place in this area is this very sad juxtaposition of children growing up right outside of the place that we consider the happiest place on earth for children so it's putting a human face on this issue it's having us embrace a little moonie whose only character love her and laugh with her and spend the summer going through going on mysterious adventures with her with the hope that at
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the end of the film you know when they're at least one audience members are leaving the theater they're talking about the real movies out there because they've connected with her through humor and through love. having approached the subject in a journalistic style so met motel residents and manages in the lead up to filming funny cheese and sheets on location at the magic calls to motel bosses still operational i suppose they wouldn't have thought about his character bobby the hotel's manager and what it was like to work amongst the harsh realities of post bail out america bobby the character i play is the manager of a motel a budget tourist hotel that's along this highway right outside of the mismatched parks most no not really disney world and central florida and it's a place that does have tourists come and stay there but it also houses a lot of people that don't have permanent homes and they pay daily weekly
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and they can't establish residence there so they kind of pay as they go but of course this makes a very precarious living situation and you have a lot of people you know living six to a room a lot of children it's it's a tough way to grow up it affects their schooling it infects how they eat. you know home having a home should be a basic right these people don't have that. they struggle and that's the world that we're talking about in this movie is that kind of since i'm not sick or some sort of some policies i mean i know there's a housing crisis i don't say it's i think this happened it's not just in central florida it's a lot of places and i'm sure there are similar problems here but in the states specifically after the economic crash and the housing crisis there are a lot of people that just couldn't afford. a house they couldn't get the security.
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money together they couldn't and they had a bad credit rating for various reasons and this was a solution for them but it's a it's a very it's a tough cycle because. the kids are always moving they do they fall behind in school they can't they can cook on hot plates and thanks but they end up eating that fast food restaurants which cost them a lot more and they eat not how filet you know you see all these threads that contribute to this cycle that is very hard to break and i think rather than talking specifically about this it is useful to talk about story because it's not a polemic it's a story. that takes place in this world seen through these kids' eyes so it's not. a totally. downer movie there's something joyous about its portrait of childhood but at the same time always in the shadow you see the adults
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who are struggling and you recognize if these kids don't have different opportunities and if they continue to grow up this way though i. be facing the same challenges as their parents. yeah. i. know. ok are warmer one drippin your are. out now so. it's not one side to help the clubby out. thank you no much. money is a triple make air is an ice cream lover. is a. very fine. very sassy girl. she's she's very very funny. well jancee
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is not so what troublemaker felt when she meets these two christopher and of course moni and i don't little out of control but jency isn't a bad person and. janet is just a little girl that just. dreams and when they're trying to get money. they actually really get it. sometimes in a really think that people are going to give it to them if they do but they do but they're hungry they don't really have a lot of it so they're hungry and so big big they don't and they know food costs money so they said we'd try to get money to get their own food what do you guys want people to think after they see the maybe there's a special message which i'm going to tell you they should make the world
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a better place they should help out the community just go and bring things that you don't use that ok and still be in use and give it to them and make the world a better place they should give people things that they need because they should really be thankful for melanie have that has. they could be put in harry minis position they could really make small tells like budget motels and all that stuff and they should be really really thin for that to have. any could be their own. food and all that stuff is ok i just think you we're living in very politically heated times not only that we have we have technology that gives us you know updates every three seconds about either a political heated political scandal or or a disaster or
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a tragedy we're getting hit a lot with it with news that isn't exactly positive and i think that film needs to still be in escape and so audiences they want that escape but but a filmmaker can also use this art form in this this pharmacy of escapism to shine light on an important issue and i think that that's when the film becomes its most powerful are politicians are not moral leaders they're they're businessmen and in this case you know a businessman that you know totally is his is judgments and his and his wisdom. you know totally comes from this kind of. capitalist model of beat the other guy doesn't exactly make you think as a nation or think as
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a community it's all about getting over on the other guy something at the heart of competition and the heart of capitalism is you know who gets the most stuff at the end and i think we were learning for a while that that's not the way things get done you know in the end it becomes what you want to do when you're. to pay for it you want to pay for education you know. and i was saying and you want to pay for cops and jails and it's pretty clear that . for me it's not a great story but we're going on the wrong direction now but hopefully there will be and i just want some. senior producer pete bennett there with austin crew of osca favorites the florida project for the film is out in britain from friday the tenth and that's of the show will be back on saturday forty six years to the day of the first publication i'm just told since fear and loathing in las vegas to speak to it would really illustrate that ralph steadman feel that he
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