minister dres a major just minutes before her chancellor delivered his controversial british budget a budget now accused of spurring on house price inflation because of the abolition of a tax for first time buyers let alone according to the neoliberal institute for fiscal studies to last decades without earnings growth for u.k. labor leader german corbin one on say he wanted for drazen may concern just as specifically why bailed out bankers to enjoy free movement around the e.u. after brics it but not normal work because last week the brics it secretary said he would guarantee free movement for bankers postscripts it other any other groups to whom the prime minister believes freedom of movement should apply nurses don't just teachers scientists agricultural workers because. the u.k. pm said corbin copied his questions from the british liberal party something those on the radical left may well be worrying about given his m.p.'s don't seem very

socialist i'm very interested that the right honorable gentleman has found that his appearance is a problem is this question's been going so well he's had to borrow a question from the leader of the liberal democrats corbin not predicting the jury's amaze chancellor was about to dispense with near liberal talk of balancing the books wanted to know where britain's wealth has disappeared to he asked about all the billions in cash stored away in tax havens that could be used to pay for basic social services in a country where perhaps one hundred twenty thousand children will be homeless this christmas would britain seek to emulate the poverty stricken caribbean is she still threatening to turn britain into a tax haven may said she wouldn't take lessons from labor surely a fair point given tony blair's party appeared infamously relaxed about people getting very rich presumably off the poor. just the labor party. to be a bit shocked at lloyd's situation one hundred and six. billion pounds more take

the resulting action taken by conservatives in government but given their own alleged billion pound bunker formerly paramilitary linked politicians just stay in power some of one that has sentience drazen may really is ironically media even before a budget giveaway to young people who want to buy half a million pound homes in central london has focused on reports of her planning to consider animals not sentience beings it was something she felt the need to deny we also recognize and respect that animals are sentient beings and should be treated accordingly. the animal well. the animal welfare act two thousand and six provides protection for animals people experiencing pain or suffering which are under the control of man but in the scrum outside parliament on budget day the question for jeremy corbin's u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell appeared to be with the theresa may with sentiment did the government have feelings sharon chancellor what did you think of the latest

growth figures that a forecast for this country showed exactly what we've been saying if you don't invest in our economy the growth will go down product of it will not rise and as a result of lack of investment through austerity under this government the economy well i think is in. the sort of condition you would not expect it to be coming out of a recession a loss if you remember when with come out of the recessions of the eighty's and ninety's business investment was well sixty percent in one case thirty percent in another at the moment business investment at five percent so no wonder the crux of the crisis that we've got and i do think the chancellor didn't seem so bothered about the lower figures i think is because there's paralysis in government no one is in charge no one is in control and this is a government in office but not in power but on a key call being indicators that we're like inequality the government we're proud to say that inequality is the lowest it's been for thirteen you know in your case from different means from us a judge in a different way last year one million and a quarter. food parcels giving out in the sixth richest country in the world that

shows you are in a correlation in our society and it shows you also we've got four million children in poverty in this country two thirds of them are in families where someone is at work and the reason in poverty because of low pay will it make any difference is one week off the universal credit waiting period what are you staring at them only if he's taken ten pounds off people on universal credit and giving one pound back was terrible and these are some of the poorest in our society johnson thank you as for the man in charge of tourism is a new revamped social security system accused of ripping up the social fabric of the united kingdom he wasn't in the mood to talk to us sorry russia today i'm not talking to you when you look to because you are probably your property or propaganda part of that station which is your your propaganda that the position of the i don't care what israel are not talking to r.t. you can have. whatever universal credit the shadow chancellor john mcdonnell just told us when you take the weekend rounds on stories recently would also be wasted no reputable person will speak to you because you are

a propaganda face shadow chancellor john mcdonnell is not a reputable verse prove a. point prove it or prove more able to talk with is the former vice chair of the party currently running britain in a minority government nigel evans former deputy speaker of the house of commons well with me is the former vice chair of the conservative party nigel evans an age of thanks for being out here on the green some noise from construction because the booming economy what did you think of the budget. i've seen budgets over the past twenty five years as a member of parliament and i'm not philip hammond's biggest cheerleader either because i think in the past he's been far too like mark carney when he's looking at the economy and not as much you know as an enthusiastic cheerleader but my goodness me didn't he sparkle today he performed in all the right areas as far as i'm concerned whether it is for those at the poorest stand for those on universal credit his record. is that there have been problems with the rollout of the program

for those on the national living wage and the national minimum wage is a difference depending on what age you are going at much higher than the rate of inflation and then the threshold before you start paying income tax increases yet again and then the announcement on giving hope to the nurses that that whatever the pay settlement is going to be that the chancellor is going to cover that i think it's brilliant and then of course one of the biggest problems for a lot of people living in the united kingdom is being able to afford your own home and he came out with that staggering statistic that the percentage of young people owning homes has dropped by over twenty percent that startling and he is now doing something to reverse that in two ways and one is that the there's going to be a massive increase in house building in the areas where people want to live so it's not going to be you know areas where the rural areas where people don't want to go it's going to be cities in the main where people do want to live three hundred

thousand houses by the middle of the next decade every year for people wanting to own their own homes and then of course that massive bombshell right at the end about the abolition of stamp duty for first time buyers for those buying homes up to the rate of three hundred thousand but also recognizing that houses are a bit more expensive in london so it's going to be up to half a million but the relief will still only be on the three hundred thousand i think that's great one could argue that is. merely reflects the fact that the conservatives face a wipe out in future elections and need the house owning classes to be able to vote tory because well don't have a stake in. this you know i might agree with you had i not read the recent opinion polls which are just what the conservative party four points ahead of the labor party you would think wouldn't you. yeah it's sixty two percent this is what the chancellor has done today i believe is. a number of key sectors at the lower end investing. only at the for the entrepreneurs particularly in the high

tech companies and the small to medium sized enterprises as well i think there's been recognition that this is a budget helping a number of sectors and the other key thing that he did today which i was really pleased about which is the extra three billion that is now put to one site for the brigs it preparations up until now it seems to have been reluctant to have given large sums of money it was about seven hundred million pounds in the past now he's given three billion pounds with the promise that if more is needed more will be found universal credit this rollout of this controversial welfare policy reducing the waiting period from six weeks to five weeks we were saying this program last week that if you claim the universe of credit one of the pilot areas you had to wait till after chris no no no no it's all changed now and i say no you can do it online and you'll get it within five days now that was the announcement in the budget and i think that that is important change and get you know the other thing

that universal credit has done and the chance of pointed out in these budget statement which is that in the past people were penalized if they work more than sixteen hours now that is no longer the case and that has led to a real boom in the number of people working in this country which over the past seven years has gone up by over three million that's a fantastic on every day and you know you see wages here you well know. that the fact is as well that people are earning more money and that's been reflected in the increases in the national living wage a national minimum wage but the we were told that if the british people voted to leave the european union that there would be an immediate shock to the system and thousands of people would lose their jobs well not only is that not happened but the level of unemployment has gone down every month the level of employment has gone up every month only lower wage i don't know not just what was the one who tried to do the project here on everybody and since leaving parliament is gone. six

jobs no i mean you know many people well is there for much chance of the exchequer who is part of the project there or and i don't know generally variants of the economy i'm not even going to blame for this but around the world is it catastrophic g.d.p. forecast slashing them to one point nine percent one point six percent britain is now the slowest it's headed to. economy and that is living and that is going to reverse and start to increase as well but you know i got a huge deal of skepticism about some of the statistics because it's amazing how often they're revised upwards after pretty depressing figures but if you compare us to some of the other countries around the european union my goodness me we're doing really well and this is another further piece in the budget today which i think is going to be welcome for a lot of hard working families in this country and as for the hundred twenty thousand children defacto homeless living in temporary accommodation this christmas nothing for though no not at all and there again he is going to have projects i

think you know it's thirty million pounds i think that figure was right to help the homelessness problem in the united way you know best a geisha is in them a bull in manchester being commissioned nothing for those children this crime no no no no no there will there's assistance there's there is assistance for those who are homeless and i actually think the ambition on behalf of a chance for the extract which i've never heard before to say that he is going to polish homelessness by the middle of the next decade is something that i'm really proud of i'm proud that a conservative government is recognise that there is a huge problem there and of course some of the homeless problem as well ties into mental health needs and as you know there's massive extra resources gone into the mental health issues in this country. after the break what about the poor a very different take on this week's british budget in the u.k. she had a chief secretary to the treasury peter down while tory stephen with parklane of the u.k. parliament finance select committee praises the government for a great budget goal a similar going on but to have going underground. what

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money on those games and they've got chinese landlords that's a lot more coming. welcome back you're watching a growing on the ground u.k. budget special on the green outside parliament one that is polarized debate on the future of the british economy as it prepares to cope outside the european union but with me now is stephen mccausland who is on the finance select committee stephen thanks for being on the green here well it's a disaster isn't it i mean when you were in the finance committee did you know the growth was going to be slashed growth in this country i think. it was a very very good. chance it's got a lot of recovery in the subsidy amazing that we've reduced all debts upsets the g.d.p. ten percent down to just over two point four percent is that just because g.d.p. is going to be lower therefore as a percentage of g.d.p. things look better g.d.p.

is growing i mean you know this is lowest in western europe well we were the fastest growing economy and the reason for a lot of people who are coming to our country was simply because it was the only place where they could get work so you know as an economy we must have employment because the highest employer was also one of the fastest growing now with the slowest growing you're going to be in the g seven. as a percentage debt and deficits and everything else is in the g.d.p. is going to look better because he's going to. give me i believe the second fastest growing economy in europe at the moment and i think that will be quite quickly no point. six percent here and i'm sure it is going to be the first second i'm sure of our colleagues in your commercial and other places would love to have economy growing at those speeds so you know from our point of view because big tax revenues are spending eight hundred fifty billion pound a year massive investments and maybe it was a very good butcher hits every single part of our society i've been running a campaign of around well first systems universal credit to transfer just invested

one billion pounds or because he listened to the campaign so i was very pleased about that and there's a range of other issues we invest in in terms of our votes or infrastructure. you know looks as though britain is going to be booming pretty said john recordings in one hundred twenty thousand this christmas china twenty thousand children this christmas will be effectively homeless these plans investigations into. housing investigations into wealth and he's this knows all the time for us to gauge most of our investigators about delivering so the chancellor sat around homelessness news investing a huge amount of money islam in we all accepted twenty five students he's an investigation. liverpool manchester and london but you know in a place where i live in steve. have a labor council even though i'm a conservative and pay and the landlord who gives the most of diction notices in the whole of the area is that labor council so mr coburn and mr mcdonald need to speak to their friends locally and ask them to stop making my people homeless and

what do you say to labor councils them throughout the country. giving cuts to local services to say stop treating your government they blame every one of my labor was in power i'm sure they managed to blame the government but the government there was in previous parts the way they do all they do is talk of what we do is we have a record to live free and that's why at the moment people have interest in what we do so people of him getting on with the job and what we wanted to use government to chop people with them and support them last week we were saying on this program. if you applied for universal credit this new welfare system from this government you weren't going to get any money till after christmas now under these new proposals you're only going to take a week off the delaying for money being given to. move the budget so universal credit is actually cross party across party support we don't understand why the labor party certainly in the last three or four weeks decided it wasn't going to work universal credit is actually a very positive way for because it stops this cliff to work sixteen hours what

actually happened was people happened to wait six weeks in the reforms that just being announced that will go down to five weeks so if i apply it now and i don't have any money i have to wait till after christmas before i have any money no that's just scaremongers the other thing the chance to announce is if you apply today you receive one hundred percent of funds payments that are ok i would just one other question about the housing stuff was this hundred percent premium council tax that you have to pay for your property is left empty how long does your own property have to be empty before your you have to pay on percent not be something to look at the detail in the red book i'm not sure but again if you go back to my local labor council there are eight thousand properties they have hundreds of them they're often empty they could be given to people who need them and i'm you know they're not particular about getting them back on the market quickly so this is a good reform because it means that if your properties empty you going to be punished financially for that so it's best if you to get somebody in the i don't agree you're blaming labor council john mcdonald john says we're on this program

saying he would get to grips with the labor councils doing these sorts of policies are you just telling the labor party to get to grips with what labor policy centrally is my council's been labor since the thomas created in the one nine hundred fifty s. it's nearly seventy years to thank you. well u.k. finance select committee choice even mcpartlin may have blamed councils run by gerry corbin's labor party some like former chancellor ken clarke who wasn't on the green when we were filming may blame rupert murdoch according to made a deal. cameron over the british government itself where is to blame the neoliberal institute for fiscal studies says british workers now face to economic loss decades something with which britain's shadow chief secretary to the treasury peter dowd agrees thanks for being on the show again a great successful speech by chancellor philip hammond universally applauded by members of our press corps what's wrong with it well it didn't deal with fundamentals did it number housing well let's go through it number one g.d.p.

growth flat line investment flat line productivity which feeds into wages flatlined wages worse than they were ten years ago in real terms. in for infrastructure in a pretty poor state public services in a post eight no pay rise for public sector workers though the health secretary says you have a chat with an ass is about a. half a million nurses a love child with five million other public sector workers can go whistle. that seems pretty grim to me what was your understanding about that comment you made about nurses there was an immediate figure given but something about the. pay review board recommended well being excess of that review board recommendations no no i think well the devil's in the detail with these sorts of things and it was a sort of rather than igniting point to make what you seem to me to be saying is that for nurses the second the health secretary will discuss with them about possible changes to agenda for change which is the pay structure for for everybody

in fact virtually in the n.h.s. so it's in parts impossible to say the reality is he's going to have a chat with them well the former vice chair of the gods of the body nigel evans replied to my question about economic growth in a way that i think many of our viewers would would assume is the question of credence can be given to it we should necessarily be very these figures because i said these figures show pretty sharp decline and perhaps some of the worst growth rates in europe even you shocked only from mention the labor party about these figures of. economic growth forecast for this country. just i just referred to that the issue is g.d.p. is is is in its in its boots all the other indicators of the same now these are forecasts are not made by the government these are forecast in a sense made independently and verified independent as much as you possibly can and in fact the office for budget responsibility has responsibility for overseeing these things is actually set productivity it's going to have to revise the the productivity figures which leads into path of growth downwards and that's going to

give the chancellor even less room for maneuver in a couple of years' time so you go a little bit of breathing space but this is going to look pretty grim in two years' time but on the central perhaps greatest macro economic issue facing this country inequality the tory government is the least for thirteen years now how can you beat the system like that well because i suspect the trying to say that because everybody's poll. is is less than it was i mean it's a nonsense about losses essentially when homelessness is still pretty grim it's increased by fifty percent over the past five years on the government's strategy in relation to rough sleeping it says it will eliminate hope to eliminate rough sleeping when in ten years as a minimum never given by pay vs labor chancellors will tell you well i tell you walk in the commitment that you're going to eliminate or try to eliminate rough sleeping in ten years time is going rough sleeping is gone up dramatically and

exponentially under this government what you've got to do is to stop it happening in the first place not sort the problem out after the event you see the big headline story of this budget talking about a strange tax for our international viewers on buying houses first time purchases and have this as more to do with the need for electoral support for the conservative body thinking well the thing i'm more more interested in is the fact that a lot of those young people would have paid the to. latasha house talks are not going to have to pay the fee or international viewers that are going to have to pay the help young people to get into the housing market all the better but it still doesn't deal with the fundamental issues that we don't have enough houses for people to go in in the first place so those people who can get on two thousand market that's great and i welcome that might my son did that in the last twelve months that's great however it still doesn't deal with the fundamental issue of the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people like millions who can't get into the

house and now i know it's an old joke by this government to criticize tony blair and gordon brown and this is an all new jersey call been labor party why is it that labor could never even thought of introducing the kind of under present council premium tax on empty properties that is removed by chancellor philip hammond with surrounded by empty flats here you know that investment vehicles are foreign owners but i think the fiscal measures these are technical measures that you can you can introduce the key to this is that you can tax those houses as much as you want and that's ok people are going to move into them the key to this is to start at the bottom make the houses make the flats provide the accommodation he said every hundred thousand a year their house building program well well if he can do that good luck to him the bottom line is that the very huge shortages in a whole range of trades from quantity surveying right the way through to join is to

brickies plumbers electricians that's where you start the housing markets renascence when you train and skilled people to do those jobs not just making announcements which you then revise the following year in the year after the new year after the close is britain gets to a religion the national health service we mentioned the nurses what about the fact that the government can keep on returning to the fact that we have record patient levels and the public satisfaction with the national health service is. highest in twenty is much better than under even leaving neo liberal brown a playwright label well i think he's a fantasy a lot of the bottom line is try to get an appointment with a chief there's now a waiting list which is the longest it's ever being to get operations for example i think that they are completely in a fantasy land if they genuinely believe that the public think everything's hunky dory and then it just with well we can do a little bit better they really are in a fantasy land and i think this book you just reaffirms the fact that they think

seem to think most things are ok growth so productivity is ok investment so investment in the public services they'll have a chat with nurses about give them a pay rise and the rest of them can go to whistle if they think that is a good start and i go to public services i'm going to go to economic studies will god help us all and as regards where the real cash is arguably the baby trillions who knows in the tax havens you're still calling on the government to have an inquiry into tax dodging on the offshore islands why do you think they don't want to do that well because it must really go to the heart of the matter of getting that money back to the base he's talking and i think this i can sum this up but i was on another t.v. program about two weeks ago with the chairman of the cayman island stock exchange and he said and his answer to that is no criminal activity had taken place in the licensing talks about thought may well be the case and it was the journalist who needs to be jailed. speaks volumes but you still go for i think why are you just

absolute and you believe that if you legislation could be put forward there may be dead figures we have as if it is in this country to be very different yes the key to this is about transparency the bottom line is if you've got nothing to home eat if you've got nothing to hide what's wrong with transparency and that's the key to this it's the transparency transparency transplants peter thank you. well that's if it today's budget special will be back on monday when we ask award winning artist from around the globe about using their work to be constructive nato nations drone attacks increased government surveillance and the cia back to take the ship still then he would talk about social media we'll see on monday sixty four years to the day of the death of the writer of long day's journey into night eugene o'neill played by jack nicholson in the film of the life of american soviet communist jack reed in red.

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