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international is going on the ground in the u.k. and ireland is up next. welcome to a going underground u.k. budget special we're outside the home of the british chancellor of the exchequer in a minority conservative government coming up in the show. shadow chancellor of the exchequer john mcdonnell slams the british government for cruelty charges being the most vulnerable while david gould the man responsible for rolling out the new universal credit system has a different view. to twenty five years of british budgets he owns arrays of me in the u.k. parliamentary finance committee stephen mccausland friends new british growth figures. but critics accuse of being amongst the worst of the g seven as the shadow

chief secretary to the treasury beat it down to what the budget will do to stem the tide of britain's rising numbers of homeless and. all of the more coming up on today's going underground before we go outside parliament for questions addressed to u.k. prime minister drazen 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 breakfast 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 to the right honorable gentleman has found his appearance as a prime 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 teresa mayes 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 savings 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 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 infamous the relaxed about people getting very rich presumably off the poor. just the labor party. teeny bit tax avoidance and tax evasion one hundred and sixty billion pounds more take. action taken by conservatives in government but given their own a legit billion pound bunker formerly paramilitary link to politicians just staying in power some of one that has sent him to 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. the animal welfare. the animal welfare act two thousand and six provides protection for animals people experiencing pain are suffering budget day the question for jeremy corbin's u.k.

shadow chancellor john mcdonnell appeared to be with the theresa may was sentiment did the government have exactly what we've been saying if you don't invest in our economy the growth will go down products of it will not rise and as a result of this government the economy well i think is in. the sort of condition she would not expected 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 investments at five percent so no wonder the crux of the crisis that we've got right and i do think the chancellor didn't seem so bothered about the lower figures i think is because as processing 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 were like inequality the government we're proud to say that inequality is the lowest it's been for thirteen losing 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 what inequality version in our society and it shows are 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 then in charge of tourism is a new review and i'm not phillip how much you know as an enthusiastic cheerleader but my goodness me dim i'm wages a difference depending on what age still only be on the three hundred thousand i think the future elections a need to house owning classes to be able to vote tory because well don't have a stake in. you know i might agree with you had i not read the recent opinion polls which have just put the conservative party four points ahead of the labor party you would think wouldn't you know. a sixty two percent this is what the chancellor has done today i believe is. a number of key sectors at

the lower end investing money 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 would using 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 let me say no you can do it online and you'll get it within five days now that we. the announcement in the

budget and i think that that is important change and get to know the other thing that universal credit has done and the chancellor pointed out in his 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 we've seen 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 wages and i do want to know not just what was the

one who tried to do the project here on everybody and since leaving parliament he's got another six jobs i mean he's been to many people as well is there for much answer the exchequer who is part of the project there or and i know they're generally israel's of the economy i'm not even going to blame bricks it for this but around the world does 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 me and i'm going economy and that's not what i'm about is leaving 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 boost 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 well that's all and there again he is going to have projects i think it was thirty million pounds i think that figure was right to help the homelessness problem in the united way you know just a geisha is in them a bull in manchester being commissioned i think for those children this grow no no no no no there will there's assistance there is there is assistance for those who are homeless and i actually think the ambition on behalf of a chance to the extent to which i've never heard before to say that he is going to abolish homelessness by the middle of the next decade is something that i'm really proud of i'm proud that a conservative government is recognize 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 leisure levin thank you. after the break what about the poor a very different take on this week's british budget from the u.k. shouted chief secretary of the treasury peter down while tory stephen mcpartland of the u.k. parliament's finance select committee praises the government for

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welcome back you're watching a going underground 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 i mean when you're on the finance committee did you know the growth was going to be slashed growth in this country i think the budget was of a very good. chance of a lot of work over in that it's absolutely amazing that we've reduced all debts as upsets the g.d.p. ten percent down to just over two point four percent that just as g.d.p. . we're going to be lower so therefore as a percentage of g.d.p. we think you look better g.d.p. is growing i mean you know this is lowest in western europe where we were the fastest growing economy and the reason for a lot of people who were 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 highest employers are the ones who are the fastest growing and now we're the slowest growing economy in the g seven. as a percentage of debt and deficits and everything else is in g.d.p. is going to look better because one is going to forgive me i believe for 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 bush or in other places would love to have a condom 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 it every single part of our society i've been running a campaign of around well first systems universal credit the chance to 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 for infrastructure. so

you know it looks as though it is going to be booming pretty soon joe recordings in one hundred twenty thousand this christmas twenty thousand children this christmas will be effectively homeless these plans investigations into. housing investigations into welfare and these this national the time for us to geisha was all about investigators about delivering so the chancellor said around homelessness news investing huge amounts of money islam in we all accepted twenty face to face these investigations liverpool and liverpool manchester and london but you know in a place where i live in steve. i have a labor council even though i'm a conservative m.p. and the landlord who gives the most addiction notices in the whole of the area is that labor council so mr coburn mr methadone. i need to speak to their friends locally and ask them to stop making my people homeless and to labor councils them throughout the country. giving cuts to local services in the city stop prevailing your government. the main labor was in power i'm sure they managed to blame the

government but the government there was in previous power it's 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 gone with the job and what we wanted to use government people with them and support them last week we were saying on this program that 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. money being given to families what was the election 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 have 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 scaremongering because 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 work is this hundred percent premium council tax that you have to pay for your property is left empty how long does your bones property have to be emptied before you you have to be present i'm not be something to look at the detail in a vat book i'm not sure but again if you go back to my local labor council there are a thousand properties they have hundreds of them they're often empty they could be going to people who need them and 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 better if you to go. somebody in the i don't agree you're blaming labor council john mcdonald shall chance as we know 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 with cameron over the british government itself where is to blame the neoliberal institute for fiscal studies says british workers now face to economic last 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 the 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 plot 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 an apostate no pay rise for public sector workers though the health secretary says you have a chat with the nurses 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 in 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 a rather enigmatic point to make what he seemed to me to be saying is that for nurses big the sec the health secretary will discuss with them about possible changes. agenda for change which is the pay structure for for everybody in fact virtually in the n.h.s. so it's in politics 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 passion or credence can be given to it we shouldn't really be very these figures because i'd said these figures show a pretty sharp decline and we have some of the worst growth rates in europe even you shocked only from mention the labor party about these figures of economic growth forecasts for this country well they are criminals just i just referred to that the issue is g.d.p. is is is in its in its boots all the other in the cases 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 years time he's got 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 it 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 of 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 go. limits to try to eliminate rough sleeping in ten years time has been rough sleeping is gone up dramatically exponentially and 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 of houses as more to do with the need for electoral support for the conservative party well the thing i'm more interested in is the fact that a lot of those young people who would have paid a particular tocs a house talks are not going to have to pay the fee or international viewers that are going to have to pay for 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 could get out two thousand market that's great and i welcome that might my son did 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 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 grind of a hundred percent council premium tax on empty properties that has been mooted 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 house building program well well if he can do that good luck to him the bottom line is that there are a huge shortages in a whole range of trade. it's from quantity surveying right the way through to join is to brickies plumbers electricians that's where you start the housing market's renascence when you trained 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 that and on the closes britain gets to a religion the national health service we mention 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 evenly 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 the 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 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 budget 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 giving 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 maybe 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 will because it must really go to the heart of the matter of getting that money back to the bushies talking and i think this i can so myself but i was on another t.v. program about two weeks ago with the chairman of the cayman island stock exchange and he said his answer to that he thought no criminal activity taking place in relation to talks about thought may well be the case and it was the journalist who needs to be jailed. and you believe that if. you could be put forward to me. because it

could be very different the key to this is about transparency the bottom line is if you've got nothing to eat if you've got nothing to hide i don't see the key to this . thank you. well that seven days budget special will be back on monday when we ask award winning artist around the globe about using their work to deconstruct nato nations drone attacks increased government surveillance and the cia backed. by 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. read in red.

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