effect the so called a creep to revolution eased the months of hard. crypto currency. could work i think and of course people would be interested in using it if one were just more or less certain that the price of oil were going to go up but when it's going down government people are going to be interested in investing in it so are so that's been a bit of a problem for the government because recently the present world has been going down it's going to be very difficult under these circumstances for any kind of critical and see action to to really take hold are going to have because it needs economic stability i think in order to work twenty nine and a half minutes that's when i'll be back with more news or watching out to international students.

welcome to the excitement show i've cited the house of commons where the but game is being played out plus the night before christmas and all through the house got a quick chill the studying not even a mouse but in this house it hasn't been quiet over the last few weeks it's been chaos with motions kinds of motions coups come to lose votes of confidence tabled they have defeated votes of confidence not really tabled the toll final settlement blocks that motions tabled and then withdraw it's been total chaos for weeks today we'll be asking some of the key players across the parties is the black end game going to end the stalemate and asking them why things all look up from their point of view and truth is the nineteen the first go up that has me in the studio with a point jim emails and their messages. thank you out. another great response to our

show last week from copenhagen mexico as with all due respect to denmark and might and power and reach she is new yuki market says interesting to see bricks it from a tin if you certainly do of think any country would wish to follow our example lol george says as a scotsman with babies ancestors i'm proud to see the pharaohs being examined as a working example of how we human scotland could go it alone kenny says do you think all of europe needs to have a look at the immigration policy there seems to be a lot of disquiet all over europe regarding immigration leading to the rise of the far right and finally we hear from critic who says people saying they're fed up with bricks after two years some of us have been campaigning for independence for ten times as long as never give up i quite agree creek now last week alice compared prime minister tree's a miss approach to the commons vote to the charge of the light brigade in the

crimean war cannons to the right of her kind as to the left of r. and cannons in front however at least a light brigade made a charge in contrast the prime minister pulled stumps on her breaks a proposal even before the first whiff of greek short it was as if her cricketing avatar geoffrey boycott had decided to stay in the pavilion eating the sun it is instead of facing the fast pulling then she survived an insurrection led by the double battles jacob reese mork and after a quick decision to brussels to be called nebulous by her the prime minister was back to the commons this week with her dead bought at the ready room busting jeremy carbons attempts to have her breaks in proposals retake both and then finally given a decent burial the prime minister wants to keep her deal on life support until the new year it is a goal story of past christmas. we've now had three days of debate on the withdrawal agreement setting out the terms of our departure from the e.u.

and the political declaration setting out our future relationship after we have left i've listened very carefully to what has been said in this chamber and how should i know what is being said in this chain and out of it by members from old sides from listening to those views it is clear that while there is broad support for many of the key aspects of pity was i. on one issue on one issue the northern ireland backstop there remains widespread and deep concern as a result if we went ahead and held the folks tomorrow the deal would be rejected by six argy. we will therefore defer the coach actually for tomorrow i cannot proceed to divide the house at this time so the theresa may breaks a charge faltered in the face of the enemy plates cool cannon alex talks to one of the n.p.c. was fighting the biggest guns sammy wilson of the d.

samuelson this week labor leaders tabled a motion no confidence in the prime minister not going to be taken this week but could be taken in the new year is that a motion that the democratic unionist party could support no it's not me or be in focus and i it's not on changing the prime minister on changing the government but in changing the government's policy it's a misguided policy it's a policy which doesn't help to its manifesto commitments to the commitments it's made to the people in northern ireland this is too important for us and we believe that the important thing is to get this david to feed it to keep as many people on board as possible that means keeping conservative supporters on board and that's what we're doing but no we know if they do you p.c. opposition to the proposal or anything. it contains a back story. a differentiation between northern ireland and the west the u.k.

no absolutely not in fact we believe that by engaging in these political games we'll be working on our position because he may annoy some people in the conservative party who are currently supporting us so our me and focus is getting this agreement stopped and whatever it takes to do the will to do it and we don't believe that supporting motions of no confidence in the prime minister is a route the way to do that is to ensure that we keep as many people in board people who have already made of publicly clear that they will oppose this agreement when it comes to the house of commons whenever that happens in early january the prime minister misread the signals from the democratic you do this party so completely well i think first of all she's not very good at reading any political sangster look at the disastrous general election she led her party and she has ignored the warning signs within her own party and she certainly was never ever able to clear that we were already used the current term nebulous and the information we gave to

her from day one and that was that we were going to leave and we would support a policy which made sure we left the european union and respect of the wages of the people of the united kingdom and secondly that northern ireland left at the c.m. time and left on the same conditions why did she go in a different direction and our civil servants that she listened to those are advised her who thought we were bluffing they know no i we're not bluffing so looking at the new year the commons strikes so from this impasse your position is the these i'm a deal it's effectively day that can't get your support would i be right in saying that the main issue for the democratic unionist party is not the hardness or softness of but there is the euro is the same as the rest of the united kingdom's. well i think that there are two issues there first of all yes our practice has to be to see him as united kingdom but secondly the prime minister did make

a commitment to the people in the kingdom that when we were leaving we'd be taking control of our own borders we've taken control of our money would be breaking free from the european customs union and single market and that's the kind of pressure that we want to see her delivering so are you saying if the prime minister was tempted to veer towards the norway plus what we have some sort of need of know how do we deal not wouldn't find favor with the d u p no it wouldn't i mean it's been made perfectly clear that a norway state deal would still require what d'you say special arrangements on the border between north and. norway's that deal was all of norway eventually joining the as a full member we want to leave the measure as well for the last five years it's a very very significant point you're making alex because it was meant to be a temporary arrangement just as the backstop is meant to be

a temporary arrangement and i don't want a forty five years i'm saying all there as a temporary angel is never meant to be used only on assurance all of say but it would be done away with eventually in forty five years we're still stuck up norway is the second most prosperous country in the world by most measurement not doing too badly in the arrangement and they're not in bali because of oil and because of other assets which they have to build it of hard to keep their facing industry clear from your telomere small come to before it was in a very good position small country with oil is a very good but a small country with oil to the faith biggest country in the world as an even better position so we will so putting you in the mood to father christmas you're signed to clause a new god a wish that you can go to the beleaguered prime minister to be so me what would that wish be for prime the. minister well my wish would be that she would find the kind of resolve that she as demonstrating. against her own party

members and apply up when she goes and talks to barney and co as she could show that resilience and not resolve and not backbone then i think should send those are scurrying for their that they're here. to get a deal which is good for the united kingdom and good for europe so i will some ok because i don't want well not much these notes here for two days they are indeed the labor party from the out fast top labor m.p. chris voiding sent to explain the opposition's strategy because williamson a lot of people been quite surprised by the labor leadership tactics this week in table a vote of confidence in the prime minister which doesn't have priority in parliament to business as opposed to table one and no conference in the government which would have to explain what's going on in terms of what is a prime minister who is in the frame i mean if she's the one who's been dragging its feet and i think the feeling was that it was appropriate to table

a motion of no confidence in her premiership she's clearly not fit for purpose she is somebody who has completely destroyed these negotiations it seems it was in relation to the european union and britain's relationship but with the you i think as far as putting a vote in a companies in the government at this stage is concerned i know some people have a dog in that we should do that because they want to get on to this whole issue about a second referendum and frankly i don't think that's a sensible. way to proceed so our label in talks with the democratic unionist party to see if there is a means of agreement by which a successful vote of no confidence could billet well i'm not a party to any conversations but it was significant that wanted to of the piece spokespeople seem to be talking in. family complementary terms i think about about jeremy corbyn and interestingly some of the. commentators to support. i have been posting online to suggest that jeremy corbyn appears to be speaking more in the

sort of the unionists terms than the conservative party and sort of a challenge to the conservative party the conservative and you to the spot it's how on earth the most to get themselves into this situation so i do think it's a possibility clearly they've got no truck with this deal that threesome a has negotiated and i think in in those circumstances if indeed the deal is voted on and we think there's a good chance it will be then we feel that the might be an opportunity of getting a vote of no confidence then we got a fortnight parliament has a fortnight in which to see whether an alternative ministration could be stitched together and if that's not possible then we get a general election i think frankly as a general election what we need to to end this impasse that was stuck in the moment but wouldn't. between a d p the democratic unionist party and jeremy corbin be a bit of a leap of faith look you know in the end the politics of the art of the possible and you know i think the g.o.p. would potentially take a pragmatic view on it i mean look you would have thought the in paisley would have sat down with him fave you know when martin mcguinness and sharing power you know you did this sort of said that would never ever have been possible i remember in

paisley making a speech in what he was john saying never never never would he surrender in that sense so yeah i mean look politics is a moving feast and sickly now and i think anything is possible but after all the tumult of the last few months we seem to reach the position at the end of a year we have the. seems to be a stalemate well i mean i think this is what happens when you have a. divided paula months and a minority government and obviously a government which has been negotiating in a way which i don't think is in the national interest i think they've been driven by their ideology and they're quite happy many of them anyway to have a deregulates a tax haven frankly off the coast of mainland europe and i mean i think what may. because this is would like to see is britain becoming a ball game basement economy of the european union and in an attempt to entice

companies to locate here where it's easy to exploit workers and i think you know from your opinion is perspective are they willing they were too keen to have this bargain basement economy off the coast of europe i think if it was an arrangement that was negotiated say by a labor government then we becoming at it from a very different perspective we'd be wanting to see the the protections the environmental rights workers rights the consumer protections very much as a as a floor rather than a ceiling which is where i think this particular government's coming from so much sleep for two thousand and nineteen good to be the move that's going to to break the parliamentary impasse and provide the breakthrough to get to a satisfactory and gave one break well frankly short of a general election i'm not quite sure that there is any all the way of breaking that and plus column and see is hopelessly divided the tories are riven. there are some differences of opinion certainly on the labor benches and probably in every political party there are differences of opinion and it's

a very tricky state of affairs are not in favor frankly of a second referendum however i think you know we will then we lost i think calling for another referendum would. still further trust in the democratic process it would it would increase cynicism and more worrying than not i think is that it could only very door forces in our country we've seen the rise of the far right across mainland europe we're seeing even in this country i think a second referendum would be a gift to those extremists and who knows where that would end so my preference would certainly be to continue to press for a general election but i'm putting you in the persona of father christmas i wish to gladden jet of the carbon your party leader for the new you what's it going to be chris oh no bits and pieces number ten downing street obviously. thank you very. join us after the break where we'll be talking to representatives of the two other crucial groups in the commons the labor bank's tears and the scottish national

party will see then. thank. you. our.

welcome back the face of breaks it is not just in the hands of the government the opposition and the d u p the small band of labor breaks the tears have a potentially key role in the new year as does the scottish book of s.n.p.a. piece growing increasingly restive about the westminster breaks it buthe this is what was said in an s.n.p. emergency debate on the issue this week but scotland if you post your understanding smithing the e.u. especially edible discoloring drug against it's well it's great clear that we need to fight or die and depending on the strength of the let a people is calling this a future the labor party needs to lead it is the biggest opposition party it was harshly quoted needs to step up i coordinate the opposition which is here in these benches and in those benches to in order to defeat these proposals the government

is running down the call. but running down the clock is not governing. and it's not governing in the national interest this deal will come about the house in the new year when we have had time to respond to the concerns expressed. date and holders further discussions with the reserve and there is broad support across the house for much of the deal. one of them was convinced of labor small bands of bricks the tears and angus mcneil of the s.n.p. to stare into their crystal ball to see when their breaks it and the shape of christmas is yet to come. labor day m.p. are you give a bit what are you the party leadership might be softening towards a soft break no actually i don't think so i think i've got a lot of confidence in our leadership because i think jeremy's instincts are very clearly. to get

a sight he accepts the result of the referendum he knows that he's got to keep his party together he's played it quite carefully balancing what is never party policy which of course is that if we don't get the general election then all options are open including a second referendum but it's generally thought the liberal membership are sympathetic towards the main on the second referendum but you're suggesting that labor support those white of the membership have a different view i think the difference is too in london you know it's very easy when we're here in. very much labor is kind of dominated by them not to which it didn't used to be to forget that i side there and when she get into the midlands and up north there really are a lot of m.p.'s number seventy percent of m.p.'s where there was a leave vote of london where labor m.p.'s and they are very torn because they know their constituencies are not happy if there's a second referendum they really don't want to go through all this i think the

public generally not you know we've had this saying about we just want to get on with it i think genuinely people are fed up with it they they'd come to understand also why we haven't left they don't they didn't understand the whole article fifty process you know they think two two and. very strong prudent. if you got any question mark perhaps a s.n.p. leadership role in europe the problem getting a scottish independence well i think the s.n.p. leadership are going to fight as they can and try to convince the u.k. for prevented. the u.k. is determined to do it self economic damage. monthly and women fully done what it can to stop but i think the. we've got to leave them to their own devices they will not listen to reason rest of the. scotland we've got to move on and get ourselves

on the lifeboat away from the economic carnage and i think it's going to be running out as would ninety percent to ten percent of about four thousand voters said to be members and supporters of course of said let's get off the people's vote idea pushing that referendum let's get on the second independence referendum because that is what school that needs to do you know and this is a golden opportunity of course for scotland. but there's another left. the same piece position which has been to be in favor of the single market in favor of the customs union the might well be an opening for that and then you you might even be a parliamentary consensus towards some form of an option do you think well i think if that sounds logical that's and sensible but because it's logical and sensible it's going absolutely nowhere with us in this debate is bracks the debate has been governed by the opposite of logic and sense of what they should do is revoke article fifty but they wouldn't do that and of course voted against this when there

was a good sense and the people's votes a lot of the it's a gamble we should get on something for scotland and good for independents i think angus is right by the almost a nonsense of a second referendum so-called. but also you know that this idea that somehow. everyone's going to change their mind on the referendum would be very different i think it would be a very similar result if not actually getting more because i think there would be a very clear view that you know how dare you. that we didn't know what we're doing and this time we're really going to show you so i think that's why there's not this grip for a second referendum the prime minister says she was a ghost having a general election yes she did and she changed her mind on a lot of things and we know. once again politics politicians don't stick to what they say. can you explain to the german this week putting forward a. problem precedence to be on the agenda

instead of. the government which would have. a debate this week what was the thinking behind oh i think the prime. realised that that had no chance of getting through and that it was it was going to be just a kind of you know we're showing our our members there that we're fighting the government we end up with no change to northern ireland really is being separated i then that's when i think there would be a query of whether they would feel it was worth supporting a no confidence. of the moment people's votes could know what at the moment of my concern is the spending a lot of energy. the route for the s.n.p. to go reason for being is for scottish independence and we should be following this huge opportunity for this disaster is given to become independent a final question to both. the parliamentary year in effect of stalemate.

even without a deal get a lot of money being spent to make sure that we can do that short term long term. economics is going to. the politics of this in the end when the economic carnage starts to bite. the politicians will have to roll over because it can lead to huge problems and social unrest so i think article fifty will be revoked i don't think it'll be extended to think will be revoked such is going to be the fear of what there is no duplex to do remember everybody's describing at the moment no deal as a catastrophe on all sides when they don't accept the deal they're left with a vacation or a catastrophe and i think they would have to go after describing the option the alternative as a catastrophe they would have to go for the cure and then i would say it will be parliament versus the people because we gave the decision to the people to leave and for parliament to try to overturn that will be absolutely.

you're going to wish you can grant the gentlemen. what it's going to give your party leader the confidence to actually recognized and keep true to his genuine instincts every single lobby and for thirty years he hasn't changed his views he needs to exact those views and to get the labor party to be much more realistic about our future is best off i can see you and i. wish for. twenty nine hundred. twenty nine thousand and also that neighbors spirit themselves economic carnage on the doorstep of course and i think if we think back to twenty four scotland won its independence then this show of honest mystic nineteenth century experiment of blacks it would

never have happened and the e.u. would be no new you have twenty nine independent countries rather than a smaller e.u. of twenty seven who is a man well but also should have thought ahead when he interfered in the scottish referendum on the behest of david cameron all those years of. him. medicals must be blinking. by all normal loss of politics the prime minister should have packed on bags from downing street by no instead she's wrapping up christmas presents and hoping that the time of the year brings a tom the five political fortunes but merely hanging on and hoping for the best is hardly an ounce of the britain's brecht's broglie oh there is no majority in parliament for the bay deal or anything that resembles it the prime minister of capitulated i'm not last week there's no more to give from a exasperated aswell european allies we also know there's no enthusiasm in the commons for the hardbacks or no deal basis it will it seems unlikely that norway

plus office a safe haven anymore and neither does the parliament from november we have a majority prepared to say let's just call the whole thing off most of these boats have already sailed and the ones that haven't a big holes just below the water line the prime minister is no longer even the normal captain of the parliamentary ship she dissembles motiva a bomb nickel playing desperately to the whole meanwhile the leader of the opposition sons of here on set note the tory black city of flush is busted after the mistimed assault on their own leadership perhaps it's no longer any parliament to cop to the toll which would seem a setting way to run the ship aground even the scottish contingent seems unsure as to when or even whether to launch the caledonia and lifeboat and chaffed are on course for the continent to fight the only parliamentary group p.p.s. secured and determined in their own objectives of the democratic unionists make no

mistake the implications of a new deal but so far reaching come it will come make us in the midlands to wait in vain for the just in time bob's beef producers in the north east of scotland will not save a forty percent tata from the top end of the product. financial status is in london all right but it will shift operations to those locations elsewhere which allow government teet access to the market places the idea of the odds of can be extracted from chaos in less than one hundred days remaining for preparations as for the bugs. and this is significant the european union seemed rather better prepared for the new deal but acts of release the plans i would don't think state must a gret the last wasted two years of effectively zero content disciplining. putting a gun to your own head and threatening to pull the trigger is hardly an authentic negotiating tactic or a cleanable threat either with our former european partners or indeed for council

to members of parliament since this is a parliament which has reached an impasse at the end of this year at a quest to make a resolution for the new year if it cannot make a decision then it needs to provide the means by which the success of parliament can parliament who would take advantage of the scottish ruling from the european court of justice and stop the government to the folk up to fifty this would allow the time and space for either a general election or a renewed referendum or even just a rational discussion to break the deadlock and chop the way forward free from the looming cliff edge. as we say in scotland that would make for a good new year and so from tass and me and all the t.v. it's a very many christmas thanks for watching and goodbye for no. mattis

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