in the money in british texas it's a big going up the last few months and centuries just banking it and i personally as an economist and an activist i think rather than wait for something to descend from the heavens and and you react i think chances to be more proactive you should be using the money in the economy british investment the last four quarters every quarter investment in british manufacturing has been declining that is not a good sign but haven't is just putting the money in the bank and waiting for first see what happens next livius a fund of bull was good to the heavens as a possible will see the charts or back at the spots box in a couple of weeks time say the the post breaks that spring statement well i'd like you if i was a betting man that's why bet on i think we've seen emergency budget look all of that he will believe he'll be back so it will get worse for breaks consuming the political bandwidth and one of the things is almost over with the political discourse is what's happening in the world economy because a certain very worrying tribes will generally jemele the polar hopes of europe

looking like it's good to socially the german economy i mean that is the motor of the european economy literally in the sense that the whole industry duster structure is based around motor cars now it has two things going in germany first does the short run right now they sell most cars to china the chinese economy has slowed so they're not buying the big limousines the big mercedes so the german economy at the moment as flat light hasn't quite gone into recession people thought it would but it's flat lights going nowhere longer term what's german what's the core technology that germany has they make diesel engines motor cars are going to have diesel engines over the next decade so germany has to replace that with something so short term long term the german economy is in real trouble and you know you saw last week. the germans tipped the wink to the buddhist monk and to the european central bank and something we've reversed what was appeared to be happen the last two years which was rolling back quantity of using. let interest

rates rise back to so-called normal stop that all of a sudden let's keep has keep printing the money let's keep interest rates down and you've also got germany defaulting back to its it's all style interventionism industrial planning into restructure the economy so a big change is going on in germany my worry is the u.k. trying to flow of the e.u. all these things going on and doesn't have a plan the germans have a plan so we're starting scotland in all of those one hundred s. scotland fitted into the second only scottish clubs a very balanced economy it's got it's got food exports put twenty percent of some scots some of those are not coming down the track yet other than an old exit that that's one of the one of the technicalities from brakes it crash it but frankly if i was a farmer i would be i would be worried in the u.k. because farming of a u.k. level is you know it's not that economically or politically important ultimately and if they have to be trade deals i think the u.k.

government would sacrifice the farms for us but it's another. possibility of despite all the apocalyptic forecasts of cliff edges on the rest of it which everybody has indulged them there's a good things will just muddle through economically that people will of just the new paradigm that that none of these cliff urges will be as steep as people suspected or do you think that our cliff edge is that the economy will dive off my real worry about breaks it is a long term one even with a negotiate even if tourism had got her deal through leaving the e.u. at the moment in a world which is moving towards intensified competition between economic books i think if you're u.k. on its own outside of the you its economy will be crushed britain leaving the leaves britain as a commie vulnerable and with little economic or political clout to negotiate economic deals and that's dangerous so i think you have to choose. reigns in this

world economically and i think to leave move away from from the european block is extremely dangerous you've been showing your film to m.p.'s and members of the house of lords and others about the last financial crash and some of the the lessons tell us in a couple sentences what's thoughts about that since i left palm i've gone back to the tools i'm a filmmaker so we made a documentary about about the banks not about the two thousand and eight banking crisis but what happened afterwards one day afterwards when the banks were bailed out they decided they needed to get the cash back get the bonuses up we capitalise so who do they go after they went after small businesses and essentially in the u.k. it took about one hundred bill the banks or banks took about one hundred billion perlman's of assets out of small businesses in order to recapitalize result small business very weak in the u.k. productivity flat line a major impact on the economy are you calling the revenge of the pushes east is called spangler banker. if i remember correctly you had at least one the story was

that you say your title to the exam are executing fashionably on the show thank you so much for the interview thank you thank you for having me from economic theory it's a grassroots reality much of the discussion has been on the high politics of bricks it but how local authorities coping with the practical impact and there's that impact already being felt alex interviews counsellor chris met collating. chris fifteen days to be the how the local authorities shaping up to that challenge well it's a challenge that's quite davis the pen old which will forty overs a week small authorities rule of forty's lots of forty's and the main challenge for no deal but it will be where will the money come from at the moment will for instance scotland benefit from our own three hundred seventy million pound this is structural fund of the structural funds social investment fund and that's over the last five years that funding has been there and that ends in two thousand and twenty and at the moment the you know you can government has feel that they

actually should close was in the forty's or that money will be there and i simply can't see have a corner me which is plummeting off the brakes that is going to find any new money put up money and which is not money actually mean in reality it could be funding local community centers it could be funding employability initiatives all of that money sixty six percent in a local all of forty's that's real employability funding comes from and when you take that money are we going to do if you're going to doesn't franchise young people you're going to make it harder for younger people with our mainstream education who've fill in the job market you can make these people economically and active and that's the reality of what happens when we can all the objects that i remember when i was first minister i'm in the teeth of financial recession in two thousand and two thousand and ten the training funds coming to that from you that were very very important for areas like end of the cloud i remember specifically when the was for the money had run out according to the government ministers of the

time but these trailing funds will be able to make significant announcement in terms of the structural help for for the west of scotland quanah me and these are sort of things you think will be most damaged by any kind of press yeah absolutely at the moment you can see you can see a young person person and you can see that money come in and you can see the employers of the get involved on the been dropped out of school with moving or because the. the bin economically and not to have an entire life but funding helps get them into it and it helps get them scales and then you see it up here some move on it in full employment and that's really really good to see but not monies taken away that's target money money for a specific purpose and of the money is not there poppa's can it be felt with a not a reward if the local authorities caused has been leading the way on this but the reality is the u.k. government just some confirmation that the money received that there is going to be there are conflicts that the that and of course much of the structural funding many

people guard has been influential in female employment in scotland rising beyond the yukio of its youth unemployment below the u.k. and some of the hardest issues for the scottish economy have a least been mitigated of not solved over the last few years partly as a result of these funds why are you confident that the u.k. and scottish governments will say well we can see the success of that european funding will replace it because it's not some will see in home much money it is a u.k. gift to the european union at the moment and how much comes by because of the economy feeling in one region that in the c n n money that we've actually got by again the money she's not going to be there that's much the scottish issue look at where was for example one of the counties across the whole european union that is one of the largest amounts and european structural funds and sadly they voted to leave the e.u. and i don't think people are going to actually realise the realities until they see what your garden for objects of community said massive employee ability schemes shot and though the money's just been pulled off people may then start realising

that the next it was quite a good idea i suspect it of council was voting on blacks that you'd be voting to remain where we were thirteen to fifteen sixteen overwhelmingly right about the national average and scold the people who would remain afford people who would leave but i think the another aspect that's going impact will afford easy stuff and you look at them to say. we'll go for it at the school that. highest amount a united but from what fourth point of view one thousand employees unite and then if we go from. the west on to use the one year correct it off twelve consultants what going in the n.h.s. and the western nails in those consultants are you not go to twelve twelve across the entire western isles and i think the importance of la is because in two thousand and eighteen we saw the lowest of all full of migrants coming from scotland and the fund is

a real reason there is because brics has been talk sick and many people asked me to e.u. nationals as much as they love scotland and the sort of scotland i want to live in scotland the way it was a united knows the not of the people see in the media as it is becoming very is in a four because i think that's partly the reason they were e.u. nationals drop off and that of course is really it for future domination policy late because it is what the islands with the west are nails under clave. before it is populations of the claimant so council michael any point would just message be from the grassroots of the the coal face of and look like and still to the members of parliament always ministers still deliberating work to blacks or not but i think my message will be the same as it's been for the last two years indeed the message of the scottish government and many people across golden state respected them across think well at the scottish people because what we're going to see as you know you can them leave the e.u. but the people scotland overwhelmingly voted three i mean and the e.u.

and i don't see have a you know it can them can survive and sustain and you have an entire nation of the family of nations basically silenced and it's opinion suddenly does not ma and i just find that democratic deficit can be folks long term and ultimately find out with this question the benefits and so mike let me thank you. on thank you. adjoin the soft of the plague will laud the wigley a parliamentarian who was acting as a name to be in the referendum in europe in one thousand seventy five attempts to bring some white into the west once the heat. i'm sure. look at that out it's not that's not at.

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. and a russian stuff. show you how. long the crimea bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transport doughtery that will help the cause of crimea. most of those you know won't go for more snow year quite a bit but. welcome back this week a scene yet another meaningful vote on yet another defeat for the hapless prime minister here are the highlights of the commons turmoil i've been working for leading the with the deal business is in business organizations have been clear across the u.k. that they want m.p.'s to back the deal yes business is worried about the uncertainty it breaks it there's one thing they worry about more and that's according to government yes. but mr speaker the

prime minister doesn't seem to understand her deal has been that we rejected twice why this house my own precedented majorities i may not have my own voice but i do understand the voice of the country they want to see. if anyone knows what will happen next our expert well alex discusses the seems to not just of elements where the most experienced problem until they know westminster and i to make some sense of this parliamentary cartilage we're talking to one of the most experienced voices in parliamentary politics of these i was to the bottom wigley of them dr wigley you were involved in the last referendum related some to five years and they may be you know you think of what's happened the consequences of the more recent referendum what of course what we've heard of her last few days or last few months even an ongoing chaos absolute chaos i've never seen anything

like it in all my days in westminster or indeed what i've read about in recent years is nine hundred seventy five referendum was a piece of cake compared to this and i was a rebel in my own party that i was in favor of steering the whole europe so far you know what i'm to you are indeed applied at that time to took the left wing view that europe was a capitalist club and there were elements of truth of course in that i saw the bigger picture as i said considered it that europe the. an opportunity for the small nations to emerge and to get as much independence as they could within a global a global family on a european scale should the difference than what we had a prime minister and how wilson with a plan he went negotiated and brussels actually came up with a nothing a toll but came back and presented it with panache going to college by the country but of course the difference then was that we were already in we'd been in for two years and we were just having

a consummate saree referendum now remember that term because it's going to rise again my belief is that whatever is eventually agreed something's going to have to be agreed the only fair way to all the people is to give it back to them to say are you happy with this because it's going to be a different model to work the one on which many people thought that voted and i think they should have the opportunity to say yes or no on that we live without consequence but let's flip flop from your vantage point and you've got the ability to be reasonably impartial if you survey the main westminster parties at least in the prime minister's strategy as far as you can tell over the last two and a half years i've been trying to find the a majority for what might work in a soft as hobb exit by appealing to get to the position of the rebels the european hardliners in her own party would swing behind the lift off of them enough but she hasn't managed to get anything close to a parliamentary majority in the house of commons because what can she do not well

look let's say her strategy was to keep her party together tactics that what the delivers that and none of the various taxes she's tried has done so and she's now got to either capitulate to the hard rock city is and go for a no deal which is still on the table despite the votes that we've had this week it is still possible because there needs to be legislative change to take that away or alternatively to accept that there's going to be possibly under different leadership some coming together. cross party about injuries in westminster to use the customs union dimension which would be acceptable in brussels as a way out as a compromise but if that compromise comes forward it would have to be subject to a confirmation vote because it's not what some people voted for when they were voting for but it was that not to do the new prime minister and wouldn't that confirm the split in the don't but well of course the tory party is split probably irredeemably split at this point but in the context of the time that we've got no

if it's until may the extension of the of the article fifty that is not enough time to negotiate anything and the european union isn't in the mood of negotiating if however it was on the basis of a customs union or single market europe has indicated that they would do that and you could be negotiating that through the summer and have a consummate free vote in october and get the whole thing cleared up on a reasonable compromise basis so you're talking about perhaps moving to a soft of the of the customs union station to the teleplay the labor party so what is the labor party's strategy to you but let's begin the shoes of jeremy carbon for a second what are you looking at with trouble in your own party on a range of issues that could this be his salvation thank you for off the record shoes thank you but no thank you i think the general goldman has made an absolute mess of all this he has avoided all along until the very last few weeks having it

anything to do with it and it puts the labor leadership in the national symbol in cardiff that we have a labor prime minister in wales of course and he is trying to latch on to the corbett line and to have some sort of a red breck's it's but the end of an error in fact there's no certainty the korban wants to see that delivered the half of the field involvement in parliamentary politics at westminster has been a situation where both major parties have been fundamentally riven at the same time welcome. we've had times when the disease of the construction of the s.t.p. and the peeling off from the labor party in the early and mid eighty's that was one party there were then tensions within the conservative party but they never got to this level when this is that she was in charge she made sure that she was getting away and john major's a different way of doing it but he got the mustard treaty through but i think there's a much greater respect for john major today and i'm absolutely certain that if

a conservative body were under his leadership they wouldn't be in the mess they're in and old baumberger that you've recently being in discussions in europe and a very senior level across a range of of senior european politicians as an indication there of just no the total exasperates know what's going on in the u.k. or is a some sign that they're looking in a friendly i.e. towards scotland wales and of course backing ireland well everybody that we met out there a couple of weeks ago were very friendly and were very restrained in their criticism of the u.k. but clearly there is an exasperated and they're absolutely fed up with the way the shilly shally has been going on the one thing that came out clear to me was that if there was a customs union type deal a soft directs it then they would be willing to look very positively at that and why on earth has this been left off the table over the last two years when that could have been the basis on which we build

a new relationship with europe that rely was to have open borders do allow scotland and wales or how about independence but to work together within a economic block that is bigger than ourselves amid all this carnage do you think that is potentially the way forward that could be a commons majority for that sort of sought is black site would seven be able gertie in the house a lot just think that is the look forward to somebody has the ability to seize the moment were the house of lords voted again two weeks ago in favor of course a customs union type approach but in. house of commons i've no doubt there is now a majority for that but not within either of the two large parties across party if you get people to work together then that would be a basis on which we could move forward for many of the causes which you've championed i'm thinking of the small farmer and wheels the small business sector and been a bathing interest for us they must be people who are feeling the pressure off of brakes uncertainty to a great degree or absolutely i give you one instance

a muscle business that. gets the muscles in the main a straits and sells them within some fourteen hours in the paris markets if you get a hold up at dover the way they're going that would ruin the product and they're struggling with uncertainty you think of the sheep farmers that have the lambs already born that will be going to market to this summer ninety percent of whales export to market is to the european union and there's an uncertainty whether it be a tariff barrier there or not you know we can't live with this sort of backdrop it's undermining people on whose backs the economy depends and i know you've championed these causes and one of the political strengths that you fall was the ploy has been an ability to think in practical terms because you see a sap and i had only in the death of wigley the on form as was of the house of commons actually charting from his vantage point in the hopes a logs a way out of chaos for the westminster to stop us from i think there are times when

we voices from scotland or from wales or from northern ireland have to bring some common sense into those are the comments and i'm very delighted to do that but being in an unelected chamber we're in a very weak position and that underlines the need to have a democratically elected second chamber to give it the authenticity to press forward on government the viewpoints that it represents well definitely if you are successful in stealing of course from the pleasant choppy walk. tools i'm sure they'll be many people beyond wheels we give you lots of things thank you very much thanks very much indeed alex. the still weeks to blacks it and the prime minister has lost her voice as well as a parliamentary majority chaos and gulfs westminster yet to resume a clings to office like a limpet a lesson on the better prime minister with his aide long ago but the prime minister seems empowered vs the political humiliation the seems no purpose and what she's

doing for to now for years she's sought to build a majority in the commons for a hodgepodge of a soft exit only to find out repeatedly and no finally there's no such consensus no this not even the tense of collective cabinet responsibility as the west must of time drifts towards the rocks and no one's on the bridge the chance of the exchequer makes his spring statement but there's more attention focused on the chelton horse races than on his vital economic decisions that it's probably a cost party majority for a much softer vest in a place with a customs union with a single market the prime minister have made no see this attempt to not direction feeling it would split her own party no she may end up with a split by the un no direction as duff and likely points out it's the one proposal which probably commands a majority in both parliamentary chambers and would be greeted with relief from brussels meanwhile in the real world people attempt to go on with the lives and

businesses west most of continues in the blacks that bubble or the one with the quantum ahead so full huge issues and to national domestic remain unresolved a public service is affecting people stop to buckle under the strain and when local authorities try to pick up the pieces of governance. if there was any come of comfort from the prime minister and life in the state of opponents the labor party and not just this opposition out in disarray the s.n.p. seem unable as yet at least to fashion a scottish opportunity out of this westminster calamity the new group of tego something sight played and the liberals totally eclipsed the government's response ability to govern and none of the failings of opposition offers a route forward for the beleaguered prime minister two weeks to but exit and confusion still remains as. the focus of kind of heal the fall could go things paula up the scent of cannot hold on

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