Government to full question if taken away their current auditor or the other current representative i should say who who kept an eye in companies quite closely in what closely with these companies that didnt happen also when the give the profits warning the u. K. Government kept pushing money in the direction of clearly and which could only mean they were putting taxpayers money at risk public money at risk whereas the Scottish Government at that point was trying to manage and move or we and being aware of the difficulty that could arise that no hazardous and because i was and i were Prime Minister whose corporate responsibilities zala top adviser on corporate sponsor will be up until recently was the person who then became chairman personal of caribbean Village Green here sure do you have the regular phone calls saying these are normal profit warnings you just cyclical nature of the economy nothing to do with the systemic existential threat to the got raises huge questions though about the relationship and the overlap and the coziness. That is an e. T. S. Between the highest levels of politics in the u. K. And the highest levels of some of the Biggest Companies in the u. K. Delivering for the government and shooting the Prime Minister that all is fine when all was not fine and then we see the pieces line in front of us huge questions political questions have to be answered and what was the Prime Minister but she didnt do diligence that we should just take in a friends word is everything will be fine lets have another jenin tonic is this going to act this way of putting lives over government yet again another version of it ok i want to get on to the philosophical implications of this as regards the economy but there will be people in this country wondering whether in your country wondering about what happens to the aberdeen western peripheral road what happens is that will scotlands Railway Electrification whatever to edinburghs waverley platforms the capital of scotlands rail stations are in trouble because of really well having governments have to do the best for continuity here we have to make sure that services are delivered for the republican or bailing them out just follow the other girl over the problem here with with Companies Like this is the privatisation of profit and the socialization of loss when clearly and were making the money and the moneys gone in bonuses the money is gone and she had all the dividends but when the problem comes the problem is socialism its the same with the banks its the same with many other things we did near liberal experiment is just about falling apart i dont i dont it is the the we have delivering public contracts while you take short term profits i knew have new view and responsibility in a way i would along the medium to longer term has to be of concern and i think there is this penny has dropped both from the conservative and liberal benches in the house of commons that there is adriel problem with that we Companies Look very short term and companies ive known have gone on the stock market told us sometimes have got themselves off it quite quickly again the betting i think we did drop with Jeremy Corbett all his political. Even the few of his supporters the bottom of the labor party are any pennies going to drop for the Scottish Government because youre saying youre giving these commitments is london already talking with the scottish pollens saying theyre going to give you the money to continue these projects is massively important structural i mean i think i think first about where we want to make sure that those working on the u. K. Government projects in scotland find themselves and in a secure position the u. K. Government works night indeed to make sure that these jobs continue when we have problems in scotland where with by far been talent and influence the u. K. The Scottish Government what ninety one with motherwell we did what we did to bring them in it to keep jobs so its beholden on the u. K. Government this is a beer mouth created by the u. K. Government in many ways and that we defend the taxation comes from all taxpayers theyre not anti to college and i think you know the u. K. Government is a huge role to play here we obviously have certain contacts we have to keep going we cant leave we have really station for instance as a building site in perpetuity because situation is that i mean that one of your Ideas Companies have at the end of the day they have the public over the battle because this has to be done and we all know what has to be done and if they go bust and they work with the bonuses and the profits or whatever weve still got to go and pick up the pieces and thats right also with this privatizing that the privatizing fetish thats been driven pushed the thought through the bleriot in london what has that given bracks it means the shin fein has become a very Important Party to the government obviously the g. O. P. Is very good important because they would be Prime Minister without well where is scotland when it comes to negotiating monies off of back for through karelian and other things because you know even on the border shin fein and the d. P. Can talk about talking face to face theyre down here talking and solid thing i think the point there that should in fairness abstentions nationalists dont have the clout that they might do for the voters of nova not only uncertain irish nationalism. It is important though is it never has been before a group. Of unionism most of the u. K. Unionism is that was you know that that voice could be diminished in favor of the European Union the Single Market had the Northern Irish people voted for participation nationalists as opposed abstention nationals thats a matter for them but its just a point its worth observing that theyve left the field open in the absence of any government in Northern Ireland theyve left the field open to the black city or the representatives of Northern Ireland which are the unionist politicians at the moment on the are going to have a softball or so everyone seems to say were as you are going to have a hard border whatever im not saying as and we should have a violin are we as a citizen isnt there something in the we are giving you have a weak position here not at all because. If there is a soft border with ireland that is a soft border with scotland why would the u. K. Government who the u. K. Government over to resumes to me seeing what these i mean will have to do are two Different Things that is becoming clearer and clearer in the backs of negotiations if you have a look at Northern Ireland they have exceeded every demand of the e. U. Border on the island of ireland remember its the e. U. Border. Me when she has with one member so that with everybody else because the most favored nation status is the deputy you would mean that youve got to treat everybody else if you can the other so thats just Utter Nonsense to talk about scott on the talk about scotland as third its main export market is in england another sort of the public of irelands main export market is england as well you dont have to see the government to trade what leaders want whatever is what you what you do how well i think when we have our independence referendum in the next fifteen months ill be given all the leverage we need and we have forty nine percent just now and you can only get fifty one percent by implication the e. U. Sixty eight percent support in scotland the e. U. Is far more popular in scotland than the u. K. Thats very damning for the status quo on the governance and the government in london is that just probably the reasons why we got the likes of the bad government of london thats. Feed into that political picture and give you everything was spoken about has been in the context of the failure of Lehman Brothers in twenty zero eight and of course the failure of r. B. S. The massive bank was bailed out by the british taxpayer tell me about what youve been talking about in parliament lately about the. Quite controversial very controversial take the scotland out of the upset or else ill be as want to cause an awful lot of but im just a little scotland will damage the economy of little scotland hugely theyve made no Impact Assessment no what he new concern its just something that at a much more board level theyve decided to do for instance my own small island they want to take away the last bank the only bank thats ever been it and they want to take it away which means people would have a decent travel to go banking elsewhere. And for some sort of context the bonus part of r. B. S. A sixteen and a half Million Pounds this year would pay for two hundred sixty six years of salary at my local branch so weve seen corporate greed buccaneering devil me kid attitude to society around them just for their own personal enrichment and you know when you think in broadcasting at the moment of the surprise of rush today of course but theres an argument about gender but gender pay a one to one ratio which end of pay that other all levels men and women get paid to see a bigger question here the more good place to get at the bigger question though becomes the ratio between the top level at r. B. S. And their bonuses and all these types of companies on the bottom level because the rishi was there new obscene it obscene and you know that theres some sort of revolution but after that have to take place well if you have any when they leave you to take in take scotland out of the absolutely i mean they are going to close the branch as well as i. Said in parliament they call themselves the royal bank of scotland while while throwing scotland to one side through scotlands economy to one side not giving a damn frankly for them to continue the r. B. S. To continue to use the name scotland this should be seen as its almost criminal you know with a lot of your palace to fill in there with the queen could take the roy. Out of it well that might be my next step they would just be called a bank and they might be dodgy to close down all the branches. Have something to say. I want them to come on the big bonuses youre meeting with them theyve offered me meetings at the videos levels but i want them to come the chief executive this fantastic was good he can come and talk to an island. And explain why its a good idea to close the branch in the area around his bonus alone remember the whole lot of them is to them sixty six years on his bonus alone would pay for about sixty years of the salary so you know if the financial whiz kid were told he is. Id like to see come along and talk the islanders and explain it because these are the princes of the of the modern new liberal experiment let them come and tell the people male thank you thank you for the bright why have the song. Of the history books. Read international in black caribbean. About the continued fight against. Being waged today by the worlds working classes from the headlines. The war in iraq the war on Child Poverty. Going on the. Housing. Artificially low mortgage rates. Thats cause a report. The risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner. Poisoned by our own people. Or a biological and chemical product. The said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about the onus is from exposure from the burn pits would really literally sound to be a gross and they dont want to pay it so the waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they wont have to pay. For health and get the middle finger so theyll be using models are. Delayed and i hope he does. Well come back with me to go through some of the stories now he spoke us of a liberal democrat member of Parliament Lembit god speech last night fascinating but did you make any money out of shorting karelian this government contract or as so many of the city of london did for getting in for a moment the tens of thousands of jobs at risk now ive got all my money on the two a bet between kim jong and donald trump on the news after and got news you think jim jones is going to take over lets go to this oxford professor Danny Dorling. Very informed Danny Dorling he says on Martin Luther king day trying to maintain Child Poverty rates still rising in the usa and the u. K. But it is getting born eighty nine years ago this week and a hero in history but what golding says is he would be hated today because his legacy is being pretty much thrown out the window poverty as a twenty five percent in america and thats the highest for Child Poverty anywhere in the developed world but hold on a sec we can crow about it from the u. K. Because it looks like within two year as were going to overtake thats up to thirty percent if you include home assessors and benefits if you. Appalling but the government for at least one tory council has a solution to all of this lets go to the metro surely a solution to the awful terrible problem fear not and this is brilliant from Gloucester Council which is about a two hundred miles west of london tory council puts a poster telling people not to give money to the homeless its beautiful any well spent well it would be badly spent if you give it to the homeless the poster says are you really helping Homeless People well i think the answer is yes but apparently not in the councils eyes there is a sort of subtext to this which arguably makes sense you give it to organize charities and then they give the money in a measured way but come on these people are hardly raking it in they havent got private jets theyre apparently some of them and i quote the story in accommodation receiving support and benefits of every human beings having their little also i think that the c. E. O. s of britains Biggest Charities need those salaries in excess of hundreds of thousands of pounds so youre also hurting them when you give that money but again surely outside all of this debate is the government should be building or houses im not supporting Saddam Hussein when i say there was a better housing situation in iraq with before the twentieth reward which is when the new york i think you are about suicide bombings in baghdad puncture you found hope now where did the new found New York Times hope i think it might be right what two dozen People Killed in the bus or two suicide bombers killed more than twenty four people in baghdad we dont see this in the western media very much its boring its old news and its not our boys and girls who are dying there its just the locals and we did quite a lot of that ourselves but if you look at whats really going on there theres no kind of peace there weve lost our boys over there because i want to glee the british defacto support for ice is linked in the alqaeda linked groups in syria the failed attempt to destroy the president government in all retreating into iraq although that doesnt count on it. British theyre not theyre all volunteers are not officially working for us well within the past twenty four hours or so the p. L. O. Has suspended recognition of a state of israel which was the big oslo decision until israel abides by the Un Security Council resolutions are regarding nine hundred sixty seven borders what this story from haaretz which looks pretty gloomy to me gloomy economics news on top of the other unrest says gaza an Economy Infrastructure on verge of collapse Israeli SecurityOfficials Say well they should know because in large part theyre causing it it looks like and i quote again official the gaza strip is going like from zero to below zero in short the infrastructure is failing ninety five percent of the water there isnt drinkable and the sewage is being pumped straight into the mediterranean and the reason the israelis should be concerned about this is because if you take everything away from a group theyve got nothing to lose and this could literally blow up right back in their faces second thing in a story theres an increase in infection and potential epidemic levels of disease there and those germs they dont respect borders theyre not going to be kept out of israel by a war this is the classic example of cutting your own nose off to spite your face and theyve been bombing. Palestine in the bust forty eight seventy two hours the biggest open air prison camp in the world today theres some good news that theyve got six or seven hours of electricity now for say have to buy from you guessed it israel and some type of internet in the west where a number of big thank you. Well from a post from gaza are on the verge of collapse of the revolutionary nations labeled by the us president joining me now from new jersey in the usa is professor of history at Essex County College and u. S. Army veteran Margaret Stephens whose new book Red International and black caribbean is out now professor margaret even thank you so much for joining us just before we go to the amazing book that youve written your thoughts on the fact that in