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a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
President-putinBbc-newsExplosionBridgeUkrainianDictatorsTerrorist-attackProtestsSecurity-forcesMeasuresIranDemonstrationsDepartmental budgets set before inflation shot up will, in real terms, have shrunk quite a lot. where are they going to cut, where can they possibly cut when they re only two years out from an election? there s really nowhere for them to cut because we ve had after all 12 years of austerity. ever since 2010, when the conservatives came in, their very first budget was to cut, cut, cut again, hhuge amounts from benefits and from every department. and as a result, there is a backlog in every public service. quite extraordinary, i would think exceptional in europe, to have a court system, which has collapsed, so that if the police arrest somebody, want to take them to court, it might be two or three years before the case comes up in court. they shut down a lot of courts, they fired a whole load of people. that s just one example. but the health service is on its knees despite having been cut a bit less than the others. the social care system is almost non existent.
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