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
industrialised g 7 countries. it was this tax cut simply like an emerging country where you launch policies but you don t say how you will finance it. borrow a etc about you don t say. it was astonishing even if some of the measures make sense, like the bonuses, why not to attract bankers back to london to compete with new york? you could say the freezing of the corporate tax will be good for small and medium companies. but really diminishing, not only is it very unsociable, unthinkable on the continent, and france you would have a revolution. it s terrible at a time of high deficit. and it will be even a bigger deficit. the mystery of it all is cores that the rate of barring of the uk is still a lot, almost like the us. but of france for that but it will come where the markets have shown on two already unhappiness. this plan is influenced by the chancellor being hedge fund man. he worked in the hedge fund, thanks to him have done a killing with betting against the pounds. in
She is such a believer. in her own perfect view of the way we should go, i i kinda feel like it s the flip side of the jeremy corbyn coin. they know better than we do what s good for us. and don t let the facts get in the way. - she would say you ve signed up to the anti growth coalition. she would, and these i are very good rhetorical, you know, build back better. and these three word rhymes that allow them to sayjust get it done or get brexit done, - whatever it was. she is hoping that it sticks and she can distract us- with this kind - of empty rhetoric. the reality is, i think- the people of britain really need to ask themselves what s going on. - we had a negligent prime . minister in cameron who let the referendum happen, - thinking he could sail through. we had a rudderless. prime minister in may, a narcissistic and vacuous i prime minister injohnson, and now this ideologue. i think the people of this country. | it s interesting, the polls.