Month: February 2012

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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review with Lord William Dartmouth MEP (UKIP) Extradition and European Arrest Warrant abuse cases: Hungary Michael & Jason Norway Julian Assange, USA Christopher Tappin – Greek Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou & John Redwood: What would happen if Greece defaulted? Would default bring police and army in the streets if Drachma is reissued? Redwood says 87 countries left a single currency since the second world war. When is the next bank holiday in Greece? What will a crash be like? We try to guess what the Greek Finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou would have said about the Icelandic default if BBC’s Jeremy Paxman had not interrupted him. Health and Social Care bill: NHS privatisation is a gathering political storm for David Cameron and Andrew Lansley. Should Bristol have an elected mayor? Straw polls of council house debate audience: at start: 41% yes 12% no 47% undecided. Half way through: 38%, 29%, 32%. At end: 47% yes, 35% no, 17% undecided. End result: four of the undecided chose ‘no’ for every one that chose ‘yes’. Extrapolate that proportion for all the undecided and you get an approx. final result as follows 51% ‘yes’ to a mayor and 49% ‘no’. Exit the back to work tsar, Emma Harrison resigns A4E Civil Servants getting £6m. Certain kind of person who masters the jargon – with a bit of charisma and impresses politicians – we need to watch out for these dangerous characters in politics.
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Second hour: South West Whistleblowers Health Action Group (SWWHAG), Daphne Havercroft asks whether UHB NHS Trust’s histopathology enquiry is truly independent. The Merchant Venturers. Bill Gates’ cash backs large-scale geoengineering and earthquake bombs? Syrian government bravely holds peace-making constitutional referendum on Sunday. Somalia conference. Similarities between old British usury laws and Islamic banking. Moheen Yaseen from Islamic think tank Global Vision 2000. A secretive shadow world Government, funding all our politicians. Might Islamic banking be the real enemy? Economic warfare chosen weapon of the day. There Is No Free Market. The Oil Card: Global Economic/Financial Warfare in the 21st Century. Psychological Warfare. Sabine McNeill: Victims Unite – dangers of the rise of fascism in the financial crisis, could austerity pave the way for a new Hitler? Are 87% of judges freemasons? [official figure is, it seems, 5%].
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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: Schools and education spending cuts in Bristol, asbestos discovered in Bristol schools. What is an Academy school? Danny Alexander twitching on television as he was asked about Moodys credit rating agency indicating they plan to downgrade Britain. Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason describes Greek politicians as ‘incompetent’, so are technocrats better than elected officials? Tension between Greece and Germany. Financial system even more dysfunctional than in the 1930s. 70% of British families on the brink of poverty. Government borrowing wold be £201bn more under Labour. Conservative Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore ticked off by speaker for use of ‘a damned discrace’, unparliamentary language and criticised for cutting disabled peoples’ benefits when supposed to be advocating their rights as secretary of the all party group for disabled people. Total failure of government to protect savings and wealth except of the super-rich, possibility savings could simply ‘disappear’ as happened in 2000 in Argentina. Multiple arrests at Rupert Murdoch and News International’s Sun newspaper. Political & economic news review with Councillor for Southmead Brenda Massey (Lab).
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Second hour: Tomorrow’s walk to save Filton Airfield. Three suspicious bomb attacks in India, Thailand and Georgia carried out by the Iranians or false flag attacks by the Israeli Mossad? Former MI5 officer Annie Machon on the 1995 Gadaffi Plot and MI6’s Orwellian obsession with serving the interests of the arms manufacturers for perpetual war. Libyan student in the UK Asiel reflects on a year since his country’s civil war began. Anglican Dean of South Bristol & vicar of Stockwood, Canon Gwyn Owen and Evangelical pastor Dia Moodly from Spirit Of Life Church in St. Paul’s, two of Bristol’s Church of England and Evangelical church leaders discuss Anglicans (CofE) ordaining gay vicars & women bishops. Voxpop asking you about the church and sexualiy and with decreasing leisure time do we have enough time to go to church?
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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review with former Conservative Minister in the 1990s Major government Neil Hamilton (UKIP). Bank of England’s King Mervyn announces £50bn new Quantitive Easing but is QE3 an injection of yet more economic poison robbing private pensions? Prime Minister David Cameron fails to answer questions from Labour leader Ed Miliband as they argue over the NHS at Prime Minister’s Questions. Common Market and powers transferred to European Union and Brussels. Neil Hamilton’s two big libel actions 1. vs. BBC Panorama Maggie’s Militant Tendency episode (1984) and 2. vs. The Guardian’s Cash For Questions story (1996). Will the Health and Social Care bill proviso for ‘Any Willing Provider’ lead to privatisation of the NHS? Is there anything that should not be privatised? Should we be cutting police, armed forces and public spending generally. Are banks or government responsible for financial crisis? Welsh assembly discusses banning smoking in cars when children are exposed to passive smoking. Secular society takes Bideford town council to court and local authorities prohibited by law from saying prayers.
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Second hour: European Commissioner for Employment and Social affairs. László Andor on the Greek/Euro crisis & his advice for Council of Europe. First anniversary of Libyan insurgency. UK based Libyan student, born in the same town as Colonel Gaddafi, Sirte, describes what has become of his home country and Western mainstream media lies. Nearly 10,000 political prisoners, torture is rife. Fulvio Grimaldi’s Bloody Arab Spring film about NATOs destruction in Libya. Implications for Syria, leaked Arab League report damning of Western media. Despite being a wealthy Conservative heartland with lots of council tax reciepts North Somerset council services are falling apart. Failing to maintain roads, switching off streetlights at night while floodlighting their council offices. Cameron’s Defence Secretary, North Somerset MP Liam Fox, was sacked for travelling everywhere with a man who had no security clearance called Adam Werrity. How many more Werrities are still out there holding hands with Secretaries of State? Somerset businessman Julian Parry discusses North Somerset council waste contract fraud and alleged sharp practice at the Weston-Super-Mare Tropicana, the council swimming attraction which is now being sold off to developers.
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