Month: January 2013

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 mayoral candidate and both Labour and Tory Avon County Councillor. EXCLUSIVE Airbus magazine airbrushes Filton site from in-house production map. Tim Collins, former mayoral candidate. Discussion about the December 2012 closure of Filton airfield and the Airbus’ One in house magazine which excludes Filton in their illustration of production plants. Tory buildin co. boss Cullum McAlpine has been blacklisting builders who report health and safety concerns but doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong, somehow. The Consulting Association (TCA), chaired by Cullum McAlpine. TCA boss Ian Kerr died just before Christmas 2012, here he is, 2 weeks before he died, in front of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee. He  appears to have got hold of copies of police files or had them compiled on workers’ compare with CAPRIM (1990s) and the Economic League (1970s-1980s); employment ‘rises’ but is it only part-time work as wages stagnate – people on benefit ‘work programmes’ included as employed; crime figures – fiddling figures by lowering ‘priority’ of some crimes; Mayor George Ferguson’s new cabinet; but the Greens ask ‘Where is the new blood’? David Cameron’s Europe speech; Yeovil man dies after nurses gave him 21 x dose of his medication but family let down because nurses are unlikely to be prosecuted; PMQs on question about being forced to live on £2 a day.
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Second hour: Martin Falmer, Labour councillor for Cadbury Heath, discusses the partial closure of Cadbury Heath youth centre and Cadbury Heath Post Office moving to a Costcutter shop away from where pensioners live. Roz Beauhill and DU author Joanne Baker discuss how they would like Bristol to be a nuclear free local authority again. Nuclear Free Bristol campaign launched to persuade Bristol City Council to go ‘nuclear free’. They discuss the dangers and difficulties of nuclear power, it’s direct link through Depleted Uranium (DU) and H bomb core plutonium to the military and how there are plenty of sustainable energies that could be used. Nuclear is not green? Explanation of difference between enriched uranium & depleted uranium. Marina Morris’s Voxpops asking Bristol people if they have heard of the local nuclear trains and what they think of nuclear power. 
Michael Shrimpton, barrister and author of the forthcoming book, Spycatcher, with his theories on why government scientist Dr David Kelly was murdered. Links to French and German shipments of Plutonium to Iran? Murder all but proven by the book The Strange Death of Dr David Kelly by Norman Baker MP.
Real power, financial elite, in the Western world gather at Davos in Switzerland this weekend for World Economic Forum 2013 (WEF). Sitting down with David Cameron and Boris Johnson, the three top Tories were caught on camera flanked by half a dozen aides and security officers eating out at a cosy restaurant in Davos on Thursday night. Greenpeace activist Ben Stewart managed to snap the trio tucking into pizza and fondue at the Alte Post Hotel in the alpine resort during the World Economic Forum. Bloomberg’s spiked World Economic Forum article ‘Davos’ Dubious Strategic Partners’ by James Gibney [article has magically ‘reappeared’ after ‘Your browser sent a query this server could not understand’ 
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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 Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, suspended from the House of Commons for calling Defence Secretary Philip Hammond MP and Foreign Secretary William Hague MP liars over Afghanistan war. Charity Commission reject charitable status for Christian sect the Exclusive Brethren. Jessop’s, HMV and Blockbusters all go bankrupt, into administration, this week. Causes are internet and/or cuts. President of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir says the secret to getting economy moving is not cutting benefits. New Bristol Rovers’ stadium and Sainsbury’s off the Gloucester Rd gets planning permission. Clips of Prime Ministers’ Questions.  24,000 deaths of over 75s in winter 2011; housing benefit and general benefit cap forcing people to move into homes that aren’t there; Evidence on front page of last week’s Sunday Express that Jimmy Savile was part of a Stoke Mandeville satanic ring – Savile was boasting that police friends would abuse their office to get him off all charges. Corruption at the top, blackmail. New investigation by Scotland Yard into Barnes Common Elm Guest House paedophile ring brought up by Tom Watson MP at Question Time in October 2012. Voxpops on the cuts. Severn bridge tolls go up again but if Welsh Parliament were to take over the bridge tolls could only be around £1.00 for a car not the present £6.20. Damages business that need to use bridge and bears no relevance to the actual cost. Severn Bridge Annual Income £80m; Cost: £15m. Stuart Colner Transport Professor University Of Glamorgan.
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Second hour: Journalist and political researcher Dan Glazebrook takes a look at this week’s intervention in Mali and the BP siege in Eastern Algeria. Forces behind the hostage taking & siege at gas production plant. Role of the African Union and Pentagon controlled AfriCom running Pentagon military training now in 35 African countries displacing power of the African Union. 2011 murder of Colonel Gaddafi has tipped the balance in favour of colonial control of Africa rather than self-determination. Former MEP for South West England Richard Cottrell comments on Bristol’s public transport. Richard’s forthcoming Kindle Book will be entitled ‘Bomber Beeching and his War on the Railways‘. Will mayor George Ferguson’s proposed Congestion Charge be good for Bristol? Is assisted suicide compatible with doctors’ Hippocratic oath? Timothy Rogers from Rudry Village near Caerphilly is concerned about plays being shown to children which contain psychological triggers for suicide. Possible explanation for Bridgend suicide cluster? Also look at the ethics, the rights and wrongs of assisted suicide. Suicide help and advice.
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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

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

First hour: news review with South West Crime Panel member and LibDem Bristol City Councillor for Horfield, Pete Levy. Organised criminals deleting evidence & accessing officers’ personal information on Police National Computers, 2008 Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) report ‘Private Investigators: The Rogue Element of the Private Investigation Industry and Others Unlawfully Trading in Personal Data’ or ‘Project Riverside’ leaked to Andy Davies at Channel 4 news. It explains that private investigators are: ‘a. accessing the Police National Computer to perform unauthorised checks; b. accessing internal police databases including those containing serving officers’ private details; c. unauthorised checking of details of vehicles involved in surveillance on PNC (Police National Computer); d. accessing details of current investigation against a criminal or criminal group; e. checking premises and vehicles for technical equipment deployed by law enforcement; f. identifying current law enforcement interest in an organised crime group; g. deleting intelligence records from law enforcement databases; h. providing organised crime groups with counter-surveillance techniques; i. accessing their own or associates’ recorded convictions; j. attempting to discover identity of CHISes (Informants); k. attempting to discover location of witnesses; l. attempting to discover location of witnesses under police protection to intimidate them; m. accessing DVLA databases.’ Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, found guilty of misconduct in public office for tipping off News of the World hacking criminals that they were under investigation. Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port loses High Court action against new Police Commissioner Sue Mountstevens trying to keep his job, new Chief Constable to be announced next Wednesday. Con-Dem government decision to increase benefits by less than inflation will make seven million families – half of Britain’s working households – worse off by an average of £165 a year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Bristol budget cuts: more than 300 posts will be shed from the council’s 7,000 workforce, of which about 100 are likely to be compulsory redundancies. Outraged prison officers warned today that Britain’s whole justice system was heading for a meltdown after the Con-Dems announced plans to axe seven jails. Tory Justice Secretary Chris Grayling dropped the bombshell on corrections staff as he cheerfully announced he was axing seven prisons across England and Wales, including HMP Gloucester & Shepton Mallet – despite widespread overcrowding and record prison populations. People due to retire in the next 12 months will be more than £3,000 a year worse off than those who retired in 2008. Prudential’s ‘Class of 2013’ research has found that people retiring this year expect an average annual income of £15,300, a drop from £15,500 last year and a significant fall of 18 per cent on the £18,700 reported in 2008. Deutsche Bank Made Huge Bet, and Profit, on LIBOR rate fixing. Aberdeen City Council mannequin candidate taken into custody, acquitted this week of election fraud.
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Second hour: Wide ranging discussion looking at the Bank For International Settlements financing the Nazi party between WWI and WW2, the attempted abolition of the BIS at the Bretton Woods conference where the IMF and World Bank were founed, as well as the role of this highly secretive Basel based Swiss ‘Central Bank of Central Bankers’ today.
Moving on to hear from author of the banned (and confiscated by Thames Valley police) book Spyhunter. Buckinghamshire based barrister Michael Shrimpton shares with us his understanding of the sordid role played by former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile in procuring young boys for former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath. Potentially clearing up a long time mystery about the disappearance of boys from Jersey’s Haut de la Garenne children’s home: Discussion about connections between WWI, WWII and the present-day secret financial rulers of the NATO zone, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland who helped fund the rise of Hitler’s Nazi party in the 1930s. Death at 95 of Charles Chilton, the writer behind Richard Attenborough’s 1969 film ‘Oh! What A Lovely War’ about the hypocrisy of World War One using some of the actual songs sung by soldiers in the trenches. Death this week of BBC’s last honest Director General Alasdair Milne, sacked in 1987, whose son Seamus Milne is a Guardian columnist. How Alasdair Milne was sacked with the connivance of Labour’s ‘kingmaker’ Lord Victor Rothschild and Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after broadcasting programmes such as ‘Secret Society’ about secret cabinet committees, ‘My Country Right Or Wrong’ about Northern Ireland and ‘Maggie’s Militant Tendency’ about the Tory far right, all of which were critical of the Thatcher government. Granada TV’s ‘World In Action’ investigative documentary series retrospective on ITV this week: [VIDEO] The World In Action Years. Frank documentaries transmitted on miscarriages of justice, military mutinies, Nazi war criminals at large and corruption at all levels of the British government. EXCLUSIVE: Was BBC presenter Jimmy Savile procuring Haut de la Garenne children’s home boys in Jersey for former Prime Minister Ted Heath to sexually abuse on his boat ‘Morning Cloud’ and were these victims subsequently murdered? Assassinations of Princess Diana and former Labour Foreign Secretary Robin Cook with barrister Michael Shrimpton. Despicable failure of BBC Trust chairman & senior Tory Chris Patten to deal effectively with internal BBC censorship of the Jimmy Savile story.
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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

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

First hour: Bristol City Slackers, councillors who refuse to come on the radio and/or answer emails. News review with Ron Stone acting Labour group leader and councillor for St. George West. Decision to join George Ferguson’s cabinet was taken by local Labour party but reviewed by regional National Executive and overturned. Budget to be announced on Monday at 10pm but it is really a Liberal Democrat budget drawn up by Simon Cook, the LibDem leader in the run-up to November 2012’s mayoral elections. A minimum £3m million in cuts to be announced which is nearly 10%. President Obama signed ‘fiscal cliff’ package but only for next 2 months, Hargeaves Lansdown say, a big box has been ticked. Bristol City Council spending by 2020, according to Municipal Journal, budget will be cut by 40%. 5 billion by 2020. Tax claw back agreement with Swiss banks signed on 1st January 2013 by Chancellor George Osborne. HMRC will get the money from tax evaders, criminals, over 6 years. See case of Rudolf Elmer who supplied names of tax evading criminals to Wikileaks and was arrested and tried for hos trouble – wrote a book called Tax Heavens explaining the Swiss are colluding with criminals. In this case the individuals will be anonymous. Largest tax evasion in history, George Osborne.  Danny Boyle & Ken Livingstone turned down Knighthoods, but FSA head in run up and during 2008 financial crisis Hector Sands, criticised by Tory and Labour MPs as discrediting the honours system. Hector Sands prosecuted and sacked a whistleblower when a director of UBS. Davos meeting  of World Economic Forum which is on from 23-27th January 2013 which we will be following. Government propose use of smartcards in gyms to check overweight benefit claimants are exercising or they may withdraw benefits.  Coalition government launch attack on benefit system. New governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, told to steer away from politics as he fraternises with Liberal party people in Canada, being tipped as Prime Minister of Canada before taking Bank of England job. But Carney is a secret Bilderberg meeting participant who looks to have been selected in Rome at a secret Bilderberg Steering group meeting just under 2 weeks before the announcement Carney would be Bank of England governor. Carney is also a former employee of Goldman Sachs who caused the financial crisis. How independent is the Bank of England and is it a good thing, if so why? David Cameron gives New Years Eve speech in London saying UK is “On the night track” but debt to GDP has gone up and economy is shrinking  jobs are mostly -part time jobs, not enough demand for goods & services. The public have lost £23bn so far bailing out the banks that we will never get back. Bailout not included in any of these figures. Ron Stine wants to build 4000 council homes in Bristol. Ethical pension funds to pay because 14,000 are on the Bristol waiting list for housing. But not on greenbelt, an open invitation for ethical investment which was offered to mayor George Ferguson today & Bristol director of housing. James Durie and Bristol’s Local Enterprise Partnership will have to approve land deals as they are a private company set to manage all council property as part of Nick Clegg’s Bristol City Deal. Lloyds TSB customer disaster on New Years Eve cash points broke, not for 40 years but happening regularly now. Tax payer lost £23 billion on bailing banks. BBC and Freeview transmitter serving 80,000 people is sabotaged in Bath on Thursday morning?
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Second hour: Investigative reports. This week: Public transport & the Concorde crash latest. Rail fare increases and Bristol’s Bus Rapid Transit scheme hits the rocks. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? The last but most prestigious Bristol built & designed aircraft. Daylight robbery First Great Western invited to explain fare rises but did not return, Steve Satan from Rail Future. Rail fares have gone up 1% above inflation 10 years in a row now. Government is now subsidising railways more than ever and Network Rail has a £200m loan to service. Rail fuel duty has gone up too and McNulty report is totally de-regulating the rail fares advocating doubling fares in peak times. Not sustainable for commuters, Department for transport invented the numbers. There is an overall lack of direction – profiteering off the rail infrastructure and our need to get around. No plan, free market! We should abolish rail duty HS2 route is another flawed design, Chilterns a bad place to run it. John Prescott promised to have an integrated transport policy. Bolivia nationalises two big Spanish owned electricity companies. Michael Shrimpton QC has written a book called SpyHunter but his flat was raided by Thames Valley police and he’s having trouble publishing it in the UK so he gives us a sneak preview. On the Falkland conflict he believes Argentina is dominated by Germans and former Nazis and Nazi sympathisers. Description of Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, Sir  Edward Bridges, Lord Halifax pro German. Bismark sunk HMS Hood in 1941. Christopher Storey was murdered by the German DVD, poisoned in fact. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? Concorde crash, Continental Airlines DC-10 debris theory dismissed in November 2012. Original story was a pack of lies, Michael Shrimpton QC. Concorde Paris crash in 2000 killed 113 people and Concorde was taken out of service in 2003. Break even load on Concorde was 30% and it was running at 50% load so still profitable. Spare parts were moved down to Toulouse so British Airways could no longer service their planes. Bristol company BAC made the plane not the French.
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