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: Bristol ‘City Slackers’ Simon Cook (Clifton East) and Cheryl Anne (Horfield) LibDem councillors standing for re-election. News review with Cllr. Helen Holland (Lab), who is also leader of the Labour Group. National Labour poll down to 35% while UKIP surge continues in Opinium/Observer poll. Next Thursday’s elections are discussed and also some economics – UK budget deficit barely falls in 2012/13, more pain ahead – fell to £114.2 bn in the tax year which ended in March. This equates to 7.4% of GDP or economic output, down from 7.9% in 2012/13. Britain’s total net public debt, excluding the direct costs of bailing out the country’s banks, is still much higher than before the financial crisis at a record £1.186 tn or 75.4% of GDP. Cuts have brought a loss of £450 a head to every person in Bristol; ‘the multiplier effect’ of the cuts. Stories covered: Food Banks have tripled in the past year, more than 350,000 people turned to food banks for help last year, almost triple the number who received food aid in the previous year and 100,000 more than anticipated, according to the Trussel Trust, UK’s biggest food crisis charity – PMQs clip of this; PMQ clips of how the rich are getting richer; Bristol North West MP Charlotte Leslie criticises Bristol City Council who top of the national league for ‘Gagging Clauses’ or, as the Bristol Evening Post calls them ‘compromise agreements’ and demands they stop the practice which has cost Bristol City council tax payers £1m over five years, used to silence sacked Coroner and his staff and bring in what anonymous silenced staff member calls ‘a puppet coroner’; First Bus won’t run CND anti-Trident ad. which explains the nuclear missile system’s cost: £100bn and fail to reply to letter asking them to explain; ‘Big four’ accountants, including KPMG, ‘use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax’, draw up laws on tax and then advising their clients how to avoid this tax; voxpop on the elections by Marina Morris and discussion of why more than half the people asked do not see the point in voting.
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Second hour:  Round up of international stories with Martin Summers: have chemical weapons been used in Syria, and if so, by which side? Revealed: George Osborne’s secret veto on fraud inquiries, SFO poised to drop investigation into claims of Saudi arms bribes. Conservative Chancellor George Osborne and cuts to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO); Jack Lopresti, Tory Freemason MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, caught changing his story… admits to representing UK weapons manufacturers in Saudi Arabia:

From Private Eye: ANOTHER gaggle of Tory MPs has paid a friendly visit to the authoritarian Saudi Arabian government, according to the latest register of MPs’ interests. This is the second recent Tory trip to Saudi, after four Tory MPs went on shindig with the sheikhs in December. In February Eye 1334 pointed out apparent errors in the way one of them, Filton MP Jack Lopresti, described his trip: Lopresti’s entry in the MPs’ register failed to mention that it was arranged by the UK Defence Forum, an arms-industry-funded group. Lopresti also claimed to have met “various human rights groups”, which seemed unlikely. Lopresti has now corrected his entry: he now acknowledges the role of the UK Defence Forum and all mention of “human rights groups” has gone.

UN torture expert’s visit postponed again by Bahrain regime as protests continue around this weekend’s Grand Prix; Martin asks if it’s okay for bloody revolution in Syria why not in Bahrain too? More cracks appear in the official Boston bombings story; Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently arrested naked in handcuffs without injury last Thursday evening, so how was he killed and his body mutilated? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apparently not ‘on the run’ but at college during last week. Secret super-elite Mafia dons Bilderberg cartel meeting in Hertfordshire, the Logan Act in the US which prohibits politicians from having private meetings like this; similar civil service code in UK; Birmingham terror plotters sentenced but they had no bomb making equipment, capability and no targets; Mike Birkin from South West Friends of the Earth, discusses the ‘Carbon Bubble’ alternative energy, 50th anniversary of the Beeching Report railway axe, local railways and EDF’s plan for a projected nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. Interview with thriller writer and WWII deception planner Dennis Wheatley about witchcraft and black magic for Walpurgis night on Tuesday 30th April. BBC4 censor documentary on history of Palestine/Israel, ‘Jerusalem: An Archaeological Mystery Story’ by Jewish filmmaker Ilan Ziv, which suggests the present Jews have no ‘right of return’ to Palestine since they are not related to those exiled by the Romans in 70AD.
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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 deputy leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council & councillor for Hengrove, Mark Weston.  Stories covered: Maggie Thatcher’s funeral;  IMF puts pressure on George Osborne with criticism of cuts: IMF warns Osborne to moderate austerity due to lack of growth – further conversation on the economy;    Npower Admits Paying No Corporation Tax for Three Years and their prices went up by 10 % – privatisation versus nationalisation; Jobless leap ‘fitting tribute’ to Thatcher; wages not rising in line with inflation – unemployment discussed;  2,000 insurance jobs axed at Aviva; Bristol Post/Evening Post gets new website but it’s less user-friendly than the last one and not on news services such as Google News; Local financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown’ success shows no sign of slowing – at taxpayers expense? £500 per week benefits cap trial begins in London, cap to be rolled out across the country in July; Philippe Sands QC Quits LibDems Over ‘Corrosive’ Secret Courts Bill, secret courts overturn Habeus Corpus Act 1679 this is the wicked work of Bilderberger & ‘minister without portfolio’ in Cameron’s cabinet Kenneth Clarke MP; MMR vaccine – Measles outbreak shows why we must get our children vaccinated, but we hear from Dr Andrew Wakefield explaining he believes parents should be able to choose single vaccines and the problems with the original MMR vaccines, two of which were almost immediately withdrawn, Wakefield says import of single vaccines shoud not have been banned.
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Second hour: What were private security firm ‘Craft’ doing at the scene of the Boston marathon bombings? Are the NATO zone Mafia dons, the Bilderberg Group, coming to Watford this June? Military Industrial Complex, bankers, NATO politicians, royalty, oil barons, media & IT barons and the BBC will be represented but may once again fail to report on the meeting. Head of the Italian Supreme court Ferdinando Imposimato [Italian original] publishes book with evidence the Bilderberg Group have been behind Italian terrorist campaigns. Terrorists who plotted to blow up army base with explosives on toy car jailed for 44 years, Four ‘toy car’ terrorists from Luton jailed at Woolwich Crown Court; 20th anniversary of the siege of the Branch Davidians’ community in Waco, Texas, with commentary and report by local comedian from Austin, Texas, Bill Hicks. Green councillor for Ashley Gus Hoyt discusses his role in mayor Ferguson’s cabinet, the role of KPMG adviser Matt Payne in the cabinet and local priorities for the Green Party. Conspiracy Scope YouTube channel upload retired US Army Colonel and author L. Fletcher Prouty talking in 1992 about the British East India Company and colonialism.
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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

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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 South West LibDem MEP Sir Graham Watson who is based in Langport Somerset. Stories covered:  Cyprus – it’s natural gas resources and loans from Moscow; Graham discusses his role in the EU, the European Arrest Warrant, and other EU issues; voxpop by Marina Morris on the European Union – Graham Watson mentions positive achievements of the EU – the Euro, economic collapse, Economists Milton Friedman, former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) David Blanchflower’s article reminding us of what his colleagues explained after the 2010 election, George Osborne’s austerity cannot and will not work. The 1986 Big Bang;  parties celebrating Mrs Thatcher’s death; voxpop by Marina Morris about Maggie Thatcher and further discussion;  Sheffield Hallam University report on welfare cuts – £19 billion a year out of the economy, the north hit worse; Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) police now failing to confirm who they are arresting based on ‘Leveson recommendations’ citing Chris Jefferies case where he was then accused of the murder of Jo Yeates. However Avon & Somerset police are being sued by Jefferies for wrongly arresting him and possibly briefing the press that he was the murderer. Police state being ushered in? Severn Barrage and bankruptcies of two founders; KPMG face audit inquiry over the failure of HBOS bank having failed to spot £47bn of losses in the company’s accounts in successive audits;  Lord Berkeley tables private members bill calling for the annual £18.3m Prince Charles’ 120,000 acre Duchy of Cornwall estate to be given to Cornwall residents.
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Second hour: Was Margaret Thatcher’s 1986 ‘Big Bang’ responsible for the banks collapsing in 2008? Monetary reformer and former Bank of England employee turned international consultant Muhammad Rafeeq. Wikileaks release searchable index of ‘The Kissinger Cables’ from and to Nixon’s Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who had a secret foreign policy of coups, massacres and death squads. Senior Italian judge says he has evidence that Ken Clarke’s secret Bilderberg club were behind terrorist attacks across Europe as part of Operation Gladio. Anders Breivik massacre relatives prepare to sue Norwegian police & authorities. Julian Parry discusses the legacy of Margaret Thatcher who died on Monday. Several of the same individuals who removed Maggie over her attitude to European EMU integration involved in alleged illegal South African nuclear arms deal with Astra Holdings headed by former MI6 officer Stephan Koch. BBC make a documentary with The Guardian to mark the decade since the start of the Iraq war in March 2013 but then fail to screen it. Its content exposes appalling crimes by US Colonel James Steele in Iraq. America’s Hired Death Squads and Torture Teams Are Still Operating in Iraq – A 15-month investigation exploring war crimes long denied by the Pentagon lays out the tragic truth. James Steele: America’s mystery man in Iraq – video. Next Saturday sees Bristol’s Anarchist Bookfair 11am-6pm at the Trinity Centre at the East end of Old Market.
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Friday Drivetime

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 Labour Councillor for St George West Peter Hammond. Discussion with Peter on why he had to stand down as Labour leader, how Labour have managed to influence the Bristol City Council’s annual budget e.g. getting extra money for Speedwell Pool and Community Transport.  Latest on the criminal bankers including clip from Russia Today’s ‘The Keiser Report’ about a class action in the US brought against Libor fraud banks – case dismissed by US judge;  HBOS malfesance story today too with mild ‘slapped wrists’ for multi-billion pound fraudsters; Can work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith really live on £53 a week including bills? The Queen gets a £5 million pay rise as the ‘Civil List’ is replaced by the ‘Sovereign Grant’ – is Queen Elizabeth the real Vile Product Of Welfare UK as quoted from this week’s Daily Mail Headline? Owen Jones and Ruth Porter on Channel 4 news discuss this ‘Philpott’ welfare debate – DFS in Bristol get 1200 applicants for 9 jobs, Costa Coffee in Nottingham get 1700 applications for 8 jobs, Joseph Roundtree Foundation report that the UK has 6.5 million people looking for full time work that does not exist – Iceland has increased welfare benefits because that helps the economy to grow in a crisis; staggering leaks of confidential documents reveal secrets of the rich tax evaders who hide cash offshore (mainly from the British Virgin Islands) –estimated at £21 trillion;  Trident  – costs £100 billion for about 25 years – clip of Bruce Kent, veteran CND campaigner on being spied on by Cathy Massiter, discussion about Peter Hammond being blacklisted by the Economic League and Bruce Kent and CND being spied on; documentary all about this from the 1980s as part of Channel 4’s 20/20 Vision Series with Hugo Young; Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)s £10.5 million mis-selling (fraud) Ofgem fine; wheels coming off the wagon as North Somerset Council stop enforcing parking offences – a symptom of ‘private affluence and public squalor’; Unite the Union air the prospect of a 2013 general strike.
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Second hour: North Korea threatens nuclear attack on USA, but did William Waldegrave, Ken Clarke, David Cameron and other senior Tories collude in supplying these ex-South African nuclear weapons onto the black market? Peer admits MI6 officer Daphne Park arranged the assassination of Congo’s first independent leader Patrice Lumumba; massive increase in heroin trafficking from Afghanistan – one million deaths from heroin now estimated since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by NATO, the US and UK. Martin explains how, why and when the CIA and MI6 began to be major drug smugglers and reccomends two websites CIAdrugs and NarcoNews. Anne Lemon teaches in Clevedon and is on the National Executive of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) who had their annual conference over Easter. She explains the union’s view on Free Schools, Academy Schools and the new National Curriculum and tells us about a mayday rally taking place next month in Castle Park which is organised by local Trades Unionists. SMART METERS – Big Brother or helpful technology? we are joined by David Saunders of Bristol Power and Mike Mitcham of the Stop Smart Meters campaign.  – Who is president Bashar Al Assad of Syria’s English wife Asma? She is not heard from on British mainstream media but seems to come across as an intelligent and compassionate stateswoman
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