Month: July 2013

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, including focus on the NHS, with Conservative MP for Bristol North West Charlotte Leslie. Economics Quantitative Easing (QE) otherwise known as Printing Money, good or bad idea? Sunday Times report quoted by Michael Meacher MP says the 1000 richest Britons have increased their wealth by an average of £190m each while everyone else has taken a 6% real terms cut in disposable income. New Bank of England Governor Mark Carney who has come from the Nazi funding Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland performs a PR stunt announcing the £10 note will have Jane Austen on but remains tight lipped on interest rates and polymer notes; Energy policy, fracking and shale gas protest yesterday in Sussex, will this soon be coming to the Mendip Hills and is it a viable form of energy? Planned Hinkley 3 nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Danny Alexander announces £10bn of guarantees for nuclear power station but we question the financial viability; Charlotte has talked of a ‘Mafia like network’ at the centre of the NHS. But don’t all industries that are being privatised always have corrupt people to first bring them to their knees? Whistleblowers bullied and persecuted rather than listened to. An exclusive in the Independent this week: a scandal much bigger than phone hacking. Despite millions of taxpayers’ money being spent on investigations the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has failed to prosecute blue chip companies such as banks and insurance firms who hire criminal private investigators to steal personal information. SOCA has been forced to hand the confidential list to Keith Vaz at the Home Affairs Select Committee; Bristol City Council grants repeat planning permission for a car park on the Clifton Downs? Which is owned by the Merchant Ventuters; One Merchant Venturer, John Savage, is chair of the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust and another, Peter Rilett, is chair of the North Bristol NHS Trust and Master of the Merchant Venturers. We hear the voice of President Assad of Syria’s English wife, Asma al Assad. Charlotte visited Syria in February 2011 and was she and her colleagues were controlled by the Assad government and treated like prisoners but with great hospitality.
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Second hour: The assassination of a secularist politician involved in drafting Tunisia’s new constitution sparked anti-government protests in Tunis, the birthplace of the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’. German built Israeli submarines in the Mediterranean launched the missile attack on Syria. Israel will neither confirm nor deny but their unofficial declaration of war has been rumbled. Implications of breaking international law and trying to provoke Syria and/or Russia to retaliate. Hezbollah militant wing officially designated a terrorist organisation by the EU; Iraq and armed groups releasing hundreds of prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison. Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Is the Brotherhood still controlled by MI6 who set it up or has it ‘gone native’? Has or has there not been a military coup in Egypt? Second anniversary of far-right Freemason fanatic Anders Behring Breivik’s massacre in Norway where 77 people, mostly young left-wing activists died. Was he a ‘lone wolf’ as much of the commentary suggests? Or was he supposted by bloggers and activists round the world such as Fyordmann and Pamela Geller? Did he have support from the international far-right networks such as the English Defence League (EDL) and Jewish Defence League (JDL) through the ‘Knights Templar network he helped found in London in 2002? Was Breivik both a Zionist and a Nazi? Did he have help from within the Norwegian police force and from within his masonic lodge(s) bearing in mind the P2 scandal in Italy proved a masonic lodge was carrying out a terror campaign there? The royal birth: Phenomenal success of this YouTube film over the last week where, in her own words, Princess Diana tells of her 1989 confrontation with Prince Charles’ mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles at Camilla’s sister Annabel’s party. Prince Charles gets paid for every penny we spend at Waitrose because he owns the distribution depot and the Queen gets paid for every penny we spend at John Lewis. How does this sit with their constitutional position which also grants them immunity from the Freedom of Information act, the ability to veto laws which damage their financial interests and tax exempt status? Shane Collins is one of the organisers of next week’s Green Gathering in Chepstow and Green Party spokesperson on drug policy, we also discuss Green party energy policy, Shane suggests personal carbon quotas may be a solution to the energy crisis and invites listeners to pop over to Chepstow from Thursday or next weekend. Surprisingly insightful and entertaining North Korean propaganda documentary looks down witheringly at Western consumerism and celebrity culture including Madonna, Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie, Katie Price and Paris Hilton.
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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 Labour Deputy Leader Ron Stone. Clifton lido is too exclusive and expensive so we have to go to Portishead, Cirencester or Street to swim in an outdoor pool, why no outdoor swimming pool in Bristol? Litany of failure of Bristol’s privatised waste contractor May Gurney, who have gone bust and been bought up by health and safety cheats and blacklisters Kier Group. The Bristolian reports that local MP Jack Lopresti’s brother Giovanni used to work for the Council and awarded the May Gurney contract. He has now, they say, got a job working for May Gurney and Kier Group. With the royal baby due any time now, the royal family is discussed, including a voxpop; Prince Charles criticised again, this time on three fronts, abusing his power by vetoing laws he doesn’t like, stopping the release of his ‘black spider’ letters to government ministers under freedom of information requests and dodging taxation of his massive Duchy of Cornwall corporation which he says is not a corporation but an ‘estate’. The bedroom tax is going to increase public expenditure as 8 out of 10 people evicted will have to move to more expensive private rented accommodation; Arch law-breaking lobbyist Lord Bell and Conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston on the power of lobbyists, Tuesday’s Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis even saying “we have one of the cleanest political systems in the world” wishful thinking Emily; Lynton Crosby scandal, BBC news telling the public shale gas is extracted by injecting ‘water’ into the ground; KPMG ‘volunteers’ saving the BBC and Matt Payne at Bristol City Council money? but what is their motive? Newport Labour MP Paul Flynn in PMQ on the PMs inability to answer questions; No longer any rule of law in UK? Hacking cover up scandal as police refuse to name blue chip companies who used corrupt private investigators; weapons sales to human rights abusing regimes approved by government. Britain approving thousands of arms sales contracts to human rights abusing regimes: Blood money: UK’s £12.3bn arms sales to repressive states. Government approves thousands of deals with states it condemns for human rights abuses
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Second hour: Tony Crofts launches AEOB Against Empty Office Buildings, an investment to build social housing in Whitehall Road. Tony Crofts, from Action Against Empty Office Buildings (AEOB), and Ron Stone discuss the potential of turning the 60 acres of empty office space in Bristol into housing, as has already been achieved in Manchester and Birmingham. www.AEOBhousepeople.org.uk. Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers:  an update on Edward Snowden and spying generally Joint Intelligence Committee boss Alex Allen was found mysteriously covered in blood in 2008, he’s now overseeing the Parliamentary Code with the Intelligence and Security Committee giving GCHQ a clean bill of health, Martin is sceptical;  Lord Falconer and Tony Blair key people in the ‘cover up of the murder’ of David Kelly by subverting normal legal procedures; former Italian president Francesco Cossiga says Mossad and CIA were responsible for the 911 attack, supported by the zionist world; historian E.P.Thompson in his book ‘Writing by Candelight‘ discovers a 1593 diary of a remote ancestor – it recounts how  people are afraid England has been invaded, but it turns out just to be a giant trick to persuade the people to turn to the government for protection.  It was Nelson Mandelas’ 95th birthday yesterday and his legacy is discussed with a clip of ITNs Brian Widlake interviewing him in 1961.  A benefit gig to celebrate him is on Saturday 20th July at the Arc Bar, Bristol. Bristol celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday at the Arc Bar on Broad Street tomorrow from 8pm to midnight.
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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 LibDem deputy leader and film maker Christian Martin. Stories covered: Avon & Somerset police raid Christian Martin’s home under a pretext fishing for evidence. The City Deal and the Local Enterprise Partnership;  macro-economics;  The Mirror’s story ‘Poor paying more tax than the rich‘ National Audit Office figures show that the least well off households have been coughing up 36.6% of their income to the Treasury but the wealthiest have been paying less – only 35.5%; suicidal constituent calls MP over benefit cuts;  Tories funded by hedge-funds  and general funding of parties;  Royal Mail sell-off, Vince Cable  and pension funds;  private prison and security contractors G4S and Serco overcharging the taxpayer for non existent and dead prisoners as well G4S’s Unlawful Killing verdict this week about the death of deportee Jimmy Mubenga;  Stephen Barclay from the The Public Accounts Committee quizzes Sharon White, director of general public services, HM Treasury, Una O’Brien, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Sir David Nicholson, chief executive of NHS England. Conflicts of interest in the privatised NHS, also failed NHS managers getting hefty pay-offs and nice jobs through the NHS Confederation.
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Second hour: Should we arm the Syria rebels? Tuesday evening’s BBC Newsnight didn’t cut the mustard without Martin, so we hold a mock ‘debate’ between former Foreign Secretary and chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) Sir Malcolm Rifkind and our very own Martin Summers. Microsoft giving Windows backdoors to GCHQ and NSA. Edward Snowden is running out of options as the US has been putting pressure on other countries to stop him being granted asylum or travelling to South America. Rights and wrongs of drug prohibition and links to international terrorism with Chris Bovey from NORML campaign for the decriminalisation of cannabis. Chris suggests secure communications if you don’t want the NSA or GCHQ selling on your private or business information with Jitsi.org – Anti-Communist Jewish playwright Myron Fagan’s 1967 talk about the US Illuminati looking at the term ‘Liberal’ Fagan describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as traitors for their role in the downfall of America’s sovereignty.
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