Friday 5th June 2015

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

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Apologies – BCfm website ‘listen again’ facility has been faulty since before Christmas 2014. Any probs? mp3s should be on alternative links below by about 8:30pm on tx date

First hour: News review: Local city magazine – publicity for Mayor Ferguson – cost £34,000; what powers do councillors have over Mayor; Mayoral system pros and cons; Our City Bristol City Council PR magazine Wessex Water PR magazine – OFWAT, phenomenal water charges, competition, private versus public services, Welsh Water; clip of John Rediford, NUT Secretary for North Somerset, discussing Academy Schools – are they better or not? Queen’s Speech – devolution of powers to cities with Metro Mayors; PMQs Diane Abbot MP – devolution to London; Gerrymandering of constituency boundaries on basis of existing register of voters; discouraging poor people from registering to vote; making it more difficult to register to vote; in Bristol West and across the country less people registered to vote than in the 2010 election even though we know the population has increased; US practice of ‘voter suppression’ now taking place in Bristol Mayor Ferguson reconsiders Avonmouth and Portbury Docks freehold; PMQs Harriet Harman – ‘right to buy’ for housing association tenants – housing benefit up, child benefit, £10.5bn cuts to welfare, property bubble; PMQs Rachel Maskell – housing association ‘right to buy’, bedroom tax; Osborne’s £3bn of cuts – sooner than thought.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: G8 in Bavaria, followed by Bilderberg in Austria. Sepp Blatter resigning from FIFA:  politics behind FIFA regime change, move to sabotage 2018 Russia world cup – worry about World Cup in Russia; Chuck Blazer admits to bribes. Nazis like Hitler’s Chief of Staff Adolf Heusinger incorporated in NATO after WW2 – NATO.  Trial of Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapses after seems British intelligence arming same rebels as defendant was supporting.  G7 to take place in Schloss Elmau Castle in Bavaria.  BBC Chair is HSBC risk management director, BBC Vice-Chair – current chairman of Europe’s biggest arms manufacturers BAe Systems. Disinformationist ‘Bellingcat’ report on downing of Malaysian airlines MH17 in Ukraine –  German expert disagrees. Ukraine’s president Porashenko employs former Georgia president Saakashvili as governor of Odessa province.  PMQs: Daniel Kawczynski MP: Libya aftermath, Operation Southern Mistral war game turned real in Syria. US drills in Baltic. Russia develops anti-missile missiles. Bilderberg Conference in Austria after G7 – South Stream Pipeline, Bank for International Settlements (BIS). After his arrest Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt was financed by British royal family’s ancestor Duke Ernest II of Saxe-Gotha (1745-1804). The Illuminati became the top echelon command structure of European Freemasonry at Wilhelmsbad in 1782. G7 and Illuminati in Bavaria – Bilderberg NATO Elite don’t like left and communism because it means a threat to their private monopolies and rackets – Rothschild in Europe, Rockefeller in the US run banking and control supply of what has become money backed by nothing. Bilderberg chief and war criminal Henry Kissinger runs the world’s biggest protection racket. Clip from Panorama documentary ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Deals’ about collusion in Northern Ireland.  PMQs Nigel Dodds – Sinn Fein resist benefit cuts.
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