Friday 12th Febuary 2016

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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First hour: News review: with Bristol’s Libdem leader Gary Hopkins. Bristol Green Capital – where did the money go?; Bristol Cable investigation into Bristol 2015 Ltd spending public money on & with their friends and family; Bristol Carnival Committee, removal of trustees of Malcolm X Centre, Dance Centre lease removed; George Ferguson, the smiling control freak; On community groups: “If it’s not the mayor or something directly under his control he’s not happy with anything I’m afraid.” The spending … is all massively centralised”. “Organisations that are community based and real are being completely and utterly sidelined”. Local people and councillors on Neighbourhood partnerships “Are not being ALLOWED to make decisions”. “Mayor Ferguson has final word on all decisions; coming up Bristol Council Budget Debate; “Next week’s budget debate is, quite frankly, a bit of a charade”; Metro Mayor more right wing – the Mayoral system; Metro Bus; Independent paper to close and go online and Johnston Press to buy ‘i’;  media groups lose appeal against secret trial of Erol Incedal – FBI using patsies as terrorists for political means;  Clarke Shoes in Street announces major job losses, Shepton Mallet cider company closed – Baltic Dry Index, The Big Short film, derivatives; closures of courts and tribunals in England and Wales announced; PMQs Corbyn on housing crisis – solution of more social housing; how Cameron plans to destroy Britain’s social housing in 7 easy steps;  Paul Mason and how to solve housing crisis; PMQs disability tribunals – trauma to disabled people; clip of Michael Crick from C4 News about Tories overspending on election campaign and not declaring it.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Junior doctors strike and dispute – Two years on from Kiev’s Maidan coup US arming & training Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Battalions – the arbitrary detention of Julian Assange, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights group link his accusers to the CIA and Swedish police – London is world’s Money Laundering capital. Interview with Dr. Richard Ibitoye, Neurology Registrar and Severn BMA chair for junior doctors – he discusses the strike of the junior doctors and how the government is asking too much of already stretched doctors:  clips of Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, on C4 News, discussing what he wants from junior doctors;  NHS comes top on healthcare survey and US the worst – private healthcare, NHS started after WW2;  Cameron just launched a privatisation ‘surge’ to end the NHS by the time he leaves office; Tory MP Oliver Letwin had a blueprint for privatising NHS. Julian Assange and the rape accusations:  UN believes Julian Assange’s detention is illegal; statement by Swedish doctors for Human Rights on Sweden’s rejection of UN ruling – the ‘woman accuser’ of rape was a former Swedish embassy employee and had been expelled from Cuba on charges of working for the CIA; PMQs Assange should go to Sweden for questioning and should pay for his own house arrest. Two years ago was the Maidan Coup, in Kiev, Ukraine – an update: Ukraine: Les Masques De La Révolution Canal+
Ukraine: Masks of the Revolution – documentary from Canal Plus the Ukrainian government have asked the French government to take it down; interview with Mark Sleboda from RT about the situation in Ukraine and the fascists that are part of the present government. Drug money saved the banks in the global financial crisis – City of London at centre of global drugs trade.
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