Friday 4th May 2018

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

Listen live http://www.bcfmradio.com/player or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3

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First hour: news review: with Labour councillor for St George Troopers Hill Fabian Breckles. Local elections – disappointing for Labour? – anti-Semitism – media against Corbyn; election results;  Metrobus – up and running soon – TERRIBLE rating on Google Play for First Bus M-Ticket App – it just doesn’t work – cancelled sections e.g. not going to parkway – mistakes.  Outsourcing troubles: CAPITA, CARILLION, INTERSERVE and SERCO – Capita says it’s no Serco — whatever the rights and wrongs – profit warnings hidden; Capita top brass in line for turnaround bonus worth £10m – and it could be rise to a lot more;  Interserve about to collapse – Interserve landed with £40m bill from accountants and consultants; Lord mayor Lesley Alexander presides over Kafkaesque, shambolic Extraordinary Full Council Meeting to appoint senior council executive Mike Jackson on a salary of £165,000; PMQs Corbyn – with Tories you pay more and get less – 21,000 less police and 20% increase in crime in ONE YEAR Lawless London: murder rate soars by 44% & knife crime is up by over 20% in ONE YEAR  – – poverty – underfunding of Labour areas by Tory central gov.; ‘Defensive’, ‘fudged pledges’ and ‘divorced from reality’ – This is how opposition parties view Marvin Rees’ first two years ;  Bristol Audit – unelected now;  PMQs Universal Credit problems – fiasco; Vulnerable, sick and hungry: these devastating testimonies of people on Universal Credit are being used to fight Esther McVey’s benefits department in Court – PMQs – waiting two and three hours for an ambulance – Gov. deliberately destroying NHS – austerity and media reporting; PMQs sacked Home Secretary Amber Rudd pays tribute to the UK’s out-of-control Anti-Terrorist police.
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A reminder on #WorldPressFreedomDay that UK this year fell to 40th place in @pressfreedom indexhttps://t.co/OyJInsCIDi
The index measures ability of media to hold power to account. But how much lower UK would rank if it measured not only ability, but also willingness to do so

— Charles Shoebridge (@ShoebridgeC) May 3, 2018

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Second hour: Investigative reports: Elections in Lebanon – have to keep all factions happy – outside actors.  Erdogan – snap election – power grab? – US led coup backfiring – Turkey swing state – NATO – Erdogan buying Russian missiles.  Britain going to build anti-Russia alliance – Military Industrial Complex needs an enemy – John Stockwell book ‘In Search of Enemies’ – Putin defends Russia’s interests.  Theresa May says Skripal case definitely Russian state sponsored – or false flag event? – psychological warfare – geopolitics of situation – media changing opinions.  ‘The Media on Trial’ events around country – event cancelled by Leeds City Council – speakers are Venessa Beeley, Patrick Henningson – 20^th Century Wire, Peter Ford – Pro Assad British Syrian Society, Craig Murray – www.craigmurray.org.uk – Facebook and Twitter ‘shadow banning’ from social media. Michael Tyler – Google war algorithm.  Diamonds in the Cesspool – news websites that are good – How US news channels always report the same news, without checking facts  – then complain of social media always reporting the same ‘fake’ news, without checking facts.  Oligarchy vs democracy – are leaders picked? Democracies in UK, US, and Israel compared. US Special Operations troops in Yemen –  www..antiwar.com   also mass drone murder by West in Yemen and explosion in Afghanistan story – Weapons and medical supplies from Israeli intelligence to rebels in Syria?  MoD accidentally reveals British drones firing thermobaric missiles in Syria.  1994 speech by Anton Chatkin about the Freemasons and the British empire.
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