Friday 29th April 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

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

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First hour: News review: party leaders Green: Ani Stafford-Townsend, Labour: Helen Holland & Conservative: councillor Alasdair Watson. Helen Holland, Leader of Labour; Ani Stafford-Townsend, Leader of Greens;  Alistair Watson in place of Mark Watson, Leader of Conservatives;  absent: Gary Hopkins, Leader of Lib Dems & Michael Frost, UKIP Councillor – didn’t come. 70 Councillors in 34 wards up for election in Bristol; Is politics a stitch up, as anarchists think? –  rich don’t pay enough tax and poor not looked after, people should participate in politics;  Bristol Arena – how long will it take to pay off £93m debt with interest? – jobs, Local Enterprise Partnership; Bristol £200m MetroBus project – compromise, only 3 an hour;  Metro Mayor – Bristol will be given £1bn bribe (over 10 years) if agree, West of England Partnership, strategic planning, referendum for Mayor and Metro Mayor;  Do councillors have any power, after the introduction of the Mayor?;  Have we got enough council houses? – interview with Anthony Palmer, ex-army, who is squatting one of council houses with son that was sold at auction by council – Pip n Jay’s Sleep Out with homeless, Paul Saville argues with Mayor Ferguson and lady who works in Broadmead interjects – condition and cost of private rented housing, Tory plan of Right to Buy; EU Referendum – In or Out?;  Labour Party and anti-Semitism.
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Second hour: investigative reports: Labour Anti-Semitism row – and international news round up: The recent result of the inquiry into Hillsborough – clip of investigative journalist Roger Cook (from Cook Report) saying was a ‘large scale heavy duty cover-up’. Port Talbot Steel Plant closure – public ownership, key part of national defence, Thyssen-Krupp, clip from BBC 5Live of Jonathan Aylen from Manchester Business School on Port Talbot steel works whose order book is already going to Ijmuiden Dutch Steel Works near Amsterdam. Bank crash.  Is there any anti-Semitism in Labour Party? “Hitler was supporting Zionism” Ken Livingstone suspended – clip of what he said; Nazi deal with Zionists in 1933, The Transfer Agreement – clip of news report about this and Edwin Blacks book; Zionist movement and Israel staying within it’s 1948 borders decided in UN; Marek Edelman, leader of Warsaw ghetto uprising; John Mann MP having a go at Ken Livingstone in front of BBC Millbank studios – was Livingstone set up?; Sanctions on Israel? Five most shocking quotes of Oliver Letwin – e.g. you can’t trust black people with money and white people don’t riot. UK industrial output slides, trade deficit widens on darker global outlook – banks insolvent, Britain most vulnerable to crash. DWP could be forced to publish secret details of benefit claimant suicides. Russia signs contracts worth $950m for Syria reconstruction – oil pipelines across Syria. 7,420 Egyptian civilians tried in Military courts martial under President Sisi – mostly Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. Will Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, be impeached – Olympics. Hillsborough and connections with Freemasonry – P2 Lodge, Operation Tiberius. Operation Market Garden during WWII at Arnhem during the liberation of Holland: Interview with Barry Wynne, former executive at one of first ITV 1950s franchises ABC TV, discussing his meeting with Colonel Oreste Pinto who told him about Dutch ‘resistance fighter’ King Kong or Christian Lindemanns – a German Abwehr spy and the Traitor of Arnhem.
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