Friday 12th December 2014

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: Transport and Housing with one of Labour’s Assistant Mayors Mark Bradshaw… Mayor Ferguson’s cabinet; living wage; £360m Bristol budget – budget decisions – public transport, housing and homelessness;  Greater Bristol Authority Metro Mayor;  difference between public or private transport  – East Coast Main Line being unnecessarily privatised next spring; UWE protest – occupied by students – Digital media student Josh Conner says ‘knowledge is not a consumer product and we are not your clients’ – student loan bubble, financial crash; markets nervous as Greece calls an election;  BAe Systems pulling out of Filton, Bristol;  Bristolians set to pay more for police – except there are less police;  OECD report – growth of inequality has had a negative effect on growth; Tory Home Secretary Theresa May police will be able to snoop on journalists phone records; GCHQ spying is ‘legal’ – snoopers charter.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Interview with Chris Stacey from UK child sex abuse ‘People’s Tribunal’, headed by eminent QCs Michael Mansfield and John Cooper – official inquiry not trusted, www.thepeoplestribunal.org.uk organised by survivors, Exaro News. Sexual abuse victim Chris Stacey from The Peoples Tribunal into UK Child Sexual Abuse. New ‘Master’ of Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers Chris Curling…  Interview with Chris Curling, new Master of the Merchant Venturers:  Bishop Mike Hill’s statement about Merchant Venturer slave trader Edward Colston’s business dealings being ‘speculation’ in front of hundreds of their schoolchildren ;  the slave trade;  charity fund of Merchant Venturers;  various ‘interests’ of Chris including being on the board of Bristol Water;  Ofwat says Bristol Water must cut it’s bills by 21% – public versus private water;  Ireland protest as they have to pay for water for the first time;  fracking adversely affecting water supplies;  the role of the Master of the Merchant Venturers.
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Friday 5th December 2014

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: Chancellor’s Autumn statement and Bristol Arena discussed with Labour councillor for Windmill Hill Sam Mongon. Bristol City Council Scrutiny Committees; living wage; Bristol Arena;  Green Capital;  Osborne’s Autumn Statement – ideological cuts, Jonathan Freedland on BBC 5Live saying extreme cuts are a form of self-harm to the economy, pointing out that Labour’s Chancellor Alistair Darling said it would take two parliaments to balance the books; Ed Miliband PMQs – living standards going down;  rail and bus fares going up – First Group; Latest Edward Snowden: secret malware in European Union linked to US & British Intelligence – Regin; Dennis Skinner PMQs – Dennis Skinner says Tories added £430bn to National Debt, more than Labour spent in a century – international financial system broken, cancelling debt;  homeless young people on the rise; Three police officers and a PCSO face misconduct charge over death of  Bijan Ebrahimi in Bristol.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Noam Chomsky on the West’s post-war betrayal of partisans and workers movements. Noam Chomsky: hard-line critic of US foreign policy; professor of linguistics at MIT. End Game of WWII and Nazis being helped by western intelligence services for various strategic reasons:  Nazi Gold; Operation Paperclip, Reinhard Gehlen; NATO; Gladio; Svoboda Pravy Sektor;  ‘America’s Nazi Secret’ by US President Jimmy Carter’s FBI Special Prosecutor John Loftus author of America’s Nazi Secret; WWII US traitor Prescott Bush;  ‘OPJB’ by John Ainsworth-Davies (aka. Christopher Creighton) – Martin Bormann escape from Nazi Germany; South America and Nazis – Klaus Barbie in Bolivia; clip of John Ainsworth-Davies: First airing of Argentina-based British journalist Laurence De Mello’s exclusive interview with author of Op JB John Ainsworth-Davis aka. Christopher Creighton. MI6 ‘M’ Section cell: Ian Fleming, Desmond Morton, Winston Churchill, King George VI, Lord Louis Mountbatten, John Ainsworth-Davis. Sullivan & Cromwell money laundering; Former CBS News Europe correspondent Paul Manning’s book: Martin Bormann Nazi In Exile. Red House Meeting.  Post WW2 era: Lucky Luciano and the Mafia; communist threat and strong unions to placate people;  clip of Noam Chomsky. David Powell from South West Friends of the Earth: TTIP – business led trade deal between US and EU that will degrade regulations – suing governments, secret courts, NHS; doubts that Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Station is still going ahead as one of major backers is in financial trouble.
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Friday 28th November 2014

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 Labour Councillor for Brislington East Mike Woollacott: £90m cuts to Bristol City Council and restructuring – 500 jobs gone, Tory agenda driving down public services, deficit, economy; The Royal Mail privatisation and the Universal Service now being eroded as was predicted; PMQs real wages have fallen by 9%, affecting people especially in NE – economic crash coming? PMQs why has Serco been given a £70m contract when they have behaved corruptly? Trade unions and full employment; Bristol Somali gang convicted of sexual abuse and rape of teenage girls; Sir Edward Garnier, Tory Solicitor General, tried to stop Labour MP Simon Danczuk challenging Lord Leon Brittan over sex abuse claims; Universal Credit changes too expensive says National Audit Office – tax credits; water companies make billions of pounds in profits and 7 don’t even pay any tax – water bills up 310% since privatisation 25 years ago; proposal to merge various councils to make a Bristol City area governed by a Metro Mayor.
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Viral ‘Syrian Boy’ film, used by Western broadcasters, was faked by Norwegian filmmaker in Malta

Second hour: Investigative reports: Effects of the Health and Social Care Act – Protect Our NHS Bristol, Mike Campbell. Interview with Mike Campbell, from Protect our NHS, about the Conservatives’ underhand privatising of the NHS and the recent expensive and disruptive reorganisation:  Health and Social Care Act and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt;  1/3 GP surgeries in Bristol North West causing ‘concern’ to GP regulator – recruiting new GPs is a problem; demographic time-bomb because nowhere near enough doctors being trained; privatised Emerson’s Green underspend but money not returned? by Care UK, where did it go? Oliver Letwin has reportedly told a private meeting that the “NHS will not exist” within five years of a Conservative election victory. Oliver Letwin MP & Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster seems to be calling all the shots since he pledged to destroy the NHS way back in 2004;  PMQs problem with ambulances;  PMQs Ed Miliband  problem with  A&E – Out of Hours;  NHS financial meltdown;  Merchant Venturers chair both Bristol’s NHS trusts with annual budget around £1bn, North Bristol NHS Trust chair Peter Rilet and United Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust chair John Savage; international arms firm Lockheed Martin in the frame for £1bn NHS contract. More trouble in Jerusalem and Syria. Whitehall paedophiles: Top Tory tries to stop Labour MP mentioning Leon Brittan to Home Affairs select committee, more elite child sexual abuse and murder, this time at exclusive Dolphin Square estate in Pimlico. Luxury dinner for arms dealers, days after WWI commemorations. PMQs Gerald Kaufman – non-Jew rights are to be removed in Israel which he says is a ‘apartheid state’ – Al-Aqsa Mosque problems, Syrian ‘hero boy’ video faked by Norwegian director, PKK, ISIS. VIPs and child sex abuse in Dolphin Square – murder, influential MPs involved,  political influence and  bribery used by intelligence services? Media Wars – clip of Anissa Naouai from RT on CNN. Global Media wars – RTs Anissa Naouai vs. CNNs Christiane Amanpour.
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