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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 and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: news review with National Union of Teachers’ (NUT) SW representative and Clevedon Chemistry teacher Anne Lemon.  The recent strike on pay, pensions and conditions discussed.  Further issues covered to do with education – Free Schools, the privatising of Academy Schools which are now being run as chains such as Harris Carpets, McDonald’s running US schools, teachers only lasting five years in the system due to masses of paperwork and low morale. Marina Morris’s voxpop on schools, teaching & education. Martin Summers discusses the macroeconomics of the cuts explaining why they are counter-productive. Energy price fixing – price of living crisis – nationalising energy; Stephen Hepburn MP: “Tories a political front for the Hedge Funds and the City”; food bank usage trebling; ambulance waiting times too long.
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Second hour: David Powell from South West Friends of the Earth on the energy price inflation. An explanation of energy cartels, fossil fuels, green energy, Germans generating their own energy with solar, wind etc., insulation, nuclear power contracts renewed despite failings and new ways to stop fracking by claiming mineral rights under one’s property like Mohammed Al Fayed did in 2010. BMW, which is highly secretive and built on Nazi money give Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party 700k euros, Germans promise David Cameron that they will drop their opposition to his protecting high bankers’ bonuses and the EU emission regulations are dropped. Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: We hear from David Cameron at PMQs on The Guardian being a ‘threat to national security’ Edward Snowden himself on GCHQ & NSA programmes – Cameron wants the Guardian investigated – and Liam Fox on security in PMQ;  former Labour defence minister Nick Brown says ‘snoopers charter’ an attempt to legalise GCHQ criminality– former GCHQ director Sir Francis Richards says Sir Malcolm Rifkind not the right man for top job at Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC); former cabinet minister Chris Huhne says government not told about Tempora or Prism spying programs. Investigative reports into the probable assassination in a Mercedes car crash of award winning US journalist Michael Hastings who was investigating CIA Director John Brennan’s role in press crackdown before his death. Was his Mercedes hacked? David Mowat on Abolish Empty Office Blocks (AEOB) meeting this Thursday evening at 6:30pm in St. Stephen’s Church in Bristol City Centre. 
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Link to previous Friday Drivetime shows http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/shows/drivetime/friday-drivetime

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 and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page

First hour: News review with Tess Green, Green Party councillor for Southville. Green Party vision for Bristol discussed – how to break the domination of cars and supermarkets; Ed Miliband has good press; Royal Mail flogged off cheap as shares rocket so government undersold it by roughly £1.2bn, or £100 per UK family. More privatisation so our votes mean less and rich individuals and businesses run the country; compensation and apology from construction companies who blacklisted staff and how police gave information to these companies; Compensation for ruined careers could be enormous. Keir, formerly May Gurney who went bust, have a contract with Bristol City Council but despite full council passing Tess Green’s motion saying no council contracts would be awarded to blacklisting firms this contract will continue. Ed Miliband in PMQs on cost of living and energy prices – poor paying the price for mistakes of the rich; the Red Cross have begun distributing food aid for the first time since 2nd World War;  Citizens Income in Switzerland and Cyprus;  long term job seekers up; Marina Morris’s voxpop on the financial crisis;  reshuffle puts TV presenters in government;  First Great Western’s franchise is renewed again with no competition; UK Uncut marched this week to oppose ConDem Coalition government’s Legal Aid cuts.
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Second hour: Interview with Mark Leftly from the Independant Newspaper.  Part privatisation of weapons procurement at MOD Filton Abbey Wood discussed.  Details of mainly US companies interested in the contracts and how the US government apparently thinks it a crazy unworkable idea, mainly due to security issues.   Daphne Havercroft, from SWWHAG, discusses how privatisation of the NHS is progressing.  Pathology in Bristol is being merged and problems with this.  Also homes being built on the Frenchay site and PFIs.   Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers:  Andrew Parker, head of MI5, complains of security issues over Snowdens’ revelations, his new four door Maserati is allegedly spotted in Kilmersdown in Somerset; clip of David Ormand, former head of GCHQ; security services false flags;  Phillip Hammond, Defence Secretary, says Britain is war weary unless there is another 9/11; Mercedes Benz , driverless technology, and mysterious car crashes.  Clip from Tom Valentines Radio Free America show of former USMC and CIA Operation Pegasus soldier Trenton Parker discussing Martin Bormann and the Nazi Gold being hidden in Spain.
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This show was followed from 7-9pm by an ‘End Of The World’ special with Cyrus the Virus, Steve Satan & Tony Gosling – link to Revelation timeline (Word-doc)

Link to previous Friday Drivetime shows http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/shows/drivetime/friday-drivetime

Fri04Oct13 – 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 and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page

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First hour: News review with Mark Wright, Lib Dem councillor for Cabot. Cameron’s speech, Osborne’s speech and critique of their ability to control borrowing; the shutdown of large parts of the US government; UK defence cuts and two former Royal Fusiliers interrupt defence Secretary Philip Hammond’s speech at the Tory party conference; Daily Mail attacks Labour leader Ed Miliband’s father for ‘hating Britain’ and calling him ‘evil’;  50-60,000 people attend last Sunday’s NHS march and rally in Manchester, not covered by BBC so we hear a clip of UNITE General Secretary Len McClusky’s speech; Glenn Greenwald explains why the Edward Snowden revelations are no threat to national security – Mark Wright believes people should be more angry about GCHQ and NSA revelations and the intrusion into our privacy they represent; Newcastle Labour councillor David Stockdale in charge of closing the city’s libraries is investigated for failing to declare his Freemason membership; Legal Aid cuts hit Michael Mansfield’s practice “now only the rich have access to justice”. Michael Mansfield: ‘Nowadays there’s one rule for the rich, and another for the poor’ He has represented everyone from the Lawrence family to the Hillsborough victims. But cuts to legal aid mean he can now only exist as a ‘virtual lawyer’.
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Second hour: Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Sue Mountstevens @AandSPCC, how is she spending her £280m annual budget? New £16m Black Rock firing range burned down, police investigate a claim on Bristol Indymedia it was done by anarchists but was it agents provocateurs? Decriminalisation of drugs. 63 year old blind man Colin Farmer who was Tasered then hospitalised for several months. Eighth person, Jordan Begley from Manchester, to be killed by a police Taser in July 2013. The horrors of the 50,000 volt taser. The privatisation of the police, and Marina Morris’s voxpop on policing and privatisation. Joanne Baker from Child Victims of War on Afghanistan, former Afghan MP who’s been sold out by NATO Malali Joya and how women are affected by increasing violence and oppression in the last 12 years of war. Martin Summers discusses Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s view of Iranian presidents old and new: ”a wolf in wolf’s clothing followed by a wolf in sheep’s clothing’; Gambia has decided to leave the Commonwealth in protest because Britain is still a colonial nation.
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Link to previous Friday Drivetime shows http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/shows/drivetime/friday-drivetime