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: review of the week’s news with Bristol Mayor George Ferguson who was directed to the wrong radio station by his staff so arrived 25 minutes late. Big dip in international share prices due to political instability in Portugal. Zero hour contracts and disastrous, worse than doing nothing, performance by the Work Programme providers mean underemployed or unemployed have less and less rights. Government and City of London putting more and more power in the hands of employers and taking it away from employees. They don’t provide enough jobs but blame the unemployed. Big dip in international share prices due to political instability in Portugal. Powerlessness and stripping rights from workers. Should the mayor reveal his diary? Marina Morris voxpop about the mayor’s first eight months, has George Ferguson made a difference? Over the Severn the Gwent police chief is ‘told to retire or be humiliated’ by the new crime commissioner, a former police superintendent. Former chief constable of Gwent police Carmel Napier tells MPs PCC Ian Johnston ordered her to retire. George Ferguson says he spent around £45,000 on his election campaign. Mayor sits on UK Core Cities Cabinet. George says he gets access to Secretaries of State. Mayor says Bristol is getting £400 million of transport infrastructure investment through the ‘City Deal’. Much for Metro Rail and Metro Bus, Portishead railway line for 2020 and beyond. Questioning the use of  the mayor’s volunteer budget adviser Matt Payne who is a volunteer from price fixing suspects KPMG. KPMG are being investigated both by the Competition Commission for price fixing and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) for approving nearly £50 billion of fictional assets in the accounts of just one UK bank in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Some might call it accounting fraud but if nobody dares to prosecute the criminals who cares? Details of Residents’ Parking Zones consultations still not announced but mayor says will be introduced in stages not just in one go.
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Second hour: British journalist and film-maker Laurence De Mello reports live from Buenos Aries in Argentina on the continuing hunt for Nazi war criminals. She has uncovered evidence, including personal accounts, that Hitler’s deputy war criminal Martin Bormann was indeed living in Argentina in the 1950s along with Nazi doctors Josef Mengele, Carl Værnet and others. She even uncovered evidence Bormann had a daughter in 1953 but Efraim Zuroff director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has been blocking her access to the Nazi hunting archives in an attempt to ensure US/UK Nazi connections Laurence has discovered do not inform our understanding of history. Bormann was living at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires throughout 1953. Iran’s state broadcaster Press TV is banned in the UK by Ofcom and by several satellite operating companies such as Intelsat and Eutelsat. Isser Ali reports for Press TV where Lord Ahmed criticises the Zionist lobby and former London mayor Ken Livingston believes it is US influence behind this connected to the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (ITSO) is convening next Thursday, 11th July, to discuss the censorship. Andrew Langdon QC from Guildhall Chambers and solicitor Will Stone from Avon and Bristol Law Centre discuss this Tuesday’s appearance of Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling at the Justice Select Committee. He has had to do a U-turn over whether legal aid clients can chose their solicitor but is accused of sharp practice in trying to divert attention from some of the key proposed changes by proposing extreme and monstrous attention grabbing ideas he does not expect ever to happen. Will Stone explains how badly people are being hit by legal aid changes particularly now rights to advice and representation at employment tribunals has been withdrawn. Both agree we are moving under these Tory changes to a two tier justice system, one for the rich and none for the poor. Jurriaan Maessen from Dutch website Explosive Reports on the resurgence of Eugenics and the historic German Hanseatic League which he sees as a medieval precursor of the modern day European Union or EU linking these traditions also to the cult of the Teutonic Knights.
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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 Labour Councillor for Brislington East Mike Woolacott. This week I wanted to review the news with Labour’s candidate for mayor of Bristol and one of the most well respected Black Minority Ethnic (BME) advocates in the city – Marvin Rees. Marvin is an employee of Bristol City Council working in health and when he asked his employer for permission to speak on this week’s shocking developments in the Stephen Lawrence case, police infiltrators were smearing the Lawrence family and the key witness to this 1993 London racially motivated murder, Marvin got a reply from Bristol City Council’s director of Communications Peter Holt explaining he could be in breach of contract if he spoke publicly. Now that sounds to me like a threat to sack him. So I contacted Ruth Wilmshurst at the Bristol City Council Press Office last week and on Wednesday this week she said she would email me a statement from Peter Holt on behalf of the council explaining why Labour’s former Mayor candidate – who came second in last year’s mayoral election – was facing the sack for speaking publicly about the Lawrence Case – and how it was considered this might impact on his ability to do his job at Bristol City council. Ruth didn’t return that call nor did any statement arrive by email. Public servant Peter Holt appears to have the resources to threaten to sack Marvin Rees and explain to him why but not to explain why to the public who pay his wages. Bearing in mind police made 19 arrests to defuse a racial incident with EDL supporters threatening to march, under cover of ‘Help For Heros’, into Easton last month; Easter 2011’s Tesco riot and 1980s street riots between police and the Black Minority Ethnic community in St Pauls. I’m inviting Bristol City Council’s Director of Communications Peter Holt onto this show next week to explain his decision and how it fits in with the council’s stated policy on Black minority ethnic community relations.
Mike Woolacott discusses his job as a full-time trade unionist representing Communications Workers’ Union CWU and the privatisation of Royal Mail; each Royal Mail employee is being ‘bribed’ with shares to accept the government’s plan. Royal Mail Chief Executive’s pay increases about 50% by £500,000 this year. Dispatches documentary ‘The Police’s Dirty Secret’ on Monday about undercover police perpetrating malicious falsehoods and perverting the course of justice by infiltrating the Lawrence family to discredit them, discussed in the House of Commons and enquiries needed by few trust the police to investigate themselves and cover-up again; private security firm that famously failed at the 2012 London Olympics G4S publish a report about themselves and how successful privatisation of the police would be ‘saving £1bn annually, this figure disputed by Avon & Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan; silly jokes comparing Sesame Street to Downing Street as Prime Minister David Cameron demands answers from Ed Miliband at Prime Minister’s Questions;  economics;  HSBC in Switzerland closes drug money laundering Moroccan and Israeli Mediterranean branch; spending on the monarchy goes up again, this year by an extra £1 million, what does this say about social justice in Britain?
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Second hour: Middle East World War III update with Martin Summers: regional politics of Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel.  Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of the Intelligence and Security committee and overseer of our intelligence services has private interests with advisory firm to military companies LEK; other members of the committee are proven to be biased towards the intelligence services, not the public, such as Lord Butler who delivered the Butler Report on the Iraq war giving the government a much too clean bill of health; New Conservative Trade and Investment Minister is a Zionist who supports Israel’s policies in the Middle East; US ‘Rolling Stone’ investigative journalist Michael Hastings and his suspicious death in a bizarre car crash, we speculate as to whether the electronic control system in his car was externally ‘hacked’. New Bank of England governor Mark Carney is cited as former governor of the Bank of Canada, but his real job is chairing committees at the secret Bank For International Settlements in Basel Switzerland. This is ‘The Central Bankers’ Central Bank’ where Central Bankers who control national currencies meet up every two months in secret to decide policy and share information in secret. The results of these policies have been disastrous around the world and questions are being asked about the bank which provided funds for Adolf Hitler to build weapons in the 1930s and gave Nazis valuable foreign exchange during World War Two. Journalist Adam LeBor has just published the first investigation into this secret bank and we hear his thoughts from his home in Hungary. Adam LeBor’s book is entitled ‘The Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World: The Inside Story of the Central Bankers’ Secret Bank’ – John Hart is an aero engineer from Filton. Six months on we find out how he and others have coped with privatised arms company BAe Systems’ closure of the Filton Airfield and his  hangar workplace after he has been forced to work in the village of East Garston in Berkshire, the other side of Swindon. Luke Rudowski has had enough of the dumbed-down insulting rubbish we see daily on the BBC and other mainstream media who fawn over war criminals and use multi billion pound money launderers as ‘experts’. He started We Are Change in New York City to call these rich criminals to account and the name and idea has spread around the Western world.
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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 Lib Dem councillor for Knowle Gary Hopkins. Martin Summers gives an update on recent economic news. Former chairman of HSBC bank when it was laundering money for Mexican drug cartels Lord Green leaves the government as Cameron backs jailing bankers; Tuesday’s full council meeting on Bristol Mayor George Ferguson’s proposed residents parking scheme, attempt to explain how decision making at the council works since the introduction of the Mayor;  Care Quality Commission CQC cover up report into their own failings; Data Protection Act used as an excuse;  as part of a ‘rescue deal’ shares in the Co-op Bank are listed on the Stock Market; Prime Minister’s Questions Labour MP Michael Meacher explains how the rich are getting richer, the richest 1000 people in the UK gaining an extra £170m each since the ‘financial crash’ in 2008; Mark Kindrick MP on how child poverty has gone up; BBC Lawyers and Station Manager Tim Pemberton fail in bid to remove clip of KPMG delivering ‘Business News’ on BBC Radio Bristol.
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Second hour: Round up of international news with Martin Summers:  the G8 and Syria, and the Iranian elections. Former Fraud Squad detective, Rowan Bosworth-Davies, on this week’s Parliamentary Banking Commission report. He believes the City of London IS the government because it has bought off Scotland Yard. Poor showing by Labour leader Ed Miliband who bought the lie that we need new legislation to deal with the bankers, we don’t. Theft Act and Fraud Act perfectly adequate. Biggest arms manufacturers in Europe, EADS, and Britain, BAe Systems, attended Bilderberg 2013 in Watford. Prohibition of recreational drugs fuelling organised crime. Could Bristol be the first city to decriminalise cannabis? Former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Tom Lloyd explains why legalisation of drugs will help stamp out organised crime in the UK. [Cambridge University talk] Marina Morris’s vox pop asks do you want legalisation of cannabis?
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