Friday 4th April 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 Glenise Morgan, Lib Dem councillor for Henleaze. Royal Mail sell off – a loss of £1.4bn to taxpayers (not £14bn as Tony mistakenly repeats!) – Ed Miliband in PMQs on Royal Mail sell off and – Vince Cable and a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with 16 city investment companies who then just dump shares on the market taking an instant profit of around £16m; BBC Points West transmit a week of Hargreaves Lansdown advertorials for this £300m annual turnover financial service company based in Bristol. They sell for funds, broker shares and related products. Hargreaves Lansdown’s Tom McPhail’s BBC ‘reports’ have been giving supposedly impartial advice on pensions which they sell. BBC Bristol Head of Centre Lucio Mesquita was invited on to tonight’s show to discuss spending license fee payers money on advertising for Bristol’s biggest financial institution but he did not return emails, voice-mail message or phone calls. Next week we invite Points West’s ‘anonymous’ news editor Neil Bennett. Why don’t Points West have credits for producer, news editor etc. at the end of their show? Are they shy or are they fraternising with the Merchant Venturers and the private ‘city elite’ of financiers & Freemasons? Scotland Yard’s fraud squad investigation of Peter Hargreaves for not investing clients’ money in the shares they wanted; badger cull to new areas shelved; PMQs Jeremy Corbyn MP the impossibly high cost of private rents and he suggests it’s time for rent controls and regulation; PMQs – 25th anniversary of the poll tax – rates; bailiff powers cut; Clifton traders block Bristol city centre complaining about proposed residents parking scheme which will dissuade drivers from shopping in Clifton village; Bristol Mayor, George Ferguson, sells freehold to Bristol docks for £10m after a 150 year lease was sold in 1991 for £36m – George does a duff deal for his dock company Merchant Venturer mates? PMQs Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood asks is National Planning Framework working when it only listens to the money question and ignores 10,000 letters? Unfairness of planning – Unwritten rule of the planning system: “If we can tax it, you can do it”. Marina Morris’s voxpop asking people if they trust the police, which, with a few exceptions they generally do round here.
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Second hour: Interview with Andrew Fisher, former parliamentary researcher and author of ‘Failed Experiment and how to build an economy that works’, which questions the artificial economic ‘consensus’ in politics since the 1970s. He questions our so called recovery since the financial crisis in 2008, and gives his ideas to solutions to our economic problems.  Interview with Diana Scrafton who is part of a group TRASHorfield campaigning to stop Sainsbury’s being built on Bristol Rovers’ Memorial Stadium near the top of Gloucester Rd, Bristol, on the old Memorial Ground – which was meant to commemorate the dead of the 1st World war, now to be sold off for a supermarket to keep bankrupt Bristol Rovers going with a dodgy planning permission on a cheap greenfield site. Missing Malaysia 777 MH370: wife of high profile ‘lost passenger’, IBM Executive Philip Wood: ‘Governments are intentionally misleading us’. Interview with Sarah Bajc, wife of IBM Executive Philip Wood that was on missing Malaysian Airways plane MH370. She says all the experts she has spoken to think the plane has been taken. Zigzagging planes and avionics transponders switching off just like during the 9/11 attacks. Tony’s article Malaysia MH370: Who has means & motive to take a plane full of people? Martin Summers discusses other conspiracies relating to planes: Lockerbie; KAL007 over prohibited Russian Military airspace at Sakhalin in 1983 and the Underpants bomber. The motives and possible suspects who may have abducted flight MH370. Ukraine – NATO armed forces chief General Philip Breedlove discusses NATO’s role in Ukraine, and Russian troops on the border of Ukraine. Senate Intelligence Committee report claims CIA ‘covered up use of torture and misled US government about its value’. Interview with Clive Menzies from Occupy London economics working group on his three main answers, and reform of our present failed system – wealth divide, citizens income, 60% of world trade from a small dynasty of families, media control.
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Friday 28th March 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

First hour: news review with Conservative Councillor for Horfield @Claire4horfield Claire Hiscott. Lloyd’s fined $100bn in US for mis-selling, and Santander fined £12m in UK for £7bn of mis-selling – not really any deterrent; PMQs sensible for top earners, whose wages are going up and up, to pay more tax – further financial crash, quantitative easing; HSBC and soaring pay packets – CEO now on £8m a year! Money laundering and drug cartels; the bedroom tax has failed on every count – 2/3 people affected are disabled and cash savings by government proving minimal; poor families hit by welfare reforms running up £52 debt every week – cuts don’t make economy grow; clip of Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg debate on EU – immigration, half British laws from Brussels; 5700 ‘bad quality’ new homes on the old Filton airfield site, South Gloucestershire -transport infrastructure; Another secret Met corruption probe revealed the Met Police, operation Zloty, corruption and shredded documents – organised crime have infiltrated the Metropolitan  police.
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Second hour: Ukraine – the extreme right wing in Kiev – the killing of Oleksandr Muzychko aka Sashko Billy, leader of Pravi Sektor far right Ukraine party. Transantlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – proposal corporations can sue governments if their decisions affect their business. Conspiracies surrounding this. Voxpop by Marina Morris about Ukraine. Marina Morris introduces her new website aimed at helping people navigate their way in the modern world www.mpersonality.com. The missing Malaysian Airways aeroplane MH370 – Former Home office security adviser Sally Leivesley asks was it the world’s first cyber hijack? Certainly lots of evidence of Information Warfare ‘news management’. Maldives and Rolls Royce stories drowned out by an avalanche of denials by people who cannot know whether what they said was untrue. Possible pressure on China over the UN Security Council vote and Malaysia who have not been doing what the IMF want. Links to Venezuela and Ukraine. NATO is ramping up tension all over the world. News management and military Information Operations over disappearance of Malaysian 777 flight MH370. Iqbal Tamini, Bristol based Palestinian journalist, discusses the middle east: Egypt – the Muslim Brotherhood – 500 supporters to be executed; Qatar’s isolation by other Gulf States and their TV station Al-Jazeera; terrible treatment of women in big US ally Saudi Arabia; Turkey PM Erdogan and a leaked phone call where a staged attack is discussed so he has an excuse to attack Syria. Clip from Dutch documentary ‘The Israel Lobby’ Evangelical Christian Zionist, Pastor John Hagee, supports Israel with 22,000 infiltrators of the US state – he wants a confrontation with Iran, however killing is not Christian! Paul Mason’s World War One: 3 of 4, The Revolutions.
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Friday 21st March 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

First hour: News review with John McInally, National Vice President of Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union with 250,000 members. 15 times more people are members of unions than political parties and unions are more democratic – how big and how democratic is PCS? Universal Credit fiasco with millions of pounds being spent on IT systems that will never work; Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cutting back jobs of those that collect the taxes of the rich; George Osborne’s 2014 budget this week – PCS respond with ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’. Privatisation, quantitative easing, potential crash; Ed Miliband’s response to the budget – Tories out of touch with housing and energy bills, cost of living crisis – Labour just ‘austerity light’; BBC Question Time this budget week arguably had THREE Tories on the panel and one in the chair! Danny Alexander, a LibDem said to be out-Torying the Tories, China and Russia holding a lot of West’s debt; LEAP 20/20 who say US have orchestrated Russia/Ukraine crisis which is aimed at bouncing the EU into trade deal Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US which means when the dollar crashes so it will bring the EU down with it; BBC Question time panel bias on budget week with THREE Tories: former director of Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) Think Tank Jill Kirby, Stockholm Syndrome LibDem Danny Alexander MP who’s said to have ‘out Toried the Tories’ & Tory MP Dominic Raab, then there is BBC Question Time presenter David Dimbleby who, as Boris Johnson pointed out, is a member of the Oxford Bullingdon Club to which he, George Osborne and David Cameron also belonged. Paul Davies –BCfm’s Sport Editor – on approval granted to sell Bristol Rover’s Memorial Stadium, at top of Gloucester Rd, to Sainsbury’s, appeal pending; HS2 high speed railway plan – The Independent’s Mark Leftly explains that many millions have been spent before it’s even approved – nationalisation of railway;  Bill Gates says jobs will be replaced by software bots in the future so why can’t we all benefit from time saving technology? PMQs Kerry McCarthy on the cost of living crisis and Tony Benn.
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Second hour: Crimea votes to be part of Russia in a referendum. Putin’s speech – far right elements in new Ukrainian government. Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs (unelected), on the recent Crimea referendum.  Marina Morris, who is Ukrainian, gives her opinion on recent events in Ukraine and Crimea.  PMQs Ed Miliband and David Cameron vilifying recent Crimean referendum. Housing interview with @policytessa Tessa Coombes, former Bristol City councillor, blogger and writer for Bristol 24/7.  She discusses why there is such a shortage of affordable housing in Bristol and why Osborne won’t do anything about it.  Should be his top priority but Osborne’s budget this week does nothing to ease unaffordable rents & shortage of good value housing: Solving Bristol’s Housing disaster with former City Councillor & Bristol 24/7 columnist Tessa Coombes. Interview with Clive Menzies, from ‘Occupy London’ Economics Working Group, by our London correspondent Fran Scott. He explains their thinking on the power of the City of London and the influence of the EU and big corporations ‘hollowing out’ our democracy mentioning two films in particular Secret City and The Brussels Business. Italian ancient city state of Venice votes this week on whether Venetians want to secede from Rome. Credible sightings of missing MH370 Malaysian Airways 777 plane flying very low over the Eastern Maldives and heading South towards top secret US base at Diego Garcia.
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