The Bristol Politics Show

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 and Edward Snowden scandal exclusive with Kevin Cahill: UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA News review with Kevin Cahill, journalist and author of ‘Who owns the World’. Kevin discusses journalism, newspaper barons Richard Desmond, Lord Rothermere and Rupert Murdoch. Land ownership in Britain with 1% owning over 70% of the land and 65% have a stake in the land either through a mortgage or owning it outright so 35% are landless. Bristol’s Mayor is urged not to evict people because of the bedroom tax; unemployment is down but too many jobs are part-time, low paid or insecure – tax credits, Quantitative Easing, asset prices, and tax havens; DWPs’ cruel benefit sanctions; Romanian and Bulgarian migrants taking British jobs because of EU rules. Kevin discusses in depth how he is suing Microsoft, Google and Facebook for giving their UK customers’ private data to the US spy agency, the NSA. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon explains how GCHQ and the UK secret services lie to parliament and why their mass data trawls are so dangerous for our freedoms won over hundreds of years in the West
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Second hour: Mark Goodway from Bristol’s Matthew Tree Project Food Store charity discusses food banks and the recent massive increase in need for these – Matthew Tree now has 6 outlets in Bristol. This is put mainly down to changes in benefits, including benefit sanctions. Mark talks of the broken people he sees and the vicious circle of cutting benefits leading to stress and health problems, and then inability to work. PMQs: Nick Betts MP asks PM about Children who have no food in the house over the whole weekend. MPs yell ‘Scrooge’ as Nick Raynsford MP tells PM the Archbishops of Westminster and Canterbury criticise Coalition government’s neglect of the poor. Matthew Tree based on Biblical St. Matthew, helps people mentally as well as with food. The EU offered Britain about £22 million for food banks but the UK cabinet and Prime Minister David Cameron has turned it down. Continuing to receive EU agricultural subsidies of tens of millions of pounds for The Queen, one of the richest people in the world. Martin Summers and a round up of international stories: Ukraine moves eastwards but keeps EU ties; US AfriCom, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany, and Western sponsored ‘sectarian’ wars in Africa bringing colonial troops in America’s Conquest of Africa: The Penetration of AFRICOM on the Continent. Inmates at Guantanamo Bay being ‘bribed’ with luxuries and pornography to work for the CIA – known as ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ programmes. Frome based Freya Lawton, from Peace Intention, discusses this new initiative harnessing what people really want, to help bring peace in the world.- Peace Intention website
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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: Explanation of likely ‘Knights Templar’ arrests on Friday 13th October 1307 as origin of the Friday 13th superstitions after Bath based astrologer Steve Judd on BBC Radio Bristol’s John Darvall show, produced by Nicki Ledgard, said at 10:20 that there was ‘no reference to Friday 13th before the 1880s’. Good documentary on the Crusades made by former Monty Python comedian Terry Jones. Private Eye‘s biggest local government planning fraud story since the 1960s John Poulson affair: Fraud, theft, death and planning conspiracy in Gloucestershire’s Cotswold Water Park – news review with LibDem Cotswold District Councillor Esmund Jenkins. Banking and Britain’s unpayable debts; Iceland jails four bankers and surges ahead economically; should MPs pay be raised? The huge gap between the rich and poor in Cameron’s Britain; a clip of Mandela’s lawyer, Lord Joffe, from Today in Parliament, explaining how courageous he was; Gil Scott-Heron’s 1976 song ‘Johannesburg’ from the album ‘From South Africa to South Carolina’. Esmond Jenkins discusses planning corruption around The Cotswold Water Park in forensic detail, involving large amounts of money. Dennis Grant was jailed in 2011 for fraud but Esmond believes there are others involved. Several people have died in the process including Stroud based Public Relations consultant and journalist Declan Cunningham who, we reveal tonight, wrote the Cotswold Water Park corruption stories up for Private Eye.
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Why the scourge of corruption in the Cotswold Water Park must be confronted – Cllr Esmond Jenkins

Second hour: Gloucestershire’s Cotswold Water Park planning corruption continues. Gloucestershire Freemasons: ten names handed to police who fail to investigate. Esmond Jenkins continues with his story about The Cotswold Water Park. He discusses what he believes is Freemasonry connections in the planning scandal. Clips of Martin Short who wrote ‘Inside the Brotherhood’ about police, the City of London and Freemasonry, also what is Freemasonry? Nikki Clark, from Stop Hinckley, explains why she is against nuclear power. Nuclear waste, how much it costs and how to deal with it is covered in detail – Cumbria may be a recipient even though the local authority voted against it. Also alternative energies, Blacklisting firm Amec is a potential contractor to build Hinkley C. Economics of nuclear energy, it can never pay and Britain is at least half a decade behind countries like Germany.  Stop Hinkley campaigner Nikki explains her reasons for opposing Hinkley C nuclear deal. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon explains the inner workings of GCHQ and dire implications of the Edward Snowden leaks for British democracy on radio channel Voice of Russia. Terrible dangers of today’s unaccountable intelligence services. Frank Sinatra song ”
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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 Lawrence Hill Hibaq Jama; death this week of Nelson Mandela, apartheid in Isreal/Palestine and Sri Lanka. As a Somalian Muslim she describes her family’s work in Somalis, how she got interested in politics and the present problems in Somalia being part of a Western militarised zone around Iran. Nelson Mandela, who died this week, communism, apartheid still growing in Sri Lanka and Israel/Palestine, social apartheid throughout the world and in the West under ‘austerity’, a clip of Mandela’s first interview on ITV in 1961 with Brian Widlake. What was the real role of now Prime Minister David Cameron’s 1989 sanctions busting trip to apartheid South Africa? The secret criminal sale of South African nuclear weapons before black majority rule and the ANC came to power – nuclear arms dealing conspiracy involving Prime Minister David Cameron, Leading Tory fund-raiser Sir Kenneth Warren from Kilmersdown in Somerset, former MI6 officer Stephan Kock, MoD weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, arms dealer and former Rhodesian special forces soldier John Bredenkamp, subsidiary of Astra Fireworks, Astra Holdings and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Detailed in the four part article by Peter Eyre US and the UK lost 3 nuclear weapons each! Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. Winter and the energy bill crisis; public sold £2bn short over Royal Mail by LibDem Vince Cable and Goldman Sachs; Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s Autumn statement: student loan book sold off, KPMG, with their dubious track record, trusted again by this government. Is Osborne out of touch with family economics in the real world? Ed Ball’s response; Marina Morris’s voxpop on the Pope calling capitalism the new tyranny. [audio: 201312061700] download [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1EN5_9nIk&w=420&h=315] Second hour: investigative reports, Will Stone, from The Avon and Bristol Law Centre, discusses The Court of Appeal agreeing Work Capability Assessments discriminate against the mentally ill. Similar unfairness for the most vulnerable in society from Home Choice Bristol, the City Council’s housing bid and allocation service. Contracted out University workers and UK Student Unions being closed down, Students’ #CopsOffCampus campaign as police arrive to break up student demonstrations and occupations. Your rights as an employee. Europe’s biggest country Ukraine torn since the 2004 ‘Orange Revolution’ between East (Viktor Yanukovych) and West (Yulia Tymoshenko) Marina Morris, who is Ukrainian, reads a small piece about the problems in Ukraine – being pulled between Europe and Russia, and the power politics behind this; sad death of Winston Churchill & Desmond Morton’s private secret agent John Ainsworth Davis and his book, ‘Op JB’ about rescuing Hitler’s treasurer Martin Bormann at the end of the war, 1960s and 1970s UK television host Alan Whicker mentions Hitler’s Nazi treasurer Martin Bormann in Paraguay surviving after World War Two in a 1970 edition of Whicker’s World; Lord Carrington and Moffatt T. Burriss discuss Operation Market Garden, Lord Carrington’s refusal to advance from Nijmegen to Arnhem on the evening of Wednesday 20th September 1944, effectively ‘throwing’ Operation Market Garden, sacrificing the 1st Airborne battalion at Arnhem bridge and allowing the Germans time to arrange to get their looted valuables out of the country for Martin Bormann’s economic ‘Fourth Reich’. Former US Naval Intelligence talk show host William Cooper discusses a secret masonic ‘priesthood’, the Illuminati, operating behind the scenes manipulating world affairs for thousands of years. [audio: 201312061800] download

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