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 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

Fri27Sep13 – 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 Ron Stone, Labour Councillor for St. George West. Mayor George Ferguson jets off around the world but is he really getting investment for Bristol? Is Matt Payne from KPMG still ‘helping George with the City budget’ and did the City get real ‘Value For Money’ when they bought KPMG’s Bristol HQ? Or is Matt Payne simply a corporate spy inside City Hall with his KPMG finger in the till? Labour leader Ed Miliband pledges 20 month energy price freeze if elected – energy cartels discussed; Vox Pop by Marina Morris on  the bedroom tax, Bristolians are passionate that it is a cruel and immoral tax- members of Bristol’s Bedroom Tax Working Party who recommended that evictions should begin from Council Homes: Gus Hoyt (Grn), Tess Green (Grn), Colin Smith (Lab), Peter Main (LibDem), Gary Hopkins (LibDem), Claire Hiscott (Con) named; George Ferguson says Council should evict “people judged to have too many bedrooms” Bechtel: Exclusive: Conflict row as MoD top brass join contractors: Ex-mandarin now in charge of US giant’s bid to manage his former department. Private sector ‘will hold MoD to ransom’: PCS union warns MPs over proposal to outsource defence procurement. Domestic Extremism or Intelligence Manipulation? Criminal damage and sabotage by apparently Bristol based UK Informal Anarchist Federation (IAF) setting £16m police firing range on fire – other supposed anarchist attacks – are some of these false flag? Martin speaks to Bristol anarchists at the Hydra bookshop. Destruction of railway signalling by IAF potentially endangers innocent members of the public, an attack on public safety. Much of Italy’s far left in 1970s and 1980s was manipulated by NATO and the state. Book: Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy by Philip Willan. ‘We want to start a civil war’. Are IAF line managers actually intelligence officers? 70% of the public opposed to the privatisation of the Royal Mail.
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Second hour: Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers. Nairobi Westgate terror attack and is the ‘White Widow’ a ‘Red Herring’?; Syria and Chapter 7 at the United Nations Security Council. British MoD says more use of contractors and drones will make it easier to ‘sell’ wars to the public. 9/11 The New Evidence author & www.Reinvestigate911.org Ian Henshall on latest revelations about the 2001 9/11 attacks; revelation an anti-hijack exercise was running on 9/11. Fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal and the Interview with Sarah Goodley and the child abuse support network based near Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire. www.Birth4Life.co.uk – or ravensarahgoodley@btinternet.com email Sarah here. Arbeit Macht Frei, that’s Nazi language for Work Makes You Free – now where have we heard that before? So say the Tory party as they prepare to force the jobless to work for nothing. More this week on the dirty deals done with the Nazis at the end of World War Two. Specifically Churchill’s personal assistant – MI6 liaison and all round man of Mystery Desmond Morton.Former chief historian at the Foreign Office Gill Bennett, author of ‘Desmond Morton, Churchill’s Man of Mystery’ discusses Morton’s job on the Tripartite Nazi Gold Commission after World War Two. Was he there to cover up his own operation with Martin Bormann to steal the Nazis looted wealth of WW2? 1991 clip of former Labour leader John Smith in the House of Commons on Tory claims that Labour were ‘exaggerating’ when accusing the them of planning to put up VAT.
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Link to new page for Friday Drivetime – BCfm Politics Show with Tony Gosling http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/politics-show

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