NOT The BCfm 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

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

First hour: News review with Cllr Lesley Alexander (Con); Election figures: 1st: George Ferguson 31,321 – 35.13% + 2nd round total 37,353; 2nd: Labour Marvin Rees (Lab) 25,896 – 29.05% + 2nd round total 31,259; 3rd: Geoff Gollop (Con) 8,136 – 9.13%; 4th: Jon Rogers (Lib) 6,202 – 6.96%; 5th: Daniella Radice (Grn) 5,248 – 5.89%. George Ferguson’s £25m cuts are unnecessary and effectively ‘suicidal’ as the City of London is playing out its own political agenda. Sue Mountstevens sworn in as Avon & Somerset Police Commissioner, promptly runs in to ‘Tit For Tat’ dispute with Chief Constable Colin Port who announces he will not be renewing his contract saying he ‘refuses to apply for his own job’. Election Expenses: £21,000 maximum, must be in by Thurdsay 20th December. Spat on BBC Question Time between Work and Pensions Secretary of State Iain Duncan-Smith and Independent columnist Owen Jones over disabled people facing destitution over ATOS assessments and being told to apply for work in a market of less and less jobs. Disabled rights campaigner Karen Sherlock dies and 11,000 Disabled people facing homelessness. Black Triangle campaign for disabled people fighting back against the DWP ATOS assessments. Housing benefit bill is out of control so we have to build homes and create real, well paid jobs or we are going back to Victorian and Medieval times of mass injustice and poverty. Tata cutting 900 steel jobs across South Wales and the UK. Fall in UK steel demand has been steeper than in any other European country. Banks are bankrupt but being kept afloat by public money. UBS ‘Rogue Trader’ Kweku Adoboli jailed for 7 years while his bosses walk free. City of London is the ‘heart of darkness’ for the financial crisis globally. Who runs Britain, the banks or the government? Free market solution: not a penny for bankrupt institutions! Rolinda Sharples painting: The Stoppage of the Bank. Criminal gang in Murdoch newsrooms & Downing Street? Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face more charges, this time over bribery with the implication of a masonic crime ring in Scotland Yard and government institutions. The Queen comes to Bristol and gets a lacklustre reception, Chrstina Robina reports for BCfm from outside the Old Vic on King Street.
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Second hour: No sailors witnessed the ‘sea burial’ of Osama Bin Laden from the USS Carl Vinson on 1st May 2011, just a handful of senior Admirals and Generals. Was the ‘killing of Bin Laden’ last year just staged for the Western public and did Bin Laden really die in Afghanistan way back in 2001? Elite Intrigues and Military Purges: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid! Fallout in US over the murder of US Libyan ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi: Petraeus-Benghazi-Gate, the new Watergate moment that may shatter Obama’s presidency. Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan & whistleblower Craig Murray invited onto the BBC 32 times and then has appearances cancelled including on BBC1 Question Time. Mysterious forces behind censorship of whistleblowers like Craig by the BBC despite the fact that he is, for example, Foreign Office expert on Maritime Law. Bristol University students Jamie Melrose & Tim Saunders criticise their vice-chancellor Eric Thomas who is openly embracing privatisation of Bristol university. Bristol university and students already being sponsored by private military firm BAe Systems and bailed out Spanish bank Santander. This week’s under-reported student demo of about 6,000 students in London; Author and political/media analyst professor Anthony J. Hall from University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism.
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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: Bristol rejects ‘party politics’ to choose an ‘independent’ former LibDem councillor as mayor. Merchant Venturer & architect George Ferguson’s mayoral election victory discussed & week’s news reviewed with Stephen Williams, LibDem MP for Bristol West. Was it a fair fight or did the former LibDem councillor become mayor by combining the mystical powers of money and Public Relations? Is his party ‘Bristol First’ primarily about a man, a city, or a brand? How much did the backing of local paper The Post help, who donated how much & what did the millionaire spend on his campaign? Devastating failure by Labour candidate Marvin Rees, a defeat that will ring serious alarm bells with the London Labour party leadership who would normally be expected to win a mid-term contest in a city the party used to control. Independent candidates victorious in both Police and Crime Commissioner and mayor election so are political parties now ‘toxic brands’ in Bristol? Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls in Bristol last Monday but he is not prepared to stand up to the City either. Both Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls attend the same secret Bilderberg conferences, founded by a former SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Details were leaked of a secret Bilderberg Group Steering Committee meeting this week in Rome. Did Bilderberg sneaks Osborne and Balls attend? Why are European countries spending precious money propping up bankrupt banks and not doing what businesses and the public want, spending  it into the real economy?  Lower paid half of workers are losing 15% of their disposable income which is leading to situations of zero disposable income. Quote from Dickens’ David Copperfield. Mr Mickawber was modelled on Dickens’ father who did time in a London debtors’ prison: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result: happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result: misery.” Tax avoidance by Starbucks, Amazon, Google & Boots examined by Margaret Hodge and the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. Starbucks’ Director of Finance Troy Alstead denies any UK tax avoidance saying Starbucks really make no profit in the UK. Gas prices being fixed by private gas suppliers who bamboozle the public with ‘confusion marketing and are effectively one company as they operate their cartel. On BBC Children on need night a report by Shelter on homelessness and poverty say 75,000 children will be homeless this Christmas; Governor of the Bank of England King Mervyn (King) and his zig-zag proclamations, wjhat he really means is he doesn’t know what is going on; and West Somerset Council is going bankrupt, government minister, possibly Eric Pickles, visiting next week.  
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Second hour: David Powell from Friends of the Earth on ‘Energygate’ and this week’s revelations about Gas price fixing by the privatised UK energy cartels. New film by head of Journalism at the University of the West of England (UWE) Lee Salter called ‘Secret City’ about the unaccountable power of the ‘State within a State’, the City of London. Will the Queen close her tax havens and rein in The City of London when she visits Bristol next Thursday? Writer Dan Glazebrook explains the financial threat Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya represented to the West’s money system, the IMF, World Bank all threatened by Gaddafi’s African Dinar and African Monetary Fund. The African Dinar was backed with gold … but the US dollar is backed with F-16s (fighter jets). Bashar Al Assad’s Syria under attack right now making the Palestinians much more vulnerable to this week’s attack by Israel. Background to Israeli assassination of the Palestinians’ army chief of staff Ahmed Jabari during negotiated ‘ceasefire’ & resulting clashes in Gaza. Former Conservative MEP for the South West and author of ‘ Gladio, NATO’s Dagger At The Heart Of Europe, The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis‘ Richard Cottrell asks why NATO is trying to take over the world and how Russia and China are likely to react to globalist expansion as anaccountable, totalitarian NATO attempts to build a fascist ‘One World Government’. 
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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris
After six: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world

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

First hour: Daphne Havercroft from South West Whistleblowers’ Health Action Group SWWHAG: Bristol Childrens’ Hospital, Care Quality Commission (CQC) intervene over low staffing levels on Ward 32 and patient deaths. Private healthcare operators Circle rewarded for failure at Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridge. London based Tamil Ram Selva brings us up to date with human rights struggles in former British Indian Ocean colonies: mainly Sri-Lanka and India. Channel 4 documentaries Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields. Hunger strike enters its second week on the island of Nauru, near Australia, as asylum seekers from Iran, Afghanistan & Sri-Lanka protest against right-wing Australian government re-opening remote refugee camps & using asylum-seekers as political pawns. Website recommended www.tamilsolidarity.org Merkel in London, Chinese political congress & US elections. Hugh Trevor-Roper’s myth: Peter Levenda’s book ‘Ratline, Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler’. Did Hitler really die in 1945 or did he survive until the 1970s in Indonesia? Why would anyone question the story behind the death of Adolf Hitler? Evidence for Martin Boorman covert military and banking/corporate Fourth Reich thriving after World War Two.
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Second hour: Bristol General Hospital: Bristol Central Planning Committee decide developers, City & Country, need build no affordable or social housing, only luxury flats. Invited: Mandy Soames, Public Relations Officer for City & Country developers; Bristol City Council LibDem Central Planning Committee councillors: Christian Martin, Alf Havvock, Alex Woodman (chair); LibDem Council leader Simon Cook, none of which were available; Labour housing spokesperson Cllr. Ron Stone. www.thegeneralbristol.co.uk Jimmy Savile BBC & police scandal rolls on with revelations about how close Savile was to Prince Charles, employed to invite television executives to royal events and helped introduce Charles to his Private Secretary Sir Christopher Airy in 1990. Old HTV documentary about North Wales child sexual abuse & murder. Channel 4 News discover Freemasons religious cult involved in Bryn Estyn sexual abuse scandal. Masonic MP for Filton & Bradley Stoke Jack Lopresti promises to supply this show with Bristol Provincial Yearbook which names Bristol’s freemasons but Jack is overruled by Bristol Grand Master Alan Vaughan and Provincial Grand Secretary Steve Rawlings. Ron Stone tels off deep-rooted masonic corruption where farmers had their estates stolen with no action by masonic police, disposessing smallholders and market-gardeners, with criminal collusion by banks. Culture of masonic criminality and impunity in Somerset. Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge questions Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Chief Executive Lin Homer over non payment of tax by multinational corporations Starbucks, Google, Amazon, Asda,  Facebook, Intel, Kraft (who lied, closing Cadbury’s in Keynsham) & Coca Cola, who seem able pick and choose which country they wish to pay tax in.
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