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: Bristol City Slackers, councillors who refuse to come on the radio and/or answer emails. News review with Ron Stone acting Labour group leader and councillor for St. George West. Decision to join George Ferguson’s cabinet was taken by local Labour party but reviewed by regional National Executive and overturned. Budget to be announced on Monday at 10pm but it is really a Liberal Democrat budget drawn up by Simon Cook, the LibDem leader in the run-up to November 2012’s mayoral elections. A minimum £3m million in cuts to be announced which is nearly 10%. President Obama signed ‘fiscal cliff’ package but only for next 2 months, Hargeaves Lansdown say, a big box has been ticked. Bristol City Council spending by 2020, according to Municipal Journal, budget will be cut by 40%. 5 billion by 2020. Tax claw back agreement with Swiss banks signed on 1st January 2013 by Chancellor George Osborne. HMRC will get the money from tax evaders, criminals, over 6 years. See case of Rudolf Elmer who supplied names of tax evading criminals to Wikileaks and was arrested and tried for hos trouble – wrote a book called Tax Heavens explaining the Swiss are colluding with criminals. In this case the individuals will be anonymous. Largest tax evasion in history, George Osborne.  Danny Boyle & Ken Livingstone turned down Knighthoods, but FSA head in run up and during 2008 financial crisis Hector Sands, criticised by Tory and Labour MPs as discrediting the honours system. Hector Sands prosecuted and sacked a whistleblower when a director of UBS. Davos meeting  of World Economic Forum which is on from 23-27th January 2013 which we will be following. Government propose use of smartcards in gyms to check overweight benefit claimants are exercising or they may withdraw benefits.  Coalition government launch attack on benefit system. New governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, told to steer away from politics as he fraternises with Liberal party people in Canada, being tipped as Prime Minister of Canada before taking Bank of England job. But Carney is a secret Bilderberg meeting participant who looks to have been selected in Rome at a secret Bilderberg Steering group meeting just under 2 weeks before the announcement Carney would be Bank of England governor. Carney is also a former employee of Goldman Sachs who caused the financial crisis. How independent is the Bank of England and is it a good thing, if so why? David Cameron gives New Years Eve speech in London saying UK is “On the night track” but debt to GDP has gone up and economy is shrinking  jobs are mostly -part time jobs, not enough demand for goods & services. The public have lost £23bn so far bailing out the banks that we will never get back. Bailout not included in any of these figures. Ron Stine wants to build 4000 council homes in Bristol. Ethical pension funds to pay because 14,000 are on the Bristol waiting list for housing. But not on greenbelt, an open invitation for ethical investment which was offered to mayor George Ferguson today & Bristol director of housing. James Durie and Bristol’s Local Enterprise Partnership will have to approve land deals as they are a private company set to manage all council property as part of Nick Clegg’s Bristol City Deal. Lloyds TSB customer disaster on New Years Eve cash points broke, not for 40 years but happening regularly now. Tax payer lost £23 billion on bailing banks. BBC and Freeview transmitter serving 80,000 people is sabotaged in Bath on Thursday morning?
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Second hour: Investigative reports. This week: Public transport & the Concorde crash latest. Rail fare increases and Bristol’s Bus Rapid Transit scheme hits the rocks. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? The last but most prestigious Bristol built & designed aircraft. Daylight robbery First Great Western invited to explain fare rises but did not return, Steve Satan from Rail Future. Rail fares have gone up 1% above inflation 10 years in a row now. Government is now subsidising railways more than ever and Network Rail has a £200m loan to service. Rail fuel duty has gone up too and McNulty report is totally de-regulating the rail fares advocating doubling fares in peak times. Not sustainable for commuters, Department for transport invented the numbers. There is an overall lack of direction – profiteering off the rail infrastructure and our need to get around. No plan, free market! We should abolish rail duty HS2 route is another flawed design, Chilterns a bad place to run it. John Prescott promised to have an integrated transport policy. Bolivia nationalises two big Spanish owned electricity companies. Michael Shrimpton QC has written a book called SpyHunter but his flat was raided by Thames Valley police and he’s having trouble publishing it in the UK so he gives us a sneak preview. On the Falkland conflict he believes Argentina is dominated by Germans and former Nazis and Nazi sympathisers. Description of Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, Sir  Edward Bridges, Lord Halifax pro German. Bismark sunk HMS Hood in 1941. Christopher Storey was murdered by the German DVD, poisoned in fact. After the July 2000 Air France Concorde crash in Paris that killed 113 people a court decision has overturned corporate manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines. So what really happened and who was to blame? Why did the accident lead to the permanent grounding of Concorde? Concorde crash, Continental Airlines DC-10 debris theory dismissed in November 2012. Original story was a pack of lies, Michael Shrimpton QC. Concorde Paris crash in 2000 killed 113 people and Concorde was taken out of service in 2003. Break even load on Concorde was 30% and it was running at 50% load so still profitable. Spare parts were moved down to Toulouse so British Airways could no longer service their planes. Bristol company BAC made the plane not the French.
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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

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

First hour: news review with the longest serving member of the Conservative party in Britain, retired army officer, Bristol born, Harry Beckhough, who at 98, has been a member continuously for 85 years. Harry was a code breaker in World War Two, ran and started various clothing businesses and started a prep school which is still going strong in the Vale of York.  He is the author of several books including an autobiography Thinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and books about Germany’s Fourth Reich as he believes the Nazis continued their evil work after the end of the second world war, abandoning the swastika in public and laundering the money they looted from Europe to create a secret financial and industrial empire. No longer using panzer tanks but finance capital to ‘buy up’ their enemies and take them over that way instead. He is a staunch anti EU campaigner as he believes an undemocratic EU promotes this Nazi power today. The weeks news stories are reviewed by Harry & Martin Summers: LibDem leader Nick Clegg’s speech, five years into his job as LibDem leader, but Clegg seems to be a waffling salesman, out of touch with reality; Wikileaks is arguably the most courageous publisher in the Western world today and we hear founder Julian Assange who gave a ‘Christmas Message’ from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London this week expressing contempt for lying UK mainstream media which is now lying to the public saying it has been captured by enemies of ordinary people. The censored film ‘Unlawful Killing’, Victor Lewis-Smith and Keith Allen’s 2011 documentary about what is officially the murder of Princess Diana since the inquest jury returned the unlawful killing verdict, was available to watch in the UK online for the first time this week – now taken down it got around 2.2 million downloads, nevertheless this documentary is still banned here in the UK, it blames several riders of high powered motorcycles and the driver of a white Fiat Uno for the killing, not the Paparazzi as the British press have intimated; the final Prime Minister’s Questions before the Christmas holiday: David Crausby MP, asking why the City Bankers have not been arrested yet, reminding the house of the Great Train Robbers who were jailed for decdes but stole far less money, seeing how much values and morals have changed since then; Prime Minister David Cameron PMQ confrontation with Labour leader Ed Miliband who talks about the rise in the use of Food Banks, including for the working poor; plus one MP, Ian Lavery, waves a suicide note from a now dead disabled person who had their social security money cut but the Prime Minister denies there have been any cuts to benefits for disabled people in Britain that they are indeed getting more money now.
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Second hour: Interview with John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington.  He is a Labour party leadership contender and explains how he would like to lead a more radical Labour policy against coalition austerity and cuts. He is concerned that Labour may be loosing it’s core voters, who may simply not be voting, by compromising on the cuts. British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, breaking constitutional tradition to inculcate herself into the highest political circles and decision making body in the land, even attending cabinet this week for the first time in 230 years since George III did so in 1781. Britain is being run by a tiny cult-like group of Eton Bullingdon Club members who believe they have been born to rule. Not unlike the queen, which makes one wonder if they really believe in democracy at all. The United States navy has moved two Aircraft Carriers from the Eastern to the Western Mediterranean which suggests they may be cooling off on intentions to attack President Assad of Syria. Martin and Harry discuss possible reasons for this enigmatic move and conclude that a deal may have been done with the Russians behind the scenes, particularly after the arrival of Russian Iskander missiles in Syria which can destroy Patriot missile launchers and Aircraft Carriers. Discussion with Harry Beckhough about the European Union and the recent rise in military power of the German armed forces which, as of this year, are authorised to operate outside Germany for the first time since World War 2.  Tony Cripps, late of Occupy Bristol, has moved with scores of others into All Hallows Hall in Easton which is being turned into a community centre less controlled than the one run by the council. Tonight’s ‘Doomsday Machine’ gig, marking the ‘Mayan prophecy’ night of 21st December 2012 is likely to be a success. Moheen Yaseen is the director of Islamic think tank ‘Global Vision 2000’ and he examines what his group believes are the spiritual roots of the financial crisis, describing the western banking cartel as ‘Draculas’.
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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

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

First hour: News review with Gus Hoyt, Green councillor for Ashley ward and member of Bristol City Council Cabinet along with Simon Cooke (Lib), Geoff Gollop (Con) and mayor, George Ferguson. Gus Hoyt’s new role in the Cabinet, spending our money but the budget is already decided. Martin Summers explains why Labour decided not to join the Cabinet. Discussion about the Preview Bar in Fairfax Street squat in Bristol City centre that got illegally evicted by police at midnight last night shortly after starting and one of the new occupiers explains what they were planning, live music, political discussion workshops & a donations only cafe, and why? Clip of Geraldine widow of Republican Pat Finucane and discussion of this story of the conspiracy to murder republican lawyer Pat Finucane by the  British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police force, collusion in N. Ireland. Story about the present housing crisis and discussion. 2 million people on housing waiting lists & 75,000 children homeless this Christmas in the UK. The Greater Bristol Bus Network being nominated in the UK Bus Awards. First Group can’t be trusted, just look at the West coast main line franchise fisaco, running a privatised bus racket. West Somerset Council going bankrupt even though it is one of the richest counties in the country. Clip of David Cameron’s gaff ar Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in House of Commons: “We are raising more money for the rich.”  The SNP’s Western Isles MP Angus Brendan MacNeil gets shouted down by Tory MPs, as he tries to make the case against austerity by flagging up Iceland. Iceland’s successful economy driven by domestic demand & delivering growth of 2.5% after arresting and prosecuting bankers. Story of HSBC being fined for taking money from drug trafficking now being fined £1.2bn and Lord Green, former HSBC chairman, is still in the cabinet . Labour MP Dennis Skinner in House of Commons on the ‘snoopers’ charter’ Communications and Data bill. Clip of Williamson from the House of Commons talking about the Green Investment Bank.
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Second hour: Interview with Kevin Philips, Chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation. He talks about police cuts and how they are considering striking, a ballot taking place early in 2013. General agreement that the government needs to continue to negotiate with the police federation if it values law and order. Discussion on the role of the new Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens. Lee Salter, Senior Journalism Lecturer at the University of West of England, (UWE) film he has just made about the City of London called Secret City.  website – www.secretcity-thefilm.com. Former ambassador to Uzbekistan and head of maritime law at the Craig Murray talking about ‘real politik’ how deals are made in the Middle East.  Syria arms race latest: Discussion of international news stories with Martin summers.
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