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 Bristol Respect party mayoral candidate Paulette North. What does the Respect party stand for? Respect; Equality; Socialism; Peace; Environment; Community & Trade-unionism. Will the left wing vote be split in November’s election for mayor? This is not a Euro crisis but a crisis of private banking. The banks are already bust and there will inevitably be a colossal financial meltdown at some point in the future. Latest Eurozone crisis. The free market solution to the financial crisis is a crash. Surely you can’t just make up money out of nowhere and give it to the banks? Yes the Bank of England can! Will a panic one morning lead to a total financial meltdown? Euro crisis is a game of chicken between the Greeks and the Germans. Lessons we must learn from the Icelandic bank nationalisation NASDAQ flotation of Facebook today. Respect want a new local income tax. Cameronite 301 group conduct takeover of Tories’ back-bench 1922 committee which can force a leadership election. Should there be any limits to immigration? Lithuanian man jailed for 18 months after failing to pay his £250 London to Bristol cab fare & pulling a knife, after just arriving in UK. Paulette wants a no borders policy because she believes our immigration laws are racist. So if you think there is too much immigration does that make you a racist? Is immigration causing our housing crisis or ? Why no UK staff at Pret-A-Manger? Is open borders policy part of an effort to abolish the state? Should we keep British Jobs for British Workers? Are British workers lazy? Royal College of Nursing staff ask questions of the NHS privatising Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at their annual conference. Now we have fixed term parliaments Vernon Bogdanor asks: if LibDems jump ship might the queen then ask Ed Miliband to form a government? First charges in the phone hacking scandal. Rebekah Brooks, her husband Charlie and five others charged with several counts of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of justice by Alison Levitt QC at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Council order Withywood residents to return community garden to wasteland.
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Second hour: Reconnaissance around global and intelligence news stories: Dictators’ dinner and liars’ lunch today hosted by the Queen & Prince Charles at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Do these figureheads have any real power? G8 summit at Camp David followed by NATO summit in Chicago. Remembering the British military coup attempt against Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1975 as recorded in ‘The Pencourt Files’ by Barrie Penrose & Roger Courtiour and BBC docudrama The Plot Against Harold Wilson (2006). The Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece which goes back to Medieval times and takes its name from the Greeks’ legendary Golden Fleece from the ram-god Krios’ which was on the island of Colchis which was a charm for prosperity in Homer’s stories of Jason and the Argonauts. Russians threaten to destroy NATO’s missile defence shield in Poland and Romania. NATO ramps up tension against the Chinese in the Spratly islands in the South China sea but who stands to gain from increasing tension? Are our arms firms and their foreign dealings encouraging terrorism here in Britain? Privatising AbbeyWood MoD procurement with arms manufacturers BAe Systems in the running. The Olympic Torch trail from Greece was started in 1936 by the Nazis for the Berlin Olympics. Queen of Disco Donna Summer believed her lung cancer was caused by inhaling New York’s 9/11 dust. Sex, spies and seven suspicious deaths: The murky waters of the intelligence world – coincidence or conspiracy? Phil Gibbons reports from modern artist Sam Bompas’ jelly event at the SS Great Britain. Cliff Hanley from Bristol’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign was beaten up and disabled in Bristol city centre by a  far right drunk on Good Friday 2011. Although the attacker has allegedly been identified by six eyewitnesses, the police will not charge the man. How to fight a war without hurting anyone. Bristol’s Lincombe Barn wargaming society hold their annual table-top sale between 10am & 1pm on Sunday. Use of the new US magazine Modern War as propaganda, perpetuating myths & covering for US black ops such as Iran starting a war in the Middle East. Modern wars increasingly being fought not by Generals but by colossal NATO computers such as the one at the Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) housed deep underground near Copenacre in the old stone mines between Bath and Chippenham.
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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: Weekly news review with Southmead Councillor Jenny Smith (Lab). The Jack Lopresti report: The Bristol Freemasons’ Provincial Yearbook Jack promised us 4 weeks ago has still not arrived. Bristol Freemasons’ Hall Summer Craft Fayre and open day takes place on Saturday 16th June. Jenny Smith has Labour’s opposition Health and Social Care portfolio for Bristol. Possible closure of Bristol City Council’s Elderly Peoples’ Homes. Is privatised ‘Homecare’ a suitable alternative to care homes for elderly people? Day centres are also under threat: for elderly; the disabled and mentally ill. Fascist Bristol? Some worrying facts are emerging about anti-democratic powers of Bristol’s new mayor who can pass the budget on a vote of only 1/3 of the councillors and choose cabinet members from their own party even if it is a minority party. This is not democracy and far less representative than the London mayor. Member of the former Slave Trade financiers, The Society of Merchant Venturers, George Ferguson, used to be a Liberal Democrat Councillor so how can he be an Independent mayoral candidate? On Britain’s fraught economy isn’t it better to default on unpayable debts or else to nationalise the banking system rather than dither? But these solutions seem to be taboo in the mainstream media. Government guaranteeing a certain amount of money for each individual bank account but rich people will lose everything over that amount. Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and other public sector unions on strike over pensions yesteday as a new public sector tax appears on their payslips as a deduction from their wages for the Treasury. We hear from Roger Thomas from PCS. Some public sector unions have withdrawn support from the Labour party but leader Ed Miliband is still trying to please a few ‘swing voters’, just like the two other main parties. People are coming to Bristol who cannot afford to live in London. Some individuals, particularly youngsters are becoming ‘Non-People’ due to being excluded from housing. Michael Meacher MP’s blog post points out that the 1000 richest in Sunday Times UK Rich List have increased their wealth by £155bn over the last 3 years. They could pay off the entire UK deficit tomorrow with £30bn to spare. Many at the poorest end of society in Southmead are feeling they can’t cope and small local shops are also being forced to close. First Bus withdrawing local bus services doesn’t help. In this year’s Westminster budget Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer and Bullingdon Club ‘Oik’ George Osborne gave Britain’s 40,000 millionaires £14,000 per week, that’s £3bn in tax dished out for lowering the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p.  Bristol’s 8.4% council house rent increase is way over inflation and impossible for many to pay. Simon from Somerset calls in to BBC Radio 5 live on Monday morning and explains some home truths about the financial situation, saying the government doesn’t really govern the country, it is governed by the City Of London and private bankers instead who decide what the government can and cannot afford. Government and people who are in debt are their slaves. Private bankers govern the world and the thing they are most afraid of is that our elected representatives should print their own money, they want to keep their private oligopoly on money. The US Greenback dollar notes under president Abraham Lincoln was government issued money and Lincoln won the American Civil war on the back of it. We in Britain could do the same today. What’s the point in voting if the private banks are pulling the strings? Information tribunal tells government to publish the NHS Risk Register but Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and the Cabinet veto the decision and refuse to publish it. Andy Coulson former editor & criminal phone hacking mastermind at the News of the World appears at the Leveson enquiry. After losing his job at the News of the World over phone hacking he became Director of Communications for Prime Minister David Cameron at No. 10 Downing Street. But Cameron did not ask him anything about why he left the News of the World if you can believe that! Coulson was SSC vetted by a private company not DV vetted as required, but nevertheless he had access to Top Secret files which is a serious breach of national security before he resigned in January 2011. Europe Day on Wednesday: UKIP leader Nigel Farrage predicts civil unrest and possibly even revolution in Europe and a rejection of the centralised EU by the European people, he owes no allegiance to the EU flag. New survey indicates 71% of UK public believe it’s time to renationalise the water industry and we on the programme agree that it’s a good place to start.
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Second hour: Latest book on the death of Princess Diana “Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana? by John Morgan” explains something called the Way Ahead Group (WAG) which met on on Wednesday 23rd July 1997 chaired by The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, may have ordered the assassination of Diana because William and Harry were about to go on an extended Holiday with Muslim Dodi Al Fayed. US Army running ‘Islam is the Enemy’ ‘Holy War’ course for their senior officers which includes nuclear attacks on Mecca and other Islamic holy cities. Enhanced Underpants bomb reappears with further entrapment of patsies by the FBI. But lawyer Kurt Haskell saw original underpants ‘bomber’ being ushered onto the plane without a passport. The real terrorists are inside the power structure. Russian armed forces are preparing for a potential world war, including PsyOps, this Summer. Alison Caldwell from Australian broadcaster ABC interviews David Nevin, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyer, who says he cannot have a conversation with his client. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed allegedly ‘confessed’ to carrying out the 9/11 attacks after being waterboarded 183 times. Two massive bombs target Syrian government security police targets but were they planted by private military companies such as Blackwater, now renamed as “XE Services”. The Bilderberg Must Die For The World To Live, NATO zone royalty, bankers, media, biggest corporations and government finance people’s secret meeting takes place in three weeks in Virginia, USA next door to the National Reconnaisance Office (NRA) and down the road from the CIA. Occupy Bilderberg protest movement has already begun. Former US Secretary of State under Republican President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger has a track record as one of the world’s worst ever war criminals and he is a key organiser of the Bilderberg Conferences.
Universal Credits, the new Bedroom Tax and the Benefit Cap. Changes to the Housing Benefit system with Will Stone from Avon & Bristol Law Centre. Benefit cap of £500 for couples and £350 for single people. Bristol City Council calculate that 500 families in the poorest parts of Bristol will be losing nearly £100 a week and may have to move into cheaper accommodation, be evicted or be forced to take a low-paid job. Employment and Support Allowance being re-assessed by private companies – appeals sytem in crisis but nearly 50% of appeals are being sucessful. Is this all a symptom of the de-industrialisation of Britain. Anna Bennet from solicitors Devonshires explains that bad debt levels for landlords are likely to double when the new Universal Credit comes in. Demonstration projects being run around the country to see if vulnerable people really can manage their finances effectively. 6,500 private tenants in Bristol face cuts of £15-25 a week in their housing benefit forcing many to be made homeless. ‘Poverty Hearing’ next Friday at 7:30pm by ‘Bristol Poverty Action’ at Bristol Council House next Friday. Contact your local advice centre or Avon & Bristol Law Centre at the bottom of Stokes Croft www.ablc.org.uk 0117 924 8662.
Travellers’ rights with Sean from Montpelier who does not like to live in a house. Sean was living in a coach in the 1980s which gave him a much greater sense of freedom. The world opened up for him and he could wake up in the morning and move on whenever he felt like it. They travelled in groups of  6-12 vehicles or in 2’s & 3’s or whatever was convenient. 1980s crackdown on the gypsy or traveller lifestyle. New Age Travellers, Hippy Travellers or just plain Travellers? Convoys of 50-100 vehicles travelling at the same time. Sean changed a one ton coach engine in a field. Conservative Thatcher government of the 1980s were afraid of the young people embracing a cuture of freedom, not being tied to a job or tied to an address as well as the entire free festival scene the Tories saw as a threat. All ended with Wiltshire police attacking travellers and destroying many of their vehicle homes at the Battle of the Beanfield on Saturday 1st June 1985.
Mormon Bishop Webb of Whitchurch, Bristol explains Mormonism in the run-up to the US presidential election and prospective Mormon Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Sceptical view of Mormonism by Peter Levenda in his book Sinister Forces.
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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: Review of today’s mayoral referendum result. The ‘Yes’ campaign won a majority in Bristol on about 5000 votes which is a 6.7% majority on a 25% turnout, but concerns are being raised by elected member’s question over why the ballot boxes were kept overnight in a highly politicised private business premises, Bristol City Football Club at Ashton Gate, owned by tax exile and long time critic of Bristol City Council Stephen Lansdown, giving him and his colleagues to possibility of interfering in the electoral process overnight. Whitehall and Westminster stranglehold over our Bristol politics. Mayor will be able to appoint well paid ‘advisers’. Former slave traders ‘The Merchant Venturers’, local paper ‘The Post’ and the business community of Bristol appear to annoint architect and Merchant Venturer, George Ferguson, as their favoured candidate for mayor in November 2012. Shambles extraordinaire as we ask sould there have been a referendum at all when we still do not know what the mayor’s powers will be? We’re also joined by Craig Clarke who intends to stand for mayor in November 2012. We look at the changing career trajectories of Members of Parliament who are looking more like Public Relations agents for The City of London than public servants. Proposal of Cllr. Tim Kent to ‘get tough’ with First Bus and take over Bristol’s Buses? Perhaps. Argentina and Bolivia begin to privatise foreign owned energy companies. Thames Water have closed 25 reservoirs causing bizarre ‘water shortages’ during a spell of 180 flood warnings in Southern England. Could water bill payers and Thames Water be the victims of yet another EU directive?
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Second hour: Keith Evans from Bristol and District Anti-Cuts Alliance (BADACA) on tomorrow’s March For The NHS which is taking place from 11am at College Green. Gerald Celente, editor of the New York Trends Journal site explains how the US is becoming a fascist country on the RT show The Keiser Report.
Niall Warry from the BBC Institutional Bias blog discusses what happened when he refused to pay his licence fee and how more and more BBC Refusniks are doing this sucessfully. We look at the pro-Nazi fascist opinions of the first BBC Director General Lord Reith and how he kept Hitler’s critic Sir Winston Churchill off the air. Two programmes that caused controversy in the 1980s were Panorama’s ‘Maggie’s Militant Tendency’ showing some Tory MP’s in far right meetings. Also Duncan Campbell’s Secret Society series in 1987. We discuss the subsequent sacking of BBC Director General Alasdair Milne in January 1987 and explain that Victor Rothschild, of ‘Spycatcher’ fame, was behind that decision. More recently we discuss BBC World’s on air apology after their embarassing transmission of several documentaries which were in fact paid for propaganda by the Maylaysian government. BBC2 Newsnight’s latest political editor Allegra Stratton has a deal with publishers Simon & Schuster for a book eulogising the Miliband brothers including what Ed Miliband as Prime Minister would mean for Britain. Also the reasons for the departure of Newsnight’s former political editor Michael Crick after the BBC insisted on deleting & wiping many hours of his interviews with the heavyweights of British political life. It’s as if the BBC did not want us, or future generations, to be able to keep track of the opinions and statements of our politicians. Certainly smacks of extreme control-freakery by Newsnight and BBC Current Affairs managers who we never see on-screen.
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