news review with Labour Councillor for St George West Peter Hammond. Discussion with Peter on why he had to stand down as Labour leader, how Labour have managed to influence the Bristol City Councils annual budget e.g. getting extra money for Speedwell Pool and Community Transport. Latest on the criminal bankers including clip from Russia Todays The Keiser Report about a class action in the US brought against Libor fraud banks â case dismissed by US judge; HBOS malfesance story today too with mild slapped wrists for multi-billion pound fraudsters; Can work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith really live on £53 a week including bills? The Queen gets a £5 million pay rise as the Civil List is replaced by the Sovereign Grant â is Queen Elizabeth the real Vile Product Of Welfare UK as quoted from this weeks Daily Mail Headline? Owen Jones and Ruth Porter on Channel 4 news discuss this Philpott welfare debate â DFS in Bristol get 1200 applicants for 9 jobs, Costa Coffee in Nottingham get 1700 applications for 8 jobs, Joseph Roundtree Foundation report that the UK has 6.5 million people looking for full time work that does not exist â Iceland has increased welfare benefits because that helps the economy to grow in a crisis; staggering leaks of confidential documents reveal secrets of the rich tax evaders who hide cash offshore (mainly from the British Virgin Islands) âestimated at £21 trillion; Trident - costs £100 billion for about 25 years - clip of Bruce Kent, veteran CND campaigner on being spied on by Cathy Massiter, discussion about Peter Hammond being blacklisted by the Economic League and Bruce Kent and CND being spied on; documentary all about this from the 1980s as part of Channel 4s 20/20 Vision Series with Hugo Young; Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)s £10.5 million mis-selling (fraud) Ofgem fine; wheels coming off the wagon as North Somerset Council stop enforcing parking offences - a symptom of âprivate affluence and public squalorâ; Unite the Union air the prospect of a 2013 general strike.
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