Program Information

Picking apart Bristol Council's £500m 2014 budget

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Subtitle:

flooding on the Somerset levels; dreadful response to flooding by overpaid Chair of the Environment Agency, Chris Smith

Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Gary Hopkins

Contributor:

Bristol Broadband Co-operative Contact Contributor

Date Published:

Jan. 31, 2014, 3:31 p.m.

Summary: http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/35144/

Credits: News review with Gary Hopkins, Lib Dem councillor for Knowle, and chair of Resources Scrutiny Committee. The council budget â Â£500m a year, and cuts â about Â£25m a year over the next three years; First Bus increased use and profits and how the LibDems plan to make improvements to Bristols buses; Tory, Ian McKellen (who lives in Limehouse, East London) and alleged anti-gay comments by proposed Lord Mayor Chris Windows; Kerry McCarthy lead a delegation to the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia to counter what she calls anti-gay propaganda; 15 student protesters accosted by private security and arrested in Birmingham University; conservatives in Worcestershire deny poverty exists in UK despite food bank usage tripling in one year and national use of food banks set to hit one million people in 2014; charges dropped by Iceland supermarket against people taking food from skips, police return food to Iceland only for them to put it in the bin again; PMQs Ed Miliband â Tories had said 50p tax rate set in stone and then dropped it; PMQs - wrong kind of recovery fuelled by property bubble; PMQs â flooding on the Somerset levels; dreadful response to flooding by overpaid Chair of the Environment Agency, Chris Smith; opinions of Somerset levels Muchelney residents Chris Matthews and Bryony Sadler from Flooding on the Levels Action Group (FLAG); Mark Carney, head of the Bank of England, warns Scots they will have to pay if they want a Scottish pound.

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