The Bristol Merchant Venturers - Charter Day 2014 on Monday 10th November 2014, 11am at Bristol Cathedral. The Knights Templars in Bristol, Baldwin Street named after the first king of Jerusalem that founded the Templars? Clip from James Garretts 1995 HTV West Eye View documentary about the Merchant Venturers, tinly club of 80 members who make up the boards of most of the big businesses in the city to this day. From international merchant port trading to managing an enormous share portfolio. Do the merchants take more from the city in share dividends than they give back in charity. Multi-millionaire Tory cabinet, crony capitalism; Chief Executive of Airbus UK, Robin Southwell, quits - possibly because of £150m fraudulent debt from his company Corporate Jet Industries - Filton; 2,600 job losses at Rolls Royce - Jack Lopresti at PMQs; Fed stopped QE, now Japan has started QE; PMQs Ben Bradshaw - is costly reorganisation of the NHS a success? - emergency bailout of hospitals, Tory plan of privatisation by stealth; GCHQ new head, Robert Hannigan, says internet companies responsible for terrorism â Gladio and the CIA, NATO operating terror activities; Ed Miliband - criticism, PMQs about Europe - European referendum, immigration, Ed standing up to media baron Rupert Murdoch; LibDem Home Office drugs and crime minister Norman Baker quits saying Theresa May seems to think its a Tory government, not a coalition - decriminalisation of drugs helps organised crime, banks propped up by drug money; PMQs Michael Meacher - Thatchers government had bigger deficit than 11 years of Labour government up to 2008 international banking crisis in 2008 was a disaster, changed everything - cuts and still debt and deficit going up now; half of families in poverty are in work - living wage; Luxembourg and tax avoidance.
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