News review: with Lib Dem cabinet member Simon Cook. How council works differently with Mayor; Library changes; residents parking; Simon and his acting career; Police Chief Constable, Nick Gargan, has finally resigned â he was a reformer; Metro Mayors â City Regions â Manchester â devolved local government; events closing parks in Bristol â clip of possible mayor candidate next year Paul Saville discussing this â money to council for fun events; end of the Wilson Doctrine â it is legal for GCHQ to spy on MPs â lawyers - journalists â clip of David Davis MP in PMQs on this â Watergate scandal when Republican party used secret services, NSA or CIA as a weapon against the Democratic party; clip of Snowden on Panorama discussing how smart phones are easily hacked â The NSA GCHQ secret Smurfs that hack into your smartphone â balance between paranoia and civil liberties, Snoopers Charter is an attempt by secret service signals intelligence criminals to make warrantless surveillance legal, hacking of Simon Cooks Bristol City Council e-mail account discovered and council employee sacked; PMQs Jeremy Corbyn on poverty and the stopping of tax credits â Osborne and his fiscal charter passes through the Commons which limits parliament to endless austerity â damaging social policies of Tories; clip of Yannis Varoufakis on Question Time discussing how our personal budget is very different to running the economy of a country - if you stop people spending then tax receipts fall - possibly catastrophically â 2008 bailout, welfare state as cushion for economy, how a national economy works, 1929 crash and Roosevelt set up welfare state, Keynesianism; inflation below zero again; Bristol park by-laws â will stop homeless people sleeping in tents in parks and force them out of the public eye onto waste ground.
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