Lord mayor Lesley Alexander presides over Kafkaesque, shambolic Extraordinary Full Council Meeting https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-103/
First hour: news review: with Labour councillor for St George Troopers Hill Fabian Breckles. Local elections â disappointing for Labour? - anti-Semitism â media against Corbyn; election results; Metrobus â up and running soon â TERRIBLE rating on Google Play for First Bus M-Ticket App - it just doesnt work â cancelled sections e.g. not going to parkway â mistakes. Outsourcing troubles: CAPITA, CARILLION, INTERSERVE and SERCO - Capita says itâs no Serco â whatever the rights and wrongs â profit warnings hidden; Capita top brass in line for turnaround bonus worth £10m â and it could be rise to a lot more; Interserve about to collapse - Interserve landed with £40m bill from accountants and consultants; Lord mayor Lesley Alexander presides over Kafkaesque, shambolic Extraordinary Full Council Meeting to appoint senior council executive Mike Jackson on a salary of £165,000; PMQs Corbyn â with Tories you pay more and get less â 21,000 less police and 20% increase in crime in ONE YEAR Lawless London: murder rate soars by 44% & knife crime is up by over 20% in ONE YEAR  - â poverty â underfunding of Labour areas by Tory central gov.; Defensiveâ, âfudged pledgesâ and âdivorced from realityâ - This is how opposition parties view Marvin Reesâ first two years ; Bristol Audit â unelected now; PMQs Universal Credit problems â fiasco; Vulnerable, sick and hungry: these devastating testimonies of people on Universal Credit are being used to fight Esther McVeys benefits department in Court - PMQs - waiting two and three hours for an ambulance â Gov. deliberately destroying NHS â austerity and media reporting; PMQs sacked Home Secretary Amber Rudd pays tribute to the UKs out-of-control Anti-Terrorist police.