Episode 24 - road pricing, immigrant behaviour packs, police state
Matthew Revell and studio guests discuss the latest in politics from a Wolverhampton perspective.
Studio guests: Peter Roberts (road pricing campaigner) and Mark Watson (Editor, MinorityPerspective.co.uk)
- 03:30: News roundup. Discussing recent news, including: new supermarket quango, bloke in Stoke arrested when woman on bus mistook his MP3 player for a gun, government blunder gives £2m to Newcastle-under-Lyme that was intended for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was Australian PM Kevin Rudd right to apologise to Aboriginal families whose mixed-race children were taken?
- 27.52: Hazel Blears proposes “behaviour packs” for new immigrants to show them how to integrate in British society. Is this going to work.
- 44.50: Peter Roberts tells the story of how he came to create the well publicised road pricing petition. What are the flaws that he sees in road pricing and why was he so concerned?
Take part: Email story ideas, news snippets and comments to politics@wcrfm.com.
http://audio.wolverhamptonpolitics.co.uk/2008/24/wolpol-e24-20080115.mp3








