khoodeelaar! ADVISING Simon Jenkins at 1612GMT1May2009: Publish the details of the expressions on Boris J face when Crossrail is mentioned! Evidence!
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 1610GMT1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! will publish an updated & detailed analysis of all touts & stooges still peddling CRASS rail
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khoodeelaar! pointing out at 1608GMT1May2009: All blogs allegedly referring to Jenkins call to Boris, are either Boris allies or residual time servers
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khoodeelaar! pointing out 1605GMT1May2009: All 'posts' pro-Crossrail on ES website and on Guardian site re S Jenkins, are empty. No evidence. Touting
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khoodeelaar! pointing out at1604GMT1May9:KHOODEELAAR! has been TELLING London EVENING STANDARD over 5 years: Crossrail is CRASS!
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khoodeelaar! pointing out at1604GMT1May9:Truth on S Jenkins call to Boris to 'Kill Crossrail' is: Jenkins should have said it YEARS earlier
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khoodeelaarpointing out at 1558 Hrs GMT 1May9: ALL the internet comments allegedly critical of S. Jenkins, have FAILED to show evidence for Crossrail
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khoodeelaarupdating at 1554 Hrs GMT 1May9: KHOODEELAAR! analysis of web posts by pro-CROSSRAIL touts replying to Simon Jenkins: they are wrong again
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khoodeelaarpointing out at 1554 Hrs GMT 1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! commentary and analysis of UK economy worth £Billions of AVOIDED losses, wastes...
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khoodeelaarupdating at 1550 Hrs GMT 1May2009 evidence of KHOODEELAAR! having given unique accurate advice on UK economy over 5 years.. More follows
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khoodeelaar! inviting ALL those who have taken part in KHOODEELAAR! campaign against “Crossrail hole scam agenda” in the past 5 years and 4 months...
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khoodeelaarconfirming at 0758GMTFRi1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! setting up a campaign meeting on Crossrail and related issues in next one week..Details >>>
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0756GMT Fri1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! action against Crossrail agenda will include the Q: Must Tower Hamlets behave so poorly?
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0755GMT Fri1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! action against Crossrail agenda will include focus on low standard of T Hamlets Council
about 8 hours ago from web
khoodeelaar! announcing the NEW programme of action against Crossrail hole agenda and in defence of the community in the East End of London..shortly
about 8 hours ago from web
khoodeelaar! at 0748GMT1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! spoke to TH Council chief exe office this morning summarizing the latest demands RE Crossrail
about 8 hours ago from web
khoodeelaarconfirming at 0745GMT1May2009 that 17DEc2008, TH Council allowed Marc Francis to stand up in full Council, LOUDLY BACKING CROSSRAIL,
about 8 hours ago from web
khoodeelaar! confirming at 0740GMT1May2009 latest legal email blocked by Crossrail hole-inviter TH Council concerns Council's pack of lies dated 8April
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0732GMT Fri1May9 KHOODEELAAR! has begun to alert local constituency MP on this violation by Crossrail scam-inviter clique
about 8 hours ago from web
khoodeelaar! confirming at 0730GMT Fri1May2009 that KHOODEELAAR! legal communication to T Hamlets Council about Crossrail is being blocked by Council
about 8 hours ago from web
khoodeelaar! Observing the entire 7 days starting today Friday 1 May 2009 as moment to remember the dedication and selflessness of all campaigners
about 14 hours ago from web
khoodeelaar! confirming at 0048GMTFri1May2009: a new summary of the KHOODEELAAR! movement is due to be accessible on povertyuk.wordpress.com
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khoodeelaar! Noting [2] at 2328GMT30Apr2009: Same Guardian website has over 1000 alleged words of same Simon Jenkins praising the same Boris J
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khoodeelaar! Noting at 2325GMT30Apr9: London Guardian website has 26 alleged words by Simon Jenkins criticising Boris J for not killing off Crossrail
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 1626GMT30Apr2009: Khoodeelaar! item by item comment here soon on Simon Jenkins echoing our call for SCRAPPING of Crossrail
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khoodeelaar! 1st comments [3] 1201GMT30Apr2009 re ‘news’ 2012 London Games hosting 'legacy' post-holder has left 'job'. Degenerating the East End....
1:00 PM Apr 30th from web
khoodeelaar! 1st comments [2] 1200GMT30Apr2009 re ‘news’ 2012 London Games hosting 'legacy' post-holder has left 'job'. Robbing the East End
1:00 PM Apr 30th from web
khoodeelaar! first comment 1156GMT30Apr2009 re ‘news’ 2012 London Games hosting 'legacy' post-holder has left 'job'. What legacy? Of Degeneration!
12:58 PM Apr 30th from web
khoodeelaar! pointing out at 1058GMT30Apr2009: KHoodeelaar! No to Crossrail agenda totally ‘approves’ of latest call for the sacking of G BUFF Hoon!
12:00 PM Apr 30th from web
khoodeelaar! referring at 1055GMT30Apr2009 to KHOODEELAAR! evidential comment http://tinyurl.com/cnef9u
11:58 AM Apr 30th from web
Friday 1 May 2009
KHOODEELAAR! told you so! In 2004, in 2005, in 2006, 2007 and in 2008 we said accurately that the UK economy was going down.. advice worth £Billions
Commented on the RICHMOND AND TWICKENHAM Times, London
http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/richmondnews/3830271.Anti_Heathrow_campaigners_suspicious_of_BAA___s_Crossrail_cash/
In that comment, KHOODEELAAR! Organizer Muhammad Haque set out the key arguments against Crossrail. Arguments that Simon Jenkins in his piece this week in the EVENING STANDARD has only partly covered. In fact the Muhammad Haque comments published in December 2006 on the Eddington Report remain the most accurate, detailed and valid ones to this day. And those comments, made TWO years before the ‘City of London’ became widely identified as containing “the greediest and the most corrupt and the wasteful elements in and of the UK economy”, were spot on as economic analysis. It is therefore important to point out again that the KHOODEELAAR! analysis of the UK economy as made in 2004 was unique in all key respects. It was accurate 5 years ahead of the events. It was responsible , contrary to the callous JOBBING comments on the economy contributed by all the ‘mainstream’ ‘economic commentators’ as employed, promoted, showcased and platformed by the UK ‘mainstream media’. And the Khoodeelaar! analysis is worth £Billions of savings in terms of avoided economic and financial peril and losses...
[To be continued]
By © Muhammad Haque 2005 Hrs GMT
London Saturday 8 November 2008
http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/richmondnews/3830271.Anti_Heathrow_campaigners_suspicious_of_BAA___s_Crossrail_cash/
“Your report confirms the analysis that KHOODEELAAR! the campaign against Crossrail scam has been publishing for the past almost 5 years. That Crossrail is not the main transport priority in and around London. That the EXISTING transport infrastructure and services warrant urgent attention. That there has been NO evidence of public demand for any of it. That EVEN Gordon Brown’s own expert reported in the Eddington Study on the future of the railway ‘service’s NO evidence for Crossrail. Indeed, as Channel 4 news expressly pointed out at the beginning of October 2007...Eddington had ADVISED AGAINST Crossrail. So what is the £16 Billion plus being spent on Crossrail for? Ken Livingstone acted as the propagandist in chief for the Big Business lobby pressing the UK Govt to fork out £ Billions under covers of transport. But even Livingstone failed to find ANY mentionable support in the UK public for Crossrail..In their reports on the formal publication of the Eddington Study, ALL of ‘Fleet Street’ and the BBC carried unfounded hype for Crossrail. The only major media organisation that got the EDDINGTON REPORT right on the facts and published the substance accordingly was the US media group Forbes. They accurately reported that Eddington HAD not endorsed Crossrail. Now, around the alleged £230 contribution by BAA, ALL of Fleet Street has again been publishing untruths and hypes. The question is: do these media, as typified by the London EVENING STANDARD and the Guardian as among the most zealous spinners for Crossrail, have any senses of editorial responsibility at all? We are beginning to get used to the BBC publishing more than one apology for the blunders that the Corporation indulges in at the expense of the licence-payers. But the newspapers who claim that they are against the greedy bankers who have brought about the current financial crisis, must show that THEY are not in hock to the lobby that wants £16 Billion of UK public money to be wasted. The same media outfits have an even bigger duty to ask why the Crossrail Bill was not allowed to be debated by the ‘Select Committees’ in BOTH Houses. Who had pulled the strings and when will the truth be ‘conceded’ by the ‘free thinking’ democracy-backing British media? After the looters who are poised to pocket £Billions under Contracts in the name of Crossrail have bolted?
By © Muhammad Haque 2005 Hrs GMT London Saturday 8 November 2008
http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/richmondnews/3830271.Anti_Heathrow_campaigners_suspicious_of_BAA___s_Crossrail_cash/
In that comment, KHOODEELAAR! Organizer Muhammad Haque set out the key arguments against Crossrail. Arguments that Simon Jenkins in his piece this week in the EVENING STANDARD has only partly covered. In fact the Muhammad Haque comments published in December 2006 on the Eddington Report remain the most accurate, detailed and valid ones to this day. And those comments, made TWO years before the ‘City of London’ became widely identified as containing “the greediest and the most corrupt and the wasteful elements in and of the UK economy”, were spot on as economic analysis. It is therefore important to point out again that the KHOODEELAAR! analysis of the UK economy as made in 2004 was unique in all key respects. It was accurate 5 years ahead of the events. It was responsible , contrary to the callous JOBBING comments on the economy contributed by all the ‘mainstream’ ‘economic commentators’ as employed, promoted, showcased and platformed by the UK ‘mainstream media’. And the Khoodeelaar! analysis is worth £Billions of savings in terms of avoided economic and financial peril and losses...
[To be continued]
By © Muhammad Haque 2005 Hrs GMT
London Saturday 8 November 2008
http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/richmondnews/3830271.Anti_Heathrow_campaigners_suspicious_of_BAA___s_Crossrail_cash/
“Your report confirms the analysis that KHOODEELAAR! the campaign against Crossrail scam has been publishing for the past almost 5 years. That Crossrail is not the main transport priority in and around London. That the EXISTING transport infrastructure and services warrant urgent attention. That there has been NO evidence of public demand for any of it. That EVEN Gordon Brown’s own expert reported in the Eddington Study on the future of the railway ‘service’s NO evidence for Crossrail. Indeed, as Channel 4 news expressly pointed out at the beginning of October 2007...Eddington had ADVISED AGAINST Crossrail. So what is the £16 Billion plus being spent on Crossrail for? Ken Livingstone acted as the propagandist in chief for the Big Business lobby pressing the UK Govt to fork out £ Billions under covers of transport. But even Livingstone failed to find ANY mentionable support in the UK public for Crossrail..In their reports on the formal publication of the Eddington Study, ALL of ‘Fleet Street’ and the BBC carried unfounded hype for Crossrail. The only major media organisation that got the EDDINGTON REPORT right on the facts and published the substance accordingly was the US media group Forbes. They accurately reported that Eddington HAD not endorsed Crossrail. Now, around the alleged £230 contribution by BAA, ALL of Fleet Street has again been publishing untruths and hypes. The question is: do these media, as typified by the London EVENING STANDARD and the Guardian as among the most zealous spinners for Crossrail, have any senses of editorial responsibility at all? We are beginning to get used to the BBC publishing more than one apology for the blunders that the Corporation indulges in at the expense of the licence-payers. But the newspapers who claim that they are against the greedy bankers who have brought about the current financial crisis, must show that THEY are not in hock to the lobby that wants £16 Billion of UK public money to be wasted. The same media outfits have an even bigger duty to ask why the Crossrail Bill was not allowed to be debated by the ‘Select Committees’ in BOTH Houses. Who had pulled the strings and when will the truth be ‘conceded’ by the ‘free thinking’ democracy-backing British media? After the looters who are poised to pocket £Billions under Contracts in the name of Crossrail have bolted?
By © Muhammad Haque 2005 Hrs GMT London Saturday 8 November 2008
Thursday 30 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note saying NO to Brown's wasting more public funds for 'planning’, just as they did for Crossrail
http://www.cnplus.co.uk/sectors/transport/govt-to-spend-£7m-on-high-speed-two-plans/5201223.article
he Government is set to spend more than £7 million on plans for High Speed Two in the financial year 2009/10.
In January transport secretary Geoff Hoon announced the creation of a new company – High Speed Two, chaired by Sir David Rowlands – to help consider the case for new high speed rail services between London and Scotland.
Staff costs for the year will total £2.65 million, according to a question answered by the parliamentary under secretary of state for transport Paul Clark in the House of Commons last week.
Project costs and consultancy costs stand at £3.94 million, while board costs and facility costs total £209,226 and £175,393 respectively.
Initially the company was tasked with developing a proposal for an entirely new line between London and the West Midlands, which could link to Heathrow and Crossrail through a new international interchange station.
It will need to assess the likely environmental impact and business case of different routes, with work on the case for High Speed Two expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The Government will then assess the options, enabling them to choose a proposed route for development.
he Government is set to spend more than £7 million on plans for High Speed Two in the financial year 2009/10.
In January transport secretary Geoff Hoon announced the creation of a new company – High Speed Two, chaired by Sir David Rowlands – to help consider the case for new high speed rail services between London and Scotland.
Staff costs for the year will total £2.65 million, according to a question answered by the parliamentary under secretary of state for transport Paul Clark in the House of Commons last week.
Project costs and consultancy costs stand at £3.94 million, while board costs and facility costs total £209,226 and £175,393 respectively.
Initially the company was tasked with developing a proposal for an entirely new line between London and the West Midlands, which could link to Heathrow and Crossrail through a new international interchange station.
It will need to assess the likely environmental impact and business case of different routes, with work on the case for High Speed Two expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The Government will then assess the options, enabling them to choose a proposed route for development.
KHOODEELAAR! action flashback [2]: Simon Jenkins, ex-editor of EVENING STANDARD, calls on Boris to 'Kill' Crossrail
Crossrail will eat money. Kill it, Boris, and save the bankrupt Tube instead
Simon Jenkins
28.04.09
Kill Crossrail. Kill it now. Offer it up as London's gift to public sector sanity, while there is still time to avoid millions of pounds climbing into billions on a project that London does not need. What London needs is a fully working, modernised Tube. So kill Crossrail to save the Tube.
Crossrail, with a completely new rail tunnel from Paddington to Liverpool Street, has few friends. It has been stopped and restarted too many times to count over the past quarter-century. When Gordon Brown said in 2007 that "it will definitely proceed", sceptics sensed the cold hand of death grip its throat.
When Whitehall set out a tripartite funding package for the line in 2008, the caveats and qualifications grew in number. In an interview in February the transport minister, Lord Adonis, warned the world that, if Londoners do not raise their two-thirds share, "the Mayor understands that Crossrail will collapse ... ".
Mention Crossrail to Boris Johnson and his normally open, cheerful visage changes to that of a parent just told his kids are on drugs. He starts to shake. When reminded that he once said Crossrail was "one of those times you have to say, get in that hole and keep digging" the look becomes a rictus.
At a farewell dinner at City Hall earlier this month, the outgoing head of Transport for London, Tim O'Toole, hinted at his known private view that Crossrail is capital madness. He pleaded with his colleagues to fight instead for the existing Tube, now teetering on the brink of insolvency. TfL executives know that continuing with Crossrail will eat money and distract management for a decade.
It would yield nothing but bad news stories, while severely disrupting traffic in central London just when it will be recovering from the water mains chaos. Test drilling is already upheaving St Giles.
Crossrail is no longer a railway that makes sense. Back in the Eighties it was way behind the Jubilee line and the then (and now) top priority, a new northeast/southwest line from Hackney to Chelsea and beyond. Lines were needed to fill the Tube-less no-man's-lands of Greenwich and Chelsea/Fulham.
It took Margaret Thatcher to force through the Jubilee line to help the Reichman brothers build Canary Wharf. Chelsea/Hackney has no such power backers.
This project's only real friends have been in the City, eager to fend off the "threat" from Docklands and garner the bulk of the 900,000 extra office jobs predicted for London a decade ago. Nobody expects that need now. The Central line's parallel capacity can easily be increased by station improvements and better management.
Crossrail's backers have duly fallen back on that catch-all for any extravagant project, "urban regeneration". But that involves taking the line far out to the east, at further cost. For all the efforts of consultants to prove otherwise, this line is neither profitable nor a priority for economic renewal.
Boris Johnson now has a golden chance. He knows the capital must tighten its belt somehow - especially after he failed to curb the gargantuan appetite of the Olympics (costing more than half the £16billion total for Crossrail).
Johnson has already had to end his predecessor's costly fantasies, the Thames Gateway bridge, the Cross-river tram and the Dagenham light railway extension.
The Government has offered £5.6billion to the Crossrail budget. The rest must come from a raised London business rate (£3.5billion), borrowing against so-called train access charges (£2.3billion) and £2.7billion from TfL, this time borrowing against future fares.
Given the recent history of Tube finances, these figures are wholly unreal. TfL is close to technical bankruptcy. Borrowing against future revenue is mad, especially when it has already been assigned to meet Crossrail's running costs. Has London learned nothing about dodgy accounting from the past five years of such projects?
Meanwhile the City Corporation is offering a meagre £200million, on top of which is budgeted £150million from City businesses and, once upon a time, £230million from the airports authority, BAA. Lord Adonis claims this amounts to a further £750million, which is inconceivable. The truth is that Crossrail is another financial pig in a poke.
The Government has already poured £2billion in extra guilt money into the Tube to finance its public-private partnership (PPP), the sunk cost of this now largely aborted scheme. No minister or official has ever taken responsibility for it - indeed the official, Shriti Vadera, has been rewarded with both a peerage and a ministry.
In addition, the Government has pledged a huge £39billion to TfL over the next decade, a sum higher than anything conceived during nationalisation. This, it says, will have to embrace the completion of the PPP scheme and Crossrail. But the latter is not formally ring-fenced.
This is the Mayor's great opportunity. He has a £1.4billion hole in his transport budget already and must somehow fund £3billion of debt left over from the Treasury's collapsed Metronet infrastructure company.
Adonis said last November that there was no way he would plug this hole, despite it being one of the Government's own creation. He could hardly have given a more direct indication of his willingness to see Crossrail crash.
Johnson could now argue that the £5.6billion for Crossrail be switched to other Tube projects, such as resignalling the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines and replacing Metropolitan line stock, projects that may anyway have to be postponed to meet the cost of Crossrail. Cancelling the latter would relieve the Tube budget of a tidal wave of uncertain costs now advancing down the track.
This would enable Johnson to declare himself the saviour of London's Underground railway, after a decade of mismanagement and financial chaos.
By liberating himself from Crossrail and demanding that London be allowed to keep its transport grant, he could begin to reconstruct TfL's finances and meet its voracious appetite for new signals, stations and rolling stock. He could declare a clean slate.
Johnson need not fear the Government on this: if ministers wanted Crossrail they would have paid for it. He need not fear the City.
He can use the recession as an excuse to put this white elephant to sleep while garnering the popularity of restoring London's transport system to sanity. But first he must kill Crossrail.
Simon Jenkins
28.04.09
Kill Crossrail. Kill it now. Offer it up as London's gift to public sector sanity, while there is still time to avoid millions of pounds climbing into billions on a project that London does not need. What London needs is a fully working, modernised Tube. So kill Crossrail to save the Tube.
Crossrail, with a completely new rail tunnel from Paddington to Liverpool Street, has few friends. It has been stopped and restarted too many times to count over the past quarter-century. When Gordon Brown said in 2007 that "it will definitely proceed", sceptics sensed the cold hand of death grip its throat.
When Whitehall set out a tripartite funding package for the line in 2008, the caveats and qualifications grew in number. In an interview in February the transport minister, Lord Adonis, warned the world that, if Londoners do not raise their two-thirds share, "the Mayor understands that Crossrail will collapse ... ".
Mention Crossrail to Boris Johnson and his normally open, cheerful visage changes to that of a parent just told his kids are on drugs. He starts to shake. When reminded that he once said Crossrail was "one of those times you have to say, get in that hole and keep digging" the look becomes a rictus.
At a farewell dinner at City Hall earlier this month, the outgoing head of Transport for London, Tim O'Toole, hinted at his known private view that Crossrail is capital madness. He pleaded with his colleagues to fight instead for the existing Tube, now teetering on the brink of insolvency. TfL executives know that continuing with Crossrail will eat money and distract management for a decade.
It would yield nothing but bad news stories, while severely disrupting traffic in central London just when it will be recovering from the water mains chaos. Test drilling is already upheaving St Giles.
Crossrail is no longer a railway that makes sense. Back in the Eighties it was way behind the Jubilee line and the then (and now) top priority, a new northeast/southwest line from Hackney to Chelsea and beyond. Lines were needed to fill the Tube-less no-man's-lands of Greenwich and Chelsea/Fulham.
It took Margaret Thatcher to force through the Jubilee line to help the Reichman brothers build Canary Wharf. Chelsea/Hackney has no such power backers.
This project's only real friends have been in the City, eager to fend off the "threat" from Docklands and garner the bulk of the 900,000 extra office jobs predicted for London a decade ago. Nobody expects that need now. The Central line's parallel capacity can easily be increased by station improvements and better management.
Crossrail's backers have duly fallen back on that catch-all for any extravagant project, "urban regeneration". But that involves taking the line far out to the east, at further cost. For all the efforts of consultants to prove otherwise, this line is neither profitable nor a priority for economic renewal.
Boris Johnson now has a golden chance. He knows the capital must tighten its belt somehow - especially after he failed to curb the gargantuan appetite of the Olympics (costing more than half the £16billion total for Crossrail).
Johnson has already had to end his predecessor's costly fantasies, the Thames Gateway bridge, the Cross-river tram and the Dagenham light railway extension.
The Government has offered £5.6billion to the Crossrail budget. The rest must come from a raised London business rate (£3.5billion), borrowing against so-called train access charges (£2.3billion) and £2.7billion from TfL, this time borrowing against future fares.
Given the recent history of Tube finances, these figures are wholly unreal. TfL is close to technical bankruptcy. Borrowing against future revenue is mad, especially when it has already been assigned to meet Crossrail's running costs. Has London learned nothing about dodgy accounting from the past five years of such projects?
Meanwhile the City Corporation is offering a meagre £200million, on top of which is budgeted £150million from City businesses and, once upon a time, £230million from the airports authority, BAA. Lord Adonis claims this amounts to a further £750million, which is inconceivable. The truth is that Crossrail is another financial pig in a poke.
The Government has already poured £2billion in extra guilt money into the Tube to finance its public-private partnership (PPP), the sunk cost of this now largely aborted scheme. No minister or official has ever taken responsibility for it - indeed the official, Shriti Vadera, has been rewarded with both a peerage and a ministry.
In addition, the Government has pledged a huge £39billion to TfL over the next decade, a sum higher than anything conceived during nationalisation. This, it says, will have to embrace the completion of the PPP scheme and Crossrail. But the latter is not formally ring-fenced.
This is the Mayor's great opportunity. He has a £1.4billion hole in his transport budget already and must somehow fund £3billion of debt left over from the Treasury's collapsed Metronet infrastructure company.
Adonis said last November that there was no way he would plug this hole, despite it being one of the Government's own creation. He could hardly have given a more direct indication of his willingness to see Crossrail crash.
Johnson could now argue that the £5.6billion for Crossrail be switched to other Tube projects, such as resignalling the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines and replacing Metropolitan line stock, projects that may anyway have to be postponed to meet the cost of Crossrail. Cancelling the latter would relieve the Tube budget of a tidal wave of uncertain costs now advancing down the track.
This would enable Johnson to declare himself the saviour of London's Underground railway, after a decade of mismanagement and financial chaos.
By liberating himself from Crossrail and demanding that London be allowed to keep its transport grant, he could begin to reconstruct TfL's finances and meet its voracious appetite for new signals, stations and rolling stock. He could declare a clean slate.
Johnson need not fear the Government on this: if ministers wanted Crossrail they would have paid for it. He need not fear the City.
He can use the recession as an excuse to put this white elephant to sleep while garnering the popularity of restoring London's transport system to sanity. But first he must kill Crossrail.
KHOODEELAAR! action flashback: Nigel Nelson, Pol Editor, SUNDAY PEOPLE 22 March 2009 calls for scrapping Crossrail
"
22 March 2009
BLACK HOLE COSTS YOU £25,000
EXCLUSIVE Here's how they might claw it back
By Nigel Nelson Political Editor
Every British taxpayer faces a debt of £25,000 to pay for Alistair Darling's borrowing binge.
New forecasts say the Chancellor needs to splash out £704billion on the nation's credit card over the next five years.
That will leave each taxpayer with a bill equal to the current UK average wage, say economists Ernst & Young.
Advertisement
And it will be FIVE times the amount of debt run up over the last five years, which worked out at just £5,000 per taxpayer.
The predictions from forecasting group the Item Club say Mr Darling will need £180billion this year alone, exceeding his own estimate by £62billion.
They are so significant because the Item Club uses the same forecasting model as the Treasury.
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said: "This is the worst fiscal mess any British government has created in peacetime.
"Tax receipts have collapsed but there is a great deal of scope for spending restraint."
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable added: "Spending will rise sharply over the coming months as unemployment surges.
"And the steep fall in output will continue to reduce tax revenues."
Last week the International Monetary Fund said the UK will have to borrow 11 per cent of national income this year, the most of all the world's top G7 industrialised nations. Ernst & Young say it will be 1.6 per cent WORSE.
Item Club chief economist Peter Spencer said: "The outlook is bleak. The Chancellor must present an unambiguous plan for restoring the public finances to health.
"We are all going to find ourselves paying a lot more tax once the recovery begins and our children will be paying that tax for a very long time to come."
The researchers say Mr Darling must now pump more cash into manufacturing to save jobs.
In April's Budget he is expected to cut taxes to encourage spending, as The People said last week.
But once the recession is over the Government will have to claw the money back. And we have some suggestions, see right, for doing it.
For instance Mr Darling could RAISE tax by 5p, SCRAP the Crossrail plan for new London train links or SUPPLY school meals free to cut obesity in kids.
Total £704 billion
Raise income tax by 5p £100 billion
Put VAT up to 25 per cent £240 billion
Cancel Trident missile defence £25 billion
Nationalise the banks £44 billion
Health screening for over 20s £75 billion
Trim Government waste £170 billion
Abandon Crossrail project £16 billion
Free school meals to save on obesity £18 billion
Cut civil service pay 1 per cent £7 billion
Scrap widening of M25 £5 billion
Cancel our new aircraft carrier order £4 billion
"
22 March 2009
BLACK HOLE COSTS YOU £25,000
EXCLUSIVE Here's how they might claw it back
By Nigel Nelson Political Editor
Every British taxpayer faces a debt of £25,000 to pay for Alistair Darling's borrowing binge.
New forecasts say the Chancellor needs to splash out £704billion on the nation's credit card over the next five years.
That will leave each taxpayer with a bill equal to the current UK average wage, say economists Ernst & Young.
Advertisement
And it will be FIVE times the amount of debt run up over the last five years, which worked out at just £5,000 per taxpayer.
The predictions from forecasting group the Item Club say Mr Darling will need £180billion this year alone, exceeding his own estimate by £62billion.
They are so significant because the Item Club uses the same forecasting model as the Treasury.
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said: "This is the worst fiscal mess any British government has created in peacetime.
"Tax receipts have collapsed but there is a great deal of scope for spending restraint."
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable added: "Spending will rise sharply over the coming months as unemployment surges.
"And the steep fall in output will continue to reduce tax revenues."
Last week the International Monetary Fund said the UK will have to borrow 11 per cent of national income this year, the most of all the world's top G7 industrialised nations. Ernst & Young say it will be 1.6 per cent WORSE.
Item Club chief economist Peter Spencer said: "The outlook is bleak. The Chancellor must present an unambiguous plan for restoring the public finances to health.
"We are all going to find ourselves paying a lot more tax once the recovery begins and our children will be paying that tax for a very long time to come."
The researchers say Mr Darling must now pump more cash into manufacturing to save jobs.
In April's Budget he is expected to cut taxes to encourage spending, as The People said last week.
But once the recession is over the Government will have to claw the money back. And we have some suggestions, see right, for doing it.
For instance Mr Darling could RAISE tax by 5p, SCRAP the Crossrail plan for new London train links or SUPPLY school meals free to cut obesity in kids.
Total £704 billion
Raise income tax by 5p £100 billion
Put VAT up to 25 per cent £240 billion
Cancel Trident missile defence £25 billion
Nationalise the banks £44 billion
Health screening for over 20s £75 billion
Trim Government waste £170 billion
Abandon Crossrail project £16 billion
Free school meals to save on obesity £18 billion
Cut civil service pay 1 per cent £7 billion
Scrap widening of M25 £5 billion
Cancel our new aircraft carrier order £4 billion
"
Wednesday 29 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! exposed Crass role-playing, CRASS-rail-hole-scam-inviting clique on T hamlets Council
1245 GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009
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KHOODEELAAR! exposed Crass role-playing, CRASS-rail-hole-scam-inviting clique on T hamlets Council
ACTION ARCHIVE updater at 1240 GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009
Today's confession by the London FT that CROSSRAIl is crassly conceived and even more crassly peddled in financing terms, is NOTR news. At every stage in the past 5 years and 4 months of our dissection of the crassly conceived Crossrail,w e have pointed this out. With evidence. Of contemporary crass behaviour by each and every one of the relevant peddler of the scam.
Here is how we TOLD the world bout the crassness of the Crassrail-hole-scam backing Tower Hamlets Council clique in 2007:
By Muhammad Haque 1440 Hrs GMT London Saturday 13 October 2007
Khoodeelaar! Examination of the Tower Hamlets Council’s confession that the Council [=the controlling clique and the controlling bureaucracy that in fact makes the ‘policy’ on that Council and the one that has in effect done so for the duration of the main Crossrail hole plot-inviting years, say, going back to 1998-99 onwards] has been a collective, institutional] tout for the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London here shortly
What has been the confession? Answer The confession is that Tower Hamlets Council has been used as a willing stooge for the Crossrail hole pt against the East End.
This is how the controlling clique on the Council made the confession in its written answer to my question as put to the ‘Council’ as part of the ‘published agenda ‘ for the ‘full council’ meeting held on Tuesday 11 September 2007
“ Ultimately, Council must respect Crossrail’s overarching duty to have regard to the paramount importance of the health and safety of Crossrail passengers and workers which will dictate the location of such shafts.”
What was my question to which the above dictatorial command statement FOR Crossrail was issued VIA the controlling bureaucracy on Tower Hamlets Council on 11 September 2007? The question was in fact the same as the Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been asking right fro the start. But for clarity and for accountability and for compliance with constitutionality, the Khoodeelaar! Question was as endorsed by the community 2 years into the khoodeelaar! Campaign – and rousingly backed on Sunday 22 January 2006 when I had put it for the community’s endorsement at the meeting held at the Brady Centre in Hanbury Street on that date and against the CrossRail hole Bill attacks upon the community.
"
"
KHOODEELAAR! exposed Crass role-playing, CRASS-rail-hole-scam-inviting clique on T hamlets Council
ACTION ARCHIVE updater at 1240 GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009
Today's confession by the London FT that CROSSRAIl is crassly conceived and even more crassly peddled in financing terms, is NOTR news. At every stage in the past 5 years and 4 months of our dissection of the crassly conceived Crossrail,w e have pointed this out. With evidence. Of contemporary crass behaviour by each and every one of the relevant peddler of the scam.
Here is how we TOLD the world bout the crassness of the Crassrail-hole-scam backing Tower Hamlets Council clique in 2007:
By Muhammad Haque 1440 Hrs GMT London Saturday 13 October 2007
Khoodeelaar! Examination of the Tower Hamlets Council’s confession that the Council [=the controlling clique and the controlling bureaucracy that in fact makes the ‘policy’ on that Council and the one that has in effect done so for the duration of the main Crossrail hole plot-inviting years, say, going back to 1998-99 onwards] has been a collective, institutional] tout for the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London here shortly
What has been the confession? Answer The confession is that Tower Hamlets Council has been used as a willing stooge for the Crossrail hole pt against the East End.
This is how the controlling clique on the Council made the confession in its written answer to my question as put to the ‘Council’ as part of the ‘published agenda ‘ for the ‘full council’ meeting held on Tuesday 11 September 2007
“ Ultimately, Council must respect Crossrail’s overarching duty to have regard to the paramount importance of the health and safety of Crossrail passengers and workers which will dictate the location of such shafts.”
What was my question to which the above dictatorial command statement FOR Crossrail was issued VIA the controlling bureaucracy on Tower Hamlets Council on 11 September 2007? The question was in fact the same as the Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been asking right fro the start. But for clarity and for accountability and for compliance with constitutionality, the Khoodeelaar! Question was as endorsed by the community 2 years into the khoodeelaar! Campaign – and rousingly backed on Sunday 22 January 2006 when I had put it for the community’s endorsement at the meeting held at the Brady Centre in Hanbury Street on that date and against the CrossRail hole Bill attacks upon the community.
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Tuesday 28 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the London FT that it was wrong to plug Big Business scam Crassrail. We are 'pleased' to welcome sense appear on the FT [2]
0430 GMT London Weds 29 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! is anticipating newer instances of confessions on CRASSrail during today and later this week.....on the FURTHER vindication of our diagnosis that Crossrail remains crass, wasteful, debts=causing, poverty-aggravating and must be scrapped .. We expect other members of the bureaucracy to confess and add to the list now containing Tim O’Toole, Simon Jenkins, the FT.... all agreeing that Crossrail is crass and is an unfundable, wasteful debts-causing OBSTRUCTION to and a serious diversion and deviation from funding the EXISTING London transport network..
Thus echoing the KHOODEELAAR! original analyses and exclusive diagnoses and dissections carried out and published by ourselves [AADHIKAR MEDia in association with KHOODEELAAR!] on the internet and in print over the past 5 years and 4 months..
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! is anticipating newer instances of confessions on CRASSrail during today and later this week.....on the FURTHER vindication of our diagnosis that Crossrail remains crass, wasteful, debts=causing, poverty-aggravating and must be scrapped .. We expect other members of the bureaucracy to confess and add to the list now containing Tim O’Toole, Simon Jenkins, the FT.... all agreeing that Crossrail is crass and is an unfundable, wasteful debts-causing OBSTRUCTION to and a serious diversion and deviation from funding the EXISTING London transport network..
Thus echoing the KHOODEELAAR! original analyses and exclusive diagnoses and dissections carried out and published by ourselves [AADHIKAR MEDia in association with KHOODEELAAR!] on the internet and in print over the past 5 years and 4 months..
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the London FT that it was wrong top plug Big Business scam Crassrail. We are 'pleased' to welcome sense appear on the FT
0410 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the London FT that it was wrong top plug Big Business scam Crassrail. We are 'pleased' to welcome sense appear on the FT
[To be continued]
From the web site of the London Financial Times:
Londoners warned of upgrade threat on Underground
By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent
Published: April 29 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 29 2009 03:00
The economic slowdown could threaten a programme to improve train speeds and frequencies across much of the London Underground, says the organisation's outgoing managing director.
Tim O'Toole said Londoners should "scream bloody murder" if plans for a new signalling system on the older, sub-surface lines were scaled back or postponed.
The availability of funding for resignalling of the Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines would be a barometer of politicians' general willingness to fund the system's upgrade, he said.
The sub-surface lines are the oldest parts of the Underground, built before the tunnelling techniques used on later deep-level Tube lines were developed.
Mr O'Toole has been managing director since 2003, when Transport for London, the London mayor's transport organisation, took over running the network. Richard Parry, currently the organisation's director of strategy and service development, will take over as interim managing director on Friday while a permanent replacement is sought.
At a farewell event at London Transport Museum, Mr O'Toole said the protection of funding for such upgrade work had been scrapped in 2007 in a deal that had agreed financing for the east-west Crossrail project across London. "Ever since the ring-fencing of financing was taken away from the Underground and put around Crossrail, we will always be at risk," he said.
The new signalling system, which could cost about £1bn, will increase the lines' capacity by 40 per cent. But the upgrade has been in question ever since Metronet Rail, the company meant to carry out work on two-thirds of the system, collapsed in July 2007 amid soaring costs.
Mr O'Toole said the upgrade programme had been complicated by the government's insistence on using a complex public-private partnership scheme.
"You have to make sure that this programme goes forward," he told his audience. "I'm going to tell you what to look for. If you see the sub-surface line resignalling programme put off, you should scream bloody murder."
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the London FT that it was wrong top plug Big Business scam Crassrail. We are 'pleased' to welcome sense appear on the FT
[To be continued]
From the web site of the London Financial Times:
Londoners warned of upgrade threat on Underground
By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent
Published: April 29 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 29 2009 03:00
The economic slowdown could threaten a programme to improve train speeds and frequencies across much of the London Underground, says the organisation's outgoing managing director.
Tim O'Toole said Londoners should "scream bloody murder" if plans for a new signalling system on the older, sub-surface lines were scaled back or postponed.
The availability of funding for resignalling of the Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines would be a barometer of politicians' general willingness to fund the system's upgrade, he said.
The sub-surface lines are the oldest parts of the Underground, built before the tunnelling techniques used on later deep-level Tube lines were developed.
Mr O'Toole has been managing director since 2003, when Transport for London, the London mayor's transport organisation, took over running the network. Richard Parry, currently the organisation's director of strategy and service development, will take over as interim managing director on Friday while a permanent replacement is sought.
At a farewell event at London Transport Museum, Mr O'Toole said the protection of funding for such upgrade work had been scrapped in 2007 in a deal that had agreed financing for the east-west Crossrail project across London. "Ever since the ring-fencing of financing was taken away from the Underground and put around Crossrail, we will always be at risk," he said.
The new signalling system, which could cost about £1bn, will increase the lines' capacity by 40 per cent. But the upgrade has been in question ever since Metronet Rail, the company meant to carry out work on two-thirds of the system, collapsed in July 2007 amid soaring costs.
Mr O'Toole said the upgrade programme had been complicated by the government's insistence on using a complex public-private partnership scheme.
"You have to make sure that this programme goes forward," he told his audience. "I'm going to tell you what to look for. If you see the sub-surface line resignalling programme put off, you should scream bloody murder."
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD Tim O'Toole so! that Crossrail WAS Crass! We note O'Toole belatedly agrees with our diagnosis that Livingstone had LIED
0400 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 29 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD Tim O'Toole so! that Crossrail WAS Crass! We note O'Toole belatedly agrees with our diagnosis that Livingstone had LIED for Big Business Crossrail because Livingstone had become politically bankrupt and was lost in a mire of immorality and careerism...
[To be continued]
FRom the web site of the London Financial Times, Wednesday 29 April 2009:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/df7b4018-3456-11de-9eea-00144feabdc0.html
Londoners warned of upgrade threat on Underground
By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent
Published: April 29 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 29 2009 03:00
The economic slowdown could threaten a programme to improve train speeds and frequencies across much of the London Underground, says the organisation's outgoing managing director.
Tim O'Toole said Londoners should "scream bloody murder" if plans for a new signalling system on the older, sub-surface lines were scaled back or postponed.
The availability of funding for resignalling of the Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines would be a barometer of politicians' general willingness to fund the system's upgrade, he said.
The sub-surface lines are the oldest parts of the Underground, built before the tunnelling techniques used on later deep-level Tube lines were developed.
Mr O'Toole has been managing director since 2003, when Transport for London, the London mayor's transport organisation, took over running the network. Richard Parry, currently the organisation's director of strategy and service development, will take over as interim managing director on Friday while a permanent replacement is sought.
At a farewell event at London Transport Museum, Mr O'Toole said the protection of funding for such upgrade work had been scrapped in 2007 in a deal that had agreed financing for the east-west Crossrail project across London. "Ever since the ring-fencing of financing was taken away from the Underground and put around Crossrail, we will always be at risk," he said.
The new signalling system, which could cost about £1bn, will increase the lines' capacity by 40 per cent. But the upgrade has been in question ever since Metronet Rail, the company meant to carry out work on two-thirds of the system, collapsed in July 2007 amid soaring costs.
Mr O'Toole said the upgrade programme had been complicated by the government's insistence on using a complex public-private partnership scheme.
"You have to make sure that this programme goes forward," he told his audience. "I'm going to tell you what to look for. If you see the sub-surface line resignalling programme put off, you should scream bloody murder."
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009
London Wednesday 29 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD Tim O'Toole so! that Crossrail WAS Crass! We note O'Toole belatedly agrees with our diagnosis that Livingstone had LIED for Big Business Crossrail because Livingstone had become politically bankrupt and was lost in a mire of immorality and careerism...
[To be continued]
FRom the web site of the London Financial Times, Wednesday 29 April 2009:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/df7b4018-3456-11de-9eea-00144feabdc0.html
Londoners warned of upgrade threat on Underground
By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent
Published: April 29 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 29 2009 03:00
The economic slowdown could threaten a programme to improve train speeds and frequencies across much of the London Underground, says the organisation's outgoing managing director.
Tim O'Toole said Londoners should "scream bloody murder" if plans for a new signalling system on the older, sub-surface lines were scaled back or postponed.
The availability of funding for resignalling of the Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines would be a barometer of politicians' general willingness to fund the system's upgrade, he said.
The sub-surface lines are the oldest parts of the Underground, built before the tunnelling techniques used on later deep-level Tube lines were developed.
Mr O'Toole has been managing director since 2003, when Transport for London, the London mayor's transport organisation, took over running the network. Richard Parry, currently the organisation's director of strategy and service development, will take over as interim managing director on Friday while a permanent replacement is sought.
At a farewell event at London Transport Museum, Mr O'Toole said the protection of funding for such upgrade work had been scrapped in 2007 in a deal that had agreed financing for the east-west Crossrail project across London. "Ever since the ring-fencing of financing was taken away from the Underground and put around Crossrail, we will always be at risk," he said.
The new signalling system, which could cost about £1bn, will increase the lines' capacity by 40 per cent. But the upgrade has been in question ever since Metronet Rail, the company meant to carry out work on two-thirds of the system, collapsed in July 2007 amid soaring costs.
Mr O'Toole said the upgrade programme had been complicated by the government's insistence on using a complex public-private partnership scheme.
"You have to make sure that this programme goes forward," he told his audience. "I'm going to tell you what to look for. If you see the sub-surface line resignalling programme put off, you should scream bloody murder."
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! For 5 yrs 4 months. Now EVEN the ex-Ed of Crassrail-peddling E Standard says so too. SCRAP Crossrail!
1215 [1158] Hrs GMT London Tuesday 28 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! has been telling you so for more than 5 years now! Crossrail is crass! Now EVEN a CRASS role playing, Crassrail-peddling nostandards EVENING STANDARD editor, Simon Jenkins, says so as well! If Boris Johnson is not bonkers, he will pay heed to Simon jenkins. We know that Boris is too biased/prejudiced/ill-advised/narrow-minded/racist to say he would listen to Khoodeelaar! So let him say he ‘could’ and therefore he would listen to Simon Jenkins instead.....We shall be publishing some of the thousands of items we have written and published saying the same thing for 5 years and 4 months... SCRAP wasteful, DIVERSIONARY Crossrail now...
[To be continued]
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23681951-details/Crossrail+will+eat+money.+Kill+it,+Boris,+and+save+the+bankrupt+Tube+instead/article.do
HEADLINES:
Three cleared of aiding 7/7 bombers..... Travel warning as swine flu hits UK..... Flu could hit 40% of UK population..... Mother detained over sons' deaths..... PM defends expenses plan 'progress'..... Stabbing death: Four men questioned..... Fresh appeal to clear bomber's name..... UK work hours opt-out to continue..... Unions' anger over rail job losses..... Collins suggests a Camilla makeover.....
Make do and mend: Engineering work on the Waterloo and City line. The Underground is teetering on the brink of insolvency
Crossrail will eat money. Kill it, Boris, and save the bankrupt Tube instead
Simon Jenkins
28.04.09
Kill Crossrail. Kill it now. Offer it up as London's gift to public sector sanity, while there is still time to avoid millions of pounds climbing into billions on a project that London does not need. What London needs is a fully working, modernised Tube. So kill Crossrail to save the Tube.
Crossrail, with a completely new rail tunnel from Paddington to Liverpool Street, has few friends. It has been stopped and restarted too many times to count over the past quarter-century. When Gordon Brown said in 2007 that "it will definitely proceed", sceptics sensed the cold hand of death grip its throat.
When Whitehall set out a tripartite funding package for the line in 2008, the caveats and qualifications grew in number. In an interview in February the transport minister, Lord Adonis, warned the world that, if Londoners do not raise their two-thirds share, "the Mayor understands that Crossrail will collapse ... ".
Mention Crossrail to Boris Johnson and his normally open, cheerful visage changes to that of a parent just told his kids are on drugs. He starts to shake. When reminded that he once said Crossrail was "one of those times you have to say, get in that hole and keep digging" the look becomes a rictus.
At a farewell dinner at City Hall earlier this month, the outgoing head of Transport for London, Tim O'Toole, hinted at his known private view that Crossrail is capital madness. He pleaded with his colleagues to fight instead for the existing Tube, now teetering on the brink of insolvency. TfL executives know that continuing with Crossrail will eat money and distract management for a decade.
It would yield nothing but bad news stories, while severely disrupting traffic in central London just when it will be recovering from the water mains chaos. Test drilling is already upheaving St Giles.
Crossrail is no longer a railway that makes sense. Back in the Eighties it was way behind the Jubilee line and the then (and now) top priority, a new northeast/southwest line from Hackney to Chelsea and beyond. Lines were needed to fill the Tube-less no-man's-lands of Greenwich and Chelsea/Fulham.
It took Margaret Thatcher to force through the Jubilee line to help the Reichman brothers build Canary Wharf. Chelsea/Hackney has no such power backers.
This project's only real friends have been in the City, eager to fend off the "threat" from Docklands and garner the bulk of the 900,000 extra office jobs predicted for London a decade ago. Nobody expects that need now. The Central line's parallel capacity can easily be increased by station improvements and better management.
Crossrail's backers have duly fallen back on that catch-all for any extravagant project, "urban regeneration". But that involves taking the line far out to the east, at further cost. For all the efforts of consultants to prove otherwise, this line is neither profitable nor a priority for economic renewal.
Boris Johnson now has a golden chance. He knows the capital must tighten its belt somehow - especially after he failed to curb the gargantuan appetite of the Olympics (costing more than half the £16billion total for Crossrail).
Johnson has already had to end his predecessor's costly fantasies, the Thames Gateway bridge, the Cross-river tram and the Dagenham light railway extension.
The Government has offered £5.6billion to the Crossrail budget. The rest must come from a raised London business rate (£3.5billion), borrowing against so-called train access charges (£2.3billion) and £2.7billion from TfL, this time borrowing against future fares.
Given the recent history of Tube finances, these figures are wholly unreal. TfL is close to technical bankruptcy. Borrowing against future revenue is mad, especially when it has already been assigned to meet Crossrail's running costs. Has London learned nothing about dodgy accounting from the past five years of such projects?
Meanwhile the City Corporation is offering a meagre £200million, on top of which is budgeted £150million from City businesses and, once upon a time, £230million from the airports authority, BAA. Lord Adonis claims this amounts to a further £750million, which is inconceivable. The truth is that Crossrail is another financial pig in a poke.
The Government has already poured £2billion in extra guilt money into the Tube to finance its public-private partnership (PPP), the sunk cost of this now largely aborted scheme. No minister or official has ever taken responsibility for it - indeed the official, Shriti Vadera, has been rewarded with both a peerage and a ministry.
In addition, the Government has pledged a huge £39billion to TfL over the next decade, a sum higher than anything conceived during nationalisation. This, it says, will have to embrace the completion of the PPP scheme and Crossrail. But the latter is not formally ring-fenced.
This is the Mayor's great opportunity. He has a £1.4billion hole in his transport budget already and must somehow fund £3billion of debt left over from the Treasury's collapsed Metronet infrastructure company.
Adonis said last November that there was no way he would plug this hole, despite it being one of the Government's own creation. He could hardly have given a more direct indication of his willingness to see Crossrail crash.
Johnson could now argue that the £5.6billion for Crossrail be switched to other Tube projects, such as resignalling the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines and replacing Metropolitan line stock, projects that may anyway have to be postponed to meet the cost of Crossrail. Cancelling the latter would relieve the Tube budget of a tidal wave of uncertain costs now advancing down the track.
This would enable Johnson to declare himself the saviour of London's Underground railway, after a decade of mismanagement and financial chaos.
By liberating himself from Crossrail and demanding that London be allowed to keep its transport grant, he could begin to reconstruct TfL's finances and meet its voracious appetite for new signals, stations and rolling stock. He could declare a clean slate.
Johnson need not fear the Government on this: if ministers wanted Crossrail they would have paid for it. He need not fear the City.
He can use the recession as an excuse to put this white elephant to sleep while garnering the popularity of restoring London's transport system to sanity. But first he must kill Crossrail.
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Simon Jenkins is absolutely right, Crossrail is a white elephant already, is not needed and does not create the missing transport links that London actually needs. Nobody commenting here has actually given a good, sound reason for it to continue, only the usual nefarious rubbish about regeneration which is wholly unevidenced and which does not stand up to the most basic scrutiny.
Boris should kill off Crossrail now and spend the money on the Tube which desperately needs it.
- Matt, London, UK
Stuff Crossrail, i want a Cross Bridge. Trying to get across the river in east London is a nightmare.
A new Thames Gateway bridge is a MUST.
- Mr S.Port, London
Crossrail is vital to London, the South East, the whole UK.£36 billion in benefits to the GDP, 14,000 jobs created, many more other jobs also created as a result to service this great project.
Yes, of course invest in the existing Tube network but as well as Crossrail not at its expense.
Regeneration, modernisation and investment are a damn sight better that stagnation.
- Luke, London
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KHOODEELAAR! has been telling you so for more than 5 years now! Crossrail is crass! Now EVEN a CRASS role playing, Crassrail-peddling nostandards EVENING STANDARD editor, Simon Jenkins, says so as well! If Boris Johnson is not bonkers, he will pay heed to Simon jenkins. We know that Boris is too biased/prejudiced/ill-advised/narrow-minded/racist to say he would listen to Khoodeelaar! So let him say he ‘could’ and therefore he would listen to Simon Jenkins instead.....We shall be publishing some of the thousands of items we have written and published saying the same thing for 5 years and 4 months... SCRAP wasteful, DIVERSIONARY Crossrail now...
[To be continued]
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23681951-details/Crossrail+will+eat+money.+Kill+it,+Boris,+and+save+the+bankrupt+Tube+instead/article.do
HEADLINES:
Three cleared of aiding 7/7 bombers..... Travel warning as swine flu hits UK..... Flu could hit 40% of UK population..... Mother detained over sons' deaths..... PM defends expenses plan 'progress'..... Stabbing death: Four men questioned..... Fresh appeal to clear bomber's name..... UK work hours opt-out to continue..... Unions' anger over rail job losses..... Collins suggests a Camilla makeover.....
Make do and mend: Engineering work on the Waterloo and City line. The Underground is teetering on the brink of insolvency
Crossrail will eat money. Kill it, Boris, and save the bankrupt Tube instead
Simon Jenkins
28.04.09
Kill Crossrail. Kill it now. Offer it up as London's gift to public sector sanity, while there is still time to avoid millions of pounds climbing into billions on a project that London does not need. What London needs is a fully working, modernised Tube. So kill Crossrail to save the Tube.
Crossrail, with a completely new rail tunnel from Paddington to Liverpool Street, has few friends. It has been stopped and restarted too many times to count over the past quarter-century. When Gordon Brown said in 2007 that "it will definitely proceed", sceptics sensed the cold hand of death grip its throat.
When Whitehall set out a tripartite funding package for the line in 2008, the caveats and qualifications grew in number. In an interview in February the transport minister, Lord Adonis, warned the world that, if Londoners do not raise their two-thirds share, "the Mayor understands that Crossrail will collapse ... ".
Mention Crossrail to Boris Johnson and his normally open, cheerful visage changes to that of a parent just told his kids are on drugs. He starts to shake. When reminded that he once said Crossrail was "one of those times you have to say, get in that hole and keep digging" the look becomes a rictus.
At a farewell dinner at City Hall earlier this month, the outgoing head of Transport for London, Tim O'Toole, hinted at his known private view that Crossrail is capital madness. He pleaded with his colleagues to fight instead for the existing Tube, now teetering on the brink of insolvency. TfL executives know that continuing with Crossrail will eat money and distract management for a decade.
It would yield nothing but bad news stories, while severely disrupting traffic in central London just when it will be recovering from the water mains chaos. Test drilling is already upheaving St Giles.
Crossrail is no longer a railway that makes sense. Back in the Eighties it was way behind the Jubilee line and the then (and now) top priority, a new northeast/southwest line from Hackney to Chelsea and beyond. Lines were needed to fill the Tube-less no-man's-lands of Greenwich and Chelsea/Fulham.
It took Margaret Thatcher to force through the Jubilee line to help the Reichman brothers build Canary Wharf. Chelsea/Hackney has no such power backers.
This project's only real friends have been in the City, eager to fend off the "threat" from Docklands and garner the bulk of the 900,000 extra office jobs predicted for London a decade ago. Nobody expects that need now. The Central line's parallel capacity can easily be increased by station improvements and better management.
Crossrail's backers have duly fallen back on that catch-all for any extravagant project, "urban regeneration". But that involves taking the line far out to the east, at further cost. For all the efforts of consultants to prove otherwise, this line is neither profitable nor a priority for economic renewal.
Boris Johnson now has a golden chance. He knows the capital must tighten its belt somehow - especially after he failed to curb the gargantuan appetite of the Olympics (costing more than half the £16billion total for Crossrail).
Johnson has already had to end his predecessor's costly fantasies, the Thames Gateway bridge, the Cross-river tram and the Dagenham light railway extension.
The Government has offered £5.6billion to the Crossrail budget. The rest must come from a raised London business rate (£3.5billion), borrowing against so-called train access charges (£2.3billion) and £2.7billion from TfL, this time borrowing against future fares.
Given the recent history of Tube finances, these figures are wholly unreal. TfL is close to technical bankruptcy. Borrowing against future revenue is mad, especially when it has already been assigned to meet Crossrail's running costs. Has London learned nothing about dodgy accounting from the past five years of such projects?
Meanwhile the City Corporation is offering a meagre £200million, on top of which is budgeted £150million from City businesses and, once upon a time, £230million from the airports authority, BAA. Lord Adonis claims this amounts to a further £750million, which is inconceivable. The truth is that Crossrail is another financial pig in a poke.
The Government has already poured £2billion in extra guilt money into the Tube to finance its public-private partnership (PPP), the sunk cost of this now largely aborted scheme. No minister or official has ever taken responsibility for it - indeed the official, Shriti Vadera, has been rewarded with both a peerage and a ministry.
In addition, the Government has pledged a huge £39billion to TfL over the next decade, a sum higher than anything conceived during nationalisation. This, it says, will have to embrace the completion of the PPP scheme and Crossrail. But the latter is not formally ring-fenced.
This is the Mayor's great opportunity. He has a £1.4billion hole in his transport budget already and must somehow fund £3billion of debt left over from the Treasury's collapsed Metronet infrastructure company.
Adonis said last November that there was no way he would plug this hole, despite it being one of the Government's own creation. He could hardly have given a more direct indication of his willingness to see Crossrail crash.
Johnson could now argue that the £5.6billion for Crossrail be switched to other Tube projects, such as resignalling the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines and replacing Metropolitan line stock, projects that may anyway have to be postponed to meet the cost of Crossrail. Cancelling the latter would relieve the Tube budget of a tidal wave of uncertain costs now advancing down the track.
This would enable Johnson to declare himself the saviour of London's Underground railway, after a decade of mismanagement and financial chaos.
By liberating himself from Crossrail and demanding that London be allowed to keep its transport grant, he could begin to reconstruct TfL's finances and meet its voracious appetite for new signals, stations and rolling stock. He could declare a clean slate.
Johnson need not fear the Government on this: if ministers wanted Crossrail they would have paid for it. He need not fear the City.
He can use the recession as an excuse to put this white elephant to sleep while garnering the popularity of restoring London's transport system to sanity. But first he must kill Crossrail.
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Simon Jenkins is absolutely right, Crossrail is a white elephant already, is not needed and does not create the missing transport links that London actually needs. Nobody commenting here has actually given a good, sound reason for it to continue, only the usual nefarious rubbish about regeneration which is wholly unevidenced and which does not stand up to the most basic scrutiny.
Boris should kill off Crossrail now and spend the money on the Tube which desperately needs it.
- Matt, London, UK
Stuff Crossrail, i want a Cross Bridge. Trying to get across the river in east London is a nightmare.
A new Thames Gateway bridge is a MUST.
- Mr S.Port, London
Crossrail is vital to London, the South East, the whole UK.£36 billion in benefits to the GDP, 14,000 jobs created, many more other jobs also created as a result to service this great project.
Yes, of course invest in the existing Tube network but as well as Crossrail not at its expense.
Regeneration, modernisation and investment are a damn sight better that stagnation.
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" Oona King had let down East End constituents" - women at Bow West
© The Author / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 07.03.2006 22:12 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | London | World
Two women at the Bow West campaign meeting against Crossrail attacks on the East End spoke about the way that Oona King had let the community down.
Two women at the Bow West campaign meeting against Crossrail attacks on the East End spoke about the way that Oona King had let the community down.
The women were speaking in response to the campaign speeches by local MP George Galloway and Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque, held at the St Paul's way Church in Bow East London
The meeting was chaired by community activist Carole Swords who is also seeking election to Tower Hamlets Council at the 4 May 2006 elections.
The meeting was politically charged top boiling point at times.
This was caused by the response there of a batch of Blairite Oona King baggage carriers of the pre 5 may 20905 days.
One was fingered as soon as he opened his mouth.
George Galloway pounced on Josh Peck and described him a lair and accused Peck of extreme ignorance about Parliamentary procedure.
This was caused by Peck’s accusation that Galloway had not been doing enough parliamentary representation of the relevant matter.
The other tense moments involved Michael Keith whose presence at the meeting was extensively ridiculed by the sponsor of the meeting, George Galloway.
[Fortier files follow shortly]
The details log on
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
© The Author / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://khoodeelaar.com
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I heard tonight at Bow West of Oona King's embarrassing antics
07.03.2006 23:03
Like many members [ and even more ex Members] of the Labour Party in Tower Hamlets I was at tonight’s campaign meeting held at St Paul's Church in Bow West..
I could not believe my ears as the women speakers described how insulted they had felt in the way that Oona King had behaved whilst still the local MP.
One woman evens aid that she was incredulous with disbelief when she eventually got to meet Oona King only last year - 8 years after Oona King had first got elected.
I was also amazed to see that Tower Hamlets Council leader Michael Keith turned up.
He was preceded by a few minutes by Denise Jones and he had with him two or three others from the Council.
I also witnessed how George Galloway gave Michael Keith a full run for his money.
And I was pleased that meeting chair Carole Swords was able to joke about throwing Michael Keith out of the meeting if he did not stop heckling and disrupting the meeting!
I know that Michael Keith as Council leader has had Carole Swords thrown out of the Town Hall in the past.
What I also noted was how pathetic Joshua Peck is.
When he was called a liar by George Galloway, Peck lost whatever political awareness he might have pretended to have had. He could not come back to George Galloway with either argument. Or reason. Or challenge.
The same was with Michael Keith and Denise Jones.
What we witnessed at that meeting in Bow West may well be the picture of demonstration that will be the permanent picture of today’s Blair Council after 4 May 2006.
That council has got to be better than it is with the likes of Michael Keith at its helm.
We need to stop Crossrail and if tonight’s meeting was anything to go by, there has got to be a change for the better on 4 May 2006.
I am very pleased that I went along to that meeting on a wetly miserable evening.
Everything that Khoodeelaar! Campaigner Muhammad Haque said was worth the trip. In particular, his comment about the lack of effective Opposition and effective scrutiny from an effective Opposition on Tower Hamlets Council was so timely and true.
Well done to Carole Swords for organising the meeting.
Well done to George Galloway for paying for booking the room.
Labour Party member Bethnal Green and Bow
.
08.03.2006 00:10
"George Galloway pounced on Josh Peck and described him a lair"
Was there also a pot there calling a kettle black?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$oil$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Galloway$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Saddam$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Publicity$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
.
Wast there a pot....
08.03.2006 08:56
There indeed was a pot!
And that pot was personified by Michael Keith and the huddle of his Blairite chums that managed to seat at the back of the row on the right.
When George Galloway called Josh Peck a liar, it was obvious that Galloway spoke with accurate knowledge about what Josh Peck's background had been. In fact, as Galloway pointed out, Josh Peck had been a close friend of Oona King’s.
What Galloway did not say - and he deserves thanks for restraint on that - was that Michael Keith had been [and remains] as close to Oona King, if not closer, as Josh Peck.
And Keith was already mentally numbed after he had been demolished by the two main speakers before Josh Peck unwisely asked a very ignorant question which he had hoped would catch Galloway out.
It did not.
It gave Galloway the perfect excuse to expose Josh Peck in a way that said more about the emptiness of the Blair lot in Tower Hamlets than it does about a corresponding lack of purpose or integrity on the part of George Galloway.
What came across at the meeting was that the Blair Majority on Tower Hamlets Council was just that -a Blair majority.
It was unlikely to remain so after the 4 May 2006 polls.
And Josh Peck is unlikely to feature in any elected majority on Tower Hamlets Council.
Bethnal Green and Bow Resident
So. What.
08.03.2006 14:10
So. At a meeting sponsored by George Galloway, two women stand up and say they were disappointed by the MP he replaced.
Erm... how on earth is that news? Supporters-of-Respect-say-they-prefer-it-to-another-political-party-shock!
You could at least be bothered to report what they actually said, even if whatever it was is mind-blowingly predictable.
Could someone explain why this kind of blatant party-propaganda posting isn't hidden?
TeachazPet
"So what"
08.03.2006 19:32
So what?
You still don’t get it.
So she was ousted from the seat.
So women like the two that spoke at that meeting refused to vote for Oona King.
So Oona King is now faking even more furiously than she would have been had she been re-elected.
What is faking?
Faking an image that has political substance.
She has none.
Faking is what she is condemned to do.
And what an utter waste of 8 years of our electoral time she had committed!
Hanbury Street shop keeper
______________
Seminar probe into Crossrail hole lies, 3.30 PM Sunday 19 March 2006
© The Editor / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 17.03.2006 15:24 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London
The 'hybrid' Crossrail Bill [House of Commons, London] has been so discredited in the community in London's East End over the past months due to the uncontrolled lies told for it by the controlling clique on East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council that a full scale examination of those lies as well as of the fundamental flaws of the Crossrail Bill is being undertaken at a Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar on Sunday.
Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar
3.30 PM [1530 Hrs GMT] Sunday
19 March 2006
Venue – Brick Lane London E1 Area
[Registered participants have been sent the details of the venue and programme papers]
The Seminar will have this format and general contents
Part ONE
1. Introduction - 10 mins
Followed by SEMINAR briefs on:
2. What is the Crossrail hole?
3. The contents of the Crossrail Bill [UK House of Commons]
4. [A] the contents of the Tower Hamlets Council’s relevant documentation along with the contents of the petition [so far] [B] The Arup ‘reports’.
5. [A] The Khoodeelaar – the campaign so far – and [B] the Khoodeelaar! Portfolio of demands
6. The Crossrail hole Environment
7. The Crossrail hole Parliamentary representation
8. The Crossrail hole Council representation
9. The Crossrail hole Greater London Assembly
10. The Crossrail hole Mayor of London
Part TWO
11. Groups
Part THREE
12. Plenary Groups Reports Back Q&A etc
13. Summary of What KHOODEELAAR! Does next
14. Conclusion
© The Editor/Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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London Architect Kay Jordan denounces Crossrail hole lies- Reports
20.03.2006 13:14
Reports start with Kay Jordan’s address to the Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail-hole-Council Seminar
The Tower Hamlets Council lies on the Crossrail hole
Kay Jordan
Architect and
Director of the Spitalfields Small Business Association
[Brick Lane London E1 area]
Kay Jordan spoke of her long experience working in the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
She said that as an architect she knew how to look at a design and how to make sense of it. And to her, the Crossrail hole plan and design did not make sense.
Not when they were compared with the puff and the publicity that Crossrail had been making about the hole plan.
She said that she had also spoken to people with expert knowledge on tunnel construction and on railways.
In their views, the Crossrail hole plan was dodgy and unnecessary.
The devastation that the Crossrail hole would bring to the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area would be huge and irreparable.
Kay Jordan said that she was also very concerned about the social dislocation and destruction that the Crossrail hole would cause.
She said that she found it very hard to see any logic or reason in how the ‘Borough’ of Tower Hamlets [the Council] had behaved on the matter.
They had not told the truth and they had not shown any inclination that they cared much for the truth.
She referred to the Arup report which contained far more detailed acknowledgement of the warnings that Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been giving to Tower Hamlets Council about the hole than would be admitted by the present holders of controlling positions on Tower Hamlets Council
Kay Jordan also mentioned the fact that Crossrail had admitted to her to paying £1 million to Tower Hamlets Council for the ‘design’ alterations of the ‘Idea Store’ Whitechapel.
She said that she found that sum way out of proportion. Explaining the relationship between the cost and market value of the whole ‘Idea Store’ Building, she said that the sum of £1 Million seemed very dodgy and a mysterious amount for the alleged design alteration ‘work’.
There was more to that £1 Million payment by Crossrail to Tower Hamlets Council than may at first appear even from that portrait of Council misrepresentation of the Crossrail hole facts.
[More summaries will be published on
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
in the next 72 hours from the speech by Kay Jordan at the Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 No to Crossrail-hole Council Seminar held on Sunday 19 March 2006]
[This khoodeelaaronline report authored and posted 1215 Hrs GMT Monday 20 March 2006]
khoodeelaaronline e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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" Oona King had let down East End constituents" - women at Bow West
© The Author / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 07.03.2006 22:12 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | London | World
Two women at the Bow West campaign meeting against Crossrail attacks on the East End spoke about the way that Oona King had let the community down.
Two women at the Bow West campaign meeting against Crossrail attacks on the East End spoke about the way that Oona King had let the community down.
The women were speaking in response to the campaign speeches by local MP George Galloway and Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque, held at the St Paul's way Church in Bow East London
The meeting was chaired by community activist Carole Swords who is also seeking election to Tower Hamlets Council at the 4 May 2006 elections.
The meeting was politically charged top boiling point at times.
This was caused by the response there of a batch of Blairite Oona King baggage carriers of the pre 5 may 20905 days.
One was fingered as soon as he opened his mouth.
George Galloway pounced on Josh Peck and described him a lair and accused Peck of extreme ignorance about Parliamentary procedure.
This was caused by Peck’s accusation that Galloway had not been doing enough parliamentary representation of the relevant matter.
The other tense moments involved Michael Keith whose presence at the meeting was extensively ridiculed by the sponsor of the meeting, George Galloway.
[Fortier files follow shortly]
The details log on
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
© The Author / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://khoodeelaar.com
Download this article in pdf format >> Email this article to someone >> Submit an addition or make a quick comment on this article >>
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I heard tonight at Bow West of Oona King's embarrassing antics
07.03.2006 23:03
Like many members [ and even more ex Members] of the Labour Party in Tower Hamlets I was at tonight’s campaign meeting held at St Paul's Church in Bow West..
I could not believe my ears as the women speakers described how insulted they had felt in the way that Oona King had behaved whilst still the local MP.
One woman evens aid that she was incredulous with disbelief when she eventually got to meet Oona King only last year - 8 years after Oona King had first got elected.
I was also amazed to see that Tower Hamlets Council leader Michael Keith turned up.
He was preceded by a few minutes by Denise Jones and he had with him two or three others from the Council.
I also witnessed how George Galloway gave Michael Keith a full run for his money.
And I was pleased that meeting chair Carole Swords was able to joke about throwing Michael Keith out of the meeting if he did not stop heckling and disrupting the meeting!
I know that Michael Keith as Council leader has had Carole Swords thrown out of the Town Hall in the past.
What I also noted was how pathetic Joshua Peck is.
When he was called a liar by George Galloway, Peck lost whatever political awareness he might have pretended to have had. He could not come back to George Galloway with either argument. Or reason. Or challenge.
The same was with Michael Keith and Denise Jones.
What we witnessed at that meeting in Bow West may well be the picture of demonstration that will be the permanent picture of today’s Blair Council after 4 May 2006.
That council has got to be better than it is with the likes of Michael Keith at its helm.
We need to stop Crossrail and if tonight’s meeting was anything to go by, there has got to be a change for the better on 4 May 2006.
I am very pleased that I went along to that meeting on a wetly miserable evening.
Everything that Khoodeelaar! Campaigner Muhammad Haque said was worth the trip. In particular, his comment about the lack of effective Opposition and effective scrutiny from an effective Opposition on Tower Hamlets Council was so timely and true.
Well done to Carole Swords for organising the meeting.
Well done to George Galloway for paying for booking the room.
Labour Party member Bethnal Green and Bow
.
08.03.2006 00:10
"George Galloway pounced on Josh Peck and described him a lair"
Was there also a pot there calling a kettle black?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$oil$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Galloway$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Saddam$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Publicity$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
.
Wast there a pot....
08.03.2006 08:56
There indeed was a pot!
And that pot was personified by Michael Keith and the huddle of his Blairite chums that managed to seat at the back of the row on the right.
When George Galloway called Josh Peck a liar, it was obvious that Galloway spoke with accurate knowledge about what Josh Peck's background had been. In fact, as Galloway pointed out, Josh Peck had been a close friend of Oona King’s.
What Galloway did not say - and he deserves thanks for restraint on that - was that Michael Keith had been [and remains] as close to Oona King, if not closer, as Josh Peck.
And Keith was already mentally numbed after he had been demolished by the two main speakers before Josh Peck unwisely asked a very ignorant question which he had hoped would catch Galloway out.
It did not.
It gave Galloway the perfect excuse to expose Josh Peck in a way that said more about the emptiness of the Blair lot in Tower Hamlets than it does about a corresponding lack of purpose or integrity on the part of George Galloway.
What came across at the meeting was that the Blair Majority on Tower Hamlets Council was just that -a Blair majority.
It was unlikely to remain so after the 4 May 2006 polls.
And Josh Peck is unlikely to feature in any elected majority on Tower Hamlets Council.
Bethnal Green and Bow Resident
So. What.
08.03.2006 14:10
So. At a meeting sponsored by George Galloway, two women stand up and say they were disappointed by the MP he replaced.
Erm... how on earth is that news? Supporters-of-Respect-say-they-prefer-it-to-another-political-party-shock!
You could at least be bothered to report what they actually said, even if whatever it was is mind-blowingly predictable.
Could someone explain why this kind of blatant party-propaganda posting isn't hidden?
TeachazPet
"So what"
08.03.2006 19:32
So what?
You still don’t get it.
So she was ousted from the seat.
So women like the two that spoke at that meeting refused to vote for Oona King.
So Oona King is now faking even more furiously than she would have been had she been re-elected.
What is faking?
Faking an image that has political substance.
She has none.
Faking is what she is condemned to do.
And what an utter waste of 8 years of our electoral time she had committed!
Hanbury Street shop keeper
______________
Seminar probe into Crossrail hole lies, 3.30 PM Sunday 19 March 2006
© The Editor / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 17.03.2006 15:24 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London
The 'hybrid' Crossrail Bill [House of Commons, London] has been so discredited in the community in London's East End over the past months due to the uncontrolled lies told for it by the controlling clique on East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council that a full scale examination of those lies as well as of the fundamental flaws of the Crossrail Bill is being undertaken at a Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar on Sunday.
Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar
3.30 PM [1530 Hrs GMT] Sunday
19 March 2006
Venue – Brick Lane London E1 Area
[Registered participants have been sent the details of the venue and programme papers]
The Seminar will have this format and general contents
Part ONE
1. Introduction - 10 mins
Followed by SEMINAR briefs on:
2. What is the Crossrail hole?
3. The contents of the Crossrail Bill [UK House of Commons]
4. [A] the contents of the Tower Hamlets Council’s relevant documentation along with the contents of the petition [so far] [B] The Arup ‘reports’.
5. [A] The Khoodeelaar – the campaign so far – and [B] the Khoodeelaar! Portfolio of demands
6. The Crossrail hole Environment
7. The Crossrail hole Parliamentary representation
8. The Crossrail hole Council representation
9. The Crossrail hole Greater London Assembly
10. The Crossrail hole Mayor of London
Part TWO
11. Groups
Part THREE
12. Plenary Groups Reports Back Q&A etc
13. Summary of What KHOODEELAAR! Does next
14. Conclusion
© The Editor/Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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Hide the following comment
London Architect Kay Jordan denounces Crossrail hole lies- Reports
20.03.2006 13:14
Reports start with Kay Jordan’s address to the Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail-hole-Council Seminar
The Tower Hamlets Council lies on the Crossrail hole
Kay Jordan
Architect and
Director of the Spitalfields Small Business Association
[Brick Lane London E1 area]
Kay Jordan spoke of her long experience working in the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
She said that as an architect she knew how to look at a design and how to make sense of it. And to her, the Crossrail hole plan and design did not make sense.
Not when they were compared with the puff and the publicity that Crossrail had been making about the hole plan.
She said that she had also spoken to people with expert knowledge on tunnel construction and on railways.
In their views, the Crossrail hole plan was dodgy and unnecessary.
The devastation that the Crossrail hole would bring to the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area would be huge and irreparable.
Kay Jordan said that she was also very concerned about the social dislocation and destruction that the Crossrail hole would cause.
She said that she found it very hard to see any logic or reason in how the ‘Borough’ of Tower Hamlets [the Council] had behaved on the matter.
They had not told the truth and they had not shown any inclination that they cared much for the truth.
She referred to the Arup report which contained far more detailed acknowledgement of the warnings that Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been giving to Tower Hamlets Council about the hole than would be admitted by the present holders of controlling positions on Tower Hamlets Council
Kay Jordan also mentioned the fact that Crossrail had admitted to her to paying £1 million to Tower Hamlets Council for the ‘design’ alterations of the ‘Idea Store’ Whitechapel.
She said that she found that sum way out of proportion. Explaining the relationship between the cost and market value of the whole ‘Idea Store’ Building, she said that the sum of £1 Million seemed very dodgy and a mysterious amount for the alleged design alteration ‘work’.
There was more to that £1 Million payment by Crossrail to Tower Hamlets Council than may at first appear even from that portrait of Council misrepresentation of the Crossrail hole facts.
[More summaries will be published on
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
in the next 72 hours from the speech by Kay Jordan at the Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 No to Crossrail-hole Council Seminar held on Sunday 19 March 2006]
[This khoodeelaaronline report authored and posted 1215 Hrs GMT Monday 20 March 2006]
khoodeelaaronline e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
KHOODEELAAR! action archive: Seminar probe into Crossrail hole lies, 3.30 PM Sunday 19 March 2006
Seminar probe into Crossrail hole lies, 3.30 PM Sunday 19 March 2006
© The Editor / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 17.03.2006 15:24 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London
The 'hybrid' Crossrail Bill [House of Commons, London] has been so discredited in the community in London's East End over the past months due to the uncontrolled lies told for it by the controlling clique on East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council that a full scale examination of those lies as well as of the fundamental flaws of the Crossrail Bill is being undertaken at a Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar on Sunday.
Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar
3.30 PM [1530 Hrs GMT] Sunday
19 March 2006
Venue – Brick Lane London E1 Area
[Registered participants have been sent the details of the venue and programme papers]
The Seminar will have this format and general contents
Part ONE
1. Introduction - 10 mins
Followed by SEMINAR briefs on:
2. What is the Crossrail hole?
3. The contents of the Crossrail Bill [UK House of Commons]
4. [A] the contents of the Tower Hamlets Council’s relevant documentation along with the contents of the petition [so far] [B] The Arup ‘reports’.
5. [A] The Khoodeelaar – the campaign so far – and [B] the Khoodeelaar! Portfolio of demands
6. The Crossrail hole Environment
7. The Crossrail hole Parliamentary representation
8. The Crossrail hole Council representation
9. The Crossrail hole Greater London Assembly
10. The Crossrail hole Mayor of London
Part TWO
11. Groups
Part THREE
12. Plenary Groups Reports Back Q&A etc
13. Summary of What KHOODEELAAR! Does next
14. Conclusion
© The Editor/Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
Comments
Hide the following comment
London Architect Kay Jordan denounces Crossrail hole lies- Reports
20.03.2006 13:14
Reports start with Kay Jordan’s address to the Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail-hole-Council Seminar
The Tower Hamlets Council lies on the Crossrail hole
Kay Jordan
Architect and
Director of the Spitalfields Small Business Association
[Brick Lane London E1 area]
Kay Jordan spoke of her long experience working in the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
She said that as an architect she knew how to look at a design and how to make sense of it. And to her, the Crossrail hole plan and design did not make sense.
Not when they were compared with the puff and the publicity that Crossrail had been making about the hole plan.
She said that she had also spoken to people with expert knowledge on tunnel construction and on railways.
In their views, the Crossrail hole plan was dodgy and unnecessary.
The devastation that the Crossrail hole would bring to the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area would be huge and irreparable.
Kay Jordan said that she was also very concerned about the social dislocation and destruction that the Crossrail hole would cause.
She said that she found it very hard to see any logic or reason in how the ‘Borough’ of Tower Hamlets [the Council] had behaved on the matter.
They had not told the truth and they had not shown any inclination that they cared much for the truth.
She referred to the Arup report which contained far more detailed acknowledgement of the warnings that Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been giving to Tower Hamlets Council about the hole than would be admitted by the present holders of controlling positions on Tower Hamlets Council
Kay Jordan also mentioned the fact that Crossrail had admitted to her to paying £1 million to Tower Hamlets Council for the ‘design’ alterations of the ‘Idea Store’ Whitechapel.
She said that she found that sum way out of proportion. Explaining the relationship between the cost and market value of the whole ‘Idea Store’ Building, she said that the sum of £1 Million seemed very dodgy and a mysterious amount for the alleged design alteration ‘work’.
There was more to that £1 Million payment by Crossrail to Tower Hamlets Council than may at first appear even from that portrait of Council misrepresentation of the Crossrail hole facts.
[More summaries will be published on
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
in the next 72 hours from the speech by Kay Jordan at the Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 No to Crossrail-hole Council Seminar held on Sunday 19 March 2006]
[This khoodeelaaronline report authored and posted 1215 Hrs GMT Monday 20 March 2006]
khoodeelaaronline e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
© The Editor / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 17.03.2006 15:24 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London
The 'hybrid' Crossrail Bill [House of Commons, London] has been so discredited in the community in London's East End over the past months due to the uncontrolled lies told for it by the controlling clique on East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council that a full scale examination of those lies as well as of the fundamental flaws of the Crossrail Bill is being undertaken at a Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar on Sunday.
Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 Seminar
3.30 PM [1530 Hrs GMT] Sunday
19 March 2006
Venue – Brick Lane London E1 Area
[Registered participants have been sent the details of the venue and programme papers]
The Seminar will have this format and general contents
Part ONE
1. Introduction - 10 mins
Followed by SEMINAR briefs on:
2. What is the Crossrail hole?
3. The contents of the Crossrail Bill [UK House of Commons]
4. [A] the contents of the Tower Hamlets Council’s relevant documentation along with the contents of the petition [so far] [B] The Arup ‘reports’.
5. [A] The Khoodeelaar – the campaign so far – and [B] the Khoodeelaar! Portfolio of demands
6. The Crossrail hole Environment
7. The Crossrail hole Parliamentary representation
8. The Crossrail hole Council representation
9. The Crossrail hole Greater London Assembly
10. The Crossrail hole Mayor of London
Part TWO
11. Groups
Part THREE
12. Plenary Groups Reports Back Q&A etc
13. Summary of What KHOODEELAAR! Does next
14. Conclusion
© The Editor/Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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London Architect Kay Jordan denounces Crossrail hole lies- Reports
20.03.2006 13:14
Reports start with Kay Jordan’s address to the Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail-hole-Council Seminar
The Tower Hamlets Council lies on the Crossrail hole
Kay Jordan
Architect and
Director of the Spitalfields Small Business Association
[Brick Lane London E1 area]
Kay Jordan spoke of her long experience working in the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
She said that as an architect she knew how to look at a design and how to make sense of it. And to her, the Crossrail hole plan and design did not make sense.
Not when they were compared with the puff and the publicity that Crossrail had been making about the hole plan.
She said that she had also spoken to people with expert knowledge on tunnel construction and on railways.
In their views, the Crossrail hole plan was dodgy and unnecessary.
The devastation that the Crossrail hole would bring to the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area would be huge and irreparable.
Kay Jordan said that she was also very concerned about the social dislocation and destruction that the Crossrail hole would cause.
She said that she found it very hard to see any logic or reason in how the ‘Borough’ of Tower Hamlets [the Council] had behaved on the matter.
They had not told the truth and they had not shown any inclination that they cared much for the truth.
She referred to the Arup report which contained far more detailed acknowledgement of the warnings that Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been giving to Tower Hamlets Council about the hole than would be admitted by the present holders of controlling positions on Tower Hamlets Council
Kay Jordan also mentioned the fact that Crossrail had admitted to her to paying £1 million to Tower Hamlets Council for the ‘design’ alterations of the ‘Idea Store’ Whitechapel.
She said that she found that sum way out of proportion. Explaining the relationship between the cost and market value of the whole ‘Idea Store’ Building, she said that the sum of £1 Million seemed very dodgy and a mysterious amount for the alleged design alteration ‘work’.
There was more to that £1 Million payment by Crossrail to Tower Hamlets Council than may at first appear even from that portrait of Council misrepresentation of the Crossrail hole facts.
[More summaries will be published on
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
in the next 72 hours from the speech by Kay Jordan at the Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 No to Crossrail-hole Council Seminar held on Sunday 19 March 2006]
[This khoodeelaaronline report authored and posted 1215 Hrs GMT Monday 20 March 2006]
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KHOODEELAAR! ACTION archive from 25 January 2006: When we again "reasoned" with CRASS role playing Crossrail hole-inviting 'local' T Hamlets Counclil
2050 Hrs GMT London Monday 27 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! ACTION archive from 25 January 2006:
When we again reasoned with the CRASS role playing Crossrail hole-inviting 'local' Tower Hamlets Council
[To be continued]
Brick Lane London E1 area says Massive NO to Crossrail hole Bill
© The Author / CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR /LCAN /LAWMEDIA 2006 | 25.01.2006 15:27 | Social Struggles | London
UK Transport Minister Alistair Darling can still avoid very dangerous and unnecessary destruction of vital East End community. Today, KHOODEELAAR has updated Darling on the community’s massive opposition to the Crossrail plan for a hole in the Brick Lane London E1 Area. Over 1000 people turned up to heart campaigners at a meeting on Sunday 22 January 2006. KHOODEELAAR legal notices to Tower Hamlets Council to carry out community demand against Crossrail hole Bill
ALISTAIR DARLING MP TRANSPORT SECRETARY [UK cabinet MINISTER] HAS BEEN SENT A COPY OF THE FOLLOWING KHOODEELAAR LEGAL AND CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATION already served on THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL
“© The Author / CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR /LCAN /LAWMEDIA 2006
KHOODEELAAR!
Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign Against the Crossrail hole Bill/scheme/plan
Khoodeelaar Legal email: lawmedia@yahoo.co.uk
Khoodeelaar campaign updates email bricklanekhoodeelaar@yahoo.co.uk
_____________________________________________________________________
Wednesday 25 January 2005
UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling, MP. Has today been made aware of the notices served on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council
To
Christine Gilbert
Chief Executive
And
Owen Whalley
Head of Major Project Development
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council
Mulberry Place
5 Clove Crescent
London E14 2BG
Dear Ms Gilbert and Mr Whalley
Subject Khoodeelaar campaign meeting –
Demand 22 January 2006 –
The texts [2] sent by fax 25 Jan 2006
1. You both have been sent this morning the main texts of the KHOODEELAAR campaign resolution as delivered and agreed at the meeting on 22 January 2006 held [at the Brady centre, 192 Hanbury street london e1] in the evening of Sunday 22 January 2006 demanding that the london borough of tower hamlets council pass a single motion as their resolution against the Crossrail hole plan/bill as it is in the uk house of commons now and that they do so in the next 11 days and that the resolution be put to the uk parliament and to the uk secretary of state transport department and that the resolution be phrased and drafted in an unambiguous unequivocal way accurately truthfully reflecting and representing the demand of the community.
2. Mr Owen Whalley has been sent the copy – and is being sent this further amplifier and clarifier – because of the central role he has been playing (as the published documents of the lbth council suggest) in the promotion of the Crossrail hole scheme/project/bill as far as the ‘development’ of the Crossrail ‘project’ for the lbth council goes. He has been sent the material also in order for him to be in receipt of what the community has demanded and what he as the designated employee on ‘Crossrail’ in the lbth council has to do so that the community’s lawful and urgent demand is seen to be recognised and implemented by the relevant employees in the council on every relevant occasion.
3. As the same campaign meeting [22 January 2006] also agreed the taking of legal action in the event that tower hamlets council fail to implement the demand, you both are most certainly going to be included as parties in any such action and so you are being sent this in our voluntary compliance with the requirements of natural justice, due process [and other related concepts] and the civil procedure rules.
4. The KHOODEELAAR! Campaign in defence of the BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA and against the Crossrail hole plan/scheme/project/bill is able to confirm to you both today Wednesday 25 January 2006 that we shall include additional demands for the very detailed legal and democratic and economic accountability from the council over any additional costs that tower hamlets council is caused to be embroiled in or involved in or engaged in - whether in any further attempt/s on the parts of those who have access to the finances and the ‘powers’ and the contacts of the london borough of tower hamlets council to justify their roles and their promotions of the Crossrail hole project or in any further unreasonable, irresponsible, improper, undemocratic, anti-social and or ill-conceived egotistic bid/s in defiance of the very clearly expressed demands of the local community and or in defiance of the campaigning organisations representing the fears, needs and demands of the local community against the Crossrail hole plan/scheme/project/bill and you both shall be included in any list of witnesses who will be asked to give evidence on their own roles and the origins of any orders or decisions that caused them to play the parts that you found yourselves playing in defiance of the local community’s clear demand against the Crossrail hole plan/scheme/project Bill.
5. Ms Christine Gilbert has been put on notice since the first quarter of 2004 when the chair of the cbruk organisation (which politically organised the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign during that same period in 2004) initiated the first series of extensive questions which were drafted and put to her concerning the role she had played in advising and or working with or in carrying out the actual intentions of any controlling group member of the lbth council on the Crossrail hole scheme/project/scheme. She has failed to date to deal with those questions and despite two recent [final] reminders has continued to fail or refuse to answer the outstanding questions. She has also failed to provide any lawful or reasonable explanation or lawful justification for her conduct and role concerned in the context of the KHOODEELAAR campaign demands, questions and representations.
6. The statements that have been published in the past two weeks in the name of or by the uses and abuses of the lbth council as the corporate entity and about the Crossrail hole bill have contained more than one contradictory assertion and allusion to alleged facts thus creating new grounds for the community to be able to claim that ‘the TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL’ in general and the identifiable ‘controlling group’ councillors are carrying on conducting themselves in defiance of or in conflict with the wishes and the interests of the local community concerned.
7. The KHOODEELAAR campaign is able to confirm to both Ms Christine Gilbert and Mr Owen Whalley that this communication dated and transmitted on Wednesday 25 January 2006 is being made to both of them as a very last attempt at helping the controlling persons involved in the lbth council over the Crossrail hole scheme/project/ bill avoid placing or pushing the corporate entity of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council and its resources in a very costly confrontation with the community in the East End
8. Mr Owen Whalley’s circular ‘to all members’ of the TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL dated 19 September 2005 contains a misleading statement that is of crucial relevance to us and which statement as put to the meeting of 22 January 2006 and was loudly and clearly rejected by the meeting. That statement is in the last sentence in paragraph two of the circular (‘the petition also makes explicit the council’s opposition to an intervention shaft in Hanbury Street and preference for its relocation to Woodseer Street’.)
9. The meaning of the phrase ‘misleading statement’ in this context is any statement that contradicts the community’s opposition to the [or ‘a’] Crossrail hole, to the [or ‘a’] Crossrail shaft tunnel, to the [or ‘a’] Crossrail hole in THE BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA and in any other part of THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS. This is the position as expressed by the public meeting in support of the khoodeelaar campaign held at the Brady centre on Sunday 22 January 2006. This takes into account the KHOODEELAAR CAMAPAIGN’S remit which recognises the rights of the people in the Mile End area that is also affected by the known Crossrail plans.
10. The KHOODEELAAR campaign is able to confirm that it will treat this document and communication [25 January 2006] as being a reasonable final comprehensive advice, notice and representation to the two most relevant employees in the lbth council of the community’s simple and straightforward demand and position on the role of the LBTH Council in the matter of the Crossrail hole project/scheme/ Bill and of the task that the community has asked the LBTH Council to carry out within the specified time by passing the resolution and then making the same resolution available to the MPs select committee currently sitting to formally consider the relevant aspects of the Crossrail hole Bill [‘the Crossrail Bill’ or the ‘Crossrail hybrid Bill’] in time so that there is no frustration of the community’s wish in the remainder of the process of legislation involved.
KHOODEELAAR campaign demand 22 January 2006 and follow-up legal notice to Christine Gilbert and Owen Whalley concluded at 1436 HRS GMT on Wednesday 25 January 2006
”
© The Author / CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR /LCAN /LAWMEDIA 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
KHOODEELAAR! ACTION archive from 25 January 2006:
When we again reasoned with the CRASS role playing Crossrail hole-inviting 'local' Tower Hamlets Council
[To be continued]
Brick Lane London E1 area says Massive NO to Crossrail hole Bill
© The Author / CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR /LCAN /LAWMEDIA 2006 | 25.01.2006 15:27 | Social Struggles | London
UK Transport Minister Alistair Darling can still avoid very dangerous and unnecessary destruction of vital East End community. Today, KHOODEELAAR has updated Darling on the community’s massive opposition to the Crossrail plan for a hole in the Brick Lane London E1 Area. Over 1000 people turned up to heart campaigners at a meeting on Sunday 22 January 2006. KHOODEELAAR legal notices to Tower Hamlets Council to carry out community demand against Crossrail hole Bill
ALISTAIR DARLING MP TRANSPORT SECRETARY [UK cabinet MINISTER] HAS BEEN SENT A COPY OF THE FOLLOWING KHOODEELAAR LEGAL AND CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATION already served on THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL
“© The Author / CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR /LCAN /LAWMEDIA 2006
KHOODEELAAR!
Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign Against the Crossrail hole Bill/scheme/plan
Khoodeelaar Legal email: lawmedia@yahoo.co.uk
Khoodeelaar campaign updates email bricklanekhoodeelaar@yahoo.co.uk
_____________________________________________________________________
Wednesday 25 January 2005
UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling, MP. Has today been made aware of the notices served on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council
To
Christine Gilbert
Chief Executive
And
Owen Whalley
Head of Major Project Development
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council
Mulberry Place
5 Clove Crescent
London E14 2BG
Dear Ms Gilbert and Mr Whalley
Subject Khoodeelaar campaign meeting –
Demand 22 January 2006 –
The texts [2] sent by fax 25 Jan 2006
1. You both have been sent this morning the main texts of the KHOODEELAAR campaign resolution as delivered and agreed at the meeting on 22 January 2006 held [at the Brady centre, 192 Hanbury street london e1] in the evening of Sunday 22 January 2006 demanding that the london borough of tower hamlets council pass a single motion as their resolution against the Crossrail hole plan/bill as it is in the uk house of commons now and that they do so in the next 11 days and that the resolution be put to the uk parliament and to the uk secretary of state transport department and that the resolution be phrased and drafted in an unambiguous unequivocal way accurately truthfully reflecting and representing the demand of the community.
2. Mr Owen Whalley has been sent the copy – and is being sent this further amplifier and clarifier – because of the central role he has been playing (as the published documents of the lbth council suggest) in the promotion of the Crossrail hole scheme/project/bill as far as the ‘development’ of the Crossrail ‘project’ for the lbth council goes. He has been sent the material also in order for him to be in receipt of what the community has demanded and what he as the designated employee on ‘Crossrail’ in the lbth council has to do so that the community’s lawful and urgent demand is seen to be recognised and implemented by the relevant employees in the council on every relevant occasion.
3. As the same campaign meeting [22 January 2006] also agreed the taking of legal action in the event that tower hamlets council fail to implement the demand, you both are most certainly going to be included as parties in any such action and so you are being sent this in our voluntary compliance with the requirements of natural justice, due process [and other related concepts] and the civil procedure rules.
4. The KHOODEELAAR! Campaign in defence of the BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA and against the Crossrail hole plan/scheme/project/bill is able to confirm to you both today Wednesday 25 January 2006 that we shall include additional demands for the very detailed legal and democratic and economic accountability from the council over any additional costs that tower hamlets council is caused to be embroiled in or involved in or engaged in - whether in any further attempt/s on the parts of those who have access to the finances and the ‘powers’ and the contacts of the london borough of tower hamlets council to justify their roles and their promotions of the Crossrail hole project or in any further unreasonable, irresponsible, improper, undemocratic, anti-social and or ill-conceived egotistic bid/s in defiance of the very clearly expressed demands of the local community and or in defiance of the campaigning organisations representing the fears, needs and demands of the local community against the Crossrail hole plan/scheme/project/bill and you both shall be included in any list of witnesses who will be asked to give evidence on their own roles and the origins of any orders or decisions that caused them to play the parts that you found yourselves playing in defiance of the local community’s clear demand against the Crossrail hole plan/scheme/project Bill.
5. Ms Christine Gilbert has been put on notice since the first quarter of 2004 when the chair of the cbruk organisation (which politically organised the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign during that same period in 2004) initiated the first series of extensive questions which were drafted and put to her concerning the role she had played in advising and or working with or in carrying out the actual intentions of any controlling group member of the lbth council on the Crossrail hole scheme/project/scheme. She has failed to date to deal with those questions and despite two recent [final] reminders has continued to fail or refuse to answer the outstanding questions. She has also failed to provide any lawful or reasonable explanation or lawful justification for her conduct and role concerned in the context of the KHOODEELAAR campaign demands, questions and representations.
6. The statements that have been published in the past two weeks in the name of or by the uses and abuses of the lbth council as the corporate entity and about the Crossrail hole bill have contained more than one contradictory assertion and allusion to alleged facts thus creating new grounds for the community to be able to claim that ‘the TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL’ in general and the identifiable ‘controlling group’ councillors are carrying on conducting themselves in defiance of or in conflict with the wishes and the interests of the local community concerned.
7. The KHOODEELAAR campaign is able to confirm to both Ms Christine Gilbert and Mr Owen Whalley that this communication dated and transmitted on Wednesday 25 January 2006 is being made to both of them as a very last attempt at helping the controlling persons involved in the lbth council over the Crossrail hole scheme/project/ bill avoid placing or pushing the corporate entity of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council and its resources in a very costly confrontation with the community in the East End
8. Mr Owen Whalley’s circular ‘to all members’ of the TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL dated 19 September 2005 contains a misleading statement that is of crucial relevance to us and which statement as put to the meeting of 22 January 2006 and was loudly and clearly rejected by the meeting. That statement is in the last sentence in paragraph two of the circular (‘the petition also makes explicit the council’s opposition to an intervention shaft in Hanbury Street and preference for its relocation to Woodseer Street’.)
9. The meaning of the phrase ‘misleading statement’ in this context is any statement that contradicts the community’s opposition to the [or ‘a’] Crossrail hole, to the [or ‘a’] Crossrail shaft tunnel, to the [or ‘a’] Crossrail hole in THE BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA and in any other part of THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS. This is the position as expressed by the public meeting in support of the khoodeelaar campaign held at the Brady centre on Sunday 22 January 2006. This takes into account the KHOODEELAAR CAMAPAIGN’S remit which recognises the rights of the people in the Mile End area that is also affected by the known Crossrail plans.
10. The KHOODEELAAR campaign is able to confirm that it will treat this document and communication [25 January 2006] as being a reasonable final comprehensive advice, notice and representation to the two most relevant employees in the lbth council of the community’s simple and straightforward demand and position on the role of the LBTH Council in the matter of the Crossrail hole project/scheme/ Bill and of the task that the community has asked the LBTH Council to carry out within the specified time by passing the resolution and then making the same resolution available to the MPs select committee currently sitting to formally consider the relevant aspects of the Crossrail hole Bill [‘the Crossrail Bill’ or the ‘Crossrail hybrid Bill’] in time so that there is no frustration of the community’s wish in the remainder of the process of legislation involved.
KHOODEELAAR campaign demand 22 January 2006 and follow-up legal notice to Christine Gilbert and Owen Whalley concluded at 1436 HRS GMT on Wednesday 25 January 2006
”
© The Author / CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR /LCAN /LAWMEDIA 2006
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on UK Poverty Creation Departmental minister Tony McNulty's 'explanation' - as seen on the C4 News video
2000 Hrs GMT London Monday 27 April 2009
Tony McNulty's 'explanation' is a lethal one. It is to be viewed and heard and understood for all its SQUANDERING effects. More here soon on Mr McNulty and his 'explanations.
[To be continued]
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/unemployment+continues+to+rise/3103607
Unmployment continues to rise
Updated on 22 April 2009
By Andrew Thomas
The number of people out of work in Britain has reached its highest figure since Labour came to power 12 years ago - and shows no sign of abating.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that unemployment topped 2.1 million in the three months to February, an increase of 177,000, the biggest quarterly rise since 1991.
And another set of figures from the ONS, for government borrowing, revealed just how constrained the chancellor will be in spending to get people back to work when he makes the budget announcement.
The final total for 2008-9 was £90bn, well above Treasury predictions, with more than £19bn borrowed in March alone, the highest monthly figure since records began in 1993.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy talks to the employment mininster Tony McNulty.
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, discusses the unemployment figures.
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Tony McNulty's 'explanation' is a lethal one. It is to be viewed and heard and understood for all its SQUANDERING effects. More here soon on Mr McNulty and his 'explanations.
[To be continued]
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/unemployment+continues+to+rise/3103607
Unmployment continues to rise
Updated on 22 April 2009
By Andrew Thomas
The number of people out of work in Britain has reached its highest figure since Labour came to power 12 years ago - and shows no sign of abating.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that unemployment topped 2.1 million in the three months to February, an increase of 177,000, the biggest quarterly rise since 1991.
And another set of figures from the ONS, for government borrowing, revealed just how constrained the chancellor will be in spending to get people back to work when he makes the budget announcement.
The final total for 2008-9 was £90bn, well above Treasury predictions, with more than £19bn borrowed in March alone, the highest monthly figure since records began in 1993.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy talks to the employment mininster Tony McNulty.
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, discusses the unemployment figures.
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KHOODEELAAR! evidential note rejecting the latest embarrassing plugs by Andrew Gilligan in the E Standard for Boris Johnson...
1910 GMT London Monday 27 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note rejecting the latest embarrassing plugs by Andrew Gilligan in the E Standard for Boris Johnson...
Andrew Gilligan was described as dishonest in a quite early note published in PRIVATE EYE very soon after it became the ‘in’ word that Gilligan had ‘outed’ the lying Blair brigade...
In fact, as things turned out. THAT diagnosis of Gilligan as dishonest, was vindicated by the many ‘scrutinies’ that followed. And that was the only bit that Gilligan was unable to deny...
[To be continued]
Andrew Gilligan's latest peddling piece for Boris Johnson follows below
HEADLINES:
Avoid US and Mexico, Britons told..... Woman being checked for swine flu..... Climbdown over email database plan..... MPs' expenses plan set for changes..... PM 'crucible of terrorism' warning..... Murdered students 'stabbed in head'..... Pay gap details to 'boost recovery'..... Straw to reveal new prisons sites..... 'Strictly' vote fiasco: BBC cleared..... Minister denies Labour bet reports.....
A day for all: The Marathon is a great sporting spectacle at a small price
You're doing fine, Boris, but it's time to be bolder
Andrew Gilligan
27.04.09
On the face of it, our YouGov poll today - rather astonishingly, the first proper test of Londoners' opinions on the mayoralty since last year's election - is great news for Boris Johnson. But interred in the detail are some glimmers of trouble.
Let us start, however, with the finding Boris will probably be putting under his pillow tonight: if that election were repeated now, the six-point victory margin he achieved over Ken Livingstone would increase to 16 points. (YouGov's question was not quite the same as that in the election proper, since our poll offered no other party choices. But the results are still comparable because under the mayoral voting system all candidates save Boris and Ken were eliminated in the first round.)
The stretching of Boris's lead is partly a reflection on Ken as well as on the Mayor: political London still marvels at quite how badly the ex-King Newt has handled defeat.
On a dozen blogs, Ken and chums blame Boris for every crack in the pavement, accept no failings of their own, and rant endlessly about how the capital is Going To The Dogs. They remind me of a failed, Lefty version of the Daily Mail.
Yet though Ken's chances of moving back into City Hall are plainly hopeless, our poll does show that the right candidate could beat Boris. And that must have something to do with another of YouGov's findings: that although 46 per cent of Londoners are satisfied with the Mayor, and only 21 per cent dissatisfied, there is a substantial bloc - 29 per cent - in the middle who are neither.
These are not "don't knows". They are voters on whom Boris - perhaps surprisingly, given his huge personality - has made no impact. They underline what could be his key weakness - not that he is, or will be, a disaster, a fascist or a joke, but that we will get to 2012 and ask ourselves: "Well, that was fun, but what does he stand for and what has he done?"
By the time he sought re-election in 2004, Livingstone had two big achievements - the congestion charge, and more buses. Boris may need something of similar weight to show as his. So far, however, all his projects seem small or medium-sized.
It's not yet clear, either, just how far Boris really marks a break from the dismal failures of the past. His new Met Commissioner was Ian Blair's deputy. The Crossrail chairmanship has gone to Terry Morgan, chief executive of PPP contractor Tube Lines.
Boris is slimming the fat, dysfunctional and now simply unaffordable "GLA family". Particular progress is being made at the LDA; TfL vanity projects have been canned. But many remain, and the amounts saved are still relatively trivial. If he does want anything big, he will need lots more cuts to pay for it.
It has only been a year. Already, London is better in a dozen ways. Sleaze, arrogance, and routine lying have, at least for now, been banished from the mayoral landscape. There's an atmosphere of public approval around the mayoralty that's absent from any other part of politics.
Many of the criticisms of Boris amount to the complaint that he is a Tory. Reducing imposts on motorists and small businesspeople, however, is what Londoners had the bad taste to vote for, much though the liberal classes might disapprove.
The more relevant charge might be that for all his activist-pleasing rhetoric on higher-rate taxes, Boris is still not quite Tory enough, still a little too concerned with triangulating between the wishes of his voters and the demands of London's bien-pensant establishment.
But as he gains in experience, so too has he gained in confidence. Further boldness will be needed if those "neither approve nor disapprove" Londoners, the key to his political future, are to be won.
An Olympian achievement
As I mixed with the marathon runners in Greenwich Park yesterday, I thought about the differences between this magnificent event and a certain other sporting occasion which will also use the park.
The Marathon is democratic: it is the people dressed as bananas we care about, not the manufactured elite athletes at the front.
The Marathon makes no promises it cannot keep. The Marathon manages to be one of the greatest sporting spectacles in the world without doing any damage to anything and without costing any taxpayer a single penny. If only the Olympics could be like the Marathon.
Save me from the priggish Pret
I like the food at Pret a Manger but I really despise the chain's priggishness (typical notice at my local branch: "We've always banned smoking in our shops, but now it's against the law too — probably no bad thing!")
So it was deeply gratifying to discover from Which? magazine that this bastion of All That's Righteous sells a sandwich containing 23g of fat, about the same as a Big Mac and more than a woman's entire recommended daily allowance.
A Pret PR responded: "Pret customers are savvy and well-educated; they understand that good quality ingredients are nutritionally far superior to anything chemically engineered."
Translation: If we stick some rocket on top, maybe they won't notice they're giving themselves a coronary.
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Here's a sample of the latest views published. You can click view all to read all views that readers have sent in.
Boris is a liar. He was sacked twice for it.
Boris is gratuitously offensive. He has had to apologise over & over to various communities for some of the ridiculously thoughtless and racist things he has said or published.
You may have a different opinion on this, but I believe the many occasions on which he has said something 'ironic' add up to a display of an underlying attitude. The mayor of the most ethnically diverse city in Europe calling black people "picaninnies?" Come on!
And, no, I intensely dislike Livingstone and didn't vote for him.
- Sally Pearsehouse, Bethnal Green
If Boris spends 4 years ironing out things like road works, police attitudes and traffic light re-phasing then I suspect he will achieve a lot more than if he spent his time and effort of vanity projects such as Livingstone’s congestion charge which does nothing but create huge wealth for the private sector company which runs it.
- St, London
I disagree that that Mayor has not been bold enough. He has shown vision in proposing the Thames estuary airport. If this was ever delivered it would be a significant achievement. However like many good ideas committees could take this down a cul-de-sack and strangle it!
His other ideas on electric car charging posts and encouraging utilitie companies to recognise and reduce the congestion caused by unnecessary delays are welcome. However as anyone who uses the west end will know the most remarkable thing about the utilities is that there never seems to be any workers at the sites of roads being dug up!.
More significant is reaching agreement on the East London Line which will complete the orbital rail link and proposals to improve river services, including being able to use Oyster cards.
Politics is the art of the possible and delivery is everything.
- Damien Vaugh, London,UK
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note rejecting the latest embarrassing plugs by Andrew Gilligan in the E Standard for Boris Johnson...
Andrew Gilligan was described as dishonest in a quite early note published in PRIVATE EYE very soon after it became the ‘in’ word that Gilligan had ‘outed’ the lying Blair brigade...
In fact, as things turned out. THAT diagnosis of Gilligan as dishonest, was vindicated by the many ‘scrutinies’ that followed. And that was the only bit that Gilligan was unable to deny...
[To be continued]
Andrew Gilligan's latest peddling piece for Boris Johnson follows below
HEADLINES:
Avoid US and Mexico, Britons told..... Woman being checked for swine flu..... Climbdown over email database plan..... MPs' expenses plan set for changes..... PM 'crucible of terrorism' warning..... Murdered students 'stabbed in head'..... Pay gap details to 'boost recovery'..... Straw to reveal new prisons sites..... 'Strictly' vote fiasco: BBC cleared..... Minister denies Labour bet reports.....
A day for all: The Marathon is a great sporting spectacle at a small price
You're doing fine, Boris, but it's time to be bolder
Andrew Gilligan
27.04.09
On the face of it, our YouGov poll today - rather astonishingly, the first proper test of Londoners' opinions on the mayoralty since last year's election - is great news for Boris Johnson. But interred in the detail are some glimmers of trouble.
Let us start, however, with the finding Boris will probably be putting under his pillow tonight: if that election were repeated now, the six-point victory margin he achieved over Ken Livingstone would increase to 16 points. (YouGov's question was not quite the same as that in the election proper, since our poll offered no other party choices. But the results are still comparable because under the mayoral voting system all candidates save Boris and Ken were eliminated in the first round.)
The stretching of Boris's lead is partly a reflection on Ken as well as on the Mayor: political London still marvels at quite how badly the ex-King Newt has handled defeat.
On a dozen blogs, Ken and chums blame Boris for every crack in the pavement, accept no failings of their own, and rant endlessly about how the capital is Going To The Dogs. They remind me of a failed, Lefty version of the Daily Mail.
Yet though Ken's chances of moving back into City Hall are plainly hopeless, our poll does show that the right candidate could beat Boris. And that must have something to do with another of YouGov's findings: that although 46 per cent of Londoners are satisfied with the Mayor, and only 21 per cent dissatisfied, there is a substantial bloc - 29 per cent - in the middle who are neither.
These are not "don't knows". They are voters on whom Boris - perhaps surprisingly, given his huge personality - has made no impact. They underline what could be his key weakness - not that he is, or will be, a disaster, a fascist or a joke, but that we will get to 2012 and ask ourselves: "Well, that was fun, but what does he stand for and what has he done?"
By the time he sought re-election in 2004, Livingstone had two big achievements - the congestion charge, and more buses. Boris may need something of similar weight to show as his. So far, however, all his projects seem small or medium-sized.
It's not yet clear, either, just how far Boris really marks a break from the dismal failures of the past. His new Met Commissioner was Ian Blair's deputy. The Crossrail chairmanship has gone to Terry Morgan, chief executive of PPP contractor Tube Lines.
Boris is slimming the fat, dysfunctional and now simply unaffordable "GLA family". Particular progress is being made at the LDA; TfL vanity projects have been canned. But many remain, and the amounts saved are still relatively trivial. If he does want anything big, he will need lots more cuts to pay for it.
It has only been a year. Already, London is better in a dozen ways. Sleaze, arrogance, and routine lying have, at least for now, been banished from the mayoral landscape. There's an atmosphere of public approval around the mayoralty that's absent from any other part of politics.
Many of the criticisms of Boris amount to the complaint that he is a Tory. Reducing imposts on motorists and small businesspeople, however, is what Londoners had the bad taste to vote for, much though the liberal classes might disapprove.
The more relevant charge might be that for all his activist-pleasing rhetoric on higher-rate taxes, Boris is still not quite Tory enough, still a little too concerned with triangulating between the wishes of his voters and the demands of London's bien-pensant establishment.
But as he gains in experience, so too has he gained in confidence. Further boldness will be needed if those "neither approve nor disapprove" Londoners, the key to his political future, are to be won.
An Olympian achievement
As I mixed with the marathon runners in Greenwich Park yesterday, I thought about the differences between this magnificent event and a certain other sporting occasion which will also use the park.
The Marathon is democratic: it is the people dressed as bananas we care about, not the manufactured elite athletes at the front.
The Marathon makes no promises it cannot keep. The Marathon manages to be one of the greatest sporting spectacles in the world without doing any damage to anything and without costing any taxpayer a single penny. If only the Olympics could be like the Marathon.
Save me from the priggish Pret
I like the food at Pret a Manger but I really despise the chain's priggishness (typical notice at my local branch: "We've always banned smoking in our shops, but now it's against the law too — probably no bad thing!")
So it was deeply gratifying to discover from Which? magazine that this bastion of All That's Righteous sells a sandwich containing 23g of fat, about the same as a Big Mac and more than a woman's entire recommended daily allowance.
A Pret PR responded: "Pret customers are savvy and well-educated; they understand that good quality ingredients are nutritionally far superior to anything chemically engineered."
Translation: If we stick some rocket on top, maybe they won't notice they're giving themselves a coronary.
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Boris is a liar. He was sacked twice for it.
Boris is gratuitously offensive. He has had to apologise over & over to various communities for some of the ridiculously thoughtless and racist things he has said or published.
You may have a different opinion on this, but I believe the many occasions on which he has said something 'ironic' add up to a display of an underlying attitude. The mayor of the most ethnically diverse city in Europe calling black people "picaninnies?" Come on!
And, no, I intensely dislike Livingstone and didn't vote for him.
- Sally Pearsehouse, Bethnal Green
If Boris spends 4 years ironing out things like road works, police attitudes and traffic light re-phasing then I suspect he will achieve a lot more than if he spent his time and effort of vanity projects such as Livingstone’s congestion charge which does nothing but create huge wealth for the private sector company which runs it.
- St, London
I disagree that that Mayor has not been bold enough. He has shown vision in proposing the Thames estuary airport. If this was ever delivered it would be a significant achievement. However like many good ideas committees could take this down a cul-de-sack and strangle it!
His other ideas on electric car charging posts and encouraging utilitie companies to recognise and reduce the congestion caused by unnecessary delays are welcome. However as anyone who uses the west end will know the most remarkable thing about the utilities is that there never seems to be any workers at the sites of roads being dug up!.
More significant is reaching agreement on the East London Line which will complete the orbital rail link and proposals to improve river services, including being able to use Oyster cards.
Politics is the art of the possible and delivery is everything.
- Damien Vaugh, London,UK
Friday 23 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! headlines against Crossrail holes scam, London Friday 23 january 2009
Q to Boris Johnson: If he is prepared to 'use the powers of mayor' for a 'trifling' sum, where’s the morality? How is THAT INTELLECTUAL?
40 minutes ago from web
Q to Boris Johnson: If he is prepared to 'use the powers of mayor' over a planning application over a 'trifling' sum, where’s the morality?... 42 minutes ago from web
REMINDING Boris Johnson that ALL his KNOWN and PUBLISHED plugs for Crossrail are empty of substance: No transport economic justification 44 minutes ago from web
Citing Boris Johnson words for Crossrail 23Jan 2008: http://tinyurl.com/b6vn5c about 1 hour ago from web
SHALL cite in evidence the latest Boris John s words for Crossrail [Friday 23 January 2009... More about 1 hour ago from web
Saying that G Brown’s failures are traceable to a bankrupt UK parliament.. It is CHOOSING to be ignored! Parliament is volunteer stooge! about 2 hours ago from web
ANALYSIS 1720 GMT 23 Jan 2009: The stooge roles played by BOTH UK House of PEERs and the House of Commons for Crossrail are linked about 2 hours ago from web
ACTION UPDATING [5] 'Crossrail Peers' uttering rubbish in 'Select Committee' CONFIRMED their STOOGE role for lobbys and Big Business.. More about 2 hours ago from web
ACTION UPDATING [4] 'Crossrail Peers' failed to even learn who was who in the East End and what they represented. Peers uttered rubbish! about 2 hours ago from web
ACTION UPDATING [3] evidence for saying No to Brown's £Billions to Crossrail. We said so to 'Crossrail Peers' on 'site-visit' E1 Feb 2008 about 2 hours ago from web
UPDATING [2] evidential foundation of our campaign against Crossrail hole Big Business agenda: Crossrail typifies Brown's failures about 2 hours ago from web
UPDATING evidential foundation of our campaign against Crossrail hole Big Business agenda: THAT UK Parliament continues to fail the people about 2 hours ago from web
PUTTING ON THE RECORD AGAIN that despite appearances, Boris Johnson and D Cameron are BOTH closely linked with and agents of City of London about 2 hours ago from web
TELLING YOU that the Tory failure to force a comprehensive or ANY real debate in Parliament on the bailout is typical of Tories,,,, about 2 hours ago from web
TELLING YOU on prospects of Tory 'Opposition' in UK House of Commons: they will NOT force a debate on the bailout.. They are compromised about 3 hours ago from web
TOLD YOU SO! That the REAL, the true reason why Tory MPs failed to scrutinise the 'Crossrail Bill' in UK H of Commons was.. sleaze.. More about 3 hours ago from web
Notes [8] ES print edition Thurs 22 Jan 2009 page6, "Senior Tories earn thousands from banks they criticise”. Why isn't ES telling it ALL? about 3 hours ago from web
Q to ES [7] What destination would hyped up mythologised Crossrail-using 'executives' travel to when the 'commuter land’ is dole-Q-ed?! about 3 hours ago from web
Q to ES [7] What destination would the hyped up mythologised Crossrail-using 'executives' travel to when the 'commuter land’ is dole-Q-ed?!... about 3 hours ago from web
Q to ES [6] 23 Jan 2009: How come ES not explaining where Crossrail 'speed' would lead to!!! 'Speed' 'saving' 'few minutes' on journey time! about 3 hours ago from web
40 minutes ago from web
Q to Boris Johnson: If he is prepared to 'use the powers of mayor' over a planning application over a 'trifling' sum, where’s the morality?... 42 minutes ago from web
REMINDING Boris Johnson that ALL his KNOWN and PUBLISHED plugs for Crossrail are empty of substance: No transport economic justification 44 minutes ago from web
Citing Boris Johnson words for Crossrail 23Jan 2008: http://tinyurl.com/b6vn5c about 1 hour ago from web
SHALL cite in evidence the latest Boris John s words for Crossrail [Friday 23 January 2009... More about 1 hour ago from web
Saying that G Brown’s failures are traceable to a bankrupt UK parliament.. It is CHOOSING to be ignored! Parliament is volunteer stooge! about 2 hours ago from web
ANALYSIS 1720 GMT 23 Jan 2009: The stooge roles played by BOTH UK House of PEERs and the House of Commons for Crossrail are linked about 2 hours ago from web
ACTION UPDATING [5] 'Crossrail Peers' uttering rubbish in 'Select Committee' CONFIRMED their STOOGE role for lobbys and Big Business.. More about 2 hours ago from web
ACTION UPDATING [4] 'Crossrail Peers' failed to even learn who was who in the East End and what they represented. Peers uttered rubbish! about 2 hours ago from web
ACTION UPDATING [3] evidence for saying No to Brown's £Billions to Crossrail. We said so to 'Crossrail Peers' on 'site-visit' E1 Feb 2008 about 2 hours ago from web
UPDATING [2] evidential foundation of our campaign against Crossrail hole Big Business agenda: Crossrail typifies Brown's failures about 2 hours ago from web
UPDATING evidential foundation of our campaign against Crossrail hole Big Business agenda: THAT UK Parliament continues to fail the people about 2 hours ago from web
PUTTING ON THE RECORD AGAIN that despite appearances, Boris Johnson and D Cameron are BOTH closely linked with and agents of City of London about 2 hours ago from web
TELLING YOU that the Tory failure to force a comprehensive or ANY real debate in Parliament on the bailout is typical of Tories,,,, about 2 hours ago from web
TELLING YOU on prospects of Tory 'Opposition' in UK House of Commons: they will NOT force a debate on the bailout.. They are compromised about 3 hours ago from web
TOLD YOU SO! That the REAL, the true reason why Tory MPs failed to scrutinise the 'Crossrail Bill' in UK H of Commons was.. sleaze.. More about 3 hours ago from web
Notes [8] ES print edition Thurs 22 Jan 2009 page6, "Senior Tories earn thousands from banks they criticise”. Why isn't ES telling it ALL? about 3 hours ago from web
Q to ES [7] What destination would hyped up mythologised Crossrail-using 'executives' travel to when the 'commuter land’ is dole-Q-ed?! about 3 hours ago from web
Q to ES [7] What destination would the hyped up mythologised Crossrail-using 'executives' travel to when the 'commuter land’ is dole-Q-ed?!... about 3 hours ago from web
Q to ES [6] 23 Jan 2009: How come ES not explaining where Crossrail 'speed' would lead to!!! 'Speed' 'saving' 'few minutes' on journey time! about 3 hours ago from web
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