KHOODEELAAR! action archive: diagnosing the 'constituency MP' who had let the community down [More on Oona King, soon]

KHOODEELAAR! action archive: diagnosing the 'constituency MP' who had let the community down [More on Oona King, soon]


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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.


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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
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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?

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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
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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
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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

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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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