KHOODEELAAR! Says No to Crossrail propaganda from Ealing Council...By©Muhammad Haque 1755 Hrs GMT 18 June 2008.

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You [EALING TIMES, web site, Wednesday 18 June 2008] quote the Ealing Conservative Councillor as saying :

“Solutions will not be solved by just one council, but by schemes like Crossrail and the fast bus scheme - and clearing notorious congestion hotspots."

Putting aside for now the tautological aspect of the reported utterance by the named councillor, it is important to ask those who plug Crossrail like that to show how the scheme will make proportional difference for the better. Crossrail is cited, as has happened din your report, as a mantra.

Not as a well thought out solution to the transport needs that people in London experience.

Where is the evidence that any part of London, affected by the Crossrail line, has witnessed ordinary people expressing a pro-active demand for such a project?

In the Queen’s Birthday Honours, the City of London’s Michael Snyder has been made a knight. His only contribution, as trumpeted by the Times newspaper months before the ‘honour’, was that he became synonymous with the City of London’s promotion of Crossrail.

No community ANYWHERE in London, including in Ealing, can be cited as being associated with the promotion of a slogan for Crossrail. It is well known and admitted by the promoters themselves that Crossrail is a scheme for Big Business. Not for ordinary people.

The commitment of £5 to £6Billion of public money plus the planned taxing of ordinary Londoners to the tunes of between £12 to £20 Billion to get Crossrail going, are far too irresponsible and uneconomic.

We have argued for 55 months now that the present ‘Crossrail’ scheme has been CRASSly conceived. In every key respect.

It has been and will remain a scam to enable Big Business to pocket £Billions of public cash...

Both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords during the ‘Select committee’ procedures on the Crossrail Bill, we have sought to have the evidence examined.

To no avail.

BOTH Houses were in effect controlled by undemocratic forces who had vested interest in ensuring that no debate took p;ace on the alleged amerits and the demonstrable demerits of the Crossrail plot. Those forces prevented the evidence being examined by Parliament.

We are now preparing to challenge the procedures in UK domestic court before making the constitutional challenge at European court level.

KHOODEELAAR!
No to Crossrail hole scam
The Constitutional law campaign in defence of the inner city East End of London against the ‘Crossrail Bill’


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