KHOODEELAAR! tells RAILNEWS UK the truth about the unconstitionality and the wastefulness of CRASSrail

1915 Hrs GMT 2015 Hrs UK Time London Tuesday 5 August 2008: KHOODEELAAR! No to 'Crossrail hole scam' CAMPAIGN, posts first comment on the railnews.co.uk web site about 'SERIOUS CONCERN about Crossrail..'... The CONCERN, as reported by railnews.co.uk is NOT FOR Crossrail, but AGAINST Crossrail... Thus in effect vindicating what Khoodeelaar! has been saying for 56 months... that Crossrail is crass.... Here is the comment by Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque, as posted on the web site [who may or may not publish the comment in the end]



“You state " SERIOUS questions have been raised over how exactly funding will be raised for the £16 billion London Crossrail project, following the granting of Royal Assent for construction work to start."


INDEED!
For 56 months, the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional, legal, economic, environmental, social and ethical campaign against the crassly conceived, crassly peddled, irresponsibly promoted Crossrail hole agenda has argued that the package was wrong. That the economics and the ordinary London public did not demand the spending of £Billions of public money into a diversionary ‘project’ like Crossrail.



That the EXISTING transport and associated infrastructure in London linked with higher capacity and relevance deserved to be paid attention to....


That uttering slogans like 'world class city' did not deliver the service for the people who need that. There has been no scrutiny of the purpose, the content or the implication of the Crossrail Bill during the almost cultish passage of it through the two Houses. HUNDREDS of objectors were OBSTRUCTED from presenting evidence before either House to show how seriously flawed the Bill was.... No economic study was conducted to answer the dozens of profound questions that are attached to the proposed scam... The hyped up lie that the scam would 'bring benefits and regeneration' to areas like the 'deprived East End of London' is instantly contradicted by and exposed in the real purpose as stated by the promoters and the lobbies which is to connect three places Canary Wharf the City of London and Heathrow.... Is that a justifiable ground to spend [mis-apply] £Billions of public money on the scam for? In any case, ALL the references to positive impact of the CRASSrail are projections... NOT one item of evidence has been referred to in the [just under] 4 years of the Crossrail Bill being promoted through Parliament that has shown any evidence of any public demand from any part of London for the scheme THERE HAS BEEN evidence of the insidious Big Business lobby calling for it.....Time to look for a proper project for London';s transport needs and for the scarce money of the public to be sued... Scrap Crossrail even now... Not too late at all.. Not especially for the hundreds of small traders in the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 area who have signed the Khoodeelaar! constitutional law challenge papers against Crossrail hole agenda.... We are mounting the long promised legal action against the Crossrail hole agenda and we have on our list a most diverse and extensive list of witnesses who will support the challenge to Crossrail through the court system in the UK and then in the European courts system if necessary