KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole plot... CAMPAIGN updating evdience: Adding Crydoin MP Pelling's reported crioticvism fo Crossrail [93]

KHOODEELAAR! No to "Crossrail hole..." CAMPAIGN comment posted at 2326 GMT on Friday 5 September 2008 on the web site of the CROYDON ADVERTISER in response to their story about their local MP's alleged criticism of Boris Johnson over raising transport fares in London, : KHOODEELAAR! comment scrutinises the CROSSRAIL scam. THE FOLLOWING TEXTS have been edited to add a few words that were NOT included in the item as posted on the web site fo the CROYDON ADVERTISER: “You quote Mr Pelling as saying: "Part of the increase is due to government imposed demands for Londoners to pay for Crossrail, but these demands could be delayed to a later date." This is a very significant statement. Especially as it comes only a day after Boris Johnson wrote a piece in the London ‘EVENING STANDARD’ that contained some very significant disclosures about how Ken Livingstone had in effect abused his position in 2007 to promote Crossrail. These disclosures - based on files that Boris Johnson has access to as part of his position now - and Mr Pelling’s comments about the possibility of the Crossrail demands being delayed, raise the question: why had neither Blair nor Brown allowed either House of the UK Parliament to hear objectors’ evidence that would have saved London public so much extra, and wasteful bills on Crossrail? For almost five years, the Khoodeelaar! Campaign against Crossrail has looked for evidence of ANY public – that is ordinary people who need transport in London- demand for the particular scheme at £Billions of public cost. NOT one iota of evidence has come forth. What we HAVE encountered has been and is spin from Big Business construction conglomerates and the mysterious City of London interests. Isn’t it time to scrap this scam before it is used by shady and shoddy operatives to fleece the London and the UK public of more £Millions and £Billions? Crossrail is going to be the ‘next’ Millennium Dome only 20 times worse and as wasteful… Can the UK and London economy afford such waste? Muhammad Haque, London ' [To be continued]