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According to the Mori survey, people are still pessimistic about their personal financial outlook, with 38 percent expecting things to get worse, 45 percent seeing no change and only 15 predicting better times ahead.
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Brown suffers new opinion poll blow
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown slipped behind the Conservatives in an opinion poll published on Sunday, a new blow to hopes that his economic stimulus plan would revive his political fortunes.
The Ipsos Mori poll for the Observer newspaper showed the Conservatives stretching their lead to 11 points.
An ICM survey for the Guardian newspaper on Saturday had given the Conservatives a 15-point lead.
The two polls are a sharp contrast with a YouGov poll on Wednesday which said Brown had actually cut the Conservative lead to just four points.
The Ipsos survey was conducted two days after the government announced plans for a 20 billion pound package to boost the economy, including a temporary cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) to 15 percent.
It put David Cameron's Conservative Party on 43 points, up three, and Brown's Labour Party down five to 32 points.
The lead, if repeated at an election, would give the Conservatives a substantial parliamentary majority. Brown does not have to go to the electorate until 2010.
To add to Brown's woes, the survey also showed that only six percent of respondents would spend more after the VAT cut while 26 percent said they would reduce purchases.
According to the Mori survey, people are still pessimistic about their personal financial outlook, with 38 percent expecting things to get worse, 45 percent seeing no change and only 15 predicting better times ahead. Continued...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The debts-boosting and the debts-boasting Gordon Brown ‘policy’ is wrong..SCRAP Crossrail now [360]
0748 Hrs GMT London Sunday 30 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The debts-boosting and the debts-boasting Gordon Brown ‘policy’ is wrong.…When the ‘market’ is undeniably slowing down, the economics - and the undemocracy - of free market economics is bound to come into free fall....It is not the pathetic patchwork of partial world view that will solve the problem.. It will take a full, unfaked and total recognition of the world before things can get truthfully and sustainably better.… Brown has got to stop boasting of debt, boosting debt.….[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The debts-boosting and the debts-boasting Gordon Brown ‘policy’ is wrong.…When the ‘market’ is undeniably slowing down, the economics - and the undemocracy - of free market economics is bound to come into free fall....It is not the pathetic patchwork of partial world view that will solve the problem.. It will take a full, unfaked and total recognition of the world before things can get truthfully and sustainably better.… Brown has got to stop boasting of debt, boosting debt.….[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! UPDATING the EVIDENTIAL focus on the DAILY MAIL group and the BBC
0245 Hrs GMT London Sunday 30 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! HAS TOLD THE TRUTH against Big Business lies and the connivance with Big Business by holders of decision-making posts in the Blaired administration... We have seen no mention of any of these serious observations in the Daily Mail... As we have not got on the BBC. In any significant way whatever... yet every single observation we made in the past 5 years about the wastefulness of Crossrail has come true.. As has every one of our contextual comments and forecasts... yet the Daily mail has pretended to not notice what we have been saying...As has the BBC.…. yet the BBC’s Business Editor, economics Editor and Political editors COMBINED have not said anything that has amounted to a fraction of the long term analysis that we have made and published .… Why? Because BOTH the DAiLY MAIOL group [that includes the mail on sunday] and the BBC are prisoners of their own prejudice, ignorance , bias and dishonesty, opportunism,.…They would rather suppress the truth than get rid of their prejudice.… We are TELLING the ‘Opposition' Conservatives and the DAILY Mail: Get your morality right, first! YOU have brought about the Police State! Now free society from it!And if there has been any 'erosion' of the UK House of Com,mons in the Blaired years then that has been BACKED by YOU! And if you doubt the evidential basis of what we are telling you, then just look back at your treatment of the key issues of freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament and see how you behaved on and after 12 June 2008 following David Davis's resignation statement made at the entrance to the building called the Palace of Westminster...You have NOT made freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament really serious [if any] issues at all in the months since June 2008. Or EVER! And you have allowed the Blairing executive to pass ‘laws’ that have made sure that a de facto and a more brazen police state was being built on top of the one that was under construction for the 60 years that went before the 42 day attempt....This is true despite the fact that the particular 42 days motion got temporarily ‘defeated’. By default. [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! HAS TOLD THE TRUTH against Big Business lies and the connivance with Big Business by holders of decision-making posts in the Blaired administration... We have seen no mention of any of these serious observations in the Daily Mail... As we have not got on the BBC. In any significant way whatever... yet every single observation we made in the past 5 years about the wastefulness of Crossrail has come true.. As has every one of our contextual comments and forecasts... yet the Daily mail has pretended to not notice what we have been saying...As has the BBC.…. yet the BBC’s Business Editor, economics Editor and Political editors COMBINED have not said anything that has amounted to a fraction of the long term analysis that we have made and published .… Why? Because BOTH the DAiLY MAIOL group [that includes the mail on sunday] and the BBC are prisoners of their own prejudice, ignorance , bias and dishonesty, opportunism,.…They would rather suppress the truth than get rid of their prejudice.… We are TELLING the ‘Opposition' Conservatives and the DAILY Mail: Get your morality right, first! YOU have brought about the Police State! Now free society from it!And if there has been any 'erosion' of the UK House of Com,mons in the Blaired years then that has been BACKED by YOU! And if you doubt the evidential basis of what we are telling you, then just look back at your treatment of the key issues of freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament and see how you behaved on and after 12 June 2008 following David Davis's resignation statement made at the entrance to the building called the Palace of Westminster...You have NOT made freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament really serious [if any] issues at all in the months since June 2008. Or EVER! And you have allowed the Blairing executive to pass ‘laws’ that have made sure that a de facto and a more brazen police state was being built on top of the one that was under construction for the 60 years that went before the 42 day attempt....This is true despite the fact that the particular 42 days motion got temporarily ‘defeated’. By default. [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TELLING the ‘Opposition' Conservatives and the DAILY Mail: Get your morality right, first! YOU have brought about the Police State!
KHOODEELAAR! TELLING the ‘Opposition' Conservatives and the DAILY Mail: Get your morality right, first! YOU have brought about the Police State! Now free society from it!
And if there has been any 'erosion' of the UK House of Com,mons in the Blaired years then that has been BACKED by YOU!
And if you doubt the evidential basis of what we are telling you, then just look back at your treatment of the key issues of freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament and see how you behaved on and after 12 June 2008 following David Davis's resignation statement made at the entrance to the building called the Palace of Westminster...
You have NOT made freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament really serious [if any] issues at all in the months since June 2008.
Or EVER!
And you have allowed the Blairing executive to pass ‘laws’ that have made sure that a de facto and a more brazen police state was being built on top of the one that was under construction for the 60 years that went before the 42 day attempt....
This is true despite the fact that the particular 42 days motion got temporarily ‘defeated’. By default.
[To be continued]
And if there has been any 'erosion' of the UK House of Com,mons in the Blaired years then that has been BACKED by YOU!
And if you doubt the evidential basis of what we are telling you, then just look back at your treatment of the key issues of freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament and see how you behaved on and after 12 June 2008 following David Davis's resignation statement made at the entrance to the building called the Palace of Westminster...
You have NOT made freedom, democracy, sovereignty of parliament really serious [if any] issues at all in the months since June 2008.
Or EVER!
And you have allowed the Blairing executive to pass ‘laws’ that have made sure that a de facto and a more brazen police state was being built on top of the one that was under construction for the 60 years that went before the 42 day attempt....
This is true despite the fact that the particular 42 days motion got temporarily ‘defeated’. By default.
[To be continued]
Saturday, November 29, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! evidentially links CND chair ! [ex] Joan Ruddock and Big Business tout Boris Johnson...[354]
KHOODEELAAR! hereby and herewith legally and constitutionally confirms that BOTH Joan Ruddock {Remember her at the CND and as a 'fan' of EP Thopmson!!!] and self-styled tout of Big Business and City of London Boris Johnson, are almost identically compromised by the evidence of their backing of Crossrail unconstitutionality....[To be continued]
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KHOODEELAAR! hereby and herewith legally and constitutionally confirms that BOTH Joan Ruddock {Remember her at the CND and as a 'fan' of EP Thopmson!!!] and self-styled tout of Big Business and City of London Boris Johnson, are almost identically compromised by the evidence of their backing of Crossrail unconstitutionality....[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating on the legal and constitutional law evidence against Boris Johnson's role as a backer of Crossrail scam and waste.. [352]
This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 2038 Hrs GMT London Saturday 29 November 2008:
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Johnson backs action over Heathrow
Monday, November 17, 2008
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BAA 'needs to sell three airports'
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Heathrow Airport opens its fifth terminal
The battle over Heathrow continues, with London Mayor Boris Johnson backing legal action against the government should it push through plans to create a third runway at Heathrow. The legal action would be on environmental grounds since going from 480,000 to 700,000 flights every year is likely to go against EU pollution legislation to be introduced in 2010.
The 2M group of local authorities is looking into the feasibility of legal action should Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon agree to the extension, as is expected. The Mayor is said to have offered to pay £15,000 towards any legal costs and could contribute more if required. Johnson’s spokesman said there were serious concerns for the local environment in terms of noise and air quality.
After Department for Transport papers revealed that attempts to keep pollution within limits could be "too costly or impractical", Edward Lister, the leader of Wandsworth council who represented the 2M group, said: "We are trying to show that the whole basis on which the government wants to justify expansion is bogus. It’s great that Boris is supporting this action and it’s not too late for the government to think again."
Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman is said to be concerned about the Heathrow plans as are Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and climate change minister Joan Ruddock.
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Johnson backs action over Heathrow
Monday, November 17, 2008
RELATED NEWS
'BAA's arrogance knows no bounds'
Heathrow expansion plans 'flawed'
Tories say 'no' to a third runway
Johnson: 'Let's shut Heathrow down'
BAA 'needs to sell three airports'
Network Rail ponders the future of rail
Heathrow Airport opens its fifth terminal
The battle over Heathrow continues, with London Mayor Boris Johnson backing legal action against the government should it push through plans to create a third runway at Heathrow. The legal action would be on environmental grounds since going from 480,000 to 700,000 flights every year is likely to go against EU pollution legislation to be introduced in 2010.
The 2M group of local authorities is looking into the feasibility of legal action should Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon agree to the extension, as is expected. The Mayor is said to have offered to pay £15,000 towards any legal costs and could contribute more if required. Johnson’s spokesman said there were serious concerns for the local environment in terms of noise and air quality.
After Department for Transport papers revealed that attempts to keep pollution within limits could be "too costly or impractical", Edward Lister, the leader of Wandsworth council who represented the 2M group, said: "We are trying to show that the whole basis on which the government wants to justify expansion is bogus. It’s great that Boris is supporting this action and it’s not too late for the government to think again."
Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman is said to be concerned about the Heathrow plans as are Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and climate change minister Joan Ruddock.
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence and the the culture of unconstitutionality that we have witnessed at every stage over Crossrail..[350]
1205 Hrs GMT London saturday 29 November 2008
When Gordon Brown said on Wednesday that he would change the 'system' so that the then just reported horrors of the British father having raped his two daughters for more than 20 years would not happen again, did he say that as a serious statement?
If so then Brown could not have been more careless. And wrong.
What SYSTEM was he talking about?
Surely not the ‘local Councils’ and their social services?
Almost about the same time as Brown was making that SYSTEM utterance, the time-serving bureaucracies on local councils were staging their then latest ‘defence’ and pleading via the BBC that they should be supported and not ‘persecuted’...
What is most certainly NOT in need of change is the alleged SYSTEM.
Why?
Because nobody is the ‘system’ will admit to doing wrong or to being negligent as justifiable conduct.
What BROWN did not say and what he must understand urgently is that there is a culture in place of overwhelming corruption and lying and deception.…
It is NOT a systemic failure. it is a cultural failure...
It is a culture of denial.…
Just like the culture of unconstitutionality that we have witnessed at every stage over Crossrail...
The local Tower Hamlets Council as well as all the other local councils en route [!!!!.. they have lied for Big Business Crossrail scam... Not according to the system... but DESPITE the system.….
[To be continued]
When Gordon Brown said on Wednesday that he would change the 'system' so that the then just reported horrors of the British father having raped his two daughters for more than 20 years would not happen again, did he say that as a serious statement?
If so then Brown could not have been more careless. And wrong.
What SYSTEM was he talking about?
Surely not the ‘local Councils’ and their social services?
Almost about the same time as Brown was making that SYSTEM utterance, the time-serving bureaucracies on local councils were staging their then latest ‘defence’ and pleading via the BBC that they should be supported and not ‘persecuted’...
What is most certainly NOT in need of change is the alleged SYSTEM.
Why?
Because nobody is the ‘system’ will admit to doing wrong or to being negligent as justifiable conduct.
What BROWN did not say and what he must understand urgently is that there is a culture in place of overwhelming corruption and lying and deception.…
It is NOT a systemic failure. it is a cultural failure...
It is a culture of denial.…
Just like the culture of unconstitutionality that we have witnessed at every stage over Crossrail...
The local Tower Hamlets Council as well as all the other local councils en route [!!!!.. they have lied for Big Business Crossrail scam... Not according to the system... but DESPITE the system.….
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence and the analysis of Gordon Brown's fallacies in funding Big Business at the expense of the UK society [348.b]
1150 Hrs GMT London Saturday 29 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! told Brown so! Now the OECD begins to echo what KHOODEELAAR! has been saying about the delicate state of the UK 'economy'/ Brown would be ADDITIONALLY foolish and ill-advised to abuse his powers at No 10 Downing Street and carry on funding Big Business Crossrail which is a waste beyond denunciation... KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown to resist the irrational temptation to abuse his powers in office...Instead Brown should act rationally and RESPONSIBLY and SCRAP the London Crossrail scam, as it is obsolete, contradictory, wasteful, callously contrived and is NOT needed by the UK economy... NOR is it affordable by the UK economy... [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! told Brown so! Now the OECD begins to echo what KHOODEELAAR! has been saying about the delicate state of the UK 'economy'/ Brown would be ADDITIONALLY foolish and ill-advised to abuse his powers at No 10 Downing Street and carry on funding Big Business Crossrail which is a waste beyond denunciation... KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown to resist the irrational temptation to abuse his powers in office...Instead Brown should act rationally and RESPONSIBLY and SCRAP the London Crossrail scam, as it is obsolete, contradictory, wasteful, callously contrived and is NOT needed by the UK economy... NOR is it affordable by the UK economy... [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence and the analysis of Gordon Brown's fallacies in funding Big Business at the expense of the UK society [348]
This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 1145 Hrs GMT London Saturday 29 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence and the analysis of Gordon Brown's fallacies in funding Big Business CROSSRAIL at the expense of the UK society [348]
KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown to resist the irrational temptation to abuse his powers in office…Instead Brown should act rationally and RESPONSIBLY and SCRAP the London Crossrail scam, as it is obsolete, contradictory, wasteful, callously contrived and is NOT needed by the UK economy… NOR is it affordable by the UK economy…
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence and the analysis of Gordon Brown's fallacies in funding Big Business CROSSRAIL at the expense of the UK society [348]
KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown to resist the irrational temptation to abuse his powers in office…Instead Brown should act rationally and RESPONSIBLY and SCRAP the London Crossrail scam, as it is obsolete, contradictory, wasteful, callously contrived and is NOT needed by the UK economy… NOR is it affordable by the UK economy…
[To be continued]
Friday, November 28, 2008
Khoodeelaar! told you so! Crossrail scam-funder Blairing regime can waste Billions of public money [341]
"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/rbs/3534723/State-left-with-2.3bn-loss-as-RBS-fundraising-snubbed.html
State left with £2.3bn loss as RBS fundraising snubbed
The Government was nursing a £2.3bn loss yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders snubbed the lender's £15bn fundraising, leaving the state with 57.9pc of the bank and 22.9bn shares that are already worth less than the taxpayer paid.
By Philip Aldrick
Last Updated: 9:17PM GMT 28 Nov 2008
Royal Bank Of Scotland Group
The result of the placing was not a surprise as the offer price of 65½p was 10½p higher than the level at which RBS shares closed on Thursday. Existing investors took up just 56m shares, or 0.24pc of the issue. RBS stock rose 0.3 to 55.3p, leaving the Government already showing £2.3bn paper loss on the investment.
A Treasury spokesman said the stake "supports financial stability, protects ordinary savers, depositors, businesses and borrowers while safeguarding the interests of the taxpayer".
Taxpayers are also expected to be left with a large holding in the giant bank created from the merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB. Both banks are raising capital in share placings underwritten by the taxpayer. The placings complete on January 9, and if Lloyds and HBOS's share prices remain where they are the state will end up with a 43.5pc stake.
The Government is on course to inject a total of £37bn into the three banks – £28bn by buying shares and £9bn in preference stock, a form of high-yielding debt.
The investments will be managed by UK Financial Investments, the new holding company run by John Kingman, one of Gordon Brown's most trusted civil servants. Earlier this week, UKFI hired John Crompton from Merrill Lynch, an experienced equity capital markets banker, to devise and execute a strategy for the sale of the holdings.
Sales are not expected until markets recover, which could leave the state holding the stakes for several years, analysts said.
RBS chief executive Stephen Hester said: "We regret that existing shareholders did not take up their pre-emptive rights but understand that market sentiment toward the banking sector made this uneconomic in the short term.
"We must put the past behind us and move forward with a clear focus on what we need to do next. There remain substantial uncertainties and challenges outside our control but for our part the job is underway."
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State left with £2.3bn loss as RBS fundraising snubbed
The Government was nursing a £2.3bn loss yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders snubbed the lender's £15bn fundraising, leaving the state with 57.9pc of the bank and 22.9bn shares that are already worth less than the taxpayer paid.
By Philip Aldrick
Last Updated: 9:17PM GMT 28 Nov 2008
Royal Bank Of Scotland Group
The result of the placing was not a surprise as the offer price of 65½p was 10½p higher than the level at which RBS shares closed on Thursday. Existing investors took up just 56m shares, or 0.24pc of the issue. RBS stock rose 0.3 to 55.3p, leaving the Government already showing £2.3bn paper loss on the investment.
A Treasury spokesman said the stake "supports financial stability, protects ordinary savers, depositors, businesses and borrowers while safeguarding the interests of the taxpayer".
Taxpayers are also expected to be left with a large holding in the giant bank created from the merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB. Both banks are raising capital in share placings underwritten by the taxpayer. The placings complete on January 9, and if Lloyds and HBOS's share prices remain where they are the state will end up with a 43.5pc stake.
The Government is on course to inject a total of £37bn into the three banks – £28bn by buying shares and £9bn in preference stock, a form of high-yielding debt.
The investments will be managed by UK Financial Investments, the new holding company run by John Kingman, one of Gordon Brown's most trusted civil servants. Earlier this week, UKFI hired John Crompton from Merrill Lynch, an experienced equity capital markets banker, to devise and execute a strategy for the sale of the holdings.
Sales are not expected until markets recover, which could leave the state holding the stakes for several years, analysts said.
RBS chief executive Stephen Hester said: "We regret that existing shareholders did not take up their pre-emptive rights but understand that market sentiment toward the banking sector made this uneconomic in the short term.
"We must put the past behind us and move forward with a clear focus on what we need to do next. There remain substantial uncertainties and challenges outside our control but for our part the job is underway."
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Khoodeelaar! told you so! Geoff HOON”s contradictory ‘stance’ in peddling Heathrow. CRASS role by Crossrail scam-peddler Hoon [340]
1120 Hrs gmt london friday 28 november 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! A WEEK after we exposed Geoff HOON”s contradictory ‘stance’ in peddling Heathrow, and pointed out the similarly idiotic role played by lib dem tom brake, the formerly satirical publication private eye reports a similar hoon heathrow stupidity...[to be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! A WEEK after we exposed Geoff HOON”s contradictory ‘stance’ in peddling Heathrow, and pointed out the similarly idiotic role played by lib dem tom brake, the formerly satirical publication private eye reports a similar hoon heathrow stupidity...[to be continued]
Thursday, November 27, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the ignorance of Brown and Darling and of the ignorance of the 'authorised' 'media' commentators' on them [240]
0220 Hrs GMT London Thursday 27 November 2008
Khoodeelaar! told you so! Even the crassly=’edited’ and the zealously CROSSRAIL scam-touting London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ ‘executive editor’ Anne McElvoy can see that there is a huge hole ahead for Brown and Darling.… So big and deep is the hole that even McElvoy can feel confident at using thew word SOUL! It is a hole which is certain to sink the ‘soul’ of the Blaired ‘Party’.…… What the typically ignorant McElvoy herself cannot see is that the hole into which Brown and Darling are sinking the economy is VERY MUCH CASED by the agenda of Big Business that has REQUIRED BRown and Darling to FUND Crossrail.…..
[To be continued]
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Tax rises bore a hole in the New Labour soul
Anne McElvoy
26.11.08
BEHOLD: another bonfire of the certainties. Last week, spanking new Tories turned back into stern 1992 latter-day Thatcherites, exploding tax bombshells under a Labour government. Now New Labour has hung out the RIP sign. Gordon Brown is busy resurrecting the spectre of that very Seventies idea: the supertax, ostensibly to fill a hole in the public finances he has just dug with a borrowing binge
Why? That is the Sherlock Holmes question of the Unsolved PBR Mystery.
Mr Brown's - oops, Alistair Darling's - mini-Budget implicitly linked the themes of borrowing to "paying back" through higher taxes by the better off.
On examination, it turns out to be threadbare economics. Here's what the Institute for Fiscal Studies tells me:
"Top income tax rate will rise from 40 per cent to 45 per cent above £150k (affecting about 400,000 people, less than one per cent of the adult population) and will rise from 40 per cent to 60 per cent in two quite small brackets (£100,000 to £106,475 and £140,000 to £146,475)." In other words, there aren't that many high earners to go round - certainly not those daft enough to have all their earnings in the PAYE tax system if they can possibly avoid it.
The report itself states that around £670 million will be raised in a single year from the rise, so the Treasury has no illusions that it can materially offset a £20 billion borrowing splurge.
Mr Brown's calculation is that most people earn far less and won't weep for those affected. "There's not much discussion about earning £150,000 in the key southern marginals," says one senior backbencher. A fair point and a major consideration in the coming fight between the parties.
Mr Brown proceeds rationally even as he gambles heavily - for which reason Boris Johnson's characterisation of him behaving like a drunk strikes me as carelessly misjudged.
Far more sharp politics are at work than sound economics this week. Mr Brown thinks that his plan will stave off the worst of a recession, forestall the galloping unemployment of the 1980s and avoid a repeat of the social devastation which the era left behind.
At the same time he senses a punitive mood against City high-earners - many people equate high incomes with bankers and the financial services. He feels, as one adviser puts it, that they should "take a wallop" for the devastation wreaked on the economy by the irresponsible end of the banking industry.
No 10 believes the threshold is high enough to defeat the "politics of envy" argument. Most importantly, it hopes to cut off Mr Cameron's "time-bomb" argument because it affects relatively few people, who wouldn't vote Labour anyway.
Here, to my mind, is where the problem really starts. One of the major achievements of the Blair-Brown transformation of the party between 1994 and 1997 is that they stopped segmenting the vote into people likely to vote Labour and those unlikely to oblige. "The political wing of the British people as a whole," said Mr Blair, with alarming Sinn Fein undertones, but we got his point. No one was to be presented with a reason not to vote Labour. The "filthy rich" approvingly cited by one P Mandelson were to have as much a stake in its success and electability as anyone.
The impact of yesterday's announcement is to bring back the Old Labour notion of a cap on aspiration and wealth. Mr Darling spoke so approvingly of "modest incomes" that one imagined his perfect Britain in which everyone would aspire to earn modestly.
"I don't really like it, " concedes one moderate former Cabinet minister. "But if you have to raise £40 billion, I don't see how else you do it."
It is questionable whether he "had to" raise borrowing so high. My sense is that the pre-Budget report feels a lot less reassuring now it has been delivered than in the anticipation of it.
A trademark error of Mr Brown is his tendency to sell small giveaways as big ones - from the disastrous 75p pension rise in 2000 to the 10p tax band fiasco falsely sold as a middle-class tax break last year . The response to a 2.5 per cent VAT deduction is more likely to be "Is that all?" than "Wow".
It is true, small businesses will be helped by the VAT adjustment and do well out of a package of measures to help them. Whether it makes us spend our way through the gloom, we shall see.
The PM's claim to be in the international mainstream is also a shakier proposition than it was at the time of the recent G20 meeting. True, Barack Obama is also promising massive economic stimulus, with a new Treasury team ready to take risks to stave off a slump.
He won, however, by promising tax cuts for low earners to be paid for by the tax rises of higher earners. Mr Brown is taxing the higher earners without an accompanying tax cut further down the line. Middle earners are still hit by rising National Insurance contributions, a tax in all but name.
I am reliably informed that Team Brown did consider an Obama-style tax cut but plumped for an instant VAT cut and a raft of other stimulus measures instead. One has to conclude that tax cutting just isn't Mr Brown's thing, whereas raising taxes is. More broadly, the PM's personal relationship with the concept of New Labour has always been partial and selective. He now indulges a much more obviously old Labour approach to taxation. One wonders what Peter - now Lord - Mandelson really makes of this.
He told me - rather ahead of time - in the run-up to the 1997 election that a Labour government would not raise the 40 per cent tax band and was very lucid about its symbolism. As shadow chancellor, Mr Brown was irritated by this pre-emption but the Mandelson view won out, and became the sine qua non of New Labour tax policy. Now you could say, to quote Mr Darling, "exceptional measures for exceptional times" and everything is up for grabs.
However, ministers and New Labour thinkers I have spoken to feel confused and uncertain about the up-ending of what has been a plank of their success, the more so when it looks suspiciously like an opportunity to have a symbolic smack at the well-off.
None of this makes life immediately easier for the Conservatives. They have a muddled and scrappy message about what they are about and George Osborne's Budget response, while strong enough to quell those who want his scalp, is still focused too obsessively on bashing Mr Brown and not clearly enough on what a distinctive approach to Britain's economic ills will be.
Yet the PM's outlook is considerably more fraught than his recent revival suggests. It banks on the electorate feeling more grateful than anxious about the consequences of his tax-and-borrow intervention - and nothing else going very wrong in the meantime. Not something to bet too much on, in this age of the great economic gamble.
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If Labour were to win the next election then Brits will leave the UK in larger numbers than previously ever imagined-seeing and listening to Gordon smirking for another term will be just too much to tolerate
- Harvey Lawrence, London UK
But for the seriousness of the current financial situation this poor excuse for a Government would be laughable. Brown is turning out to be the biggest 'econonmical with the truth' PM since who knows when. It was only a couple of months ago that he was proclaiming, to anyone who was stupid enough to take notice, '...that the British economy would avoid a recessession, and that it was in much better shape to withstand a downturn than most of it's European partners...'. We now know the truth. The OECD has calculated that the UKs economy will shrink by more than 1% next year, whilst unemployment will rise to more than 6.8%. Both these figures are far worse than any of our trading partners, including the US. Brown is continuing along the old tried and failed Labour route of throwing good money after bad making matters worse rather than better. One of the key elements for opposition parties at the next general election will be the past, and future, stealth taxes that Brown intends to introduce. Labour will comprehensively lose on this single issue alone.
- Pete, Banstead. Uk
Anne,
You are not factoring in the strong chance that Blighty could go bust in the coming months.
- Get Shorty, Bognor
"
Khoodeelaar! told you so! Even the crassly=’edited’ and the zealously CROSSRAIL scam-touting London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ ‘executive editor’ Anne McElvoy can see that there is a huge hole ahead for Brown and Darling.… So big and deep is the hole that even McElvoy can feel confident at using thew word SOUL! It is a hole which is certain to sink the ‘soul’ of the Blaired ‘Party’.…… What the typically ignorant McElvoy herself cannot see is that the hole into which Brown and Darling are sinking the economy is VERY MUCH CASED by the agenda of Big Business that has REQUIRED BRown and Darling to FUND Crossrail.…..
[To be continued]
"
Tax rises bore a hole in the New Labour soul
Anne McElvoy
26.11.08
BEHOLD: another bonfire of the certainties. Last week, spanking new Tories turned back into stern 1992 latter-day Thatcherites, exploding tax bombshells under a Labour government. Now New Labour has hung out the RIP sign. Gordon Brown is busy resurrecting the spectre of that very Seventies idea: the supertax, ostensibly to fill a hole in the public finances he has just dug with a borrowing binge
Why? That is the Sherlock Holmes question of the Unsolved PBR Mystery.
Mr Brown's - oops, Alistair Darling's - mini-Budget implicitly linked the themes of borrowing to "paying back" through higher taxes by the better off.
On examination, it turns out to be threadbare economics. Here's what the Institute for Fiscal Studies tells me:
"Top income tax rate will rise from 40 per cent to 45 per cent above £150k (affecting about 400,000 people, less than one per cent of the adult population) and will rise from 40 per cent to 60 per cent in two quite small brackets (£100,000 to £106,475 and £140,000 to £146,475)." In other words, there aren't that many high earners to go round - certainly not those daft enough to have all their earnings in the PAYE tax system if they can possibly avoid it.
The report itself states that around £670 million will be raised in a single year from the rise, so the Treasury has no illusions that it can materially offset a £20 billion borrowing splurge.
Mr Brown's calculation is that most people earn far less and won't weep for those affected. "There's not much discussion about earning £150,000 in the key southern marginals," says one senior backbencher. A fair point and a major consideration in the coming fight between the parties.
Mr Brown proceeds rationally even as he gambles heavily - for which reason Boris Johnson's characterisation of him behaving like a drunk strikes me as carelessly misjudged.
Far more sharp politics are at work than sound economics this week. Mr Brown thinks that his plan will stave off the worst of a recession, forestall the galloping unemployment of the 1980s and avoid a repeat of the social devastation which the era left behind.
At the same time he senses a punitive mood against City high-earners - many people equate high incomes with bankers and the financial services. He feels, as one adviser puts it, that they should "take a wallop" for the devastation wreaked on the economy by the irresponsible end of the banking industry.
No 10 believes the threshold is high enough to defeat the "politics of envy" argument. Most importantly, it hopes to cut off Mr Cameron's "time-bomb" argument because it affects relatively few people, who wouldn't vote Labour anyway.
Here, to my mind, is where the problem really starts. One of the major achievements of the Blair-Brown transformation of the party between 1994 and 1997 is that they stopped segmenting the vote into people likely to vote Labour and those unlikely to oblige. "The political wing of the British people as a whole," said Mr Blair, with alarming Sinn Fein undertones, but we got his point. No one was to be presented with a reason not to vote Labour. The "filthy rich" approvingly cited by one P Mandelson were to have as much a stake in its success and electability as anyone.
The impact of yesterday's announcement is to bring back the Old Labour notion of a cap on aspiration and wealth. Mr Darling spoke so approvingly of "modest incomes" that one imagined his perfect Britain in which everyone would aspire to earn modestly.
"I don't really like it, " concedes one moderate former Cabinet minister. "But if you have to raise £40 billion, I don't see how else you do it."
It is questionable whether he "had to" raise borrowing so high. My sense is that the pre-Budget report feels a lot less reassuring now it has been delivered than in the anticipation of it.
A trademark error of Mr Brown is his tendency to sell small giveaways as big ones - from the disastrous 75p pension rise in 2000 to the 10p tax band fiasco falsely sold as a middle-class tax break last year . The response to a 2.5 per cent VAT deduction is more likely to be "Is that all?" than "Wow".
It is true, small businesses will be helped by the VAT adjustment and do well out of a package of measures to help them. Whether it makes us spend our way through the gloom, we shall see.
The PM's claim to be in the international mainstream is also a shakier proposition than it was at the time of the recent G20 meeting. True, Barack Obama is also promising massive economic stimulus, with a new Treasury team ready to take risks to stave off a slump.
He won, however, by promising tax cuts for low earners to be paid for by the tax rises of higher earners. Mr Brown is taxing the higher earners without an accompanying tax cut further down the line. Middle earners are still hit by rising National Insurance contributions, a tax in all but name.
I am reliably informed that Team Brown did consider an Obama-style tax cut but plumped for an instant VAT cut and a raft of other stimulus measures instead. One has to conclude that tax cutting just isn't Mr Brown's thing, whereas raising taxes is. More broadly, the PM's personal relationship with the concept of New Labour has always been partial and selective. He now indulges a much more obviously old Labour approach to taxation. One wonders what Peter - now Lord - Mandelson really makes of this.
He told me - rather ahead of time - in the run-up to the 1997 election that a Labour government would not raise the 40 per cent tax band and was very lucid about its symbolism. As shadow chancellor, Mr Brown was irritated by this pre-emption but the Mandelson view won out, and became the sine qua non of New Labour tax policy. Now you could say, to quote Mr Darling, "exceptional measures for exceptional times" and everything is up for grabs.
However, ministers and New Labour thinkers I have spoken to feel confused and uncertain about the up-ending of what has been a plank of their success, the more so when it looks suspiciously like an opportunity to have a symbolic smack at the well-off.
None of this makes life immediately easier for the Conservatives. They have a muddled and scrappy message about what they are about and George Osborne's Budget response, while strong enough to quell those who want his scalp, is still focused too obsessively on bashing Mr Brown and not clearly enough on what a distinctive approach to Britain's economic ills will be.
Yet the PM's outlook is considerably more fraught than his recent revival suggests. It banks on the electorate feeling more grateful than anxious about the consequences of his tax-and-borrow intervention - and nothing else going very wrong in the meantime. Not something to bet too much on, in this age of the great economic gamble.
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If Labour were to win the next election then Brits will leave the UK in larger numbers than previously ever imagined-seeing and listening to Gordon smirking for another term will be just too much to tolerate
- Harvey Lawrence, London UK
But for the seriousness of the current financial situation this poor excuse for a Government would be laughable. Brown is turning out to be the biggest 'econonmical with the truth' PM since who knows when. It was only a couple of months ago that he was proclaiming, to anyone who was stupid enough to take notice, '...that the British economy would avoid a recessession, and that it was in much better shape to withstand a downturn than most of it's European partners...'. We now know the truth. The OECD has calculated that the UKs economy will shrink by more than 1% next year, whilst unemployment will rise to more than 6.8%. Both these figures are far worse than any of our trading partners, including the US. Brown is continuing along the old tried and failed Labour route of throwing good money after bad making matters worse rather than better. One of the key elements for opposition parties at the next general election will be the past, and future, stealth taxes that Brown intends to introduce. Labour will comprehensively lose on this single issue alone.
- Pete, Banstead. Uk
Anne,
You are not factoring in the strong chance that Blighty could go bust in the coming months.
- Get Shorty, Bognor
"
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidential advice to Gordon Brown: SCRAP the wasteful, IRRELEVANT Crossrail scam [238]..
2110 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 26 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! analysis of the UK economy has been going on in the context of the UK Government's willingness to be used as a stooge and an agency of the Big Business interests that have been conniving to loot £Billions of UK public money to pocket via London Crossrail... The KHOODEELAAR! analysis has been uniquely and accurately predicting the fundamental flaws in the Crossrail scam.…. We say to Brown again: DON’T ADD to your burden of follies... Scrap Crossrail even now...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! analysis of the UK economy has been going on in the context of the UK Government's willingness to be used as a stooge and an agency of the Big Business interests that have been conniving to loot £Billions of UK public money to pocket via London Crossrail... The KHOODEELAAR! analysis has been uniquely and accurately predicting the fundamental flaws in the Crossrail scam.…. We say to Brown again: DON’T ADD to your burden of follies... Scrap Crossrail even now...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence that London Crossrail is NOT relevant and yet Alistair Darling is bent on wasting £Billions of public money on it..
2050 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 26 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence that London Crossrail is NOT relevant and yet Alistair Darling is bent on wasting £Billions of public money in funding Big Business Crossrail scam...[231]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence that London Crossrail is NOT relevant and yet Alistair Darling is bent on wasting £Billions of public money in funding Big Business Crossrail scam...[231]
KHOODEELAAR! No to lying in Parliament, lying to Parliament and lying via Parliament.... the VAT hike lies by Crossrail scam-funding Darling [230]
1930 Hrs GMT LOndon Wednesday 26 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Just look at the latest exhibit in the CRASS world of Big Business looting of public money [from the VAT-exposed Alistair Darling]..... The item taken from a web site gloating and salivating over Alistair Darling's expected NEW confirmation of funding for Crossrail, .... There is NO sign in the peddling piece of ANY importance to alleged relevance of Crossrail to any transport needs in London.... It is ALL about CONSTRUCTION, it is MAINLY about construction and BOUT THE construction conglomerates getting the dollops of public money from the hugely exposed Alistair Darling........
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Just look at the latest exhibit in the CRASS world of Big Business looting of public money [from the VAT-exposed Alistair Darling]..... The item taken from a web site gloating and salivating over Alistair Darling's expected NEW confirmation of funding for Crossrail, .... There is NO sign in the peddling piece of ANY importance to alleged relevance of Crossrail to any transport needs in London.... It is ALL about CONSTRUCTION, it is MAINLY about construction and BOUT THE construction conglomerates getting the dollops of public money from the hugely exposed Alistair Darling........
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to "CRASSrail hole plot Big Business agenda..." CAMPAIGN exposing the latest lying alleged against the controllers of UK Parliament!
This page was last edited at 0650 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 26 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO 5 years ago...AND STILL REITERATING AND UPDATING THE TRUTH EVERY DAY ... Cannot trust Alistair DARLING who is bent on wasting £Billions of public money on Crossrail rater than apply the money to much deserving existing transport infrastructure needing urgent funding and action... [224]
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO 5 years ago...AND STILL REITERATING AND UPDATING THE TRUTH EVERY DAY ... Cannot trust Alistair DARLING who is bent on wasting £Billions of public money on Crossrail rater than apply the money to much deserving existing transport infrastructure needing urgent funding and action... [224]
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to "CRASSrail hole plot Big Business agenda..." CAMPAIGN exposing the latest lying alleged against the controllers of UK Parliament!
So who has been cooking up the VAT then, Alistair?
It is the same Alistair who is part of the succession [=that is, the lying line] of UK Transport ministers committed [=LOBBIED/LOBBYED] to backing Bechtel Crossrail [CRASS role= Crassrail], isn't it, Alistair?
Now tell us the truth about who made you show the unique ‘confidence’ in the ‘magic’ of Crossrail.…….
Tell the Parliament that you did not conceal the key evidence and that you have told the truth all along...
[To be continued]
It is the same Alistair who is part of the succession [=that is, the lying line] of UK Transport ministers committed [=LOBBIED/LOBBYED] to backing Bechtel Crossrail [CRASS role= Crassrail], isn't it, Alistair?
Now tell us the truth about who made you show the unique ‘confidence’ in the ‘magic’ of Crossrail.…….
Tell the Parliament that you did not conceal the key evidence and that you have told the truth all along...
[To be continued]
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the callousness of Crossrail touting role being played by Boris Johnson [320.c]
1630 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 25 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
CRASS role playing NY USA-manufactured fabricator Brian LIESAID [Oops!] of Btoomberg, peddling Crossrail peddler BORIS Johnson peddling against Crossrail peddler Gordon Brown! How comprehensively crass!!!
London Mayor Says Prime Minister Spends Money ‘Like a Drunk’
By Brian Lysaght
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson, who depends on U.K. government grants to generate two-thirds of the City Hall budget, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spending money “like a drunk.”
Writing in his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper today, Johnson said the country is broke and that Brown “squandered” money when the economy was growing. His column is critical of the government’s pre-budget report yesterday.
Brown “is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well,” Johnson wrote. “He is like a drunk who has woken to the most appalling hangover, and who reaches for the whisky bottle to help him dull the pain.”
Johnson, a Conservative former member of Parliament, was elected in May, defeating two-term incumbent Ken Livingstone, a member of Brown’s Labour Party. Johnson leads a capital hit by a recession, falling property prices and job cuts in the financial- services industry.
Brown’s budget proposals yesterday, aimed at guiding Britain through the global economic slump, will cost 25.6 billion pounds ($38.7 billion) and represent the U.K.’s biggest round of stimulus since 1988.
“There is nothing wrong in principle with a fiscal stimulus,” the mayor wrote. “What makes the remedy so desperate is that Gordon Brown managed to squander such eye-watering sums when times were good.”
Johnson last week pledged to “kick-start” the city’s housing industry by using 5 billion pounds provided by Brown’s government over three years to increase the provision of low- income homes.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Lysaght in London at blysaght@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 25, 2008 07:23 EST
CRASS role playing NY USA-manufactured fabricator Brian LIESAID [Oops!] of Btoomberg, peddling Crossrail peddler BORIS Johnson peddling against Crossrail peddler Gordon Brown! How comprehensively crass!!!
London Mayor Says Prime Minister Spends Money ‘Like a Drunk’
By Brian Lysaght
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson, who depends on U.K. government grants to generate two-thirds of the City Hall budget, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spending money “like a drunk.”
Writing in his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper today, Johnson said the country is broke and that Brown “squandered” money when the economy was growing. His column is critical of the government’s pre-budget report yesterday.
Brown “is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well,” Johnson wrote. “He is like a drunk who has woken to the most appalling hangover, and who reaches for the whisky bottle to help him dull the pain.”
Johnson, a Conservative former member of Parliament, was elected in May, defeating two-term incumbent Ken Livingstone, a member of Brown’s Labour Party. Johnson leads a capital hit by a recession, falling property prices and job cuts in the financial- services industry.
Brown’s budget proposals yesterday, aimed at guiding Britain through the global economic slump, will cost 25.6 billion pounds ($38.7 billion) and represent the U.K.’s biggest round of stimulus since 1988.
“There is nothing wrong in principle with a fiscal stimulus,” the mayor wrote. “What makes the remedy so desperate is that Gordon Brown managed to squander such eye-watering sums when times were good.”
Johnson last week pledged to “kick-start” the city’s housing industry by using 5 billion pounds provided by Brown’s government over three years to increase the provision of low- income homes.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Lysaght in London at blysaght@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 25, 2008 07:23 EST
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the callousness of Crossrail touting role being played by Boris Johnson [320.b]
1630 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 25 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
CRASS role playing NY USA-manufactured fabricator Brian LIESAID [Oops!] of Btoomberg, peddling Crossrail peddler BORIS Johnson peddling against Crossrail peddler Gordon Brown! How comprehensively crass!!!
"London Mayor Says Prime Minister Spends Money ‘Like a Drunk’
By Brian Lysaght
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson, who depends on U.K. government grants to generate two-thirds of the City Hall budget, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spending money “like a drunk.”
Writing in his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper today, Johnson said the country is broke and that Brown “squandered” money when the economy was growing. His column is critical of the government’s pre-budget report yesterday.
Brown “is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well,” Johnson wrote. “He is like a drunk who has woken to the most appalling hangover, and who reaches for the whisky bottle to help him dull the pain.”
Johnson, a Conservative former member of Parliament, was elected in May, defeating two-term incumbent Ken Livingstone, a member of Brown’s Labour Party. Johnson leads a capital hit by a recession, falling property prices and job cuts in the financial- services industry.
Brown’s budget proposals yesterday, aimed at guiding Britain through the global economic slump, will cost 25.6 billion pounds ($38.7 billion) and represent the U.K.’s biggest round of stimulus since 1988.
“There is nothing wrong in principle with a fiscal stimulus,” the mayor wrote. “What makes the remedy so desperate is that Gordon Brown managed to squander such eye-watering sums when times were good.”
Johnson last week pledged to “kick-start” the city’s housing industry by using 5 billion pounds provided by Brown’s government over three years to increase the provision of low- income homes.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Lysaght in London at blysaght@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 25, 2008 07:23 EST
CRASS role playing NY USA-manufactured fabricator Brian LIESAID [Oops!] of Btoomberg, peddling Crossrail peddler BORIS Johnson peddling against Crossrail peddler Gordon Brown! How comprehensively crass!!!
"London Mayor Says Prime Minister Spends Money ‘Like a Drunk’
By Brian Lysaght
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson, who depends on U.K. government grants to generate two-thirds of the City Hall budget, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spending money “like a drunk.”
Writing in his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper today, Johnson said the country is broke and that Brown “squandered” money when the economy was growing. His column is critical of the government’s pre-budget report yesterday.
Brown “is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well,” Johnson wrote. “He is like a drunk who has woken to the most appalling hangover, and who reaches for the whisky bottle to help him dull the pain.”
Johnson, a Conservative former member of Parliament, was elected in May, defeating two-term incumbent Ken Livingstone, a member of Brown’s Labour Party. Johnson leads a capital hit by a recession, falling property prices and job cuts in the financial- services industry.
Brown’s budget proposals yesterday, aimed at guiding Britain through the global economic slump, will cost 25.6 billion pounds ($38.7 billion) and represent the U.K.’s biggest round of stimulus since 1988.
“There is nothing wrong in principle with a fiscal stimulus,” the mayor wrote. “What makes the remedy so desperate is that Gordon Brown managed to squander such eye-watering sums when times were good.”
Johnson last week pledged to “kick-start” the city’s housing industry by using 5 billion pounds provided by Brown’s government over three years to increase the provision of low- income homes.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Lysaght in London at blysaght@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 25, 2008 07:23 EST
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the callousness of Crossrail touting role being played by Boris Johnson [320]
1340 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 25 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That Boris Johnson was acting as another tout for Crossrail. The crassness goof Crossrail is evident in the callousness with which it is peddled. No rational basis. No evidence. No accountability.. That is what is seen in the irresponsible and contradictory peddling of Crossrail that appears on the latest propaganda for Big Business that Boris Johnson has perpetrated today [Tuesday 25 November 2008] through the CROSSRAIL-touting London EVENING Nostandards STANDARD by hiding behind the name of lone of the dozens of peddlers that he has appointed at the expense of the people of London. Immediately after the sentence peddling Crossrail the propaganda piece moves on to ‘more important’ topics about London.… Even the irrational Boris Johnson can ‘see’ that there are items that are ‘MORE IMPORTANT than Crossrail’.. The problem is that he is behaving like a blind abuser of office....As far as Crossrail is concerned, Boris Johnson is unprepared to seek evidence on its economic, transport, environmental, financial justification...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That Boris Johnson was acting as another tout for Crossrail. The crassness goof Crossrail is evident in the callousness with which it is peddled. No rational basis. No evidence. No accountability.. That is what is seen in the irresponsible and contradictory peddling of Crossrail that appears on the latest propaganda for Big Business that Boris Johnson has perpetrated today [Tuesday 25 November 2008] through the CROSSRAIL-touting London EVENING Nostandards STANDARD by hiding behind the name of lone of the dozens of peddlers that he has appointed at the expense of the people of London. Immediately after the sentence peddling Crossrail the propaganda piece moves on to ‘more important’ topics about London.… Even the irrational Boris Johnson can ‘see’ that there are items that are ‘MORE IMPORTANT than Crossrail’.. The problem is that he is behaving like a blind abuser of office....As far as Crossrail is concerned, Boris Johnson is unprepared to seek evidence on its economic, transport, environmental, financial justification...
[To be continued]
Monday, November 24, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YU SO! Alistair Darling has presented the CONFUSED, messed up 'Party Election Broadcast' that lacks in substance...[315]
1915 Hrs GMT London Monday 24 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YU SO! Alistair Darling has presented the CONFUSED, messed up 'Party Election Broadcast' [You read it HERE first] that we had in effect predicted he would do... He has crash landed into the land of ignorant, irresponsible debtfulness.... And no sign of recovery for the economy from the deepening ADDITIONAL debts mire.....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YU SO! Alistair Darling has presented the CONFUSED, messed up 'Party Election Broadcast' [You read it HERE first] that we had in effect predicted he would do... He has crash landed into the land of ignorant, irresponsible debtfulness.... And no sign of recovery for the economy from the deepening ADDITIONAL debts mire.....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! tells Brown [and Darling] to pay attention to THE symptoms seen at "Broughton' Edinburgh.. [315]
This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 0230 Hrs GMT London Monday 24 November 2008
SOCIAL COHESION and basic respect and dignity are being squandered, neglected in Britain. By ALL the elected holders of positions...
The truth is that ‘social violence’ is being encouraged in Britain,. contextually, in a way that cannot be found in the history f the last 100 years....
When 'society' heads downwards and its tendencies are ignored or even encouraged by the makers of decisions who abuse their powers to 'spend public money' money, society is in real crisis,.. No CROSSRAIl can bring society back...
Time therefore that Brown paid heed to the warning carried in this item by a resident of the ‘Broughton’, Edinburgh...
Does Brown realize that the ‘British vah-loos’ he spouts on about, are surely absent from the behaviour of the ‘weekend visitors' to ‘Broughton? If he does, what is he going to do about it? Can he extrapolate the [‘British vah-loos’] scenario so as to cover the rest of the UK with ‘that’ 'solution' ? And may be even bring it over or ‘down’ to London and tell us how the steady decline in social standards and responsibility is going to be stemmed by the abuse of £Billions for Big Business Crossrail?
KHOODEELAAR! Organizer Muhammad Haque has posted in the last 20 minutes [ 0135 GMT Monday 24 November 2008] the following short comment on the Times web side in response t the item from the Edinburgh resident...
" And if on weekend nights the streets are a
war zone, what sort of civil society do we have?" The answer, from downtown East End of London, and evidentially, must be: Until they find another headline-catching event or incident that focusses the mind for a few days! Elected bodies are NOT bothered”
[To be continued]
SOCIAL COHESION and basic respect and dignity are being squandered, neglected in Britain. By ALL the elected holders of positions...
The truth is that ‘social violence’ is being encouraged in Britain,. contextually, in a way that cannot be found in the history f the last 100 years....
When 'society' heads downwards and its tendencies are ignored or even encouraged by the makers of decisions who abuse their powers to 'spend public money' money, society is in real crisis,.. No CROSSRAIl can bring society back...
Time therefore that Brown paid heed to the warning carried in this item by a resident of the ‘Broughton’, Edinburgh...
Does Brown realize that the ‘British vah-loos’ he spouts on about, are surely absent from the behaviour of the ‘weekend visitors' to ‘Broughton? If he does, what is he going to do about it? Can he extrapolate the [‘British vah-loos’] scenario so as to cover the rest of the UK with ‘that’ 'solution' ? And may be even bring it over or ‘down’ to London and tell us how the steady decline in social standards and responsibility is going to be stemmed by the abuse of £Billions for Big Business Crossrail?
KHOODEELAAR! Organizer Muhammad Haque has posted in the last 20 minutes [ 0135 GMT Monday 24 November 2008] the following short comment on the Times web side in response t the item from the Edinburgh resident...
" And if on weekend nights the streets are a
war zone, what sort of civil society do we have?" The answer, from downtown East End of London, and evidentially, must be: Until they find another headline-catching event or incident that focusses the mind for a few days! Elected bodies are NOT bothered”
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to NEW LIES for Big Business CRossrail via Gordon Brown and ‘or’ Alistair Darling.. STOP LYING, scrap Crossrail, AVOID £Bns DEBT [313
KHOODEELAAR! No to NEW LIES for Big Business CRossrail via Gordon Brown and ‘or’ Alistair Darling.. STOP LYING, scrap Crossrail and AVOID £Billions of unnecessary, AVOIDABLE DEBT and AVOID the equally heavy political price for being so brazenly IMPRUDENT! [313]
Sunday, November 23, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! No to Lib Dem [!!!!] Crossrail hole scam-tout Tom Brake ‘MP’. Evidence update [312.b]
This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 2145 Hrs GMT London Sunday 23 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! No to Lib Dem [!!!!] Crossrail hole scam-tout Tom BRAKE ‘MP’.
Why is BRAKE a tout? Because he plugs Crossrail as a tout would do. With no real reason. With no evidence. With no sense.. And as in any tout’s ‘argument’, there will be more holes of idiocy than there would be substance. As has been evident in BRAKE’s latest exhibition as contained in a parallel statement that BRAKE has made during a token ‘debate‘ held about RAIL LINKS in the UK, under the auspices of the UK House of Commons and published in the last few days...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to Lib Dem [!!!!] Crossrail hole scam-tout Tom BRAKE ‘MP’.
Why is BRAKE a tout? Because he plugs Crossrail as a tout would do. With no real reason. With no evidence. With no sense.. And as in any tout’s ‘argument’, there will be more holes of idiocy than there would be substance. As has been evident in BRAKE’s latest exhibition as contained in a parallel statement that BRAKE has made during a token ‘debate‘ held about RAIL LINKS in the UK, under the auspices of the UK House of Commons and published in the last few days...
[To be continued]
Saturday, November 22, 2008
BORROWING and creating debt on gigantic scales by abusing Govt power is the worst conduct... Borrowing to plug the debt holes created by big business.
BORROWING and creating debt on gigantic scales by abusing Govt power is the worst conduct... Borrowing to plug the debt holes created by banks and the big business operators is irresponsible, whatever the disguise..
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the callousness of CRASSrail 'economics' - debts and destitution to fund Big Business greed [305]
This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 0835 GMT London Saturday 22 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the regime in the UK that is acting as the de facto agency for Big Business greed, is behaving callously and in doing so, is causing additional POVERTY and destitution across society... affecting the people who have less and pushing them into situations where they will have even less or nothing at all...[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the regime in the UK that is acting as the de facto agency for Big Business greed, is behaving callously and in doing so, is causing additional POVERTY and destitution across society... affecting the people who have less and pushing them into situations where they will have even less or nothing at all...[To be continued]
Friday, November 21, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the unfitness for office of CROSSRAIL peddler Geoff Hoon: He has been plugging cars!: ..[302]
1850 GMT London Friday 21 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That CROSSRAIL scam-backer, Big Business agenda-courier, 'Transport Secretary' [in Gordon Brown's cabinet] Geoff Hoon was another waste of political space. What is also serious is his stupidity. He is NOT fit to be given any powers about transport. He neither understands the transport needs nor is he intellectually or ethically able to make the right priorities. As he exhibited again this evening. He has endorsed cars... And nowhere has he mentioned his alleged preference for trains... The preference that Hoon was alleged to have shown for years and years..... as peddled by one of Hoon's fellow-traveller 'MPs,' published earlier this month, on 7 November 2008, in fact [To be continued].
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the callousness and blatant lying by the Crossrail scam propaganda makers: ..[301]
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Crass 'economics' in the crass world of Crossrail debts-causing, poverty-creating...
1255 GMT London Friday 21 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the London 'Crossrail' was not a rationally created and relevant scheme. It is Nt about addressing the transport needs of London. It is not about responsible application of averrable public resources to meeting actual and urgent transport needs. Crossrail is crass. it is a diversion. it is a pretext for Big Business conglomerates to sue as a way to justify THEIR looting of £Billions of public money and equivalent amounts of resource... Crossrail in London is a scam. irrationally contrived. And with all irrationally contrived scams. it is being 'justified' on anything but rational grounds.... [to be continued]
Crass 'economics' in the crass world of Crossrail debts-causing, poverty-creating...
1255 GMT London Friday 21 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the London 'Crossrail' was not a rationally created and relevant scheme. It is Nt about addressing the transport needs of London. It is not about responsible application of averrable public resources to meeting actual and urgent transport needs. Crossrail is crass. it is a diversion. it is a pretext for Big Business conglomerates to sue as a way to justify THEIR looting of £Billions of public money and equivalent amounts of resource... Crossrail in London is a scam. irrationally contrived. And with all irrationally contrived scams. it is being 'justified' on anything but rational grounds.... [to be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the callousness and blatant lying by the Crossrail scam propaganda makers: ..[300]
This page was last edited at 0915 GMT London Friday 21 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That "London Crossrail scam" was a CRASSLY conceived excuse to reward big Business and its agencies and touts and that to do this the forces behind the scam would go to any length and twist the facts and lie without end... Now they are abusing the environment and trying to paint the scam look as if they want the £Billions of public money for Crossrail IN ORDER TO SAVE THE BIRDS....! The question again is - do the birds in the Essex area [or anywhere else] deserve to be misrepresented by the immoral plotters set on looting the public of £Billions? The cost of the alleged 'environmental sanctuary' is a few £millions... NOT £Billions... But the plotters are parading it as if Crossrail is being done to save the birds at a cost of £Billions.....When will they stop lying?
KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That "London Crossrail scam" was a CRASSLY conceived excuse to reward big Business and its agencies and touts and that to do this the forces behind the scam would go to any length and twist the facts and lie without end... Now they are abusing the environment and trying to paint the scam look as if they want the £Billions of public money for Crossrail IN ORDER TO SAVE THE BIRDS....! The question again is - do the birds in the Essex area [or anywhere else] deserve to be misrepresented by the immoral plotters set on looting the public of £Billions? The cost of the alleged 'environmental sanctuary' is a few £millions... NOT £Billions... But the plotters are parading it as if Crossrail is being done to save the birds at a cost of £Billions.....When will they stop lying?
Thursday, November 20, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the serious failures by the official 'institutions' of democracy and representation in the UK ..[298]
his page was last edited at 1505 GMT London Thursday 20 November 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the serious failures by the official 'institutions' of democracy and representation in the UK ..[298]
1505 Hrs GMT London Thursday 20 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That the ‘process’ and, the more pronounced ‘procedures’ that Ed Balls [the UK cabinet Minister in ‘charge’ of the Department for Children] was uttering robotically in the first stream of promotions about his position over the Child P failures by the local Haringey Council, WERE not working; that the regime at OFSTED, fronted by Christine Gilbert, the Crossrail hole scam-inviting Tower Hamlets Council’s ‘substantive’ chief executive [until 2006] was not morally, ethically, empirically OR evidentially entitled to make pronouncements about Haringey, the North London 'local' Council at the centre of the particular tragedy that was done to and against the Child P ; that the making of ‘laws’ in the UK and the actual compliance with the humane, the democratic and the ethically justified laws and the legal rules in the UK were two very different propositions altogether as exhibited by the reckless disregard of constitutionality and accountability by both local councils and the central outfits.…. have continued to be vindicated by events that have taken place since 12 November 2008 ……. That Boris Johnson, if the latest IDIOTIC plugs for him as carried in the weekly print version out today [Thursday 20 November 2008] of the local and the heavily CONSISTENTLY circulation-losing, aimless and journalistically bankrupt East London IDIOTISER is anything to go by, is heading for more comprehensive [and AVOIDABLE] disaster than anything even Ken lyingstill Livingstone could wish for.………Boris Johnson is painted in the IDIOTISER as an extension of the propaganda organs and toutery of the very BIg BUSINESS interests that Livingstone was acting as before he was ‘replaced’ by Johnson on or about 2 May 2008; that the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council is being allowed to get away with sinking the community of ordinary people in the East End of London …..[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the serious failures by the official 'institutions' of democracy and representation in the UK ..[298]
1505 Hrs GMT London Thursday 20 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That the ‘process’ and, the more pronounced ‘procedures’ that Ed Balls [the UK cabinet Minister in ‘charge’ of the Department for Children] was uttering robotically in the first stream of promotions about his position over the Child P failures by the local Haringey Council, WERE not working; that the regime at OFSTED, fronted by Christine Gilbert, the Crossrail hole scam-inviting Tower Hamlets Council’s ‘substantive’ chief executive [until 2006] was not morally, ethically, empirically OR evidentially entitled to make pronouncements about Haringey, the North London 'local' Council at the centre of the particular tragedy that was done to and against the Child P ; that the making of ‘laws’ in the UK and the actual compliance with the humane, the democratic and the ethically justified laws and the legal rules in the UK were two very different propositions altogether as exhibited by the reckless disregard of constitutionality and accountability by both local councils and the central outfits.…. have continued to be vindicated by events that have taken place since 12 November 2008 ……. That Boris Johnson, if the latest IDIOTIC plugs for him as carried in the weekly print version out today [Thursday 20 November 2008] of the local and the heavily CONSISTENTLY circulation-losing, aimless and journalistically bankrupt East London IDIOTISER is anything to go by, is heading for more comprehensive [and AVOIDABLE] disaster than anything even Ken lyingstill Livingstone could wish for.………Boris Johnson is painted in the IDIOTISER as an extension of the propaganda organs and toutery of the very BIg BUSINESS interests that Livingstone was acting as before he was ‘replaced’ by Johnson on or about 2 May 2008; that the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council is being allowed to get away with sinking the community of ordinary people in the East End of London …..[To be continued]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence for the constitutional law action against Crossrail [290]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential commentary on the publicity slot that OFSTED's Christine Gilbert has obtained for herself as 'a key player' in the Child P tragedy 'inspection project' via the BBC in the past 40 minutes.
Here. in the next hours
Here. in the next hours
Monday, November 17, 2008
Why would they want to ‘link’ Canary Wharf with Heathrow when BOTH are ADMITTEDLY sinking into holes of undeniable depth? [285]
This page was last edited at 2348 GMT London Monday 17 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Why would they want to ‘link’ Canary Wharf with Heathrow when BOTH are ADMITTEDLY sinking into holes of undeniable depth? Who but a bunch of crass, insane [Oops! ‘irresponsible’ ‘imprudent’!!] abusers of public money would want to pour £Billions into the Crossrail getting nowhere but a crash post of debt, uncertainty and bankruptcy? And into the pockets o Bechtel at al ? [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Why would they want to ‘link’ Canary Wharf with Heathrow when BOTH are ADMITTEDLY sinking into holes of undeniable depth? Who but a bunch of crass, insane [Oops! ‘irresponsible’ ‘imprudent’!!] abusers of public money would want to pour £Billions into the Crossrail getting nowhere but a crash post of debt, uncertainty and bankruptcy? And into the pockets o Bechtel at al ? [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence for the constitutional law action against Crossrail [284]
This page was last edited at 1915 Hrs GMT London Monday 17 November 2008
How the East London IDIOTISER has been suppressing the truth and backing the corrupt clique on Tower Hamlets Council....
This item below dated 1 May 2008 is part of the evidence of the Crossrail hole plot-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council obstructing KHOODEELAAR! communications to the Council....
[To be continued]
Evidential communication
Re: the DISHONESTY of the leadership of Denise Jones on Tower Hamlets Council- this is a direct and
immediate rebuttal of the promotion piece as published in today's edition of the 'East London Advertiser'
FAO the Editor of the 'East London Advertiser' 1210
Hrs GMT 1 May 2008
Dear Editor,
The following is being sent to you as instant evidence
of how the Tower Hamlets council is actively
obstructing the campaign group Khodoeelaar!
The point of this item is to draw your attention to
the fact that they have a permanent block on their
internet system that 'says' they do not receive
e-mails from the campaign and the associated e-mail
addresses.
This has gone on for several years.
Your publication has been informed of this.
You have not, to our knowledge, done anything about
this.
Is this because you do not consider the violation
important
Or do you AGREE with the Council’s obstructing e-mail
queries and communications?
Here is the latest item [which as you can see, was
originally sent by us to your colleague Mr ted Jeory]
[More about that in our next e-mail which is being
prepared at this moment]
“
How the East London IDIOTISER has been suppressing the truth and backing the corrupt clique on Tower Hamlets Council....
This item below dated 1 May 2008 is part of the evidence of the Crossrail hole plot-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council obstructing KHOODEELAAR! communications to the Council....
[To be continued]
Evidential communication
Re: the DISHONESTY of the leadership of Denise Jones on Tower Hamlets Council- this is a direct and
immediate rebuttal of the promotion piece as published in today's edition of the 'East London Advertiser'
FAO the Editor of the 'East London Advertiser' 1210
Hrs GMT 1 May 2008
Dear Editor,
The following is being sent to you as instant evidence
of how the Tower Hamlets council is actively
obstructing the campaign group Khodoeelaar!
The point of this item is to draw your attention to
the fact that they have a permanent block on their
internet system that 'says' they do not receive
e-mails from the campaign and the associated e-mail
addresses.
This has gone on for several years.
Your publication has been informed of this.
You have not, to our knowledge, done anything about
this.
Is this because you do not consider the violation
important
Or do you AGREE with the Council’s obstructing e-mail
queries and communications?
Here is the latest item [which as you can see, was
originally sent by us to your colleague Mr ted Jeory]
[More about that in our next e-mail which is being
prepared at this moment]
“
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence for the constitutional law action against Crossrail [282]
This page was last edited at 1630 GMT London Monday 17 November 2008
At 1545 GMT today [Monday 17 November 2008] KHOODEELAAR! published the VIEW based on our own ongoing analysis and study of the UK economy and of the crassness of Crossrail hole scam, that London [in the context of the UK and with reference to CRASSrail] was set to sink deeper into the mire because of Brown and Darling following callous policies.... Almost half an hour later, the “City of London” ‘expert’ [in the picture on the left column ] shown on the BBC News Channel [fronted by Emily Maitlies, more later on HER lying role on and via the BBC] CONFIRMED EVEN MORE GRAPHICALLY WHAT KHOODEELAAR! had stated and published half an hour earlier ....
[To be continued]
At 1545 GMT today [Monday 17 November 2008] KHOODEELAAR! published the VIEW based on our own ongoing analysis and study of the UK economy and of the crassness of Crossrail hole scam, that London [in the context of the UK and with reference to CRASSrail] was set to sink deeper into the mire because of Brown and Darling following callous policies.... Almost half an hour later, the “City of London” ‘expert’ [in the picture on the left column ] shown on the BBC News Channel [fronted by Emily Maitlies, more later on HER lying role on and via the BBC] CONFIRMED EVEN MORE GRAPHICALLY WHAT KHOODEELAAR! had stated and published half an hour earlier ....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence for the constitutional law action against Crossrail [283]
This [page was last edited at 1910 Hrs GMT London Monday 17 November 2008
How the East London IDIOTISER has been suppressing the truth and backing the corrupt clique on Tower Hamlets Council....
This item below dated 1 May 2008 is part fo the evidence fo the Crossrail hole plot-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council obstructing KHOODEELAAR! communications to the Council....
[To be continued]
"
FAO the Editor of the 'East London Advertiser' 1210
Hrs GMT 1 May 2008
Dear Editor,
The following is being ent to you as instant evidence
fo how the Tower Hamlets council is actively
obstructing the campaign group Khodoeelaar!
The point of this item is to draw your attention to
the fact that they have a permanent block on their
internet system that 'says' they do not receive
e-mails from the campaign and the associated e-mail
addresses.
This has gone on fro several years.
Your publication has been informed of this.
You have not, to our knowledge, done anything about
this.
Is this because you do not consider the violation
important
Or do you AGREE with the Councils sob ring e-mail
queries and communications?
Here is the latest item [which as you can see, was
originally sent by us to your colleague Mr ted Jeory]
[More about that in our next e-mail which is being
prepared at this moment]
The Law and Constitutional affairs unit of the
AADHIKAR Media Foundation
Estd London E1 UK Monday 19 December 1980
Editor©Muhammad Haque
"
How the East London IDIOTISER has been suppressing the truth and backing the corrupt clique on Tower Hamlets Council....
This item below dated 1 May 2008 is part fo the evidence fo the Crossrail hole plot-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council obstructing KHOODEELAAR! communications to the Council....
[To be continued]
"
FAO the Editor of the 'East London Advertiser' 1210
Hrs GMT 1 May 2008
Dear Editor,
The following is being ent to you as instant evidence
fo how the Tower Hamlets council is actively
obstructing the campaign group Khodoeelaar!
The point of this item is to draw your attention to
the fact that they have a permanent block on their
internet system that 'says' they do not receive
e-mails from the campaign and the associated e-mail
addresses.
This has gone on fro several years.
Your publication has been informed of this.
You have not, to our knowledge, done anything about
this.
Is this because you do not consider the violation
important
Or do you AGREE with the Councils sob ring e-mail
queries and communications?
Here is the latest item [which as you can see, was
originally sent by us to your colleague Mr ted Jeory]
[More about that in our next e-mail which is being
prepared at this moment]
The Law and Constitutional affairs unit of the
AADHIKAR Media Foundation
Estd London E1 UK Monday 19 December 1980
Editor©Muhammad Haque
"
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence for the constitutional law action against Crossrail [281]
This page as last edited at 1440 Hrs GMT
London Monday 17 November 2008:
By©MUhammad Haque:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!!!CRASS is the core component in the Alistair Darling ‘strange and very odd and secret’ vocabulary......and his ‘publicly made’ statement and crassness lies at the centre of the Crossrail plug, plan, scam and propaganda. KHOODEELAAR! has demonstrated, diagnosed this for nearly 5 years now. And Alistair Darling has again confirmed it. As if that were not significant enough, the confirmation is contained in a piece published by the PREVIOUSLY fanatically Crossrail scam-peddling London EVENING nostandards STANDARD itself?
Why ?
Because ALL of the EVENING nostandards STANDARD’s OWN writers on economics are unanimous on one thing... that the London economy’ [ for the sake of argument and just for the time being, let us assume that ‘entity’] is in dire straits and is moving downward in a worse direction than could be found EVEN CONCEPTUALLY possible in any of the THOUSANDS of items of plugs that the STANDARD had carried for Crossrail in the years until this September [2008] . If there was still any doubt that EVEN George Osborne [in so far as Osborne can go ideologically and intellectually] may have got it right about the scale and the brazenness of stupidity being displayed on ‘economic policy’ by Gordon Brown and as imitated by and in Alistair Darling than that doubt totally disappears after the two of them made their own slightly different looking versions of ‘explanations and irrationality’ via the BBC this morning..... Neither Brown nor Darling can sustain this. And here is another KHOODEELAAR! observation that BOTH will be very well advised to pay heed to, if they don’t scrap Crossrail and if they carry on in the brazen and foolish and irresponsible way in spending £Billions on the scam than NEITHER can politically survive this EITHER.
Crossrail is an economic and financial disaster that STILL avoidable
If Darling and Brown persist in wasting £BIllions into those disaster of an abuse then they alone will be held 'historically' responsible for and condemned about ........
And as for Geoff Hoon and Boris Johnson, neither is heavy weight enough in any sense to be given the importance on allegedly macro economic political policy making They will wither away far sooner than it will take them to stay in positions to be able to see just how total their ignorance and callousness in each case was....
.[To be continued]
London Monday 17 November 2008:
By©MUhammad Haque:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!!!CRASS is the core component in the Alistair Darling ‘strange and very odd and secret’ vocabulary......and his ‘publicly made’ statement and crassness lies at the centre of the Crossrail plug, plan, scam and propaganda. KHOODEELAAR! has demonstrated, diagnosed this for nearly 5 years now. And Alistair Darling has again confirmed it. As if that were not significant enough, the confirmation is contained in a piece published by the PREVIOUSLY fanatically Crossrail scam-peddling London EVENING nostandards STANDARD itself?
Why ?
Because ALL of the EVENING nostandards STANDARD’s OWN writers on economics are unanimous on one thing... that the London economy’ [ for the sake of argument and just for the time being, let us assume that ‘entity’] is in dire straits and is moving downward in a worse direction than could be found EVEN CONCEPTUALLY possible in any of the THOUSANDS of items of plugs that the STANDARD had carried for Crossrail in the years until this September [2008] . If there was still any doubt that EVEN George Osborne [in so far as Osborne can go ideologically and intellectually] may have got it right about the scale and the brazenness of stupidity being displayed on ‘economic policy’ by Gordon Brown and as imitated by and in Alistair Darling than that doubt totally disappears after the two of them made their own slightly different looking versions of ‘explanations and irrationality’ via the BBC this morning..... Neither Brown nor Darling can sustain this. And here is another KHOODEELAAR! observation that BOTH will be very well advised to pay heed to, if they don’t scrap Crossrail and if they carry on in the brazen and foolish and irresponsible way in spending £Billions on the scam than NEITHER can politically survive this EITHER.
Crossrail is an economic and financial disaster that STILL avoidable
If Darling and Brown persist in wasting £BIllions into those disaster of an abuse then they alone will be held 'historically' responsible for and condemned about ........
And as for Geoff Hoon and Boris Johnson, neither is heavy weight enough in any sense to be given the importance on allegedly macro economic political policy making They will wither away far sooner than it will take them to stay in positions to be able to see just how total their ignorance and callousness in each case was....
.[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of gross wastefulness of OFSTED and adding the evidence to the list against Crossrail [280]
This page was last edited at 0108 GMT London Monday 17 November 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of gross wastefulness of OFSTED and adding the evidence to the list against Crossrail [280.b]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! About OFSTED!
And quick as a flash, there comes a CIVITAS report!
Within 24 hours of KHOODEELAAR! campaign analysis....that OFSTED was in a state of rot...
And Ed Balls must not underestimate the strength of evidence that KHOODEELAAR has already provided. The tragedy of the child P is not confined to one local Council or to one bureaucracy in one local council.
The entire country, society is losing out because of the culture of negligence that predominates in the bureaucracies in the local Councils.
And in the quangos, like OFSTED.
And in the central Govt Departments.
And in Parliament...
And it shows!
As it did on Wednesday when Gordon Brown made that very unforgettable and unforgivable mistake of accusing Ca-Moron of being party political....
The true test for Brown will be seen in what he does to focus his allegedly serious economic skills to addressing the needs and priorities in society. Instead fo wasting £Billions on scams like CRASSrail....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of gross wastefulness of OFSTED and adding the evidence to the list against Crossrail [280.b]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! About OFSTED!
And quick as a flash, there comes a CIVITAS report!
Within 24 hours of KHOODEELAAR! campaign analysis....that OFSTED was in a state of rot...
And Ed Balls must not underestimate the strength of evidence that KHOODEELAAR has already provided. The tragedy of the child P is not confined to one local Council or to one bureaucracy in one local council.
The entire country, society is losing out because of the culture of negligence that predominates in the bureaucracies in the local Councils.
And in the quangos, like OFSTED.
And in the central Govt Departments.
And in Parliament...
And it shows!
As it did on Wednesday when Gordon Brown made that very unforgettable and unforgivable mistake of accusing Ca-Moron of being party political....
The true test for Brown will be seen in what he does to focus his allegedly serious economic skills to addressing the needs and priorities in society. Instead fo wasting £Billions on scams like CRASSrail....
[To be continued]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating on the evidence of the corruption of 'vah-loos' that are based on lies for the bankrupted economy..[274]
1255 Hrs GMT London Sunday 16 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the flaunters of what they wrongly, falsely claim to be ‘British vah-loos’ are doomed to come unstuck... One of the earlier flaunters of the offensive boast via the ‘20th century’ media in the UK has been Robert Kiljoy S***, who made a career by talking ‘straight’ [as the Daly Mail group pamperingly and falsely describes it, see LINK on the left of HERE] and giving expression to his fundamental backwardness, ill-education and unfitness for public office. Kiljoy S*** typified the very corrupt, fabricating and untruthful abuser of other peoples’ generosity when he denounced the ‘Arabs’ as being the worst specimen of humanity on earth...... The VERY ARABS who are now being PAMPERED by Gordon Brown so that they may deliver the relief that the Western ‘economies’ need.…Contrary to the exhibition of criticism of this Kiljoy’s CURRENT jaunt in the jungles of occupied Australia...Kiljoy S*** and Gordon Brown share much more than either may pretend to be the case. And Glennis Wilmott [who appeared on the BBC News Channel fronted by Nicholas Owen in the past 40 minutes appearing to criticise Kiljoy S*** did so only to further her little career as an MEP in the Brown-fronted Blaired regime.. Not to tell the truth... More on Glennis Wilmott at an appropriate time later] …. Kiljoy S*** was given a wide platform on the BBC for ages... and he abused that platform to perpetuate racism and ignorance without any notice being taken of his violations … The BBC was only FORCED to sack him following Kiljoy’s then LATEST exhibition of criminal incitement as carried via the London DAILY EXPRESS group of newspapers.….
The BBC NEVER acts against the likes of Kiljoy S***. Unless it is forced to by OVERWHELMING political [that is the licence fee-linked] pressure... That is why the BBC has not sacked Matthew Parris. Yet...All the elements listed and and DIAGNOSED and dissected in this KHOODEELAAR! updater item are backers of Big Business and against the inner cities communities.…The elements would support ANY and ALL excuses to attack the people and the communities in the inner cities.… As typified by Crossrail... [To be continued]
The BBC NEVER acts against the likes of Kiljoy S***. Unless it is forced to by OVERWHELMING political [that is the licence fee-linked] pressure... That is why the BBC has not sacked Matthew Parris. Yet...All the elements listed and and DIAGNOSED and dissected in this KHOODEELAAR! updater item are backers of Big Business and against the inner cities communities.…The elements would support ANY and ALL excuses to attack the people and the communities in the inner cities.… As typified by Crossrail... [To be continued]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! updating on the evidence of the stooged role being played by '60 head teachers in Haringey' [273]
KHOODEELAAR! updating on the evidence of the stooged role being played by '60 head teachers in Haringey' [273]
By©Muhammad Haque
2255 GMT
London Saturday 15 November 2008:
How is it that 60 head teachers of schools and institutions in Haringey have been able to issue a statement backing Sharon Shoesmith on the same day [ Saturday 15 November 2008] that one of her own daughters [that is, her children] just happens to get through to the BBC and the ‘national children’s centre’ man, Mr Ennals [on which more later] uttered the same sort of ‘concerns’ that are designed to discourage discussions about accountability of those who hold power and abuse them, or fail to use them to save lives. As has happened to Child P.
There has been no credible demand by anyone who has genuinely been shocked and angered by the violations of the child P that could be linked to the peoples’ intolerance of Sharon Shoesmith's ‘job’ or career.
What has outraged and what ought to outrage even more people and on more occasions is the fact that Shoesmith has been shown to have been negligent to the rights of the child...
In their JOINT STATEMENT, the alleged headteachers have shown that they lack sense.
It is that absence of sense that people have been outraged by.
It is that absence of sense that people detected in the idiotic and senseless reaction shown on Wednesday in the House of Commons by Gordon Brown who accused Cameron of playing party politics. Cameron MAY have fantasised about MAKING everything party political. But the Child P was not let down by anyone remotely interested in backing Cameron..
So Cameron had as much right as a human being to put the questions to Brown that he did do.
It is Brown’s tragedy that he failed to recognise that.
It is this lack of sense that lies at the centre of the undemocratic , unaccountable wasteful and poverty-creating behaviour by the ‘local’ councils on a wider range of areas that affect peoples lives.…
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
2255 GMT
London Saturday 15 November 2008:
How is it that 60 head teachers of schools and institutions in Haringey have been able to issue a statement backing Sharon Shoesmith on the same day [ Saturday 15 November 2008] that one of her own daughters [that is, her children] just happens to get through to the BBC and the ‘national children’s centre’ man, Mr Ennals [on which more later] uttered the same sort of ‘concerns’ that are designed to discourage discussions about accountability of those who hold power and abuse them, or fail to use them to save lives. As has happened to Child P.
There has been no credible demand by anyone who has genuinely been shocked and angered by the violations of the child P that could be linked to the peoples’ intolerance of Sharon Shoesmith's ‘job’ or career.
What has outraged and what ought to outrage even more people and on more occasions is the fact that Shoesmith has been shown to have been negligent to the rights of the child...
In their JOINT STATEMENT, the alleged headteachers have shown that they lack sense.
It is that absence of sense that people have been outraged by.
It is that absence of sense that people detected in the idiotic and senseless reaction shown on Wednesday in the House of Commons by Gordon Brown who accused Cameron of playing party politics. Cameron MAY have fantasised about MAKING everything party political. But the Child P was not let down by anyone remotely interested in backing Cameron..
So Cameron had as much right as a human being to put the questions to Brown that he did do.
It is Brown’s tragedy that he failed to recognise that.
It is this lack of sense that lies at the centre of the undemocratic , unaccountable wasteful and poverty-creating behaviour by the ‘local’ councils on a wider range of areas that affect peoples lives.…
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating on the context of the campaign against the crassly conceived, wasteful, obsolete, Big Business-Craved Crossrail scam.[272]
1345 Hrs GMT London Saturday 15 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! updating on the context of the campaign against the crassly conceived, wasteful, obsolete, Big Business-Craved Crossrail scam.,,,,The evidence of ‘depravity’ which the linked comment by Simon Heffer [a contemporary of Keith Vaz, who is hogging a lot of headlines as the alleged chair of the House of Commons] claims is ‘confirmed’ in the Haringey ‘irresponsibility’ and tragedy of Child P, is also to be found in the latest ‘movements’ in the increasingly ADDITIONALLY immoral bid by the time-servers and careerists to make their irresponsibility a LEGITIMATE one too...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating on the context of the campaign against the crassly conceived, wasteful, obsolete, Big Business-Craved Crossrail scam.,,,,The evidence of ‘depravity’ which the linked comment by Simon Heffer [a contemporary of Keith Vaz, who is hogging a lot of headlines as the alleged chair of the House of Commons] claims is ‘confirmed’ in the Haringey ‘irresponsibility’ and tragedy of Child P, is also to be found in the latest ‘movements’ in the increasingly ADDITIONALLY immoral bid by the time-servers and careerists to make their irresponsibility a LEGITIMATE one too...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! recording the evidence of the carelessness of the BBC about key economic and parliamentary 'facts' [271]
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KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence fo the carelessness and lack of rigour in the BBC’s ‘journalism’. Only a mere 43 minutes after one ‘news presenter’ dismissively cut off a campaigning ‘guest’ in the studio who wanted to draw attention to some of the real problems affecting social work in the UK today, the BBC news channel allowed another presenter to mix up the UK finance “minister”. The item was actually pegged to the report of an interview with the Times newspaper given by SHADOW finance Minister George Osborne. But the BBC News channel presenter stated him to be THE CURRENT Finance minister who was warning of a run on the Sterling.... as follows: [This is a KHOODEELAAR Transcript of the broadcast] This is BBC news. The headlines at Ten O’ Clock. Britain is heading for a collapse of the Sterling, the stark warning from the Chancellor..” [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence fo the carelessness and lack of rigour in the BBC’s ‘journalism’. Only a mere 43 minutes after one ‘news presenter’ dismissively cut off a campaigning ‘guest’ in the studio who wanted to draw attention to some of the real problems affecting social work in the UK today, the BBC news channel allowed another presenter to mix up the UK finance “minister”. The item was actually pegged to the report of an interview with the Times newspaper given by SHADOW finance Minister George Osborne. But the BBC News channel presenter stated him to be THE CURRENT Finance minister who was warning of a run on the Sterling.... as follows: [This is a KHOODEELAAR Transcript of the broadcast] This is BBC news. The headlines at Ten O’ Clock. Britain is heading for a collapse of the Sterling, the stark warning from the Chancellor..” [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! recording the evidence of the BBC suppressing the voice of campaigners against lack of accountability [270]
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KHOODEELAAR! recording the evidence of the BBC suppressing the voice of campaigners against lack of accountability The spokesperson [in the picture `here] from the campaign group Freedom to Care, was abruptly cut off by BBC NEWS Channel presenter Louise Minchin at 0917 this morning as the speaker began to elaborate on the real problems in the field of social work under the Gordon Brown-fronted Blaired regime in the UK today...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! recording the evidence of the BBC suppressing the voice of campaigners against lack of accountability The spokesperson [in the picture `here] from the campaign group Freedom to Care, was abruptly cut off by BBC NEWS Channel presenter Louise Minchin at 0917 this morning as the speaker began to elaborate on the real problems in the field of social work under the Gordon Brown-fronted Blaired regime in the UK today...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the irresponsible policies of the Crossrail-scam-backing Gordon Brown regime [269]
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KHOODEELAAR! No to “irresponsibility by holders of power at the expense of the public”, No to “wasteful crassly conceived ‘big infrastructure’ diversions away from the priorities in transport and in the overall economy...”, No to ‘unaccountable ’local’ councils and the equally unaccountable, untruthful, unrecognisable other seekers and holders of other publicly paid for posts and platforms in the name of the local community...No to “the ADDING of NEW dislocation, disruption, poverty, deprivation under covers of the Crossrail scam...” CAMPAIGN updating on the over-hyped, spin-driven. SHORT-term, propaganda-linked behaviour of the Crossrail-scam-backing Gordon Brown regime.…
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to “irresponsibility by holders of power at the expense of the public”, No to “wasteful crassly conceived ‘big infrastructure’ diversions away from the priorities in transport and in the overall economy...”, No to ‘unaccountable ’local’ councils and the equally unaccountable, untruthful, unrecognisable other seekers and holders of other publicly paid for posts and platforms in the name of the local community...No to “the ADDING of NEW dislocation, disruption, poverty, deprivation under covers of the Crossrail scam...” CAMPAIGN updating on the over-hyped, spin-driven. SHORT-term, propaganda-linked behaviour of the Crossrail-scam-backing Gordon Brown regime.…
[To be continued]
Friday, November 14, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! telling Brown to stop spinning over Child P and to do it on ALL aspects of governance [268]
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KHOODEELAAR!
NO to crassness of those who are in ‘local’ councils or in regional assemblies or in the Houses fo Parliament......Brown must recognise the criminality of relying on spin.. Stop spinning Gordon. Take a pause and then scrap all spin... Start to pl;ace governance on telling the truth And human judgement... Start an overdue return to human integrity.....No society smut accept this treatment against any human being. Least of all against a 17 month old baby ...It is time for Brown to stop using the phrase ‘British’ ‘vah-loos’..Let this tragedy be a lesson for all who seek and hold power over or affecting others in society ....a lesson that takes the society towards a humane destination...Let this be the defining test for the ending of lies and lying and deception... Let it mark the long overdue delivery of duty by all who crave power and grab power and do so in the name of their ‘professions’, their careers.....[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR!
NO to crassness of those who are in ‘local’ councils or in regional assemblies or in the Houses fo Parliament......Brown must recognise the criminality of relying on spin.. Stop spinning Gordon. Take a pause and then scrap all spin... Start to pl;ace governance on telling the truth And human judgement... Start an overdue return to human integrity.....No society smut accept this treatment against any human being. Least of all against a 17 month old baby ...It is time for Brown to stop using the phrase ‘British’ ‘vah-loos’..Let this tragedy be a lesson for all who seek and hold power over or affecting others in society ....a lesson that takes the society towards a humane destination...Let this be the defining test for the ending of lies and lying and deception... Let it mark the long overdue delivery of duty by all who crave power and grab power and do so in the name of their ‘professions’, their careers.....[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! telling Brown to stop preaching while enriching the over-rich: SCRAP Crossrail and all the debts that that entails [267]
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1855 Hrs GMT London Friday 14 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The Brown-Fronted Blaired administration is letting down the UK public.. and boosting the pockets of the over-paid and the over-rich...
The sort that are behind the crassly conceived Crossrail hole scam...
They devised and then they revived and contrived the Crossrail scam as a ploy. In order that they would be able to pocket £Billions of the public cash.….....
And destroying the near-working institutions like the NHS that were established ONLY after centuries of need and campaigns......
How can Gordon Brown pose as a sub-preacher on the sub-world platforms and fake it, uttering stock phrases about the alleged irresponsibility of the very forces to whom he supplicates and at whose commands he moves, despite the pretensions? Crossrail is NOT an economic project.. It is not a transport project.. it is a scam contrived to provide a pretext for the conglomerates to pocket £Billions of the scarce money the ordinary economy badly needs.. [To be continued]
1855 Hrs GMT London Friday 14 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The Brown-Fronted Blaired administration is letting down the UK public.. and boosting the pockets of the over-paid and the over-rich...
The sort that are behind the crassly conceived Crossrail hole scam...
They devised and then they revived and contrived the Crossrail scam as a ploy. In order that they would be able to pocket £Billions of the public cash.….....
And destroying the near-working institutions like the NHS that were established ONLY after centuries of need and campaigns......
How can Gordon Brown pose as a sub-preacher on the sub-world platforms and fake it, uttering stock phrases about the alleged irresponsibility of the very forces to whom he supplicates and at whose commands he moves, despite the pretensions? Crossrail is NOT an economic project.. It is not a transport project.. it is a scam contrived to provide a pretext for the conglomerates to pocket £Billions of the scarce money the ordinary economy badly needs.. [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! advising Ed Balls to stop being a motor mouth, uttering idiotic slogans.[264]
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KHOODEELAAR! advising Ed Balls to stop being a motor mouth, uttering idiotic slogans...
He must stop these slogans and reflect on the conduct of the careerists that are hiding behind him now.....Mouthing slogans like Balls has been doing will not stop the misconduct and the corruption that beset local councils across England and Wales...Who knows how many OTHER infants are suffering right now at the hands of how many criminals who are holding power over the babies and over helpless people in their ‘care’?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! advising Ed Balls to stop being a motor mouth, uttering idiotic slogans...
He must stop these slogans and reflect on the conduct of the careerists that are hiding behind him now.....Mouthing slogans like Balls has been doing will not stop the misconduct and the corruption that beset local councils across England and Wales...Who knows how many OTHER infants are suffering right now at the hands of how many criminals who are holding power over the babies and over helpless people in their ‘care’?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! advice to Gordon Brown: SCRAP Crossrail, because it was cooked up by crass-'thinking' self-seekers[ 262]
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KHOODEELAAR! advice to Gordon Brown: SCRAP Crossrail, because it was cooked up by crass-'thinking' self-seekers [262]
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! advice to Gordon Brown: SCRAP Crossrail, because it was cooked up by crass-'thinking' self-seekers [262]
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! raising the CORE questions about OFSTED’s Christine Gilbert in the Child P ‘inquiry’ [260]
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KHOODEELAAR! is raising the question on Christine Gilbert's role today as part of our constitutional law campaign action updates. Gilbert failed and refused and neglected to answer the many questions that the campaign against Crossrail hole had put to her between 2004 and 2006 when she was chief executive in Tower Hamlets Council.
The questions that need to be answered about Christine Gilbert's suitability include these:-
Has she recognised the flaws in her role of associating too closely with careerists and 'councillors holding key and power-weilding positions on the local Council'?
Has she recognised the truth of what the ordinary people had been telling her about the leis that she was backing about failing schools letting down the entire community?
Has she got the morality and the ethics and the intellectual detachment to tell the truth and to expose negligence, contempt and corruption by holders of publicly paid for posts and positions?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! is raising the question on Christine Gilbert's role today as part of our constitutional law campaign action updates. Gilbert failed and refused and neglected to answer the many questions that the campaign against Crossrail hole had put to her between 2004 and 2006 when she was chief executive in Tower Hamlets Council.
The questions that need to be answered about Christine Gilbert's suitability include these:-
Has she recognised the flaws in her role of associating too closely with careerists and 'councillors holding key and power-weilding positions on the local Council'?
Has she recognised the truth of what the ordinary people had been telling her about the leis that she was backing about failing schools letting down the entire community?
Has she got the morality and the ethics and the intellectual detachment to tell the truth and to expose negligence, contempt and corruption by holders of publicly paid for posts and positions?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! raising the CORE questions about OFSTED’s Christine Gilbert in the Child P ‘inquiry’ [259]
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KHOODEELAAR! raising the CORE questions about OFSTED’s Christine Gilbert in the Child P ‘inquiry’ [259]
1530 GMT London Friday 14 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That OFSTED would be ill-served by Christine Gilbert being imposed on it, as she was being salvaged by tony Blair following the KHOODEELAAR! demand that Gilbert be sacked for misleading the community on the role played by named councillors on Tower Hamlets Council in INVITING the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London...The cause of ‘education’ has not been enhanced or even upheld by Gilbert's being placed on OFSTED.….. Today, KHOODEELAAR! is publishing further updates on our campaign against the corrupt role played by the Crossrail hole-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council... That corrupt role was being played when Christine Gilbert was very much in post as the ‘chief executive’ in Tower Hamlets... Despite repeated KHOODEELAAR! demands for Gilbert to tell the truth about the corrupt clique’s Crossrail hole-inviting role IN THE NAME of and AT THE EXPENSE of the people of and the Borough of Tower Hamlets, Christine Gilbert failed to tell the truth of that role.… In fact, she tried, and failed, to undermine the integrity of the KHOODEELAAR! interrogation of her and of the clique that she was wrongly serving at the expense of the community in the East End of London [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! raising the CORE questions about OFSTED’s Christine Gilbert in the Child P ‘inquiry’ [259]
1530 GMT London Friday 14 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That OFSTED would be ill-served by Christine Gilbert being imposed on it, as she was being salvaged by tony Blair following the KHOODEELAAR! demand that Gilbert be sacked for misleading the community on the role played by named councillors on Tower Hamlets Council in INVITING the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London...The cause of ‘education’ has not been enhanced or even upheld by Gilbert's being placed on OFSTED.….. Today, KHOODEELAAR! is publishing further updates on our campaign against the corrupt role played by the Crossrail hole-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council... That corrupt role was being played when Christine Gilbert was very much in post as the ‘chief executive’ in Tower Hamlets... Despite repeated KHOODEELAAR! demands for Gilbert to tell the truth about the corrupt clique’s Crossrail hole-inviting role IN THE NAME of and AT THE EXPENSE of the people of and the Borough of Tower Hamlets, Christine Gilbert failed to tell the truth of that role.… In fact, she tried, and failed, to undermine the integrity of the KHOODEELAAR! interrogation of her and of the clique that she was wrongly serving at the expense of the community in the East End of London [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating LEGAL Questions to Crossrail hole attacks-inviting role playing Tower Hamlets 'local' Council [258]
1245 GMT London Friday 14 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! updating LEGAL Questions to Tower Hamlets Council. This main updater question, split into the parts as shown following it, has been put to the Chief executive and the head of the legal section in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council in the past 10 minutes.
1. You [this ‘you’ and in this communication refers to the LBTH Council and any of its employees or members concerned] have stated that you represented opposition to the Crossrail hole/s being dug in Hanbury Street.
Who did you put that opposition to? When did you put that alleged opposition?
In what form was that put?
Who wrote or spoke or appeared in the name of the LBTH Council in making that opposition real?
What evidence did you refer to to substantiate the alleged opposition?
Who in the local community did you put the information to? When did you put that information for who in the local community and in what form and with what objective ?
Was that opposition in substance the same as the opposition being articulated, advocated and made by Khoodeelaar! since 31 January 2004
If so, why have you failed to communicate any of it to KHOODEELAAR! ?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating LEGAL Questions to Tower Hamlets Council. This main updater question, split into the parts as shown following it, has been put to the Chief executive and the head of the legal section in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council in the past 10 minutes.
1. You [this ‘you’ and in this communication refers to the LBTH Council and any of its employees or members concerned] have stated that you represented opposition to the Crossrail hole/s being dug in Hanbury Street.
Who did you put that opposition to? When did you put that alleged opposition?
In what form was that put?
Who wrote or spoke or appeared in the name of the LBTH Council in making that opposition real?
What evidence did you refer to to substantiate the alleged opposition?
Who in the local community did you put the information to? When did you put that information for who in the local community and in what form and with what objective ?
Was that opposition in substance the same as the opposition being articulated, advocated and made by Khoodeelaar! since 31 January 2004
If so, why have you failed to communicate any of it to KHOODEELAAR! ?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential updates: 'Local' Councils and elected post holders must be seen to be doing the jobs they are in place to do [256]
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KHOODEELAAR! updating LEGAL Questions to Crossrail hole attacks-inviting role playing Tower Hamlets 'local' Council [258]
1245 GMT London Friday 14 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! updating LEGAL Questions to Tower Hamlets Council. This main updater question, split into the parts as shown following it, has been put to the Chief executive and the head of the legal section in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council in the past 10 minutes.
1. You [this ‘you’ and in this communication refers to the LBTH Council and any of its employees or members concerned] have stated that you represented opposition to the Crossrail hole/s being dug in Hanbury Street. Who did you put that opposition to? When did you put that alleged opposition? In what form was that put? Who wrote or spoke or appeared in the name of the LBTH Council in making that opposition real? What evidence did you refer to to substantiate the alleged opposition?
Who in the local community did you put the information to? When did you put that information for who in the local community and in what form and with what objective ? Was that opposition in substance the same as the opposition being articulated, advocated and made by Khoodeelaar! since 31 January 2004
If so, why have you failed to communicate any of it to KHOODEELAAR! ?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating LEGAL Questions to Tower Hamlets Council. This main updater question, split into the parts as shown following it, has been put to the Chief executive and the head of the legal section in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council in the past 10 minutes.
1. You [this ‘you’ and in this communication refers to the LBTH Council and any of its employees or members concerned] have stated that you represented opposition to the Crossrail hole/s being dug in Hanbury Street. Who did you put that opposition to? When did you put that alleged opposition? In what form was that put? Who wrote or spoke or appeared in the name of the LBTH Council in making that opposition real? What evidence did you refer to to substantiate the alleged opposition?
Who in the local community did you put the information to? When did you put that information for who in the local community and in what form and with what objective ? Was that opposition in substance the same as the opposition being articulated, advocated and made by Khoodeelaar! since 31 January 2004
If so, why have you failed to communicate any of it to KHOODEELAAR! ?
[To be continued]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! evidential updates: 'Local' Councils and elected post holders must be seen to be doing the jobs they are in place to do [255]
1620 GMT London Thursday 13 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! As the admission published in the past 30 minutes by Manchester local Council of KNOWLEDGE that the LATEST child victims of tragedy occurring at home had been KNOWN to that Council’s Social services department, the questions that arise include this: what was the point if they two infants there too were dead by the time this became public? That UNACCOUNTABLE 'local' Councils were dangerously unacceptable.... Democracy must prevail Accountability must be seen to be in place every day...[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! As the admission published in the past 30 minutes by Manchester local Council of KNOWLEDGE that the LATEST child victims of tragedy occurring at home had been KNOWN to that Council’s Social services department, the questions that arise include this: what was the point if they two infants there too were dead by the time this became public? That UNACCOUNTABLE 'local' Councils were dangerously unacceptable.... Democracy must prevail Accountability must be seen to be in place every day...[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update -linking the David Hare 'play' with Tessa Jowell's role in the disastrous 2012 Bid: Wastes [254]
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the Blaired party in Britain, now fronted by Gordon Brown, was seen as lacking basic morality, ethics and accountability; that it was being seen as resembling as corrupt a regime as any could be imagined to exist on a remote land in the shape of a banana republic.… possibly in Asia or in Africa but NEVER in Britain, NEVER in the ‘British vah-loos’-boasting Gordon Brown-fronting United Kingdom.….
So it is with these sad [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] words that we refer to a brief account [of many] on the latest play that reportedly opened last night [Wednesday 12 November 2008] in London. The DAVID HARE play quite openly paints Tessa Jowell in the context of her husband David Mills, the ‘legal adviser’ to Silvio Berlusconi....So much so that Jowell had tried to get the playwright to CHANGE the particular scene/s so that her PERCEIVED links with the character of the cabinet minister's dodgy husband would be left out...Hare ‘failed’ to leave out the scene/s....
All of this brings the KHOODEELAAR! review of the reviews of the play right back to how we began this morning..... Jowell’s reported confession that HAD she and her colluders known THEN [2005 and backwards from then] what they know “NOW’, [November 2008] they would not have bid for London to host the 2012 Olympic Games....An altogether crass confession and a crasser state of affairs in the land fronted by Gordon Brown... and inhabited by Sharon Shoestring, James Purnell, Michael Snyder, Adrian Montague, Geoff Hoon, Ken Livingstone, Douglas Oakervee, Jim Fptarick et al....[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the Blaired party in Britain, now fronted by Gordon Brown, was seen as lacking basic morality, ethics and accountability; that it was being seen as resembling as corrupt a regime as any could be imagined to exist on a remote land in the shape of a banana republic.… possibly in Asia or in Africa but NEVER in Britain, NEVER in the ‘British vah-loos’-boasting Gordon Brown-fronting United Kingdom.….
So it is with these sad [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] words that we refer to a brief account [of many] on the latest play that reportedly opened last night [Wednesday 12 November 2008] in London. The DAVID HARE play quite openly paints Tessa Jowell in the context of her husband David Mills, the ‘legal adviser’ to Silvio Berlusconi....So much so that Jowell had tried to get the playwright to CHANGE the particular scene/s so that her PERCEIVED links with the character of the cabinet minister's dodgy husband would be left out...Hare ‘failed’ to leave out the scene/s....
All of this brings the KHOODEELAAR! review of the reviews of the play right back to how we began this morning..... Jowell’s reported confession that HAD she and her colluders known THEN [2005 and backwards from then] what they know “NOW’, [November 2008] they would not have bid for London to host the 2012 Olympic Games....An altogether crass confession and a crasser state of affairs in the land fronted by Gordon Brown... and inhabited by Sharon Shoestring, James Purnell, Michael Snyder, Adrian Montague, Geoff Hoon, Ken Livingstone, Douglas Oakervee, Jim Fptarick et al....[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential commentary on the 2012 Olympics staging stunt minister Tessa Jowell's LATEST confession: That Bid WAS crass! [252]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential notes on Olympics 2012 staging stunt minister Tessa Jowell's LATEST confession: That Bid WAS crass! [252]
By©MuhammaD HAQUE
0855 GMT LONDON THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2008
Tessa Jowell has, over the past 3 years, ‘let slip’ many more bits of fact about the crassness of the 2012 Olympics hosting bid than would fit the scam that the likes of Ken Livingstone had contrived.
And in a media that is not particularly bothered about morality and ethics, Tessa Jowell’s repeated confessions of crassness of that bid have gone ignored.
In effect.
It is almost certain that her latest comments would also be ‘forgotten’ by the Guardian and other peddlers of the scams that the Brown-fronted Blaired regime has been spinning for...
Even now...
Even after the NEWSNIGHT programme on the BBC [last night- Wednesday 12 November 2008] carried a point by Paul Mason [more on this Mason, soon] that the ‘lead’ in calling for a greater international role on the current ‘global economic crisis’ was being taken by the French President, far more than by Gordon Brown, thus demolishing one of the many corrupt myths being spun IN THE UK by the propaganda wagon being driven for the maintenance of Gordon Brown in place.
AS WAS SHOWN when the ‘special’ edition of the David Dimbleby QUESTION TIME [BBC1] carried a detailed boast by Ken lyingstill Livingstone that he had LIED to get the 2012 hosting of the Olympic Games to be brought to London... The brazenness of Livingstone's lie, the crassness of Livingstone's lie were not to be found just in the disgraceful locating.……..that he had lied to benefit the ‘East End of London’. It was spread all over the entire exhibition. The whole immoral, shameless display by the careerist Livingstone. was in fact IGNORED by BOTH Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick!
And by Dimbleby himself.
KHOODEELAAR! has been pointing out this ‘incident’ right since the evening of the broadcast of that edition of the BBC TV “Question Time’.
NOT one part of the media, including the DAILY TELEGRAPH group that carries Tessa Jowell’s latest confession [13 November 2008] has either commented on Livingstone's brazen boast about lying or published a decent report on that programme.
What does THIS show about Paul Dacre’s fantasy role-playing British ‘press’?
Dacre of the DAILY MAIL was being promoted via the BBC as having delivered a solemn-sounding spiel at a ‘professional gathering’ of ‘British journalists’ to the effect that a lone High Court judge was endangering the very foundations of constitutionality in the country. Dacre in effect accused the judge of making laws by the back door. As if that were not untruthful enough, Dacre made it worse by linking his accusation to the ‘dreadful’ Human Rights Act [1998].
That was another LIE by Dacre. The lie was multi-faceted. Thus needing diagnosis. I have done the preliminary examination of Dacre’s dire duplicitous lines.
Here I connect it to the rest of the lies being perpetrated via the media in Britain. Especially the lie that the media in fact AIDED when Livingstone admitted to it.
That boast by Livingstone that he had LIED was allowed to go unreported and by the mainstream [!!!!!!!!] media in the UK because the agenda that aided Livingstone's lying was part and parcel of the same CONSTRUCTION Conglomerates.….... Big Business agenda which the DALILY MAIL and the others controlling the ‘mainstream media’ in the UK support.
Which brings us back to the lies that they backed on Crossrail..
The lies that they are STILL backing for the CROSSRAIL Scam
[To be continued]
By©MuhammaD HAQUE
0855 GMT LONDON THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2008
Tessa Jowell has, over the past 3 years, ‘let slip’ many more bits of fact about the crassness of the 2012 Olympics hosting bid than would fit the scam that the likes of Ken Livingstone had contrived.
And in a media that is not particularly bothered about morality and ethics, Tessa Jowell’s repeated confessions of crassness of that bid have gone ignored.
In effect.
It is almost certain that her latest comments would also be ‘forgotten’ by the Guardian and other peddlers of the scams that the Brown-fronted Blaired regime has been spinning for...
Even now...
Even after the NEWSNIGHT programme on the BBC [last night- Wednesday 12 November 2008] carried a point by Paul Mason [more on this Mason, soon] that the ‘lead’ in calling for a greater international role on the current ‘global economic crisis’ was being taken by the French President, far more than by Gordon Brown, thus demolishing one of the many corrupt myths being spun IN THE UK by the propaganda wagon being driven for the maintenance of Gordon Brown in place.
AS WAS SHOWN when the ‘special’ edition of the David Dimbleby QUESTION TIME [BBC1] carried a detailed boast by Ken lyingstill Livingstone that he had LIED to get the 2012 hosting of the Olympic Games to be brought to London... The brazenness of Livingstone's lie, the crassness of Livingstone's lie were not to be found just in the disgraceful locating.……..that he had lied to benefit the ‘East End of London’. It was spread all over the entire exhibition. The whole immoral, shameless display by the careerist Livingstone. was in fact IGNORED by BOTH Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick!
And by Dimbleby himself.
KHOODEELAAR! has been pointing out this ‘incident’ right since the evening of the broadcast of that edition of the BBC TV “Question Time’.
NOT one part of the media, including the DAILY TELEGRAPH group that carries Tessa Jowell’s latest confession [13 November 2008] has either commented on Livingstone's brazen boast about lying or published a decent report on that programme.
What does THIS show about Paul Dacre’s fantasy role-playing British ‘press’?
Dacre of the DAILY MAIL was being promoted via the BBC as having delivered a solemn-sounding spiel at a ‘professional gathering’ of ‘British journalists’ to the effect that a lone High Court judge was endangering the very foundations of constitutionality in the country. Dacre in effect accused the judge of making laws by the back door. As if that were not untruthful enough, Dacre made it worse by linking his accusation to the ‘dreadful’ Human Rights Act [1998].
That was another LIE by Dacre. The lie was multi-faceted. Thus needing diagnosis. I have done the preliminary examination of Dacre’s dire duplicitous lines.
Here I connect it to the rest of the lies being perpetrated via the media in Britain. Especially the lie that the media in fact AIDED when Livingstone admitted to it.
That boast by Livingstone that he had LIED was allowed to go unreported and by the mainstream [!!!!!!!!] media in the UK because the agenda that aided Livingstone's lying was part and parcel of the same CONSTRUCTION Conglomerates.….... Big Business agenda which the DALILY MAIL and the others controlling the ‘mainstream media’ in the UK support.
Which brings us back to the lies that they backed on Crossrail..
The lies that they are STILL backing for the CROSSRAIL Scam
[To be continued]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! contextual analysis of Gordon Brown's Child P folly in failing to come forward, before being shown up as backing Haringey Council [251]
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LOCAL COUNCILs must be held to account to the public....
Today’s [Wednesday 12 November 2008] staging of the PMQs is destined to go down as a defining one for Brown's entire career. Also it will seriously undermine Brown's attempts, at any stage in the future, to utter phrases and words that include 'vah-loos'. It was noticeable that Brown was not intent at all on stressing any of those ‘vah-loos’ as he battled to fend off the repeated questions...The treatment of Child B must not be allowed to become a party political, sectarian or religious or nationality issue at all.. It is the universal right of every child to be humanely and positively treated. And protected... That Haringey [The London local Council] has been the scene of two such monumental failures now in the past decade draws legitimate attention on to the role of local councils. Are they delivering democracy? And human and humane rights?
LOCAL COUNCILs must be held to account to the public....
Today’s [Wednesday 12 November 2008] staging of the PMQs is destined to go down as a defining one for Brown's entire career. Also it will seriously undermine Brown's attempts, at any stage in the future, to utter phrases and words that include 'vah-loos'. It was noticeable that Brown was not intent at all on stressing any of those ‘vah-loos’ as he battled to fend off the repeated questions...The treatment of Child B must not be allowed to become a party political, sectarian or religious or nationality issue at all.. It is the universal right of every child to be humanely and positively treated. And protected... That Haringey [The London local Council] has been the scene of two such monumental failures now in the past decade draws legitimate attention on to the role of local councils. Are they delivering democracy? And human and humane rights?
KHOODEELAAR! contextual analysis of Gordon Brown's Child P folly in failing to come forward, before being shown up as backing Haringey Council [250]
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2130 GMT London Wednesday 12 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! contextual analysis of Gordon Brown's folly in failing to come forward, before being shown up as backing Haringey Council, with compassion, support and humility..
Wednesday's [weekly] Prime Minister's Questions [PMQs] at Westminster, fielded by Gordon Brown on the day of the latest jobless and economic bad news, got focussed on Brown’s refusal to show that he was disowning a negligent local Council disaster...This became very acute after David Ca-Moron had successfully included the reference to £100 Million that the public spends to keep the social service unit at Haringey in place.
What Brown showed instead was the classic lack of transparency; and democratic responsibility and accountability. Especially when it comes to the Blaired local councils. Each and every single p[person that has had any contact with any of these councils anywhere in England and Wales [ and with their counterparts in Scotland] will know that democracy, transparency and humility are not among the list of their ‘services’. Not at least at the top of their lists. If these are at all included in their lists... yet at a time like today, the day after one set of court cases ended aBOUT THE TRAGEDY OF THE CHILD, there should have been a straightforward expression of credible and humane regret and apology for the entire collection of careerists that are to blame for this known and identified instance.…Yet that was not forthcoming. Instead there had to be an almighty battle staged in the Commons before Brown’s administration was able to release contrition that should have been forthcoming 24 hours earlier... What this shows is that ordinary people who really need the services and support of their local councils are not any better off now than they were before... This is worrying for all of society...Brown lost a most historic opportunity in the Commons today by his obduracy, so tragically ms-exhibited, and by his refusal to show that holders of places and ‘powers’ in the name of the public are morally, ethically and demonstrably bound to show remorse and accountability on a matter that is typified and dare I say it, made unforgettable by Haringey’s negligent treatment of Child P.… …..
2130 GMT London Wednesday 12 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! contextual analysis of Gordon Brown's folly in failing to come forward, before being shown up as backing Haringey Council, with compassion, support and humility..
Wednesday's [weekly] Prime Minister's Questions [PMQs] at Westminster, fielded by Gordon Brown on the day of the latest jobless and economic bad news, got focussed on Brown’s refusal to show that he was disowning a negligent local Council disaster...This became very acute after David Ca-Moron had successfully included the reference to £100 Million that the public spends to keep the social service unit at Haringey in place.
What Brown showed instead was the classic lack of transparency; and democratic responsibility and accountability. Especially when it comes to the Blaired local councils. Each and every single p[person that has had any contact with any of these councils anywhere in England and Wales [ and with their counterparts in Scotland] will know that democracy, transparency and humility are not among the list of their ‘services’. Not at least at the top of their lists. If these are at all included in their lists... yet at a time like today, the day after one set of court cases ended aBOUT THE TRAGEDY OF THE CHILD, there should have been a straightforward expression of credible and humane regret and apology for the entire collection of careerists that are to blame for this known and identified instance.…Yet that was not forthcoming. Instead there had to be an almighty battle staged in the Commons before Brown’s administration was able to release contrition that should have been forthcoming 24 hours earlier... What this shows is that ordinary people who really need the services and support of their local councils are not any better off now than they were before... This is worrying for all of society...Brown lost a most historic opportunity in the Commons today by his obduracy, so tragically ms-exhibited, and by his refusal to show that holders of places and ‘powers’ in the name of the public are morally, ethically and demonstrably bound to show remorse and accountability on a matter that is typified and dare I say it, made unforgettable by Haringey’s negligent treatment of Child P.… …..
KHOODEELAAR! updating evidence of lying, dishonesty and incompetence and irresponsibility by Jenny Jones, Boris Johnson, the Guardian.. [246]
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KHOODEELAAR! updating evidence of lying, dishonesty and incompetence and irresponsibility by Jenny Jones, Boris Johnson, the Guardian and ALL others backing the CORRUPTING ‘Crossrail’ scam [246]
Coming here in the next few hours...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/12/boris-london
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Boris Johnson called a liar over economic promise
Green assembly member barracks mayor over claims he is doing all he can to help Londoners
Hélène Mulholland
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 12 2008 16.02 GMT
Article history
Boris Johnson was today branded "a liar" in the London assembly chamber after he promised to help Londoners through the economic downturn.
Jenny Jones, a Green assembly member, barracked the mayor of London in front of a full public gallery for claiming he was doing all he could to help Londoners through the recession, while at the same time introducing above-inflation fares for the next eight years.
Jones charged the mayor with dishonesty after he vowed to "keep London going" through the recession through a number of measures, including freezing the London share of the council tax for the year.
Jones seized on a decision, announced last week, to hike up fares by inflation plus 1% until 2017, which she said contradicted Johnson's claim that he would not ask more Londoners for more money at a time when they were struggling with rising bills.
"You are charging bus passengers and tube passengers more and yet say you are not going to ask for more money but you are," Jones told the mayor. "You can't have it both ways."
Johnson said he was merely implementing budgetary plans put in place by Transport for London under the previous mayor, Ken Livingstone.
Johnson said: "I think it's the right thing. I don't take this decision with any joy. I think it's essential for investment in London's transport infrastructure."
Johnson's defence cut no ice with the Green assembly member – a former deputy mayor under Livingstone – who said: "You're showing a lack of respect to us and you're lying to us. That's a lie."
The mayor retorted that Jones was "demeaning politics" by deliberately misconstruing his claims. "You know perfectly well when I said I would not be asking Londoners for more money I meant the council tax."
The heated interchange took place just after Johnson began his monthly question time with the 25-strong assembly by making a statement about measures to stave off the worst effects of the economic downturn for London.
As unemployment figures published today reached an 11-year high, Johnson warned that 4% of London jobs in finance and construction were forecast to go to the wall.
The mayor said that the key to pulling Londoners through was nevertheless to "not overdo the gloom".
"I think London has every reason to be confident we will come through this period, if we get certain things right. The thing to get right is not to overdo the gloom."
Johnson cited positive indicators, such as year-on-year rises in bus and tube rides, which he called the traditional "canary in mineshaft of economic activity".
He said the falling value of the pound also presented "fantastic opportunities" for tourism and retail.
The mayor said it was imperative to "keep the big investment going" on projects that would help deliver London's long term recovery, such as Crossrail, upgrading the underground, and the Olympics.
Johnson told the assembly that he had appointed leading planning and development expert William McKee to set up and chair his Outer London Commission, with a view to boosting "the potential and actual powerhouses of outer London".
"It is our duty to do everything in our power to keep London moving and get Londoners back to work," said Johnson.
In a three-hour grilling from assembly members, Johnson also took the opportunity to say that people were "wrong" to think investment in the Olympics should be scaled back in light of the economic climate.
Johnson said: "At a time of economic downturns Londoners have to understand we are not just laying on fantastic games but it is something that is going to improve the community in the long term."
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KHOODEELAAR! updating evidence of lying, dishonesty and incompetence and irresponsibility by Jenny Jones, Boris Johnson, the Guardian and ALL others backing the CORRUPTING ‘Crossrail’ scam [246]
Coming here in the next few hours...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/12/boris-london
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Boris Johnson called a liar over economic promise
Green assembly member barracks mayor over claims he is doing all he can to help Londoners
Hélène Mulholland
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 12 2008 16.02 GMT
Article history
Boris Johnson was today branded "a liar" in the London assembly chamber after he promised to help Londoners through the economic downturn.
Jenny Jones, a Green assembly member, barracked the mayor of London in front of a full public gallery for claiming he was doing all he could to help Londoners through the recession, while at the same time introducing above-inflation fares for the next eight years.
Jones charged the mayor with dishonesty after he vowed to "keep London going" through the recession through a number of measures, including freezing the London share of the council tax for the year.
Jones seized on a decision, announced last week, to hike up fares by inflation plus 1% until 2017, which she said contradicted Johnson's claim that he would not ask more Londoners for more money at a time when they were struggling with rising bills.
"You are charging bus passengers and tube passengers more and yet say you are not going to ask for more money but you are," Jones told the mayor. "You can't have it both ways."
Johnson said he was merely implementing budgetary plans put in place by Transport for London under the previous mayor, Ken Livingstone.
Johnson said: "I think it's the right thing. I don't take this decision with any joy. I think it's essential for investment in London's transport infrastructure."
Johnson's defence cut no ice with the Green assembly member – a former deputy mayor under Livingstone – who said: "You're showing a lack of respect to us and you're lying to us. That's a lie."
The mayor retorted that Jones was "demeaning politics" by deliberately misconstruing his claims. "You know perfectly well when I said I would not be asking Londoners for more money I meant the council tax."
The heated interchange took place just after Johnson began his monthly question time with the 25-strong assembly by making a statement about measures to stave off the worst effects of the economic downturn for London.
As unemployment figures published today reached an 11-year high, Johnson warned that 4% of London jobs in finance and construction were forecast to go to the wall.
The mayor said that the key to pulling Londoners through was nevertheless to "not overdo the gloom".
"I think London has every reason to be confident we will come through this period, if we get certain things right. The thing to get right is not to overdo the gloom."
Johnson cited positive indicators, such as year-on-year rises in bus and tube rides, which he called the traditional "canary in mineshaft of economic activity".
He said the falling value of the pound also presented "fantastic opportunities" for tourism and retail.
The mayor said it was imperative to "keep the big investment going" on projects that would help deliver London's long term recovery, such as Crossrail, upgrading the underground, and the Olympics.
Johnson told the assembly that he had appointed leading planning and development expert William McKee to set up and chair his Outer London Commission, with a view to boosting "the potential and actual powerhouses of outer London".
"It is our duty to do everything in our power to keep London moving and get Londoners back to work," said Johnson.
In a three-hour grilling from assembly members, Johnson also took the opportunity to say that people were "wrong" to think investment in the Olympics should be scaled back in light of the economic climate.
Johnson said: "At a time of economic downturns Londoners have to understand we are not just laying on fantastic games but it is something that is going to improve the community in the long term."
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KHOODEELAAR! No to "CRASS' talk by TUC Brendan Barber repeating the familiar Crossrail-peddling spin and fakery..[248]
1130 GMT London Wednesday 12 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! Says No to wasting £ Billions on a fake programme like Crossrail... How is Crossrail fake? TUC General Secretary Brendan barber has confirmed this morning that he too is a backer of fakery in the economy.. Demand-Increasing measures, ‘stimulus’, etc..... infrastructure projects... to ‘keep the economy going’... This is the repetition of the same allegedly Keynesian ‘solution’ RUBBISH... This TAKES attention away from the URGENT NEED for sustainable economic policy.…... from real economic policy.…. Using Crossrail to ‘mend’ the economy is ANOTHER confirmation of the KHOODEELAAR! analysis.. That Crossrail is crass.. That it is NOT about transport priorities... [To be continued]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! update and review of the evidence of crassness of the UK Department for Transport [245]
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KHOODEELAAR! update and review of the evidence of crassness of the UK Department for Transport [245]
2225 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 11 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! No to crassness in policy-making; No to crassness in the decision-making processes [or what there may be of ‘processes’], No to CALLOUSNESS, reckless about transport policy-making in London...
Just as the formal debase! [Oops, ‘debate’] staged in the UK ‘House of Commons’ and ‘opened’ by Crossrail peddler Geoff Hoon, has ended in the past 30 minutes or so on the 3rd Runaway at Heathrow, so we can begin to update the KHOODEELAAR..commentary on the crassness of Crossrail scam...…..
As endangered Blaired MP after endangered Blairing MP stood up to denounce the 3rd Run away scam, they ALL kept within ‘loyal’ language. None of them would wish to be seen to be rocking the boat...
But they did speak almost truthfully. So far as the illogicality and the unsustainability of the 3rd Runway was concerned....
None of them used any phrase or word that could be faulted for belonging in the ethical sewer!
Not that the ‘news-byte’ man, Dennis McShane [who featured on the day’s DAILY MIRROR Front page as the bringer of sewer language concerns] was THAT bothered about the quality of democracy... He was not to be seen in the Commons chamber, which was mostly bare, as is the usual sight... There were the handful of participating MPs from all the relevant ‘parties’. One, from the Tories, is a long standing campaigner against the many threats that Heathrow represents to the environment.. Justine Greening used the word CALLOUS to describe the policy of extending Heathrow by a 3rd Runaway... callous indeed.. She was equally unimpressed by Dft ‘ministers’...
Not surprising at all.….
As became very clear when Jim Fpatrick stood up.… Jim F is a 'minister' too! Even worse, he goes by the style of Aviation minister....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! update and review of the evidence of crassness of the UK Department for Transport [245]
2225 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 11 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! No to crassness in policy-making; No to crassness in the decision-making processes [or what there may be of ‘processes’], No to CALLOUSNESS, reckless about transport policy-making in London...
Just as the formal debase! [Oops, ‘debate’] staged in the UK ‘House of Commons’ and ‘opened’ by Crossrail peddler Geoff Hoon, has ended in the past 30 minutes or so on the 3rd Runaway at Heathrow, so we can begin to update the KHOODEELAAR..commentary on the crassness of Crossrail scam...…..
As endangered Blaired MP after endangered Blairing MP stood up to denounce the 3rd Run away scam, they ALL kept within ‘loyal’ language. None of them would wish to be seen to be rocking the boat...
But they did speak almost truthfully. So far as the illogicality and the unsustainability of the 3rd Runway was concerned....
None of them used any phrase or word that could be faulted for belonging in the ethical sewer!
Not that the ‘news-byte’ man, Dennis McShane [who featured on the day’s DAILY MIRROR Front page as the bringer of sewer language concerns] was THAT bothered about the quality of democracy... He was not to be seen in the Commons chamber, which was mostly bare, as is the usual sight... There were the handful of participating MPs from all the relevant ‘parties’. One, from the Tories, is a long standing campaigner against the many threats that Heathrow represents to the environment.. Justine Greening used the word CALLOUS to describe the policy of extending Heathrow by a 3rd Runaway... callous indeed.. She was equally unimpressed by Dft ‘ministers’...
Not surprising at all.….
As became very clear when Jim Fpatrick stood up.… Jim F is a 'minister' too! Even worse, he goes by the style of Aviation minister....
[To be continued]
Boris Johnson should think about the suitability of Crossrail Oakervee as the 'assessor' of Johnson's' fantasy airport on the Thames estuary [244]
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KHOODEELAAR! points out the wasteful, corruptly contrived adventure of the airport that was contrived in Hong Kong that caused so much grief.... Boris Johnson should think about the suitability of Crossrail Oakervee as the 'assessor' of Johnson's' fantasy airport on the Thames estuary waters....Oakervee pocketed a lot of money off the ‘Hong Kong’ ‘airport on the waters’ adventure.…..Did Oakervee think about the costs to and impacts on other people at all?...[To be continued]
http://www.iht.com/articles/1998/07/09/hong.t_6.php
KHOODEELAAR! points out the wasteful, corruptly contrived adventure of the airport that was contrived in Hong Kong that caused so much grief.... Boris Johnson should think about the suitability of Crossrail Oakervee as the 'assessor' of Johnson's' fantasy airport on the Thames estuary waters....Oakervee pocketed a lot of money off the ‘Hong Kong’ ‘airport on the waters’ adventure.…..Did Oakervee think about the costs to and impacts on other people at all?...[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! recording the latest irresponsibility by the BBC, peddling Crossrail and hyping it against the evidence [243]
1125 GMT London Tuesday 11 November 2008 KHOODEELAAR! recording the latest irresponsibility by the BBC, peddling Crossrail and hyping it against the evidence [243]
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Plan to extend £16bn rail route
The rail link would connect London with Heathrow and north Kent
The £16bn Crossrail project to build a 74-mile rail network across London could now be extended to north Kent.
The existing scheme would see the rail project connecting London with Essex, Berkshire and Heathrow Airport and stopping at Abbey Wood.
But Gravesham Council said it had been asked by the government and Transport for London to safeguard land to take the route to Denton in Gravesend.
The project received the Parliamentary go-ahead in July.
Trains are expected to start running from 2017.
The rail project is the UK's biggest transport project since the Channel Tunnel and could create up to 30,000 jobs, experts have said.
We would urge that it becomes a firm commitment
Mike Snelling
Gravesham Borough Council leader Mike Snelling has welcomed the proposal.
He said: "The prospect of Crossrail terminating at Gravesend has enormous potential.
"But the problem is that it is, as it stands, a vague idea and we would urge that it becomes a firm commitment."
Papers for a cabinet meeting on Monday recommended that members support the proposed extension to Gravesend and initiate discussions with the government over plans for railway stations in north Kent.
But a report also outlined concerns about a "potential negative impact" on regeneration of safeguarded areas.
It also said there was a case to be made with other local authorities - Kent, Dartford and the London Borough of Bexley - for the plans to become a commitment.
And Gravesham council officers said it was important the plans did not hold up other local transport proposals.
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Plan to extend £16bn rail route
The rail link would connect London with Heathrow and north Kent
The £16bn Crossrail project to build a 74-mile rail network across London could now be extended to north Kent.
The existing scheme would see the rail project connecting London with Essex, Berkshire and Heathrow Airport and stopping at Abbey Wood.
But Gravesham Council said it had been asked by the government and Transport for London to safeguard land to take the route to Denton in Gravesend.
The project received the Parliamentary go-ahead in July.
Trains are expected to start running from 2017.
The rail project is the UK's biggest transport project since the Channel Tunnel and could create up to 30,000 jobs, experts have said.
We would urge that it becomes a firm commitment
Mike Snelling
Gravesham Borough Council leader Mike Snelling has welcomed the proposal.
He said: "The prospect of Crossrail terminating at Gravesend has enormous potential.
"But the problem is that it is, as it stands, a vague idea and we would urge that it becomes a firm commitment."
Papers for a cabinet meeting on Monday recommended that members support the proposed extension to Gravesend and initiate discussions with the government over plans for railway stations in north Kent.
But a report also outlined concerns about a "potential negative impact" on regeneration of safeguarded areas.
It also said there was a case to be made with other local authorities - Kent, Dartford and the London Borough of Bexley - for the plans to become a commitment.
And Gravesham council officers said it was important the plans did not hold up other local transport proposals.
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KHOODEELAAR! telling Boris Johnson again, "SCRAP Crossrail, Scrap all links with Crossrail careerist Oakervee'. [242]
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1115 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 11 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! telling Boris Johnson again, "SCRAP Crossrail, Scrap all links with Crossrail careerist Oakervee'.. Oakervee has NOT got a 'reputable' record on and from Hong Kong.. In fact, the records overwhelmingly support the Khoodeelaar! analysis that Oakervee has no respect for public resources.. That Oakervee is not someone that can be allowed to be paid so much money and be allowed to have so much influence over so much 'decision-making' at the expense of the public.... Boris Johnson is showing his ignorance by promoting someone that was very much peddled by ken Livingstone...
[To be continued]
1115 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 11 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! telling Boris Johnson again, "SCRAP Crossrail, Scrap all links with Crossrail careerist Oakervee'.. Oakervee has NOT got a 'reputable' record on and from Hong Kong.. In fact, the records overwhelmingly support the Khoodeelaar! analysis that Oakervee has no respect for public resources.. That Oakervee is not someone that can be allowed to be paid so much money and be allowed to have so much influence over so much 'decision-making' at the expense of the public.... Boris Johnson is showing his ignorance by promoting someone that was very much peddled by ken Livingstone...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! exposing the failures of the Guardian's 'investigative journalist' David Hencke to question the wasteful CROSSRAIL [241]
1050 GMT London Tuesday 11 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! exposing the failures of the Guardian's 'investigative journalist' David Hencke to question the wasteful CROSSRAIL [241]
By©Muhammad Haque:
KHOODEELAAR! first comments on the day’s [so far! It is only 1050 Hrs] media spin and hypes by Ca-Moron and Brown.… Journalists are not really journalists... they are not even poodles. They are stooges. They are zombies... They are called by first name by Ca-Moron and Brown... They are part of the same plot... What a travesty.. What an evidential rejection of the Daily Mail’s Paul Dacre and HIS lying as beamed [and streamed] by the BBC and Channel 4 news.… Journalists in Britain are not independent.. They are NOT capable of intellectual independence..Given their careers.. Given the culture of deep corruption they imbibe. They live in. They ‘prosper’ in ! They are not physically forced by anyone to not tell the truth. They CHOOSE to lie. Perpetrate the lies... They are programmed to lie. They are schooled to lie. Or they are schooled, programmed, brainwashed to robotically perform. To the agenda set by their ‘leaders’. Who are the leaders? The likes of whom make up what are called MPs, the ‘House of Commons’...... The types that the Guardian’s David Hencke is APPARENTLY deriding in his ‘comment is free’ slot this [Tuesday 11 November 2008] morning...Hencke would be VERY wrong to assume that his apparent criticism makes the Guardian ANY LESS LIABLE.. The Guardian is as corrupt as the Daily Mail. And not just over one issue. One story. One ‘scandal’. The GUARDIAN is more intimately linked with the DAILY MAIL [and vice versa] than the appearances may suggest. And the link is not just in the existence of the poisonous lies poured out by Melanie Phillips via the Daily Mail these days... It was the GUARDIAN that produced Melanie P and launched her into any ‘factor’ at all... The poison that is penned and spouted by Melanie Phillips is the same poison that is spread by the GUARDIAN. There is a deliberate image and fiction of difference. A fakery that is so deep that cannot be undone let alone denied by a thousand David Hencke pieces.… And whilst on the pieces by David Hencke, how is it that he has not spotted the massive disgrace of the UK Houses of Parliament being reduced to stooge Houses to peddle and to promote the agenda of the Big Business? How is it that David Hencke has failed to spot the looting of the UK public that is ‘legalized’ in the Crossrail Act that had been pushed through the Houses of Parliament without the evidence being allowed to be examined, scrunitised? How is it that the brazen plot to ADD to discrimination, deprivation and dislocation at the expense of the people affected by Crossrail in the inner city, the ‘most deprived borough in the country’ Tower Hamlets, has ESCAPED the notice of the [repeatedly commended ’investigative journalist’] David Hencke? [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! exposing the failures of the Guardian's 'investigative journalist' David Hencke to question the wasteful CROSSRAIL [241]
By©Muhammad Haque:
KHOODEELAAR! first comments on the day’s [so far! It is only 1050 Hrs] media spin and hypes by Ca-Moron and Brown.… Journalists are not really journalists... they are not even poodles. They are stooges. They are zombies... They are called by first name by Ca-Moron and Brown... They are part of the same plot... What a travesty.. What an evidential rejection of the Daily Mail’s Paul Dacre and HIS lying as beamed [and streamed] by the BBC and Channel 4 news.… Journalists in Britain are not independent.. They are NOT capable of intellectual independence..Given their careers.. Given the culture of deep corruption they imbibe. They live in. They ‘prosper’ in ! They are not physically forced by anyone to not tell the truth. They CHOOSE to lie. Perpetrate the lies... They are programmed to lie. They are schooled to lie. Or they are schooled, programmed, brainwashed to robotically perform. To the agenda set by their ‘leaders’. Who are the leaders? The likes of whom make up what are called MPs, the ‘House of Commons’...... The types that the Guardian’s David Hencke is APPARENTLY deriding in his ‘comment is free’ slot this [Tuesday 11 November 2008] morning...Hencke would be VERY wrong to assume that his apparent criticism makes the Guardian ANY LESS LIABLE.. The Guardian is as corrupt as the Daily Mail. And not just over one issue. One story. One ‘scandal’. The GUARDIAN is more intimately linked with the DAILY MAIL [and vice versa] than the appearances may suggest. And the link is not just in the existence of the poisonous lies poured out by Melanie Phillips via the Daily Mail these days... It was the GUARDIAN that produced Melanie P and launched her into any ‘factor’ at all... The poison that is penned and spouted by Melanie Phillips is the same poison that is spread by the GUARDIAN. There is a deliberate image and fiction of difference. A fakery that is so deep that cannot be undone let alone denied by a thousand David Hencke pieces.… And whilst on the pieces by David Hencke, how is it that he has not spotted the massive disgrace of the UK Houses of Parliament being reduced to stooge Houses to peddle and to promote the agenda of the Big Business? How is it that David Hencke has failed to spot the looting of the UK public that is ‘legalized’ in the Crossrail Act that had been pushed through the Houses of Parliament without the evidence being allowed to be examined, scrunitised? How is it that the brazen plot to ADD to discrimination, deprivation and dislocation at the expense of the people affected by Crossrail in the inner city, the ‘most deprived borough in the country’ Tower Hamlets, has ESCAPED the notice of the [repeatedly commended ’investigative journalist’] David Hencke? [To be continued]
Monday, November 10, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! exposing the latest display of ignorance and confusion on ‘economics’, by the experts exhoibited on the mainstream media [240]
2030 Hrs GMT London Monday 10 November 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! exposing the latest display of ignorance and confusion on ‘economics’, by the experts exhoibited on the mainstream media [240]
KHOODEELAAR! He may have a barrell or two in his nomenclature but Professor ray Barrell was with scarcely any ray of enlightenment when he appeared on the BBC news channel, being interviewed by a surprisingly apt Joanne Gosling this evening [Monday 10 November 2008]....
Gosling looked positively puffed out at Ray Barrell’s successful evasion of her questions ...
She had wanted to know whatever had happened to Prudence! But Barrell was not about to give up... He kept his gun firmly in his grip and his ‘expert, professorial’ [allegedly] lips firmly shut about Prudence’s fate... failing in the process to justify the time he was being given on the licence-fee-payers’ news network! But then Channel 4 News [the edition that is still on air as KHOODEELAAR! publish THIS commentary] was no more able than Joanne Gosling at getting a coherent picture on the economy from ITS [Channel 4 News] ‘experts’. True that the pair Channel 4 News had as guests was no brighter than a couple of MPs...
They came across as being everywhere. This despite the fact the one of them, a former UK Finance Minister, no less, Ken Clarke even accurately said that Brown’s economic policy was confused. The other one, Peter MANDELSON’S FORMER LENDER Geoffrey Robinson, was even more confused.....
‘BACK’ in the House of Commons chamber during ‘economic debate’ there was wee Ruth Kelly making HER ‘contribution’ to the ‘economic debate’!
Whatever they may say, being a back bencher must offer a great deal of scope to reflect and even THINK! Kelly at least LOOKED relaxed. She almost put on a few smiles as she spoke. In contrast with the laboured [!!!! pun NOT intended] editions she had to wear up until a few weeks ago.…. As Crossrail minister in the cabinet fronted by Brown.… Kelly sounded as if she was relieved not to be in the cabinet... She was on a journey to being a human again.…..
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! exposing the latest display of ignorance and confusion on ‘economics’, by the experts exhoibited on the mainstream media [240]
KHOODEELAAR! He may have a barrell or two in his nomenclature but Professor ray Barrell was with scarcely any ray of enlightenment when he appeared on the BBC news channel, being interviewed by a surprisingly apt Joanne Gosling this evening [Monday 10 November 2008]....
Gosling looked positively puffed out at Ray Barrell’s successful evasion of her questions ...
She had wanted to know whatever had happened to Prudence! But Barrell was not about to give up... He kept his gun firmly in his grip and his ‘expert, professorial’ [allegedly] lips firmly shut about Prudence’s fate... failing in the process to justify the time he was being given on the licence-fee-payers’ news network! But then Channel 4 News [the edition that is still on air as KHOODEELAAR! publish THIS commentary] was no more able than Joanne Gosling at getting a coherent picture on the economy from ITS [Channel 4 News] ‘experts’. True that the pair Channel 4 News had as guests was no brighter than a couple of MPs...
They came across as being everywhere. This despite the fact the one of them, a former UK Finance Minister, no less, Ken Clarke even accurately said that Brown’s economic policy was confused. The other one, Peter MANDELSON’S FORMER LENDER Geoffrey Robinson, was even more confused.....
‘BACK’ in the House of Commons chamber during ‘economic debate’ there was wee Ruth Kelly making HER ‘contribution’ to the ‘economic debate’!
Whatever they may say, being a back bencher must offer a great deal of scope to reflect and even THINK! Kelly at least LOOKED relaxed. She almost put on a few smiles as she spoke. In contrast with the laboured [!!!! pun NOT intended] editions she had to wear up until a few weeks ago.…. As Crossrail minister in the cabinet fronted by Brown.… Kelly sounded as if she was relieved not to be in the cabinet... She was on a journey to being a human again.…..
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! REJECTING the display of Boris Johnson's ignorant backing for Big Business Crossrail: Ealing Times [239]
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Muhammad Haque rebutted Boris Johnson, in the following comment as published on the Ealing Times web site
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Your report, even assuming that it is based on spin and propaganda from Boris Johnson and the still ill-advised agents of Big Business Crossrail - is full of contradictions. This again shows that Crossrail is not the answer to transport needs of and in London. If they have to take away almost £3 billion from OTHER transport programmes then it goes without saying that Crossrail is ADDING to the transport problems of London. Look at Crossrail rationally. Once you do that, the fundamental flaws of this deeply crass ploy will become obvious. Scrap Crossrail. Save £16 Billion at 2008 prices.
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Crossrail could benefit from Boris Johnson transport plan
5:30pm Thursday 6th November 2008
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By Tristan Kirk »
A MULTI-million pound rail scheme has escaped being culled as the Mayor of London made drastic savings in the capital's transport budget.
Boris Johnson today scrapped proposals to build Thames Gateway Bridge, an extension to the Docklands Light Railway, and the cross river tram to streamline the capital's transport budget.
But Crossrail, set to cost 16bn and run through the heart of Hillingdon, remains unchanged and could even benefit from the cost cutting programme, which is designed to save Transport for London £2.4bn.
Announcing the new budget, Mr Johnson said: “We need to focus on the projects that deliver real benefits for Londoners, and let go of those that lack the funding for completion.
“I will not continue with the former Mayor’s unrealistic and hollow promises.
“The last administration's commitments amounted to billions of pounds worth of schemes that London could simply never afford.”
Although money will be made because of the cuts, it will be swallowed into existing budgets which are lacking funds, and Crossrail remains estimated to cost the same.
But Transport for London is confident today's announcement will mean the budget is less stretched and it will be in a better position to deliver Crossrail on time in 2017.
The project received a financial boost earlier this week when it was revealed airport operator BAA has pledged £230m to fund Crossrail, ensuring it will stop at Heathrow Airport.
The plans already includes stops in Hanwell, Acton, Ealing, West Ealing, and Southall.
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Your report, even assuming that it is based on spin and propaganda from Boris Johnson and the still ill-advised agents of Big Business Crossrail - is full of contradictions. This again shows that Crossrail is not the answer to transport needs of and in London. If they have to take away almost £3 billion from OTHER transport programmes then it foes without saying that Crossrail is ADDING to the transport problems of London. Look at Crossrail rationally. Once you do that, the fundamental flaws of this deeply crass ploy will become obvious. Scrap Crossrail. Save £16 Billion at 2008 prices.
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2:21pm Fri 7 Nov 08
Your report, even assuming that it is based on spin and propaganda from Boris Johnson and the still ill-advised agents of Big Business Crossrail - is full of contradictions. This again shows that Crossrail is not the answer to transport needs of and in London. If they have to take away almost £3 billion from OTHER transport programmes then it goes without saying that Crossrail is ADDING to the transport problems of London. Look at Crossrail rationally. Once you do that, the fundamental flaws of this deeply crass ploy will become obvious. Scrap Crossrail. Save £16 Billion at 2008 prices.
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Muhammad Haque rebutted Boris Johnson, in the following comment as published on the Ealing Times web site
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Your report, even assuming that it is based on spin and propaganda from Boris Johnson and the still ill-advised agents of Big Business Crossrail - is full of contradictions. This again shows that Crossrail is not the answer to transport needs of and in London. If they have to take away almost £3 billion from OTHER transport programmes then it goes without saying that Crossrail is ADDING to the transport problems of London. Look at Crossrail rationally. Once you do that, the fundamental flaws of this deeply crass ploy will become obvious. Scrap Crossrail. Save £16 Billion at 2008 prices.
"
Crossrail could benefit from Boris Johnson transport plan
5:30pm Thursday 6th November 2008
Comments (2) Have your say »
By Tristan Kirk »
A MULTI-million pound rail scheme has escaped being culled as the Mayor of London made drastic savings in the capital's transport budget.
Boris Johnson today scrapped proposals to build Thames Gateway Bridge, an extension to the Docklands Light Railway, and the cross river tram to streamline the capital's transport budget.
But Crossrail, set to cost 16bn and run through the heart of Hillingdon, remains unchanged and could even benefit from the cost cutting programme, which is designed to save Transport for London £2.4bn.
Announcing the new budget, Mr Johnson said: “We need to focus on the projects that deliver real benefits for Londoners, and let go of those that lack the funding for completion.
“I will not continue with the former Mayor’s unrealistic and hollow promises.
“The last administration's commitments amounted to billions of pounds worth of schemes that London could simply never afford.”
Although money will be made because of the cuts, it will be swallowed into existing budgets which are lacking funds, and Crossrail remains estimated to cost the same.
But Transport for London is confident today's announcement will mean the budget is less stretched and it will be in a better position to deliver Crossrail on time in 2017.
The project received a financial boost earlier this week when it was revealed airport operator BAA has pledged £230m to fund Crossrail, ensuring it will stop at Heathrow Airport.
The plans already includes stops in Hanwell, Acton, Ealing, West Ealing, and Southall.
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Your report, even assuming that it is based on spin and propaganda from Boris Johnson and the still ill-advised agents of Big Business Crossrail - is full of contradictions. This again shows that Crossrail is not the answer to transport needs of and in London. If they have to take away almost £3 billion from OTHER transport programmes then it foes without saying that Crossrail is ADDING to the transport problems of London. Look at Crossrail rationally. Once you do that, the fundamental flaws of this deeply crass ploy will become obvious. Scrap Crossrail. Save £16 Billion at 2008 prices.
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Muhammad Haque, London says...
2:21pm Fri 7 Nov 08
Your report, even assuming that it is based on spin and propaganda from Boris Johnson and the still ill-advised agents of Big Business Crossrail - is full of contradictions. This again shows that Crossrail is not the answer to transport needs of and in London. If they have to take away almost £3 billion from OTHER transport programmes then it goes without saying that Crossrail is ADDING to the transport problems of London. Look at Crossrail rationally. Once you do that, the fundamental flaws of this deeply crass ploy will become obvious. Scrap Crossrail. Save £16 Billion at 2008 prices.
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KHOODEELAAR! advising Brown: Don't be foolish. Scrap Crossrail and avoid debts and ridicule [238]
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1455 GMT London Monday 10 November 2008: By©Muhammad Haque...KHOODEELAAR! call today for scrapping Crossrail has ben carried on the Times London web site KHOODEELAAR diagnoses of Brown's spin have been echoed by many others who have commented and published hours after the Khoodeelaar! analysis... Even man from the Crossrail scam-backing Financial Times,, Chris Giles, says that Brown should aim at addressing the poorer end of society..... But how can Brown do so? Unless he scraps Crossrail, there is no way that he will succeed [ASSUMING he would want to support the impoverished...] With the corrupting outfits doing the spin for Big Business Crossrail, like Bloomberg [prop the New York mayor Bloomberg, a callous backer of Crossrail himself] which has been a callous plugger of Crossrail, the absurdly over-hyped Keynesian ‘answer’ may be revived and the CRASSrail wastefulness also given plausibility.....
[To be continued]
1455 GMT London Monday 10 November 2008: By©Muhammad Haque...KHOODEELAAR! call today for scrapping Crossrail has ben carried on the Times London web site KHOODEELAAR diagnoses of Brown's spin have been echoed by many others who have commented and published hours after the Khoodeelaar! analysis... Even man from the Crossrail scam-backing Financial Times,, Chris Giles, says that Brown should aim at addressing the poorer end of society..... But how can Brown do so? Unless he scraps Crossrail, there is no way that he will succeed [ASSUMING he would want to support the impoverished...] With the corrupting outfits doing the spin for Big Business Crossrail, like Bloomberg [prop the New York mayor Bloomberg, a callous backer of Crossrail himself] which has been a callous plugger of Crossrail, the absurdly over-hyped Keynesian ‘answer’ may be revived and the CRASSrail wastefulness also given plausibility.....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of Gordon Brown's unwise propensity to descent into a debts hole.....[237]
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KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of Gordon Brown's unwise propensity to descent into a debts hole.....[237]
BBC political editor's blog referring to tax cuts and Brown's abandonment of Prudence
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Nick Robinson's Newslog
LATEST ENTRY
Talking tax cuts
Nick10 Nov 08, 10:32 AM
So, everyone appears to agree. The recession's going to be much worse than originally feared. Borrowing's high and going to get much higher. There is, therefore, no money to spend. So, now's the time to spend money on cutting taxes making sure that there's even less money in the exchequer.
Hold on a second. How can this possibly be?
The answer is that politicians and economists are all asking themselves the same big question - what if big interest rate cuts don't get the economy moving again? What, in other words, if the central banks prove to be impotent in the face of the looming crisis? Then, the argument goes, it would fall to governments to act. In the jargon, if a monetary stimulus fails they will have to try a fiscal stimulus.
Now, if you're looking to stimulate a failing economy you're not talking about the sort of figures that are normally bandied about on Budget Day - the odd couple of billion here or there. Economists talk, instead, of spending one or two per cent of national income. Now, one per cent of British GDP is about £15bn. That's where the talk of tax cuts on that scale has come from but that's all it is, so far at least. Talk.
It is, however, talk that Gordon Brown's fuelling. This morning on GMTV he said:
"What I am determined to do is to get all countries round the world trying to get their economies moving again and one way you can do that is by putting more money into the economy by tax cuts or by public spending rises. But that's something that we've got to look at in the next few weeks."
As I've written before, it is still far from clear whether he is simply trying to put a better gloss on the dreadful borrowing figures which the chancellor will have to unveil soon or whether he's seriously contemplating borrowing much more than he's forced to in order to stimulate the economy. Bear in mind that if ministers did nothing in the forthcoming Pre-Budget Report taxes would actually rise - the £2.7bn rise in tax allowances to end the 10p tax fiasco was funded for one year only and the controversial car tax (VED) reforms are looming.
Meantime, the Tories are on the brink of unveiling a tax cut which, they say, will help keep people in work. This is the same party that was only recently saying that "the cupboard is bare" and which boasted that they wouldn't promise tax cuts they couldn't afford. In the FT today, the shadow chancellor insists that they've not shifted their position arguing that "Spending our way out of recession will not work. Targeted tax cuts would help but they must be properly funded". Until we see the colour of their money it's hard to assess how different their ideas really are.
The Lib Dems are the only ones who've consistently proposed major tax cuts for some time (though they're paid for by their tax increases) They propose to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20p to 16p with the £18bn cost being paid for, they claim, by closing tax loopholes for the rich and increases in green taxes. They, like the Tories, argue that tax cuts should not be paid for by extra borrowing.
So, there may be agreement on the need for tax cuts to help stimulate the economy but there is none on the type, the scale or how they should be funded.
Some countries have, of course, already unveiled stimulus packages. The Australian government, for example, recently pledged to spend 10bn Australian dollars - estimated to be just under 1% of their GDP. In stark contrast with Britain, however, they're had budget surpluses for the past decade.
"
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of Gordon Brown's unwise propensity to descent into a debts hole.....[237]
BBC political editor's blog referring to tax cuts and Brown's abandonment of Prudence
"
Nick Robinson's Newslog
LATEST ENTRY
Talking tax cuts
Nick10 Nov 08, 10:32 AM
So, everyone appears to agree. The recession's going to be much worse than originally feared. Borrowing's high and going to get much higher. There is, therefore, no money to spend. So, now's the time to spend money on cutting taxes making sure that there's even less money in the exchequer.
Hold on a second. How can this possibly be?
The answer is that politicians and economists are all asking themselves the same big question - what if big interest rate cuts don't get the economy moving again? What, in other words, if the central banks prove to be impotent in the face of the looming crisis? Then, the argument goes, it would fall to governments to act. In the jargon, if a monetary stimulus fails they will have to try a fiscal stimulus.
Now, if you're looking to stimulate a failing economy you're not talking about the sort of figures that are normally bandied about on Budget Day - the odd couple of billion here or there. Economists talk, instead, of spending one or two per cent of national income. Now, one per cent of British GDP is about £15bn. That's where the talk of tax cuts on that scale has come from but that's all it is, so far at least. Talk.
It is, however, talk that Gordon Brown's fuelling. This morning on GMTV he said:
"What I am determined to do is to get all countries round the world trying to get their economies moving again and one way you can do that is by putting more money into the economy by tax cuts or by public spending rises. But that's something that we've got to look at in the next few weeks."
As I've written before, it is still far from clear whether he is simply trying to put a better gloss on the dreadful borrowing figures which the chancellor will have to unveil soon or whether he's seriously contemplating borrowing much more than he's forced to in order to stimulate the economy. Bear in mind that if ministers did nothing in the forthcoming Pre-Budget Report taxes would actually rise - the £2.7bn rise in tax allowances to end the 10p tax fiasco was funded for one year only and the controversial car tax (VED) reforms are looming.
Meantime, the Tories are on the brink of unveiling a tax cut which, they say, will help keep people in work. This is the same party that was only recently saying that "the cupboard is bare" and which boasted that they wouldn't promise tax cuts they couldn't afford. In the FT today, the shadow chancellor insists that they've not shifted their position arguing that "Spending our way out of recession will not work. Targeted tax cuts would help but they must be properly funded". Until we see the colour of their money it's hard to assess how different their ideas really are.
The Lib Dems are the only ones who've consistently proposed major tax cuts for some time (though they're paid for by their tax increases) They propose to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20p to 16p with the £18bn cost being paid for, they claim, by closing tax loopholes for the rich and increases in green taxes. They, like the Tories, argue that tax cuts should not be paid for by extra borrowing.
So, there may be agreement on the need for tax cuts to help stimulate the economy but there is none on the type, the scale or how they should be funded.
Some countries have, of course, already unveiled stimulus packages. The Australian government, for example, recently pledged to spend 10bn Australian dollars - estimated to be just under 1% of their GDP. In stark contrast with Britain, however, they're had budget surpluses for the past decade.
"