KHOODEELAAR! Updating on the 'role' on Crossrail 'by' the 'local' MP ]Bethnal Green and Bow] George Galloway

By Muhammad Haque
1750 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 28 December 2008



The main updater point is to ask: what has the 'local' MP for Bethnal Green and Bow been 'saying or 'doing' about ‘Crossrail’?

The researches that KHOODEELAAR! has been able to carry out in the time between Sunday 21 December 2008 and today, Sunday 28 December 2008, show that ON THE RECORD - nay, on the PUBLISHED RECORDS- George Galloway as not been noticeably active at all on the subject of Crossrail...

One research organisation tested by KHOODEELAAR! Research unit found Galloway being reported as having ‘signed’ 36 ‘Early day Motions’.

In 2005 when the ‘Crossrail Bill’ was being processed through the UK House of Commons by the then UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling [now the UK Finance secretary or the ‘lead’ cabinet minister fronting financial affairs], and less than two months after the [May 2005] General Election at which Galloway was successful as the candidate for Bethnal green and Bow, he did oppose the Crossrail Bill.

He also spoke in opposition to the same Bill on 19 July 2008.

Khoodeelaar! has already recorded that fact and elaborated on it on more than 100 separate public and published occasions…

What happened between 19 July 2005 and 19 July 2006?

That was also the period which contains the highest number of references by or on behalf of George Galloway as the MP for the relevant constituency [the 'relevance' is to Khoodeelaar! that defends the immediate parliamentary constituency of Bethnal green and Bow as against the Crossrail; Big Business agenda] and on the topic of Crossrail.

After he appeared before the House of Commons ‘Crossrail Bill Select committee’ [in June 2006], coincidentally chaired by Alan Meale who addressed Galloway in positive terms and acknowledged a long acquaintance with him, Galloway has not made any comment, speech or statement on the well-defined context and subject of the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London, that can be descried as objectively significant. Or any comment or statement on Crossrail that can be objectively described as significant.

In fact the recently very favourable coverage that Galloway has been receiving in the ‘East London Idiotiser’ has not included any mentionable reference to Crossrail that Galloway has made. This is borne out by the absence of any reference to Crossrail in any of the items published about Galloway as ‘the local MP’ for the constituency concerned by the Idiotiser or their associated web site [which was launched not long ago]..

The frequency of complementary contents appearing in the ‘East London Idiotiser’ about Galloway is in stark contrast with the Idiotiser’s publishing agenda up until the middle of 2007.

[To be continued]