Wanted truthful parliament in the UK: 09/28/08

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KHOODEELAAR! No to “London Crossrail hole Big Business looting the public funds scam…” CAMPAIGN….. For almost five years now, the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign has shown how the London Crossrail plot was seriously flawed. Foremost on the list of demonstrable evidence has been the fact that the scam was not economically sound. Then the fact that it was not accountably democratically constitutionally passed. That it was pushed through the UK Houses of Parliament by the Blair administration and then by Gordon Brown against the hundreds of objections that were not allowed to be fully presented to the parliament. Had the ‘Cr Bill’ been accountably examined and the full implications, the costs scrutinised and assessed in the context of the UK economy, including the objectively determined spending priorities and the capacities, then there would be ways in which the wasteful and costly scam could have been scrapped. That alone would have saved over £Billion of UK public money that ahs been already wasted and is in the bags of Big Business stooges and tools to be sent even before the actual work begins.,….Now with the global capitalism being on its knees [not limited to the graphic reporting from new York in the past 72 hours saying that Henry HANK Paulson, former Goldman Sachs chief executive now the USA finance minister in GW Bush regime, was on his knees at a US Govt meeting begging politicians to agree to his bail out the bankers deal] Johnson has been reported in the London Times news organisation to be about to beg the Chinese for cash aid to salvage the London 2012 Olympics Hosting…. And that the Chinese area also allegedly being enticed to be interested in Crossrail…..KHOODEELAAR! Campaign organiser Muhammad Haque has posted the following preliminary response this morning to Boris Johnson’s’ exhibition of astonishing ignorance, incompetence and banality: “If Boris Johnson wants to gain any credibility for himself then he must take the advice I publicly gave him last year as he was preparing to become a candidate for the post he ahs now already messed up in a big way. I advised him to show that he had a higher moral and ethical standard than that associated with Ken Livingstone. The first thing that Boris Johnson now needs to do is to show that he actually understands what it means to have the power that his posts gives him over the money that the UK public have been conned into giving to this wasteful post. Nothing in human nature says that there has got to be a mayor in a city. What human nature says is that there has to be ethics, morality and integrity. And a good deal of universally applicable common sense. What Boris is doing with the available money and the insider knowledge about the potential money that he will get, is not at all good enough? Dealing with the credit crunch does not have to mean going to any other country, China included, with a begging bowel. It does mean creating credibility. The City of London interests have shown that they have not got credibility. As have their controllers, the Big Business forces. All of them have brought the citadels of ‘world class’ City of London and its equivalents in the USA down on their knees. Quite literally. It shows that their spin on all their ‘business’ has been a lie. Big time. And the question is: why would the Chiense4 –assuming your report is accurate and factual- want to get involved in CrossRail? Of the BILLIONS of words that have already been written and published about the crisis of global capitalism, NOT a single one has even suggested that building a fancy and hyped up railway line is an answer to the woes caused by Big Business. And this has including the Big Business propagandists themselves… Flogging a wasteful project like CrossRail to the Chinese proves, as if any additional instances were needed, that the London CrossRail scam was indeed crassly conceived…”

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From The Sunday TimesSeptember 28, 2008

Boris Johnson asks China for 2012 handoutChris Gourlay
THE mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is planning to go cap-in-hand to the Chinese government after the credit crunch and falling house prices left a £250m hole in funding for the 2012 Olympics.

In return, he plans to offer Beijing a share in a university that could one day be based in the athletes’ village and media centre and run jointly by institutions in Beijing and London.

Johnson discussed the idea two weeks ago during the Paralympic games with Zhang Mao, the deputy mayor of Beijing, who oversaw construction of the city’s Olympic park.

Zhang is understood to be enthusiastic, both about the university and about investing in other Olympic venues.

The move is an attempt by Johnson to find badly needed extra funding for the £1 billion village after Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister, ruled out a bail-out by the taxpayer.

“The idea of creating a university there appeals massively to the mayor,” said a spokesman for Johnson.

“We are still at the early stages of negotiation but the deputy mayor [of Beijing] was very excited about the idea of doing a joint venture between a big business school in Beijing and a distinguished university in London, such as LSE or Imperial College.”

Johnson, who has expressed concern at the lack of a coherent “legacy master plan” for the Olympics site, will meet Zhang again in London next month.

The Chinese government is also understood to be keen to invest in other large-scale infrastructure projects in the capital, such as Crossrail, the London Underground and the proposed Thames estuary airport.

Money for the athletes’ village is desperately needed. Developers are finding it harder to raise cash thanks to the credit crisis and the collapse of the housing market, which has also cast doubt on plans to sell the site for housing after the games.

Architects have been ordered to reduce the number of apartments in the village by 1,000, meaning five athletes will have to squeeze into flats originally designed for four.

Olympics chiefs admit they have been forced to look for alternative sources of finance, either by raiding the £2 billion contingency fund or by making cuts elsewhere in the £9.3 billion budget for the games.

Earlier this month, the Olympic Delivery Authority, the body responsible for building the venues and infrastructure, said it was advising the government on funding options as the economy slows down.

“What is happening in the markets means the availability of funding is more difficult,” said John Armitt, chairman of the authority. “If it is available, it is available on harsh terms.”

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Just think what a PR scoop the Chinese Government would make of this. Britian broke and having to ask China for help!

Bergman Coffey, Belfast,

As long as me THE TAX PAYER doesn't fork out money for something I never wanted I don't care who pay's for the 2012 games I won't benefit from them.

allan , Stafford, UK

This would be a national disgrace for Britain...worse than that... it would be an INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE and a national humiliation! Somebody stop him...PLEASE! There are many more dignified and business-like ways of obtaining funding. Use a little imagination... get expert help in London!

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA

Hope he remembers to button up his jacket when he meets them!

dave, kent, UK

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Wanted truthful parliament in the UK

Sunday, September 28, 2008

KHOODEELAAR! challenged Boris Johnson on CROSSRAIL in 2007. One representative KHOODEELAAR! analysis was published on the SPECTATOR magazine web site

KHOODEELAAR! tells the UK Conservatives: How incompetent are YOU when YOU backed CRASSly conceived, wasteful, uneconomic CROSSRAIL? Scrap it now

KHOODEELAAR! No to CRASS behaviour by City of London-peddling, Crossrail hole scam-flogging 'holder of the post of mayor in the name of London' [133].