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Thursday, December 25, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! Evidential review and analysis of the corrupting role played for Big Business Crossrail by the Murdoch-ed London Times in 2008 [425]
By © Muhammad Haque
2125 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 25 December 2008
In this review of the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign against Crossrail in 2008 and the evaluation and assessment of the UK media in promoting the ‘case’ of Big Business craving even more £Billions from the ordinary UK population, I am taking a look at some of the persistent symbols of the ailment that afflicts the over-hyped ‘British media’..
Contrary to the hype and the marketing, the British media is as corrupt, as ignorant, and as undemocratic and anti-democracy as it ever was…It is because of these reasons that a community or a city or a population cannot rest assured of any assurance that any part of the mainstream British media may proffer about its being vigilant.......
The community, the people must remain alert as much about the role of the position holders in the central state as much as in the local and the regional states… And the people must treat the media for what it is in Britain: an adjunct of the state and the power-holding minority that is allowed to carry on without having to submit to any democratic scrutiny [inside the elected chambers ands halls] or media accountability…….
Crass is not far from corrupt. In fact, the two words and the concepts they denote are very similar.
In the context of ‘Crossrail’, 'crass' and 'corrupt' are easily interchangeable.
The Rupert Murdoch-ed London Times has over the past 14 months or so , published a number of my comments on the Times online web site.
But more often than not those items have been published under conditions of undue resistance by the ‘editors’. employed in the Murdoch organisation. They have resisted the comments and have only published them, in the majority of the cases, following repeated de facto demands for them to justify suppressing them. Or demands made to them to explain what ethics or morality or evidence, IF ANY, they were following in their intention to violate the right to make perfectly valid comments on the item concerned AS PUBLIHSED by them.
Several of those have NOT been directly about CRASSrail. But the ones that the Rupert Murdoch-ed Times online has persisted in suppressing have related to the core of the corruptly contrived Crossrail scam.
The most representative instance has been around the Murdoch Times’ persistent refusal to publish ANY comment whatever from anybody at all about their quite inelegant, embarrassing and low level sales-pitch for and promotion of Michael Snyder.
Now, Snyder is and has been at the very centre of the corrupt Big Business propaganda and operational enterprise based in the City of London peddling the fabrications designed to make Crossrail appear ‘vital for London’.
In the earlier part of 2008, the Times business interests promoter with supplicatory attitude to the City of London, ran a piece that reads like a CV for Michael Snyder..
That piece is an item of evidence for any ethical and even general study of the corruption of the UK media generally and of the Times [to the extent that it could still be corrupted after Murdoch seized control of the Times titles] …
I knew, from the contents of the plug piece for Snyder and from the Times’ persistence in refusing to publish any factual comments about Snyder that that plug was in aid of something …..That it had to be part of something other than just a plug in a newspaper and its web site..,. like a Knighthood for Snyder…
And lo and behold, they did manage to obtain ‘delivery’ of a knighthood for Snyder whom they had painted as an awesome influence for Crossrail….
That Times plug for Snyder was as corrupt, as untrue and untruthful as any plug that the City of London has ever made about itself being in any way socially responsible….
[To be continued]
PUBLISHED
The Times online plug for Michael Snyder, as published in April 2008, and repor8ded here from the Times online at 2145 Hrs GMT ON Thursday 25 December 2008
From The TimesApril 22, 2008
Crossrail man Michael Snyder: What direction next?
Michael Snyder is standing down after five years as chairman of the policy and resources committee of the City of LondonMartin Waller
Ask Michael Snyder what his main achievement has been in five years as chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London and you might reasonably expect him to cite Crossrail.
He is the man who hammered through a £150million levy on London businesses and a £200million contribution from the City Corporation's own coffers that broke the deadlock last autumn over this essential transport project, “the only real improvement”, he says, “that can make a step change in London in our lifetimes”.
Business, and City and Canary Wharf institutions in particular, had claimed that the project was essential to London's survival by providing faster transport links to Heathrow and reducing congestion on the existing network. But the Treasury had balked at the cost and the project stalled. Given the £16billion that Crossrail will cost by the time it opens in 2017, the deal brokered by Mr Snyder looks like good value.
But he insists that this settlement would never have been possible without earlier lobbying efforts by the Corporation that put the subject of the competitiveness of the City on the political agenda. As a consequence, he says, all three parties are united for the first time in their appreciation of the importance of financial services.
The industry as a whole accounts for, he reels off with practised ease, 26 per cent of the UK's corporation tax take, £18billion to £20billion of revenues to the public exchequer, and another £18billion in foreign earnings. The council he has run, he says, is much more outward-facing than it was a decade ago, and more willing to fight its corner and put its case in Whitehall and elsewhere. It is also more efficient and able to take decisions more quickly.
This is partly, he believes, because of the shift from the Bank of England to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) of the responsibility for City regulation in December 2001. This left a vacuum, because the Bank, which had previously been seen as the voice of the City, withdrew to concentrate on monetary policy. The FSA's job was solely to regulate. “There was a real need for some focus, some facilitation, in the representation of the views of City businesses,” he says. The City Corporation stepped into the role.
Mr Snyder says that the City's higher political profile made it easier to accelerate the transport link.
“Getting the City on the agenda in itself helped to get Crossrail.”
He took over as chairman of the most powerful committee at Guildhall, where the local authority is based, in early 2003, having previously chaired the Finance Committee. He had a difficult act to follow. His predecessor, Dame Judith Mayhew, as she was then, was a fiercely driven New Zealander. As an Antipodean and a woman, she was not entirely accepted by the old boys' network that still prevails in places, but she could be staggeringly effective.
One of Mr Snyder's first acts was to put in place rules that would not allow him or his successors to stay on beyond five years, although they serve as deputy for an additional year. You could do this job for ever - but you shouldn't, he says.
In his day job, he is senior partner at Kingston Smith, a firm of chartered accountants that he joined in 1974, rising to managing partner five years later. This will take up more of his time now, although he is seeking other unspecified work, “very much staying in business, local government, City, financial services, accounting”, he says. He is not interested in lucrative non-executive posts, preferring a senior job at some public or private organisation. One senses that a useful quango or a reasonable-sized public company might fit the bill.
Ask which achievements he is proudest of, Crossrail and the City's heightened political profile aside, and he hammers out a long list of innovations and initiatives. He cites the establishment of offshoot bodies in Brussels, Beijing, Shanghai and Bombay. He also mentions Careers Open House, an inclusion initiative that has brought 2,000 youngsters from the deprived London boroughs that ring the City to experience the atmosphere there. “It shows what they can achieve - and that we don't have horns growing out of our heads,” he says.
Then there is the ever-changing City skyline - a quarter of all office space has been redeveloped over the past ten years. But, as the financial meltdown continues, do we really need all these new offices being built? “Yes, we do,” he says, becoming impassioned for the first time. “Broadgate Tower, 850,000sqft, was spec built. It's full. Heron Tower is going ahead, no problem. Everyone said Swiss Re [the Gherkin] wouldn't fill up. It's full.” There is, he says, only a year's supply of offices on the market, about par for the course at any given time. “We will need it.”
There is the transformation of Cheapside. By 2011 there will be 1.6millionsqft of retail space between St Paul's and the Royal Exchange, not bad for a financial centre that two decades ago could not boast a single decent bookshop. The downside, he admits: “Sometimes it looks like one big building site.”
As he rushes off to a meeting with business leaders, Mr Snyder takes the orthodox view within financial services that there is nothing wrong with the system, just the way it has been operated. I ask whether he is happy to be standing down. He seems genuinely not to have considered the question before. “I don't know,” he says. He does know that he will miss the contact with politicians and business leaders, and the sense of being at the centre of things. “I am slightly apprehensive.”
He disappears up the steps of the Guildhall art gallery for his meeting.
I suspect he will miss it all.
CV:
Born Reading, Pennsylvania, 1950
Education Brentwood School; City of London College
1974 Partner, Kingston Smith chartered accountants
1979 Managing partner, Kingston Smith
1990 Senior partner, Kingston Smith
1992 Chairman, Association of Practising Accountants
1997 Chairman, Kingston Smith Consultants Ltd
1997 Chairman, Kingston Smith Financial Services Ltd; fellow of the Institute of Directors; member of the Securities Institute
1998-2002 Chairman, Finance Committee, City of London
2003-08 Chairman, Policy and Resources Committee, City of London; member, Court of Common Council
Family Married, two daughters
2125 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 25 December 2008
In this review of the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign against Crossrail in 2008 and the evaluation and assessment of the UK media in promoting the ‘case’ of Big Business craving even more £Billions from the ordinary UK population, I am taking a look at some of the persistent symbols of the ailment that afflicts the over-hyped ‘British media’..
Contrary to the hype and the marketing, the British media is as corrupt, as ignorant, and as undemocratic and anti-democracy as it ever was…It is because of these reasons that a community or a city or a population cannot rest assured of any assurance that any part of the mainstream British media may proffer about its being vigilant.......
The community, the people must remain alert as much about the role of the position holders in the central state as much as in the local and the regional states… And the people must treat the media for what it is in Britain: an adjunct of the state and the power-holding minority that is allowed to carry on without having to submit to any democratic scrutiny [inside the elected chambers ands halls] or media accountability…….
Crass is not far from corrupt. In fact, the two words and the concepts they denote are very similar.
In the context of ‘Crossrail’, 'crass' and 'corrupt' are easily interchangeable.
The Rupert Murdoch-ed London Times has over the past 14 months or so , published a number of my comments on the Times online web site.
But more often than not those items have been published under conditions of undue resistance by the ‘editors’. employed in the Murdoch organisation. They have resisted the comments and have only published them, in the majority of the cases, following repeated de facto demands for them to justify suppressing them. Or demands made to them to explain what ethics or morality or evidence, IF ANY, they were following in their intention to violate the right to make perfectly valid comments on the item concerned AS PUBLIHSED by them.
Several of those have NOT been directly about CRASSrail. But the ones that the Rupert Murdoch-ed Times online has persisted in suppressing have related to the core of the corruptly contrived Crossrail scam.
The most representative instance has been around the Murdoch Times’ persistent refusal to publish ANY comment whatever from anybody at all about their quite inelegant, embarrassing and low level sales-pitch for and promotion of Michael Snyder.
Now, Snyder is and has been at the very centre of the corrupt Big Business propaganda and operational enterprise based in the City of London peddling the fabrications designed to make Crossrail appear ‘vital for London’.
In the earlier part of 2008, the Times business interests promoter with supplicatory attitude to the City of London, ran a piece that reads like a CV for Michael Snyder..
That piece is an item of evidence for any ethical and even general study of the corruption of the UK media generally and of the Times [to the extent that it could still be corrupted after Murdoch seized control of the Times titles] …
I knew, from the contents of the plug piece for Snyder and from the Times’ persistence in refusing to publish any factual comments about Snyder that that plug was in aid of something …..That it had to be part of something other than just a plug in a newspaper and its web site..,. like a Knighthood for Snyder…
And lo and behold, they did manage to obtain ‘delivery’ of a knighthood for Snyder whom they had painted as an awesome influence for Crossrail….
That Times plug for Snyder was as corrupt, as untrue and untruthful as any plug that the City of London has ever made about itself being in any way socially responsible….
[To be continued]
PUBLISHED
The Times online plug for Michael Snyder, as published in April 2008, and repor8ded here from the Times online at 2145 Hrs GMT ON Thursday 25 December 2008
From The TimesApril 22, 2008
Crossrail man Michael Snyder: What direction next?
Michael Snyder is standing down after five years as chairman of the policy and resources committee of the City of LondonMartin Waller
Ask Michael Snyder what his main achievement has been in five years as chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London and you might reasonably expect him to cite Crossrail.
He is the man who hammered through a £150million levy on London businesses and a £200million contribution from the City Corporation's own coffers that broke the deadlock last autumn over this essential transport project, “the only real improvement”, he says, “that can make a step change in London in our lifetimes”.
Business, and City and Canary Wharf institutions in particular, had claimed that the project was essential to London's survival by providing faster transport links to Heathrow and reducing congestion on the existing network. But the Treasury had balked at the cost and the project stalled. Given the £16billion that Crossrail will cost by the time it opens in 2017, the deal brokered by Mr Snyder looks like good value.
But he insists that this settlement would never have been possible without earlier lobbying efforts by the Corporation that put the subject of the competitiveness of the City on the political agenda. As a consequence, he says, all three parties are united for the first time in their appreciation of the importance of financial services.
The industry as a whole accounts for, he reels off with practised ease, 26 per cent of the UK's corporation tax take, £18billion to £20billion of revenues to the public exchequer, and another £18billion in foreign earnings. The council he has run, he says, is much more outward-facing than it was a decade ago, and more willing to fight its corner and put its case in Whitehall and elsewhere. It is also more efficient and able to take decisions more quickly.
This is partly, he believes, because of the shift from the Bank of England to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) of the responsibility for City regulation in December 2001. This left a vacuum, because the Bank, which had previously been seen as the voice of the City, withdrew to concentrate on monetary policy. The FSA's job was solely to regulate. “There was a real need for some focus, some facilitation, in the representation of the views of City businesses,” he says. The City Corporation stepped into the role.
Mr Snyder says that the City's higher political profile made it easier to accelerate the transport link.
“Getting the City on the agenda in itself helped to get Crossrail.”
He took over as chairman of the most powerful committee at Guildhall, where the local authority is based, in early 2003, having previously chaired the Finance Committee. He had a difficult act to follow. His predecessor, Dame Judith Mayhew, as she was then, was a fiercely driven New Zealander. As an Antipodean and a woman, she was not entirely accepted by the old boys' network that still prevails in places, but she could be staggeringly effective.
One of Mr Snyder's first acts was to put in place rules that would not allow him or his successors to stay on beyond five years, although they serve as deputy for an additional year. You could do this job for ever - but you shouldn't, he says.
In his day job, he is senior partner at Kingston Smith, a firm of chartered accountants that he joined in 1974, rising to managing partner five years later. This will take up more of his time now, although he is seeking other unspecified work, “very much staying in business, local government, City, financial services, accounting”, he says. He is not interested in lucrative non-executive posts, preferring a senior job at some public or private organisation. One senses that a useful quango or a reasonable-sized public company might fit the bill.
Ask which achievements he is proudest of, Crossrail and the City's heightened political profile aside, and he hammers out a long list of innovations and initiatives. He cites the establishment of offshoot bodies in Brussels, Beijing, Shanghai and Bombay. He also mentions Careers Open House, an inclusion initiative that has brought 2,000 youngsters from the deprived London boroughs that ring the City to experience the atmosphere there. “It shows what they can achieve - and that we don't have horns growing out of our heads,” he says.
Then there is the ever-changing City skyline - a quarter of all office space has been redeveloped over the past ten years. But, as the financial meltdown continues, do we really need all these new offices being built? “Yes, we do,” he says, becoming impassioned for the first time. “Broadgate Tower, 850,000sqft, was spec built. It's full. Heron Tower is going ahead, no problem. Everyone said Swiss Re [the Gherkin] wouldn't fill up. It's full.” There is, he says, only a year's supply of offices on the market, about par for the course at any given time. “We will need it.”
There is the transformation of Cheapside. By 2011 there will be 1.6millionsqft of retail space between St Paul's and the Royal Exchange, not bad for a financial centre that two decades ago could not boast a single decent bookshop. The downside, he admits: “Sometimes it looks like one big building site.”
As he rushes off to a meeting with business leaders, Mr Snyder takes the orthodox view within financial services that there is nothing wrong with the system, just the way it has been operated. I ask whether he is happy to be standing down. He seems genuinely not to have considered the question before. “I don't know,” he says. He does know that he will miss the contact with politicians and business leaders, and the sense of being at the centre of things. “I am slightly apprehensive.”
He disappears up the steps of the Guildhall art gallery for his meeting.
I suspect he will miss it all.
CV:
Born Reading, Pennsylvania, 1950
Education Brentwood School; City of London College
1974 Partner, Kingston Smith chartered accountants
1979 Managing partner, Kingston Smith
1990 Senior partner, Kingston Smith
1992 Chairman, Association of Practising Accountants
1997 Chairman, Kingston Smith Consultants Ltd
1997 Chairman, Kingston Smith Financial Services Ltd; fellow of the Institute of Directors; member of the Securities Institute
1998-2002 Chairman, Finance Committee, City of London
2003-08 Chairman, Policy and Resources Committee, City of London; member, Court of Common Council
Family Married, two daughters
Muhammad Haque, first rejoinder to latest lies for Crossrail as peddled for the Canary Wharf Group via the London Times [424]
Publication time 1105 Hrs GMT London Thursday 25 December 2008
Muhammad Haque, first rejoinder to latest lies for Crossrail as peddled for the Canary Wharf Group via the Times newspaper organisaton in London
CRASS arithmetic indeed. £150 million, EVEN IF ACTUALLY DELIVERED, is NOT a significant amount in a scam that will cost over 16 thousand million pounds at December 2008 prices. Most of the cost will be borne by ordinary people paying extra taxes. Also, the 'local' Tower Hamlets Council has given planning permission in effect for property speculation. And land acquisition. This is NOT wealth creation.
Muhammad Haque, first rejoinder to latest lies for Crossrail as peddled for the Canary Wharf Group via the Times newspaper organisaton in London
CRASS arithmetic indeed. £150 million, EVEN IF ACTUALLY DELIVERED, is NOT a significant amount in a scam that will cost over 16 thousand million pounds at December 2008 prices. Most of the cost will be borne by ordinary people paying extra taxes. Also, the 'local' Tower Hamlets Council has given planning permission in effect for property speculation. And land acquisition. This is NOT wealth creation.
KHOODEELAAR! demonstration Wednesday 1 March 2006 against Tower Hamlets Council Crossrail hole-inviting role
ACTION ARCHIVE: Publication time 0345 Hrs GMT London Thursday 25 December 2008
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/03/335061.html
Crossrail-hole-Minister Alistair Darling's ‘plea’ to Khoodeelaar!
© The Author / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 04.03.2006 14:49 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | London | World
UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling MP has had his Department for Transport [DfT] write to the Khoodeelaar! Campaign in the East End of London against the Crassrail hole Bill as part of a strategy to salvage the careers of the controlling Blairite Tower Hamlets Council. Khoodeelaar! held another powerful demonstration against that Council on Wednesday 1 March 2006.
The 1 March 2006 Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Council demo was supported by RESPECT coalition MP George Galloway and by the main Opposition on Tower Hamlets Council, the Liberal Democrats. At the Council meeting that followed the same evening, Lib Dem councillor Louise Alexander sought to have Tower Hamlets show recognition to the community and to identify with the community in opposing the Crassrail hole plan attacks Bill.
The controlling clique failed to recognize the momentous importance of the motion and they even jeered at Councillor Alexander part of the time that she was presenting her arguments in support of the motion.
The only other non-Lib Dem councillor who supporter Louise Alexander was the RESPECT councillor Oliur Rahman
In his speech at the Khoodeelaar! demonstration earlier in the evening, Oliur Rahman described the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council as crooks and vowed to do everything he and his colleagues could do to remove them from office at the scheduled 4 May 2006 council elections.
What Alistair Darling, the UK Crossrail hole {Transport] Minister, is doing to ‘help’ salvage the sinking careers of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council facing the wrath of the people determined to stop the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London
A khoodeelaaronline report 1420 Hrs GMT Saturday 4 March 2006
UK Transport [Crossrail hole-Bill] Minister Alistair Darling, MP, makes another lame plea to Khoodeelaar! on behalf of Tower Hamlets Council !
Alistair Darling’s Department for Transport ahs sent a letter by email on Friday 3 March 2006 to Khoodeelaar organiser Muhammad Haque.
Crossrail-hole-Bill promoter Alistair Darling MP has not yet cottoned on to the fact that the East End community opposition to our area being devastated is not a temporary affair.
This opposition will continue and will grow. The only solution to this is for Darling to drop the whole Crossrail hole plot. To scarp the Crossrail hole Bill and to start again. Without a hole against our community. Without a hole in our community.
Nor has Alistair Darling understood the fact that he cannot get away with breaking the very laws on whose existence in the UK statute book he relies for his legitimacy as a bona fide member of a bona fide ‘democratic’ Government with claims to expect the community to abide by decisions that that Government makes.
Darling had his Department for Transport [DfT] write to Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque in February 2006.
In that communication the DfT made the plea that the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council had been in touch with the DfT and that the DfT was listening to the Council over concerns on the Crossrail hole problems.
That communication was intended to ‘reassure’ the Khoodeelaar! Campaign organisation that Tower Hamlets Council was ‘indeed’ representing the concerns and the opposition of the local community against the Crossrail hole.
There cannot be any ‘reassurance’ on that at all unless there is incontrovertible, categorical and unconditional resolution by the full Council saying No to Crossrail hole attacks on the East End.
And that evidence could have been produced by the ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday 1 March 2006.
The Council ignored the opportunity.
The ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council squandered that opportunity.
The ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council showed contempt to that opportunity.
Tower Hamlets Council ‘leadership’ of Michael Keith is so contemptuous of the people in the Borough that it fabricated a bureaucratic scenario which it then used to waste as long as three hours of vital council meeting time.
They did that to defuse the power of the argument typified in the motion formally put to the council by [Lib Dem] councillor Louise Alexander asking for the Council to show that it had woken up to the dangers posed by the Crossrail hole to the East End community.
That Alistair Darling ploy will not work because there is nothing in the hundreds of A4 pages of ‘statements’ ‘positions’ and ‘explanations’ so far published about the Crossrail plan by or in the name of or at the behest of the controlling clique on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council which shows any sign that Tower Hamlets Council is being ‘led’ or ‘controlled’ by tellers of the truth.
Those who have been in control of the Tower Hamlets Council do not tell the truth and they do not recognise the truth when we in the community tell it.
And nothing has been more staggering as a confirmation of the Tower Hamlets Council’s illegitimate but actual ‘leadership’s inability to tell the truth than their behaviour on Crossrail hole over the past three years.
Tower Hamlets Council’s ‘controlling clique’ has lied to the community in the past three years and falsely claimed that the Crossrail hole plan would ‘bring benefits’ to the community.
How could the Crossrail hole plan bring ‘benefits’ unless the controlling clique had taken total leave of its senses!
Digging a hole in the Brick Lane London E1` area could not bring any benefits
Digging a hole could also trigger off all kinds of unforeseeable but possible environmental disasters linked with remains of devises that might be lying buried there from the 1940s war time bombing in the East End.
Digging a hole in the Woodseer street is no different at all from digging a hole in the Hanbury Street or in the Princelet street.
Digging a hole entails a thousand other assaults that will be made on the lives of thousands of people in the East End.
For no reason.
There is no economic reason for doing that.
There is no social reason for doing that.
There is no environmental reason for doing that.
There is no justification whatever for doing or wanting to do any of the Crossrail-hole things in any part of the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
So why are the Tower Hamlets Council so adamant that they openly lie to the community?
Alistair Darling’s DfT letter to Muhammad Haque on Friday 3 March 2006 repeats essentially the same line that the DfT has been in receipt of information from the London borough of Tower Hamlets Council.
But nothing about the allegations that khoodeelaar! had been making against the lying clique on Tower Hamlets Council and including the serious allegation supported by documentary evidence that that clique had abused its control over the constitutional and the elected entity of Tower Hamlets Council.
Alistair Darling’s DfT letter to Khoodeelaar on Friday 3 March 2006 does not deal with the Khoodeelaar! demand for action by the DfT against the liars over the Crossrail hole plan.
The DfT [constitutionally responsible MP is Alistair Darling ] letter to Khoodeelaar contains further pretence of its ignorance of the khoodeelaar representations of the past 26 months about the lying clique in control of the Council in their bid to promote the agenda of the Crossrail promoting vested interests.
The key facts contained in the past 26 months of the Khoodeelaar representations to both the DfT and to the offices of the UK Prime Minister and the UK Finance Minister [Chancellor of the Exchequer] have been about the role of the identified members of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council.
The key role and the key culpable conduct – misconduct - by those identified members of that clique on Tower Hamkest Council has been the brazen lies that the clique have told to local people in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
They lied in that they never told the community that a Crossrail hole plan was even being discussed by the Council for YEARS.
They lied when the community got to know about that and the Khoodeelaar! movement against the hole plan began to take form in January 2004.
They lied when they then said that they did not know what the plan was.
They lied when they said that the campaign against the hole was doing nothing but spreading unnecessary scares
They lied when they then claimed that the khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole was not dealing with ‘regeneration’ ‘benefits’ that the Crossrail hole would bring to the Brick Lane London E1 area..
They lied when they stayed silent to questions that khoodeelaar! put to them.
They lied when they then contrived with the employees of the Tower Hamlets Council including Christine Gilbert the Council’s chief Executive, to arrange to block emails being sent from the campaign against the Crossrail hole.
This commentary is being updated with additional facts and campaign information throughout the day Saturday 4 March 2006 on the khoodeelaar web site
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/03/335061.html
Crossrail-hole-Minister Alistair Darling's ‘plea’ to Khoodeelaar!
© The Author / Khoodeelaar / CBRUK /lawmedia 2006 | 04.03.2006 14:49 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | London | World
UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling MP has had his Department for Transport [DfT] write to the Khoodeelaar! Campaign in the East End of London against the Crassrail hole Bill as part of a strategy to salvage the careers of the controlling Blairite Tower Hamlets Council. Khoodeelaar! held another powerful demonstration against that Council on Wednesday 1 March 2006.
The 1 March 2006 Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Council demo was supported by RESPECT coalition MP George Galloway and by the main Opposition on Tower Hamlets Council, the Liberal Democrats. At the Council meeting that followed the same evening, Lib Dem councillor Louise Alexander sought to have Tower Hamlets show recognition to the community and to identify with the community in opposing the Crassrail hole plan attacks Bill.
The controlling clique failed to recognize the momentous importance of the motion and they even jeered at Councillor Alexander part of the time that she was presenting her arguments in support of the motion.
The only other non-Lib Dem councillor who supporter Louise Alexander was the RESPECT councillor Oliur Rahman
In his speech at the Khoodeelaar! demonstration earlier in the evening, Oliur Rahman described the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council as crooks and vowed to do everything he and his colleagues could do to remove them from office at the scheduled 4 May 2006 council elections.
What Alistair Darling, the UK Crossrail hole {Transport] Minister, is doing to ‘help’ salvage the sinking careers of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council facing the wrath of the people determined to stop the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London
A khoodeelaaronline report 1420 Hrs GMT Saturday 4 March 2006
UK Transport [Crossrail hole-Bill] Minister Alistair Darling, MP, makes another lame plea to Khoodeelaar! on behalf of Tower Hamlets Council !
Alistair Darling’s Department for Transport ahs sent a letter by email on Friday 3 March 2006 to Khoodeelaar organiser Muhammad Haque.
Crossrail-hole-Bill promoter Alistair Darling MP has not yet cottoned on to the fact that the East End community opposition to our area being devastated is not a temporary affair.
This opposition will continue and will grow. The only solution to this is for Darling to drop the whole Crossrail hole plot. To scarp the Crossrail hole Bill and to start again. Without a hole against our community. Without a hole in our community.
Nor has Alistair Darling understood the fact that he cannot get away with breaking the very laws on whose existence in the UK statute book he relies for his legitimacy as a bona fide member of a bona fide ‘democratic’ Government with claims to expect the community to abide by decisions that that Government makes.
Darling had his Department for Transport [DfT] write to Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque in February 2006.
In that communication the DfT made the plea that the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council had been in touch with the DfT and that the DfT was listening to the Council over concerns on the Crossrail hole problems.
That communication was intended to ‘reassure’ the Khoodeelaar! Campaign organisation that Tower Hamlets Council was ‘indeed’ representing the concerns and the opposition of the local community against the Crossrail hole.
There cannot be any ‘reassurance’ on that at all unless there is incontrovertible, categorical and unconditional resolution by the full Council saying No to Crossrail hole attacks on the East End.
And that evidence could have been produced by the ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday 1 March 2006.
The Council ignored the opportunity.
The ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council squandered that opportunity.
The ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council showed contempt to that opportunity.
Tower Hamlets Council ‘leadership’ of Michael Keith is so contemptuous of the people in the Borough that it fabricated a bureaucratic scenario which it then used to waste as long as three hours of vital council meeting time.
They did that to defuse the power of the argument typified in the motion formally put to the council by [Lib Dem] councillor Louise Alexander asking for the Council to show that it had woken up to the dangers posed by the Crossrail hole to the East End community.
That Alistair Darling ploy will not work because there is nothing in the hundreds of A4 pages of ‘statements’ ‘positions’ and ‘explanations’ so far published about the Crossrail plan by or in the name of or at the behest of the controlling clique on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council which shows any sign that Tower Hamlets Council is being ‘led’ or ‘controlled’ by tellers of the truth.
Those who have been in control of the Tower Hamlets Council do not tell the truth and they do not recognise the truth when we in the community tell it.
And nothing has been more staggering as a confirmation of the Tower Hamlets Council’s illegitimate but actual ‘leadership’s inability to tell the truth than their behaviour on Crossrail hole over the past three years.
Tower Hamlets Council’s ‘controlling clique’ has lied to the community in the past three years and falsely claimed that the Crossrail hole plan would ‘bring benefits’ to the community.
How could the Crossrail hole plan bring ‘benefits’ unless the controlling clique had taken total leave of its senses!
Digging a hole in the Brick Lane London E1` area could not bring any benefits
Digging a hole could also trigger off all kinds of unforeseeable but possible environmental disasters linked with remains of devises that might be lying buried there from the 1940s war time bombing in the East End.
Digging a hole in the Woodseer street is no different at all from digging a hole in the Hanbury Street or in the Princelet street.
Digging a hole entails a thousand other assaults that will be made on the lives of thousands of people in the East End.
For no reason.
There is no economic reason for doing that.
There is no social reason for doing that.
There is no environmental reason for doing that.
There is no justification whatever for doing or wanting to do any of the Crossrail-hole things in any part of the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
So why are the Tower Hamlets Council so adamant that they openly lie to the community?
Alistair Darling’s DfT letter to Muhammad Haque on Friday 3 March 2006 repeats essentially the same line that the DfT has been in receipt of information from the London borough of Tower Hamlets Council.
But nothing about the allegations that khoodeelaar! had been making against the lying clique on Tower Hamlets Council and including the serious allegation supported by documentary evidence that that clique had abused its control over the constitutional and the elected entity of Tower Hamlets Council.
Alistair Darling’s DfT letter to Khoodeelaar on Friday 3 March 2006 does not deal with the Khoodeelaar! demand for action by the DfT against the liars over the Crossrail hole plan.
The DfT [constitutionally responsible MP is Alistair Darling ] letter to Khoodeelaar contains further pretence of its ignorance of the khoodeelaar representations of the past 26 months about the lying clique in control of the Council in their bid to promote the agenda of the Crossrail promoting vested interests.
The key facts contained in the past 26 months of the Khoodeelaar representations to both the DfT and to the offices of the UK Prime Minister and the UK Finance Minister [Chancellor of the Exchequer] have been about the role of the identified members of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council.
The key role and the key culpable conduct – misconduct - by those identified members of that clique on Tower Hamkest Council has been the brazen lies that the clique have told to local people in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
They lied in that they never told the community that a Crossrail hole plan was even being discussed by the Council for YEARS.
They lied when the community got to know about that and the Khoodeelaar! movement against the hole plan began to take form in January 2004.
They lied when they then said that they did not know what the plan was.
They lied when they said that the campaign against the hole was doing nothing but spreading unnecessary scares
They lied when they then claimed that the khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole was not dealing with ‘regeneration’ ‘benefits’ that the Crossrail hole would bring to the Brick Lane London E1 area..
They lied when they stayed silent to questions that khoodeelaar! put to them.
They lied when they then contrived with the employees of the Tower Hamlets Council including Christine Gilbert the Council’s chief Executive, to arrange to block emails being sent from the campaign against the Crossrail hole.
This commentary is being updated with additional facts and campaign information throughout the day Saturday 4 March 2006 on the khoodeelaar web site
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidential rejection of Tower Hamlets Crossrail hole-inviter Council's role [422]
KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidential rejection of Tower Hamlets Crossrail hole-inviter Council's role [422]