KHOODEELAAR! points out latest CRASS role by Crossrail-peddling London EVENING ‘STANDARD’ and Boris Johnson!
2225 Hrs GMT London Saturday 31 January 2009
Neither shows any appreciation of the utter crassness of their positions. Boris Johnson is being incredible, infantile and irresponsible in making this alleged plea in the name of ‘poor Londoners’ and the EVENING Nostandards STANDARD is being negligent and worse for reporting Johnson’s pathetic stunt and presenting it as being a genuine stance by Johnson on poverty ..
BOTH Johnson and the ‘STANDARD’ are peddlers of the CRASSLY conceived CrossRail scam.
BOTH continue to peddle for Crossrail which will cots anywhere between sterling 20 Billion to Sterling 30 Billion as observed today.
That scam may exceed even the Sterling 30 Billion mark.
And neither has produced a shred of objectively verifiable evidence that CrossRail is justified or necessary or even relevant to the transport needs of people in and of London.
[To be continued]
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KHOODEELAAR! TELLING G BROWN: SCrap Crossrail, use the funds for real jobs and services
British Workers Protest Hiring of Foreign Laborers
Energy workers across Britain walked off their jobs to protest the use of foreign labor. The protest was triggered by a company's decision to use foreign workers at a refinery. Experts fear recession could bring xenophobia. (By Anna Gowthorpe -- Associated Press)
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By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, January 31, 2009; Page A10
LONDON, Jan. 30 -- Hundreds of British energy workers walked off the job Friday to protest the use of foreign labor on British job sites, the latest sign of an increasing backlash against foreign workers amid the global recession.
Workers carrying placards that said "British jobs for British workers" staged demonstrations at more than a dozen refineries and power stations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The workers are protesting a decision by Total, the French oil company, to award a $280 million contract to an Italian firm, IREM, for work at a plant in Lincolnshire, England. The project will involve about 400 foreign workers.
Nearly 2 million Britons are jobless, the highest unemployment level since 1997. As job losses mount, officials are reporting increasing antagonism toward foreign workers.
Hundreds of thousands of Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians and other newer members of the European Union flocked to Britain in recent years as the country's economy boomed. But as recession hit, and the buying power of Britain's pound has fallen sharply, increasing numbers of immigrants are returning home. Those who remain are competing with local workers for a far smaller pool of jobs.
Earlier this month, the Federation of Poles in Great Britain blamed the recession for what it said was a 20 percent increase in "racist incidents" directed at Poles. "We are aware that many of these incidents occur because of growing tension in the traditional indigenous population following increasing anxiety about job losses," the group said in a statement.
Officials at the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental group based in Geneva, have expressed concern about a potential rise in xenophobia as the recession creates friction between local workers and foreigners in many countries.
Total issued a statement saying the Italian company needs to use its own specialized workers for the project, which would not affect the normal operation of the refinery.
from the washington.com web site
"It is important to note that we have been a major local employer for 40 years with 550 permanent staff employed at the refinery," the statement said. "There are also between 200 and 1,000 contractors working at the refinery, the vast majority of which work for U.K. companies employing local people."
European Union rules require a free flow of labor among member nations. And officials have cautioned that such an important pillar of European unity should not be undermined by an economic downturn.
Bernard McAuley, an official with United, Britain's largest labor union, told demonstrators at a rally Friday in Lincolnshire: "There is sufficient unemployed, skilled labor wanting the right to work on that site, and they are demanding the right to work on that site."
Striking workers also mocked Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has pledged to fight for "British jobs for British workers."
"All we want is for Gordon Brown to fulfill his promise," one protester told reporters outside the Lincolnshire plant.
Brown, speaking to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he "understood" the protester's concerns. He said government officials were doing "everything we can" to improve economic conditions and create new jobs.
Energy workers across Britain walked off their jobs to protest the use of foreign labor. The protest was triggered by a company's decision to use foreign workers at a refinery. Experts fear recession could bring xenophobia. (By Anna Gowthorpe -- Associated Press)
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By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, January 31, 2009; Page A10
LONDON, Jan. 30 -- Hundreds of British energy workers walked off the job Friday to protest the use of foreign labor on British job sites, the latest sign of an increasing backlash against foreign workers amid the global recession.
Workers carrying placards that said "British jobs for British workers" staged demonstrations at more than a dozen refineries and power stations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The workers are protesting a decision by Total, the French oil company, to award a $280 million contract to an Italian firm, IREM, for work at a plant in Lincolnshire, England. The project will involve about 400 foreign workers.
Nearly 2 million Britons are jobless, the highest unemployment level since 1997. As job losses mount, officials are reporting increasing antagonism toward foreign workers.
Hundreds of thousands of Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians and other newer members of the European Union flocked to Britain in recent years as the country's economy boomed. But as recession hit, and the buying power of Britain's pound has fallen sharply, increasing numbers of immigrants are returning home. Those who remain are competing with local workers for a far smaller pool of jobs.
Earlier this month, the Federation of Poles in Great Britain blamed the recession for what it said was a 20 percent increase in "racist incidents" directed at Poles. "We are aware that many of these incidents occur because of growing tension in the traditional indigenous population following increasing anxiety about job losses," the group said in a statement.
Officials at the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental group based in Geneva, have expressed concern about a potential rise in xenophobia as the recession creates friction between local workers and foreigners in many countries.
Total issued a statement saying the Italian company needs to use its own specialized workers for the project, which would not affect the normal operation of the refinery.
from the washington.com web site
"It is important to note that we have been a major local employer for 40 years with 550 permanent staff employed at the refinery," the statement said. "There are also between 200 and 1,000 contractors working at the refinery, the vast majority of which work for U.K. companies employing local people."
European Union rules require a free flow of labor among member nations. And officials have cautioned that such an important pillar of European unity should not be undermined by an economic downturn.
Bernard McAuley, an official with United, Britain's largest labor union, told demonstrators at a rally Friday in Lincolnshire: "There is sufficient unemployed, skilled labor wanting the right to work on that site, and they are demanding the right to work on that site."
Striking workers also mocked Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has pledged to fight for "British jobs for British workers."
"All we want is for Gordon Brown to fulfill his promise," one protester told reporters outside the Lincolnshire plant.
Brown, speaking to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he "understood" the protester's concerns. He said government officials were doing "everything we can" to improve economic conditions and create new jobs.
KHOODEELAAR! Action Archives 26 October 2005 Arguments, evidence and vindication of campaign against Crossrail agenda
KHOODEELAAR! Action Archives 26 October 2005 Arguments, evidence and vindication of campaign against Crossrail agenda
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Support KHOODEELAAR campaign in defence of the Brick Lane E1 Area
26.10.2005
© Khoodeelaar! 2005
The community in the brick lane London e1 area is being violated by the
Crossrail hole bill.
This bill has been awaiting passage in the UK parliament after the formalities of the select committee have been disposed of. With a strong majority in the commons subject to control; by an openly authoritarian Blairite whipping squad, the barite bill is guaranteed to be passed when the formal vote charade is staged on the bill.
This is then time for string challenge in the society outside of parliament to be voiced against this seriously flawed and anti-social
bill.
The Crossrail hole bill is ill conceived, unnecessary and will make the brick lane area even poorer.
We have been campaigning against the Crossrail hole bill for then past nearly 2 years.
In the next few weeks we are publishing the facts about how the crossrail hole bill will destroy the east end
We are calling on all people of good sense and principle to stand up to the
Promoters of the Crossrail hole Bill.
It is another Millennium Dome only ten times more wasteful of public money and a hundred times more destructive of communities across the east end of London ..”
CBRUK KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole Bill 2005
Brick Lane London E1 Area Community Against the Crossrail-hole Bill
13.12.2005 18:39
BRICK LANE AREA NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE Bill: Community prepares to say NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE BILL during 'scrutiny'
The item we published on this site in the KHOODEELAAR breaking news edition at 0110 Hrs GMT on 13 December 2005 was taken from a pro-Crossrail hole Bill organisation. We carried it to show the facts of how the pro-Crossrail hole Bill lobby were active in the promotion of the hole Bill.
They are alert and are vigilantly pressing the Blair regime to make more public cash available for the Crossrail hole venture that will enable the city of London interests to reap the harvest of public dosh in the constriction and building bonanza they expect the hole Bill to unleash when that Bill is made into an Act of Parliament.
As the City of London interests crave the loot, the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area faces destruction.
We aim to make sure that the hole attacks the Crossrail Bill will make on the community are exposed for all to see.
We aim to defend the community and to undermine the promotion of the Crossrail hole Bill.
We are aware that the majority of the so-called objections to the Crossrail, hole Bill are petty and are not at all AGAINST the Crossrail plan.
The majority of the so-called objectors are supporters of the Crossrail plan.
Those objectors do not belong in the community.
They do not belong with the community
They do not care about the community.
We aim to draw maximum attention to the violation of one of the most diverse, positive human resources that is the Brick Lane London e1 area. It has emerged as a triumph of human resistance against exploitation and greed. It has done so in stages and gradually over the past three hundred years in the Brick Lane London e1 Area.
Defend the Brick Lane London E1 Area.
Say no to Crossrail hole Bill attacks provisions that will destroy the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2005
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Support KHOODEELAAR campaign in defence of the Brick Lane E1 Area
26.10.2005
© Khoodeelaar! 2005
The community in the brick lane London e1 area is being violated by the
Crossrail hole bill.
This bill has been awaiting passage in the UK parliament after the formalities of the select committee have been disposed of. With a strong majority in the commons subject to control; by an openly authoritarian Blairite whipping squad, the barite bill is guaranteed to be passed when the formal vote charade is staged on the bill.
This is then time for string challenge in the society outside of parliament to be voiced against this seriously flawed and anti-social
bill.
The Crossrail hole bill is ill conceived, unnecessary and will make the brick lane area even poorer.
We have been campaigning against the Crossrail hole bill for then past nearly 2 years.
In the next few weeks we are publishing the facts about how the crossrail hole bill will destroy the east end
We are calling on all people of good sense and principle to stand up to the
Promoters of the Crossrail hole Bill.
It is another Millennium Dome only ten times more wasteful of public money and a hundred times more destructive of communities across the east end of London ..”
CBRUK KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole Bill 2005
Brick Lane London E1 Area Community Against the Crossrail-hole Bill
13.12.2005 18:39
BRICK LANE AREA NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE Bill: Community prepares to say NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE BILL during 'scrutiny'
The item we published on this site in the KHOODEELAAR breaking news edition at 0110 Hrs GMT on 13 December 2005 was taken from a pro-Crossrail hole Bill organisation. We carried it to show the facts of how the pro-Crossrail hole Bill lobby were active in the promotion of the hole Bill.
They are alert and are vigilantly pressing the Blair regime to make more public cash available for the Crossrail hole venture that will enable the city of London interests to reap the harvest of public dosh in the constriction and building bonanza they expect the hole Bill to unleash when that Bill is made into an Act of Parliament.
As the City of London interests crave the loot, the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area faces destruction.
We aim to make sure that the hole attacks the Crossrail Bill will make on the community are exposed for all to see.
We aim to defend the community and to undermine the promotion of the Crossrail hole Bill.
We are aware that the majority of the so-called objections to the Crossrail, hole Bill are petty and are not at all AGAINST the Crossrail plan.
The majority of the so-called objectors are supporters of the Crossrail plan.
Those objectors do not belong in the community.
They do not belong with the community
They do not care about the community.
We aim to draw maximum attention to the violation of one of the most diverse, positive human resources that is the Brick Lane London e1 area. It has emerged as a triumph of human resistance against exploitation and greed. It has done so in stages and gradually over the past three hundred years in the Brick Lane London e1 Area.
Defend the Brick Lane London E1 Area.
Say no to Crossrail hole Bill attacks provisions that will destroy the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2005
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD DAILY MAIL SO! If G Brown is EVIDENTIALLY condemnable as a 'liar' then so is the DAILY MAIL for ITS OTT PR Crossrail
1440 Hrs GMT London Saturday 31 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD DAILY MAIL SO! If G Brown is EVIDENTIALLY condemnable as a 'liar' then so is the DAILY MAIL for ITS OTT PR Crossrail
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD DAILY MAIL SO! If G Brown is EVIDENTIALLY condemnable as a 'liar' then so is the DAILY MAIL for ITS OTT PR Crossrail
KHOODEELAAR! pointing out the monumental idiocy of the Daily Mail itself: Robert Hardman should read the Mail sometimes!
By © Muhammad Haque
1415 Hrs GMT
London Saturday 31 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! pointing out the monumental idiocy of the Daily Mail itself: Robert Hardman should read the Mail sometimes!
What point is KHOODEELAAR! making by ding this pointing out?
Answer: the point is that the DAILY Mail’s as irresponsible, as immoral or amoral and as supporting of wasteful and squandering behaviour by the state as it pretends through Hardman to be campaigning against.
We have herewith linked to an earlier AADHIKAROnline page that actually chides the DAILY Mail’s endorsement of the Big Business scam London CROSSRAIL.
The DAILY MAIL peddled CRASSrail just as irresponsibly and idiotically as Robert Hardman is accusing the backers of THE PUBLIC to be in their backing for the ‘idiotic monument’.
What is more the list of accusations that Hardman has now made against the Millennium Dome and The Public [the ‘digital arts centre’ in West Bromwich], includes many of the most frequently used phrases and words in the KHOODEELAAR! campaign that yesterday [Friday 30 January 2009] completed 5 full years of non-stop and daily analysis and action against the CRASSrail scam
Today’s DAILY MAIL carries a piece by its licensed feature write Robert Hardman . It is typical DAILY MAIL language, imagery and promotion.
The piece, printed at pages 16-17 of the second edition of the DAILY MAIL, is headlined ‘A MONUMENT TO IDIOCY’ and it is about a building in West Bromwich called THE PUBLIC.
In the displayed extracts of the comments The DAILY MAIL reports that the building [The Public] is the “daftest waste of public cash since the Dome: a £65m ‘digital arts centre’ nobody wanted. “As it receives yet more millions, ROBERT HARDMAN says it’s an apt symbol for the genius with which Britain’s ruling elite squanders your money…..”
Inept
Ruling elite
Squanders
Public cash
In October 2008, the DAILY MAIL peddled The London CrossRail so corruptly and so dishonestly and so untruthfully that KHOODEELAAR! noted and denounced the act.
We have republished a link to the same DAILY MAIL web page with this examination of the corrupting DAILY MAIL.
As always, the DAILY MAIL wears many faces and masks. It pretends to have a morality but is found to be empty of true objective and universally and internationally verifiable morality on examination and analysis.
The October 2008 DAILY MAIL propaganda Big Business London Crossrail scam was just as irrational, just as irresponsible just as IDIOTIC.
It appears that ROBERT HARDMAN is a fake hard man on anonymous and mostly composite bureaucrats and elite prototypes. It also seems that ROBERT HARDMAN is quite soft on the perpearos of lies that cist much more than the waste of the West Bromwich arts centre. It is obvious that the people whose waste of £Billions Robert Hardman is prepared to overlook are the peddlers of CROSSRAIL.
Peddlers and squanderers like the proprietorial agenda setters at the DAILY MAIL...
[To be continued]
1415 Hrs GMT
London Saturday 31 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! pointing out the monumental idiocy of the Daily Mail itself: Robert Hardman should read the Mail sometimes!
What point is KHOODEELAAR! making by ding this pointing out?
Answer: the point is that the DAILY Mail’s as irresponsible, as immoral or amoral and as supporting of wasteful and squandering behaviour by the state as it pretends through Hardman to be campaigning against.
We have herewith linked to an earlier AADHIKAROnline page that actually chides the DAILY Mail’s endorsement of the Big Business scam London CROSSRAIL.
The DAILY MAIL peddled CRASSrail just as irresponsibly and idiotically as Robert Hardman is accusing the backers of THE PUBLIC to be in their backing for the ‘idiotic monument’.
What is more the list of accusations that Hardman has now made against the Millennium Dome and The Public [the ‘digital arts centre’ in West Bromwich], includes many of the most frequently used phrases and words in the KHOODEELAAR! campaign that yesterday [Friday 30 January 2009] completed 5 full years of non-stop and daily analysis and action against the CRASSrail scam
Today’s DAILY MAIL carries a piece by its licensed feature write Robert Hardman . It is typical DAILY MAIL language, imagery and promotion.
The piece, printed at pages 16-17 of the second edition of the DAILY MAIL, is headlined ‘A MONUMENT TO IDIOCY’ and it is about a building in West Bromwich called THE PUBLIC.
In the displayed extracts of the comments The DAILY MAIL reports that the building [The Public] is the “daftest waste of public cash since the Dome: a £65m ‘digital arts centre’ nobody wanted. “As it receives yet more millions, ROBERT HARDMAN says it’s an apt symbol for the genius with which Britain’s ruling elite squanders your money…..”
Inept
Ruling elite
Squanders
Public cash
In October 2008, the DAILY MAIL peddled The London CrossRail so corruptly and so dishonestly and so untruthfully that KHOODEELAAR! noted and denounced the act.
We have republished a link to the same DAILY MAIL web page with this examination of the corrupting DAILY MAIL.
As always, the DAILY MAIL wears many faces and masks. It pretends to have a morality but is found to be empty of true objective and universally and internationally verifiable morality on examination and analysis.
The October 2008 DAILY MAIL propaganda Big Business London Crossrail scam was just as irrational, just as irresponsible just as IDIOTIC.
It appears that ROBERT HARDMAN is a fake hard man on anonymous and mostly composite bureaucrats and elite prototypes. It also seems that ROBERT HARDMAN is quite soft on the perpearos of lies that cist much more than the waste of the West Bromwich arts centre. It is obvious that the people whose waste of £Billions Robert Hardman is prepared to overlook are the peddlers of CROSSRAIL.
Peddlers and squanderers like the proprietorial agenda setters at the DAILY MAIL...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! In July 2008, KHOODEELAAR! REMINDED Boris Johnson of our historic advice to him given in 2007
0115 Hrs 31 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! In July 2008, KHOODEELAAR! REMINDED Boris Johnson of our historic advice to him given in 2007
Boris Johnson MUST know this evening that the 'honeymoon' is not only over, the nightmare may have just begun...
By © Muhammad Haque
2015 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 3 July 2008
I was the only one who advised Boris Johnson ALMOST a year ago to show that he had a moral standard. That he had a moral standard, an ethical standard higher than any that Ken Livingstone could show...
With the Ken Livingstone Revivalist Ego Dance being held this evening, I take a look at what Boris Johnson has done that may constitute his nightmare season...
My view of Boris Johnson was based on what I had known of him over almost 20 years of watching him.
I never thought that Livingstone was right to belittle Boris Johnson as he tried to. Nor do I believe that Boris has lost it, yet.
But he MAY lose it. Unless he moves. Fast.
In the opposite direction to what he has taken so far. Like he should review appointing so many compromised individuals, and characters that are destined to cause him the biggest nightmare that the ‘local Govt’ Tories have faced since Shirley Porter....
Now, can Boris understand what I am about to advise him to do?
And does he have the morality - and maturity of thought - to do what I think he must do to stay on course as the elected holder of the office and also get to complete the term without being derailed?
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! In July 2008, KHOODEELAAR! REMINDED Boris Johnson of our historic advice to him given in 2007
Boris Johnson MUST know this evening that the 'honeymoon' is not only over, the nightmare may have just begun...
By © Muhammad Haque
2015 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 3 July 2008
I was the only one who advised Boris Johnson ALMOST a year ago to show that he had a moral standard. That he had a moral standard, an ethical standard higher than any that Ken Livingstone could show...
With the Ken Livingstone Revivalist Ego Dance being held this evening, I take a look at what Boris Johnson has done that may constitute his nightmare season...
My view of Boris Johnson was based on what I had known of him over almost 20 years of watching him.
I never thought that Livingstone was right to belittle Boris Johnson as he tried to. Nor do I believe that Boris has lost it, yet.
But he MAY lose it. Unless he moves. Fast.
In the opposite direction to what he has taken so far. Like he should review appointing so many compromised individuals, and characters that are destined to cause him the biggest nightmare that the ‘local Govt’ Tories have faced since Shirley Porter....
Now, can Boris understand what I am about to advise him to do?
And does he have the morality - and maturity of thought - to do what I think he must do to stay on course as the elected holder of the office and also get to complete the term without being derailed?
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! G Brown cannot be allowed by HISTORY to pitch ALL three ways of his confusion! Quit faking it, Gordon. Scrap the lies
0100 Hr GMT London saturday 31 January 2009
The phrases 'World class' and 'British jobs for British workers' do not go together!
Get it sorted in your head, first Gordon and then start deleting the lies and replacing them with the truth that you must have should have told all along...
[To be continued]
The phrases 'World class' and 'British jobs for British workers' do not go together!
Get it sorted in your head, first Gordon and then start deleting the lies and replacing them with the truth that you must have should have told all along...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! On 8 January 2008, we openly challenged a PEER, BASSAM to prove that he had honesty and honour
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Does CrossRail hole plot-backer UK minister Bassam have the honesty?
AADHIKARonline with Khoodeelaar! No to 'Crossrail hole Bill' UK | 09.01.2008 15:25 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | London | World
On Monday 7 January 2008, a transport minister in the 'house of lords' in London spoke by recognizing the role inn the UK of European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. He refrained from using the full title of the conventions. But his words in fact referred to the constitutional framework that exists in practice under the UK's treaty obligations [dating back to 1950]. So does the minister himself practise his apparent affiliation to the conventions? Not really, if the evidence of his behaviour in promoting the crossrail hole plots is anything to go by.
On Monday 7 January 2008, a transport minister in the 'house of lords' in London spoke by recognizing the role in the UK of European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. He refrained from using the full title of the conventions. But his words in fact referred to the constitutional framework that exists in practice under the UK's treaty obligations [dating back to 1950]. So does the minister himself practise his apparent affiliation to the conventions? Not really, if the evidence of his behaviour in promoting the crossrail hole plots is anything to go by.
By © Muhammad Haque
1420 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday
9 January 2008
The minister, ‘lord Bassam of Brighton’ will get an opportunity this year to show that he is not another liar in public office doing the propaganda for the big business CRASSRail hole plot.
Khoodeelaar! is this week asking the minister [‘lord Bassam of Brighton’] to show evidence justifying his involvement in making several hundred £ million public money available to unaccountable, secretive elements under covers of promoting the crossrail hole plot. Khoodeelaar! Is also asking the minister [‘lord Bassam of Brighton’] to show why he has supported the denial of convention rights to objectors against the crossrail scam.
Khoodeelaar! is asking the House of Lords to refuse to approve the crossrail bill as it is backed by anti-constitutional elements like ‘lord Bassam of Brighton’
Khoodeelaar! Objections to Crossrail Bill - as so far addressed to the House of Lords, Weds 09.01.2008
1. The Secretary of State for Transport misled parliament when he stated at ‘first reading’ held in the HOUSE OF COMMONS [22 February 2005] that he was satisfied that the contents of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ were compatible with the [ECHR=EUROPEAN] Conventions.
2. Either the Secretary of State for Transport made that statement deliberately and knowing it to be false and untrue because he did not care about the UK’s Treaty obligations or that he made that statement in ignorance.
3. When the real reason for his statement on compatibility was either – or even if both reasons applied on the facts - the Secretary of State for Transport could not continue to pretend ignorance especially after we [the Khoodeelaar! Campaign] pointed out to him that his statement was unconstitutional and that he must show how, in view of his assertions, the contents of the CrossRail Bill were compatible with the Conventions.
4. The Secretary of State for Transport then made his position even more unconstitutional by moving at Second Reading [19 July 2005] that the ‘Select Committee’ that was being set up in the House of Commons, be barred from looking at the purpose and the details of the Crossrai Bill.
5. The Secretary of State for Transport therefore VIOLATED other Conventions in addition to the ones that he had already violated at the time of his ‘certifying ‘ [at First Reading 22: February 2005] that the ‘CrossRail Bill’ had been compatible with the ‘Conventions’. He did that – and formally the House of Commons did that at Second Reading– by contradicting themselves at all crucial stages and on all crucial aspects of the ‘CrossRail Bill’, and on its implications and consequences.
[To be continued]
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Does CrossRail hole plot-backer UK minister Bassam have the honesty?
AADHIKARonline with Khoodeelaar! No to 'Crossrail hole Bill' UK | 09.01.2008 15:25 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | London | World
On Monday 7 January 2008, a transport minister in the 'house of lords' in London spoke by recognizing the role inn the UK of European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. He refrained from using the full title of the conventions. But his words in fact referred to the constitutional framework that exists in practice under the UK's treaty obligations [dating back to 1950]. So does the minister himself practise his apparent affiliation to the conventions? Not really, if the evidence of his behaviour in promoting the crossrail hole plots is anything to go by.
On Monday 7 January 2008, a transport minister in the 'house of lords' in London spoke by recognizing the role in the UK of European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. He refrained from using the full title of the conventions. But his words in fact referred to the constitutional framework that exists in practice under the UK's treaty obligations [dating back to 1950]. So does the minister himself practise his apparent affiliation to the conventions? Not really, if the evidence of his behaviour in promoting the crossrail hole plots is anything to go by.
By © Muhammad Haque
1420 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday
9 January 2008
The minister, ‘lord Bassam of Brighton’ will get an opportunity this year to show that he is not another liar in public office doing the propaganda for the big business CRASSRail hole plot.
Khoodeelaar! is this week asking the minister [‘lord Bassam of Brighton’] to show evidence justifying his involvement in making several hundred £ million public money available to unaccountable, secretive elements under covers of promoting the crossrail hole plot. Khoodeelaar! Is also asking the minister [‘lord Bassam of Brighton’] to show why he has supported the denial of convention rights to objectors against the crossrail scam.
Khoodeelaar! is asking the House of Lords to refuse to approve the crossrail bill as it is backed by anti-constitutional elements like ‘lord Bassam of Brighton’
Khoodeelaar! Objections to Crossrail Bill - as so far addressed to the House of Lords, Weds 09.01.2008
1. The Secretary of State for Transport misled parliament when he stated at ‘first reading’ held in the HOUSE OF COMMONS [22 February 2005] that he was satisfied that the contents of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ were compatible with the [ECHR=EUROPEAN] Conventions.
2. Either the Secretary of State for Transport made that statement deliberately and knowing it to be false and untrue because he did not care about the UK’s Treaty obligations or that he made that statement in ignorance.
3. When the real reason for his statement on compatibility was either – or even if both reasons applied on the facts - the Secretary of State for Transport could not continue to pretend ignorance especially after we [the Khoodeelaar! Campaign] pointed out to him that his statement was unconstitutional and that he must show how, in view of his assertions, the contents of the CrossRail Bill were compatible with the Conventions.
4. The Secretary of State for Transport then made his position even more unconstitutional by moving at Second Reading [19 July 2005] that the ‘Select Committee’ that was being set up in the House of Commons, be barred from looking at the purpose and the details of the Crossrai Bill.
5. The Secretary of State for Transport therefore VIOLATED other Conventions in addition to the ones that he had already violated at the time of his ‘certifying ‘ [at First Reading 22: February 2005] that the ‘CrossRail Bill’ had been compatible with the ‘Conventions’. He did that – and formally the House of Commons did that at Second Reading– by contradicting themselves at all crucial stages and on all crucial aspects of the ‘CrossRail Bill’, and on its implications and consequences.
[To be continued]
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Friday, January 30, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Another CRASSrail-peddling 'rendition' for Big Business scam via another 'Guardian writer'
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Another CRASSrail-peddling 'rendition' for Big Business scam via another 'Guardian writer'
2310 Hrs GMT
London 30 January 2009
We have already noted the crass peddling for Crossrail done on the Guardian web site by Dan Milmo.. Now, that same Dan Milmo peddling fort Crossrail is being peddled again by another ‘Guardian writer’ who is not just a fan of CRASSrail Ken but is also able to spout similar or worse sycophancy for anyone else that peddles Crossrail.. The praise heaped on Boris Johnson by the second "Guardian writer’ is to be read to be believed....
2310 Hrs GMT
London 30 January 2009
We have already noted the crass peddling for Crossrail done on the Guardian web site by Dan Milmo.. Now, that same Dan Milmo peddling fort Crossrail is being peddled again by another ‘Guardian writer’ who is not just a fan of CRASSrail Ken but is also able to spout similar or worse sycophancy for anyone else that peddles Crossrail.. The praise heaped on Boris Johnson by the second "Guardian writer’ is to be read to be believed....
KHOODEELAAR! Full texts of the demand to UK House of Peers 'leader' due to be published in the next 24 hours
2025 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Full texts of the demand to UK House of Peers 'leader' due to be published in the next 24 hours
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KHOODEELAAR! Full texts of the demand to UK House of Peers 'leader' due to be published in the next 24 hours
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TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL is caught hiding Crossrail holes-linked planning document about Hobson's Place, off Hanbury Street in Brick Lane area!
1920 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 january 2009
KHOODEELAAR! has just found that Tower Hamlets Council, the 'local' 'planning authority' for the area, has removed from its web site a vital document about one of the Crossrail holes-sites....
We are investigating the full circumstances and shall be reporting on the findings as we test the various facts...
KHOODEELAAR! online research unit was carrying out routine checks on the various aspects of the Crossrail agenda attacks on the East End of London this afternoon.
We traced a web page with this address:
http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/planning-building/crossrail/downloads/hanbury-street-woodseer-street/crossrail-woodseer-st-hanbury-st/3-alignment-constraints.pdf
When we looked the page up, it had this message on it:
Sorry!
The page you requested cannot be found.
If you typed this page address into your browser's location window then please check you have not made any errors.
If you have followed a link from another site, then the page you are looking for may have been moved or removed, as the Tower Hamlets site is frequently updated.
Please return to the home page and use the site navigation to find what you are looking for. Alternatively try the site search on the left side of this page.
If you have followed a link from another Tower Hamlets page then we would appreciate it if you would inform us of this error by emailing us at webteam@towerhamlets.gov.uk “
KHOODEELAAR! will be updating on the conduct o Tower Hamlets Council, on this site and on other KHOODEELAAR! sites and network addresses...
KHOODEELAAR! has just found that Tower Hamlets Council, the 'local' 'planning authority' for the area, has removed from its web site a vital document about one of the Crossrail holes-sites....
We are investigating the full circumstances and shall be reporting on the findings as we test the various facts...
KHOODEELAAR! online research unit was carrying out routine checks on the various aspects of the Crossrail agenda attacks on the East End of London this afternoon.
We traced a web page with this address:
http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/planning-building/crossrail/downloads/hanbury-street-woodseer-street/crossrail-woodseer-st-hanbury-st/3-alignment-constraints.pdf
When we looked the page up, it had this message on it:
Sorry!
The page you requested cannot be found.
If you typed this page address into your browser's location window then please check you have not made any errors.
If you have followed a link from another site, then the page you are looking for may have been moved or removed, as the Tower Hamlets site is frequently updated.
Please return to the home page and use the site navigation to find what you are looking for. Alternatively try the site search on the left side of this page.
If you have followed a link from another Tower Hamlets page then we would appreciate it if you would inform us of this error by emailing us at webteam@towerhamlets.gov.uk “
KHOODEELAAR! will be updating on the conduct o Tower Hamlets Council, on this site and on other KHOODEELAAR! sites and network addresses...
KHOODEELAAR! demands investigation into Crossrail Bill PEERS -1
1738 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 january 2009
KHOODEELAAR! is asking the leader of the UK House of Peers to investigate allegations that members of the House are engaged in activities to influence changes in legislation in return for cash.. The demand is grounded on the KHOODEELAAR! representations to the two Houses of the UK parliament of the past 3 years.
[To be continued]
From the Times online:
January 30, 2009
Exclusive: Peers for cash investigation - new undercover footage
The Sunday Times has released secret video and audio in which Lord Truscott offers to help reporters 'facilitate' a bill amendment
Jonathan Calvert
New secret audio recording | The scoop: how we broke the story | Insight: price for a peer to fix the law | Comment: Lords not so noble anymore | Red Box: the politics blog
The Sunday Times secretly filmed Lord Truscott, one of the four peers who the newspaper revealed were prepared to assist in changing legislation for cash, during a meeting with the undercover reporters in the St James’ Hotel and Club in London on Wednesday January 21, 2009.
The recording shows Truscott telling the reporters, posing as lobbyists, that he will work with them to “facilitate” the amendment to the Business Rates Supplement Bill on behalf of their client.
Discussing the strategy for their lobbying campaign, he says he will help identify the members to talk to so that he and the reporters can approach them. He offers to meet the “Lords people” on his own.
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Later he describes how he had previously helped to ensure that the Energy Bill was favourable to a paying client who sells “smart” electricity meters.
The Sunday Times has also released an audio tape recording from the first meeting between Truscott and the two reporters at the House of Lords on Wednesday January 14. He discusses his fee of £2,000 a day, which would have amounted to £72,000 a year for the three-day-a-month contract he eventually proposed.
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KHOODEELAAR! is asking the leader of the UK House of Peers to investigate allegations that members of the House are engaged in activities to influence changes in legislation in return for cash.. The demand is grounded on the KHOODEELAAR! representations to the two Houses of the UK parliament of the past 3 years.
[To be continued]
From the Times online:
January 30, 2009
Exclusive: Peers for cash investigation - new undercover footage
The Sunday Times has released secret video and audio in which Lord Truscott offers to help reporters 'facilitate' a bill amendment
Jonathan Calvert
New secret audio recording | The scoop: how we broke the story | Insight: price for a peer to fix the law | Comment: Lords not so noble anymore | Red Box: the politics blog
The Sunday Times secretly filmed Lord Truscott, one of the four peers who the newspaper revealed were prepared to assist in changing legislation for cash, during a meeting with the undercover reporters in the St James’ Hotel and Club in London on Wednesday January 21, 2009.
The recording shows Truscott telling the reporters, posing as lobbyists, that he will work with them to “facilitate” the amendment to the Business Rates Supplement Bill on behalf of their client.
Discussing the strategy for their lobbying campaign, he says he will help identify the members to talk to so that he and the reporters can approach them. He offers to meet the “Lords people” on his own.
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Peer gets £36,000 a year to introduce clients
The Lords are not so noble any more
Ten peers who declared jobs linked to their work in the Lords
MULTIMEDIA
Red Box - the politics blog
Later he describes how he had previously helped to ensure that the Energy Bill was favourable to a paying client who sells “smart” electricity meters.
The Sunday Times has also released an audio tape recording from the first meeting between Truscott and the two reporters at the House of Lords on Wednesday January 14. He discusses his fee of £2,000 a day, which would have amounted to £72,000 a year for the three-day-a-month contract he eventually proposed.
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the GUARDIAN was a lying organ! How does the Guardian reconcile its 'attack' on a Brown policy with its record?
1612 GMT London Friday 30 January 2009
From the web site of the London GUARDIAN Friday 30 Jan 2009
Analysis
Brown's British jobs promise was doomed from the start
Our EU membership means the PM could only ever pledge British jobs for European workers
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 January 2009 14.46 GMT
Article history
Gordon Brown speaking at the Labour party conference in 2007. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
The Lincolnshire oil refinery strikers who quote Gordon Brown's promise of "British jobs for British workers" to justify their anger at an Italian company bringing in Italian and Portuguese staff to work on a £200m contract can be forgiven for wondering why it hasn't been delivered.
At least one cabinet minister – Hilary Benn – said they are entitled to an answer, but the truth is that even when Brown made the promise in his 2007 Labour conference speech, the reality was he could only create British jobs for European workers.
This is because under Britain's points-based immigration system that came into force in November, an employer can only recruit migrant labour to a job that is not on the official list of shortage occupations if they first go through the resident labour market test. This means they have to show that no suitably qualified settled worker can fill the job. In practice, this requires them to advertise it in a trade journal, national press or local jobcentre for a set period of time. Jobs with salaries of under £40,000 have to be advertised for a minimum of two weeks.
This all sounds robust and the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, promised only two weeks ago to make it even tougher by making it compulsory to advertise the vacancy through a jobcentre. But while she promised British jobs for British workers, she failed to mention that the "resident" part of the resident market labour test doesn't just cover those settled in Britain but applies to anyone who is a national of a European Union country.
The Italians and Portuguese working at Lindsey and, for that matter, the Spanish contractors working at Staythorpe power station in Newark, where protests have been going on since October, all pass the resident labour market test.
Our EU membership means we have signed up to a single labour market and Italians and Poles no longer qualify as foreign workers. Ministers say extra investment in education and training is aimed at ensuring British workers are best placed to get those new British jobs. But it is clear the rules do not allow other Europeans to be excluded from them.
Gordon Brown should have told the Labour conference he was going to create British jobs for European workers, but that wouldn't have gone down quite so well.
How can the oil refinery jobs not be open to local Lincolnshire workers?
The government says the Italian company IREM, which has brought its own Italian and Portuguese skilled staff to do the oil refinery job, is acting within the rules as laid down by the EU posted workers directive.
This allows a European company to employ its own staff on a temporary project in another EU member state. The only conditions under this directive are that the contract is time-limited and the employer meets local working regulations – for example, they must pay at least the minimum wage.
This directive was introduced in 1996 to improve labour mobility in Europe, and would have been ratified by John Major's Conservative government. About 1 million posted workers, or 4% of the Europe's workforce, work under the directive.
The oil company Total, which operates the Lindsey power station, claims that all of the 400 IREM staff are to be paid under the same terms and conditions agreed with unions for the existing contractor workforce. They say these are additional jobs and no redudancies are anticipated as a result of the new contract.
The unions say there is enough unemployed skilled labour available locally to do the jobs. The company says it prefers to use its own experienced and settled labour force, as it is entitled to within the EU rules.
Downing Street said this morning that the contracts at Lindsey were awarded some time ago when there were skill shortages in the construction sector and that this was no longer the case, hinting they are possibly looking for ways around the EU directive.
Is this a new wave of recession-related militancy or the work of Britain-first agitators?
This is not the first demonstration outside a British power station over the use of European workers. A long-running dispute has been going on at Staybridge power station in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where a Spanish company was brought in by the German engineering company Alsthom to install a boiler and turbine.
The local MP, Patrick Mercer, has already warned that there are local far-right extremists at work using the slogan "British jobs for British workers" to exploit the situation. The Unite union says 60% of Britain's power stations will have to be replaced over the next few years and it wants steps taken to make sure the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire situations are not repeated.
This appears to be an industry-specific dispute over alleged shortages of highly skilled engineers, exacerbated by the economic insecurites of the downturn, rather than the first signs of a French-style general revolt against the inequities of the recession.
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From the web site of the London GUARDIAN Friday 30 Jan 2009
Analysis
Brown's British jobs promise was doomed from the start
Our EU membership means the PM could only ever pledge British jobs for European workers
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 January 2009 14.46 GMT
Article history
Gordon Brown speaking at the Labour party conference in 2007. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
The Lincolnshire oil refinery strikers who quote Gordon Brown's promise of "British jobs for British workers" to justify their anger at an Italian company bringing in Italian and Portuguese staff to work on a £200m contract can be forgiven for wondering why it hasn't been delivered.
At least one cabinet minister – Hilary Benn – said they are entitled to an answer, but the truth is that even when Brown made the promise in his 2007 Labour conference speech, the reality was he could only create British jobs for European workers.
This is because under Britain's points-based immigration system that came into force in November, an employer can only recruit migrant labour to a job that is not on the official list of shortage occupations if they first go through the resident labour market test. This means they have to show that no suitably qualified settled worker can fill the job. In practice, this requires them to advertise it in a trade journal, national press or local jobcentre for a set period of time. Jobs with salaries of under £40,000 have to be advertised for a minimum of two weeks.
This all sounds robust and the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, promised only two weeks ago to make it even tougher by making it compulsory to advertise the vacancy through a jobcentre. But while she promised British jobs for British workers, she failed to mention that the "resident" part of the resident market labour test doesn't just cover those settled in Britain but applies to anyone who is a national of a European Union country.
The Italians and Portuguese working at Lindsey and, for that matter, the Spanish contractors working at Staythorpe power station in Newark, where protests have been going on since October, all pass the resident labour market test.
Our EU membership means we have signed up to a single labour market and Italians and Poles no longer qualify as foreign workers. Ministers say extra investment in education and training is aimed at ensuring British workers are best placed to get those new British jobs. But it is clear the rules do not allow other Europeans to be excluded from them.
Gordon Brown should have told the Labour conference he was going to create British jobs for European workers, but that wouldn't have gone down quite so well.
How can the oil refinery jobs not be open to local Lincolnshire workers?
The government says the Italian company IREM, which has brought its own Italian and Portuguese skilled staff to do the oil refinery job, is acting within the rules as laid down by the EU posted workers directive.
This allows a European company to employ its own staff on a temporary project in another EU member state. The only conditions under this directive are that the contract is time-limited and the employer meets local working regulations – for example, they must pay at least the minimum wage.
This directive was introduced in 1996 to improve labour mobility in Europe, and would have been ratified by John Major's Conservative government. About 1 million posted workers, or 4% of the Europe's workforce, work under the directive.
The oil company Total, which operates the Lindsey power station, claims that all of the 400 IREM staff are to be paid under the same terms and conditions agreed with unions for the existing contractor workforce. They say these are additional jobs and no redudancies are anticipated as a result of the new contract.
The unions say there is enough unemployed skilled labour available locally to do the jobs. The company says it prefers to use its own experienced and settled labour force, as it is entitled to within the EU rules.
Downing Street said this morning that the contracts at Lindsey were awarded some time ago when there were skill shortages in the construction sector and that this was no longer the case, hinting they are possibly looking for ways around the EU directive.
Is this a new wave of recession-related militancy or the work of Britain-first agitators?
This is not the first demonstration outside a British power station over the use of European workers. A long-running dispute has been going on at Staybridge power station in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where a Spanish company was brought in by the German engineering company Alsthom to install a boiler and turbine.
The local MP, Patrick Mercer, has already warned that there are local far-right extremists at work using the slogan "British jobs for British workers" to exploit the situation. The Unite union says 60% of Britain's power stations will have to be replaced over the next few years and it wants steps taken to make sure the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire situations are not repeated.
This appears to be an industry-specific dispute over alleged shortages of highly skilled engineers, exacerbated by the economic insecurites of the downturn, rather than the first signs of a French-style general revolt against the inequities of the recession.
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Five years of economic arguments by KHOODEELAAR! against CRASSrail have been vindicated on every count. Scrap CrossRail
0740 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 January 2009: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The KHOODEELAAR! campaign began in the East End of London in the inner city, ‘most deprived borough in the country’ Tower Hamlets with the holding of a community public meeting at the ‘Montefiore Centre’ on Saturday 31 January 2004.That centre in the Hanbury/Deal Street London E1 was not called the ‘Montefiore Centre’ at the date of that meeting. The centre had been called ‘Bethnal Green Training Centre’ as one of the several ‘names’ given by the fabricating succession of ‘local authority regimes’ on the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council.. The KHOODEELAAR! campaign helped to re-establish the name ‘Montefiore Centre’ which is now called the Montefiore Centre. On that name and the significance,. More in a later commentary…Back to today marking the 5 years of the Campaign against CrossRail hole attacks on the East End of London. 31 January 2004 to 31 January 2009. Five years of campaign in defence of the community in the East End of London. Five years of arguments on economic grounds against the uneconomic Crossrail. Five years of consistently accurate predictions and forecasts that the City of London – peddled by Crossrail-promoter Ken Livingstone and now by his successor-in-peddling Boris Johnson as the ‘world class financial centre’ – was NOT an economic resource but a serious economic problem… Five years of analysis showing that Ken Livingstone's touting role as an agent of anti-Scottish sub-racism was part of the corruption of the evidence about the economic realities across the UK and that the way forward as to recognise the needs and the capacities of all regions in the UK. As opposed to the criminally irresponsible over-focus on the City of London which the likes of Michael Snyder, Judith Mayhew did with the aid of the self-serving careerist Ken Livingstone… Five years in which the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign has initiated some of the central economic debates about the entire world….. Including the role of the financial institutions in CREATING poverty, disparity as part and parcel of their ‘busyness’…. Five years during which time KHOODEELAAR! has said that the EXISTING transport infrastructure in London was in serious need of repair, that the existing transport infrastructure related to overwhelming number of travelling needs of the people of and in London, that the existing transport needs if addressed would solve the most urgent problems … FIIVE years in which KHOODEELAAR! has been showing up and drawing attention to the absurdity of the crassly conceived CrossRail hole scam being mysteriously promoted by cabal words and phrases like ‘vital’, ‘largest civil engineering project in Western Europe’ or sometimes ‘in the whole world’, instead of correlating it to the actual transport and the economic and the environmental needs in London….[To be continued]
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Gordon Brown is fronting a Blaired regime and he is bent on sinking deeper into debts hole!
By © Muhammad Haque
2145 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 29 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
Gordon Brown is fronting a Blaired regime and he is bent on sinking deeper into debts hole!
And like a fanatic converted by the congenitally incorrigible zealots, Gordon Brown is bent on funding CRASSrtail while vital areas of social needs get into worse states of dysfunction than they already have been.,.
[To be continued]
from the London DAILY TELEGRAPH website:
Gordon Brown is a busted flush – and he's taking us down with him
Tony Blair timed his exit from No 10 perfectly – Machiavelli would have approved, says Jeff Randall.
Jeff Randall
Last Updated: 7:46PM GMT 29 Jan 2009
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Tony Blair slipped away, leaving Gordon Brown with the debt bomb Photo: AP
You have to hand it to Tony Blair. As the foundations subside beneath the New Labour project, rocked by a crumbling economy, the timing of his exit is looking more and more like a chronometric masterpiece.
Throughout his occupancy of Number 10, Mr Blair held what the City calls a "put option" on Gordon Brown. This meant that he alone would decide when to hand over the keys to a frustrated chancellor.
As any experienced trader will tell you, calling the very top of a market is almost impossible. Those who manage to do so are either satanically gifted or divinely lucky. I'll let you decide which applies to Mr Blair.
Either way, his departure from Downing Street on June 27, 2007 could not have been more finely tuned had it been left to a Swiss horologist. Having wrung every drop of glory from the Bubble Years, he slipped away just as the debt-fuelled boom was about to go spectacularly bust.
June 28 is the only date in the calendar when both the month and day are perfect numbers. For Mr Brown, however, it signalled the moment when the clock began ticking on some explosive imperfections.
Within weeks of his moving next door, Northern Rock blew up, presaging an avalanche of bank failures and economic turmoil. While Mr Blair is collecting a fortune on the black-tie dinner circuit in America, his old ally is being buried by bad news at home.
When a leader's preferred courtiers are Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson, he invites comparison to Machiavelli. In the case of Mr Blair, it is deliciously appropriate.
Machiavelli's best-known work, The Prince (written in 1513), is still the handbook of choice for political schemers. In it, there are lines that might have been scripted by Mr Blair solely for Mr Brown: "A prince makes himself odious by rapacity, that is, by taking away from his subjects their property."
Or, as Mr Blair said at the 1997 Labour Party conference, where members celebrated a return to power after 18 years: "This country, any country today, will not just carry on paying out more in taxes and getting less." Allelulia brothers! Hear the truth.
Unfortunately, the other half of the double act wasn't listening. This, in part, helps explain why
Mr Brown's administration is
11 points behind in today's YouGov opinion poll. I don't believe the country is hugely enthusiastic about David Cameron's Conservatives. They are simply the default position for voters who are nauseated by Labour's incompetence.
With Britain about to be lashed by the worst recession for 60 years, the coping classes have had enough. The penny is dropping, even in some Labour strongholds, that for all his crude social engineering, stealth taxes and raids on pensions (with the likelihood of yet more punishment to come in the Budget), the Prime Minister has over-promised and under-delivered.
Improvements to the health service reflect only a fraction of the extra billions that have been poured in. Value for money exists as a concept in ministers' briefing notes, but nowhere else.
Education standards are going down. The gap between private schools and state comprehensives is widening. Last week, I dined with half a dozen teachers and professors from one of the country's best universities, all of whom insisted that A-levels had been debased.
Worse still, our Armed Forces are expected to police the world's hell holes on a budget (£33 billion) that is just one fifth of what we hand out for "social protection" (£169 billion). The military is showered in warm words, but suffers from a freeze on real (inflation-adjusted) spending. Of all Labour's wicked deceits, this is the one I find most offensive.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the house that Brown built is more rickety than any other among advanced nations. Britain's economy is forecast to shrink by 2.8 per cent this year, compared with 1.5 per cent in the US, 2 per cent in the eurozone and 2.5 per cent in Japan.
Yes, we are the worst placed among industrialised countries to cope with upheaval. In terms of bald numbers, it will be more painful than either the Thatcher recession of the early 1980s or the Major debacle of the early 1990s.
This will come as a shock to many voters, though not, I suspect, to a majority of Daily Telegraph readers. It may surprise, too, some of the Prime Minister's colleagues who, in Rent-A-Crowd style, used to cheer his vainglorious chicanery, especially on Budget day.
Mr Brown's final performance as Second Lord of the Treasury, in March 2007, was a classic of its kind. The opening section was nothing less than a paean of praise to his own genius, a tribute to a decade of micromanagement by a chancellor whose idea of improved productivity was to crank up the output of self-congratulation without asking for a bonus.
Unencumbered by humility or wit, Mr Brown boomed: "We will never return to the old boom and bust." He had, of course, said it before. But this time, I suspect, he really believed that he had cracked it. He genuinely thought that he had found a way to halt the waves of free-market activity.
He went on to explain how (thanks to him) we were doing much better than Johnny Foreigner and to predict that Britain's economy would grow between 2.5 per cent and 3 per cent in 2009, all of which would be underpinned by "monetary discipline" and "fiscal discipline". Oh dear. It was nearly two years ago, I grant you, but it feels like something from an
ill-judged comedy sketch.
Getting Mr Brown face-to-face with reality is not easy task, but the Institute of Fiscal Studies did its best this week with a damning analysis of the country's prospects. At the rate we are going, Britain faces a £20 billion-a-year "double whammy" of tax rises and spending cuts to restore order to public finances. It could take until 2029 for government debt to recede to "normal" levels.
Nobody is saying that the world has not turned sour. The International Labour Organisation fears that global unemployment could rise by 50 million. But this Government's flawed stewardship has exacerbated Britain's problems. Mr Brown continues to bet the bank, but without a mandate beyond the fawning of paid advisers and encouragement of close relatives.
Machiavelli's assessment of the dangers for those who inherit power is a warning for Mr Brown. It will be "a double shame to a hereditary prince, if, through want of prudence and ability, he loses his state". One wonders what Teflon Tony thinks of that.
'Jeff Randall Live', a news programme focusing on business and politics, is broadcast on Sky News at 7.30pm, Monday-Thursday
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2145 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 29 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
Gordon Brown is fronting a Blaired regime and he is bent on sinking deeper into debts hole!
And like a fanatic converted by the congenitally incorrigible zealots, Gordon Brown is bent on funding CRASSrtail while vital areas of social needs get into worse states of dysfunction than they already have been.,.
[To be continued]
from the London DAILY TELEGRAPH website:
Gordon Brown is a busted flush – and he's taking us down with him
Tony Blair timed his exit from No 10 perfectly – Machiavelli would have approved, says Jeff Randall.
Jeff Randall
Last Updated: 7:46PM GMT 29 Jan 2009
Comments 0 | Comment on this article
Tony Blair slipped away, leaving Gordon Brown with the debt bomb Photo: AP
You have to hand it to Tony Blair. As the foundations subside beneath the New Labour project, rocked by a crumbling economy, the timing of his exit is looking more and more like a chronometric masterpiece.
Throughout his occupancy of Number 10, Mr Blair held what the City calls a "put option" on Gordon Brown. This meant that he alone would decide when to hand over the keys to a frustrated chancellor.
As any experienced trader will tell you, calling the very top of a market is almost impossible. Those who manage to do so are either satanically gifted or divinely lucky. I'll let you decide which applies to Mr Blair.
Either way, his departure from Downing Street on June 27, 2007 could not have been more finely tuned had it been left to a Swiss horologist. Having wrung every drop of glory from the Bubble Years, he slipped away just as the debt-fuelled boom was about to go spectacularly bust.
June 28 is the only date in the calendar when both the month and day are perfect numbers. For Mr Brown, however, it signalled the moment when the clock began ticking on some explosive imperfections.
Within weeks of his moving next door, Northern Rock blew up, presaging an avalanche of bank failures and economic turmoil. While Mr Blair is collecting a fortune on the black-tie dinner circuit in America, his old ally is being buried by bad news at home.
When a leader's preferred courtiers are Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson, he invites comparison to Machiavelli. In the case of Mr Blair, it is deliciously appropriate.
Machiavelli's best-known work, The Prince (written in 1513), is still the handbook of choice for political schemers. In it, there are lines that might have been scripted by Mr Blair solely for Mr Brown: "A prince makes himself odious by rapacity, that is, by taking away from his subjects their property."
Or, as Mr Blair said at the 1997 Labour Party conference, where members celebrated a return to power after 18 years: "This country, any country today, will not just carry on paying out more in taxes and getting less." Allelulia brothers! Hear the truth.
Unfortunately, the other half of the double act wasn't listening. This, in part, helps explain why
Mr Brown's administration is
11 points behind in today's YouGov opinion poll. I don't believe the country is hugely enthusiastic about David Cameron's Conservatives. They are simply the default position for voters who are nauseated by Labour's incompetence.
With Britain about to be lashed by the worst recession for 60 years, the coping classes have had enough. The penny is dropping, even in some Labour strongholds, that for all his crude social engineering, stealth taxes and raids on pensions (with the likelihood of yet more punishment to come in the Budget), the Prime Minister has over-promised and under-delivered.
Improvements to the health service reflect only a fraction of the extra billions that have been poured in. Value for money exists as a concept in ministers' briefing notes, but nowhere else.
Education standards are going down. The gap between private schools and state comprehensives is widening. Last week, I dined with half a dozen teachers and professors from one of the country's best universities, all of whom insisted that A-levels had been debased.
Worse still, our Armed Forces are expected to police the world's hell holes on a budget (£33 billion) that is just one fifth of what we hand out for "social protection" (£169 billion). The military is showered in warm words, but suffers from a freeze on real (inflation-adjusted) spending. Of all Labour's wicked deceits, this is the one I find most offensive.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the house that Brown built is more rickety than any other among advanced nations. Britain's economy is forecast to shrink by 2.8 per cent this year, compared with 1.5 per cent in the US, 2 per cent in the eurozone and 2.5 per cent in Japan.
Yes, we are the worst placed among industrialised countries to cope with upheaval. In terms of bald numbers, it will be more painful than either the Thatcher recession of the early 1980s or the Major debacle of the early 1990s.
This will come as a shock to many voters, though not, I suspect, to a majority of Daily Telegraph readers. It may surprise, too, some of the Prime Minister's colleagues who, in Rent-A-Crowd style, used to cheer his vainglorious chicanery, especially on Budget day.
Mr Brown's final performance as Second Lord of the Treasury, in March 2007, was a classic of its kind. The opening section was nothing less than a paean of praise to his own genius, a tribute to a decade of micromanagement by a chancellor whose idea of improved productivity was to crank up the output of self-congratulation without asking for a bonus.
Unencumbered by humility or wit, Mr Brown boomed: "We will never return to the old boom and bust." He had, of course, said it before. But this time, I suspect, he really believed that he had cracked it. He genuinely thought that he had found a way to halt the waves of free-market activity.
He went on to explain how (thanks to him) we were doing much better than Johnny Foreigner and to predict that Britain's economy would grow between 2.5 per cent and 3 per cent in 2009, all of which would be underpinned by "monetary discipline" and "fiscal discipline". Oh dear. It was nearly two years ago, I grant you, but it feels like something from an
ill-judged comedy sketch.
Getting Mr Brown face-to-face with reality is not easy task, but the Institute of Fiscal Studies did its best this week with a damning analysis of the country's prospects. At the rate we are going, Britain faces a £20 billion-a-year "double whammy" of tax rises and spending cuts to restore order to public finances. It could take until 2029 for government debt to recede to "normal" levels.
Nobody is saying that the world has not turned sour. The International Labour Organisation fears that global unemployment could rise by 50 million. But this Government's flawed stewardship has exacerbated Britain's problems. Mr Brown continues to bet the bank, but without a mandate beyond the fawning of paid advisers and encouragement of close relatives.
Machiavelli's assessment of the dangers for those who inherit power is a warning for Mr Brown. It will be "a double shame to a hereditary prince, if, through want of prudence and ability, he loses his state". One wonders what Teflon Tony thinks of that.
'Jeff Randall Live', a news programme focusing on business and politics, is broadcast on Sky News at 7.30pm, Monday-Thursday
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KHOODEELAAR! asking Gordon Brown again: what more evidence does he have to see before he sees sense and scraps Crossrail?
2115 GMT London Thursday 29 January 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! How many 'apprentices' can 'Tower Hamlets Council' confect to fund via the Council's touting for the Crossrail hole???
The holes of debts, redundancy, bankruptcy that are opening up across the economy are as nothing compared to the holes of incredulity dishonesty downright lies that were created by Ken Livingstone and other fakers who kept on presenting on saying that the 'City of London' was THE world class centre of finance...
It feels like a century ago when Livingstone saying these things and the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was retailing the Livingstone fabrications.....
It seems that while even the IMF can see the holes that the Crossrail holes-digging agenda-pluggers have dug the public finances into, the CrossRail-peddlers cannot yet see it. They won’t admit to seeing it….
Or at least the secret cabal that is pushing on with CRASSrail scam cannot see it..
Not if the zany, zealous utterances of Boris Johnson are anything to go by.…
What evidence does Johnson have to justify HIS mouthing the same fakery as was uttered by Ken Livingstone? ..
Why should thousands of existing transport jobs be scrapped to fund CRASSrail?
How much more evidence does Brown need before he will return to a semblance of responsibility and scarp Crossrail?
[To be continued]
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! How many 'apprentices' can 'Tower Hamlets Council' confect to fund via the Council's touting for the Crossrail hole???
The holes of debts, redundancy, bankruptcy that are opening up across the economy are as nothing compared to the holes of incredulity dishonesty downright lies that were created by Ken Livingstone and other fakers who kept on presenting on saying that the 'City of London' was THE world class centre of finance...
It feels like a century ago when Livingstone saying these things and the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was retailing the Livingstone fabrications.....
It seems that while even the IMF can see the holes that the Crossrail holes-digging agenda-pluggers have dug the public finances into, the CrossRail-peddlers cannot yet see it. They won’t admit to seeing it….
Or at least the secret cabal that is pushing on with CRASSrail scam cannot see it..
Not if the zany, zealous utterances of Boris Johnson are anything to go by.…
What evidence does Johnson have to justify HIS mouthing the same fakery as was uttered by Ken Livingstone? ..
Why should thousands of existing transport jobs be scrapped to fund CRASSrail?
How much more evidence does Brown need before he will return to a semblance of responsibility and scarp Crossrail?
[To be continued]
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KHOODEELAAR! diagnosing [2] the Guardian's Crossrail scam-peddler Dan Milmo, TfL and 'the mayor' !
KHOODEELAAR! diagnosing the ' CRASSrail peddler [London] Guardian's Dan Milmo: [see previous post and Milmo's article]
By © Muhammad Haque
1555 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 29 january 2009
Just over five years ago in December 2003, two ordinary people walked from Brick Lane to the Liverpool Street station.
On the way, they talked about a new threat to the East End of London.
It was Crossrail!
When one of them mentioned it to the other one, the first one had no idea that the second one had known of the Crossrail threat to the East End at least since 2000.
It was agreed that the most effective way to stop the Crossrail attack on the East End of London was by getting the ‘local Council’ to Say No to Crossrail.
So when the London Guardian carried a piece apparently about the opposition to the Crossrail holes scam in Brick Lane, it would have been expected by reasonable people that the Guardian would tell the full story.
Not a bit of it.
And five years later, the Guardian is still failing or refusing to tell the truth about the CRASSRAIL threat to the East End of London.
Today [Thursday 29 January 2009] the Guardian has published an astonishing item by-lined to Dan Milmo.
Milmo is not the first sloppy Guardian ‘reporter’. Apart from the fact that he has treated the sum of £Billion as if it were the loose change in Ken Clarke’s pocket after Clarke’s latest trip to the boozer, Milmo is also very much a faker.
A genuine Guardian ‘writer’.
Fakery and fabrication is the game.
So we see this paragraph in his by-lined piece today:
“Transport for London, the mayor's transport authority, warned last year that hundreds of jobs were under threat as it balances its books to pay for the £16bn Crossrail project and to plug a multibillion funding gap in the tube network.”
To all reasonable and unbiased people, that paragraph would suggest that ‘the mayor’ whatever that may be, and ‘Transport for London’ were angels, totally dedicated to telling the truth and devoted to the provision of the best possible transport service for the people of London.…….[and so on]
But that is not what the facts say.
The facts say that ‘the mayor’ perpetrated a lie.
Whoever that person being referred to as ‘the mayor’ was, could not have been telling the truth if what Milmo reports them as saying was what they had indeed said...
The POINT that KHOODEELAAR! has been making for the past FIVE years EVERY SINGLE DAY 24.7 about Crossrail is that it is NOT affordable. Not without sacrificing EXISTING transport infrastructure... and costs commitments.…
[To be continued]
By © Muhammad Haque
1555 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 29 january 2009
Just over five years ago in December 2003, two ordinary people walked from Brick Lane to the Liverpool Street station.
On the way, they talked about a new threat to the East End of London.
It was Crossrail!
When one of them mentioned it to the other one, the first one had no idea that the second one had known of the Crossrail threat to the East End at least since 2000.
It was agreed that the most effective way to stop the Crossrail attack on the East End of London was by getting the ‘local Council’ to Say No to Crossrail.
So when the London Guardian carried a piece apparently about the opposition to the Crossrail holes scam in Brick Lane, it would have been expected by reasonable people that the Guardian would tell the full story.
Not a bit of it.
And five years later, the Guardian is still failing or refusing to tell the truth about the CRASSRAIL threat to the East End of London.
Today [Thursday 29 January 2009] the Guardian has published an astonishing item by-lined to Dan Milmo.
Milmo is not the first sloppy Guardian ‘reporter’. Apart from the fact that he has treated the sum of £Billion as if it were the loose change in Ken Clarke’s pocket after Clarke’s latest trip to the boozer, Milmo is also very much a faker.
A genuine Guardian ‘writer’.
Fakery and fabrication is the game.
So we see this paragraph in his by-lined piece today:
“Transport for London, the mayor's transport authority, warned last year that hundreds of jobs were under threat as it balances its books to pay for the £16bn Crossrail project and to plug a multibillion funding gap in the tube network.”
To all reasonable and unbiased people, that paragraph would suggest that ‘the mayor’ whatever that may be, and ‘Transport for London’ were angels, totally dedicated to telling the truth and devoted to the provision of the best possible transport service for the people of London.…….[and so on]
But that is not what the facts say.
The facts say that ‘the mayor’ perpetrated a lie.
Whoever that person being referred to as ‘the mayor’ was, could not have been telling the truth if what Milmo reports them as saying was what they had indeed said...
The POINT that KHOODEELAAR! has been making for the past FIVE years EVERY SINGLE DAY 24.7 about Crossrail is that it is NOT affordable. Not without sacrificing EXISTING transport infrastructure... and costs commitments.…
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! using a phrase from PRIVATE EYE! ‘Just fancy that!’ prompted by the Guardian’s CRASS Role player Dan Milmo being at it again!
KHOODEELAAR! using a phrase from PRIVATE EYE! ‘Just fancy that!’. prompted by the Guardian’s CRASS Role player Dan Milmo being at it again!
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Dan Milmo, transport correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009 14.29 GMT
Article history
London Underground is to axe 1,000 jobs this year as part of a drive to slash costs by £2.4bn.
Transport for London, the mayor's transport authority, warned last year that hundreds of jobs were under threat as it balances its books to pay for the £16bn Crossrail project and to plug a multibillion funding gap in the tube network.
London Underground said no tube drivers or frontline staff would be affected by the cuts, which it hopes to achieve through a hiring freeze or dropping contract workers.
The announcement shocked trade union leaders, who are already campaigning against more than 1,500 job cuts by rail franchise owners.
Speaking in November last year the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, defended his decision to shelve £3.5bn of transport schemes in the capital, including the Thames Gateway bridge. Warning that job cuts were also on the way, he said: "These cuts need to be seen in the context of the biggest investment in London transport for a generation."
However, Johnson has also admitted to writing to the Treasury and demanding further money to plug a funding gap in the underground network, implying that a recent £39bn settlement up to 2017 will not be enough to cover TfL's spending requirements.
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Dan Milmo, transport correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009 14.29 GMT
Article history
London Underground is to axe 1,000 jobs this year as part of a drive to slash costs by £2.4bn.
Transport for London, the mayor's transport authority, warned last year that hundreds of jobs were under threat as it balances its books to pay for the £16bn Crossrail project and to plug a multibillion funding gap in the tube network.
London Underground said no tube drivers or frontline staff would be affected by the cuts, which it hopes to achieve through a hiring freeze or dropping contract workers.
The announcement shocked trade union leaders, who are already campaigning against more than 1,500 job cuts by rail franchise owners.
Speaking in November last year the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, defended his decision to shelve £3.5bn of transport schemes in the capital, including the Thames Gateway bridge. Warning that job cuts were also on the way, he said: "These cuts need to be seen in the context of the biggest investment in London transport for a generation."
However, Johnson has also admitted to writing to the Treasury and demanding further money to plug a funding gap in the underground network, implying that a recent £39bn settlement up to 2017 will not be enough to cover TfL's spending requirements.
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Brown is getting deeper into the hole of plastic phrasing AND SPIN...
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Brown is getting deeper into the hole of plastic phrasing AND SPIN...
What does he know about 'your communities' that he has spouted out about in his latest media presentation carried by the BBC from ‘central London’ Where is that ‘central London’ that the BBC keep broadcasting from without any substance and with decreasing contract with reality?
[To be continued]
What does he know about 'your communities' that he has spouted out about in his latest media presentation carried by the BBC from ‘central London’ Where is that ‘central London’ that the BBC keep broadcasting from without any substance and with decreasing contract with reality?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! that like the sleaze-ball 'peers' who failed to declare interests, Guardian fails too! Its Ken Lyingstill links
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! that like the sleaze-ball 'peers' who failed to declare interests, Guardian fails too! Its Ken Lyingstill links
[To be continued]
QUOTING the following from the web site of the London Guardian, Thursday 29 January 2009:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/28/house-of-lords-peers-consultancies
Peers failed to declare paid consultancies when tabling questions
Robert Booth and Rachel Williams
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009 02.11 GMT
Article history
Several peers failed to declare paid consultancies with private companies when they tabled parliamentary questions or spoke in debates about issues of interest to their sponsors, the Guardian has learned. Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe, a leading trade unionist; Lord Christopher, an expert on the nuclear industry; and Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, were among those who did not declare consultancy work on occasions when the parliamentary business they were engaged in appears to be relevant to the interests of the firms paying them.
The revelation, from House of Lords records, could put them in breach of the peers' code of conduct which demands they reveal any "relevant interest in the context of the debate or the matter under discussion … in order that their audience may form a balanced judgment of their arguments". It comes amid growing concern at possible abuses of the rules which allow peers to earn money outside their parliamentary work. Lady Royall, leader of the Lords, said on Tuesday that the rules must be changed to ensure that peers "cannot earn a living that warps their work as parliamentarians".
Brooke, who is paid £36,000 a year plus expenses by management consultancy Accenture, asked questions about policies that directly affect Accenture's aviation and railway clients without referring to his earnings. Christopher, who spoke in a debate about nuclear waste, did not mention his role as a self-employed non-parliamentary consultant to Sellafield Ltd. Browne did not reveal his position on the advisory board of Sustainable Forestry Management, an investor in sub-tropical and tropical forests around the world, when he tabled a question to ask if the government supported "lifting the ban on forest carbon credits in the European emissions trading system". Neither did he mention his positions on Deutsche Bank's advisory board on climate change and the energy advisory board of Accenture, the management consultant.
Browne strongly denies any wrongdoing and there is no suggestion any of the peers were involved in the banned practice of "paid advocacy" – taking payment for specific parliamentary questions, votes and amendments.
But the lack of declarations highlights a widespread ambiguity over whether a peer's consultancy arrangement is "relevant" to a particular topic under discussion and must be declared. This has allowed peers to advance the interests of companies or industries with which they have relationships.
Christopher, a consultant to British Nuclear Fuels since before he became a peer in 1998, has frequently spoken about nuclear energy. But in a debate on radioactive waste management in October 2006, without reminding peers of his links to the industry, he said the general public's perception of nuclear waste was "grossly misleading". Last July, again without mentioning his interest, he asked whether a partnership in nuclear energy with France could help safeguard Britain's electricity supply. On several other occasions he has declared his interest and in 2004 prefaced his contribution to an energy bill debate by saying that British Nuclear Fuels, "has neither asked me to speak nor given me any brown envelopes, so I feel reasonably free to express my views". He was unavailable for comment last night.
In the register of members' interests, Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe declares his parliamentary consultancy agreement with Accenture, and although he asked no questions directly about the firm, he asked several questions about issues related to Accenture's clients, without declaring his role.
Accenture advises airlines including US Airways, Air France-KLM and Thomas Cook, and in June Lord Brooke said in the Lords that the UK was "desperately short of airport capacity in London and the south-east" and asked a minister to confirm that the government's policy was "unilaterally restricting the growth of its aviation industry". Accenture also advises Network Rail which is responsible for large parts of Crossrail, the planned high speed rail link across London. In July Brooke told the house that, as a supporter of the scheme, he was worried that the credit crunch was reducing the possibility that it would become reality. Again he did not mention his work for Accenture. Brooke could not be reached for comment.
In March 2008 Lord Browne joined SFM's advisory board and in April 2008 he joined Deutsche Bank's advisory board on climate change. He did not declare either post in the register of interests until 28 October, which his spokesman said last night was "an administrative oversight".
On 6 October he tabled a question asking if the government supported "lifting the ban on forest carbon credits in the European emissions trading system". Deustche Bank has a climate change investment fund in its subsidiary DWS. It says its climate change advisory board assists it in shaping and implementing its strategy in the area.
"Any suggestion that he would say or do anything in the House of Lords or anywhere else that differs from his own personal beliefs for financial gains is not just offensive but patently ridiculous," Browne's spokesman said.
Often, when peers fail to mention their consultancy deals, it is unclear whether they should have done. "People like me exist to give advice but at the end of the day, regardless of advice given, it's up to a member's own judgment how he conducts himself," said Brendan Keith, registrar of Lords' interests. "They're acting on their honour."
On four occasions when speaking in debates on education and language, crossbench peer Lord Quirk did not remind peers of his non-parliamentary consultancies with Pearson Education, a textbook publisher and the Linguaphone Institute, a language course firm. In December, during a debate on preparing for a multilingual Olympic Games, he told peers: "One of the problems that we have in this country is that only west European languages are appreciated," and he said it was a "suitable moment" for immigrants who spoke languages such as Arabic, Pashto and Turkish "to realise that they are appreciated and that their language is needed". Linguaphone and Pearson both sell Arabic and Turkish courses and Linguaphone produces a Pashto course as well.
In November Quirk asked about the government's budgets for supporting the most talented pupils at key stage 2, and in May he highlighted a CBI report documenting employers' concerns at educational deficiencies. Quirk could not be contacted last night.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Clement-Jones is co-chairman of the government relations practice of DLA Piper, an international law firm. According to the section of the register of members' interests which deals with declarations of parliamentary lobbying work, he acts for Eli Lilly, a large US pharmaceutical firm, and TransMedics Inc, a medical technology manufacturer. He receives payment of £61,000 in respect of his services to his law firm's government relations arm.
In September last year he asked a series of questions about the registration and licensing of medicines, without prefacing the questions with a declaration of his interest in the medical industry. His questions focused on herbal medicines. He wanted to know the rate of approvals by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency following the introduction of a European Union directive. Eighteen months earlier, in March 2007, he asked about the government's decision to make it illegal to offer kava kava and melatonin for sale in the UK.
Clement-Jones said the questions were not asked on behalf of Eli Lilly or Transmedics, and neither was involved in herbal medicine.
He added that the questions were motivated by his own interest in herbal medicine and unpaid links to the herbal medicine industry. "This is nothing to do with clients," he said.
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[To be continued]
QUOTING the following from the web site of the London Guardian, Thursday 29 January 2009:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/28/house-of-lords-peers-consultancies
Peers failed to declare paid consultancies when tabling questions
Robert Booth and Rachel Williams
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009 02.11 GMT
Article history
Several peers failed to declare paid consultancies with private companies when they tabled parliamentary questions or spoke in debates about issues of interest to their sponsors, the Guardian has learned. Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe, a leading trade unionist; Lord Christopher, an expert on the nuclear industry; and Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, were among those who did not declare consultancy work on occasions when the parliamentary business they were engaged in appears to be relevant to the interests of the firms paying them.
The revelation, from House of Lords records, could put them in breach of the peers' code of conduct which demands they reveal any "relevant interest in the context of the debate or the matter under discussion … in order that their audience may form a balanced judgment of their arguments". It comes amid growing concern at possible abuses of the rules which allow peers to earn money outside their parliamentary work. Lady Royall, leader of the Lords, said on Tuesday that the rules must be changed to ensure that peers "cannot earn a living that warps their work as parliamentarians".
Brooke, who is paid £36,000 a year plus expenses by management consultancy Accenture, asked questions about policies that directly affect Accenture's aviation and railway clients without referring to his earnings. Christopher, who spoke in a debate about nuclear waste, did not mention his role as a self-employed non-parliamentary consultant to Sellafield Ltd. Browne did not reveal his position on the advisory board of Sustainable Forestry Management, an investor in sub-tropical and tropical forests around the world, when he tabled a question to ask if the government supported "lifting the ban on forest carbon credits in the European emissions trading system". Neither did he mention his positions on Deutsche Bank's advisory board on climate change and the energy advisory board of Accenture, the management consultant.
Browne strongly denies any wrongdoing and there is no suggestion any of the peers were involved in the banned practice of "paid advocacy" – taking payment for specific parliamentary questions, votes and amendments.
But the lack of declarations highlights a widespread ambiguity over whether a peer's consultancy arrangement is "relevant" to a particular topic under discussion and must be declared. This has allowed peers to advance the interests of companies or industries with which they have relationships.
Christopher, a consultant to British Nuclear Fuels since before he became a peer in 1998, has frequently spoken about nuclear energy. But in a debate on radioactive waste management in October 2006, without reminding peers of his links to the industry, he said the general public's perception of nuclear waste was "grossly misleading". Last July, again without mentioning his interest, he asked whether a partnership in nuclear energy with France could help safeguard Britain's electricity supply. On several other occasions he has declared his interest and in 2004 prefaced his contribution to an energy bill debate by saying that British Nuclear Fuels, "has neither asked me to speak nor given me any brown envelopes, so I feel reasonably free to express my views". He was unavailable for comment last night.
In the register of members' interests, Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe declares his parliamentary consultancy agreement with Accenture, and although he asked no questions directly about the firm, he asked several questions about issues related to Accenture's clients, without declaring his role.
Accenture advises airlines including US Airways, Air France-KLM and Thomas Cook, and in June Lord Brooke said in the Lords that the UK was "desperately short of airport capacity in London and the south-east" and asked a minister to confirm that the government's policy was "unilaterally restricting the growth of its aviation industry". Accenture also advises Network Rail which is responsible for large parts of Crossrail, the planned high speed rail link across London. In July Brooke told the house that, as a supporter of the scheme, he was worried that the credit crunch was reducing the possibility that it would become reality. Again he did not mention his work for Accenture. Brooke could not be reached for comment.
In March 2008 Lord Browne joined SFM's advisory board and in April 2008 he joined Deutsche Bank's advisory board on climate change. He did not declare either post in the register of interests until 28 October, which his spokesman said last night was "an administrative oversight".
On 6 October he tabled a question asking if the government supported "lifting the ban on forest carbon credits in the European emissions trading system". Deustche Bank has a climate change investment fund in its subsidiary DWS. It says its climate change advisory board assists it in shaping and implementing its strategy in the area.
"Any suggestion that he would say or do anything in the House of Lords or anywhere else that differs from his own personal beliefs for financial gains is not just offensive but patently ridiculous," Browne's spokesman said.
Often, when peers fail to mention their consultancy deals, it is unclear whether they should have done. "People like me exist to give advice but at the end of the day, regardless of advice given, it's up to a member's own judgment how he conducts himself," said Brendan Keith, registrar of Lords' interests. "They're acting on their honour."
On four occasions when speaking in debates on education and language, crossbench peer Lord Quirk did not remind peers of his non-parliamentary consultancies with Pearson Education, a textbook publisher and the Linguaphone Institute, a language course firm. In December, during a debate on preparing for a multilingual Olympic Games, he told peers: "One of the problems that we have in this country is that only west European languages are appreciated," and he said it was a "suitable moment" for immigrants who spoke languages such as Arabic, Pashto and Turkish "to realise that they are appreciated and that their language is needed". Linguaphone and Pearson both sell Arabic and Turkish courses and Linguaphone produces a Pashto course as well.
In November Quirk asked about the government's budgets for supporting the most talented pupils at key stage 2, and in May he highlighted a CBI report documenting employers' concerns at educational deficiencies. Quirk could not be contacted last night.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Clement-Jones is co-chairman of the government relations practice of DLA Piper, an international law firm. According to the section of the register of members' interests which deals with declarations of parliamentary lobbying work, he acts for Eli Lilly, a large US pharmaceutical firm, and TransMedics Inc, a medical technology manufacturer. He receives payment of £61,000 in respect of his services to his law firm's government relations arm.
In September last year he asked a series of questions about the registration and licensing of medicines, without prefacing the questions with a declaration of his interest in the medical industry. His questions focused on herbal medicines. He wanted to know the rate of approvals by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency following the introduction of a European Union directive. Eighteen months earlier, in March 2007, he asked about the government's decision to make it illegal to offer kava kava and melatonin for sale in the UK.
Clement-Jones said the questions were not asked on behalf of Eli Lilly or Transmedics, and neither was involved in herbal medicine.
He added that the questions were motivated by his own interest in herbal medicine and unpaid links to the herbal medicine industry. "This is nothing to do with clients," he said.
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! updating the evidential commentary on the crass role for Big Business Crossrail agenda played by the London Guardian
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! updating the evidential commentary on the crass role for Big Business Crossrail agenda played by the London Guardian
0855 Hrs GMT London Thursday 29 January 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That the Crassly conceived London Crossrail was also CRASSLY peddled.
NO truth in the hype they do. No ethics. No logic. This applies across the board to the behaviour of every single one o the peddlers of the Big Business crassly conceived scam.. In the case o the Guardian, which has a historic and ‘congenital’ problem with identifying with the truth, CRASSrail is the ‘appropriate’ vehicle to express the Guardian’s twisted stance on the truth..
.When the Guardian ‘media group’ [what Group!, it apes the Daily Mail...] does anything about any local councils, it does so by looking at the in come from advertising revenue that it craves and quite often receives [more often than the DAILY MAIL to be sure] from local councils...
Most of the times, the Guardian peddles a line that ends up accommodating and promoting the local Councils. This makes it impossible for the Guardian to claim to be interested in let alone actually practising ‘journalism’ that is contributing to the upholding of the truth in the given circumstance.…
When the LYING Guardian performed a racist, tokenistic one-off piece of reporting on the community’s opposition to the Crossrail hole-scam, it sent an alleged journalist to talk to people in Brick Lane...These Guardian was only able to find one person whom it quoted in a contrived way and failed to give most of the information that affects the costs, the purpose, the transport relevance, and the economic and environmental implications of the CRASSRail scam or about the community in the London E1 area.…..
But then the Guardian, being the lying symbol of the 'mainstream' media in Britain, has a long history of lying about the area and in this context lying about the Bangladeshi community... On every single occasion that the lying Guardian has published anything about the Bangladeshis, it has got the facts wrong. It has got the evidence wrong. And it has ended up aiding and abetting those that are manifestly, demonstrably and objectively at odds and are inconsistent w with the social, the moral, the historic, the linguistic, the cultural and the democratic and the human rights of the community...
0855 Hrs GMT London Thursday 29 January 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That the Crassly conceived London Crossrail was also CRASSLY peddled.
NO truth in the hype they do. No ethics. No logic. This applies across the board to the behaviour of every single one o the peddlers of the Big Business crassly conceived scam.. In the case o the Guardian, which has a historic and ‘congenital’ problem with identifying with the truth, CRASSrail is the ‘appropriate’ vehicle to express the Guardian’s twisted stance on the truth..
.When the Guardian ‘media group’ [what Group!, it apes the Daily Mail...] does anything about any local councils, it does so by looking at the in come from advertising revenue that it craves and quite often receives [more often than the DAILY MAIL to be sure] from local councils...
Most of the times, the Guardian peddles a line that ends up accommodating and promoting the local Councils. This makes it impossible for the Guardian to claim to be interested in let alone actually practising ‘journalism’ that is contributing to the upholding of the truth in the given circumstance.…
When the LYING Guardian performed a racist, tokenistic one-off piece of reporting on the community’s opposition to the Crossrail hole-scam, it sent an alleged journalist to talk to people in Brick Lane...These Guardian was only able to find one person whom it quoted in a contrived way and failed to give most of the information that affects the costs, the purpose, the transport relevance, and the economic and environmental implications of the CRASSRail scam or about the community in the London E1 area.…..
But then the Guardian, being the lying symbol of the 'mainstream' media in Britain, has a long history of lying about the area and in this context lying about the Bangladeshi community... On every single occasion that the lying Guardian has published anything about the Bangladeshis, it has got the facts wrong. It has got the evidence wrong. And it has ended up aiding and abetting those that are manifestly, demonstrably and objectively at odds and are inconsistent w with the social, the moral, the historic, the linguistic, the cultural and the democratic and the human rights of the community...
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the Crassly conceived London Crossrail was also CRASSLY peddled. NO truth in the hype they do. No ethics. No logic
0715 Hrs GMT London Thursday 29 January 2009
In this linked item, which is supposed to be an anti-pollution, pro-environmental outlet, they are ecstatic about 'the Guardian picking up their story' about London City airport...
Then they make an assertion which contains the evidence of their contradictions.
They say 'commuters' have welcomed Crossrail. Then they say businesses..
We would during today 29 January 2009, ask them directly to show who else has welcomed the crass scam. Then we shall examine their plugs for CRASSrail in fuller details.
[To be continued]
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In this linked item, which is supposed to be an anti-pollution, pro-environmental outlet, they are ecstatic about 'the Guardian picking up their story' about London City airport...
Then they make an assertion which contains the evidence of their contradictions.
They say 'commuters' have welcomed Crossrail. Then they say businesses..
We would during today 29 January 2009, ask them directly to show who else has welcomed the crass scam. Then we shall examine their plugs for CRASSrail in fuller details.
[To be continued]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! updating evidential commentary on Gordon Brown's Crossrail follies and what they say about Brown's 'competence'
Muhammad Haque
2300 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 28 January 2009
What does it say about Brown's claim to original thought when he jumped on the Crossrail bandwagon within weeks of getting into No 10 Downing Street?
If he had not known about the fabricating career of Ken Livingstone before April 2008, he can not pretend to be unaware now, nine months after Livingstone admitted to having lied on the 2012 Games Hosting Bid.
Livingstone made the admission, no, bragged of having lied, in the 'Mayoral Election Special' edition of Question Time on BBC1 in April 2008. Just so that there was no doubt about what Livingstone had meant, Question Time presenter David Dimbleby asked him to clarify.
Livingstone had no hesitation about ding so.
He went on to say that lying had been the only way to persuade the UK Govt to spend so much money on the construction of the 2012 Games hosting site located in a part of the East End of London.
The question is: has anyone ever come across a single member of the ordinary population in the East End of London with the requisite knowledge and freedom to objectively think about the whole matter, to say that to them, that would really 'regenerate' the East End?
Likewise, when Brown appeared, TWICE, on platforms with CANDIDATE Ken Livingstone and sang endlessly in praise of Crossrail, he did not let on that the scan was being propelled through the UK Houses of Parliament by an ex aide of former Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander.
This anti-democratic and unconstitutional and sleazy relationship was belatedly [that is, after the 'CrossRail Bill' was rubber stamped into the 'Crossrail Act' in July 2008] recorded in PRIVATE EYE.
The two 'projects', gloried now as 'infrastructure projects. between them will cost the UK public more than the sum the IFS report being commented on today [Wednesday 28 January 2009] has suggested would be added to the burden of debt...
If Brown could not see EITHER scam for what it was, how can he carry on claiming to be 'serious' [as different from the 'novices' that he was choreographed into 'dismissing' when he was introduced to the media via the Blaired Party jamboree by his own wife in September 2008]?
The other side of the same question is: Has Cameron got really comprehensive answers and alternatives and does he have the demonstrable integrity to call upon the people to ‘trust’ his ‘leadership’?
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2300 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 28 January 2009
What does it say about Brown's claim to original thought when he jumped on the Crossrail bandwagon within weeks of getting into No 10 Downing Street?
If he had not known about the fabricating career of Ken Livingstone before April 2008, he can not pretend to be unaware now, nine months after Livingstone admitted to having lied on the 2012 Games Hosting Bid.
Livingstone made the admission, no, bragged of having lied, in the 'Mayoral Election Special' edition of Question Time on BBC1 in April 2008. Just so that there was no doubt about what Livingstone had meant, Question Time presenter David Dimbleby asked him to clarify.
Livingstone had no hesitation about ding so.
He went on to say that lying had been the only way to persuade the UK Govt to spend so much money on the construction of the 2012 Games hosting site located in a part of the East End of London.
The question is: has anyone ever come across a single member of the ordinary population in the East End of London with the requisite knowledge and freedom to objectively think about the whole matter, to say that to them, that would really 'regenerate' the East End?
Likewise, when Brown appeared, TWICE, on platforms with CANDIDATE Ken Livingstone and sang endlessly in praise of Crossrail, he did not let on that the scan was being propelled through the UK Houses of Parliament by an ex aide of former Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander.
This anti-democratic and unconstitutional and sleazy relationship was belatedly [that is, after the 'CrossRail Bill' was rubber stamped into the 'Crossrail Act' in July 2008] recorded in PRIVATE EYE.
The two 'projects', gloried now as 'infrastructure projects. between them will cost the UK public more than the sum the IFS report being commented on today [Wednesday 28 January 2009] has suggested would be added to the burden of debt...
If Brown could not see EITHER scam for what it was, how can he carry on claiming to be 'serious' [as different from the 'novices' that he was choreographed into 'dismissing' when he was introduced to the media via the Blaired Party jamboree by his own wife in September 2008]?
The other side of the same question is: Has Cameron got really comprehensive answers and alternatives and does he have the demonstrable integrity to call upon the people to ‘trust’ his ‘leadership’?
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KHOODEELAAR! Question for Brown and Darling; Where in the IMF, IFS reports is there ANY indication that you should waste £ BIllions for Crossrail?
2100 GMT WEdnesday 28 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Question for Brown and Darling:
Where in the IMF, IFS reports is there ANY indication that you should waste £ BIllions for Crossrail?
KHOODEELAAR! Question for Brown and Darling:
Where in the IMF, IFS reports is there ANY indication that you should waste £ BIllions for Crossrail?
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! And even the ITV News admits that Brown and Darling have gone OTT in faking it!
This item is linked to he BBC web site that includes a video of the PMQs
The question is: How long will the official Opposition in the UK take before asking Brown to scrap Crossrail?
[To be continued]
The question is: How long will the official Opposition in the UK take before asking Brown to scrap Crossrail?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Now EVEN D Cameron uses the word and the concept 'CRASS' to describe Brown's debts-creating decisions!
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Now EVEN D Cameron uses the word and the concept 'CRASS' to describe Brown's debts-creating decisions!
It happened at todays' staged PMQs in the UK House of Commons [held at 1202 Hrs GMT Wednesday 28 january 2009].
Khoodeelaar! research unit observed the live broadcast as it happened.
However, we waited to see how the ‘mainstream' media would treat the occurrence of CRASS in D Cameron's denunciation of Brown’s debts-creating economic 'behaviour'.
This commentary is linked to a Channel 4 News item on the Channel’s web site that does feature the CRASS word...
KHOODEELAAR! first used the word ‘CRASS’ in relation to Crossrail scam in 2004.
It was only in late 2008 that the German finance minister described Brown’s ‘economic policies’ as CRASS Keyenesianism...
[To be continued]
It happened at todays' staged PMQs in the UK House of Commons [held at 1202 Hrs GMT Wednesday 28 january 2009].
Khoodeelaar! research unit observed the live broadcast as it happened.
However, we waited to see how the ‘mainstream' media would treat the occurrence of CRASS in D Cameron's denunciation of Brown’s debts-creating economic 'behaviour'.
This commentary is linked to a Channel 4 News item on the Channel’s web site that does feature the CRASS word...
KHOODEELAAR! first used the word ‘CRASS’ in relation to Crossrail scam in 2004.
It was only in late 2008 that the German finance minister described Brown’s ‘economic policies’ as CRASS Keyenesianism...
[To be continued]
CRASS boast by CRASSrail-backer EVENING STANDARD about safe stations conceals the paper's CRASSrail role
From the web site: thisislondon.co.uk [that carries the STANDARD;s nostandards pieces]
Battle lines drawn to keep ticket offices open closure
Dick Murray, Transport Editor
28.01.09
Related Articles
Cuts would be ‘short-sighted’
POLITICIANS and union leaders today urged rail commuters to back the Evening Standard's campaign for safer stations.
London Assembly members joined rail union chiefs at King's Cross station to protest against plans by First Capital Connect to reduce opening hours at 43 ticket offices on its Thameslink route.
Critics of the money-saving scheme say it will mean stations will be left for longer without any staff, particularly late at night and at weekends.
The Standard's Safer Stations campaign was launched in 2006 after the murder of Tom ap Rhys Pryce as he left the unmanned station at Kensal Green. Surveys have shown passengers want more staff at stations, not fewer.
Gerry Doherty, general secretary of the TSSA transport union, said: “It is vitally important that passengers make their voices heard on FCC's unacceptable plans to make cuts at 43 ticket offices on some of London's busiest commuter lines. If they back us and the Standard's Safer Stations campaign we can win this fight.”
He added: “A manned station is a safer station and passengers can buy cheaper tickets at booking offices rather than at ticket machines.”
Assembly members Joanne McCartney, Enfield and Haringey, and Valerie Shawcross, Lambeth and Southwark, joined Mr Doherty and RMT union leader Bob Crow in urging passengers to join the protest.
Enfield North MP Joan Ryan has tabled a Commons motion saying the cuts, which would affect 22 constituencies, would threaten passenger security and urging First Capital to drop the plans.
Mr Crow condemned the cuts as “an attack on passenger service and safety and an attack on our members' jobs at the worst possible time. It beggars belief that FCC can propose removing more staff from stations when four of them, Alexandra Palace, New Southgate, Oakleigh Park and New Barnet, are deemed by the Mayor of London to need regular police patrols to improve safety.”
Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon this month largely rejected plans by South West Trains to cut hours at 114 ticket offices after widespread public protest. Passengers have until next Tuesday to lodge their objections with London TravelWatch or Passenger Focus.
Other stations affected include Elephant & Castle, Haringey, Hornsey, Luton Airport Parkway, New Southgate, Stevenage and Tooting.
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The scroats that hang arouns stations and bus depo's don't worry about getting told off.
- John, Wapping
Ticket Offices should be turned into all night diners and shops.
- Dhanraj, Basildon Essex
As a female someone sitting in a booking office does act as some reassurance. If it's manned then people who aren't getting trains are less likely to hang around for fear of getting told off. Additionally should you need to get to someone to help you you stand more chance if it's manned. A dark quiet station with no staff, away from shops / pub / open places is not a nice place to be!
- Victoria, London"
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Battle lines drawn to keep ticket offices open closure
Dick Murray, Transport Editor
28.01.09
Related Articles
Cuts would be ‘short-sighted’
POLITICIANS and union leaders today urged rail commuters to back the Evening Standard's campaign for safer stations.
London Assembly members joined rail union chiefs at King's Cross station to protest against plans by First Capital Connect to reduce opening hours at 43 ticket offices on its Thameslink route.
Critics of the money-saving scheme say it will mean stations will be left for longer without any staff, particularly late at night and at weekends.
The Standard's Safer Stations campaign was launched in 2006 after the murder of Tom ap Rhys Pryce as he left the unmanned station at Kensal Green. Surveys have shown passengers want more staff at stations, not fewer.
Gerry Doherty, general secretary of the TSSA transport union, said: “It is vitally important that passengers make their voices heard on FCC's unacceptable plans to make cuts at 43 ticket offices on some of London's busiest commuter lines. If they back us and the Standard's Safer Stations campaign we can win this fight.”
He added: “A manned station is a safer station and passengers can buy cheaper tickets at booking offices rather than at ticket machines.”
Assembly members Joanne McCartney, Enfield and Haringey, and Valerie Shawcross, Lambeth and Southwark, joined Mr Doherty and RMT union leader Bob Crow in urging passengers to join the protest.
Enfield North MP Joan Ryan has tabled a Commons motion saying the cuts, which would affect 22 constituencies, would threaten passenger security and urging First Capital to drop the plans.
Mr Crow condemned the cuts as “an attack on passenger service and safety and an attack on our members' jobs at the worst possible time. It beggars belief that FCC can propose removing more staff from stations when four of them, Alexandra Palace, New Southgate, Oakleigh Park and New Barnet, are deemed by the Mayor of London to need regular police patrols to improve safety.”
Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon this month largely rejected plans by South West Trains to cut hours at 114 ticket offices after widespread public protest. Passengers have until next Tuesday to lodge their objections with London TravelWatch or Passenger Focus.
Other stations affected include Elephant & Castle, Haringey, Hornsey, Luton Airport Parkway, New Southgate, Stevenage and Tooting.
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The scroats that hang arouns stations and bus depo's don't worry about getting told off.
- John, Wapping
Ticket Offices should be turned into all night diners and shops.
- Dhanraj, Basildon Essex
As a female someone sitting in a booking office does act as some reassurance. If it's manned then people who aren't getting trains are less likely to hang around for fear of getting told off. Additionally should you need to get to someone to help you you stand more chance if it's manned. A dark quiet station with no staff, away from shops / pub / open places is not a nice place to be!
- Victoria, London"
KHOODEELAAR! will comment on this further
CRASS talk and crasser words by CRASSrail-peddling John Biggs and Boris Johnson: they are BOTH illogical. SCRAP Crossrail
From the website : thisislondon.co.uk
BORIS JOHNSON was today forced to defend Tube and bus fare rises which could see Londoners pay an extra £300 a year.
The new prices which came into effect this month have seen peak Oyster card fares for trips within Zones 1 and 2 rise from £2 to £2.20.
The Mayor was facing questions from members of the London Assembly over his first draft budget which includes a freeze of the Greater London Authority's share of the council tax.
But opposition members said this amounted to a saving of £9 a year - compared with a travel card increase of between £160 and £300.
Mr Johnson, who has promised to cut the GLA's £12billion budget in 2009/10 by £9.1million, said the financial position of Transport for London made the rises inevitable. He said: "They were put in place by the last mayor and abandoned in the run-up to the elections."
Labour's budget spokesman John Biggs said: "Holding tax down with one hand and snatching fares with the other does not represent value for money for working Londoners."
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BORIS JOHNSON was today forced to defend Tube and bus fare rises which could see Londoners pay an extra £300 a year.
The new prices which came into effect this month have seen peak Oyster card fares for trips within Zones 1 and 2 rise from £2 to £2.20.
The Mayor was facing questions from members of the London Assembly over his first draft budget which includes a freeze of the Greater London Authority's share of the council tax.
But opposition members said this amounted to a saving of £9 a year - compared with a travel card increase of between £160 and £300.
Mr Johnson, who has promised to cut the GLA's £12billion budget in 2009/10 by £9.1million, said the financial position of Transport for London made the rises inevitable. He said: "They were put in place by the last mayor and abandoned in the run-up to the elections."
Labour's budget spokesman John Biggs said: "Holding tax down with one hand and snatching fares with the other does not represent value for money for working Londoners."
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CROSSRAIL CAUSING CONGESTION IN CENTRAL LONDON!!!!
CRASS behaviour by Crossrail-peddlers in central London councils: messing up freight transport in London
http://www.roadtransport.com/Articles/2009/01/28/132878/crossrail-works-congestion-for-the-next-nine-years.html
"Crossrail works: congestion for the next nine years?
28 January 2009
Transport operators delivering to central London will face disruption for the next nine years now that the first stages of construction work for the £15.9bn Crossrail project (due for completion in 2017) have started - without apparent reference to the work's impact on the movement of freight into and out of the capital.
While the main construction work on the east-west cross-London line starts in 2010, the Crossrail development team (in tandem with Transport for London, the London Borough of Camden and Westminster City Council) has enacted bus diversions for up to seven years on Tottenham Court Road to allow the Tube station to undergo £1bn of redevelopment - work that started earlier this month.
Plans for the management and movement of project-related construction traffic are in hand, with further Crossrail-specific logistics to be planned by DHL.
But as FTA director of policy James Hookham attests, those who carry freight in and out of London every day have not been consulted. "They [Crossrail and TfL] had thought through arrangements for buses and taxis - but not freight. It's early enough in the process to achieve a solution."
Traffic management changes could also lead to an increase in penalty charge notices. "As kerb space is denied, operators could be forced into streets where access is restricted," says Hookham. "The ideal [solution] is temporary [loading] bays or the relaxing of unloading restrictions."
The FTA has invited TfL to set up an enquiry point (operating through the FTA's member advice centre) to handle operators' questions. "We need a one-stop-shop with up-to-date information," Hookham says.
A Crossrail spokeswoman says: "The traffic management for each stage of the works will be discussed at regular meetings with the local highway authorities. Where major diversions are required, Crossrail will take advice from the local highway authority on the companies to be informed, including freight operators.
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http://www.roadtransport.com/Articles/2009/01/28/132878/crossrail-works-congestion-for-the-next-nine-years.html
"Crossrail works: congestion for the next nine years?
28 January 2009
Transport operators delivering to central London will face disruption for the next nine years now that the first stages of construction work for the £15.9bn Crossrail project (due for completion in 2017) have started - without apparent reference to the work's impact on the movement of freight into and out of the capital.
While the main construction work on the east-west cross-London line starts in 2010, the Crossrail development team (in tandem with Transport for London, the London Borough of Camden and Westminster City Council) has enacted bus diversions for up to seven years on Tottenham Court Road to allow the Tube station to undergo £1bn of redevelopment - work that started earlier this month.
Plans for the management and movement of project-related construction traffic are in hand, with further Crossrail-specific logistics to be planned by DHL.
But as FTA director of policy James Hookham attests, those who carry freight in and out of London every day have not been consulted. "They [Crossrail and TfL] had thought through arrangements for buses and taxis - but not freight. It's early enough in the process to achieve a solution."
Traffic management changes could also lead to an increase in penalty charge notices. "As kerb space is denied, operators could be forced into streets where access is restricted," says Hookham. "The ideal [solution] is temporary [loading] bays or the relaxing of unloading restrictions."
The FTA has invited TfL to set up an enquiry point (operating through the FTA's member advice centre) to handle operators' questions. "We need a one-stop-shop with up-to-date information," Hookham says.
A Crossrail spokeswoman says: "The traffic management for each stage of the works will be discussed at regular meetings with the local highway authorities. Where major diversions are required, Crossrail will take advice from the local highway authority on the companies to be informed, including freight operators.
"
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Rejecting London EVENING Nostandards STANDARD's pretentious Anne McElvoy opining on the sleaze-ball Peers
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
Rejecting London EVENING Nostandards STANDARD's pretentious Anne McElvoy opining on the sleaze-ball Peers
Why is KHOODEELAAR! doing so?
For a start, the RECORD of Anne McElvoy is itself dubious. to say the least.
SHE is evidentially and intellectually sloppy, and imitates other people more often than her ‘newspaper’ column appears
Secondly, the 'newspaper' that she [McElvoy] has been editing as executive editor to Veronica Wadley as editor has a disgraceful record of lying.
Anne McElvoy is not entitled to pretend to be better than the sleaze ball Peers. While THEY [those peers] have been caught with their fingers in the notional till, she has been blatantly suppressing the truth for years..
We shall highlight some key moments of the EVENING Nostandards STANDARD's lies and lying as against the East End of London in the past relevant years...
[To be continued]
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Lords-a-lobbying spell double trouble for Labour
Anne McElvoy
28.01.09
LORDS a lobbying don't make a pretty sight, do they? The bottom of the Labour barrel has been scraped with this lot. Lord Taylor positively exudes mediocrity - except for his income, obviously. Here is the payroll pensioner vote in action.
Whining about "entrapment" is a poor substitute for having the sense not to get into a trap fed by greed in the first place. Scandals have a habit of producing memorable phrases and "within my own conscience, I have followed the rules" from Lord Taylor is an absolute classic of delusion. This is the man who boasted he could earn £100,000 lobbying for a change in the law for his clients.
"Dear God," said one (very upright) Labour peer to me yesterday, "if I wanted all that favour trading and brass-raking, I'd just go down to the Commons."
The Lords is always an anomaly, one way or the other. It survives the various alterations because it is an institution people hold in high regard and because it holds the Government to firmer account than the Commons. Party lines are less binding and dissenters can't be sacked or downgraded.
If it's the best debates on Iraq or Afghanistan, on Trident or security and liberty you want, skip the Commons and head next door, where the chances of a knowledgeable treatment of what's at stake and a civilised exchange of views are far higher.
So the sense of shock is all the greater: no fewer than four peers appear to have been willing to help someone posing as a businessman seeking favours. The reasonable conclusion is that some members of the Lords can be bought if the price is right.
That might be shocking but it is an unacknowledged consequence of the way that legislative power has shifted. Laws are now so badly and quickly drafted in the Commons, and a party line agreed by the Whips, that most of the work on making them applicable happens next door. Lobbyists and those with interests in amending draft laws have learned to follow suit.
Both the Lords and Commons are governed by a code of conduct which is clear in such matters - members may consult and advise outside companies or individuals but they may not offer to exert influence in return, nor take payment for questions or votes.
What the Lords does not really have is a Standards Commissioner with the powers vested in the Commons equivalent - a useful by-product of the Major era sleaze rows, who can dole out punishment when there is a lapse or a misuse of position and is genuinely feared by MPs.
The talk this week was of the Lords in the Sunday Times sting being removed from the House "for a period of time" - which hardly sounds like a draconian response, if there turns out to have been real wrongdoing.
A broader question is what sort of upper house we want - one that has been by turns fudged and ignored because the Government cannot reach agreement in its own ranks on the preferred composition and nature of the second chamber, never mind getting agreement from anyone else.
The justice minister Jack Straw, who used to be a keen constitutional tinkerer (he, too, finds himself drawn into this mess as the recipient of donations from Lord Taylor) suggested to me not so long ago that changing the Lords was now a dormant issue, destined to be addressed in another distant, and possibly non-Labour, era.
Gordon Brown was theoretically keen on constitutional changes in the upper house, as the kind of nuts and bolts reform the intellectual end of Labour is often fond of. But he soon changed his priorities when the economic winds grew chill.
The second chamber has become a very useful vehicle for propelling those civilians he wished to appoint into senior jobs straight into the executive. So step forward Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool, Baroness Vadera and Lord Myners, the new and powerful banking minister to beef up his recession-fighting team.
Broadly, I am with Mr Brown on this one. The talent pool of the Commons is limited and it makes sense to deploy the experience and depth the Lords offers on international affairs, business and the law.
Anyway, Lords-a-ministering aren't new: Margaret Thatcher had Lord Carrington as foreign secretary and, more influentially, Lord Young of Graffham, a tough trade minister not unlike Lord Mandelson in his reach and desire to dominate the agenda (and colleagues).
However, we live now in a climate of greater distrust of politicians - who have largely brought it on themselves. There must therefore be more formal accountability of these ministers, who at present need not face questions in the Commons and are shadowed more discreetly in the Lords than in the rough and tumble of the lower chamber.
The political fallout isn't hard to assess. This is a story with only one party in the line of fire: Labour, at a time when the major obstacle to its re-election hopes is that it appears tired and complacent in office.
So Mr Brown wakes up to that age-old, migraine-inducing combination of downward-slaloming polls and a juicy sleaze row with his party's name on it.
His second honeymoon has just passed - celebrated too early by those of his admirers who were keen to mark a Lazarus resurrection. A close aide admitted to me last week that for the first time, the focus groups showed him lagging among male voters, who had previously been his main supporters. "They feel more personally aggrieved by unemployment or the threat of it," he says.
Labour insiders ascribe the sudden slump in the polls to an angrier mood in the electorate - something David Cameron is seeking to reflect in his more tub-thumping tone this year.
Where the Lords plays into all this is in the sense that a class of politicians is insulated from the hardships of the public and more concerned with their own comfort and preferment than their role in the political process.
Lord Wallace raises a solid point in a letter to this paper today, when he says that the Lords has more expertise and knowledge of legislation - and is thus, naturally enough, consulted by those who have an interest in new laws and their amendment. There will always be a fine line to draw on how that should be done without crossing the line into the sale of political influence, and it is not an easy one to define in a failsafe way. But now it will have to be attempted with new vigour, if the credibility of the second chamber is not to founder.
The dreadful shame of this is that the Lords is an asset to Britain's democracy. But it doesn't look like that today. It looks like a place where some of those who have been elevated for their supposed service and wisdom can act as Arthur Daleys flogging the laws as if they owned them. Not much honour in that.
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Rejecting London EVENING Nostandards STANDARD's pretentious Anne McElvoy opining on the sleaze-ball Peers
Why is KHOODEELAAR! doing so?
For a start, the RECORD of Anne McElvoy is itself dubious. to say the least.
SHE is evidentially and intellectually sloppy, and imitates other people more often than her ‘newspaper’ column appears
Secondly, the 'newspaper' that she [McElvoy] has been editing as executive editor to Veronica Wadley as editor has a disgraceful record of lying.
Anne McElvoy is not entitled to pretend to be better than the sleaze ball Peers. While THEY [those peers] have been caught with their fingers in the notional till, she has been blatantly suppressing the truth for years..
We shall highlight some key moments of the EVENING Nostandards STANDARD's lies and lying as against the East End of London in the past relevant years...
[To be continued]
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Lords-a-lobbying spell double trouble for Labour
Anne McElvoy
28.01.09
LORDS a lobbying don't make a pretty sight, do they? The bottom of the Labour barrel has been scraped with this lot. Lord Taylor positively exudes mediocrity - except for his income, obviously. Here is the payroll pensioner vote in action.
Whining about "entrapment" is a poor substitute for having the sense not to get into a trap fed by greed in the first place. Scandals have a habit of producing memorable phrases and "within my own conscience, I have followed the rules" from Lord Taylor is an absolute classic of delusion. This is the man who boasted he could earn £100,000 lobbying for a change in the law for his clients.
"Dear God," said one (very upright) Labour peer to me yesterday, "if I wanted all that favour trading and brass-raking, I'd just go down to the Commons."
The Lords is always an anomaly, one way or the other. It survives the various alterations because it is an institution people hold in high regard and because it holds the Government to firmer account than the Commons. Party lines are less binding and dissenters can't be sacked or downgraded.
If it's the best debates on Iraq or Afghanistan, on Trident or security and liberty you want, skip the Commons and head next door, where the chances of a knowledgeable treatment of what's at stake and a civilised exchange of views are far higher.
So the sense of shock is all the greater: no fewer than four peers appear to have been willing to help someone posing as a businessman seeking favours. The reasonable conclusion is that some members of the Lords can be bought if the price is right.
That might be shocking but it is an unacknowledged consequence of the way that legislative power has shifted. Laws are now so badly and quickly drafted in the Commons, and a party line agreed by the Whips, that most of the work on making them applicable happens next door. Lobbyists and those with interests in amending draft laws have learned to follow suit.
Both the Lords and Commons are governed by a code of conduct which is clear in such matters - members may consult and advise outside companies or individuals but they may not offer to exert influence in return, nor take payment for questions or votes.
What the Lords does not really have is a Standards Commissioner with the powers vested in the Commons equivalent - a useful by-product of the Major era sleaze rows, who can dole out punishment when there is a lapse or a misuse of position and is genuinely feared by MPs.
The talk this week was of the Lords in the Sunday Times sting being removed from the House "for a period of time" - which hardly sounds like a draconian response, if there turns out to have been real wrongdoing.
A broader question is what sort of upper house we want - one that has been by turns fudged and ignored because the Government cannot reach agreement in its own ranks on the preferred composition and nature of the second chamber, never mind getting agreement from anyone else.
The justice minister Jack Straw, who used to be a keen constitutional tinkerer (he, too, finds himself drawn into this mess as the recipient of donations from Lord Taylor) suggested to me not so long ago that changing the Lords was now a dormant issue, destined to be addressed in another distant, and possibly non-Labour, era.
Gordon Brown was theoretically keen on constitutional changes in the upper house, as the kind of nuts and bolts reform the intellectual end of Labour is often fond of. But he soon changed his priorities when the economic winds grew chill.
The second chamber has become a very useful vehicle for propelling those civilians he wished to appoint into senior jobs straight into the executive. So step forward Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool, Baroness Vadera and Lord Myners, the new and powerful banking minister to beef up his recession-fighting team.
Broadly, I am with Mr Brown on this one. The talent pool of the Commons is limited and it makes sense to deploy the experience and depth the Lords offers on international affairs, business and the law.
Anyway, Lords-a-ministering aren't new: Margaret Thatcher had Lord Carrington as foreign secretary and, more influentially, Lord Young of Graffham, a tough trade minister not unlike Lord Mandelson in his reach and desire to dominate the agenda (and colleagues).
However, we live now in a climate of greater distrust of politicians - who have largely brought it on themselves. There must therefore be more formal accountability of these ministers, who at present need not face questions in the Commons and are shadowed more discreetly in the Lords than in the rough and tumble of the lower chamber.
The political fallout isn't hard to assess. This is a story with only one party in the line of fire: Labour, at a time when the major obstacle to its re-election hopes is that it appears tired and complacent in office.
So Mr Brown wakes up to that age-old, migraine-inducing combination of downward-slaloming polls and a juicy sleaze row with his party's name on it.
His second honeymoon has just passed - celebrated too early by those of his admirers who were keen to mark a Lazarus resurrection. A close aide admitted to me last week that for the first time, the focus groups showed him lagging among male voters, who had previously been his main supporters. "They feel more personally aggrieved by unemployment or the threat of it," he says.
Labour insiders ascribe the sudden slump in the polls to an angrier mood in the electorate - something David Cameron is seeking to reflect in his more tub-thumping tone this year.
Where the Lords plays into all this is in the sense that a class of politicians is insulated from the hardships of the public and more concerned with their own comfort and preferment than their role in the political process.
Lord Wallace raises a solid point in a letter to this paper today, when he says that the Lords has more expertise and knowledge of legislation - and is thus, naturally enough, consulted by those who have an interest in new laws and their amendment. There will always be a fine line to draw on how that should be done without crossing the line into the sale of political influence, and it is not an easy one to define in a failsafe way. But now it will have to be attempted with new vigour, if the credibility of the second chamber is not to founder.
The dreadful shame of this is that the Lords is an asset to Britain's democracy. But it doesn't look like that today. It looks like a place where some of those who have been elevated for their supposed service and wisdom can act as Arthur Daleys flogging the laws as if they owned them. Not much honour in that.
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KHOODEELAAR! challenging UK House of Peers 'leader' 'Baroness Royall' to justify her suggestion that she knows what goes on in the DISCREDITED House
0900 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 28 January 2009
Months before the actual sitting of the hocus pocus 'Select Committee' cobbled together to give an impression that they were following procedures, KHOODEELAAR! The campaign against the Crossrail Bill contacted the 'officials' in the UK House of Lords'.
The officials said that the 'Crossrail Bill' 'Select Committee' organisations had yet to be established in the 'Upper Chamfer' and that the staff were still at work on the details. They said they would let us know once the preparations were completed.
We allowed them time to do so before we made contacts again.
In the mean time, as we were waiting for the 'House of Lords' officials to get ready for the 'CrossRail Bill', we wrote and published a number of comments on the internet. Including on the Times, London, web site.
We set out the constitutional and the democratic duties of the UK House of Lords.
And in particular we also focussed attention on the then just published examples of idiocies by one of the CRASS role playing 'ministers' [an MP] in the Crossrail-peddling UK Department for Transport. Tom Harris.
Harris has since left 'the Govt'..
As we had warned that he would do. As we had observed that he SHOULD do. We had on the evidence of his utterances concluded that Harris was behaving in a typically crass, unconstitutional way.
This set of activities by KHOODEELAAR! in seeking to draw attention to the constitutional law role of the ‘Upper House’ was way away from the realities of the ‘House of Peers’ itself. While we gave them a deliberately extended scope to prove that they were worthy of respect, THEY could not be further from that standard.
While we argued for the ‘House of Peers’ to be given the freedom to do what we said was the prime the main duty, the main job of the UK House of 'Lords' [=PEERS], THE HOUSE ITSELF was unwilling to uphold that dignified status we were giving them.
So when ‘Baroness’ {What a worryingly unjustified, unconstitutional and pompous word that is] Royall [!!!] uttered on Monday 26 January 2009 that she was aware that the ‘House’ had been discredited throughout the world by the revelations about the four named ‘peers’, she could not have been more clueless.
If she was telling the truth that is.
Assuming that SHE at least was telling the truth, she should not be ‘leader’ of that House at all.
[To be continued]
Months before the actual sitting of the hocus pocus 'Select Committee' cobbled together to give an impression that they were following procedures, KHOODEELAAR! The campaign against the Crossrail Bill contacted the 'officials' in the UK House of Lords'.
The officials said that the 'Crossrail Bill' 'Select Committee' organisations had yet to be established in the 'Upper Chamfer' and that the staff were still at work on the details. They said they would let us know once the preparations were completed.
We allowed them time to do so before we made contacts again.
In the mean time, as we were waiting for the 'House of Lords' officials to get ready for the 'CrossRail Bill', we wrote and published a number of comments on the internet. Including on the Times, London, web site.
We set out the constitutional and the democratic duties of the UK House of Lords.
And in particular we also focussed attention on the then just published examples of idiocies by one of the CRASS role playing 'ministers' [an MP] in the Crossrail-peddling UK Department for Transport. Tom Harris.
Harris has since left 'the Govt'..
As we had warned that he would do. As we had observed that he SHOULD do. We had on the evidence of his utterances concluded that Harris was behaving in a typically crass, unconstitutional way.
This set of activities by KHOODEELAAR! in seeking to draw attention to the constitutional law role of the ‘Upper House’ was way away from the realities of the ‘House of Peers’ itself. While we gave them a deliberately extended scope to prove that they were worthy of respect, THEY could not be further from that standard.
While we argued for the ‘House of Peers’ to be given the freedom to do what we said was the prime the main duty, the main job of the UK House of 'Lords' [=PEERS], THE HOUSE ITSELF was unwilling to uphold that dignified status we were giving them.
So when ‘Baroness’ {What a worryingly unjustified, unconstitutional and pompous word that is] Royall [!!!] uttered on Monday 26 January 2009 that she was aware that the ‘House’ had been discredited throughout the world by the revelations about the four named ‘peers’, she could not have been more clueless.
If she was telling the truth that is.
Assuming that SHE at least was telling the truth, she should not be ‘leader’ of that House at all.
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! continuing to update evidence of our own finding of the stooge role by UK 'House of Peers' [='lords']
0700 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 28 January 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU So. As we are also telling the Times online this morning.,. It was of course the Times newspaper group ['Sunday Times' title] that carried out the particular investigation into the particular 4 peers....
This morning [Wednesday 28 January 2009], KHOODEELAAR! No to CrossRail hole scam CAMPAIGN organiser has told the Times online this:
"Nothing that any of the 'mainstream' Parties has so far said about what THEY would do to end abuse of Parliament by members amounts to much. They have said things mostly to 'reassure'. Parliament in the UK is at its core complicit with the executive. Parliament is a collective poodle.
A stooged extension."
This observation is the latest formulation of the analysis that Khoodeelaar! has been making for years now… Based on the evidence of their conduct, the two Houses of the UK Parliament behave as stooges… They do not hold the executive top account.
And they will not do so in the foreseeable future…
And today’s Question Time or the scheduled Question Time in the UK House of Commons is not expected to reveal anything constitutionally or morally or structurally so new, so real, so original, so honest as to make either House become a genuine vehicle for democratic representation and accountability…Khoodeelaar! has said on the internet at least since December 2005 that Members of the UK House of Commons Crossrail Bill select committee were stooges, they were place men and place women… And their 'parliamentary' behaviour and their actual uses and abuses of their access to the 'decision-making' activities of and in the name of the UK parliament since that time has more than vindicated the Khoodeelaar! diagnosis and analysis… Similarly the House of Peers ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’ too behaved in the same manner and they sabotaged even the slightest attempt at democratic scrutiny of the purpose, the cost and the implications of the Big Business CROSSRAIL Bill…
We have already published in the past year the relevant evidence [more is due to be published here and on related KHOODEELAAR! web sites and blogs] of how the ‘Chair’ of the UK House of ‘Lords’ ‘Crossrail Bill’ Select committee openly misrepresented the Khoodeelaar! position and how the same ‘select committee’ actually published blatant, unadulterated lies for Big Business agenda and against the KHOODEELAAR! objections to Crossrail as we had formally put those at the beginning of the ‘process’ in the so-called ‘Upper House’…
In fact the words and the implications thereof as uttered by the ‘chair’ of the ‘House of Lords’ ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’ showed that the man was not even ordinarily in possession of the faculties….
How could he do what he did? Utter absolute untruths? And none of the others stopped him… And who were the ‘others’ ? Why Peter Snape, was one! .[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU So. As we are also telling the Times online this morning.,. It was of course the Times newspaper group ['Sunday Times' title] that carried out the particular investigation into the particular 4 peers....
This morning [Wednesday 28 January 2009], KHOODEELAAR! No to CrossRail hole scam CAMPAIGN organiser has told the Times online this:
"Nothing that any of the 'mainstream' Parties has so far said about what THEY would do to end abuse of Parliament by members amounts to much. They have said things mostly to 'reassure'. Parliament in the UK is at its core complicit with the executive. Parliament is a collective poodle.
A stooged extension."
This observation is the latest formulation of the analysis that Khoodeelaar! has been making for years now… Based on the evidence of their conduct, the two Houses of the UK Parliament behave as stooges… They do not hold the executive top account.
And they will not do so in the foreseeable future…
And today’s Question Time or the scheduled Question Time in the UK House of Commons is not expected to reveal anything constitutionally or morally or structurally so new, so real, so original, so honest as to make either House become a genuine vehicle for democratic representation and accountability…Khoodeelaar! has said on the internet at least since December 2005 that Members of the UK House of Commons Crossrail Bill select committee were stooges, they were place men and place women… And their 'parliamentary' behaviour and their actual uses and abuses of their access to the 'decision-making' activities of and in the name of the UK parliament since that time has more than vindicated the Khoodeelaar! diagnosis and analysis… Similarly the House of Peers ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’ too behaved in the same manner and they sabotaged even the slightest attempt at democratic scrutiny of the purpose, the cost and the implications of the Big Business CROSSRAIL Bill…
We have already published in the past year the relevant evidence [more is due to be published here and on related KHOODEELAAR! web sites and blogs] of how the ‘Chair’ of the UK House of ‘Lords’ ‘Crossrail Bill’ Select committee openly misrepresented the Khoodeelaar! position and how the same ‘select committee’ actually published blatant, unadulterated lies for Big Business agenda and against the KHOODEELAAR! objections to Crossrail as we had formally put those at the beginning of the ‘process’ in the so-called ‘Upper House’…
In fact the words and the implications thereof as uttered by the ‘chair’ of the ‘House of Lords’ ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’ showed that the man was not even ordinarily in possession of the faculties….
How could he do what he did? Utter absolute untruths? And none of the others stopped him… And who were the ‘others’ ? Why Peter Snape, was one! .[To be continued]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That BOTH Parliament and 'Press' in Britain formed a cul de sac against democracy, accountability...
2155 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 27 January 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That BOTH Parliament and the ‘Press’ [we used the term ‘media’ in our relevant commentaries as published on 26 January 2009] were letting the people in Britain down. Together, the ‘Press’ and Parliament represented a cul de sac. A dead end. There was no way forward. Unless of course the presumptions in favour of Parliament and the Press are questioned. Rejected. Replaced by a different set of democratic and objectively verifiably international alternatives.. Which they must be… If EVEN John McDonnell [MP for Hays and Harlington- near ‘Heathrow’], not known for objectively defined stand of any significance or note on constitutionality, can actually pick up the symbolic mace and drop it at the spot he later explained to be associated with Dennis Skinner and then, shock and horror!!! actually refer to Oliver Cromwell and embark [albeit after the event and on the BBC] on a discussion of what the Parliament is about and what Parliament OUGHT to be about then it is very clear that the KHOODEEL:AAR! Campaign is reaching parts that are not far from Ken Lyingstill Livingstone ‘political ‘ neighbours… McDonnell, after all, was Livingstone’s Deputy at the Greedier Livingstone Conurbation [GLC] during the more ‘newsy’ period before Maggie [=Margaret Hilda Roberts] Thatcher did away with the corrupting vehicle altogether…. Little realising, as she did so, that the corrupter of London would not let go and come back, via the Guardian and via even her [Maggie Thatcher’s] ‘son-in-succession-at No 10 Downing Street’ Tony Blair to haunt the still available platforms at the expense of the people of London……...McDonnell’s association with Livingstone is far from broken…. But the fact that McDonnell actually has gone on record and talked about things in a way that would echo Khoodeelaar! is to be noted.
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That BOTH Parliament and the ‘Press’ [we used the term ‘media’ in our relevant commentaries as published on 26 January 2009] were letting the people in Britain down. Together, the ‘Press’ and Parliament represented a cul de sac. A dead end. There was no way forward. Unless of course the presumptions in favour of Parliament and the Press are questioned. Rejected. Replaced by a different set of democratic and objectively verifiably international alternatives.. Which they must be… If EVEN John McDonnell [MP for Hays and Harlington- near ‘Heathrow’], not known for objectively defined stand of any significance or note on constitutionality, can actually pick up the symbolic mace and drop it at the spot he later explained to be associated with Dennis Skinner and then, shock and horror!!! actually refer to Oliver Cromwell and embark [albeit after the event and on the BBC] on a discussion of what the Parliament is about and what Parliament OUGHT to be about then it is very clear that the KHOODEEL:AAR! Campaign is reaching parts that are not far from Ken Lyingstill Livingstone ‘political ‘ neighbours… McDonnell, after all, was Livingstone’s Deputy at the Greedier Livingstone Conurbation [GLC] during the more ‘newsy’ period before Maggie [=Margaret Hilda Roberts] Thatcher did away with the corrupting vehicle altogether…. Little realising, as she did so, that the corrupter of London would not let go and come back, via the Guardian and via even her [Maggie Thatcher’s] ‘son-in-succession-at No 10 Downing Street’ Tony Blair to haunt the still available platforms at the expense of the people of London……...McDonnell’s association with Livingstone is far from broken…. But the fact that McDonnell actually has gone on record and talked about things in a way that would echo Khoodeelaar! is to be noted.
[To be continued]