KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! We had said Boris Johnson was being less than honest in his faking of backing for Crossrail! Now even the touts admit it!!!

1510 Hrs GMT London Sunday 11 January 2009:

KHOODEELAAR! No to “the pettiness of Crossrail hole scam touts.…”, UPDATING the latest evidence of such behaviour … as retailed by the INDEPENDENT newspaper web site today. [Sunday 11 January 2009] What the INDEPENDENT does NOT say is that Ken Livingstone's pettiness which they report in the item under reference here, is one of the reasons why KHOODEELAAR! has maintained for the past 5 years that anything Livingstone ‘promotes’ must be subjected to the highest standards of scrutiny and rigorous analysis before it is even allowed to be treated as being [objectively speaking] bona fide far less legitimate, far less important .…

The INDEPENDENT itself has failed to follow that path.…

As we have pointed out in the previous post today...


The second point that the INDEPENDENT ‘gossip’ piece fails to recognize, let alone DISSECT and comment on is that buried in their [The INDEPENDENT] own quotes from a surly Ken Livingstone another vindication of the analysis and prediction that KHOODEELAAR! alone made about WHY Boris Johnson was oddly in favour of Crossrail.……

[To be continued]


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Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary
Second most powerful job on earth
Sunday, 11 January 2009




Not since Ted Heath has there been such a sulk in politics. Nine months after he lost the mayoral elections, Ken Livingstone is still sore as a bear. Tomorrow Boris Johnson opens the new Docklands Light Railway extension to Woolwich, a project Ken spent years getting off the ground. Cheesed off that Boris will take the credit, Ken staged a separate launch yesterday. "This is the most significant transport development since the development of the docks," he told me from Woolwich. "It would be nice if we could have a launch of this sort every couple of years, but Boris has stopped all the projects we had planned, except for Crossrail, which he is obliged to go along with by the Government." Ken went on in this vein for some time. Shouldn't he just, like, get over it?

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