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Crossrail tax slammed by Croydon MPs
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 07:00
Two Croydon MPs have slammed powers being granted to the Greater London Authority (GLA) to force business in the borough to pay for building Crossrail.
Many firms in the borough, backed by Croydon Business, have expressed concern that they will have to have to contribute to the building costs for Crossrail through a supplementary business tax despite the fact the new east-west rail link will bring no direct benefits to Croydon.
Those concerns have now been raised in the House of Commons by Conservative MP for Croydon South, Richard Ottaway and Andrew Pelling, the Independent MP for Croydon Central.
Both expressed concern the extra financial burden on larger Croydon businesses would make it even more difficult for them to cope in the economic slump.
Mr Ottaway said after last week's debate: "I believe it is utterly unfair that the GLA would be able to tax businesses in areas like Coulsdon and Sutton that would derive no benefit from the Crossrail project whatsoever.
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Mr Ottaway added: "Money raised from Croydon businesses should be used to benefit those businesses and to boost the local economy."
Mr Pelling claimed government in Greater London was "always about taxing Croydon to take our money elsewhere in London."
He said: "This new extra tax will hit businesses already struggling to survive in Croydon."
Crossrail will run from across London from Maidenhead in the west to Abbey Wood in the east running through Heathrow Airport, Paddington, Liverpool Street and Canary Wharf.
The aim is to help the regeneration of London along its route and improve rail links in the capital.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Updater reports on the stooged ‘London Assembly’ that has failed to Question Crossrail at all.
0625 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 20 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Updater reports on the stooged ‘London Assembly’ that has failed to Question Crossrail at all.
Contextual update and introduction:
How the 'Greater London Assembly' has behaved as a stooge assembly with ALL 'party groups and groupings' behaving like voluntary zombies. This is contrast to the image of a 'live' Assembly that is conveyed by the BBC broadcasting the charade Question Time with the wasteful and the ego-based holder of the post of mayor in the name of the people of London. The GLA has not called the mayor top account. Nor indeed has it done the same on any other holders of power- wielding
posts affecting the people of London...
There is no debate. There is no scrutiny. Worth mentioning. Worth making any difference for the level of democracy, for the level of accountability in London, for the people, ordinary people of London...
The stooge assembly was created by Blair to allow the mayor to enjoy the powers.. Of course Blair had not expected that the outcome of the first elections in 2000 would turn out the way it did..
But what about the rest of the 'politicians/ in the so-called trade unions?
They are staging a sort of come back, with Tony Woodley becoming the BBC's first trade union agent who is treated almost the same as ‘a normal politician’, as opposed as a ‘controversial', token, part in an irregular feature’ on the world beyond the realms of normality….
The elected holders of 'democratic' office at the GLA have not shown that they even recognise what democracy is supposed to be...
These are jobsworths GLA members or Assembly members as they prefer to call their titles....
They are not doing the democratic job... But then that is not a rarity. That is the norm,. Across the Thames on the other side at the Palace of Westminster, the same thing goes on... What there is is a Palace of Charades...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! Updater reports on the stooged ‘London Assembly’ that has failed to Question Crossrail at all.
Contextual update and introduction:
How the 'Greater London Assembly' has behaved as a stooge assembly with ALL 'party groups and groupings' behaving like voluntary zombies. This is contrast to the image of a 'live' Assembly that is conveyed by the BBC broadcasting the charade Question Time with the wasteful and the ego-based holder of the post of mayor in the name of the people of London. The GLA has not called the mayor top account. Nor indeed has it done the same on any other holders of power- wielding
posts affecting the people of London...
There is no debate. There is no scrutiny. Worth mentioning. Worth making any difference for the level of democracy, for the level of accountability in London, for the people, ordinary people of London...
The stooge assembly was created by Blair to allow the mayor to enjoy the powers.. Of course Blair had not expected that the outcome of the first elections in 2000 would turn out the way it did..
But what about the rest of the 'politicians/ in the so-called trade unions?
They are staging a sort of come back, with Tony Woodley becoming the BBC's first trade union agent who is treated almost the same as ‘a normal politician’, as opposed as a ‘controversial', token, part in an irregular feature’ on the world beyond the realms of normality….
The elected holders of 'democratic' office at the GLA have not shown that they even recognise what democracy is supposed to be...
These are jobsworths GLA members or Assembly members as they prefer to call their titles....
They are not doing the democratic job... But then that is not a rarity. That is the norm,. Across the Thames on the other side at the Palace of Westminster, the same thing goes on... What there is is a Palace of Charades...
[To be continued]