1725 [1720] [1640] Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday
28 October 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! We said this morning: “Now even Boris J is rushing around looking for any face-saving ploy to haul in as part of the new bid to confess all.” This is confirmed in a report published in the past 90 minutes on the Internet by the pro-Crossrail web site http://www.regen.net. We publish [below] the full report as it has first appeared on that web site. They run a tricky trade device.
Their URL linking the piece doesn’t fetch the full texts..
So we reproduce the full texts below.
“Ben Cook, Regen.net, 28 October 2009
London mayor Boris Johnson has announced that developers involved in the regeneration of the Nine Elms area of south London – which stretches from Vauxhall to Battersea Power Station – will be exempt from paying the Crossrail levy.
The Crossrail levy was to be charged on applications for additional office space above 5,000sq ft in London’s “central activities zone” – covering Westminster, parts of Camden, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, the City, Lambeth, Kensington and Chelsea, and Wandsworth – and the northern Isle of Dogs.
A spokesman for the mayor’s office said it was not yet clear whether the contributions developers would make to the Northern Line extension would be less than, or exceed, the amount paid under the Crossrail levy. Johnson said that the developers of the scheme – which will include 16,000 new homes and create up to 25,000 new jobs, according to Wandsworth Council – will instead be expected to “pay towards” the planned Northern Line extension from Kennington through Nine Elms to Battersea. A spokesman for the Mayor’s office said the method by which the developers would pay for the Northern Line extension was being “worked on”, but he added that it would be “through the planning system, rather than via a business rate”. __Plans for the regeneration of Nine Elms involve the conversion of almost 200 hectares of derelict and underused land into new communities with green open spaces and new transport links, including a pedestrian and cycle bridge linking Nine Elms to Pimlico and the extension of the Northern Line to Battersea. Edward Lister, leader of Wandsworth Council, said: “The announcement is a sign of just how committed the mayor is to securing the vital transport improvements that will ensure the success of the whole project. Rob Tincknell, managing director of Treasury Holdings UK, which will redevelop Battersea Power Station as part of the Nine Elms regeneration, said he was delighted that the mayor has given such a strong affirmation of the importance of the Nine Elms regeneration to the future of LONDON. Johnson plans to extend the Northern Line to Nine Elms using an innovative US-style funding tool called Tax Increment Financing (Tif).__Tif allows a local public body to borrow for capital investment in a designated area by securing the loan against the increases in tax revenue expected to be generated by the development of the infrastructure.”
The piece is confirmation that Boris is caught out in the CRASSrole confusion all of his own making… He is now dropping the draconian and the crass demand for CrossRail levy which he had imposed on all and sundry. The news comes on the same day when another web site has published the furious reaction to CRASSrole-player Boris that ‘businesses’ in Kingston are emitting. Boris truly has been crass. Will he now see sense and drop the crass peddling role? We shall be reporting whether he does or not.
[To be continued]
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Khoodeelaar! No to wasteful Crossrail scam: Only spend money on the EXISTING transport network; improve the quality, the standard of service.
0140 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday
28 October 2009
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Tuesday’s confession by the occupier at the Onion in London SE1 in the name of the people of London that the London Underground network was far more important than the notional Crossrail was another sign that the successor of Ken Livingstone as the tout in residence of Big Business was getting increasingly nervous about his role [and the impact of any gaffes, errors on top of the dozens he has already collected] in relation to UK Con party’s chances at the scheduled general election in a few months time.
After all, BoJo fancies himself as a power-seeker and he would not want to lose the chance by messing up D Cameron’s chances.
And as ALL independent indications of economic prospects and movements [or lack of them] show about the UK, CrossRail means more debts, wastes and diversion than it does transport.
As KHOODEELAAR! has diagnosed and exclusively asserted in public EVERYDAY for almost 6 years now, Crossrail is all those things: Wasteful, diversionary and unnecessary.
This is why we are again telling Boris Johnson to take this sound and politically astute advice: SCRAP Crossrail.
Khoodeelaar! No to wasteful Crossrail scam: Only spend money on the EXISTING transport network; improve the quality, the standard of service.
This may sound obvious. But the obvious is being overlooked in a big, wasteful way by the peddlers of the Crossrail scam.
Those peddlers are typified by Jo Valentine. She has a spot in the constitutionally ambivalent, unaccountable UK House of Pee-rs too.
That makes her even more undemocratic and unaccountable than she could be had she been plain Jo.
As the Houses of are not accountable, it is not known in public what abuses Jo Valentine has perpetrated in her promotion of CrossRail scam while the pack was being bureaucratically pushed through the two Houses [February 2005 and July 2008] via their stooged 'Crossrail Bill Select committees'.
When we [KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business Crossrail scam agenda…” campaign] told the London Times online in 2007 that we would notionally give the 'Houses of Pee-rs' the benefit of the doubt and wait to see how they delivered their constitutional duties.
We did so on the theoretical basis.
We also did it to point out to the then stooged 'transport minister' [the parasitic post that has been passed on to suitably like 'aspirants' as typified by the performance since Harris left and his shoes got filled in ...] ' and self-seeker Tom Harris that he must not be so gross as to predict the outcome of the 'Crossrail Bill Select committee' in the House of Pee-rs. That we did go on the record to say this was on many levels important.
Harris did not have an answer to what we said. Nor did any of his co-peddlers of the scam at the time. And as events have shown, Harris knew that in referring to the House of Pee-rs CrossRail Bill committee he was in fact referring to another familiar stooged body. And he was comfortable with that. We were not. No democratic, constitutionally conscientious person or campaign should be comfortable with that state of affairs....
That Harris was 'vindicated' by the stooged behaviour of the House of Peer-s committee concerned shows that there is no democratic decency or integrity in the place.. Against this background, we make the observations we do make here about Jo Valentine...
Will Jo valentine come clean and confess all?
Will she say how many members of the House of Pee-rs she sought to influence?
Will she give a roll call of dishonour ?
So far, Jo Valentine has escaped "media attention" linked with any illegal, illegitimate, immoral, disgraceful claims of expense.
Mortgages and so on.
But she is hitting the headlines in the construction trade sites today [Tuesday 27 - Wednesday 28 October 2009] by returning to lobby for the public Billions [Sterling POUNDS] to be made available to the construction lobby under the name of CRASSRail.
How many of those is she in touch with? [To be continued]
London
Wednesday
28 October 2009
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Tuesday’s confession by the occupier at the Onion in London SE1 in the name of the people of London that the London Underground network was far more important than the notional Crossrail was another sign that the successor of Ken Livingstone as the tout in residence of Big Business was getting increasingly nervous about his role [and the impact of any gaffes, errors on top of the dozens he has already collected] in relation to UK Con party’s chances at the scheduled general election in a few months time.
After all, BoJo fancies himself as a power-seeker and he would not want to lose the chance by messing up D Cameron’s chances.
And as ALL independent indications of economic prospects and movements [or lack of them] show about the UK, CrossRail means more debts, wastes and diversion than it does transport.
As KHOODEELAAR! has diagnosed and exclusively asserted in public EVERYDAY for almost 6 years now, Crossrail is all those things: Wasteful, diversionary and unnecessary.
This is why we are again telling Boris Johnson to take this sound and politically astute advice: SCRAP Crossrail.
Khoodeelaar! No to wasteful Crossrail scam: Only spend money on the EXISTING transport network; improve the quality, the standard of service.
This may sound obvious. But the obvious is being overlooked in a big, wasteful way by the peddlers of the Crossrail scam.
Those peddlers are typified by Jo Valentine. She has a spot in the constitutionally ambivalent, unaccountable UK House of Pee-rs too.
That makes her even more undemocratic and unaccountable than she could be had she been plain Jo.
As the Houses of are not accountable, it is not known in public what abuses Jo Valentine has perpetrated in her promotion of CrossRail scam while the pack was being bureaucratically pushed through the two Houses [February 2005 and July 2008] via their stooged 'Crossrail Bill Select committees'.
When we [KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business Crossrail scam agenda…” campaign] told the London Times online in 2007 that we would notionally give the 'Houses of Pee-rs' the benefit of the doubt and wait to see how they delivered their constitutional duties.
We did so on the theoretical basis.
We also did it to point out to the then stooged 'transport minister' [the parasitic post that has been passed on to suitably like 'aspirants' as typified by the performance since Harris left and his shoes got filled in ...] ' and self-seeker Tom Harris that he must not be so gross as to predict the outcome of the 'Crossrail Bill Select committee' in the House of Pee-rs. That we did go on the record to say this was on many levels important.
Harris did not have an answer to what we said. Nor did any of his co-peddlers of the scam at the time. And as events have shown, Harris knew that in referring to the House of Pee-rs CrossRail Bill committee he was in fact referring to another familiar stooged body. And he was comfortable with that. We were not. No democratic, constitutionally conscientious person or campaign should be comfortable with that state of affairs....
That Harris was 'vindicated' by the stooged behaviour of the House of Peer-s committee concerned shows that there is no democratic decency or integrity in the place.. Against this background, we make the observations we do make here about Jo Valentine...
Will Jo valentine come clean and confess all?
Will she say how many members of the House of Pee-rs she sought to influence?
Will she give a roll call of dishonour ?
So far, Jo Valentine has escaped "media attention" linked with any illegal, illegitimate, immoral, disgraceful claims of expense.
Mortgages and so on.
But she is hitting the headlines in the construction trade sites today [Tuesday 27 - Wednesday 28 October 2009] by returning to lobby for the public Billions [Sterling POUNDS] to be made available to the construction lobby under the name of CRASSRail.
How many of those is she in touch with? [To be continued]