KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! Crossrail was crassly conceived, crassly peddled, crassly oversold. It was NEVER about meeting the outstanding transport needs of ordinary people in and of London. Crossrail was crafted by Big Business touts who came on the surface in the early 2000 to turn the previous, different plan [1989-90] into a tool for Big Business. They colluded with Tony Blair and secured the passage of the CRASSrail Bill [February 2005 to July 2008] with a specific role played by a ‘former’ aide to Douglas Alexander [UK Transport fronter in the Blaired cabinet ] who made sure that the formal routine stages in Parliament were passed easily by the real sponsors of the Crossrail Bill, that is Big Business Military Industrial complex. They have now been coming out with their true motives and colours. They are bullying people out of their homes …. Of all places in central London [To be continued]

2000 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 25 February 2010


Editor    Muhammad Haque

KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! Crossrail was crassly conceived, crassly peddled, crassly oversold. It was NEVER about meeting the outstanding transport needs of ordinary people in and of London. Crossrail was crafted by Big Business touts who came on the surface in the early 2000 to turn the previous, different plan [1989-90] into a tool for Big Business. They colluded with Tony Blair and secured the passage of the CRASSrail Bill [February 2005 to July 2008] with a specific role played by a ‘former’ aide to Douglas Alexander [UK Transport fronter in the Blaired cabinet ] who made sure that the formal routine stages in Parliament were passed easily by the real sponsors of the Crossrail Bill, that is Big Business Military Industrial complex. They have now been coming out with their true motives and colours. They are bullying people out of their homes …. Of all places in central London [To be continued]

From the website of the London Financial Times:
Job cull begins at Crossrail

February 24, 2010 5:00pmby Jim Pickard

Amid political uncertainty about the future of Crossrail - would either Labour or the Tories delay or axe the project? - news of job cuts at the group may not be the most positive sign.



This morning I heard about redundancies across the piste at Crossrail in recent days. A spokesman has now confirmed that Rob Holden, chief executive, has asked all team leaders to examine the potential for job cuts. “Directors are being asked to look at their teams going forward…to continue to offer value for money,” he said.



Only a handful of redundancies have already taken place, he said. But the prospect of 100 or more by the end of the process could not be ruled out. Crossrail has a core team of 450 but employs about 2,000 people in total.



The spokesman denied that the new drive was anything to do with a budget squeeze or political wrangling. Instead, it was about delivering value for money as Crossrail shifted from its planning phase to its delivery phase.



February 24, 2010 5:00pm in Crossrail, UK economy, UK politics, transport
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