You state an apparent need for “public investment for Crossrail” in your very contradictory package about ‘transport’.
Do you do so because you believe in irrationality and financial irresponsibility?
What is Crossrail?
It is a fantasy. It is not a going entity.
So why refer to it as if it is a going entity doing highly needed job in the economy?
You can’t on the one hand blame the CONDEM for lacking vision and on the other put forward as vision that turns out to be fantasy.
Ever since the secret cabal began to pressurise Tony Blair in June 2003 over Crossrail, ALL they have produced by way of evidence ‘supporting their call for public funding of Crossrail’ has been hype, hype and more hype. No evidence.
When the UK Department for Transport [= DfT] and the then Finance Minister G Brown asked Rod Eddington to investigate the future of Railway transport in the UK, they had not expected Eddington to reject the hype for Crossrail.
The USA Business publisher Forbes admitted as much. They were later followed by Britain’s own Channel 4 News which confirmed in express terms on 5 October 2007 that G Brown was giving the Government’s financial backing to Crossrail AGAINST THE ADVICE of Eddington.
On the eve of Eddington’s publishing his findings almost two years previously on 01 December 2006] the Guardian newspaper had decided to condemn Eddington for his clear refusal to endorse the over hyped Crossrail [as the Guardian had found out courtesy of the DfT that had released a nominally embargoed copy of the report to the Guardian and other state-accredited media].
In the FOUR years that
have elapsed since the Guardian’s touting job for Big Business interests pushing for Crossrail, the media group has failed to publish one single data, one single objective calculation let alone detailed cost benefit analysis let alone – NOT TO SPEAK of - objectively assessed demand in the ordinary economy showing even an ordinary demand in the UK ECONOMY for Crossrail.
So what is so progressive about your retailing a fakery?
How can that kind of propaganda take you any nearer to connection with the ordinary public?
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