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Wednesday
24 February 2010
Editor © Muhammad Haque
KHOODEELAAR! Reiterating the diagnostic finding which we have been updating since the campaign against Crossrail Big Business scam began in January 2004, that the transport needs of the people of London were not being addressed in the Crossrail scam. That Crossrail was a tool for big companies to loot the UK public funds under cover of the 'big infrastructure project slogan. Those who have peddled Crossrail have done that for any number of aims and purposes OTHER than for meeting the transport needs of ordinary people in and around London. That the crassness of the Crossrail scam is evident in the fact that Alistair Darling, who was still Tony Blair's daft man at the DfT in 2005, allowed £100m to be given to CLRL without requiring them to show what use they were putting that money to. Alistair Darling is not the only culprit who created [or reinforced a pre-existing] culture of irresponsibility where public money was concerned; he was succeeded at the daft DfT by Douglas Alexander who has since been critically and centrally linked by PRIVATE EYE magazine to BECHTEL the Big Biz USA conglomerate that used its influence exercised via an ex aide of Douglas Alexander’s to get the Crossrail Bill through the formal stages of the UK Houses of parliament and into the UK Statute book….[To be continued]
From the FT at 1750 GMT Wednesday 24 February 2010:
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From the FT at 1750 GMT Wednesday 24 February 2010:
Job cull begins at Crossrail
February 24, 2010 5:00pm
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.
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