KHOODEELAAR! Evidentially diagnosing the CRASS role-playing 'local' 'East London Idiotiser'. TWO days before the Idiotiser 'saw the light' and confessed in typically idiotic way, that Crassrail was crass, even the BBC online made the admission to the effect that CRASSrail was proving to be too much of a liability and burden to the 'London' 'economy' and 'businesses'! So there!

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KHOODEELAAR! Evidentially diagnosing the CRASS role-playing 'local' 'East London Idiotiser'. TWO days before the Idiotiser 'saw the light' and confessed in typically idiotic way, that Crassrail was crass, even the BBC online [see their texts below this updater diagnostic commentary] made the admission to the effect that CRASSrail was proving to be too much of a liability and burden to the 'London' 'economy' and 'businesses'! So there!

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London 'unfairly burdened' with £8bn cost of Crossrail

Central London boroughs will contribute most towards Crossrail Londoners are "unfairly burdened" with half the cost of the £16bn Crossrail, a London Assembly report said. Business premises in the capital with a rateable value in excess of £55,000 will raise £4.1bn of the cost by paying a 2% business rate levy. Although eight stations fall outside London those areas will not contribute to the cost, the report found. Crossrail said it would consider the recommendations made by the Transport Committee's report. Chief executive of Crossrail, Rob Holden, said: "We welcome the Committee's cross-party support for Crossrail and its recognition of the project's long-term economic benefits to the capital and the whole of the UK. "We note the Committee's recommendations and look forward to continuing our engagement with it and through the life of the project." 'Unfair contribution' The report called for the government, which it said got a "good deal", to ensure that the capital is not asked to pay for overruns. "The Committee recognises that London will benefit substantially from the construction of Crossrail. That said though, it is making arguably an unfair contribution to the project's costs. "We recommend that, should additional funding be required, London is not asked to contribute further to the construction of Crossrail and that consideration is given to extending a Crossrail levy to local authorities on the route outside the GLA (Greater London Authority) boundary." London establishments will have to pay the business rate supplement (BRS) for up to 31 years, with up to 70% of the cost borne by businesses in central London. The report also said that residents and businesses in Soho and Paddington complained that they received only three months' notice and were at times "intimidated", prompting Mayor Boris Johnson to intervene. Mr Holden told the committee that his company needed to "be more proactive" in the way it dealt with compensation claims. Caroline Pidgeon, chairperson of the committee, said: "Crossrail's initial dealings with displaced businesses and residents have been very disappointing. "We hope they have learned lessons from these early experiences." The report also suggested that a majority of the 21,000 expected jobs generated by the project should go to Londoners. The 72-mile route will link Maidenhead in Berkshire to Shenfield in Essex, running through central London and will also include a link to Heathrow airport.

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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]

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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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KHOODEELAAR! Noting the stupidity of the 'local' 'newspaper' 'East London Advertiser'. For the past almost three years, the East London IDIOTISER has published lies for Big Business CRASSrail. It has at the same time failed to publish the facts about the wasteful, debts-causing diversionary CrossRail scam. In doing so, the E L Idiotiser has given space and backing to other liars. Not one item has been published in the sinking ‘newspaper’ about the implications of the Big Business agenda on the ‘economy’ of the East End of London.

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KHOODEELAAR! Noting the stupidity of the 'local' 'newspaper' 'East London Advertiser'. For the past almost three years, the East London IDIOTISER has published lies for Big Business CRASSrail. It has at the same time failed to publish the facts about the wasteful, debts-causing diversionary CrossRail scam. In doing so, the E L Idiotiser has given space and backing to other liars. Not one item has been published in the sinking ‘newspaper’ about the implications of the Big Business agenda on the ‘economy’ of the East End of London. While the E L Idiotiser has done that, another title, located around the Isle of Dogs and representing mainly the businesses located in the part called ‘the Docklands’ has published some of the evidence of the wastefulness of CRASSrail.  This item [below] has been taken from the website of the Idiotiser where it has been appearing for the past 8 hours or so. This one [as we reproduce in texts below this commentary and updater] is in fact based on the publication of the ‘facts’ by other 'local' ‘news’ titles across London at various points in time during the past three to four months. Most of the ‘findings’ the ignorant IDIOTISER attributes to the ‘London Assembly’ have been actually published by regional titles in London and in the East of England. And Khoodeelaar! has been pointing out those facts at all relevant times.  Every time a publication to the same effects had occurred. Except the East London Idiotiser which insidiously fails to tell the truth… So why is it ‘conceding’  NOW that Crossrail is CRASS, as has been diagnosed and dissected by Khoodeelaar! for the past six years?   As for the  E L IDIOTISER’s reference to one London Assembly member moderately casting doubts on the viability of the CRASSrail scam [our words] , the IDIOTISER is stupid again,. On 15 October 2009, the same London Assembly member was ‘referred to’ in a Tower Hamlets Lib Dems’ gathering staged at the mis-named Oxford House in Derbyshire Street [off the Bethnal Green Road]. That staged event was ‘chaired’ by a strangely-wheeled out Malcolm S*********s, the ‘Editor’ of the E L Idiotiser who failed to tell ‘readers’ the truth about what he had actually chaired. At that event, the Lib Dems’ ‘Treasury’ fronter and  OTT-hyped salesman for the same ‘Party’ Vince Cable exposed his own monumental ignorance as he ‘praised’ CRASSrail in hyperbolic, superlative terms before idiotically turning right towards Malcolm S****************s and the rest of the table to ask: Does it [Crossrail] come here[Tower Hamlets where Bethnal Green, Derbyshire Street and Oxford house all are]?  How to reconcile the belated and typically moderate doubts by Caroline Pidgeon about the ‘viability of Crossrail’  with the irrational enthusiasm expressed by the unplugged Cable for CRASSrail as he had displayed on 15 October 2009? The very same V Cable whom Malcolm S**************s the ‘editor’ of the E L Idiotiser hyped to the skies as ‘Saint’ ‘Cable’  shortly after the ignorance-filled event? The Idiocy, the ignorance and the callousness of CRASSrail peddlers know no bounds. Nor does their strange ‘realisation’ that Crossrail is CRASS, after all!!!!!  [To be continued]

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Unfair burden’ on London paying half Crossrail’s £16bn cost

25 February 2010

By Mike Brooke

LONDON has been 'unfairly burdened' with the costs of Crossrail on top of the way compulsory purchases of businesses and homes along the route have been handled.

That's the view from a London Assembly investigation into the funding for the £16 billion 'super tube' linking Canary Wharf and the City with Heathrow Airport.

A report by the Assembly's transport committee questions why London is forced to pay more than half the cost of a project that is estimated to generate £22bn for the Government over the next 10 years.

Eight of the 37 Crossrail stations are outside Greater London, it points out, yet only London businesses are contributing through the Mayor's supplementary business rates.

"Crossrail's initial dealings with displaced businesses and residents have been very disappointing," said Assembly transport chair Caroline Pidgeon. "Some negotiations have been poorly handled."

Her committee is critical of Crossrail's negotiations to take over premises by compulsory purchase to make way for construction work.

It also feels there is still "an element of risk" to a project of this scale in the current economic and political environment. The report calls for more details on targets for jobs for Londoners during construction and when the line is up and running.

Crossrail will expand London's overcrowded rail and Tube network capacity by 10 per cent when it opens in 2017, linking Heathrow Airport directly to the West End, City and Canary Wharf and on to Abbey Wood, with a branch from Whitechapel out to Stratford and Shenfield.

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KHOODEELAAR! Diagnosing the opportunistic parasite role being assigned by Rupert Murdoch to Michael Portillo who is peddling undemocratic myths designed to revive the images of Thatcher and Bliar as ‘saviour’ and to damn both 'main' Parties in THAT context. Portillo is in denial about the true ‘crisis’ today.

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KHOODEELAAR! Diagnosing the opportunistic parasite role being assigned by Rupert Murdoch to Michael Portillo who is peddling undemocratic myths designed to revive the images of Thatcher and Bliar as ‘saviour’ and to damn both 'main' Parties in THAT context. Portillo is in denial about the true ‘crisis’ today. He has no awareness or at least he does NOT WANT TO BE AWARE about the real problems caused to society and to the economy by the absence of democratic accountability in and by Parliament. He is in denial about the truth. And so he is peddling the lies that would cheer up both a Thatcherite and a Bliarite. In all the sub-platforms that Portillo has craftily boarded since the John Major poll disaster of May 1997 when Portillo was ejected from the publicly paid for platforms maintained in the name of politics, he has peddled the same pattern of the lie. Portillo’s ‘sub-career-successes’ have been facilitated by the BBC which has allowed that allegedly formerly Murdoch-ed peddler Andrew Neil to promote Portillo albeit in a most cringe-making sofa setting co-exposing one of Ken Livingstone's ardent promoters. Despite the Andrew Neil spot and DOZENS of one-offs here and there over the past 12 years or so, Michael Portillo has not come across as a person who has any real interest in telling the truth. What he has specialised in as his ‘expertise’ is as a revisionist. As a faker. How can this fakery be any good in establishing the long overdue democratic accountability that this society needs? Portillo is an unreconstructed apologist for Big Business and as such he is and has been a backer of wars on innocent people in the parts of the world where peoples’ rights, whose humanity are not recognised by the ‘powers;’ that Portillo identifies with and promotes as being the ‘proprietors of the world’. After 12 years of revisionist fakery, Portillo remains as much of a ‘bastard’ as he was in July 1993 when John Major accurately descried him as one of the three bastards bent on doing him [Major] down. What Portillo is ‘selling’ is the ‘worth’ as a Bully. If John Major were talking ‘off record’ to ITN’s Michael BRUNSON today, he would call Portillo a Bully. After the fashion of the Bullingdon Club. This identity of Portillo comes across very firmly in his ignorant promotion of the lie that an election will make all that is wrong right.  By THAT fact: an election! He does not address the fundamental corruption caused by an unaccountable parliament, a lying parliament. A really deficit, dysfunctional dressed up democracy! A fakery all around the Palace of Ghostsminster...And by a culture of lying local councils, regional assemblies… 

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JOHN MAJOR's leadership was plunged into a new crisis last night after claims that he described three Eurosceptic Cabinet colleagues as 'bastards' in comments accidentally recorded after a television interview.

The remarks, which were not broadcast but have gained circulation among broadcast journalists, are likely to enrage the right of the Conservative Party when Mr Major had promised a truce with Maastricht rebels.

The incident follows an interview with ITN's political editor, Michael Brunson, last Friday after the Prime Minister had won his confidence vote over handling of the Maastricht Treaty in the Commons. Private discussion seems to have been picked up on a 'live feed' - which made Mr Major's conversation available to the BBC and Sky as well as ITN - and taped by technicians.

According to today's Observer Mr Major told Mr Brunson: 'The real problem is one of a tiny majority. Don't overlook that. I could have all these clever, decisive things which people wanted me to do - but I would have split the Conservative party into smithereens. And you would have said I had acted like a ham-fisted leader.'

Mr Brunson asked the Prime Minister why he did not sack three rebel Cabinet ministers, to which the Mr Major replied: 'Just think it through from my perspective. You are the Prime Minister, with a majority of 18, a party that is still harking back to a golden age that never was (the Thatcher era), and is now invented. You have three right-wing members of the Cabinet who actually resign. What happens in the Parliamentary party?'

When Mr Brunson argued that the Prime Minister had the power to bring in others, Mr Major said: 'I could bring in other people. But where do you think most of this poison is coming from? From the dispossessed and the never-possessed. You can think of ex-ministers who are going around causing all sorts of trouble.

'We don't want another three bastards out there. What's Lyndon Johnson's maxim?' (The maxim is: 'It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.')

At no point in the tape did the Prime Minister name the three colleagues singled out for attack. Four Cabinet ministers are regarded as sceptics on Europe: Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Social Security, Michael Portillo, Chief Secretary to the Treaasury, John Redwood, Secretary of State for Wales, and Michael Howard, the Home Secretary.

But revelations of Mr Major's private opinions, unless proved false, will damage his standing on the right of the party - and undermine his claims to be a sceptic on Europe himself. They also underline the deep divisions which have been created within the Conservatives by the 18-month row over ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.

Downing Street said last night that it 'did not know if this conversation took place and if it did it would have been a private matter'.

Mr Brunson was not available for comment but an ITN spokesperson said: 'Michael Brunson has private conversations with senior politicians all the time and he would never comment on them'.

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KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! Now UK web site RAILNEWS is echoing the truth we have been telling for six years plus! Scrap CRASS Crossrail=Scrap CRASSrail

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KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! Now UK web site RAILNEWS is echoing the truth we have been telling for six years plus! Scrap CRASS Crossrail=Scrap CRASSrail 

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Crossrail poses ‘unfair burden’ on London businesses

Posted: 24th February 2010 | No Comments

Future Crossrail entrance at Paddington

BUSINESSES in Greater London are paying too much towards Crossrail, according to a new report from the London Assembly Transport Committee.

The Committee ‘strongly supports’ the £16 billion scheme, but questions why London is contributing more than half the funding for a project that could generate £22 billion for Government over ten years.

In its report, ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’, the Committee is also highly critical of Crossrail Ltd’s dealings with displaced businesses and residents whose premises are compulsorarily purchased to allow construction to go ahead.

It is particularly concerned about the proportion of costs which London will have to pay, saying: ‘We heard one estimate that Crossrail will generate around £22 billion over ten years for central Government in extra tax, increased property levies and fare profits. In this light, central Government’s £8 billion contribution seems very favourable.

‘The Committee believes that London is providing more than its fair share of the funding. Why, for example, are the areas outside the GLA boundary which will benefit considerably from Crossrail not contributing to its cost? Similarly, the heads of terms agreed between the Government and Transport for London do little to reassure us that the risks of significant cost over-runs will not fall disproportionately on the capital.’

Crossrail chief executive Rob Holden responded: “We welcome the Committee's cross-party support for Crossrail and its recognition of the project's long-term economic benefits to the capital and the whole of the UK. We note the Committee's recommendations and look forward to continuing our engagement with it and through the life of the project.”

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