Thursday, August 12, 2010

KHOODEELAAR! had on 4 March 2006 updated at that date the constitutional law grounds and case against Crossrail scam tout Alistair Darling [still serving the lying propaganda cause as fronted by Tony Bliar]

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Thursday

12 August 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque

Crossrail-hole-Minister Alistair Darling's ‘plea’ to Khoodeelaar!

UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling MP has had his Department for Transport [DfT] write to the Khoodeelaar! Campaign in the East End of London against the Crassrail hole Bill as part of a strategy to salvage the careers of the controlling Blairite Tower Hamlets Council. Khoodeelaar! held another powerful demonstration against that Council on Wednesday 1 March 2006.

The 1 March 2006 Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Council demo was supported by RESPECT coalition MP George Galloway and by the main Opposition on Tower Hamlets Council, the Liberal Democrats. At the Council meeting that followed the same evening, Lib Dem councillor Louise Alexander sought to have Tower Hamlets show recognition to the community and to identify with the community in opposing the Crassrail hole plan attacks Bill.

The controlling clique failed to recognize the momentous importance of the motion and they even jeered at Councillor Alexander part of the time that she was presenting her arguments in support of the motion.

The only other non-Lib Dem councillor who supporter Louise Alexander was the RESPECT councillor Oliur Rahman

In his speech at the Khoodeelaar! demonstration earlier in the evening, Oliur Rahman described the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council as crooks and vowed to do everything he and his colleagues could do to remove them from office at the scheduled 4 May 2006 council elections.

What Alistair Darling, the UK Crossrail hole {Transport] Minister, is doing to ‘help’ salvage the sinking careers of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council facing the wrath of the people determined to stop the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London

A khoodeelaaronline report 1420 Hrs GMT Saturday 4 March 2006

UK Transport [Crossrail hole-Bill] Minister Alistair Darling, MP, makes another lame plea to Khoodeelaar! on behalf of Tower Hamlets Council !

Alistair Darling’s Department for Transport ahs sent a letter by email on Friday 3 March 2006 to Khoodeelaar organiser Muhammad Haque.

Crossrail-hole-Bill promoter Alistair Darling MP has not yet cottoned on to the fact that the East End community opposition to our area being devastated is not a temporary affair.

This opposition will continue and will grow. The only solution to this is for Darling to drop the whole Crossrail hole plot. To scarp the Crossrail hole Bill and to start again. Without a hole against our community. Without a hole in our community.

Nor has Alistair Darling understood the fact that he cannot get away with breaking the very laws on whose existence in the UK statute book he relies for his legitimacy as a bona fide member of a bona fide ‘democratic’ Government with claims to expect the community to abide by decisions that that Government makes.

Darling had his Department for Transport [DfT] write to Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque in February 2006.

In that communication the DfT made the plea that the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council had been in touch with the DfT and that the DfT was listening to the Council over concerns on the Crossrail hole problems.

That communication was intended to ‘reassure’ the Khoodeelaar! Campaign organisation that Tower Hamlets Council was ‘indeed’ representing the concerns and the opposition of the local community against the Crossrail hole.

There cannot be any ‘reassurance’ on that at all unless there is incontrovertible, categorical and unconditional resolution by the full Council saying No to Crossrail hole attacks on the East End.

And that evidence could have been produced by the ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday 1 March 2006.

The Council ignored the opportunity.

The ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council squandered that opportunity.

The ruling clique on Tower Hamlets Council showed contempt to that opportunity.

Tower Hamlets Council ‘leadership’ of Michael Keith is so contemptuous of the people in the Borough that it fabricated a bureaucratic scenario which it then used to waste as long as three hours of vital council meeting time.

They did that to defuse the power of the argument typified in the motion formally put to the council by [Lib Dem] councillor Louise Alexander asking for the Council to show that it had woken up to the dangers posed by the Crossrail hole to the East End community.

That Alistair Darling ploy will not work because there is nothing in the hundreds of A4 pages of ‘statements’ ‘positions’ and ‘explanations’ so far published about the Crossrail plan by or in the name of or at the behest of the controlling clique on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council which shows any sign that Tower Hamlets Council is being ‘led’ or ‘controlled’ by tellers of the truth.

Those who have been in control of the Tower Hamlets Council do not tell the truth and they do not recognise the truth when we in the community tell it.

And nothing has been more staggering as a confirmation of the Tower Hamlets Council’s illegitimate but actual ‘leadership’s inability to tell the truth than their behaviour on Crossrail hole over the past three years.

Tower Hamlets Council’s ‘controlling clique’ has lied to the community in the past three years and falsely claimed that the Crossrail hole plan would ‘bring benefits’ to the community.

How could the Crossrail hole plan bring ‘benefits’ unless the controlling clique had taken total leave of its senses!

Digging a hole in the Brick Lane London E1` area could not bring any benefits

Digging a hole could also trigger off all kinds of unforeseeable but possible environmental disasters linked with remains of devises that might be lying buried there from the 1940s war time bombing in the East End.

Digging a hole in the Woodseer street is no different at all from digging a hole in the Hanbury Street or in the Princelet street.

Digging a hole entails a thousand other assaults that will be made on the lives of thousands of people in the East End.

For no reason.

There is no economic reason for doing that.

There is no social reason for doing that.

There is no environmental reason for doing that.

There is no justification whatever for doing or wanting to do any of the Crossrail-hole things in any part of the London borough of Tower Hamlets.

So why are the Tower Hamlets Council so adamant that they openly lie to the community?

Alistair Darling’s DfT letter to Muhammad Haque on Friday 3 March 2006 repeats essentially the same line that the DfT has been in receipt of information from the London borough of Tower Hamlets Council.

But nothing about the allegations that khoodeelaar! had been making against the lying clique on Tower Hamlets Council and including the serious allegation supported by documentary evidence that that clique had abused its control over the constitutional and the elected entity of Tower Hamlets Council.

Alistair Darling’s DfT letter to Khoodeelaar on Friday 3 March 2006 does not deal with the Khoodeelaar! demand for action by the DfT against the liars over the Crossrail hole plan.

The DfT [constitutionally responsible MP is Alistair Darling ] letter to Khoodeelaar contains further pretence of its ignorance of the khoodeelaar representations of the past 26 months about the lying clique in control of the Council in their bid to promote the agenda of the Crossrail promoting vested interests.

The key facts contained in the past 26 months of the Khoodeelaar representations to both the DfT and to the offices of the UK Prime Minister and the UK Finance Minister [Chancellor of the Exchequer] have been about the role of the identified members of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council.

The key role and the key culpable conduct – misconduct - by those identified members of that clique on Tower Hamkest Council has been the brazen lies that the clique have told to local people in the Brick Lane London E1 area.

They lied in that they never told the community that a Crossrail hole plan was even being discussed by the Council for YEARS.

They lied when the community got to know about that and the Khoodeelaar! movement against the hole plan began to take form in January 2004.

They lied when they then said that they did not know what the plan was.

They lied when they said that the campaign against the hole was doing nothing but spreading unnecessary scares

They lied when they then claimed that the khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole was not dealing with ‘regeneration’ ‘benefits’ that the Crossrail hole would bring to the Brick Lane London E1 area..

They lied when they stayed silent to questions that khoodeelaar! put to them.

They lied when they then contrived with the employees of the Tower Hamlets Council including Christine Gilbert the Council’s chief Executive, to arrange to block emails being sent from the campaign against the Crossrail hole.

This commentary is being updated with additional facts and campaign information throughout the day Saturday 4 March 2006 on the khoodeelaar web site

http://www.khoodeelaar.com

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Timely stance by community against Crossrail hole Council

04.03.2006 20:45

One of the speakers at the Khoodeelaar Demonstration against the Crossrail at the Mulberry Place, Town hall, Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday was Carole Swords.

She spoke as an activist who has only very recently joined the campaign against the Council.

Her fresh perspective is the sort of resource that will serve the community well in the future.

She spoke with passion against the Council’s behaviour.

Carole has been active in Bow West ward.

The bow west campaigners against the stock transfer of tower hamlets council housing have expressed solidarity with the khoodeelaar! Campaign against Crossrail hole. This is a timely move in defence of the community and bears signs that the best way to defend the people ion tower hamlets against the market agents now on tower hamlets council is by people working in concert and with a clear objective.

We need to make this the normal practice in every ward in Tower Hamlets

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KHOODEELAAR! Action update on the pillars of the campaign against the Big Biz looters' agenda scam crossrail and its touts: what we told Alistair Darling [then UK Daft minister doing Big Biz's touting at the DfT] on 27 March 2006. We briefly stated the case in our post on the UK Indymedia sites.

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Thursday

12 August 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque

KHOODEELAAR! Action update on the pillars of the campaign against the Big Biz looters' agenda scam crossrail and its touts: what we told Alistair Darling [then UK Daft minister doing Big Biz's touting at the DfT] on 27 March 2006.

We briefly stated the case in our post on the UK Indymedia sites.

Crossrail Bill breaches Human Rights Convention -Court action 27 March 2006

East London Against Crossrail hole Bill- | 24.03.2006 13:17 | Indymedia | Social Struggles | London

A group of campaigners in the East End of London, in the Brick Lane E1 area, are taking court action against Alistair Darling MP, the CrossRail Bill minister. They are also seeking court orders against the London Borough of Tower Haceks Council over that Council’s breaches of the law and over its abuses of public cash in promoting the CrossRail hole plan

Claims in court against Alistair Darling include the allegation that he made a false statement to parliament in asserting that the contents of the Crassrail Bill were compatible with the European Human Rights

East London Against Crossrail hole Bill-

KHOODEELAAR! Telling UK CONDEM's V Cable to remember what he had said in September 2009, as reported by the CRASSrole playing, Crassrail-touting London EVENING STANDARD: "Crossrail is not a priority for us"! V Cable should get back to that position and MOVE to have the wasteful scam scrapped... One of the very few ways that V Cable, widely unplugged by CONDEM career, can get back to a semblance of credibility... If Cable has any charge left in him that is !

0850 Hrs GMT
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Thursday
12 August 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque

KHOODEELAAR! Telling UK CONDEM's V Cable to remember what he had said in September 2009, as reported by the CRASSrole playing, Crassrail-touting London EVENING STANDARD: "Crossrail is not a priority for us"! V Cable should get back to that position and MOVE to have the wasteful scam scrapped... One of the very few ways that V Cable, widely unplugged by CONDEM career, can get back to a semblance of credibility... If Cable has any charge left in him that is !

We reproduce below the texts from the EVENING STANDARD web site dated 21 September 2009:

[To be continued]

"HEADLINES:

30,000 postal staff to be recruited..... Emotional tribute at Gately funeral..... Father charged with child murders..... 80 arrests at power station protest..... Probe as children die in house fire..... Watchdog to set out mortgage reform..... Labour eats into Tory poll lead..... Jail chiefs to probe prisoner moves..... Speaker urges MPs to repay expenses..... Worker at aquarium bitten by shark.....

30,000 postal staff to be recruited..... Emotional tribute at Gately funeral..... Father charged with child murders..... 80 arrests at power station protest..... Probe as children die in house fire..... Watchdog to set out mortgage reform..... Labour eats into Tory poll lead..... Jail chiefs to probe prisoner moves..... Speaker urges MPs to repay expenses..... Worker at aquarium bitten by shark.....

Lib Dem conference got underway today with warnings over Crossrail

Crossrail not a key priority for us, warns Vince Cable

Nicholas Cecil, Chief Political Correspondent

21.09.09

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. Vince Cable: All parties must be honest about the pain ahead

Crossrail's future was thrown into unprecedented doubt today as its all-party support appeared to unravel.

In an exclusive interview with the Standard, Liberal Democrat economic spokesman Vince Cable became the first political heavyweight to warn that the £16 billion east-west rail scheme for London was unlikely to be a "key priority".

Amid fears that it may be deemed too expensive in a slump, Boris Johnson "begged" ministers to spare Crossrail and other major infrastructure projects from the axe. The Mayor pleaded in his weekly newspaper column for Crossrail not to be sacrificed to the recession - just months after shadow Chancellor George Osborne refused to guarantee that a Tory government would press ahead with the project.

"We need high-speed rail, Crossrail, an upgraded Tube and, with Heathrow running at 99 per cent capacity, we need a new and visionary solution to our aviation needs," Mr Johnson wrote. "As the politicians rev their chainsaws, I beg them to remember this key point: that it is only by investing for the long-term in infrastructure that you can create the strong entrepreneurial economy that can pay for strong public services."

However, Mr Cable, the Twickenham MP and his party's Treasury spokesman, suggested that Crossrail may have to rely less on public funding and warned against being "mesmerised" by big projects. "I doubt that in our list of key spending priorities at the next general election, we are going to be listing X-billion pounds of taxpayers' cash to invest in Crossrail," he said. "They have got to try and find a funding mechanism that isn't so dependent on the public sector."

Mr Cable called the new line, due for completion in 2017, "desirable in a general sense for London". But he stressed: "The point that is often made that if you are trying to use public investment to get maximum benefit, a whole series of small projects would give a better return.

"Certainly in south-west London, we have these arguments about using Waterloo International (the former Eurostar platforms). It involves very little money, it's just sitting there. It's an absolute scandal.

"We are not arguing for stopping the project but equally we are not suggesting that we should be finding lots more public money for it. We just can't afford it in the current environment." Mr Cable, who has called for greater honesty over looming public spending cuts, said money already "committed" to the scheme should be paid.

But it was not clear whether he believes that ministers should meet the full £5.1 billion government contribution for the new line, which will run from Maidenhead and Heathrow under central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.

However, a spokesman for big business organisation London First said: "What is the normally thoughtful Dr Cable talking about?

"Rarely if ever has there been an infrastructure project less reliant on the central government purse. Crossrail relies on the Exchequer for roughly a third of its costs, with London businesses, London council tax payers and passengers picking up the rest." Writing for The Standard about his general approach to slashing public spending, he added: "We need to start on the basis that everything is on the table; everything must be looked at and judged on its merits." In his speech to his party's rally in Bournemouth, Mr Cable was proposing that the Government set up a British version of the European Investment Bank to fund major infrastructure projects.

He argued it would "bring together private capital and professional management under government sponsorship".

Party officials later insisted there had been no change in policy on being "very supportive" of Crossrail. A spokesman said: "We are not proposing to change the funding package."

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It is a total crime that a the moment Heathrow Express can hold people ransom to crazy expensive fares to the airport. It is more expensive than Concorde per min! London needs Crossrail to replace this rip off and give us a cheap and fast way to get to the airport.  - Richard Robinbum, Paddington, London

"We are not arguing for stopping the project but equally we are not suggesting that we should be finding lots more public money for it."  Which bit of this do some posters not understand?  If you want crossrail to go ahead with the cost to the public finances kept to a minimum, vote for Vince. Or do you want someone less thrifty in charge to sign a series of blank cheques?  - Brian, London

The Lib Dems just lost 1 regular voter.   Visitors are constantly remarking at the state of the transport system in London. One recent visitor commented on the Jubilee line also being closed for long periods 4 years ago on his last visit. Living in London we just get used to the constant closures, and part closures as if they are normal. If Crossrail is to be cancelled then London needs other transport projects in the same time frame!  - Jay, London

'Crossrail not a priority for us'  Well Mr Cable, voting for your party is not a priority for me.  - Andrew, Ely UK

I agree with Vince Cable, Crossrail is taking over an already good service from my part of Essex as well as west from Paddington, it is swallowing money from other projects, Cross River Tram DLR extension to Dagenham,enlargement of Victoria tube station & who knows what else. If it goes ahead those using the lines from Essex & Berkshire are going to suffer closures & delays during construction. After all who would get an all stations train from Shenfield to Heathrow when ther are faster alternatives available. It is just a politicians ego trip at huge expense to the tax payer. SCRAP IT before it goes too far.  - Phil Robinson, Billericay Essexs

Crossrail is a genuine investment in London's future. Once built, it will last for centuries. It's clearly needed.  This is exactly the sort of thing that should NOT be cut during a recession. It'll be cheaper to build it while contractors are desperate for the business, and it will have removed a constraint on London's public transport capacity once the recession is over. It will be doubly cheaper, since it'll also be emplying construction workers who would otherwise be out of a job and claiming benefits.  What should be cut is bureaucrats and quangos that are a drag on the economy during the good times and bad times alike. These suck resources out of the real economy, they create nothing with any long-term value, and worst they can only impede those who are trying to build the future. Why, for example, is the UK tax code thicker than that of any other Western nation?  - Nigel, London

Crossrail is too expensive for any benefits it may provide; there's already an expensive way to get from Heathrow into Central London - the Heathrow Express, or Heathrow Connect which is cheaper. The money saved would be much better spent on plugging any large holes in TFL's finances & on the existing tube network  - Ed S, London

"Liberal Democrat" and "political heavyweight" in the same sentence... ha ha ha ha ha  - D.W., London

Crossrail, tube extensions, where and for what, London is dead, there's hardly any jobs anymore, or money. I guess the only use crossrail has is to transport the alcoholic society home every night, and to create revenue for Threat For London (TFL)  - Dan, London

YES A GREAT IDEA Lets scrap at least part of it. It's a pig-in-the-poke and we all know it.  No matter what we need to save money to recover the economy especially on expensive imports so, scrap the SE London section to New Lagos (AKA Thamesmead), with additional tunnels and no perceivable value there is no point in developing this part of the network. It leads to a tip full of festering garbage at Woolwich and Abbey Wood, the potential consumers do not justify the phenomenal amount of funding !  Make the Heathrow leg fully funded by BAA, including the highly expensive flyover for train access. Or if no funds, scrap this access route. Why should the people of London fund the Spanish privately owned BAA?  This must make some sense, go on Lib Dems, start slashing !!!!!!  - Jenny, Kent

It does seem somewhat strange to rule out really important infrastructure programmes like this. London is alreay grinding to a halt. To cancel this would set London back years. I don't know how the Lib Dems think that people are going to get around town once the olympics are here. Or for that matter keeping London a top business centre for years to come. Seems like they want to run London into the ground. That to me is why i will not be voting Liberal Democrat!  - Janine, London

Ken cancelled The West London Tram project to pay for this...So now we won't get either. WoW!!! London is really moving forward in the public transport stakes. Still First Group...or is it Worst Group...and other bus operators will be happy as everyone will have no alternative but to use their buses.  - Mark H, London, England

If we are in a recession why not put the mega project off until it's safe financially to do so . This is not Boris Johnson's money and it will not cost him . Also look at all the other problems his Mayoralty is plaqued with . It is better to be safe then sorry and everyone should be cautious with any thing that Boris Johnson says.  - Mr Fren, London

I don't think there's any danger of the LibDems cancelling CrossRail. Cable and Co appear to have delusions of grandeur, as they are overlooking the fact that they have zero chance of being in power this time next year.  - Nobby Clark, Perth, the Scottish one

Crossrail will benefit relatively few for the high cost involved and the construction will cause inconvenience on an unprecedented scale. The centre of London is choked by half empty buses. We can make a start by having a tram system along traffic free Oxford and Regent Streets but learn from the chaos in Edinburgh caused by their tram works.  - Jack Spratt, Richmond, Surrey

Anyone using the Central line during rush hour knows that Crossrail needed building years ago. The eastern section has become seriously overcrowded to the point of being dangerous. The Lib Dems have just lost my vote!  - S Robertson,, London

When will the likes of Cable understand that not having a proper rail system in London will mean that firms will not invest in London due to the problems in getting around. All of the sudden he seems to be holding himself up as the only politician who understand the economy which he is not All he knows is how to make headlines, I pity Twickenham for having him as their MP.  - Bob, London

Perhaps my old MP Vince would have a different opinion if Crossrail were still serving Richmond instead of bypassing it?  "we need a new and visionary solution to our aviation needs,"  Where's the Oakervee Report then, Boris? Out with it. The Thames Estuary Airport lobbyists have been *very* quiet lately.  "We can't afford Crossrail"  Nonsense, we can't afford *not* to have it. Efficient public transport is not a luxury in a world-class city, it's essential. As Paul B points out, we're catching up for the years of non-investment here.  [other reasons: we're over-reliant on buses in London, which are slow and not particularly efficient as public transport goes. Part of the reason for this is that the increase in bus capacity was intended to tide us over until the Tube upgrades and new lines (plus various tram schemes, now sadly canned) came on-stream, which are a much better solution - faster, cleaner, more capacious and don't take up road-space. The alternative to Crossrail and other investment, therefore, is a continuation of reliance on large yearly bus subsidies to pay for routes far more suitable for rail-based transport].  - Tom, London, UK

Vince Cable is talking sense here too on CrossRail.   It looks a very bloated project post-recession.   Already, they have awarded expensive management contracts and seem to adopt the normal commercially naive, let taxpayers carry the risk approach prevalent during the past decade or so when the economy seemed buoyant.  The CrossRail team have to do far better in attracting private sector investment before any taxpayers money is put at risk - alternatively cancel it.  - Mike, London

The annual welfare spending (benefits, etc) in the UK runs to over £150bn, whilst the whole transport budget is squeezed into £21bn. Transport infrastructure projects like Crossrail deliver huge long term benefits to the national economy, whereas welfare spending does not.  I know where I would be wielding the axe.  - Richard, Oxford

Well done Nick Cecil in exposing the LibDems for what they really are. Anti rail and anti London. If ever there was an example that proves that the short-termist LibDems can not be trusted with the environment its Vince Cable's completely bonkers assertion that Crossrail should be scrapped. Crossrail is not for now. Its for 2017 and way beyond. Its for helping building Britain out of the recession. Its for delivering a railway that will serve the millions of new jobs and the massive rise in population that's coming London's way. But then the LibDems probably haven't thought that far ahead.  - Luke, London

London businesses and council tax payers should NOT be paying for this. Can it not be payed for by advertising on the stations, inside/outside of the trains, tickets, etc.? London businesses are struggeling enough as it is and will have another 10/15% increase in their business rates next April without this. Enough is enough  - Mario Kempe, london

Boris is right, and I never thought I'd ever say that! It really is time to cut away all those blood-sucking quangos, licenses for this and that, and all the well meaning but ineffective schemes that have burdened both public sector and private firms since Thatcher decided to control everything. That's why there are more paper-shufflers than nurses. The accumulation of useless bureacrats was forseeen by Parkinson's Law of course. Why isn't this book re-published immediately? By the time Crossrail is started, the slump will be history, in any case.  - Alex Mckenna, Woodford

Politicians need to research their history. The Victoria Line was delayed for many years as thought that nobody was going to use it. Look at it now. The same shortsightedness will delay CrossRail which should also have been built years ago.  - Paul B, LOndon

We can't afford Crossrail. People need to realise the next decade is going to be harsh, tough and with minimal luxuries. As a nation we need to buck up and get down to hard work to put this nation back on track. Complaining about crowded tube trains or not getting a seat on a train is not going to get us anywhere.  - Frank, London

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