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We use the phrase "Khoodeelaar! Told you so" and variations of the same theme in appropriate situations to address a given context where our predictions have been justified.
Here [below] we reproduce in full the pieces we had published on the UK Indymedia in February 2006.
Today's confirmation by the SUNDAY TIMES and via the Conservative Party bloggers of the serious row taking place between Crossrail touting London mayor Boris Johnson and the CONDEM Treasury that is caught in the crassness of its own hypes is such an appropriate occasion which justifies our saying: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YTOU SO!
We say again: scrap Crossrail altogether. Spare the hassle. Save a significant amount of money all round.
[To be continued]
When the Blairing Tower Hamlets [‘most deprived borough’ East End of London] ‘councillors’ contacted the British TV crews in January 2006 with promises of unheard-of tales about George Galloway’s alleged extinction as a political entity and posed gleefully for pictures, they did so because they reckoned that the Crossrail Bill had given them an undreamt of opportunity to do down the man that had so spectacularly taken the seat vacated by a reluctant Oona King on 5 May 2005.. They then over-reached themselves and overdosed on the Crossrail link to George Galloway’s ‘absence’ [as a ‘guest’ of Endem-All, the Channel 4 contract company which controls and trades on Celebrity notoriety in the UK]. No-one posed and fabricated around the issue more earnestly than one Michael Keith, sometime ‘academic’ at a south of the river Thames location and overtime fanatic basher of every conceivable image of George Galloway. And of Winnie Mandela! Michael Keith has confected chains and chains of untenable tales at the expense of every single known campaigner against then ideology of empire, of corruption in public office and above all of apartheid. No wonder that arch apartheidist the Murdoch-paid Matthew Parris was the first of a line of warmongers who went on record to demand that those who had voted for George Galloway on 5 May 2005 be punished by the Blair regime. Parris penned his poisonous passage and said that the Crossrail hole plan should driven right through Brick Lane. His ‘reasons’? He said that voters in the Brick Lane London E1 area had voted for Galloway! And that, as far as Matthew Parries was concerned, ground and justification enough to effectively destroy the Brick Lane London E1 area community and sink it in the Crossrail hole. Ironic that it is Michael Keith who is being accused of bringing the Crossrail hole problems on to the Tower Hamlets community. And the accusations are coming from councillors who belong to both Labour Party and the Lib Dem opposition!
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George Galloway to join Khoodeelaar demonstration against Tower Hamlets Council on Crossrail hole Bill on Wednesday 1 March
He will be joined by Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats councillors as well as the Respect coalition’s announced candidates for election to Tower Hamlets Council.
Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway – who now lives in the Brick Lane London er1 area that faces devastation from the Crossrail hole Bill if it goes through - is backing the demonstration against Tower Hamlets Council on 1 March. It has been organised by Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane London E1 area campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill to mark the last full Council meeting which will be held before the scheduled local council elections on 4 May 2006.
Galloway hit the headlines in January 2006 when he was ‘absent’ from the constituency and was being vilified by Blairing propagandists who claimed that he had let the constituency down by missing an alleged debate in the UKL house of Commons on Crossrail.
The fact is that Galloway did not let the constituency down on Crossrail. If anything, it was Galloway who spoke in the most critical way of all participants in the UK House of Commons formal debate on the hybrid Crossrail Bill on 19 July 2005.
Even onetime fellow-left Labour MP John McDonnell who in a formal way acknowledged some of the constitutional anomalies that Galloway had pointed out in his speech on Crossrail [19 July 2005], proceeded to put on the record his own support for the Crossrail project.
Galloway has been most outspoken in his attack on the Crossrail venture in the recent weeks. Delivering the closing speech at a meeting he jointly sponsored and held at the Brady Centre in Hanbury Street on Saturday 11 February, George Galloway outlined his own and his RESPECT coalition’s fierce opposition to Crossrail.
He said that he would be actively engaged in doing anything that they legally could to delay and eventually defeat the Crossrail plan against the community across Tower Hamlets.
He repeatedly echoed Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque who had addressed the same meeting giving some very exhaustive facts concerning the previous 25 months of the campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill.
Galloway particularly pointed out that the Crossrail ‘select committee’ that is now in session apparently to scrutinise the contents of the Bill in view of the objections [365 in total] was not going to protect the community in the East End from Crossrail attacks.
“We have to do it ourselves”, said George Galloway.
The demonstration on Wednesday 1 March 2006 against the present Tower Hamlets Council is expected to be also backed by the RESPECT coalition and a number of their newly-announced candidates for election as councillors on Tower Hamlets council are included as speakers.
The Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats councillors, who constitute the main opposition group on the present Tower Hamlets Council, are also backing the Khoodeelaar demonstration against the Council.
Lib Dem Group leader Janet Ludlow will be one of three Lib Dem councillors billed to speak against the Council’s role so far in allowing the crossrail hole problem to become such a threat to the people in the borough.
In a separate move, Lib Dem councillor Louise Alexander has submitted a rather
Strong motion against the Crossrail hole.
She is expected to speak on her motion at the full session of the Council on Wednesday 21 February 2006.
At the time of writing this [1315 hrs GMT Tuesday 21 February 2006] there is no indication of any action against Crossrail hole by the lone Conservative Councillor on Tower Hamlets Council. Nor is there any indication of any campaigning activity against the Crossrail hole by any member of the ‘Labour Party’ on the present tower Hamlets Council.
1315 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 21 February 2006
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East End demo against Crossrail-hole Council, E 14 Weds 1 March 2006
21.02.2006 20:52
KHOODEELAAR! The Brick Lane London E1 Area
Campaign against the Crossrail hole plan-scheme Bill, 2006
NO CROSSRAIL HOLE!
LONDON E1 AREA Khoodeelaar! Print edition, Serial Number 1002 [b] 2040 Hrs GMT Tuesday 21 February 2006
DEMO AGAINST TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL
Wednesday 1 March 2006 6PM
1. Local people have the last opportunity to make democratic demands on the ‘elected’ Council on Wednesday 1 March 2006 before the present Council is replaced by the election due to be held on 4 May 2006. Everyone who is concerned about the integrity of the environment, the community and the health and welfare of the people who live and work in the Brick Lane London E1 area should support this demonstration and make the democratic contribution towards putting pressure on the failing and the misrepresenting councillors who make up the controlling group on Tower Hamlets Council.
2. The present controlling elements on Tower Hamlets Council have continued to defy the community’s demand of 22 January 2006 that the Council pass a single simple motion categorically opposing the Crossrail hole Bill. Khoodeelaar! gave the ‘chief executive’ Christine Gilbert due notice of the community’s demand for a no-crossrail-hole resolution by the Council.
3. Khoodeelaar! also gave Christine Gilbert and other designated employees of the LBTH Council due legal evidence of the community’s demand.
4. Christine Gilbert failed to do her job in accordance with the democratic wishes of the local community on the issue of the Council’s role over the Crossrail hole plan scheme attacks. The controlling elements who have been operating with the active participation of Christine Gilbert have instead resorted to making a series of additionally wrongful steps, including misusing council cash and abusing the Council’s position as the relevant ‘local authority’ which has material and patronage-linked dealings, contacts and contracts with certain groups, individuals and enterprises within the Brick Lane London E1 area. It is this area that is facing the worst disaster as planned in the Crossrail hole Bill...
5. The misuses and the abuses of the council’s cash and ‘powers’ include the illegal promises the current controlling group on Tower Hamlets Council is making about Council cash to certain groups and individuals if they go along with the present Council on its Crossrail-hole deals against the very survival of the local community.
6. The Crossrail Bill is a multifariously flawed Bill at technical, environmental and above all economic levels. The Crossrail Bill flaws become totally oppressive when its powers to destroy the Brick Lane London E1 area are examined. Those powers are being formally sought from Parliament by the Crossrail promoters. But the destructive and anti-social and wasteful powers would not have been in the Crossrail Bill had the controlling group on ‘local authority’ the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council consisted of individuals as councillors who had a clear conscience and a dedication to serve and to defend the local community.
7. The Crossrail hole provisions and powers are in the hybrid ‘Crossrail Bill’ [now in the UK House of Commons] because of active collusion by some of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council with the vested Big Business interests behind the Crossrail adventure. It is these elements that allowed the addition of a ‘Crossrail station at Whitechapel’ as a totally unnecessary imposition which they then used to aid the bogus arguments for Crossrail hole attacks on the Brick Lane London Area. This is why the present Tower Hamlets Council must totally disassociate themselves from the crass Crossrail hole provisions and they must do so now and as demanded by the community backing the khoodeelaar! campaign on 22 January 2006 and they must do this at the last full Council meeting on 1 March 2006.
8. At least one motion along the lines of the community’s demand for a No to Crossrail hole Bill is due
to be put for vote by councillors at the full Council meeting on Wednesday 1 March 2006.
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Matthew Parris, revives Crossrail Bill backer Ken Livingstone
21.12.2006 03:40
The emotional and very silly comments for CrossRail and the allied endorsement of a ‘Tory Ken Livingstone’ by Matthew Parris as published on the Times website 21 December 2006 do not advance the cause of a reasoned debate on a serious matter.
Unless a genuinely reasoned argument and debate is allowed, we are in danger of being ‘seduced’ into allowing the construction of what is bound to be the equivalent of 20 Millennium Domes. Huge public money being wasted for no justifiable or demonstrable benefit to the public. Or to the overall economy.
It is a very serious matter when £Billions of public money is being demanded to be given away to what will be effectively a small number of construction conglomerates.
The transport problems in London deserve to be solved. They cannot be solved by fantasy talk. £Billions of public money cannot and must not be demanded to be wasted when the existing public transport infrastructure is in need of vital repair and improvement.
No case has been made for CrossRail as 'the solution'. What successive Governments have found is that the CrossRail scheme is not aimed at addressing overall transport needs. As its promoters have made no secret, Crossrail is about linking the City and Canary Wharf and Heathrow.
That is not at all the same thing as the needs of London's transport economics. Also the severe destruction to the environment and to very important communities in East London cannot be justified. The latest proof is to be found in the Rod Eddington Review - that Crossrail is most likely to be one of the seductive schemes without the proper merit.
The UK economy deserves better than the short-sighted ambitions of construction companies and the City of London.
The railway system outside of the London - and the South East region deserves as much attention as those claiming to speak for London say London does.
How can any responsible commentator make comments that do not address the issues knowledgably, appropriately, responsibly and truthfully? Emotional and taunting remarks cannot be the basis for allowing scarce Treasury resources to the tunes of £Billions to be given over for the benefit of exclusive interests and lobbies.
Satyabrati
mail e-mail: satyabratia@yahoo.co.uk