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By©Muhammad Haque 2130 GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008:Today's [Tuesday 8 July 2008] display staged in the UK House of Lords 'for liberty' must be seen in the context of overwhelming collusion by peers AGAINST equal; or ANY say by ordinary people, as moist recently seen in the PEERS’ [‘CROSSRAIL BILL’] select committee’s collusion for Big Business agenda-created Crossrail scam and in obstructing, blocking, undermining, distorting, twisting the evidential, the constitutional say by opponents of the crass scam .....
This will be examined further here in the next few hours or overnight
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What had they said about civil liberties when they were in office under Tony Blair?
AADHIKARonline site was last overseen at 2120 GMT Tuesday 8 July 2008
Boris Johnson's telling off of [Steve] Norris [for we assume it is he] must be followed up by scrapping Crossrail
Boris Johnson may have been jovial but whatever the true purpose, since the role of Steve Norris has come into focus this way, it also illustrates that Norris is not quote familiar with the etiquette of the job. It is to be assumed also that he might equally lack the requisite familiarity with what London needs by way of transport infrastructure and what the real transport priorities are... Scrap Norris’s 'role’ [whatever its remit and extent] and with it scrap Crossrail too....
[To be continued]
[To be continued]
Will Charlie Falconer theoretically speaking stand up against Big Business CROSSRAIL Bill in Parliament, too?
THIS PAGE WAS last overseen at 2008 Hrs GMT 8 july 2008
By©Muhammad Haque
1958 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008.
To hear Charlie Falconer [former Lord Chancellor] Tony Blair's former 'flat mate' and chum in Govt, make 'traditional' values of and for civil liberty and decency and against the measures to deny judges of crucial ay on detention cases, was a minor historic incident, event, indeed......
Where had Falconer been in the Tony Blair years when Blair railroaded so many repressive measures? .. Of course we agree with most of what Falconer said - or read out - in the ‘Upper’ ‘House’ of ‘Parliament’ today, Tuesday 8 July 2008.
The point is: will he recant and disown all the Blair lies that he backed and took part in? And will he be as apparently passionate, committed, devoted, dedicated for civil liberties and what in effect he was saying ‘constitutionality’ over issues like the peoples’ right to have full and equal say on and AGAINST the Crossrail Bill?
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1958 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008.
To hear Charlie Falconer [former Lord Chancellor] Tony Blair's former 'flat mate' and chum in Govt, make 'traditional' values of and for civil liberty and decency and against the measures to deny judges of crucial ay on detention cases, was a minor historic incident, event, indeed......
Where had Falconer been in the Tony Blair years when Blair railroaded so many repressive measures? .. Of course we agree with most of what Falconer said - or read out - in the ‘Upper’ ‘House’ of ‘Parliament’ today, Tuesday 8 July 2008.
The point is: will he recant and disown all the Blair lies that he backed and took part in? And will he be as apparently passionate, committed, devoted, dedicated for civil liberties and what in effect he was saying ‘constitutionality’ over issues like the peoples’ right to have full and equal say on and AGAINST the Crossrail Bill?
[To be continued]
Will Charlie Falconer theoretically speaking stand up against Big Business CROSSRAIL Bill in Parliament, too?
By©Muhammad Haque
1958 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008
To hear Charlie Falconer [former Lord Chancellor] Tony Blair's former 'flat mate' and chum in Govt, make 'traditional' values fop civil liberty and decency and against the measures to deny judges of crucial ay on detention cases, was a minor historic incident., event indeed...... Were had Falconer been in the Tony Blair years when Blair railroaded so many repressive measures? .. Of course we agree with most of what Falconer said - or read out - in the ‘Upper’ ‘House’ of ‘Parliament’ today, Tuesday 8 July 2008. The point is: will he recant and disown all the Blair lies that he backed and took part in? And will he be as apparently passionate, committed, devoted, dedicated for civil liberties and what in effect he was saying ‘constitutionality’ over issues like the peoples’ right to have full and equal say on and AGAINST the Crossrail Bill?
[To be continued]
1958 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008
To hear Charlie Falconer [former Lord Chancellor] Tony Blair's former 'flat mate' and chum in Govt, make 'traditional' values fop civil liberty and decency and against the measures to deny judges of crucial ay on detention cases, was a minor historic incident., event indeed...... Were had Falconer been in the Tony Blair years when Blair railroaded so many repressive measures? .. Of course we agree with most of what Falconer said - or read out - in the ‘Upper’ ‘House’ of ‘Parliament’ today, Tuesday 8 July 2008. The point is: will he recant and disown all the Blair lies that he backed and took part in? And will he be as apparently passionate, committed, devoted, dedicated for civil liberties and what in effect he was saying ‘constitutionality’ over issues like the peoples’ right to have full and equal say on and AGAINST the Crossrail Bill?
[To be continued]
Will Charlie Falconer theoretically speaking stand up against Big Business CROSSRAIL Bill in Parliament, too?
This site was last overseen at 2000 Hrs GMT Tuesday 8 July 2008
By©Muhammad Haque
1958 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008
To hear Charlie Falconer [former Lord Chancellor] Tony Blair's former 'flat mate' and chum in Govt, make 'traditional' values for civil liberty and decency and against the measures to deny judges of crucial ay on detention cases, was a minor historic incident., event indeed...... Were had Falconer been in the Tony Blair years when Blair railroaded so many repressive measures? .. Of course we agree with most of what Falconer said - or read out - in the ‘Upper’ ‘House’ of ‘Parliament’ today, Tuesday 8 July 2008. The point is: will he recant and disown all the Blair leis that he backed and took part in? And will he be as apparently passionate, committed, devoted, dedicated for civil liberties and what in effect he was saying ‘constitutionality’ over issues like the peoples’ right to have full and equal say on and AGAINST the Crossrail Bill?
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1958 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008
To hear Charlie Falconer [former Lord Chancellor] Tony Blair's former 'flat mate' and chum in Govt, make 'traditional' values for civil liberty and decency and against the measures to deny judges of crucial ay on detention cases, was a minor historic incident., event indeed...... Were had Falconer been in the Tony Blair years when Blair railroaded so many repressive measures? .. Of course we agree with most of what Falconer said - or read out - in the ‘Upper’ ‘House’ of ‘Parliament’ today, Tuesday 8 July 2008. The point is: will he recant and disown all the Blair leis that he backed and took part in? And will he be as apparently passionate, committed, devoted, dedicated for civil liberties and what in effect he was saying ‘constitutionality’ over issues like the peoples’ right to have full and equal say on and AGAINST the Crossrail Bill?
[To be continued]
Charlie Falconer's statements in the UK 'legislative' House of Lords today, in effect, showed up Crossrail hole plot PEERS!
By©Muhammad Haque
1855 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday 8 July 2008
Question: How did Charlie Falconer show that?
Answer: By speaking against the 42 day pre-charge detention, Falconer showed that even someone as ardently Blairing as he had been, could speak on a matter of principle and defy what even Blair would be backing now...
Question: So why did the ‘Crossrail Bill select committee’ fail to show that its members had any principle?
Answer: That is one of the questions that will be put to the bureaucracy as part of the legal challenge against their unlawful and unconstitutional behaviour
[To be continued]
1855 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday 8 July 2008
Question: How did Charlie Falconer show that?
Answer: By speaking against the 42 day pre-charge detention, Falconer showed that even someone as ardently Blairing as he had been, could speak on a matter of principle and defy what even Blair would be backing now...
Question: So why did the ‘Crossrail Bill select committee’ fail to show that its members had any principle?
Answer: That is one of the questions that will be put to the bureaucracy as part of the legal challenge against their unlawful and unconstitutional behaviour
[To be continued]
Crossrail hole plot-plugging ITV London is probably the most idiotic 'news' programme in London now...
KHOODEELAAR! NO to Crossrail hole plot Commentary at 1738 Hrs GMT 8 July 2008
They gave Ken Livingstone another undeserved plug at the expense of the truth. They abused their licence and they misled the people of London about what is going on...
They should have recalled how contemptuous Ken Livingstone was even to the London Assembly,, a body that hardly did the job of scrutinising him normally. But on the one occasion when it did, Livingstone lost it and accused them of being hypocrites....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kMuHlt5IIs&feature=related
[To be continued]
They gave Ken Livingstone another undeserved plug at the expense of the truth. They abused their licence and they misled the people of London about what is going on...
They should have recalled how contemptuous Ken Livingstone was even to the London Assembly,, a body that hardly did the job of scrutinising him normally. But on the one occasion when it did, Livingstone lost it and accused them of being hypocrites....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kMuHlt5IIs&feature=related
[To be continued]
Crossrail Big Business agenda and the £Billions hole in the Treasury: Boris can ditch the wasteful Crossrail....
This web publication was LAST overseen at 1550 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008
By©Muhammad Haque
1525 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday
8 July 2008
If Boris Johnson can ditch Ken Livingstone's congestion charges, he can ditch CRASSrail too!
And he can also set up an inquiry into the transport situation in London.
He can also reconfigure Transport for London.
He can actually look at the evidence concerning all aspects of transport and then save £Billions of public money and at the same time see a long overdue overhaul of transport in London and in the regions in the country....
This is sensible rational economically sound and perfectly lawful.
Will Boris do it?
On what he does about getting rid of Crossrail and Big Business agenda will decide in a big way what credibility Boris will have
Boris will only do it if he has heeded my advice 10 months or so ago that he will have to show higher morality and ethical standards than ever shown by Ken Livingstone..
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1525 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday
8 July 2008
If Boris Johnson can ditch Ken Livingstone's congestion charges, he can ditch CRASSrail too!
And he can also set up an inquiry into the transport situation in London.
He can also reconfigure Transport for London.
He can actually look at the evidence concerning all aspects of transport and then save £Billions of public money and at the same time see a long overdue overhaul of transport in London and in the regions in the country....
This is sensible rational economically sound and perfectly lawful.
Will Boris do it?
On what he does about getting rid of Crossrail and Big Business agenda will decide in a big way what credibility Boris will have
Boris will only do it if he has heeded my advice 10 months or so ago that he will have to show higher morality and ethical standards than ever shown by Ken Livingstone..
[To be continued]
The Crossrail hole plot, Big Business agenda-courier BBC's failure to cite Crassrail as the panacea to the looming recession VINDICATES Khoodeelaar!
0438 Hrs GMT 0538 Hrs UKTime London Tuesday 8 July 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! the constitutional, ethical, moral economic , environmental, evidential law-based campaign against the “liars’ scam “Crossrail hole plot” TOLD YOU SO!
That Crossrail London was always a Big business scam to loot the UK public of £Billions of money under cover of a transport ‘project’ which h was NOT about the UK or the London economy.... As is shown in the item we have taken from the BBC this morning. In it, the BBC lyingly reports that businesses are admitting to looming recession. Where is the lie? The lie is in the fact that the businesses do NOT say that the recession can be averted by building CROSSRAIL! Which is what they would have said had Crossrail been as ‘magical solution to the London and the UK economy’ that it has been touted to be by all the peddlers... and liars... including by the BBC’s lying reporters for Big business CRASSrail.... [To be continued]
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Recession 'looming' for UK firms
High street shops have added to the gloomy economic mood.
The UK is facing a serious risk of recession within months, the findings of a survey of almost 5,000 small and medium-sized businesses suggest.
The British Chambers of Commerce's (BCC) quarterly report found the credit crunch and rising costs had dented the most important sectors of the economy.
Firms in the manufacturing and services sector said domestic sales and orders had slowed over the last three months.
If these trends continued, a recession was only months away, the BCC warned.
The BCC, which represents many small and medium-sized businesses, also said firms were experiencing serious cash-flow problems.
Its economic adviser, David Kern, said the survey showed a "menacing deterioration" in UK prospects.
"We are now facing serious risks of recession," he said.
Grim outlook
"The outlook is grim and we believe that the correction period is likely to be longer and nastier than expected."
Services firms, which include restaurants, gyms and tour operators, have been particularly hard hit, the BCC reported.
Sales and orders, job expectations and confidence in this sector had hit their lowest levels since the recession of the early 1990s.
The BCC's director general David Frost said the report was deeply worrying.
"I am sending Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown a strong message from the businesses I meet every day up and down the country," he said.
"To put more pressure on business would not only restrict business growth and hit the consumer hard, it would crush further what our economy is based on - confidence."
There has been disappointing news on house building and mortgages
The report is likely to add to the wave of pessimism sweeping across the business world, from retailers to house builders.
Last week, the housing market suffered another blow when the Bank of England said mortgage approvals had plunged by 28% in May and were 64% lower than a year earlier.
House builders are cutting jobs and offices as the property slump continues.
Persimmon, one of the UK's biggest house-building companies, is expected to announce 1,000 job losses later.
The firm reported a 24% drop in revenues from the beginning of 2008 to April, and has seen its share price plunge to a fifth of its value a year ago.
Rachel Waring, a broker at Panmure Gordon, said Persimmon was a "bellwether" of the sector, adding: "We believe conditions in the housing market have deteriorated further since the company last reported."
Job losses
Builders Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Developments have also announced 2,000 redundancies in the past week.
The mortgage drought has meant many people have been unable to secure the finance they need for a new home, while falling property prices have also put people off buying.
There was also grim news from manufacturers last week, a sector that had provided the only bright spot on the horizon until recently.
A survey showed output had fallen at its sharpest rate in nearly a decade, while inflation pushed up factory gate prices.
On the High Street, a profits warning from Marks & Spencer has not helped.
Some economists believe the chances of a recession in the UK are now 50:50.
They had hoped the slowdown in the economy would eventually reduce inflation, without turning into full-blown recession.
There are a number of definitions of a recession, but the most commonly used one is when there are two quarters in a row of economic contraction, or negative growth.
KHOODEELAAR! the constitutional, ethical, moral economic , environmental, evidential law-based campaign against the “liars’ scam “Crossrail hole plot” TOLD YOU SO!
That Crossrail London was always a Big business scam to loot the UK public of £Billions of money under cover of a transport ‘project’ which h was NOT about the UK or the London economy.... As is shown in the item we have taken from the BBC this morning. In it, the BBC lyingly reports that businesses are admitting to looming recession. Where is the lie? The lie is in the fact that the businesses do NOT say that the recession can be averted by building CROSSRAIL! Which is what they would have said had Crossrail been as ‘magical solution to the London and the UK economy’ that it has been touted to be by all the peddlers... and liars... including by the BBC’s lying reporters for Big business CRASSrail.... [To be continued]
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Recession 'looming' for UK firms
High street shops have added to the gloomy economic mood.
The UK is facing a serious risk of recession within months, the findings of a survey of almost 5,000 small and medium-sized businesses suggest.
The British Chambers of Commerce's (BCC) quarterly report found the credit crunch and rising costs had dented the most important sectors of the economy.
Firms in the manufacturing and services sector said domestic sales and orders had slowed over the last three months.
If these trends continued, a recession was only months away, the BCC warned.
The BCC, which represents many small and medium-sized businesses, also said firms were experiencing serious cash-flow problems.
Its economic adviser, David Kern, said the survey showed a "menacing deterioration" in UK prospects.
"We are now facing serious risks of recession," he said.
Grim outlook
"The outlook is grim and we believe that the correction period is likely to be longer and nastier than expected."
Services firms, which include restaurants, gyms and tour operators, have been particularly hard hit, the BCC reported.
Sales and orders, job expectations and confidence in this sector had hit their lowest levels since the recession of the early 1990s.
The BCC's director general David Frost said the report was deeply worrying.
"I am sending Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown a strong message from the businesses I meet every day up and down the country," he said.
"To put more pressure on business would not only restrict business growth and hit the consumer hard, it would crush further what our economy is based on - confidence."
There has been disappointing news on house building and mortgages
The report is likely to add to the wave of pessimism sweeping across the business world, from retailers to house builders.
Last week, the housing market suffered another blow when the Bank of England said mortgage approvals had plunged by 28% in May and were 64% lower than a year earlier.
House builders are cutting jobs and offices as the property slump continues.
Persimmon, one of the UK's biggest house-building companies, is expected to announce 1,000 job losses later.
The firm reported a 24% drop in revenues from the beginning of 2008 to April, and has seen its share price plunge to a fifth of its value a year ago.
Rachel Waring, a broker at Panmure Gordon, said Persimmon was a "bellwether" of the sector, adding: "We believe conditions in the housing market have deteriorated further since the company last reported."
Job losses
Builders Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Developments have also announced 2,000 redundancies in the past week.
The mortgage drought has meant many people have been unable to secure the finance they need for a new home, while falling property prices have also put people off buying.
There was also grim news from manufacturers last week, a sector that had provided the only bright spot on the horizon until recently.
A survey showed output had fallen at its sharpest rate in nearly a decade, while inflation pushed up factory gate prices.
On the High Street, a profits warning from Marks & Spencer has not helped.
Some economists believe the chances of a recession in the UK are now 50:50.
They had hoped the slowdown in the economy would eventually reduce inflation, without turning into full-blown recession.
There are a number of definitions of a recession, but the most commonly used one is when there are two quarters in a row of economic contraction, or negative growth.
Dennis Skinner being in the House of Commons and calling himself an MP removes all pretences and renders the Commons a nakedly immoral place...
KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail hole Bill and plot” CAMPAIGN update on the UK Parliament and its parasite state, at 0230 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 8 July 2008:
No wonder that Parliament is a charade... A shameless charade.... No wonder that they did not recognise the serious purpose the community and other objectors had against the Crossrail Bill... No wonder the Two Select Committees on Crossrail Bill were unconcealed stooged committees.... [To be continued]
No wonder that Parliament is a charade... A shameless charade.... No wonder that they did not recognise the serious purpose the community and other objectors had against the Crossrail Bill... No wonder the Two Select Committees on Crossrail Bill were unconcealed stooged committees.... [To be continued]
Poverty of the UK Parliament is seen at its most acute in the House of Commons: as was seen on Monday 7 July 2008
How does Dennis Skinner, ‘MP’ [who allegedly loves the description given him by his Right-wing approvers - ‘Beast of Bolsover’] think he is performing a morally justifiable task when he keeps backing the poverty and the squalor created by the Blair years?
Was Dennis Skinner EVER familiar with any social justice at all?
Perhaps he never was.
Perhaps he was created as an image of a left-wing socialist working class tone which the worst of the poverty-creators could sue as their badge!
Dennis Skinner is seen once again doing the job of backing the poverty-imposing policies of the Brown regime now, in this report published by an external web site on proceedings that took place in the UK House of Commons on Monday 7 July 2008.
If Dennis Skinner is in any way in any serious study of the UK Parliament referred to as being for the ‘working class and the poor’ then that will indeed be a serious error.
Unless the referrer makes a very long qualifying addition showing just how thoroughly confused and self-serving this man has been.
To make sure that Dennis Skinner is not being unfairly described here, let us recall that Tony Blair got more support from Dennis Skinner than he ddi from any other single MP. Skinner’s services to Tony Blair were performed as a political dog that barks at the Tories just because they are Tories, not because of any substance....
With people like Dennis Skinner being allowed to remain MPs, no wonder that Parliament is a place more to be condemned than commended...
[To be continued]
Elderly 'too afraid' to switch on heating due to rising fuel bills
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Monday 7th July 2008 - 5:33pm
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Elderly 'too afraid' to switch on heating due to rising fuel bills
Elderly people are becoming too afraid to switch on their heating in case of incurring large fuel bills, an MP said today.
Tory Ann Winterton (Congleton) said the "most vulnerable" section of society was suffering the most as fuel costs "dramatically increased".
But Work and Pensions minister Mike O'Brien said elderly people would be receiving extra help this year as winter fuel payments will increase to an average of £250.
Speaking during question time, Lady Winterton told MPs that the Government's own advisors had announced that the fuel poverty target had been missed.
"So I wonder what warm words the Government can offer to elderly people who face dramatically increased fuel costs since the Government appears to have no clear strategy to address fuel poverty amongst the elderly," she said.
Pensioners will be "too afraid to switch up or even to switch on the heating in case they incur very large bills", Ms Winterton added.
"What action is the Government going to take to assist this most vulnerable section of our community?"
Mr O'Brien insisted that as well as increased winter fuel payments, the Pensions Bill - currently going through the Lords - would put pensioners on "lower social tariffs" so they pay less for their heating.
For the Tories, Nigel Waterson said it was time the Government "got serious about tackling pensioner poverty".
He pointed to recent Government figures that showed an extra 300,000 elderly people were living in poverty, bringing the total to "well above two million".
"Since these statistics were prepared, even more pensioners will have been driven into poverty due to the recent surge in energy and other living costs," he said.
But Mr O'Brien said the Government had lifted 1.9 million people out of absolute poverty - "poverty that your party had left those people in".
Labour's Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) said this winter he did not expect his front bench to be telling pensioners to "knit a woolly hat" and "take a hot water bottle to bed".
To Labour cheers, he added: "Just like the minister did in those grim Tory years."
Gordon Lishman, director general of Age Concern, said: "Rocketing energy bills, are putting huge pressure on already cash-strapped pensioners.
"It is scandalous that more than one in three older people are likely to be living in fuel poverty by the end of the year.
"We know many are feeling forced to cut back on their heating in an attempt to reduce costs, which could be putting their health at risk.
"Urgent and decisive action on fuel poverty is needed to help end the hardships millions of older people are facing.
"As an emergency measure the Government and energy companies must work together to introduce a 'fuel voucher' scheme to help the poorest pensioners.
"As part of a wider package of reforms, the Government should also introduce mandatory social tariffs to put an end to the scandal of poorer customers on pre-payment meters being charged more than others."
Was Dennis Skinner EVER familiar with any social justice at all?
Perhaps he never was.
Perhaps he was created as an image of a left-wing socialist working class tone which the worst of the poverty-creators could sue as their badge!
Dennis Skinner is seen once again doing the job of backing the poverty-imposing policies of the Brown regime now, in this report published by an external web site on proceedings that took place in the UK House of Commons on Monday 7 July 2008.
If Dennis Skinner is in any way in any serious study of the UK Parliament referred to as being for the ‘working class and the poor’ then that will indeed be a serious error.
Unless the referrer makes a very long qualifying addition showing just how thoroughly confused and self-serving this man has been.
To make sure that Dennis Skinner is not being unfairly described here, let us recall that Tony Blair got more support from Dennis Skinner than he ddi from any other single MP. Skinner’s services to Tony Blair were performed as a political dog that barks at the Tories just because they are Tories, not because of any substance....
With people like Dennis Skinner being allowed to remain MPs, no wonder that Parliament is a place more to be condemned than commended...
[To be continued]
Elderly 'too afraid' to switch on heating due to rising fuel bills
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Monday 7th July 2008 - 5:33pm
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Elderly 'too afraid' to switch on heating due to rising fuel bills
Elderly people are becoming too afraid to switch on their heating in case of incurring large fuel bills, an MP said today.
Tory Ann Winterton (Congleton) said the "most vulnerable" section of society was suffering the most as fuel costs "dramatically increased".
But Work and Pensions minister Mike O'Brien said elderly people would be receiving extra help this year as winter fuel payments will increase to an average of £250.
Speaking during question time, Lady Winterton told MPs that the Government's own advisors had announced that the fuel poverty target had been missed.
"So I wonder what warm words the Government can offer to elderly people who face dramatically increased fuel costs since the Government appears to have no clear strategy to address fuel poverty amongst the elderly," she said.
Pensioners will be "too afraid to switch up or even to switch on the heating in case they incur very large bills", Ms Winterton added.
"What action is the Government going to take to assist this most vulnerable section of our community?"
Mr O'Brien insisted that as well as increased winter fuel payments, the Pensions Bill - currently going through the Lords - would put pensioners on "lower social tariffs" so they pay less for their heating.
For the Tories, Nigel Waterson said it was time the Government "got serious about tackling pensioner poverty".
He pointed to recent Government figures that showed an extra 300,000 elderly people were living in poverty, bringing the total to "well above two million".
"Since these statistics were prepared, even more pensioners will have been driven into poverty due to the recent surge in energy and other living costs," he said.
But Mr O'Brien said the Government had lifted 1.9 million people out of absolute poverty - "poverty that your party had left those people in".
Labour's Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) said this winter he did not expect his front bench to be telling pensioners to "knit a woolly hat" and "take a hot water bottle to bed".
To Labour cheers, he added: "Just like the minister did in those grim Tory years."
Gordon Lishman, director general of Age Concern, said: "Rocketing energy bills, are putting huge pressure on already cash-strapped pensioners.
"It is scandalous that more than one in three older people are likely to be living in fuel poverty by the end of the year.
"We know many are feeling forced to cut back on their heating in an attempt to reduce costs, which could be putting their health at risk.
"Urgent and decisive action on fuel poverty is needed to help end the hardships millions of older people are facing.
"As an emergency measure the Government and energy companies must work together to introduce a 'fuel voucher' scheme to help the poorest pensioners.
"As part of a wider package of reforms, the Government should also introduce mandatory social tariffs to put an end to the scandal of poorer customers on pre-payment meters being charged more than others."
Crossrail hole plot, Big Business agenda-courier Ruth Kelly 'MP' exhibited her double standards again on Monday...
By©Muhammad Haque
2355 Hrs GMT
London
Monday 7 July 2008
What IS Ruth Kelly's poverty?
Sure she is not about to start LITERALLY saving and stocking up food lest she has to starve. NOT in the immediate future. Of course.
Ruth Kelly’s poverty is deeper seated than that.
Whereas she literally would have been - or would be - starving had she been any of or among the thousands of individuals that exist along the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ’south'’ Stepney London E1 route of the planned Crossrail hole plots and who are obstructed from ‘jobs’ that her colleague and co-fabricator James Purnell [the ‘teens’-Spectator magazine's nominee for ‘leader’ of the Blaired Party and currently the Poverty-Creation Minister in Browns cabinet] lied about in his collective references during the routine, the untruthful, the untransparent, the outdated, the obsolete, the diversionary, the lies-packed DEPARTfromthetruth Departmental Question Time for the DEpartment for Woes and Poverty-creation =’DWP’] staged in the UK House of Commons today [Monday 7 July 2008] as well, RUTH KELLY’s poverty lies in the fact that she is starved of the truth. By her users in the political token job she enjoys... She must be enjoying it because she hardly features as making any difference fro the better at all....
And she is starving the public of the truth of what her DfT gets up to as it acts as the main stooged Department for the Big business lobby on transport in the UK....
Even as she made that statement [Monday 7 July 2008] about bio-fuels, she knew that she would not be telling the whole truth about that particular decision.
She knew that she was reading her speech [!!!!!] off a script which she treated as if it were one of those sacred religious things, one of which she reportedly carries in her person wherever she goes.....
Such physical attachment to her political performance materials are not repeated in her relationship with the public...
The constituency at large. For as a cabinet Minister, her constituency extends beyond the parliamentary seat that she allegedly represents Ruth kelly’s spread of poverty is in her lack of truthfulness about what in fact is going on inside the DfT...
Had she been rich in truth she would have by now published the truth about the crassness of Crossrail that the evidence shows. And had she been inclined to tell the truth, she would have done months ago about Eddington what she did today about ‘Professor Gallagher.
Whereas she sounded unmistakably deferential to Professor Gallagher today she has not mentioned Rod Eddington in that same way and not especially about Eddington;’s advice to the UK Govt that Crossrail was not worth supporting....
[To be continued]
2355 Hrs GMT
London
Monday 7 July 2008
What IS Ruth Kelly's poverty?
Sure she is not about to start LITERALLY saving and stocking up food lest she has to starve. NOT in the immediate future. Of course.
Ruth Kelly’s poverty is deeper seated than that.
Whereas she literally would have been - or would be - starving had she been any of or among the thousands of individuals that exist along the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ’south'’ Stepney London E1 route of the planned Crossrail hole plots and who are obstructed from ‘jobs’ that her colleague and co-fabricator James Purnell [the ‘teens’-Spectator magazine's nominee for ‘leader’ of the Blaired Party and currently the Poverty-Creation Minister in Browns cabinet] lied about in his collective references during the routine, the untruthful, the untransparent, the outdated, the obsolete, the diversionary, the lies-packed DEPARTfromthetruth Departmental Question Time for the DEpartment for Woes and Poverty-creation =’DWP’] staged in the UK House of Commons today [Monday 7 July 2008] as well, RUTH KELLY’s poverty lies in the fact that she is starved of the truth. By her users in the political token job she enjoys... She must be enjoying it because she hardly features as making any difference fro the better at all....
And she is starving the public of the truth of what her DfT gets up to as it acts as the main stooged Department for the Big business lobby on transport in the UK....
Even as she made that statement [Monday 7 July 2008] about bio-fuels, she knew that she would not be telling the whole truth about that particular decision.
She knew that she was reading her speech [!!!!!] off a script which she treated as if it were one of those sacred religious things, one of which she reportedly carries in her person wherever she goes.....
Such physical attachment to her political performance materials are not repeated in her relationship with the public...
The constituency at large. For as a cabinet Minister, her constituency extends beyond the parliamentary seat that she allegedly represents Ruth kelly’s spread of poverty is in her lack of truthfulness about what in fact is going on inside the DfT...
Had she been rich in truth she would have by now published the truth about the crassness of Crossrail that the evidence shows. And had she been inclined to tell the truth, she would have done months ago about Eddington what she did today about ‘Professor Gallagher.
Whereas she sounded unmistakably deferential to Professor Gallagher today she has not mentioned Rod Eddington in that same way and not especially about Eddington;’s advice to the UK Govt that Crossrail was not worth supporting....
[To be continued]