Sunday, August 31, 2008

KHOODEELAAR! UPDATING the evidence on the CRASS role played by Crassrail hole plot-peddler Alistair Darling [85]

This page was last edited at 1535 GMT 1635 UK Time London Sunday 31 August 2008:


KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole scam was due to issue court proceedings in March 2006 when, within less than 24 working hours of that imminent court action, Darling contrived with Ken Livingstone to stage an about-turn and scrap 75% of the then planned Crossrail hole assault oin the E1 area…… That showed, as we have argued and demsonrarted since then, that Darling was fabvricating when he claemd all those positive things about the London CRASSrail…. And today’s ‘news’ of Darling’s TOTAL clulessness or his total unrelaibility ALSO confirms that his pal Gordon Brown too is just as unreliable as Darling is and has been in the peddling promotoin of the Big Business Crossrail hole agenda that BOTH have taken part in….. and that none of the credits either of them has attached to the Big Buysiess Crassaril scam can be justified, let a,lone be found on the facts…….. IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE , KHOODEELAAR! says again, SCRAP the Crassrail hole plot NOW……[To be continued]






Cabinet rift widens as Darling rages at Brown’s £40bn State mortgage plan
By Simon Walters and Brendan Carlin
Last updated at 12:51 AM on 31st August 2008



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A row over a £40billion plan for State-backed mortgages to tackle the housing crisis has fuelled the bitter feud between Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling that threatens to wreck the Government’s economic relaunch.

Mr Brown wants to go ahead with the scheme in a last-ditch attempt to boost his poll ratings and head off growing pressure on him to step down.

But he has run into fierce resistance from the Treasury and the Bank of England, who say it could be an expensive flop.



Feud: The row between Darling and Brown has intensified

The dispute between the two men comes as the Cabinet was plunged into turmoil after Mr Darling said that voters were ‘p****d off’ with the Government.

A furious Mr Brown phoned Mr Darling and ordered him to eat his words on TV, while allies of the Prime Minister said Mr Darling should be sacked and his job given to Schools Secretary Ed Balls.

Mr Brown has been putting pressure on the Treasury to underwrite mortgages to help homeowners avoid defaulting on home loans.

He believes the scheme could transform the housing crisis, prevent families being thrown out of their homes, get the property market moving again and ease pressure on banks and building societies.

To finance it, the Government would issue 30-year gilts which would need to be refinanced every two or three years.

But the Treasury is opposed to the measure, which it says could end up costing as much as £40billion and be the equivalent of the Government ‘doing another Northern Rock’.




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A Treasury insider said: ‘This plan is financial insanity and would seriously threaten the country’s long-term future.

‘It is so complicated, basically all smoke and mirrors, that almost no one really understands it. But Mr Brown is adamant this is what he wants. He thinks it’s the big bang the Government needs to relaunch.

‘Mr Darling and the Treasury loathe it. Plans are changing almost by the hour.

‘You wouldn’t run a bookies the way these people are trying to run the country. Marketing gimmicks are being put ahead of sound economic sense.’

The Government is awaiting a report into the mortgage crisis from Sir James Crosby, former boss of the Halifax bank, before making a final decision on the controversial rescue plan. He is expected to deliver his conclusions in a few weeks.

Interim measures, including moves to revive council housing, are due to be unveiled this week.

Simmering tension between Mr Darling and Mr Brown erupted after the Chancellor gave an extraordinary interview to The Guardian in which he said Britain’s economic conditions ‘are arguably the worst they’ve been in 60 years’.

And he warned that it would get worse. ‘I think it is going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought. People are p****d off with us.’

In a direct challenge to Mr Brown’s authority, Mr Darling added that reshuffling the Cabinet would be pointless.

An enraged Mr Brown phoned Mr Darling yesterday morning and told him he had wrecked his plans to launch an economic fightback in the next few weeks and ordered him to give a TV interview within hours retracting his claims.

A TV crew was hastily summoned to Mr Darling’s Edinburgh home where he nervously repeated a statement drafted for him by No10 that stated the economic crisis was global and not centred on Britain.

Mr Brown’s anger was echoed by leading Brownite MPs.

Durham MP Kevan Jones said: ‘The Chancellor and the rest of the Cabinet should start talking the Government up, not down. The economic picture is a mixed picture, it is not all black.’

Lindsay Hoyle, MP for Chorley, challenged Mr Darling’s claim that there should not be a reshuffle: ‘Most MPs think there should be a reshuffle. We need one badly to refresh the Government.’

Left-wing MP Ian Gibson said: ‘It feels like panic is setting in. Words like “p****d off” are the language of the pub, not a professional politician. This week is crucial to Gordon Brown’s fightback: it is crunch time.’

Manchester MP Graham Stringer, who has led calls for Mr Brown to quit, said: ‘Alistair Darling is accusing the Prime Minister of talking rubbish about the economy.’

Privately, Labour MPs were even more outspoken. One MP who is close to the Prime Minister said: ‘Alistair has got to go and his job must be given to Ed Balls. Ed is the cleverest person in the Cabinet and has the full confidence of the Prime Minister.

‘If anyone can get us out of this hole, Ed can. Alistair Darling’s comments are self-indulgent rubbish.’

A veteran Labour backbencher said: ‘This is obviously a farewell interview by Alistair. Everybody wants him to go. You may get away with one uncharismatic Scot at the top of the Government, but not two. It’s like a “who smiles first” contest.’



Waiting in the wings: Schools Secretary Ed Balls is widely tipped to replace the Chancellor Alistair Darling

Another Labour MP said: ‘Gordon took all the people who knew where the bodies were buried at the Treasury with him to No10. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.’

But not all Labour MPs supported Mr Balls as Chancellor: ‘It would be like Hitler’s bunker, with Gordon hunkering down, surrounded by his mates,’ said one.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said: ‘Mr Darling has let the cat out of the bag about the true state of the economy. We now have a dysfunctional leadership at the top of the Government.’

Liberal Democrat spokesman Vince Cable said: ‘For months the Government has been saying everything is all right, but overnight it is Apocalypse Now.’

Relations between Mr Darling and Mr Brown deteriorated shortly after Tony Blair stepped down.

Mr Darling warned Mr Brown a year ago that the plan to scrap the 10p tax rate was a disaster, but Mr Brown refused to listen.

They clashed again last month when Mr Darling accused No10 of leaking plans to introduce a stamp duty ‘holiday’ to ease pressure on the housing market.

The usually camera-shy Mr Darling even took part in a photoshoot on a beach at his croft in the Outer Hebrides to illustrate his Guardian interview.

His message was as bleak as the stormy seas behind him.

‘This coming 12 months will be the most difficult 12 months the Labour Party has had in a generation,’ he said. ‘We’ve got to rediscover the zeal which won three Elections and that is a huge problem for us.

‘We really have to make our minds up; are we ready to try to persuade this country to support us for another term? We’ve got a hell of a lot to do. We patently have not been able to get across what we are for and what we are about.’

Asked if the Prime Minister could get his message across, Mr Darling faltered. ‘Er, well, well, it’s always difficult, you know. But Gordon, in September, up to party conference, has got the opportunity to do that. And he will.’

In a comment seen as a barb aimed at Mr Brown, he said: ‘Politics is the art of communication. If you can’t communicate, then it doesn’t matter if you’re truly brilliant as a technocrat.’

Astonishingly, he said he had no inkling that the economy was heading for big trouble when he became Chancellor last year.

‘No one had any idea,’ he said. The first he knew of it was when he read a newspaper report about the European Central Bank putting money into the economy while he was on holiday last summer. ‘I phoned the office to ask why they were doing quite so much,’ he said.

Mr Darling’s loyal wife Maggie said her husband had had to cope with ‘a crisis a week’ since becoming Chancellor.

Mr Darling was clearly riled by reports that ambitious Mr Balls was plotting to get his job. ‘There’s lots of people who’d like to do my job,’ he said, adding pointedly: ‘And no doubt actively trying to do it.’

In an audacious move, he sent a clear warning to Mr Brown not to fire him in a Government reshuffle expected in the next two months.

‘Name me a reshuffle that ever made a difference to a Government. You can’t be chopping and changing people that often.’

Mr Darling virtually admitted Labour face defeat in the coming Glenrothes by-election in Scotland, despite its 10,000 majority. Mr Darling said: ‘We’ll give it our best shot, but we’ve got our work cut out.’

For good measure, Mr Darling insulted Wendy Alexander, former Labour leader in Scotland and sister of Mr Brown’s Cabinet ally Douglas Alexander, as ‘not likable’.



Alistair can’t answer his critics
On five occasions, the panicking Chancellor refused to move beyond a prepared statement, robotically parroting the same phrases about ‘credit crunch’, ‘oil and food prices’ and ‘every other country in the world’.

First BBC Scotland’s political editor Brian Taylor asked Mr Darling why he had given such a bleak assessment of the economy.

Mr Darling replied: ‘I think it’s important that I tell people that we, along with every other country in the world, face a unique set of circumstances where we have got the credit crunch coming at the same time as high oil and food prices.

‘That means there is a profound difference in the economy, along with every other country in the world.’

Mr Taylor: ‘But isn’t it the job of the Leader of the Opposition to say – and I use your words – “we are p****d off” about the economy?’

Mr Darling: ‘I think it’s important that Government Ministers and me in particular are level with people and explain that every other country in the world, ours included, have a credit crunch the like of which we have not seen in generations at the same time as oil and food prices going up.’

Mr Taylor: ‘But Chancellor, the strategy here is puzzling. Shouldn’t you be reassuring people rather than talking down the economy and saying it’s the worst for 60 years?’

Mr Darling: ‘I think it’s important that while we, along with every other country in the world, are facing the unique combination of a credit crunch, high oil and food prices, that we do everything possible to help people.’

Mr Taylor (clearly becoming frustrated): ‘Do you regret blurting out the truth in such a frank fashion?’

Mr Darling: ‘I have been saying for many weeks now that we along with every other country in the world are facing a unique set of circumstances: the credit crunch along with very high oil and food prices…’

Mr Taylor: ‘Chancellor, forgive me, but you have made that point a number of times. What I am after is what was the thinking behind this?

‘Usually Chancellor of the Exchequers should provide calm reassurance. You are talking about people being “p****d off” with the economy and the worst crisis for 60 years. Won’t this make things worse?’

Mr Darling: ‘I think it’s important that when people ask why are these problems facing countries across the world, that finance ministers explain that we have got a credit crunch the like of which we have not seen in generations and rising oil and food prices causing inflationary pressures.

‘And we also explain that’s why we need to support the economy now and help the economy through what is undoubtedly a difficult time.’





KHOODEELAAR! comprehensive update on Sunday 31 August 2008 of the campaign against Crossrail hole agenda and its peddlers and touts...

This page was last edited at 1155 GMT London Sunday 31 ASuguts 2008


1150 GMT 1250 UK Time London Sunday 31 August 2008:

KHOODEELAAR! the 'inner city', 'most deprived borough in the country' Tower Hamlets-based CAMPAIGN against the unconstitutionality of conduct and the unconstitutional behaviour of the UK Parliament and of the Big Business-serving controlling 'legislative' UK bureaucracies [operating in and via the formally referred to UK Houses of Parliament] that have flouted the UK's constitutional obligations to observe and to comply with the universal declarations of human rights as enshrined in the ECHR [European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms] and violated the UK's international treaty obligations on 'law-making', is also the source of original research and comments and commentaries on the 'workings' [no, the lack of working] of the 'locally' democratically elected Tower Hamlets Council and the 'regionally anti-democratically 'elected' London Assembly member [John Biggs whose profile in representing the rights of the community has been VERY SMALL indeed!!!!!]....

KHOODEELAAR! is the daily monitor of the lack of Democracy in the 'institutions' that are kept in place in the name of the people of the East End of London, lack of accountability by these e elements and tokens which have been operating to allow Big Business agenda to further extend the Big Business tentacles over and into the remaining East End of London and to do so via dislocating Crossrail [CRASS rail = CRASS role] hole attacks......

KHOODEELAAR! is the counter to the academic pretentious, the fraudulent, the T B Macaulay-ite centres that are aiding and abetting the 'ideology' of empire in the inner city East End of London..... As we are alert to the pernicious role being played4d by the lying local 'newspaper' which is engaged in creating disaffection, disinformation between parts of the populating in the East End of London.....

The KHOODEELAAR! defence of the community is inclusive and is based on the universal criteria that transcend the limits imposed by the racist polluters of society and the propaganda organs for the Big Business agenda to further deprive the people in ordinary East End of London .....


KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action programme covers the role of all the elements, and outlets and outfits that jointly or severally behave in defying the universal rights and entitlements of the community whose say against the Crossrail attacks has been denied so far....by the actual UK Govt and by their local agents and touts and their collude rs and peddlers ...

KHOODEELAAR! has shown and will show even more extensively than so far, that the combined 'council' that is the Tower Hamlets Council that formally includes both the Crossrail hole plot-inviting controlling clique [that is in the numerical majority] and the ALLEGED Opposition councillors is a spectacle of embarrassment where it comes to representing and speaking for the local people and the community in Tower Hamlets..

That with the lone exception of one former councillor in the years since the KHOODEELAAR! campaign began to demand that Tower Hamlets Council took the position of representing the community's persisting to the Big Business agenda of attacks via Crossrail hole, ALL the sitting councillors have FAILED to use their EXISTING rights 'as elected councillors' to reflect the community's legitimate, democratic, and political demands,and against Big Business...

We shall expand on this and update the evidence when the actual deliberations begin via the UK Domestic courts ....

.We state this today Sunday 31 August 2008 in full knowledge of the pernicious role being played the increasingly desperate, sectarian, pro-racist, racist['East London IDIOTISER' which has been losing circulation in common with the two other 'local' 'titles' owned by the same Big Business-aiding ARCHANT 'regional newspaper' business operation......


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KHOODEELAAR! enlists Jack Straw as a 'witness' at this stage, to be called to show why he backed UNCONSTITUTIONALITY and CRASSrail [85]

This page was last edited at 1040 GMT London Sunday 31 August 2008

The KHOODEELAAR! decision IS linked with Straw's reported interest in getting involved with the arrangements in West London for assistance to some who are affected by the CRASSSrail construction.

The main reason however is to do with Straw's presence in the Brown-fronted Blaired regime of big business-DICTATED CRASSrail HOLE AGENDA PLOT-PEDDLERS whilst he, Straw, poses as a bit of a constitutionality-abiding- careerist politico.

The KHOODEELAAR! challenge will put Straw under the glare of constitutionality attention.


[To be continued]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/the-ios-diary-polish-hearth-club-hit-by-economic-downturn-913883.html