KHOODEELAAR! updating evidential commentary on Gordon Brown's Crossrail follies and what they say about Brown's 'competence'

Muhammad Haque
2300 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 28 January 2009


What does it say about Brown's claim to original thought when he jumped on the Crossrail bandwagon within weeks of getting into No 10 Downing Street?

If he had not known about the fabricating career of Ken Livingstone before April 2008, he can not pretend to be unaware now, nine months after Livingstone admitted to having lied on the 2012 Games Hosting Bid.

Livingstone made the admission, no, bragged of having lied, in the 'Mayoral Election Special' edition of Question Time on BBC1 in April 2008. Just so that there was no doubt about what Livingstone had meant, Question Time presenter David Dimbleby asked him to clarify.

Livingstone had no hesitation about ding so.

He went on to say that lying had been the only way to persuade the UK Govt to spend so much money on the construction of the 2012 Games hosting site located in a part of the East End of London.

The question is: has anyone ever come across a single member of the ordinary population in the East End of London with the requisite knowledge and freedom to objectively think about the whole matter, to say that to them, that would really 'regenerate' the East End?

Likewise, when Brown appeared, TWICE, on platforms with CANDIDATE Ken Livingstone and sang endlessly in praise of Crossrail, he did not let on that the scan was being propelled through the UK Houses of Parliament by an ex aide of former Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander.

This anti-democratic and unconstitutional and sleazy relationship was belatedly [that is, after the 'CrossRail Bill' was rubber stamped into the 'Crossrail Act' in July 2008] recorded in PRIVATE EYE.

The two 'projects', gloried now as 'infrastructure projects. between them will cost the UK public more than the sum the IFS report being commented on today [Wednesday 28 January 2009] has suggested would be added to the burden of debt...

If Brown could not see EITHER scam for what it was, how can he carry on claiming to be 'serious' [as different from the 'novices' that he was choreographed into 'dismissing' when he was introduced to the media via the Blaired Party jamboree by his own wife in September 2008]?

The other side of the same question is: Has Cameron got really comprehensive answers and alternatives and does he have the demonstrable integrity to call upon the people to ‘trust’ his ‘leadership’?



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