1720 Hrs GMT London Thursday 7 May 2009: KHOODEELAAR! Organiser Muhammad Haque has told the London EVENING STANDARD the following, as the first detailed KHOODEELAAR! comment on the report today by the STANDARD about the exchanges between Yvette Cooper and Phillip Hammond in the UK House of Commons yesterday [Wednesday 6 May 2009] about Crossrail.. The EVENING STANDARD web site is blocking the post... the mechanism the STANDARD web site has installed is probably geared to spy on incoming communications and their sender devices....rather more vigorously than to facilitate the verification of messages which is the apparent justification for the ‘checking’ software being in place...[To be continued]
Your report gives a picture of the two 'main' parties representing dishonesty almost in equal measure. Yvette Cooper, as based on your report above, is being irresponsible and incompetent - in economic and financial terms.. She is peddling the message that Gordon Brown has made into an art form. Like his image of prudence. She has dumped Prudence now. But when he has flaunting prudence, there was no sign that he was faking it all the while. it is vacuous and unproductive in the context of the economy. Phillip Hammond is over-tangled in his own confusions. What BOTH need to say is: what is the evidence for Crossrail. OIf the evidence exists then they should back it. If the evidence does not exist then they should scarp it. KHOODEELAAR! the campaign against Crossrail agenda has been asking the DfT [UK Department for Transport] to provide evidence. There has been none. We began probing the DfT role and the validity of the Crossrail scam YEARS before Rod Eddington was even known to exist in this context. Eddington ADVISED Gordon Brown against Crossrail. This was reported on Channel 4 News in October 2007. The US business publisher Forbes also reported [2006] that Eddington had NOT endorsed Crossrail. Eddington was Gordon Brown’s very specialist investigator! On 19 July 2005, when the UK House of Commons formally approved the ‘instructions’ on the Crossrail Bill with special reference to the remits of the [House of Commons] Crossrail Bill Select Committee, it EFFECTIVELY BANNED the Select Committee from looking too closely or rigorously for evidence! So what on earth is Phillip Hammond basing, as you report, his opinion that Crossrail is a ‘good’ ANYTHING on? It is understandable if Mr Hammond and others in his frame of mind now a days get a little too excited about prospects of power and in that state begin to make nonsensical statements. But it is almost likely that power will bring serious perils of embarrassment to these craven egos unless they behave as the next team with manifest responsibility and honesty and unless they are careful with the exercise of power. Crossrail has NOT been demonstrated as being based on evidence of the UK economy. Crossrail has been a hyped up tool and a pretext for interests other than those who want to improve transport in and around London. It is tie to address the EXISTING transport needs and infrastructure maintenance. Stop the diversions. They can be very unsafe. Crossrail is. 1722 Hrs Thursday 7 May 2009
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Tories admit Crossrail is on their list for spending ‘reassessment’
Nicholas Cecil
07.05.09
Crossrail will be reviewed by the Conservatives, a senior frontbencher has confirmed.
The Evening Standard revealed this week that the £16 billion rail project could be delayed if David Cameron wins power.
Tory sources sought to play down the threat to the cross-London rail scheme and shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers insisted that it was not “currently” being reviewed.
But shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Philip Hammond yesterday refused to guarantee that Crossrail would escape the Conservative cuts programme.
Labour is desperate to pin down exactly where the Tory axe will fall and Treasury minister Yvette Cooper cornered Mr Hammond in the Commons on Crossrail, urging him to make clear whether his party “supported” the new rail line which will run from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west, under central London and out to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.
Mr Hammond insisted that the rail scheme, due to open in 2017, was a “good project” which fitted “very well” into his party's agenda of improving rail infrastructure. But he added: “Every single programme, every single project will have to be reassessed and re-evaluated.
“It will have to demonstrate its value for money, it will have to demonstrate its effectiveness in an extraordinary tight fiscal climate created by the disaster that this Government has visited upon this country.”
London Mayor Boris Johnson has said that he has been assured that Crossrail is protected from cutbacks.
However, estimates are circulating about the scale of savings that the next Government will have to make to balance Britain's books after Chancellor Alistair Darling's astronomical borrowing to lessen the impact of the recession.
One report, in The Spectator, suggested that cuts of 10 per cent in the defence, Home Office and education budgets would be needed over the three years after 2011.
Mr Cameron has already admitted that a Tory government could scale down Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent.
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