KHOODEELAAR! telling CRASS role-playing City of London vested interests to quit peddling Big Business Crossrail lies

0738 [0730] Hrs GMT London Monday 11 May 2009:

KHOODEELAAR! reminding the 'House of Peers' in the UK Parliament of the legal challenge that still remains validly grounded against their abuse of the position - to MAKE LAWS . We [KHOODEELAAR!] are asking the House of Peers to IGNORE the latest City of London vested interest pleadings for CRASSrail. We in specific terms refer to their peddling as published this morning [Monday 11 May 2009] by the CRASS role playing London Financial Times [see below]. We area asking the House of Peers that when at Bill Stage the 'Crossrail' SCAM was not justifiable. So the two Houses were stooged under the influence of the lobby that de facto was imposed by the Military Industrial Complex through one of that Complex's component outfits, the Bechtel Corporation of the USA acting in the UK via one of Douglas Alexander's ‘former’ aides, [Vide PRIVATE EYE magazine's report on it, which Private Eye published only after the July 2008 rubber stamping of the Crossrail Bill] and the LOBBY cited by PRIVATE EYE had, as KHOODEELAAR! had been reporting throughout the previous three years, BANNED and barred and obstructed the two Houses of the UKL PARLIAMENT from scrutinising the contents, the purpose and the implications INCLUDING the costs in all terms, of the Crossrail scam as evident in the then ‘Crossrail Bill’. And in that barren, democracy-denying deficit way, BOTH Houses of the UK Parliament rubber stamped the scam. That meant that the Crossrail Bill became ‘the Crossrail Act’. Why? Because the cam would not stand scrutiny. It would not pass scrutiny. It would not survive scrutiny. Now the same touts that acted for Big Business CROSSRAIl agenda are at it again [see below an example of their behaviour as quoted from today’s FINANCIAL TIMES web site] . They are making all sorts of typically false, untrue and looting and untrue claims about the entire future and the survival of the western capitalist system being dependent on Crossrail being funded by the UK public... In the course of the day today Monday 11 May 2009, more evidence will be made available to the UK Houses of Parliament showing that the last thing they want to sanction and legitimize is a Big Business scam that will ADD £Billions to the public debts without brining any solution to the morass that the UK economy is in...[To be continued]



From Mr Stuart Fraser.

Sir, This week the House of Lords decides the fate of the business rate supplement bill. Its passage is vital for the future of London’s economy and its international competitiveness: the future of the Crossrail project depends on it. It provides the mayor of London with the power to raise a supplementary business rate of 2p in the pound (with small businesses in premises with less than £50,000 rateable value fully exempt) and thus a key part of the overall funding package for Crossrail. It is essential that it goes ahead as planned. Without the whole funding package remaining intact, Crossrail itself will be stopped. London’s economy and future growth prospects – and those of the UK as a whole – will be severely constrained.

Likewise, the equally key contribution from the Treasury must go ahead as planned. At the 2005 election, all three main parties supported Crossrail. With building work starting soon, we have a once in a generation opportunity to make a step-change in the capital's rail infrastructure.

Also, a period of economic downturn, as history tells us, is just the right time to build new infrastructure: it creates many good jobs where and when they are needed, it gets the capital’s rail network up to scratch for the recovery, and it puts us ahead of the game against our international competitors. There is not a choice between Crossrail and upgrading the Tube: London requires both.

I urge all three parties to stick to their guns and to remove any doubts now that Crossrail continues to have their full support. London expects nothing less.

Stuart Fraser,
Chairman, Policy and Resources Committee,
City of London

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