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Friday, January 30, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Another CRASSrail-peddling 'rendition' for Big Business scam via another 'Guardian writer'
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Another CRASSrail-peddling 'rendition' for Big Business scam via another 'Guardian writer'
2310 Hrs GMT
London 30 January 2009
We have already noted the crass peddling for Crossrail done on the Guardian web site by Dan Milmo.. Now, that same Dan Milmo peddling fort Crossrail is being peddled again by another ‘Guardian writer’ who is not just a fan of CRASSrail Ken but is also able to spout similar or worse sycophancy for anyone else that peddles Crossrail.. The praise heaped on Boris Johnson by the second "Guardian writer’ is to be read to be believed....
2310 Hrs GMT
London 30 January 2009
We have already noted the crass peddling for Crossrail done on the Guardian web site by Dan Milmo.. Now, that same Dan Milmo peddling fort Crossrail is being peddled again by another ‘Guardian writer’ who is not just a fan of CRASSrail Ken but is also able to spout similar or worse sycophancy for anyone else that peddles Crossrail.. The praise heaped on Boris Johnson by the second "Guardian writer’ is to be read to be believed....
KHOODEELAAR! Full texts of the demand to UK House of Peers 'leader' due to be published in the next 24 hours
2025 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 January 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Full texts of the demand to UK House of Peers 'leader' due to be published in the next 24 hours
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KHOODEELAAR! Full texts of the demand to UK House of Peers 'leader' due to be published in the next 24 hours
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TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL is caught hiding Crossrail holes-linked planning document about Hobson's Place, off Hanbury Street in Brick Lane area!
1920 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 january 2009
KHOODEELAAR! has just found that Tower Hamlets Council, the 'local' 'planning authority' for the area, has removed from its web site a vital document about one of the Crossrail holes-sites....
We are investigating the full circumstances and shall be reporting on the findings as we test the various facts...
KHOODEELAAR! online research unit was carrying out routine checks on the various aspects of the Crossrail agenda attacks on the East End of London this afternoon.
We traced a web page with this address:
http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/planning-building/crossrail/downloads/hanbury-street-woodseer-street/crossrail-woodseer-st-hanbury-st/3-alignment-constraints.pdf
When we looked the page up, it had this message on it:
Sorry!
The page you requested cannot be found.
If you typed this page address into your browser's location window then please check you have not made any errors.
If you have followed a link from another site, then the page you are looking for may have been moved or removed, as the Tower Hamlets site is frequently updated.
Please return to the home page and use the site navigation to find what you are looking for. Alternatively try the site search on the left side of this page.
If you have followed a link from another Tower Hamlets page then we would appreciate it if you would inform us of this error by emailing us at webteam@towerhamlets.gov.uk “
KHOODEELAAR! will be updating on the conduct o Tower Hamlets Council, on this site and on other KHOODEELAAR! sites and network addresses...
KHOODEELAAR! has just found that Tower Hamlets Council, the 'local' 'planning authority' for the area, has removed from its web site a vital document about one of the Crossrail holes-sites....
We are investigating the full circumstances and shall be reporting on the findings as we test the various facts...
KHOODEELAAR! online research unit was carrying out routine checks on the various aspects of the Crossrail agenda attacks on the East End of London this afternoon.
We traced a web page with this address:
http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/planning-building/crossrail/downloads/hanbury-street-woodseer-street/crossrail-woodseer-st-hanbury-st/3-alignment-constraints.pdf
When we looked the page up, it had this message on it:
Sorry!
The page you requested cannot be found.
If you typed this page address into your browser's location window then please check you have not made any errors.
If you have followed a link from another site, then the page you are looking for may have been moved or removed, as the Tower Hamlets site is frequently updated.
Please return to the home page and use the site navigation to find what you are looking for. Alternatively try the site search on the left side of this page.
If you have followed a link from another Tower Hamlets page then we would appreciate it if you would inform us of this error by emailing us at webteam@towerhamlets.gov.uk “
KHOODEELAAR! will be updating on the conduct o Tower Hamlets Council, on this site and on other KHOODEELAAR! sites and network addresses...
KHOODEELAAR! demands investigation into Crossrail Bill PEERS -1
1738 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 january 2009
KHOODEELAAR! is asking the leader of the UK House of Peers to investigate allegations that members of the House are engaged in activities to influence changes in legislation in return for cash.. The demand is grounded on the KHOODEELAAR! representations to the two Houses of the UK parliament of the past 3 years.
[To be continued]
From the Times online:
January 30, 2009
Exclusive: Peers for cash investigation - new undercover footage
The Sunday Times has released secret video and audio in which Lord Truscott offers to help reporters 'facilitate' a bill amendment
Jonathan Calvert
New secret audio recording | The scoop: how we broke the story | Insight: price for a peer to fix the law | Comment: Lords not so noble anymore | Red Box: the politics blog
The Sunday Times secretly filmed Lord Truscott, one of the four peers who the newspaper revealed were prepared to assist in changing legislation for cash, during a meeting with the undercover reporters in the St James’ Hotel and Club in London on Wednesday January 21, 2009.
The recording shows Truscott telling the reporters, posing as lobbyists, that he will work with them to “facilitate” the amendment to the Business Rates Supplement Bill on behalf of their client.
Discussing the strategy for their lobbying campaign, he says he will help identify the members to talk to so that he and the reporters can approach them. He offers to meet the “Lords people” on his own.
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Later he describes how he had previously helped to ensure that the Energy Bill was favourable to a paying client who sells “smart” electricity meters.
The Sunday Times has also released an audio tape recording from the first meeting between Truscott and the two reporters at the House of Lords on Wednesday January 14. He discusses his fee of £2,000 a day, which would have amounted to £72,000 a year for the three-day-a-month contract he eventually proposed.
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KHOODEELAAR! is asking the leader of the UK House of Peers to investigate allegations that members of the House are engaged in activities to influence changes in legislation in return for cash.. The demand is grounded on the KHOODEELAAR! representations to the two Houses of the UK parliament of the past 3 years.
[To be continued]
From the Times online:
January 30, 2009
Exclusive: Peers for cash investigation - new undercover footage
The Sunday Times has released secret video and audio in which Lord Truscott offers to help reporters 'facilitate' a bill amendment
Jonathan Calvert
New secret audio recording | The scoop: how we broke the story | Insight: price for a peer to fix the law | Comment: Lords not so noble anymore | Red Box: the politics blog
The Sunday Times secretly filmed Lord Truscott, one of the four peers who the newspaper revealed were prepared to assist in changing legislation for cash, during a meeting with the undercover reporters in the St James’ Hotel and Club in London on Wednesday January 21, 2009.
The recording shows Truscott telling the reporters, posing as lobbyists, that he will work with them to “facilitate” the amendment to the Business Rates Supplement Bill on behalf of their client.
Discussing the strategy for their lobbying campaign, he says he will help identify the members to talk to so that he and the reporters can approach them. He offers to meet the “Lords people” on his own.
RELATED LINKS
Peer gets £36,000 a year to introduce clients
The Lords are not so noble any more
Ten peers who declared jobs linked to their work in the Lords
MULTIMEDIA
Red Box - the politics blog
Later he describes how he had previously helped to ensure that the Energy Bill was favourable to a paying client who sells “smart” electricity meters.
The Sunday Times has also released an audio tape recording from the first meeting between Truscott and the two reporters at the House of Lords on Wednesday January 14. He discusses his fee of £2,000 a day, which would have amounted to £72,000 a year for the three-day-a-month contract he eventually proposed.
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the GUARDIAN was a lying organ! How does the Guardian reconcile its 'attack' on a Brown policy with its record?
1612 GMT London Friday 30 January 2009
From the web site of the London GUARDIAN Friday 30 Jan 2009
Analysis
Brown's British jobs promise was doomed from the start
Our EU membership means the PM could only ever pledge British jobs for European workers
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 January 2009 14.46 GMT
Article history
Gordon Brown speaking at the Labour party conference in 2007. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
The Lincolnshire oil refinery strikers who quote Gordon Brown's promise of "British jobs for British workers" to justify their anger at an Italian company bringing in Italian and Portuguese staff to work on a £200m contract can be forgiven for wondering why it hasn't been delivered.
At least one cabinet minister – Hilary Benn – said they are entitled to an answer, but the truth is that even when Brown made the promise in his 2007 Labour conference speech, the reality was he could only create British jobs for European workers.
This is because under Britain's points-based immigration system that came into force in November, an employer can only recruit migrant labour to a job that is not on the official list of shortage occupations if they first go through the resident labour market test. This means they have to show that no suitably qualified settled worker can fill the job. In practice, this requires them to advertise it in a trade journal, national press or local jobcentre for a set period of time. Jobs with salaries of under £40,000 have to be advertised for a minimum of two weeks.
This all sounds robust and the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, promised only two weeks ago to make it even tougher by making it compulsory to advertise the vacancy through a jobcentre. But while she promised British jobs for British workers, she failed to mention that the "resident" part of the resident market labour test doesn't just cover those settled in Britain but applies to anyone who is a national of a European Union country.
The Italians and Portuguese working at Lindsey and, for that matter, the Spanish contractors working at Staythorpe power station in Newark, where protests have been going on since October, all pass the resident labour market test.
Our EU membership means we have signed up to a single labour market and Italians and Poles no longer qualify as foreign workers. Ministers say extra investment in education and training is aimed at ensuring British workers are best placed to get those new British jobs. But it is clear the rules do not allow other Europeans to be excluded from them.
Gordon Brown should have told the Labour conference he was going to create British jobs for European workers, but that wouldn't have gone down quite so well.
How can the oil refinery jobs not be open to local Lincolnshire workers?
The government says the Italian company IREM, which has brought its own Italian and Portuguese skilled staff to do the oil refinery job, is acting within the rules as laid down by the EU posted workers directive.
This allows a European company to employ its own staff on a temporary project in another EU member state. The only conditions under this directive are that the contract is time-limited and the employer meets local working regulations – for example, they must pay at least the minimum wage.
This directive was introduced in 1996 to improve labour mobility in Europe, and would have been ratified by John Major's Conservative government. About 1 million posted workers, or 4% of the Europe's workforce, work under the directive.
The oil company Total, which operates the Lindsey power station, claims that all of the 400 IREM staff are to be paid under the same terms and conditions agreed with unions for the existing contractor workforce. They say these are additional jobs and no redudancies are anticipated as a result of the new contract.
The unions say there is enough unemployed skilled labour available locally to do the jobs. The company says it prefers to use its own experienced and settled labour force, as it is entitled to within the EU rules.
Downing Street said this morning that the contracts at Lindsey were awarded some time ago when there were skill shortages in the construction sector and that this was no longer the case, hinting they are possibly looking for ways around the EU directive.
Is this a new wave of recession-related militancy or the work of Britain-first agitators?
This is not the first demonstration outside a British power station over the use of European workers. A long-running dispute has been going on at Staybridge power station in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where a Spanish company was brought in by the German engineering company Alsthom to install a boiler and turbine.
The local MP, Patrick Mercer, has already warned that there are local far-right extremists at work using the slogan "British jobs for British workers" to exploit the situation. The Unite union says 60% of Britain's power stations will have to be replaced over the next few years and it wants steps taken to make sure the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire situations are not repeated.
This appears to be an industry-specific dispute over alleged shortages of highly skilled engineers, exacerbated by the economic insecurites of the downturn, rather than the first signs of a French-style general revolt against the inequities of the recession.
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From the web site of the London GUARDIAN Friday 30 Jan 2009
Analysis
Brown's British jobs promise was doomed from the start
Our EU membership means the PM could only ever pledge British jobs for European workers
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 January 2009 14.46 GMT
Article history
Gordon Brown speaking at the Labour party conference in 2007. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
The Lincolnshire oil refinery strikers who quote Gordon Brown's promise of "British jobs for British workers" to justify their anger at an Italian company bringing in Italian and Portuguese staff to work on a £200m contract can be forgiven for wondering why it hasn't been delivered.
At least one cabinet minister – Hilary Benn – said they are entitled to an answer, but the truth is that even when Brown made the promise in his 2007 Labour conference speech, the reality was he could only create British jobs for European workers.
This is because under Britain's points-based immigration system that came into force in November, an employer can only recruit migrant labour to a job that is not on the official list of shortage occupations if they first go through the resident labour market test. This means they have to show that no suitably qualified settled worker can fill the job. In practice, this requires them to advertise it in a trade journal, national press or local jobcentre for a set period of time. Jobs with salaries of under £40,000 have to be advertised for a minimum of two weeks.
This all sounds robust and the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, promised only two weeks ago to make it even tougher by making it compulsory to advertise the vacancy through a jobcentre. But while she promised British jobs for British workers, she failed to mention that the "resident" part of the resident market labour test doesn't just cover those settled in Britain but applies to anyone who is a national of a European Union country.
The Italians and Portuguese working at Lindsey and, for that matter, the Spanish contractors working at Staythorpe power station in Newark, where protests have been going on since October, all pass the resident labour market test.
Our EU membership means we have signed up to a single labour market and Italians and Poles no longer qualify as foreign workers. Ministers say extra investment in education and training is aimed at ensuring British workers are best placed to get those new British jobs. But it is clear the rules do not allow other Europeans to be excluded from them.
Gordon Brown should have told the Labour conference he was going to create British jobs for European workers, but that wouldn't have gone down quite so well.
How can the oil refinery jobs not be open to local Lincolnshire workers?
The government says the Italian company IREM, which has brought its own Italian and Portuguese skilled staff to do the oil refinery job, is acting within the rules as laid down by the EU posted workers directive.
This allows a European company to employ its own staff on a temporary project in another EU member state. The only conditions under this directive are that the contract is time-limited and the employer meets local working regulations – for example, they must pay at least the minimum wage.
This directive was introduced in 1996 to improve labour mobility in Europe, and would have been ratified by John Major's Conservative government. About 1 million posted workers, or 4% of the Europe's workforce, work under the directive.
The oil company Total, which operates the Lindsey power station, claims that all of the 400 IREM staff are to be paid under the same terms and conditions agreed with unions for the existing contractor workforce. They say these are additional jobs and no redudancies are anticipated as a result of the new contract.
The unions say there is enough unemployed skilled labour available locally to do the jobs. The company says it prefers to use its own experienced and settled labour force, as it is entitled to within the EU rules.
Downing Street said this morning that the contracts at Lindsey were awarded some time ago when there were skill shortages in the construction sector and that this was no longer the case, hinting they are possibly looking for ways around the EU directive.
Is this a new wave of recession-related militancy or the work of Britain-first agitators?
This is not the first demonstration outside a British power station over the use of European workers. A long-running dispute has been going on at Staybridge power station in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where a Spanish company was brought in by the German engineering company Alsthom to install a boiler and turbine.
The local MP, Patrick Mercer, has already warned that there are local far-right extremists at work using the slogan "British jobs for British workers" to exploit the situation. The Unite union says 60% of Britain's power stations will have to be replaced over the next few years and it wants steps taken to make sure the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire situations are not repeated.
This appears to be an industry-specific dispute over alleged shortages of highly skilled engineers, exacerbated by the economic insecurites of the downturn, rather than the first signs of a French-style general revolt against the inequities of the recession.
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Brown stands by British workers remark
No reason for regret, says spokesman, as striking workers adopt controversial phrase for placards
A protest against 'victimisation of the British worker'
'Give jobs to British people' say protesters
Strikes spread across UK as protest escalates
PM's 'British jobs' pledge has caused uproar before
Gallery: Protests at the Total Lindsey oil refinery
Gregor Gall: Now is the winter of our discontent
Map of protests (pdf)
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Five years of economic arguments by KHOODEELAAR! against CRASSrail have been vindicated on every count. Scrap CrossRail
0740 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 January 2009: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The KHOODEELAAR! campaign began in the East End of London in the inner city, ‘most deprived borough in the country’ Tower Hamlets with the holding of a community public meeting at the ‘Montefiore Centre’ on Saturday 31 January 2004.That centre in the Hanbury/Deal Street London E1 was not called the ‘Montefiore Centre’ at the date of that meeting. The centre had been called ‘Bethnal Green Training Centre’ as one of the several ‘names’ given by the fabricating succession of ‘local authority regimes’ on the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council.. The KHOODEELAAR! campaign helped to re-establish the name ‘Montefiore Centre’ which is now called the Montefiore Centre. On that name and the significance,. More in a later commentary…Back to today marking the 5 years of the Campaign against CrossRail hole attacks on the East End of London. 31 January 2004 to 31 January 2009. Five years of campaign in defence of the community in the East End of London. Five years of arguments on economic grounds against the uneconomic Crossrail. Five years of consistently accurate predictions and forecasts that the City of London – peddled by Crossrail-promoter Ken Livingstone and now by his successor-in-peddling Boris Johnson as the ‘world class financial centre’ – was NOT an economic resource but a serious economic problem… Five years of analysis showing that Ken Livingstone's touting role as an agent of anti-Scottish sub-racism was part of the corruption of the evidence about the economic realities across the UK and that the way forward as to recognise the needs and the capacities of all regions in the UK. As opposed to the criminally irresponsible over-focus on the City of London which the likes of Michael Snyder, Judith Mayhew did with the aid of the self-serving careerist Ken Livingstone… Five years in which the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign has initiated some of the central economic debates about the entire world….. Including the role of the financial institutions in CREATING poverty, disparity as part and parcel of their ‘busyness’…. Five years during which time KHOODEELAAR! has said that the EXISTING transport infrastructure in London was in serious need of repair, that the existing transport infrastructure related to overwhelming number of travelling needs of the people of and in London, that the existing transport needs if addressed would solve the most urgent problems … FIIVE years in which KHOODEELAAR! has been showing up and drawing attention to the absurdity of the crassly conceived CrossRail hole scam being mysteriously promoted by cabal words and phrases like ‘vital’, ‘largest civil engineering project in Western Europe’ or sometimes ‘in the whole world’, instead of correlating it to the actual transport and the economic and the environmental needs in London….[To be continued]
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