2155 Hrs GMT London Thursday 2 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! that David Cameron was just as pathetic as the rest of them. He has no clue as to what the people are saying about MPs discrediting ‘democracy’, discrediting Parliament and making society worse.….
[To be continued]
From the web site of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5094284/MPs-salaries-could-be-increased-in-exchange-for-cuts-in-allowances.html
MPs salaries 'could be increased in exchange for cuts in allowances'
MPs' salaries could be significantly increased in exchange for cutting controversial parliamentary allowances, David Cameron has suggested.
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 9:16PM BST 02 Apr 2009
Tony McNulty, the employment minister, is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner, over the use of the allowance Photo: PA
The Conservative leader has signalled he is prepared to look at a rise in MPs' pay in order to get rid of the £24,000 allowance members can claim to fund a second home and cut the total bill to taxpayers.
The Additional Costs Allowance has been at the heart of a string of recent scandals. Two ministers, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, and Tony McNulty, the employment minister, are being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner, over their use of the allowance.
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Miss Smith has faced criticism for designating her sister's home in London as her primary residence, allowing her to claim the ACA to fund her family home in Redditch. As part of the claim for that home, Miss Smith claimed public money for pornographic films watched by her husband.
In a BBC radio interview, Mr Cameron, suggested two alternatives: tightening the ACA rules, or replacing it with a salary increase for MPs, who would then fund their homes from their own pockets.
"Either you have more regulation, you say you have a proper declaration from MPs about why they need this allowance, where they live and all the rest of it, so that that there isn't any of this monkey business about pretending that your second home isn't a second home," Mr Cameron told Five Live.
"The other path is that you replace it with a sum of money that costs less than the current system and you deal with it in that way."
He added: "Frankly I don't mind which one we go for. I just want us to sort it out. "
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, has suggested the allowance could be scrapped and replaced with a single "attendance allowance" to MPs for every night they spend in London.
Tory sources said Mr Cameron may be open to that, but pointed to concerns that similar allowances have been abused in the European Parliament.
MPs are now paid a salary of £64,766. Many claim that their pay has failed to keep pace with that of comparable professionals and privately say they will only give up their allowances in exchange for a big salary increase.
Some £11.6 million of public money was paid out under the ACA in 2007/08, which has fuelled growing public anger over parliamentary perks in recent years.
MPs can use the allowance to pay utility bills, council tax, satellite TV subscriptions and buy household goods from the so-called "John Lewis List" of approved items.
They can also pay mortgages, and many are known to have acquired valuable properties which they retain after leaving the Commons.
More than 150 MPs claimed the maximum amount of ACA during 2007/08.
Mr Cameron said that that regular revelations about MPs' use of expenses is now threatening public confidence in the entire political system.
He said: "Our politics being dragged through the mud is not just bad for the House of Commons, it's bad for the country."
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Now even in central London, they are following our concerns!
2055 Hrs GMT London Thursday 2 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Now even in central London, they are following our concerns! They are saying, in effect, that we have been correct to point out the CRASSness of Crossrail promoters. THose [promoters have behaved throughout with no regard for the people who are seriously affected by the scam.. They have shown the same contempt to the people affected as they have to those who put formal objections to the various bodies and eventually to the formal Houses of Parliament Crossrail Bill Committees [January 2006 to July 2008] ...... The people now raising their objections and complaining about Crossrail tunnelling spoils and trucks noise and pollution may be in central London but they are echoing the very sound, the valid concerns that people in the East End of London have raised for more than five years now.. The opposition to Crossrail noise, daily disruption and pollution on central London highlights the concern that KHOODEELAAR! has been focussing on about the recklessness of the scam.… [To be continued]
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/04/02/66494/200-trucks-a-day-in-central-london-during-crossrail.html
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'200 trucks a day' in central London during Crossrail
12:30 02 Apr 2009
By Aaron Morby
Lord Berkeley has called for Crossrail to reopen disused Royal Mail tunnels under London to shift spoil from the project and avert traffic chaos in the Capital.
He warned the present plan to dispose of spoil from massive station excavations by lorry threatened traffic gridlock as hundreds of trucks a day are expected to pass through London's busy West End.
Lord Berkeley, who is also chairman of the Rail Freight Group, said: "More than 200 truck movements a day will be needed to shift the spoil from the station excavations like Tottenham Court Road. This will create traffic chaos in London.
He was speaking at the annual parliamentary reception of the Construction Product Association attended by senior politicians and members of the construction industry.
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He told ContractJournal.com: "It makes much more sense to use the network of disused Royal Mail tunnels to convey the the tunnelling waste away below the streets of London. The old mail tunnels happen to run very close to the big station sites at Bond Street, Farringdon and Tottenham Court Road.
"It wouldn't take much extra tunnelling to link up the sites and then run converyors or small spoil trains along the former mail train tracks."
He added: "How do you put a price on the cost of running 200 lorries a day through the already congested streets of London."
It is understood the option to reopen the mail tunnels was considered by Crossrail but was rejected in favour of shifting muck by lorry.
Doug Oakervee, Crossrail chairman, is understood to be in favour of the plan to reduce traffic congestion but the rest of the project's board are understood to be against reopening the mail tunnels.
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Now even in central London, they are following our concerns! They are saying, in effect, that we have been correct to point out the CRASSness of Crossrail promoters. THose [promoters have behaved throughout with no regard for the people who are seriously affected by the scam.. They have shown the same contempt to the people affected as they have to those who put formal objections to the various bodies and eventually to the formal Houses of Parliament Crossrail Bill Committees [January 2006 to July 2008] ...... The people now raising their objections and complaining about Crossrail tunnelling spoils and trucks noise and pollution may be in central London but they are echoing the very sound, the valid concerns that people in the East End of London have raised for more than five years now.. The opposition to Crossrail noise, daily disruption and pollution on central London highlights the concern that KHOODEELAAR! has been focussing on about the recklessness of the scam.… [To be continued]
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/04/02/66494/200-trucks-a-day-in-central-london-during-crossrail.html
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'200 trucks a day' in central London during Crossrail
12:30 02 Apr 2009
By Aaron Morby
Lord Berkeley has called for Crossrail to reopen disused Royal Mail tunnels under London to shift spoil from the project and avert traffic chaos in the Capital.
He warned the present plan to dispose of spoil from massive station excavations by lorry threatened traffic gridlock as hundreds of trucks a day are expected to pass through London's busy West End.
Lord Berkeley, who is also chairman of the Rail Freight Group, said: "More than 200 truck movements a day will be needed to shift the spoil from the station excavations like Tottenham Court Road. This will create traffic chaos in London.
He was speaking at the annual parliamentary reception of the Construction Product Association attended by senior politicians and members of the construction industry.
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He told ContractJournal.com: "It makes much more sense to use the network of disused Royal Mail tunnels to convey the the tunnelling waste away below the streets of London. The old mail tunnels happen to run very close to the big station sites at Bond Street, Farringdon and Tottenham Court Road.
"It wouldn't take much extra tunnelling to link up the sites and then run converyors or small spoil trains along the former mail train tracks."
He added: "How do you put a price on the cost of running 200 lorries a day through the already congested streets of London."
It is understood the option to reopen the mail tunnels was considered by Crossrail but was rejected in favour of shifting muck by lorry.
Doug Oakervee, Crossrail chairman, is understood to be in favour of the plan to reduce traffic congestion but the rest of the project's board are understood to be against reopening the mail tunnels.
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the further defecting of the world's economies by a form of Quantitative Faking...
1300 Hrs GMT London Thursday 2 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the further defecting of the world's economies by a form of Quantitative Faking...
[More updates to follow]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the further defecting of the world's economies by a form of Quantitative Faking...
[More updates to follow]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the wastefulness of G20 summitiaring
1355 Hrs GMT London Thursday 2 Ap[ril 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the wastefulness of G20 summitiaring
[To be continued]
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23670350-details/Hosting+G20+summit+%27will+cost+taxpayers+80million%27/article.do
Hosting G20 summit 'will cost taxpayers £80million'
Jonathan Prynn
02.04.09
Hosting the G20 summit will cost Britain's economy £80million, more than four times the Government's official estimate.
As well as the bills for costs such as police overtime, food, hotel rooms and goodie bags for visiting dignitaries, there will also be a big knock-on effect for businesses in London, according to an economic think tank's calculations.
Foreign office minister and G20 special envoy Lord Malloch-Brown estimated the cost to the taxpayer at only £19million insisting it would be "worth it". But Douglas McWilliams, head of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, said this was a huge underestimate as it does not include the impact on the private sector.
He said: "First, transport is disrupted we estimate a cost is lost productivity from greater time spent in transport because of increased security and shut roads of £28.2 million.
"And if a fifth of the workers in central London have to go home an hour early for fear of disruption this would cost a further £24.4million." He added that the taxpayer would likely have to fork out another £10million for all the months of preparation and concluded: "It is unlikely that Londoners and the UK taxpayer will get away with a bill of much less than £80 million."
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "An incredible amount of taxpayers' money is being spent on Gordon Brown's political posturing. While he is jet-setting around, the rest of the country want genuine help such as lower taxes."
The Government has insisted that the gathering has been a "budget" summit and Lord Malloch-Brown said: "If [the summit] is the signal of restored confidence in the world economy it'll be worth every penny."
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Mr. Brown, Have you not already succeeded in doing what any other primemister has failed to do? You have already bankrupt Britian, and now you hosting summits to boost your ego. none of these countries are interested in bring economic stability due to the fact that it was created by the united states and Britain, and whilst Obama has apologised to some extend, we have had no app=ology from Brown.
Why would India be interested in an economic stimulus? their economy is still growing 6-7% a year, it about time Britain faced the truth - we are bankrupt and it will take several decades to recover from the position our Banks have placed us in.
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KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the wastefulness of G20 summitiaring
[To be continued]
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23670350-details/Hosting+G20+summit+%27will+cost+taxpayers+80million%27/article.do
Hosting G20 summit 'will cost taxpayers £80million'
Jonathan Prynn
02.04.09
Hosting the G20 summit will cost Britain's economy £80million, more than four times the Government's official estimate.
As well as the bills for costs such as police overtime, food, hotel rooms and goodie bags for visiting dignitaries, there will also be a big knock-on effect for businesses in London, according to an economic think tank's calculations.
Foreign office minister and G20 special envoy Lord Malloch-Brown estimated the cost to the taxpayer at only £19million insisting it would be "worth it". But Douglas McWilliams, head of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, said this was a huge underestimate as it does not include the impact on the private sector.
He said: "First, transport is disrupted we estimate a cost is lost productivity from greater time spent in transport because of increased security and shut roads of £28.2 million.
"And if a fifth of the workers in central London have to go home an hour early for fear of disruption this would cost a further £24.4million." He added that the taxpayer would likely have to fork out another £10million for all the months of preparation and concluded: "It is unlikely that Londoners and the UK taxpayer will get away with a bill of much less than £80 million."
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "An incredible amount of taxpayers' money is being spent on Gordon Brown's political posturing. While he is jet-setting around, the rest of the country want genuine help such as lower taxes."
The Government has insisted that the gathering has been a "budget" summit and Lord Malloch-Brown said: "If [the summit] is the signal of restored confidence in the world economy it'll be worth every penny."
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Gordon you are fired.....
- London Eye, UK
Mr. Brown, Have you not already succeeded in doing what any other primemister has failed to do? You have already bankrupt Britian, and now you hosting summits to boost your ego. none of these countries are interested in bring economic stability due to the fact that it was created by the united states and Britain, and whilst Obama has apologised to some extend, we have had no app=ology from Brown.
Why would India be interested in an economic stimulus? their economy is still growing 6-7% a year, it about time Britain faced the truth - we are bankrupt and it will take several decades to recover from the position our Banks have placed us in.
- Raminber Bhalla, Northolt
Gee Crash, did you not think you were unpopular enough with the electorate - not that we ever got a chance to vote for/against you! - but you wanted to put the final nail in your coffin?
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! It is the Military industrial complex running the show in fact... Brown is set to fall back on THEIR agenda.....
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/business/10300397.html
KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown again: Don't get sermonising again. Quit fakery. Face the facts. Scrap over-stimulating fakery. Scrap Crossrail.
0900 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 2 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown again: Don't get sermonising again. Quit fakery. face the facts. Scrap over-stimulating fakery. Scrap Crossrail. Get the principle and scrap talking fakery. Quit faking policy.
[To be continued]
London Thursday 2 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown again: Don't get sermonising again. Quit fakery. face the facts. Scrap over-stimulating fakery. Scrap Crossrail. Get the principle and scrap talking fakery. Quit faking policy.
[To be continued]