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KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on Crossrail-scam-peddler Alistair Darling's multiple holes of failures....22.04.2009
0920 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 22 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on Crossrail-scam-peddler Alistair Darling's multiple holes of failures....22.04.2009
Where Khoodeelaar! leads, the Daily Telegraph and the Tories can only follow... And that is not to speak of tim Willcox of BBC News Channel..
They were 'convinced' that the real central core problem was best expressed in one word: hole!
Will IMPRUDENT Brown let incredible Alistair to learn the lesson and confess to having it wrong and drop CRASSrail wasteful;l debtsful hole, and make amends in today’s Budget?
[To be continued]
Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown vanish down budget black hole
Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown were spotted vanishing down a black hole outside the Treasury in a tongue-in-cheek depiction of the country's finances.
By Sarah Knapton
Last Updated: 9:28AM BST 22 Apr 2009
The Chancellor will admit that the Government is likely to lose about £60 billion from the rescue of British banks including RBS, Lloyds and Northern Rock Photo: PA
The chalk-drawn street art was commissioned by the Conservative party ahead of the budget on Wednesday and featured caricatures of the Prime Minister and Chancellor disappearing down a cavernous gap in the pavement followed by Mr Darling's red box.
Putting the finishing touches to the design were artists Max Lowry and Joe Hill working for Street Advertising Services.
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The stunt was designed to highlight what the Tories say is a "black hole" in the country's finances created by Labour's unprecedented levels of borrowing.
Shadow treasury spokesman, David Gauke said: "It's a great drawing and it makes the very good point that there is a black hole in the public finances that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are disappearing into. We just hope they don't take the rest of the country with them."
He said that the Party was "expecting that the Government is going to announce that the UK is borrowing more than almost any other major economy in the world. We are borrowing far too much, it is unsustainable.
"What we hope is that the Government will today hold up its hands and say that what we have at the moment is not something that can be sustained and that there is a clear route out, but what we fear is more gimmicks and more borrowing."
He said: "We need to see what the Government announces so we have got a clearer picture of the state of the economy."
He admitted that the party was worried that they would be handed a shaky economy if they took power at the next election.
He said: "Compared to the golden legacy that Gordon Brown inherited when he became chancellor it looks like this Government is going to leave the country in a complete mess."
London Wednesday 22 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on Crossrail-scam-peddler Alistair Darling's multiple holes of failures....22.04.2009
Where Khoodeelaar! leads, the Daily Telegraph and the Tories can only follow... And that is not to speak of tim Willcox of BBC News Channel..
They were 'convinced' that the real central core problem was best expressed in one word: hole!
Will IMPRUDENT Brown let incredible Alistair to learn the lesson and confess to having it wrong and drop CRASSrail wasteful;l debtsful hole, and make amends in today’s Budget?
[To be continued]
Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown vanish down budget black hole
Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown were spotted vanishing down a black hole outside the Treasury in a tongue-in-cheek depiction of the country's finances.
By Sarah Knapton
Last Updated: 9:28AM BST 22 Apr 2009
The Chancellor will admit that the Government is likely to lose about £60 billion from the rescue of British banks including RBS, Lloyds and Northern Rock Photo: PA
The chalk-drawn street art was commissioned by the Conservative party ahead of the budget on Wednesday and featured caricatures of the Prime Minister and Chancellor disappearing down a cavernous gap in the pavement followed by Mr Darling's red box.
Putting the finishing touches to the design were artists Max Lowry and Joe Hill working for Street Advertising Services.
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The stunt was designed to highlight what the Tories say is a "black hole" in the country's finances created by Labour's unprecedented levels of borrowing.
Shadow treasury spokesman, David Gauke said: "It's a great drawing and it makes the very good point that there is a black hole in the public finances that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are disappearing into. We just hope they don't take the rest of the country with them."
He said that the Party was "expecting that the Government is going to announce that the UK is borrowing more than almost any other major economy in the world. We are borrowing far too much, it is unsustainable.
"What we hope is that the Government will today hold up its hands and say that what we have at the moment is not something that can be sustained and that there is a clear route out, but what we fear is more gimmicks and more borrowing."
He said: "We need to see what the Government announces so we have got a clearer picture of the state of the economy."
He admitted that the party was worried that they would be handed a shaky economy if they took power at the next election.
He said: "Compared to the golden legacy that Gordon Brown inherited when he became chancellor it looks like this Government is going to leave the country in a complete mess."
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the crass confession by the CRASSRAIL-peddlers at the GUARDIAN, London
0748 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 22 April 2009
CRASS role as peddler of lying CRASSrail scam, by the Guardian and Dan Milmo.. It admits that CRASSRAIL is NOT essentially about anything to do with transport for the people of London. It says as follows
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This month Network Rail embarked on a five-year £35bn spending programme including the construction of Crossrail, which will connect Canary Wharf to Heathrow, and an overhaul of the Thameslink rail route through central London.
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Government could boost rail work and target fare dodgers in £250m package
Dan Milmo
The Guardian, Monday 13 April 2009
Article history
The government is considering a £250m stimulus package for the railways aimed at boosting revenues and passenger numbers.
It is understood that Network Rail, the owner of Britain's rail infrastructure, has been asked to select projects that can be brought forward at a cost to the taxpayer of between £200m and £250m. The government has ruled out giving money to train operators struggling with expensive franchise contracts, but they are expected to benefit from the expenditure. The package, if agreed, could be timed to coincide with the budget later this month.
The measures are expected to increase train operator revenues by clamping down on fare dodgers, and increase passenger numbers by making rail travel more attractive for less frequent train users. Network Rail is considering investing the money in improving station access, which train operators believe will boost off-peak travel by attracting the elderly and mothers with young children.
Train operators are keen to sell more off-peak tickets because they are contracted to run a high number of services during quiet times of day, when there is less demand from commuters.
Network Rail is also considering bringing forward investment in ticket barriers. Fare dodging is thought to cost the industry 5% of its annual revenues, or about £270m, and the transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, has asked train operators to propose gating schemes. Lord Adonis, the rail minister, told the Guardian last month that such a scheme would be popular. "There is wide support from passengers for gating because they don't like huge amounts of people not paying for fares that they then have to subsidise." Station car parks would also benefit from the programme.
The potential investment was welcomed by environmental and public transport groups, who have written to the chancellor, Alistair Darling, to request a local transport stimulus in the budget. "We welcome this and it will encourage people to use trains rather than cars," said Stephen Joseph, executive director of the Campaign for Better Transport.
This month Network Rail embarked on a five-year £35bn spending programme including the construction of Crossrail, which will connect Canary Wharf to Heathrow, and an overhaul of the Thameslink rail route through central London."
CRASS role as peddler of lying CRASSrail scam, by the Guardian and Dan Milmo.. It admits that CRASSRAIL is NOT essentially about anything to do with transport for the people of London. It says as follows
“
This month Network Rail embarked on a five-year £35bn spending programme including the construction of Crossrail, which will connect Canary Wharf to Heathrow, and an overhaul of the Thameslink rail route through central London.
“
"
Government could boost rail work and target fare dodgers in £250m package
Dan Milmo
The Guardian, Monday 13 April 2009
Article history
The government is considering a £250m stimulus package for the railways aimed at boosting revenues and passenger numbers.
It is understood that Network Rail, the owner of Britain's rail infrastructure, has been asked to select projects that can be brought forward at a cost to the taxpayer of between £200m and £250m. The government has ruled out giving money to train operators struggling with expensive franchise contracts, but they are expected to benefit from the expenditure. The package, if agreed, could be timed to coincide with the budget later this month.
The measures are expected to increase train operator revenues by clamping down on fare dodgers, and increase passenger numbers by making rail travel more attractive for less frequent train users. Network Rail is considering investing the money in improving station access, which train operators believe will boost off-peak travel by attracting the elderly and mothers with young children.
Train operators are keen to sell more off-peak tickets because they are contracted to run a high number of services during quiet times of day, when there is less demand from commuters.
Network Rail is also considering bringing forward investment in ticket barriers. Fare dodging is thought to cost the industry 5% of its annual revenues, or about £270m, and the transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, has asked train operators to propose gating schemes. Lord Adonis, the rail minister, told the Guardian last month that such a scheme would be popular. "There is wide support from passengers for gating because they don't like huge amounts of people not paying for fares that they then have to subsidise." Station car parks would also benefit from the programme.
The potential investment was welcomed by environmental and public transport groups, who have written to the chancellor, Alistair Darling, to request a local transport stimulus in the budget. "We welcome this and it will encourage people to use trains rather than cars," said Stephen Joseph, executive director of the Campaign for Better Transport.
This month Network Rail embarked on a five-year £35bn spending programme including the construction of Crossrail, which will connect Canary Wharf to Heathrow, and an overhaul of the Thameslink rail route through central London."
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the crass effects of Crossrail - They want a Wales-CrAss-rail because London has Billions spent on CrAssrail!
0728 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 22 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the crass effects of Crossrail - They want a Wales-CrAss-rail because London has Billions spent on CrAssrail!
How is that significant?
Because, as Khoodeelaar! has been pointing out since 2004, the CRASSLY conceived Crossrail is NOT a scheme to meet an urgent need. It is to abuse an existing need and to serve other purposes other than that need..
Hence we point out again that the Wales online item does not say that there is a NEED for Wales Crossrail . It says they are spending £Billions on Crossrail in London and if they can do that then they can also let us have some of the same type of funds in Wales....
That is what KHOODEELAAR! calls CRASS EFFECTS of Crossrail
[To be continued]
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From the webs site of Wales online
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/04/20/labour-minister-opposes-royal-mint-privatisation-91466-23422333/
Labour minister opposes Royal Mint privatisation
Apr 20 2009 by David Williamson, Western Mail
ONE of the most senior Labour politicians in Wales last night condemned any suggestion that the Royal Mint should be privatised in this week’s Budget.
Chancellor Alistair Darling is understood to be considering selling off the Royal Mint, based in Llantrisant, and the Land Registry, which has operations in Swansea.
Pontypridd AM Jane Davidson – who is also Environment Minister in the Assembly Government – said: “I can see absolutely no need for the Mint to go into the private sector because it’s running at a profit. It’s the most efficient it’s ever been.
“The workforce has been slimmed down twice in the 10 years I’ve been an AM.”
There has been past speculation that the Royal Mint could be privatised, but it is now looking increasingly likely this will be announced in Mr Darling’s statement on Wednesday.
Gerry Grimstone, chairman of Standard Life and a former Treasury official who handled privatisations in the Thatcher Government, was appointed last year to review assets which could be sold off.
But Ms Davidson said: “I have never believed one should go into ideological mode, that you have competition for the sake of it. It seems entirely wrong if something is working.”
Other assets which could be heading for privatisation include London’s Covent Garden fruit market and the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre.
The Chancellor is expected to announce that borrowing for this financial year will total £160bn – 35% more than forecast in November.
Yesterday, in a YouTube video message, Mr Darling acknowledged there had been a “huge downturn” but insisted the “underlying strengths” of British industry would help the nation take advantage when the global economy emerged from recession.
New privatisations will be a further test for Labour’s relationship with the trade union movement.
David Prentis, general secretary of Unison, is due to say today that the Government is losing the trust of public sector workers “in their droves”.
Mr Prentis will tell the 1,000 delegates at the union’s health conference in Harrogate that “fundamental flaws” in private finance initiative school and hospital building projects had “come home to roost” and have had to be bailed out.
“Big business will only take the profit, but won’t shoulder the risk, while ordinary workers, expecting to put in a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, are rewarded with threats of job cuts, low or no pay and privatisation.”
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said the Budget would bring a “day of reckoning” for Labour and called for spending plans to be scrapped.
He refused to rule out tax rises under a Conservative government to bring debt down, but said the focus of his efforts was on public spending “restraint”.
He said: “Indeed, I think on Wednesday Alistair Darling can make a start by making it clear the spending plans already pencilled in by the Labour Party – a 1.1% increase in spending in future years – is already unrealistic and that number needs to come down.
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru have called for an All Wales Rail Network to be announced as part of a “People’s Budget”.
The party’s Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd demanded a fiscal stimulus that would “massively improve” the public transport network in Wales – including the creation of a railway line linking North and South Wales without needing to cross the border into England.
He said: “The UK Government is spending billions on developing public transport in London through Crossrail and we in Wales should be given the money to develop a similar cross-Wales plan.
“The plans would also include the re-opening of the West Wales line, once again linking Carmarthen with Aberystwyth so that we no longer face the ridiculous situation of going from Swansea, Cardiff or Newport up to Shrewsbury so that we can reach West Wales.”
Plaid will announce further details of its Budget proposals today.
It claims it would be funded by ending “tax loopholes that allow extra pension relief for higher-rate taxpayers”.
Phil Silverthorne, executive director of training agency A4e Wales, said: “In the last recession that hit in the late 1980s, early 1990s, there was an enterprise allowance scheme that was set up to help people start up a new business. Today there are the tax credits available, but these are only there if you have a family,” he said.
“There needs to be a huge stimulus that will kick-start business start-ups and encourage people to begin spending so that businesses can begin to grow once again and start employing.”
London Wednesday 22 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the crass effects of Crossrail - They want a Wales-CrAss-rail because London has Billions spent on CrAssrail!
How is that significant?
Because, as Khoodeelaar! has been pointing out since 2004, the CRASSLY conceived Crossrail is NOT a scheme to meet an urgent need. It is to abuse an existing need and to serve other purposes other than that need..
Hence we point out again that the Wales online item does not say that there is a NEED for Wales Crossrail . It says they are spending £Billions on Crossrail in London and if they can do that then they can also let us have some of the same type of funds in Wales....
That is what KHOODEELAAR! calls CRASS EFFECTS of Crossrail
[To be continued]
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From the webs site of Wales online
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/04/20/labour-minister-opposes-royal-mint-privatisation-91466-23422333/
Labour minister opposes Royal Mint privatisation
Apr 20 2009 by David Williamson, Western Mail
ONE of the most senior Labour politicians in Wales last night condemned any suggestion that the Royal Mint should be privatised in this week’s Budget.
Chancellor Alistair Darling is understood to be considering selling off the Royal Mint, based in Llantrisant, and the Land Registry, which has operations in Swansea.
Pontypridd AM Jane Davidson – who is also Environment Minister in the Assembly Government – said: “I can see absolutely no need for the Mint to go into the private sector because it’s running at a profit. It’s the most efficient it’s ever been.
“The workforce has been slimmed down twice in the 10 years I’ve been an AM.”
There has been past speculation that the Royal Mint could be privatised, but it is now looking increasingly likely this will be announced in Mr Darling’s statement on Wednesday.
Gerry Grimstone, chairman of Standard Life and a former Treasury official who handled privatisations in the Thatcher Government, was appointed last year to review assets which could be sold off.
But Ms Davidson said: “I have never believed one should go into ideological mode, that you have competition for the sake of it. It seems entirely wrong if something is working.”
Other assets which could be heading for privatisation include London’s Covent Garden fruit market and the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre.
The Chancellor is expected to announce that borrowing for this financial year will total £160bn – 35% more than forecast in November.
Yesterday, in a YouTube video message, Mr Darling acknowledged there had been a “huge downturn” but insisted the “underlying strengths” of British industry would help the nation take advantage when the global economy emerged from recession.
New privatisations will be a further test for Labour’s relationship with the trade union movement.
David Prentis, general secretary of Unison, is due to say today that the Government is losing the trust of public sector workers “in their droves”.
Mr Prentis will tell the 1,000 delegates at the union’s health conference in Harrogate that “fundamental flaws” in private finance initiative school and hospital building projects had “come home to roost” and have had to be bailed out.
“Big business will only take the profit, but won’t shoulder the risk, while ordinary workers, expecting to put in a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, are rewarded with threats of job cuts, low or no pay and privatisation.”
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said the Budget would bring a “day of reckoning” for Labour and called for spending plans to be scrapped.
He refused to rule out tax rises under a Conservative government to bring debt down, but said the focus of his efforts was on public spending “restraint”.
He said: “Indeed, I think on Wednesday Alistair Darling can make a start by making it clear the spending plans already pencilled in by the Labour Party – a 1.1% increase in spending in future years – is already unrealistic and that number needs to come down.
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru have called for an All Wales Rail Network to be announced as part of a “People’s Budget”.
The party’s Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd demanded a fiscal stimulus that would “massively improve” the public transport network in Wales – including the creation of a railway line linking North and South Wales without needing to cross the border into England.
He said: “The UK Government is spending billions on developing public transport in London through Crossrail and we in Wales should be given the money to develop a similar cross-Wales plan.
“The plans would also include the re-opening of the West Wales line, once again linking Carmarthen with Aberystwyth so that we no longer face the ridiculous situation of going from Swansea, Cardiff or Newport up to Shrewsbury so that we can reach West Wales.”
Plaid will announce further details of its Budget proposals today.
It claims it would be funded by ending “tax loopholes that allow extra pension relief for higher-rate taxpayers”.
Phil Silverthorne, executive director of training agency A4e Wales, said: “In the last recession that hit in the late 1980s, early 1990s, there was an enterprise allowance scheme that was set up to help people start up a new business. Today there are the tax credits available, but these are only there if you have a family,” he said.
“There needs to be a huge stimulus that will kick-start business start-ups and encourage people to begin spending so that businesses can begin to grow once again and start employing.”
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the reported new pasture for Derek Conway, MP!!! on a day like this! And 'Cherie Blair's half sister'!!!
0708 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 22 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the reported new pasture for Derek Conway, MP!!! on a day like this!
A day when EVEN the most immoral of the ‘British press’ is able to credibly deride and denounce the greed of British MPs!
The report as carried in the ‘gossip’ column of the still publishing London daily Independent is full of clues and ironies about the brazenness of those in Britain who trade IN THE NAME of other people....
Derek Conway is also a new arrival at a particular location along with the strangest of ‘relatives’ [not Derek Conway's. On this occasion, although he too has created a sort of a record by his OWN RELATIVE values trade], Lauren Booth, whose ‘blood, family and feud’ links vis a vis Tony Blair have ensured that she has successfully got herself into a business and enterprise status that she would never have had......And those cheques from the London Daily Mail media group have always been useful.....
It is very odd that Lauren Booth keeps on appearing on the oddest of places and each time she is given a description not based on her originality or contribution but on her alleged blood and family links with Tony Blair, one way or another...
As far as our researches show, she has not made a headline by PROTESTING against, let alone DISOWNING, those links. Not yet. May be after THIS, she will....
We campaign sometimes in rhetorical hope...
From the web site of the London daily the Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-tony-lets-his-star-shine-in-hollywood-1672114.html
Conway's latest wheeze? Working for Tehran
News of a new departure for Derek Conway, poster boy for expense-fiddling MPs around the nation. We hear that he has recently joined Press TV, an English-language "news" channel funded by the Iranian government. In doing so Conway – who was last year ejected from the Conservative Party after placing family members on the House of Commons payroll – finds himself in the illustrious company of George Galloway, who hosts his own weekly show, and Lauren Booth, Cherie's younger half-sister and occasional contributor to the station. Quite what role Conway is to fulfil, we're not yet sure, though it seems safe to assume that his dandyish son Henry – "blond, bouncy and one for the boys" – won't be helping out around the office this time.
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the reported new pasture for Derek Conway, MP!!! on a day like this!
A day when EVEN the most immoral of the ‘British press’ is able to credibly deride and denounce the greed of British MPs!
The report as carried in the ‘gossip’ column of the still publishing London daily Independent is full of clues and ironies about the brazenness of those in Britain who trade IN THE NAME of other people....
Derek Conway is also a new arrival at a particular location along with the strangest of ‘relatives’ [not Derek Conway's. On this occasion, although he too has created a sort of a record by his OWN RELATIVE values trade], Lauren Booth, whose ‘blood, family and feud’ links vis a vis Tony Blair have ensured that she has successfully got herself into a business and enterprise status that she would never have had......And those cheques from the London Daily Mail media group have always been useful.....
It is very odd that Lauren Booth keeps on appearing on the oddest of places and each time she is given a description not based on her originality or contribution but on her alleged blood and family links with Tony Blair, one way or another...
As far as our researches show, she has not made a headline by PROTESTING against, let alone DISOWNING, those links. Not yet. May be after THIS, she will....
We campaign sometimes in rhetorical hope...
From the web site of the London daily the Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-tony-lets-his-star-shine-in-hollywood-1672114.html
Conway's latest wheeze? Working for Tehran
News of a new departure for Derek Conway, poster boy for expense-fiddling MPs around the nation. We hear that he has recently joined Press TV, an English-language "news" channel funded by the Iranian government. In doing so Conway – who was last year ejected from the Conservative Party after placing family members on the House of Commons payroll – finds himself in the illustrious company of George Galloway, who hosts his own weekly show, and Lauren Booth, Cherie's younger half-sister and occasional contributor to the station. Quite what role Conway is to fulfil, we're not yet sure, though it seems safe to assume that his dandyish son Henry – "blond, bouncy and one for the boys" – won't be helping out around the office this time.
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! action flashback and update on the LYING corrupt 'local' paper the 'East London Idiotiser' -
From the KHOODEELAAR! Organiser Muhammad Haque's diagnostic communication sent to Malcolm Starbrook, ‘editor of the ‘East London Idiotiser’ on 12 February 2008:
We are running in April 2009 the KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of the ‘East London Idiotiser’ as made in February 2008, because, as we had accurately diagnosed then, the Idiotiser was a persistently faking, lying organ that was operating a fake outfit .. which was more aligned to the Crossrail hole scam-inviting cabal on the Tower Hamlets Council than all the Idiotiser’s accumulated statements of denial would suggest. The statements of denial meaning that the Idiotiser was somewhat opposed to the Council’s conduct.
[To be continued]
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Khoodeelaar! Complaints [latest] against the “ELA” -
Part 1 of the substantive response to Mr Starbrook – 1
as at 1035 Hrs GMT Monday 11 February 2008
This is being sent despite our previous emails saying
that a longer amount of time would be needed for our
reply to your e-mail in view of the large number of
documentary materials that we have had to create and
obtain concerning the conduct of the ‘ELA’.
1. The attached e-mail was sent to your reporter [and
or ‘deputy editor’ and or ‘news editor,’ and or foc
and or ‘chief reporter’] Mr Ted Jeory dated 12
December 2007, and is self-explanatory. It was sent in
good faith and in direct response to Mr Ted Jeory’s
invitation to us to the effect that a right of reply
was available to us as an option.
2. The ‘right of reply’ was not allowed to us in
print. That was typical conduct.
3. In the actual presentation of the campaign demands
and position to the ‘full council’ on 28 November
2007, I covered a wide range of key issues. Those are
far more important than the word ‘disruption’ denotes.
4. Did that presentation occur in ‘big’ sentences too?
Or did I use an alien language there as well?
5. This is a reference to racist bias prejudice and
ignorance. If it is not racist bias then I want to
know what it is.
6. Given that Mr Ted Jeory sat literally within inches
from the spot occupied by six other Khoodeeaar!
Campaign members who were near me as I spoke, what
could have been the explanation for reducing all of
that to a simple concept of disruption?
7. The work created by Khoodeelaar! over the past 4
years plus in defence of the community in the East End
against the agenda that Crossrail hole plot typifies,
is VERY unique. NO session of the Tower Hamlets
Council , whether as ‘full council ’ or as
‘committee’ has come to match, let alone supersede far
less surpass [as judged objectivity] that work in any
significant way.. Yet ‘reading’ the ‘coverage’ in the
‘ELA’ it would be impossible to even imagine that that
has been the case. The ‘ELA’ policy is demonstrably to
side with the Tower Hamlets Council’s pro-Crossrail
hole plot controlling clique.
8. The space given to the Tower Hamlets Council’s
alleged campaign against the Crossrail hole plot is
unjustified and it is irresponsible. The facts are
that the controlling clique continues to back the
fundamentally flawed scheme. That is not the position
of any ‘campaigner against the same scheme’ on the
facts, there has been no campaign by the Tower Hamlets
Council if there were then we would not have to have
been doing 4 years of hard work.
9. On every count, we have been and are continuing to
be the campaigners aghast the Crossrail hole. And the
majority of the energy of our campaign has been
devoted to countering the behaviour f the Tower
Hamlets Council . Yet the ‘ELA’ keeps finding excuses
to paint the Tower Hamlets Council as a campaigner.
This conduct is dishonest And a lie. And it must not
be repeated. If it is repeated then there cannot be
any other basis for doing it other than that the ‘ELA’
is biased and prejudiced against us and in favour of
the wrong-doing clique.
10. Khoodeelaar! has been requested by hundreds of
people from Stepney through Whitechapel to Brick Lane
to represent their opposition to the Crossrail hole
plot to the House of Lords . That we are doing. Yet
the ‘ELA’ has neither the space nor the inclination to
report this.
11. The allegedly 2 page spread that the ‘ELA’ carried
in 2006 was full of factual errors, inaccuracies and
fabrications. Despite our pointing this out in great
detail soon afterwards, the errors have been allowed
to stay uncorrected. As has the Khoodeelaar! Campaign
being put on the side as an occasional thing.
12. No-one would know by reading the ‘ELA’ that we
are directly auditing and dealing with all published
and publicized components of the Crossrail plot scheme
on a daily basis. If nut on an hourly basis during
some parts of every week!
13. Strangely, [1] there appear to be some
mysteriously persistent and large space being
allocated to characters that do nit really warrant the
plugs. Perhaps the ‘decision-makers’ on the ELA are
too preoccupied with finding excuses to plugs these
spurious elements to be able to report the campaign
against the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of
London…
14. How many other campaigners have taken their
demands or arguments to the legislative upper chamber
of the UK Parliament from the East End of London apart
from Khoodeelaar! and our associated campaigners?
15. Strangely [2] , some dubious and totally
unrepresentative elements keep being featured in the
‘ELA’ as if they speak for the community on the
issues concerned.
16. There are several hundred other items that we
shall be referring to in due course. Those will
include precise factual items that the ‘ELA’ has been
getting wrong despite being given the correct facts,
the correct context, history, reference and despite
being very clearly and repeatedly told not to get the
stuff so wrong..
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ffice of Fair Trading probe into council newspapers on the rates
20 April 2009
By Malcolm Starbrook
THE Office of Fair Trading is looking at the effects on Britain’s struggling local press by town halls running their own free newspapers out of council tax.
It is part of a review into press ownership and follows a consultation paper in which the competition watchdog invited the regional publishing industry to submit evidence about the public sector media.
The OFT has held meetings with the Newspaper Society and the newly formed Local Media Alliance which have both raised fears about the impact town halls are having on the already-fragile regional media.
RISING PRESSURE
Publishers are under increasing pressure from public sector bodies developing their own media outlets such as newspapers and online TV channels paid for out of council tax, it has been told.
The local authorities that submitted a response to the OFT investigation argued that their own communications were important to ensure accountability.
Some said it was important to make a distinction between reducing their ad costs in local newspapers and directly competing for advertising revenue in the open market.
BATTLEGROUND
The situation in East London is becoming more of a battleground.
Barking & Dagenham council is to launch a newspaper paid for by local taxes which is to carry council advertising rather than the authority placing ads in the local press as it has always done traditionally for the past 90 years. Neighbouring Newham is now considering launching its own newspaper.
Both follow the example of Tower Hamlets which has been running its weekly East End Life launched in direct competition with the long-established East London Advertiser which marked its 122nd anniversary in November. It is paid for out of town hall coffers—both the printing and its massive distribution to nearly every property in the East End.
BIASED
The Advertiser has been running its own campaign with Government ministers, now backed by Opposition local councillors this week.
Both Conservative and Respect Opposition groups at Tower Hamlets have complained that the Labour-controlled East End Life ignored their alternative budget proposals. They claim it is biased while only giving coverage to Labour’s budget—which is one of the few in London to rise this year.
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Open letter to MP Denis MacShane, from retired Australian newspaper correspondent Leo Chapman now living in London.
We are running in April 2009 the KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of the ‘East London Idiotiser’ as made in February 2008, because, as we had accurately diagnosed then, the Idiotiser was a persistently faking, lying organ that was operating a fake outfit .. which was more aligned to the Crossrail hole scam-inviting cabal on the Tower Hamlets Council than all the Idiotiser’s accumulated statements of denial would suggest. The statements of denial meaning that the Idiotiser was somewhat opposed to the Council’s conduct.
[To be continued]
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Khoodeelaar! Complaints [latest] against the “ELA” -
Part 1 of the substantive response to Mr Starbrook – 1
as at 1035 Hrs GMT Monday 11 February 2008
This is being sent despite our previous emails saying
that a longer amount of time would be needed for our
reply to your e-mail in view of the large number of
documentary materials that we have had to create and
obtain concerning the conduct of the ‘ELA’.
1. The attached e-mail was sent to your reporter [and
or ‘deputy editor’ and or ‘news editor,’ and or foc
and or ‘chief reporter’] Mr Ted Jeory dated 12
December 2007, and is self-explanatory. It was sent in
good faith and in direct response to Mr Ted Jeory’s
invitation to us to the effect that a right of reply
was available to us as an option.
2. The ‘right of reply’ was not allowed to us in
print. That was typical conduct.
3. In the actual presentation of the campaign demands
and position to the ‘full council’ on 28 November
2007, I covered a wide range of key issues. Those are
far more important than the word ‘disruption’ denotes.
4. Did that presentation occur in ‘big’ sentences too?
Or did I use an alien language there as well?
5. This is a reference to racist bias prejudice and
ignorance. If it is not racist bias then I want to
know what it is.
6. Given that Mr Ted Jeory sat literally within inches
from the spot occupied by six other Khoodeeaar!
Campaign members who were near me as I spoke, what
could have been the explanation for reducing all of
that to a simple concept of disruption?
7. The work created by Khoodeelaar! over the past 4
years plus in defence of the community in the East End
against the agenda that Crossrail hole plot typifies,
is VERY unique. NO session of the Tower Hamlets
Council , whether as ‘full council ’ or as
‘committee’ has come to match, let alone supersede far
less surpass [as judged objectivity] that work in any
significant way.. Yet ‘reading’ the ‘coverage’ in the
‘ELA’ it would be impossible to even imagine that that
has been the case. The ‘ELA’ policy is demonstrably to
side with the Tower Hamlets Council’s pro-Crossrail
hole plot controlling clique.
8. The space given to the Tower Hamlets Council’s
alleged campaign against the Crossrail hole plot is
unjustified and it is irresponsible. The facts are
that the controlling clique continues to back the
fundamentally flawed scheme. That is not the position
of any ‘campaigner against the same scheme’ on the
facts, there has been no campaign by the Tower Hamlets
Council if there were then we would not have to have
been doing 4 years of hard work.
9. On every count, we have been and are continuing to
be the campaigners aghast the Crossrail hole. And the
majority of the energy of our campaign has been
devoted to countering the behaviour f the Tower
Hamlets Council . Yet the ‘ELA’ keeps finding excuses
to paint the Tower Hamlets Council as a campaigner.
This conduct is dishonest And a lie. And it must not
be repeated. If it is repeated then there cannot be
any other basis for doing it other than that the ‘ELA’
is biased and prejudiced against us and in favour of
the wrong-doing clique.
10. Khoodeelaar! has been requested by hundreds of
people from Stepney through Whitechapel to Brick Lane
to represent their opposition to the Crossrail hole
plot to the House of Lords . That we are doing. Yet
the ‘ELA’ has neither the space nor the inclination to
report this.
11. The allegedly 2 page spread that the ‘ELA’ carried
in 2006 was full of factual errors, inaccuracies and
fabrications. Despite our pointing this out in great
detail soon afterwards, the errors have been allowed
to stay uncorrected. As has the Khoodeelaar! Campaign
being put on the side as an occasional thing.
12. No-one would know by reading the ‘ELA’ that we
are directly auditing and dealing with all published
and publicized components of the Crossrail plot scheme
on a daily basis. If nut on an hourly basis during
some parts of every week!
13. Strangely, [1] there appear to be some
mysteriously persistent and large space being
allocated to characters that do nit really warrant the
plugs. Perhaps the ‘decision-makers’ on the ELA are
too preoccupied with finding excuses to plugs these
spurious elements to be able to report the campaign
against the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of
London…
14. How many other campaigners have taken their
demands or arguments to the legislative upper chamber
of the UK Parliament from the East End of London apart
from Khoodeelaar! and our associated campaigners?
15. Strangely [2] , some dubious and totally
unrepresentative elements keep being featured in the
‘ELA’ as if they speak for the community on the
issues concerned.
16. There are several hundred other items that we
shall be referring to in due course. Those will
include precise factual items that the ‘ELA’ has been
getting wrong despite being given the correct facts,
the correct context, history, reference and despite
being very clearly and repeatedly told not to get the
stuff so wrong..
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ffice of Fair Trading probe into council newspapers on the rates
20 April 2009
By Malcolm Starbrook
THE Office of Fair Trading is looking at the effects on Britain’s struggling local press by town halls running their own free newspapers out of council tax.
It is part of a review into press ownership and follows a consultation paper in which the competition watchdog invited the regional publishing industry to submit evidence about the public sector media.
The OFT has held meetings with the Newspaper Society and the newly formed Local Media Alliance which have both raised fears about the impact town halls are having on the already-fragile regional media.
RISING PRESSURE
Publishers are under increasing pressure from public sector bodies developing their own media outlets such as newspapers and online TV channels paid for out of council tax, it has been told.
The local authorities that submitted a response to the OFT investigation argued that their own communications were important to ensure accountability.
Some said it was important to make a distinction between reducing their ad costs in local newspapers and directly competing for advertising revenue in the open market.
BATTLEGROUND
The situation in East London is becoming more of a battleground.
Barking & Dagenham council is to launch a newspaper paid for by local taxes which is to carry council advertising rather than the authority placing ads in the local press as it has always done traditionally for the past 90 years. Neighbouring Newham is now considering launching its own newspaper.
Both follow the example of Tower Hamlets which has been running its weekly East End Life launched in direct competition with the long-established East London Advertiser which marked its 122nd anniversary in November. It is paid for out of town hall coffers—both the printing and its massive distribution to nearly every property in the East End.
BIASED
The Advertiser has been running its own campaign with Government ministers, now backed by Opposition local councillors this week.
Both Conservative and Respect Opposition groups at Tower Hamlets have complained that the Labour-controlled East End Life ignored their alternative budget proposals. They claim it is biased while only giving coverage to Labour’s budget—which is one of the few in London to rise this year.
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Open letter to MP Denis MacShane, from retired Australian newspaper correspondent Leo Chapman now living in London.