1928 Hrs GMT London Thursday 7 May 2009
KHOODEELAAR! commenting [1] on the latest engagement over the rights of the Gurkhas, showing that Gordon Brown does not quite get it.
For if Brown had got it, he would not be having Woolas. Any Woolas. Woolas may think that he is crafty enough to come across as being honest, competent and fair. But somewhere along the way, he is leaving some of his brains behind.
It is not a dignified sight whatever.
He is evidently feeling the POWER of the campaign that has Joanna Lumley at the front. But this is NOT about Joanna Lumley. Although the headlines and the video clips have made it look to be so.. Brown clearly thinks it is about Joanna Lumley.
Mostly about Joanna Lumley. Hence his meeting with her at half past two yesterday.
The plight of the Gurkhas is a spectacle of inhumanity as perpetrated to them, and through them, by Empire.
And as an unreconstructed racist imperialist, Gordon Brown is right in a hole that he cannot cut his way out of. But then he won’t spend his way out of either. And he won’t be reasonable, fair or just. And he most certainly wont stop being racist.
That shows the many layers of duplicity and dishonesty that Brown is getting wrapped in and inside of.
KHOODEELAAR! again advises Brown: quit faking. Scrap the fakery. End the breaches. Tell the truth. Be fair to ordinary people. Stop touting for the big time crooks and interests. Salute the soldiers. Let the soldiers in. They sacrificed their lives to let you brag of Empire. Now let them in. And let them be.
[To be continued]
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! commenting [4] on the UK Opposition spokesman Phillip Hammond's admission that Crossrail is on the list of scams to be cut!
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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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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KHOODEELAAR! No to a stooged, dishonest, lazy, unrigorous, unrepresentative, undemocratic, sleaze-ball Parliament...
0515 Hrs GMT London Thusrday 7 May 2009: KHOODEELAAR! TELLING YOU SO! The Muhammad Haquw commentary on the morass that is powerr politics in the UK. Gordon Brown used a phrase we have been using for years to describe the Blairing violations. The dark age’. Will Brown have the ethics and the courage to come out of that dark hole..? As EVEN Hazel Blears has shown, CrossRail is not worth wasting so much public effort, energy and good will on. And as Hazel Blears has also set in motion albeit possibly unintentionally a debate about democracy, Crossrail is an imposition through and through. At the Prime Minister’s Questions [PMQs] in the OTT-designated Palace of Westminster yesterday [Wednesday 6 May 2009] the two main Opposition Parties, allowed to be treated as such by the status quo, failed to scrutinise Gordon Brown on issues that matter. Including on CrossRail. It is no good David Cameron behaving like a bully. Even if he may not intend to remind anyone of his true Bullingdon Club propensities. But on the evidence of his behaviour at PMQs on 6 May 2009, Cameron came across more as a Bullingdon Club bully than as the next holder of the office about which he feigned to symbolise the pretensions. The general election is not over and done with yet. And Cameron has got to do more than just parrot the names of Thatcher and Blair in the same incredibly careless breath. One very good thing Cameron did to the critics of those two [Maggie Hilda Roberts Thatcher and Tony Bliar] was that Cameron confirmed beyond any doubt that Blair was INDEED Thatcher’s son. Politically speaking, of course. Now what is Cameron going to be? He cannot be a stepson. And he cannot be Thatcher’s son now.It is too late for all of that. So Cameron’s task is to really come out of HIS bunker. And show the world what is it that he has got that Gordon Brown doesn’t. Apart from the bullying tendencies and tantrums. There is no serious political alternative in his, David Cameron’s bag. Nor is there anything at all in Nick Clegg’s cache! Or Pouch. Everyone has written off Gordon Brown. And we can see why. But to dislodge Brown from his post is not good enough. The people deserve much better than that. We need policies that are better. On the facts. On the evdience. In real life. To ordinary people. And we need true sustained and manifest integrity from those who will presumably deliver those. Neither Cameron nor Clegg gave us anything at all in that direction… Which means the campaign against Crossrail hole agenda will be carried on by the people down in the inner city East End of London until the scam is definitively ditched… The FT’s negative report about Tory non-commitment and the London EVENING STANDARD’s latest item along those lines are not definitive enough. We demand the full truth be told. Then we can focus on oytehr apsects of the community’s needs…
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KHOODEELAAR! noting that our diagnosis of the Blair disasters repeated by Brown, has now been vindicated in Hazel Blears’ role - 2
KHOODEELAAR! noting that our diagnosis of the Blair disasters repeated by Brown, has now been vindicated in Hazel Blears’ role - 2
[To be continued]
From The Times
May 5, 2009
Hazel Blears at centre of row over £16 billion Crossrail project
Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor
Hazel Blears is at the centre of a Cabinet row over the future of the £16 billion London Crossrail project, The Times has learnt.
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has agreed with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, in preventing businesses from being given a vote on whether they should help to fund the controversial scheme.
But the Department of Communities and Local Government, run by Ms Blears, refuses to exempt Crossrail from a requirement to ballot companies if they are being asked to shoulder more than a third of a scheme’s cost.
Mr Johnson has committed £3.5 billion towards the cost of the new rail route linking Heathrow and Canary Wharf, pledging to raise the cash through an additional levy on business rates in the capital from next year.
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He plans to take advantage of new legislation going through Parliament that would allow local authorities extra powers to raise tax.
Mr Johnson fears that opponents of Crossrail could start a legal challenge to force him to hold a vote in the absence of a formal exemption.
John Healey, a junior minister in Ms Blears’s department, has already rejected attempts to amend the law insisting: “I cannot accept . . . that there should be one rule for London and one rule for the rest of the country.” But an aide of Mr Johnson described persuading businesses in London to pay for Crossrail as “unwinnable” and said that Ms Blears’s intransigence risked throwing the scheme’s complex funding package into doubt.
A senior Whitehall official said that the mayor is being supported by Mr Darling and Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary, who are trying to force Ms Blears to back down. The row has increased from officials to ministers and is set for Cabinet confrontation, according to one observer.
“The fear is that unless there is a specific exemption then the rules as they apply to Crossrail could be subject to a judicial review,” an official said. “We accept the point that Boris, in the year before a mayoral election and just after a major recession, could not be expected to win a ballot of businesses on Crossrail.”
The scheme, which has been delayed, would give London a new east-west rail link, but has been identified as a possible cost-cutting target of a Conservative government. However, Mr Johnson’s attempts to win an exemption from a business ballot have been supported by Bob Neill, Mr Cameron’s shadow minister for local government.
Mr Johnson has defended the plan to raise business rates to meet the cost of Crossrail, claiming that firms stand to gain significantly from improved transport links. “Not only will it deliver jobs and growth in the short term, it will help to make our city far more liveable and more attractive as a place to come and invest,” he said.
“When this recession ends, as it surely will, Crossrail will make London a far better place to compete. This is one of those moments in politics when you reverse the usual rule and get in a hole — and keep on digging.”
HAVE YOUR SAY
Anyone that has to commute into London will acknowledge that major investment is needed.
Crossrail will bring much needed jobs in the short term, especially in the construction sector which has been one of the worst hit by the recession, and provide upgraded infrastructure for the future.
Russ, Watford,
It is easy to advocate the abandoning of Crossrail if you don't have to suffer crush loading of the tube, which is why it is needed. Contracts have already been signed which commit TfL and the government to heavy expenditure. It must be built if London is to remain credible as a business centre.
Derek Monnery, Bradfield, Essex
Hmmm, two days after Blears says that the emperor has no clothes, it is "revealed" that she is impeding Crossrail and at odds with cabinet colleagues.
Are you SURE that McBride has gone ? Or is this his understudy Ed Balls ?
Pam Granger, Cranbrook, UK
Read all 4 comments
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[To be continued]
From The Times
May 5, 2009
Hazel Blears at centre of row over £16 billion Crossrail project
Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor
Hazel Blears is at the centre of a Cabinet row over the future of the £16 billion London Crossrail project, The Times has learnt.
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has agreed with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, in preventing businesses from being given a vote on whether they should help to fund the controversial scheme.
But the Department of Communities and Local Government, run by Ms Blears, refuses to exempt Crossrail from a requirement to ballot companies if they are being asked to shoulder more than a third of a scheme’s cost.
Mr Johnson has committed £3.5 billion towards the cost of the new rail route linking Heathrow and Canary Wharf, pledging to raise the cash through an additional levy on business rates in the capital from next year.
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He plans to take advantage of new legislation going through Parliament that would allow local authorities extra powers to raise tax.
Mr Johnson fears that opponents of Crossrail could start a legal challenge to force him to hold a vote in the absence of a formal exemption.
John Healey, a junior minister in Ms Blears’s department, has already rejected attempts to amend the law insisting: “I cannot accept . . . that there should be one rule for London and one rule for the rest of the country.” But an aide of Mr Johnson described persuading businesses in London to pay for Crossrail as “unwinnable” and said that Ms Blears’s intransigence risked throwing the scheme’s complex funding package into doubt.
A senior Whitehall official said that the mayor is being supported by Mr Darling and Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary, who are trying to force Ms Blears to back down. The row has increased from officials to ministers and is set for Cabinet confrontation, according to one observer.
“The fear is that unless there is a specific exemption then the rules as they apply to Crossrail could be subject to a judicial review,” an official said. “We accept the point that Boris, in the year before a mayoral election and just after a major recession, could not be expected to win a ballot of businesses on Crossrail.”
The scheme, which has been delayed, would give London a new east-west rail link, but has been identified as a possible cost-cutting target of a Conservative government. However, Mr Johnson’s attempts to win an exemption from a business ballot have been supported by Bob Neill, Mr Cameron’s shadow minister for local government.
Mr Johnson has defended the plan to raise business rates to meet the cost of Crossrail, claiming that firms stand to gain significantly from improved transport links. “Not only will it deliver jobs and growth in the short term, it will help to make our city far more liveable and more attractive as a place to come and invest,” he said.
“When this recession ends, as it surely will, Crossrail will make London a far better place to compete. This is one of those moments in politics when you reverse the usual rule and get in a hole — and keep on digging.”
HAVE YOUR SAY
Anyone that has to commute into London will acknowledge that major investment is needed.
Crossrail will bring much needed jobs in the short term, especially in the construction sector which has been one of the worst hit by the recession, and provide upgraded infrastructure for the future.
Russ, Watford,
It is easy to advocate the abandoning of Crossrail if you don't have to suffer crush loading of the tube, which is why it is needed. Contracts have already been signed which commit TfL and the government to heavy expenditure. It must be built if London is to remain credible as a business centre.
Derek Monnery, Bradfield, Essex
Hmmm, two days after Blears says that the emperor has no clothes, it is "revealed" that she is impeding Crossrail and at odds with cabinet colleagues.
Are you SURE that McBride has gone ? Or is this his understudy Ed Balls ?
Pam Granger, Cranbrook, UK
Read all 4 comments
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0312 Hrs GMT London Thusrday 7 May 2009
KHOODEELAAR! noting that our diagnosis of the Blair disasters repeated by Brown, has now been vindicated in Hazel Blears’ role - 2
KHOODEELAAR! noting that our diagnosis of the Blair disasters repeated by Brown, has now been vindicated in Hazel Blears’ role - 2
KHOODEELAAR! finds, on the facts, that UK Tory Party leader Dave Cameron is regressing to the Bullington Club bullying culture
0205 Hrs GMT London Thusrday 7 May 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole scam agenda..
As EVEN Hazel Blears has shown, CrossRail is not worth wasting so much public effort, energy and good will on. And as Blears has also set in motion albeit possibly unintentionally a debate about democracy, Crossrail is an imposition through and through. At the Prime Minister's Questions [PMQs] in the OTT-designated Palace of Westminster yesterday [Wednesday 6 May 2009] the two main Opposition Parties, allowed to be treated as such by the status quo, failed to scrutinise Gordon Brown on issues that matter. Including on CrossRail. It is no good David Cameron behaving like a bully.
Even if he may not intend to remind anyone of his true Bullingdon Club propensities. But on the evidence of his behaviour at PMQs on6 May 2009,
Cameron came across more as a Bullingdon Club bully than as the next holder of the office about which he feigned to symbolise the pretensions. The general election is not over and done with yet.
And Cameron has got to do more than just parrot the names of Thatcher and Blair in the same incredibly careless breath. One very good thing Cameron did to the critics of those two was that Cameron confirmed beyond any doubt that Blair was INDEED Thatcher’s son. Politically speaking, of course.
Now what is Cameron going to be? He cannot be a stepson. And he cannot be Thatcher’s son now.It is too late for all of that. So Cameron’s task is to really come out of HIS bunker. And show the world what is it that he has got that Gordon Brown doesn't.
Apart from the bullying tendencies and tantrums. There is no serious political alternative in his bag. Nor is there anything at all in Clegg’s cache! Or Pouch. Everyone has written off Gordon Brown. And we can see why. But to dislodge Brown from his post is not good enough. The people deserve much better than that.
We need policies that are better. And integrity from those who ill presumably deliver those. Neither Cameron nor Clegg gave us anything at all in that direction… Which means the campaign against Crossrail hole agenda will bow carried on by the people down in the inner city East End of London until the scam is definitively ditched…
The FT’s negative report about Tory non-commitment and the London EVENING STANDARD’s latest item along those lines are not definitive enough.
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole scam agenda..
As EVEN Hazel Blears has shown, CrossRail is not worth wasting so much public effort, energy and good will on. And as Blears has also set in motion albeit possibly unintentionally a debate about democracy, Crossrail is an imposition through and through. At the Prime Minister's Questions [PMQs] in the OTT-designated Palace of Westminster yesterday [Wednesday 6 May 2009] the two main Opposition Parties, allowed to be treated as such by the status quo, failed to scrutinise Gordon Brown on issues that matter. Including on CrossRail. It is no good David Cameron behaving like a bully.
Even if he may not intend to remind anyone of his true Bullingdon Club propensities. But on the evidence of his behaviour at PMQs on
Cameron came across more as a Bullingdon Club bully than as the next holder of the office about which he feigned to symbolise the pretensions. The general election is not over and done with yet.
And Cameron has got to do more than just parrot the names of Thatcher and Blair in the same incredibly careless breath. One very good thing Cameron did to the critics of those two was that Cameron confirmed beyond any doubt that Blair was INDEED Thatcher’s son. Politically speaking, of course.
Now what is Cameron going to be? He cannot be a stepson. And he cannot be Thatcher’s son now.It is too late for all of that. So Cameron’s task is to really come out of HIS bunker. And show the world what is it that he has got that Gordon Brown doesn't.
Apart from the bullying tendencies and tantrums. There is no serious political alternative in his bag. Nor is there anything at all in Clegg’s cache! Or Pouch. Everyone has written off Gordon Brown. And we can see why. But to dislodge Brown from his post is not good enough. The people deserve much better than that.
We need policies that are better. And integrity from those who ill presumably deliver those. Neither Cameron nor Clegg gave us anything at all in that direction… Which means the campaign against Crossrail hole agenda will bow carried on by the people down in the inner city East End of London until the scam is definitively ditched…
The FT’s negative report about Tory non-commitment and the London EVENING STANDARD’s latest item along those lines are not definitive enough.