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Monday 5 October 2009:
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KHOODEELAAR! The evidential, the environmental, the economic, the legal, the ethical, the constitutional law campaign against “the big business looters’ agenda Crossrail scam” has told them so for years. That there is no such thing as ‘Crossrail’. What there is at most is a project. We call it the big business Crossrail scam. And we do so again this evening [Monday 05 October 2009] as based on the report we reproduce from the web site of the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER. We reproduce the item because it too contains new evidence of the crassness of those who peddle the CrossRail scam. What is the crassness? For a start, it is the pretence that lying for Crossrail will make the scam legitimate. Theresa Villiers is quoted by the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER as saying “I totally appreciate the benefits of Crossrail. However, we have also said that we will work hard to ensure value for money across government spending. There will be no exceptions to that.” KHOODEELAAR! Has edited bits of the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER here. But we have retained the original attributed texts. What the Villiers spiel says is that she is faking it. Again. And doing so by ignoring the KHOODEELAAR! Advice that we have been publishing over the past 2 days. If Villiers fully appreciates the benefits of CrossRail, what is then stopping her from spelling those out? And her ‘appreciation’ is not really enhanced by the predictably shoddy plug for CRASSrail that is attributed by NEW CIVIL ENGINEER to Steve Norris. Neither Villiers nor Norris nor indeed the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER at all mentions the small matter of transport in London. We have said that the word ’transport’ carries more accurate meaning and substance than the word Crossrail. In fact the word ‘Crossrail’ stands for a scam at the expense of transport in London. And there is the core of Crossrail crassness. They get the facts twisted. They get the needs confused. They then get the costs and the benefits totally messed up. This is why we have argued that before the 'Crossrail Bill' was given the rubber stamp by the stooged MPs and the stooged peers in the Palace of Ghostsminster, the purpose, the demand and the economic benefits as well as the environmental implications should have been examined in detail. They did not do that. One of the consequences of that failure is this endless CRASS peddling of a liability that the UK economy does not need and the public have not asked for.
[To be continued]
Crossrail must make: "significant savings"
5 October, 2009 | By Ed Owen
Crossrail will be under pressure to come in well under its £16bn budget under a Conservative government, NCE can reveal.
Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers confirmed that: “I totally appreciate the benefits of Crossrail.
However, we have also said that we will work had to ensure value for money across government spending.
“There will be no exceptions to that,” she said.
Former Conservative Mayoral candidate Steven Norris said: “This is a value for money issue, and there are some value and improvements to be made,” he said.
But Norris said Crossrail chief executive Rob Holden should have a relatively easy time to make savings.
“When Crossrail was costes in 2007, the credit crunch has lowered prices by some 20%.
“So the ironic consequence is that they are in at a much better value for money and there is great incentive to come in well under the current [£16bn] figure,” he said.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential commentary on the confessions that Crossrail is crass as seen at today’s UK Con Party jamboree
KHOODEELAAR! evidential commentary on the confessions that Crossrail is crass as seen at today’s UK Con Party jamboree
1805 [1730] Hrs GMT London Monday 5 October 2009:
Editor © Muhammad Haque.
KHOODEELAAR! The evidential, the environmental, the economic, the legal, the ethical, the constitutional law campaign against “the big business looters’ agenda Crossrail scam” has told them so. We have done this for 5 years and nine months now. We have told them the UK economy, for what it was, was not capable of sustaining the waste and the debts and the burdens of a scam like Crossrail. We have said that there was no demand for Crossrail in the UK economy, even in 2004 when our campaign began. There most certainly is none now. We have said and we have shown, YEARS before Rod Eddington was even heard of in any form in the public and outside of his career field, that the UK railways infrastructure, the EXISTING one, was in need of urgent priority investment and repair. We have said this same thing about the ‘London transport infrastructure’. We have also argued that Alistair Darling should be held to account for abusing the stooged parliament for making the sum of £100Million of UK public money available to unaccountable cabals peddling CrossRail. We have asked for this for over three years now. We have done all of this in the public and have published our findings in the public domain. Yet not one UK mainstream, -or even sub stream - media has reported on the central concerns and issues. None of the media has acknowledged our reporting. Nor our fidnikngs. Nor indeed our warnings. All of which has come true. All of which has been vindicated. All of which has been shown to have been certifiably, demonstrably one hundred percent accurate. True. Valid. So it is very remarkable that one of the ‘construction conglomerates propaganda web sites publishes today [Monday 05 October 2009] a staggering confession attributed to Ken Livingstone's TfL man, Peter Hendy. Retained by Boris Johnson following Ken Livingstone’s departure from the Onion in London SE1 in May 2008, Peter Hendy has been pocketing huge sums of public money ion the unjustifiably grandly touted post of Transport ‘Commissioner’ without being held to account. Hendy is reported today as admitting almost as much as Khoodeelaar! has been telling TfL and Hendy for years to be the case. In this context and in the context created by the banal and the stupid incantation uttered by Boris Johnson in the staged Rightwing and Intolerant fabrication of the image of inner cities Britain today, we update and reiterate to Hendy, Johnson, Adonis, Cameron, Osborne, Hammond et al:
Quit faking, quit lying. Quit fabricating. And we do so again today in view of the so far published reports about the peddling for CrossRail scam that is taking place in Manchester, England during the staging in that city of the UK Con party annual jamboree. And the crassness of the peddling is inescapable. It shows in the reports. Say the Guardian website in the past 3 hours. It admits for the first time in that form [“...London's] £16bn Crossrail train scheme, but Cameron and Osborne are reported to see the scheme as a possible savings target.’] that D Cameron and G Osborne may scrap the CrossRail scam. The Khoodeelaar! Campaign against the CrossRail scam has been calling it a scam. [To be continued]
1805 [1730] Hrs GMT London Monday 5 October 2009:
Editor © Muhammad Haque.
KHOODEELAAR! The evidential, the environmental, the economic, the legal, the ethical, the constitutional law campaign against “the big business looters’ agenda Crossrail scam” has told them so. We have done this for 5 years and nine months now. We have told them the UK economy, for what it was, was not capable of sustaining the waste and the debts and the burdens of a scam like Crossrail. We have said that there was no demand for Crossrail in the UK economy, even in 2004 when our campaign began. There most certainly is none now. We have said and we have shown, YEARS before Rod Eddington was even heard of in any form in the public and outside of his career field, that the UK railways infrastructure, the EXISTING one, was in need of urgent priority investment and repair. We have said this same thing about the ‘London transport infrastructure’. We have also argued that Alistair Darling should be held to account for abusing the stooged parliament for making the sum of £100Million of UK public money available to unaccountable cabals peddling CrossRail. We have asked for this for over three years now. We have done all of this in the public and have published our findings in the public domain. Yet not one UK mainstream, -or even sub stream - media has reported on the central concerns and issues. None of the media has acknowledged our reporting. Nor our fidnikngs. Nor indeed our warnings. All of which has come true. All of which has been vindicated. All of which has been shown to have been certifiably, demonstrably one hundred percent accurate. True. Valid. So it is very remarkable that one of the ‘construction conglomerates propaganda web sites publishes today [Monday 05 October 2009] a staggering confession attributed to Ken Livingstone's TfL man, Peter Hendy. Retained by Boris Johnson following Ken Livingstone’s departure from the Onion in London SE1 in May 2008, Peter Hendy has been pocketing huge sums of public money ion the unjustifiably grandly touted post of Transport ‘Commissioner’ without being held to account. Hendy is reported today as admitting almost as much as Khoodeelaar! has been telling TfL and Hendy for years to be the case. In this context and in the context created by the banal and the stupid incantation uttered by Boris Johnson in the staged Rightwing and Intolerant fabrication of the image of inner cities Britain today, we update and reiterate to Hendy, Johnson, Adonis, Cameron, Osborne, Hammond et al:
Quit faking, quit lying. Quit fabricating. And we do so again today in view of the so far published reports about the peddling for CrossRail scam that is taking place in Manchester, England during the staging in that city of the UK Con party annual jamboree. And the crassness of the peddling is inescapable. It shows in the reports. Say the Guardian website in the past 3 hours. It admits for the first time in that form [“...London's] £16bn Crossrail train scheme, but Cameron and Osborne are reported to see the scheme as a possible savings target.’] that D Cameron and G Osborne may scrap the CrossRail scam. The Khoodeelaar! Campaign against the CrossRail scam has been calling it a scam. [To be continued]