KHOODEELAAR! noting the reported claims by JM Ross, one of the peddlers of the myth that Crossrail hole scam was to 'save the East End of London'. We shall examine SHORTLY this myth and its latest perpetration by the smirking slot that has been being maintained on the website of the London Guardian for the restoration of Ken Livingstone's claims and careers.

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Regarding Crossrail one of the biggest fights we had with the City of London was to make sure the line went into East London - that is into London's most deprived areas. I had blazing public rows with the City Corporation at public meetings over the route, to make sure the East London southern section was included, and then more polite but firm ones took place between Ken and the City to make sure Whitechapel station was not cut out of the scheme - the significance of this is that is the interchange with the East London line. I am absolutely sure if Boris Johnson had been Mayor Crossrail would not have gone to East London...



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KHOODEELAAR! contextually publishing of the texts of a comment [carried on the FT's web site September 2009] exposing the London FT's ignorant peddling of Crossrail

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A slightly [two words] edited [04 February 2010]  version of the texts published in September 2009 as a comment on the Financial Times blog:

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Crossrail is not a going concern. It is a slogan. So please stop referring to it as if it is already there. What you and others in the main media have done is to talk up a very small number of business persons who have not shown any valid economic case for this. Sure, a handful of companies will get to construct any project and in the process pocket loads of public money. But what is the economics of the thing? Look at the 'news' of the past five years, since February 2005 when Alistair Darling first put the Crossrail Bill in the House of Commons. What has led the way in the 'Crossrail news'? Hype, hype and even more hype. There is no need for Crossrail. Far more sensible is to improve the standard of service and the physical state of the existing tube lines and bus routes in London. Whatever the Tories may say or do is less important than what the economy needs and what the economic capacity is for funding such a luxury. What is so wrong in being prudent in the ordinary, pre-GB [Gordon Brown] sense of the behaviour? Unless someone has a secret plan waiting for a line of the description of ‘Crossrail’ which plan will be magically brought into play - delivering goodies and benefits that the world of transport has not heard of or experienced so far - as soon as there is operational line called Crossrail, there is no point in wasting breath on it. Let alone wasting scarce £Billions on it. And we knew why the scheme has had to be shelved in various forms before there has never been any economic justification for it. No wonder the official promoter of the Crossrail Bill ensured that neither MPs nor Peers could be allowed to really question anyone  about the hundreds of iffy, suspect aspects of the scheme. Not least of which has been its costs. As opposed to unproved economic or environmental benefits in the overall context.

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The KHOODEELAAR! CAMAPGN against Big Business agenda Crossrail hole scam has been part of a movement for the defence of the East End of London that had gone on for decades.

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The KHOODEELAAR! CAMAPGN against Big Business agenda Crossrail hole scam has been part of a movement for the defence of the East End of London that had gone on for decades.

That movement is active now in the continuing defence of all universally recognised rights, values and demands of the ordinary people in the East End of London.

The vehicle of our movement is and has been the rational one, again as based on universal criteria and standards as founded on the struggles of millennia for justice and say.

Our supporters have correctly perceived the direction and have shown, as in the following extract taken from one of the thousands of our posts published on UK Indymedia in 2006:

KHOODEELAAR! CONTEXTUAL action flashback to Wednesday 1 March 2006 when we demonstrated against the Crossrail hole scam-inviter clique in control of the Tower Hamlets Council. One participant in our demonstration, local [‘Bethnal Green and Bow constituency] MP George Galloway, invoked the 1930s spirit of the East End of London: THEY SHALL NOT PASS! The battle against Big Business MIC agenda continues on 4 February 2010 with Khoodeelaar! reiterating the resolution, "They shall not pass”.

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KHOODEELAAR!  CONTEXTUAL action flashback to Wednesday 1 March 2006 when we demonstrated against the Crossrail hole scam-inviter clique in control of the Tower Hamlets Council. One participant in our demonstration, local [‘Bethnal Green and Bow constituency] MP George Galloway, invoked the 1930s spirit of the East End of London: THEY SHALL NOT PASS! The battle against Big Business MIC agenda continues on 4 February 2010 with Khoodeelaar! reiterating the resolution, "They shall not pass”.

[To be continued] 

Crossrail shall not pass through Brick Lane

03.03.2006 11:43

Me and my mates with you all the way.

We are ready to back you 100 percent and we are going to stop that CrossRail digging or vandalising our area.

I have mates in Stepney that are keen to come and join the fight against CrossRail

I have mates in Whitechapel that are getting organised to stop CrossRail attacking our east end.

Good luck to you brothers and sisters well done for this fight keep it up and we are with you all the way.

Solidarity and as Salaam to you all

East End Youth

George Galloway MP - summary of speech against Crossrail hole Bill

03.03.2006 16:52

This Edition of Khoodeelaaronline has been updated [3rd Edition of the day] at 1630 Hrs GMT on Friday 3 March 2006 from London United Kingdom

Key points from the speech against Crossrail hole delivered by George Galloway MP at the Khoodeelaar! demonstration on 1 March 2006:-

1. George Galloway MP for Bethnal Green and Bow spoke at the Khoodeelaar! Demonstration against Tower Hamlets Council over that Council’s role on Crossrail hole Bill, on Wednesday 1 March 2006 outside the ‘Town hall’ Mulberry Place in London E 14.

2. His first point was that he had just been to a meeting at the Home Office in London. He said that Tony McNulty, a Home Office minister, was about to publish new rules that would adversely affect the people in the Brick Lane London E1 area.

3. Galloway then stated factual links that explained the real agenda of the Blaired UK Government in its push for the Crossrail hole across the East End Borough of Tower Hamlets – to dispossess the people, to devastate the area and to make the area ready for takeover by the Big Business interests and Big capital

4. Galloway also recalled that the way that the Crossrail hole plan was being pushed had telling similarities with the way that the British Union of Fascists fronted by Oswald Mosley had targeted the then mainly-Jewish inhabited parts of the same East End of London. Galloway paid tributes to the fighters against Mosley’s Fascists and reiterated the determination of today’s. East End campaigners against the Crossrail hole attacks to stop the Crossrail passing through our area. “They shall not pass” said George Galloway, evoking the spirit of the 1930s East End anti-fascists. “They shall not pass” echoed the demonstrators. “Crossrail shall not pass” said demonstration leader Muhammad Haque., “Crossrail shall not pass” said the demonstrators.

[These khoodeelaar! news and events reports are to continue]

Tower Hamlets Crossrail-hole councillors behaved as bullies

04.03.2006 12:37

Khoodeelaaronline received [on Thursday 2 March 2006] comments from one of the speakers at the Khoodeelaar! demonstration against Crossrail-hole Council - outside the Tower Hamlets 'Town Hall' on 1 March 2006.

Speaking to KHOODEELAARonline, Kay Jordan, the director of the Spitalfields Small Business Association [SSBA] said,

“I am disgusted with the behaviour of those individuals who insulted a woman councillor and tried to undermine her confidence as she spoke in support of her motion.

That motion had more sense in it than the contents of the motions put forward by the whole lot of them on the subject over the past three years.

They are forcing the community to have no tolerance towards them. If they will not even show respect to a woman speaking in support of the community, which is what that motion was then what is the point of our having a so-called elected council?

Are they saying that they will bully us because they can do so in the safety of the council chamber?

Do they think we are stupid and won’t notice how they are treating this one councillor who had the guts to stand up and speak out against the wrong polices of this Council?

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