ACTION ARCHIVE: Even the Murdoch Times admits: Crossrail London is an obsolete, redundant, wasteful plan!

Monday, 17 September 2007

Even the Murdoch Times admits: Crossrail London is an obsolete, redundant, wasteful plan!

Khoodeelaar! 'No to Crossrail hole plot' campaign analysis vindicated in the Times, London City Diary item exposing the Crossrail project as redundant. Even the Murdoch-owned London Times now recognises the essential wastefulness and CRASSness of the Crossrail holes plot ‘project’! Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign Points out that the Murdoch-owned London Times business diary is correct to recognise the CRASSNESS of Crossrail –__Khoodeelaar! Quoting the Times ‘City Diary’ by Martin Waller, London Friday 7 September 2007 “it seems pretty pointless to open a spanking new rail line and then funnel large numbers of unnecessary passengers on to it. Plus, do we really need more traffic through Heathrow?” From The Times London Friday 7 September 2007_With Crossrail up in the air, City Airport is safe for now. Martin Waller: City Diary. A weird row has blown up between Ken Livingstone and London City Airport after Ken apparently cast doubt over the airport’s future after the coming of Crossrail in 2012, no, 2015 . . . well, whenever. The argument was that as everybody could then get to Heathrow, we might not need City. This has understandably not gone down too well at the airport. Indeed, it seems pretty pointless to open a spanking new rail line and then funnel large numbers of unnecessary passengers on to it. Plus, do we really need more traffic through Heathrow? . At City airport, the windsock suggests the drift is in the other direction. It has just filed a planning application with Newham council to increase passenger numbers from 2.4 million to 3.9 million a year by 2010, I hear, a sharp acceleration on figures quoted a mere year ago. Still, without wishing to sound callous, if I thought I might lose my job on the coming of Crossrail, I’m not sure I’d be that worried. The Office of Rail Regulation has confirmed a fine of £2.4 million on Network Rail for “poor planning and risk assessment”. This reflects some malfeasance in the Portsmouth area rather than its day-to-day business, as you might have thought. What is the point of fining a body whose only recourse to funds is the public purse, a fact admitted by Jack Straw as Leader of the House earlier this year, despite the increasingly threadbare fiction that it is a “private company”? Should the regulator’s announcement not have read: “The ORR fines all 60 million of us 4p apiece for Network Rail’s poor planning?” The corrections column in The Guardian is a never-ending source of mirth. The paper has traduced Stanley O’Neal, chief executive of Merrill Lynch, by suggesting he earnt $91 million (£45 million) in 2006. Merrills says this includes share awards from prior years, and the poor man struggled on a mere $48 million. So that’s all right, then._Anji Hunter, the Blair insider who in 2003 was brought across to work for Lord Browne of Madingley at BP, has quietly resigned and will leave at the end of the year, I am told. Hunter was known as “Blair’s gatekeeper” for her control of access to No 10, but now both men are gone one might suspect she has outlived her usefulness. Interesting to see where she turns up next._No really, I couldn’t … Another slew of awards for the City, to be launched by the Variety Club, the children’s charity, for reasons that are not entirely clear, I confess. The awards will be presented on October 18 at Guildhall by Jerry Hall. There will be banker of the year, young City personality, City journalist and one for lifetime achievement as a fund manager. The first three have yet to be decided, but Anthony Bolton has already been selected for the last. The awards will be decided by a panel on which I imagine I already have far too many enemies to qualify._It is the 20th anniversary of Barney, the bilious pink dinosaur. To mark the occasion, I can pass on the odd fact that this most American of characters is apparently huge in the Middle East. .Or at least, those bits the Americans haven’t invaded yet. ._[Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque’s comments, as follows, has been published on the Times web site below Martin Waller’s City Diary 7 September 2007_Martin Waller sums up a core flaw in the current Crossrail scheme, which we have pointed out._“. it seems pretty pointless to open a spanking new rail line and then funnel large numbers of unnecessary passengers on to it. “Plus, do we really need ore traffic through Heathrow?” . Indeed . .So the answer to the pointlessness of Crossrail is to drop the scheme and stop any more public money being waste don it. . . And then address ALL of London’s [and the related UK economic] transport issues, problems, and solutions in a rational, environmentally and economically sound and sensible way. Let us also include the people in whose name Crossrail has been hyped and spun so far. Muhammad Haque, London. Khoodeelaar! unQuoting the Times ‘City Diary’ by Martin Waller, London Friday 7 September 2007_Posted in Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »_Khoodeelaar! ready to take UK Govt to court to stop CRASSrail hole attacks - More details due here over the next 24 hours. September 7th, 2007 by Khoodeelaar. Friday, September 7, 2007_Khoodeelaar! ready to take UK Govt to court to stop CRASSrail hole attacks - More details due here over the next 24 hours. The 13th Edition of the day at 2240 Hrs GMT London Friday 7 September 2007_AADHIKAR Media Foundation was established with the publication of the weekly AADHIKAR from London E1 UK on Monday 19 December 1980 . 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The Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bill news, comments and legal action updates and constitutional analyses are being pub shed by AADHIKAR Media Foundation on this web site and on related web sites BBC is lying again for CRASSrail. In a coy item, the BBC has just posted a speculation, no doubt as ‘leaked’ to the pro-Crossrail hole-plot-backer unit at the BBC by the chief Big Business CrossRail hole plot tout Ken Livingstone, saying that a decision on CrossRail is imminent. The BBC has not posted any facts other than that. In a one sentence monosyllabic statement uttered in the mouth of the autocue-reader in the 1030 PM [2130 GMT Friday 7 September 2007] London news bulletin on BBC1 TV, they said that an announcement would be possibly made at the Blaired party [former Labour] conference in two weeks time. The BBC did say in their coy-toy-like utterance mouthed by Louisa Preston, that CRASSrail would ‘revolutionise’ ….. Khoodeelaar! Will be examining all of that and will be posting our responses and our programme of action against any pro-Crossrail hole plotting ‘decision’. over the weekend and throughout the coming weeks. On the BBC web site they are running [at 2245 Hrs ~GMT 7 September 2007] the following statement , “Crossrail decision imminent. A final decision on the Crossrail project linking east and west London with a new tunnel is expected soon._“ Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail legal action programme – updates to be announced here on Saturday 8 September 2007 Khoodeelaar! legal action programme will include as defendants a number of Tower Hamlets council employees and councillors, as we have been making very clear all along. More details and info from KHOODEELAAR! will be posted here shortly.......Muhammad Haque on the ‘Poltics.co.uk’ web site, commenting on that web site’s coverage of Boris Johnson’s launch of his candidature as well as questioning Johnson himself and raising the issue of the three main political parties failing [and or refusing] to have any serious or any debate at a about CrossRail .“Boris launches ’serious’ mayoral campaign, can’t be serious in the ordinary sense if a he can do is to echo the current plugger for the Crossrail holes plot, Ken Livingstone. You have not shown any evidence in all your own retailing [to date] of the Crossrail hole plot that you are yourself running a serious debate on your web site about what the true transport needs and the reasonable solutions in London are. Crossrail is NOT a sound plan for appropriately and economically addressing the issue of Transport. . It is a City of London and Big Business plan. You should make this distinction and do so clearly. .The other point is that ALL THREE Parties in the UK House of Commons have been lobbied to back Big Business. There has not been any debate within any of the [three ‘mainstream’] parties [in the House of Commons] about transport. .Muhammad, London” .Khoodeelaar! The ‘No to Crossrail hole Bill’ campaign comment on Oxford Mail web site 07.09.2007 .By©Muhammad Haque__[quote] .__To quote your report on Boris Johnson’s launch of his London mayor candidature [generic - as he has yet to be officially adopted as the Tory party candidate] “a firm commitment to the CrossRail link from Paddington to Liverpool Street”! This is even more bizarre than all the other bizarre things we have identified in what we have called the ‘CRASSrail’ project. .Have the promoters of the CrossRail scheme already conceded that the scheme is CRASS and have curtailed it. We thought that the current CROSSRAIL BILL [in the UK House of Commons] was about a line that went as far as Shenfield in Essex and farther to the West of Paddington, at least to Heathrow! .We knew that Boris Johnson had changed his positions on things in the past. But this must be a first - changing the length of the Crossrail line and leaving out Heathrow even before he has been formally adopted and announced a Party candidate. at this rate, there may still be hope of getting rid of the CRASSrail altogether, so fundamentally flawed. __. And on this basis, we can back the campaign for Boris Johnson as mayor…hoping that by the time that the [scheduled May 2008] polling date is upon us, he will have waffled away the office of mayor of London too, thus saving the people of London.. .so much waste of time, resource and energy that the expensive ego-promo ton project of having a mayor has entailed… .___Khoodeelaar! the East London No to Crossrail Bill campaign [/quote] Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail agrees with London Times ‘City Diary’ about pointlessness of Crossrail Friday 7 September 2007 Khoodeelaar! organiser Muhammad Haque has posted a comment on the Times web site this morning [Friday 7 September 2007]: .Martin Waller sums up a core flaw in the current Crossrail scheme, which we have pointed out. .“…..it seems pretty pointless to open a spanking new rail line and then funnel large numbers of unnecessary passengers on to it. Plus, do we really need ore traffic through Heathrow?” Indeed . .So the answer to the pointlessness of Crossrail is to drop the scheme and stop any more public money being waste don it. . And then address ALL of London’s [and the related UK economic] transport issues, problems solutions in a rational, environmentally and economically sound and sensible way. Let us also include the people in whose name Crossrail has been hyped and spun so far. KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail holes attacks demonstration against Tower Hamlets Council – at 6.30 PM on 11 September 2007 outside Mulberry Pace 5 Cove Crescent London E14 2 BG KHOODEELAAR! Question to Tower Hamlets CrossRail hole-inviter Council updated texts here shortly......AADHIKARonline Quoting from the web site of Ealing Times . The following item about the CRASSness of Crossrail hole-promoters caught making careless and very damaging re,arks against the rights of the disabled, was response to by Khoodeelaar! organiser Muhammad Haque who pointed out the CRASSness of Crossrail as the .plot affected people across London. Khoodeeaar! organiser Muhammad Haque’s comments against Crossrail are included at the end of the Ealing Times report by-lined to Alex Hayes: No disabled access By Alex Hayes. Comment | .Read Comments (1) .A RAILWAY station in Ealing is set to get a £400,000 facelift but the cash will not pay for the installation of facilities for disabled passengers. .First Great Western, the company who operate trains from the Ealing Broadway, are funding improvements to the booking hall, waiting room and toilet facilities and installing a bank of tube style ticket machines. .But the work, due to start in September, will not see anything done about non-existent disabled access at the station. .Sian Vasey, director of Action for Equality in Ealing, said: “If there is money to spend, then something should be done about disabled access, there has never been any interest in improving it. .“It is not modern thinking to completely exclude disabled people. “They need, at least, to make some sort of temporary arrangements in the meantime.” .Adrian Ruck, a spokesman for First Great Western, said: “Improving the station environment and speeding up passengers journeys are a big part of the plans. .“Improving disabled access will cost a huge amount of money, about £1.5m, but the station will be knocked down and completely rebuilt when CrossRail happens.” .Other commuters welcomed the news, which will see two more staff employed to help passengers in rush hour, and travel information screens installed. .Philippa Cardigan, 25, a radio producer from Ealing, said: “I use the station every day, and if I have to update my travel card it can take ages because of the queues. .“The station definitely needs modernising a bit, I just hope that it won’t mean too much disruption while they are making things better.” .12:28pm .Wednesday 22nd August 2007 .Print Email this Comment Posted by: Muhammad Haque, London on 3:32pm Wed 22 Aug 07 .quote .By©Muhammad Haque .Organiser .Khoodeelaar, the Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bill [the ‘Crossrail Bill’ now3 in the UK House of Commons .1425 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 22 August 2007 .The Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign has argued, for 43 months now, that those who promote the scheme, do so without reason or logic or rationality. That is why; I have dubbed the entire scheme as CRASSrail. This is again borne out and vindicated by the uncaring and offensive excuse given by Adrian Ruck, a spokesman for First Great Western whom you have quoted as saying as follows: .“Improving disabled access will cost a huge amount of money, about £1.5m, but the station will be knocked down and completely rebuilt when CrossRail happens.” .There is another similarly anti-social factor evident throughout the language of the pluggers of the CRASSrail scheme. It is that ‘when Crossrail is built, so and so problem will be solve4d’. .They are citing CrossRail as a panacea for all ills in society! Which proves the point that it is NOT about addressing the genuine transport needs of people in the region within the capacity and the potential of the UK economy. .In the case of inner city East End of London, the Crossrail hole plot-backers have been forced to change the phrases, the words they use. Depending on which ones we expose at a given time as being typical of the sham ‘thinking’ that has gone into the present CrossRail plan, they change the word and replace it with one they think will not show up the crassness of Crossrail. .Is this a responsible, accountable way for a band of decision-makers to behave when they have been given the use – or the waste – of hundreds of millions of £ in the name of solving a particular aspect of the transport needs of London? .I could cite hundreds of stunts and sham words used by Crossrail hole-backer Ken Livingstone… .To summarize Livingstone’s tendency and mention, it is quite possible that he will claim that Crossrail is needed to get UK competitors to win in some of the planned events at the 2012 Olympic Games! By©Muhammad Haque .1845 Hrs GMT London Friday 7 September 2007__One of imperialism and Big Business’s most persistent propaganda tools has been the London Financial Times, pretentiously abbreviated by its publishers to be referred to as FT. Despite the change of pretensions, the outlet remains as corrupt as any Big Business corruption enterprise is bound to be. In the FT’s latest promotion of the CRASSRAIL plot against the UK public purse, it has repeated the lies for CrossRail that the KHOODEELAAR! campaign has identified, examined and exposed over the past 4 years. The ‘FT’ uses as its latest peg the announcement at the start of this week [ ] that the Tory Member of the UK House of commons, Boris Johnson is seeking candidature to become mayor ‘for’ [?] London [at the scheduled May 2008 elections for the “GLA’ and the ‘Mayor’] replacing the chief tout for Crossrail, the ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Lyingstill Livingstone. In their false and untruthful plugs for CrossRail, the FT this week have again stressed that Crossrail hole plot is ‘vita’ for the economy of London and they have repeated the lie that without CrossRail, London’s economy will be jeopardised. I shall be examining the FT’s latest pack of Crossrail hole plotting lies. Already I have pointed out some key fabrications in the promotions for CrossRail around Boris Johnson that has appeared on the Daily Telegraph web site and on the SPECTATOR magazine’s s web site. I shall take the key CrossRail fabrications together and dissect them systematically in this series of reports. First it is useful to look at what I had said about the FT’s CRASSrail lies in June 2007___ACTION ARCHIVE: Muhammad Haque exposing the Crossrail hole plot-backing London FT: 20 June 2007__Khoodeelaar! Manifesto against Crossrail hole plot Bill – Updated texts as at 6 September 2007, due here in the next 24 hours .How the Crossrail hole Select Committee in the UK House of commons has been wrong all along and why the behaviour of that committee has brought ‘parliament into disrepute’- More soon .Khoodeelaar! Open Letter to All Mayor candidates ion London – Texts shortly .Khoodeelaar! Questions to full Council due to be held on 11 September 2007- Update stets shortly .Breaking news on the Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot...._From the previous editions AADHIKARonline....By©Muhammad Haque .1655 GMT London Wednesday 5 September 2007 .Muhammad Haque challenges would be ‘Tory Mayor candidate’ Boris Johnson to debate on CrossRail hole plot on any platform – as posted on the Spectator magazine website on Wednesday 5 September 2007_It is very wrong of anyone to even suggest that Crossrail equals solution to the people of London’s transport needs. .The Crossrail hole Bill as it is in the UK House of Commons, lacks relevance and is in essence a hugely hyped up too for profit-grabbing Big Business to grab hold of public cash for private looting. .The transport needs do deserve serious attention. The Crossrail Bill does not contain the answers. .It is irresponsible of anyone to claim that making a stand as a poodle for the Big business lobby for Crossrail amounts to evidence that we need for suitability to seek election as mayor of London. .There are far too many examples of huge sums of public money being wasted on grand plans that come unstuck. .Boris Johnson will be discredited even before he starts the campaign proper if he cannot show that he is up to the task. I will debate CrossRail and London transport needs with him on any platform. .Does Boris possess enough gravitas and thought to care and to respond? .And what is Matthew doing allowing banal plugs for Crossrail to be posted on the Spectator web site without rigorous responses? Editorial note: .Matthew is Matthew D’Ancona. Currently Editor of the Spectator [in a company that is effectively owned by Andrew Neill] Muhammad Haque was organizing a key educational rights campaign in the early 1990s when Matthew D’Ancona, was working as a reporter on the Times newspaper and covered the campaign for the Times._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .__How CRASSRAIL plot-pluggers the FT [the ‘Financial Times’, London, which is exposed daily as a courier of lies and assorted ignorance on behalf of Big Business] is contradicting the Oxford Mail in their ‘coverage’ [or, to put it more accurately, cover-ups] about Boris Johnson’s comments on Crossrail. Why this contradiction shows up the inadequacy of thought that has been given by Boris Johnson to the question of the transport needs in London. __And why Boris Johnson in appearing to echo the Lyingstill Livingstone’s plug for CrossRail [as reported by the FT] is showing that he, Boris Johnson cannot really compete with, let alone even make a serious dent on the prospect of the re-election of the corrupter of London. __We show why Boris Johnson has to stop lying himself. Because someone who can say that they are an alternative to Livingstone, and then ends up repeating the very core of the lie that Livingstone has been perpetrating on Crossrail, cannot really be in possession of the basic facts. We examine Boris Johnson’s ‘media coverage’ since his announcement of candidature earlier this week. Here shortly. KHOODEELAAR! Demonstration against CrossRail hole-inviter Tower Hamlets Council .6.30 PM 11 September 2007 Mulberry Place 5 Clove Crescent London E14 2 BG .Khoodeelaar! Manifesto for London from Bethnal green and Bow .Khoodeelaar! Open Letter to ALL Candidates for Mayor of London – Texts here shortly .Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plotters and dummies parading as Mps – we challenge the dummies to show that they even know the ordinary meaning of transport when they parrot and utter the phrases given to the to utter for CRASSrail – here soon .Khoodeelaar! Constitutional law update exposing the bankrupt behaviour of the ;Crossrail hole Bi’ ‘select committee’ of MPs .Khoodeelaar! Legal updates and campaign news and information .From previous editions of AADHIKARonline .Crossrail hole plot-backer former ‘MP’ in the name of Bethnal Green and Bow, Oona…… has returned [did she ever have the courtesy to leave the limelight she so badly craves????] to the spot reserved in the tabloid media for sleaze and scandal. This is most unfortunate, for Oona and any of her remaining approvers.. .Or is it only another indication of things to come in Oona’s [and her approvers- depending on who they are in this cycle of her considerably long career!] personal career building enterprise? .For the overly promoted [everything with her is, has been overly promoted, starting with the claim in 1997 that she was a historic achievement being a ‘black woman’ MP – ] Today’s London ‘standardless’ EVENING STANDARD has focussed on the alleged diary obsession in Oona’s publicity with comparing everything with her sexual experiences.. .This one has been allegedly to do with Oona’s excitement at hearing Gordon Brown speak, ‘at his alleged best’. It was, for Oona, according to the EVENING STANDARD this lunchtime [Tuesday 4 September 2007], better than sex! .Now was Gordon Brown by any chance, discussing transport when he had such an excited reaction ? [To be continued] .It seems that the only worthwhile [!!!!!] news being picked – or flagged- up in relation to any former or current ‘MP’ in the name of Bethnal Green [and Bow] is – sex and sexual misconduct or alleged sexual misconduct! .For the same item in today’s [4 September 2007]London EVENING STANDARD does also refer to alleged adulterous behaviour by George Galloway, the ‘current MP’ for Bethnal Green and Bow!_[To be continued] .Crossrail hole plot-backing chief tout in London for Big Business plotting to loot the UK Treasury of £Billions under the CrossRail hole plot, is given a whole page of self prompting space in today’s EVENING Standard. In the early editions, the Standardless ‘EVENING Standard’ lambasts RMT Union man Bob Crow and fingers him as the man responsible for the tube strike crisis that has come into effect today. Inside, the ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone has an even longer and more menacing go at the unions. .[To be continued] .The Khoodeelaar! Campaign against Crossrail hole has been observing the many tricks being played by the ‘mainstream’ parties to grab hold of the post of mayor of `London. As Boris Johnson admitted, it carries with it a huge budget. That is what we are interested in as well, Mr Johnson! We want to see just how much you can grasp of the Budged before you show any proclivities to grab it al and abuse it all, - grabbing and abusing are two words we have evidentially associated with Ken Livingstone in so far as his ‘interest’ in ‘serving’ London public is concerned…. He is ‘serving’ his own ego, his own career and his own self. At the expense of the people of London. And he is doing so by sacrificing, squandering and wasting the resources and the trust and the confidence of ordinary people in London.. .. But for now, our first response to Boris Johnson’s latest phase of the announcement of his own interest in being elected mayor of London, is about Crossrail. .AADHIKARonline quoting at 0430 Hrs GMT on Tuesday 4 September 2007 the first comment from Khoodeelaar! on the announcement of the candidature for election as mayor of London by Boris Johnson, written and posted by Muhammad Haque as published on the web site of the London Daily Telegraph on 3 September 2007_“Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bill” OPPOSES Ken Lyingstill Livingstone precisely because Livingstone has been abusing public resources in promoting the con that is the present Crossrail as it is in the ‘Crossrail Bill’ .We would support any candidate who has the integrity to tell the truth and to do so by genuinely recognising the people of London .What Livingstone has done is to corrupt London and to do so with the assistance of the likes of the Guardian who mounted that very sinister propaganda onslaught on Boris Johnson .We still don’t know how Boris Johnson will deal with the serious crisis that exists in providing transport in London .Does Boris Johnson have the patience to actually read the many alternatives to Crossrail that people with long experience and commitment have pointed out? Does he have the democratic interests to question the deadpan and the totally unaccountable, unrigorous, unscrutinising ‘Crossrail Bill’ ‘Select committee’ of MPs [’chaired’ by Alan Meale] which has been doing a pathetic job of ’scrutinising’ the Bill .That committee has been preventing people with serious and relevant objections to the contents and the implications of the Crossrail Bill from bringing in evidence to support the objections .Does Boris have the sense of fair play and tolerance in him to show the way out of the racist morass that clouds any frustrated seeker of public office? Boris may hold views that are far to the right of Ken Livingstone, circa 1981 .Ken Livingstone circa 2006 has been far worse for democracy and accountable occupation of public office than anything London deserves .We welcome what appears to be the beginning of an almost pro-democratic debate about the future of the politicos seeking our votes .Let the people of London have a full-scale expression of our thoughts, our wisdom and our rights and responsibilities…”_Posted by Muhammad Haque on September 3, 2007 7:39 PM .AADHIKARonline unquoting at 0430 Hrs GMT on Tuesday 4 September 2007 the first comment from Khoodeelaar! on the announcement of the candidature for election as mayor of London by Boris Johnson, written and posted by Muhammad Haque as published on the web site of the London Daily Telegraph on 3 September 2007 .More will followKhoodeelaar! First response to the London Daily Telegraph’s launch report on Boris Johnson as the possible Tory Candidate for election as mayor of London in 2008_AADHIKARonline news, comments, commentaries, legal action updates, campaign events are now accessible by clicking on links that will start to appear on this site, starting with the following list The truth about the ‘free’ ‘thinking’ British Media on Sunday 2 September 2007_The Muhammad Haque daily world [constitutional, ethical and moral] commentary: exposing the gross undemocracy and corruption of the British parliamentary recess and focusing attention on the corrupting role being played by the mainstream ‘media’ in Britain in the undemocratic, unlawful occupation and murderous attacks by the Bushed USA and the Blaired UK regimes of millions of innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq .AADHIKARonline updating the action archives of Khoodeelaar! From 23 February 2006 .What Khoodeelaar! Wants the ‘full Council’ meeting being held in the second week of September 2007 to do – PASS the Motion Saying unequivocal No to Crossrail hole .why the ‘Mail on Sunday’ is, once again. ‘Fail on Sunday’, with their brothellising promotion of sleazy, uncouth, corrupt self-seekers on almost every single page, ‘column’ ’seria-lies-shame’ and feature! .Why the ‘Fail on Sunday’ is wrong to promote Brian Paddick as an example to be followed in the contest for mayor of London .. .We examine and dissect the corrupting editorial in today’s Mail Sunday [2 September 2007] about the three named ‘contenders’ [the possible Tory Boris, the incontempt Livingstone and Paddick] .We show that the Mail on Sunday is a lying organ and has no morality whatever, except the morality [!] of twisted greed and profiteering. If it had any morality, it would not describe Ken LYINGSTIL Livingstone in the glowing terms that it has done this weekend albeit in a bracket with Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick – More dissection and overdue diatribe against the lying Mail on Sunday, here and in the linked web pages, shortly .And how more corrupting is the ‘News of the XXXXXS [also known as the ‘News of the World’] ?In their own lying and idiotic ‘report’ about the ‘mayor elections’ for London, they give a bragging one page promotion to Boris Johnson. And the ignorance is to be seen to be believed…_We examine the evidence of George Galloway’s various ‘private’ announcements that he has done over the past seven days or so including his disclosure dated today Monday 3 September 2007 that he is in effect separated from the mother of his infant child - .We do a reluctant review of the alleged re-made-up and dressing up of ‘Oona King’ as an almost plausible ‘heart break’ case – because she did not get to be made a minister by Tony Bair on whose ‘Babes’ [women Mps elected in 1997 on the former Labour Party ticket] she was displayed for at east 9 years [1997 to 2005 plus the year that followed her well-deserved ouster as MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in which year she was groomed like made by very conceivable Blairite element madly seeking a vulnerable community upon which to inflict Oona King as a ‘candidate’ - – and we look for evidence of any political action by the aforesaid Oona king who is given a very underserved platform to promote herself looking almost like a back woman – in contrast to her looking, as George Galloway had put it, lighter skinned than the majority of the women in Palestine! Posted in Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »_Khoodeelaar! The ‘No to Crossrail hole Bill’ campaign comment on Oxford university town journal CHARCOL web site 07.09.2007_September 7th, 2007 By© Muhammad Haque.......Boris Johnson cannot have read the hundreds of objections lodged against Crossrail by residents and communities from across the East End and even from Mayfair in central London. Equally, he cannot have read the detailed report authored by the Rod Eddington ‘inquiry’ appointed by Gordon Brown into the UK transport economics. Even the USA Business news outlet FORBES pointed out that EDDINGTON did NOT endorse CrossRail.. This is why Boris Johnson must stop making utterances expressing support for Crossrail which is a seriously flawed project with no demand in the economy for it. There most certainly is no demand for Crossrail in the East End of London. Nor in Mayfair. There is no justification for committing £Billions from the UK Treasury to such a dubious scheme whose only backers have been the City of London and certain Big Business outfits. Crossrail has been one of two promotional topics used by a scheming Ken Livingstone to keep his image and ego permanently the headlines. Livingstone is not a democrat. Far less one with any evidence of showing genuine respect communities. People are not clamouring for Crossrail. The City of London propagandists are. And their chief tout for the time being Ken Livingstone is. Boris Johnson cannot be seriously expecting to dent Livingstone’s significant current edge by aping him on such a disastrous course! Boris Johnson has got to tell the truth. Not TOE the path of the corrupter of London. Posted in Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »_Khoodeelaar! The ‘No to Crossrail hole Bill’ campaign comment on Oxford Mail web site 07.09.2007_September 7th, 2007 by khoodeelaar.....By©Muhammad Haque_[quote]_To quote your report [Oxford Mail] on Boris Johnson’s launch [on 3 September 2007] of his London mayor candidature [generic - as he has yet to be officially adopted as the Tory party candidate] “a firm commitment to the CrossRail link from Paddington to Liverpool Street”! This is even more bizarre than all the other bizarre things we have identified in what we have called the ‘CRASSrail’ project. Have the promoters of the CrossRail scheme already conceded that the scheme is CRASS and have curtailed it. We thought that the current CROSSRAIL BILL [in the UK House of Commons] was about a line that went as far as Shenfield in Essex and farther to the West of Paddington, at least to Heathrow! We knew that Boris Johnson had changed his positions on things in the past. But this must be a first - changing the length of the Crossrail line and leaving out Heathrow even before he has been formally adopted and announced a Party candidate. at this rate, there may still be hope of getting rid of the CRASSrail altogether, so fundamentally flawed. And on this basis, we can back the campaign for Boris Johnson as mayor…hoping that by the time that the [scheduled May 2008] polling date is upon us, he will have waffled away the office of mayor of London too, thus saving the people of London.. so much waste of time, resource and energy that the expensive ego-promo ton project of having a mayor has entailed…_Khoodeelaar! the East London No to Crossrail Bill campaign_[/quote]_Posted in Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »_Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail agrees with London Times ‘City Diary’ about pointlessness of Crossrail Friday 7 September 2007 Khoodeelaar! organiser Muhammad Haque has posted a comment on the Times web site this morning [Friday 7 September 2007]:_Martin Waller sums up a core flaw in the current Crossrail scheme, which we have pointed out._“…..it seems pretty pointless to open a spanking new rail line and then funnel large numbers of unnecessary passengers on to it. Plus, do we really need ore traffic through Heathrow?” Indeed. .So the answer to the pointlessness of Crossrail is to drop the scheme and stop any more public money being waste don it. And then address ALL of London’s [and the related UK economic] transport issues, problems solutions in a rational, environmentally and economically sound and sensible way. Let us also include the people in whose name Crossrail has been hyped and spun so far. Posted in Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »_ACTION Archive against Crossrail attack on the East end of London: AADHIKARonline report on the Crossrail hole plotter Ken Livingstone 26.04.2006_September 6th, 2007 by khoodeelaar London mayor Livingstone obstructs Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole. Within minutes [on Monday 24 April 2006] of AADHIKARonline reporting the Conservative Party Chair Francis Maude’s backing to Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign, London Mayor Ken Livingstone had his office send a strange communication to Khoodeelaar! The legal and democratic significance of the Ken Livingstone communication are enormous, especially in the last week before the scheduled local elections on 4 May 2006_1. Within minutes [on Monday 24 April 2006] of AADHIKARonline reporting the Conservative Party Chair Francis Maude’s backing to Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign, London Mayor Ken Livingstone had his office send a strange communication to Khoodeelaar! The legal and democratic significance of the Ken Livingstone communication are enormous, especially in the last week before the scheduled local elections on 4 May 2006_2. That communication from the head of Ken Livingstone’s transport department, effectively says that the Khoodeelaar! demands for Ken Livingstone to make full disclosure of all his communications with the clique of corrupt controllers of Tower Hamlets Council are too expensive for the London Mayor to comply with !_3. There is no specific item that the London Mayor has identified in his mayor communication to Khoodeelaar on Monday 24 April 2006 as constituting an allegedly over-the-permitted limit of administration cost request under the Freed of Information Act._4. The key point is that Khoodeelaar! the campaign against the CrossRail hole Bill attacks plan on the Brick Lane London E1 area, has been issuing ken Livingstone with a series of pre-action [letter before claim] communications and the London mayor has now run out of excuses._5. At the centre of the Khoodeelaar legal action claims against Ken Livingstone lies in the fact that the mayor has persistently misled Londoners generally and the UK Parliament through his undisclosed deals with the Transport Department and in particular the people of the East End community affected by the CrossRail hole plan._6. Khoodeelaar! delivered the first demand to ken Livingstone for confirming a number of facts that were linked with the mayor’s release of a news item on 24 March 2006._7. That was followed within a day or two by other calls on Livingstone to disclose the facts of his dealing with the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council._8. It was again repeated by Khoodeelaar! no to Crossrail hole campaign updating their calls on Livingstone to deal with the factual questions that arose about the stunt from the written statement about the CrossRail hole Bill that was issued in the UK House of Commons by CrossRail hole Minister Alistair Darling on 30 March 2006._9. The mayor is on record as having touted for the enlisting of the ‘leaders’ and ‘lead members’ of a number of local councils, including the then leader of Tower Hamlets Council [Helal Uddin Abbas] in February 2004 as part of the Livingstone lobby for CrossRail plan._10. In a Crossrail-hole-plan promotional ‘letter’ published in 2004 under the name of Ken Livingstone together with the names of Helal Uddin Abbas and others from other local Councils, the promotion of CrossRail was made without a single qualification let alone reservation._11. Khoodeelaar! immediately wrote to both Livingstone and demanded that the Evening Standard publish the truth about the CrossRail hole plan. Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque told the Editor of the London EVENING STANDRDA that their failure to publish the truth about the CrossRail plan [as it still was - because the CrossRail hole Bill was not put before the House of Commons until 22 February 2005, almost a year after Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque was having the series of demands put on Ken Livingstone and Christine Gilbert to tell the truth of their then role in promoting the CrossRail plan. The EVENING STANADRD failed to publish the truth. As did Ken Livingstone. .12. .That was in February 2004._13. Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque also wrote to Tower Hamlets Council chief Executive Christine Gilbert in February 2004 and in March 2004 asking for a series of detailed answers to questions about her own role in promoting the CrossRail hole plan including the question as to what advice, if any, had she, Christine Gilbert, given to the ruling clique or group on the Tower Hamlets Council. There was no reply. There has been no reply._14. When Khoodeelaar! issued the latest then updated series of legal claims against Alistair Darling, ken Livingstone, Christine Gilbert and a few others and said that the application to the High Court in London against them would be filed on Monday 27 March 2006, a number of things immediately happened._15. Ken Livingstone suddenly issued a news release on 24 March 2006 saying that the CrossRail Dirt hole in the Brick Lane London E1 had been scrapped!_16. And that Ken Livingstone Crossrail-Dirt-hole plan against Brick Lane London E1 area scrapping stunt announcement was then used as the peg for the evening TV news which featured the entire cabal of self-seeking politicos doing their fame slots and assorted other fantasies. They were given more time than Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque who did say on the record [BBC London News, Friday 24 April 2006] that as far as Khoodeelaar! Was concerned, they had immediately asked Livingstone to substantiate the claims of the scrapping of the Crossrail Dirty hole plan and demanded that Livingstone to answer the outstanding detailed KHOODELAAR! no to CrossRail hole questions that had been put to him as based on his unqualified plugs for the CrossRail plan over the previous years_17. Accordingly, Muhammad Haque and Khoodeelaar! campaign sent the detailed further questions immediately and also went to City hall on Monday 3 April 2006 and delivered a series of questions for Livingstone to deal with._18. On the same occasion [3 April 2006] Khoodeelaar demonstrated the campaign’s opposition to Ken Lisnsgt9ine’s role so far and demanded that Livingstone come out with the overdue answers to the extensive and the very comprehensive KHOODEELAAR! No to the Crossrail hole questions which had arisen from Livingstone’s stunt staged on Friday 24 March 2006.about the alleged scrapping of the CrossRail Dirt hole._19. Livingstone remained silent_20. Until the AADHIKARonline news carried the first detailed transcripts of the Khoodeelaar! Organiser’s Questions and answers encounter with Conservative party chair Francis Maude in Brick Lane in the mid afternoon of Monday 24 April 2006._21. Ken Livingstone’s head of Transports sent an e-mail which is full of typical Ken Livingstone’s dissembling. The concept of dissembling as associated with ken Livingstone on 24 April 2006 had already been spotted and identified a month previously [on Friday 24 March 2006] out by Khoodeelaar organiser Muhammad Haque in his news interview with the BBC London political editor Tim Donovan on that date [Friday 24 March 2006].___Khoodeelaar! ‘No to Crossrail hole plot’ campaign organiser Muhammad Haque points out UK political web site’s failures to tell the truth about Crossrail which is not a public transport scheme but a Big Business scheme that is not being allowed by the MPs committee on Crossrail to be examined by the people who know about transport and who are affected by the Crossrail hole scheme…_September 6th, 2007 by khoodeelaar The UK political web site ‘politics. co.uk’ has pub shed a plug , in line with the other UK pluggers for Crossrail, around the announcement of __[Tory MP and David Cameron school-mate] Boris Johnson’s candidature for London mayor. But the web site does not report the truth about the Crossrail scam. “©Muhammad Haque......Your report “Boris launches ’serious’ mayoral campaign” can’t be serious in the ordinary sense if a he can do is to ‘echo’ the current plugger for the Crossrail holes plot, Ken Livingstone. You have not shown any evidence in all your own retailing [to date] of the Crossrail hole plot that you are yourself running a serious debate on your web site about what the true transport needs and the reasonable solutions in London are. Crossrail is NOT a sound plan for appropriately and economically addressing the issue of Transport. It is a City of London and Big Business plan. You should make this distinction and do so clearly. The other point is that ALL THREE Parties in the UK House of Commons have been lobbied to back Big Business. There has not been any debate within any of the [three ‘mainstream’] parties [in the House of Commons] about transport. As there has been none about the overall UK economy. What we are being told by the propagandists for the scheme about Crossrail is not based on the evidence that people with direct knowledge of the subject and active in the relevant field and the people who are among some of the most adversely and directly affected by the Crossrail hole plot ‘scheme’ have tried to say but have been prevented from saying it by the so-called ‘accountable’ [!] select committee of stooge MPs set up by Tony Blair called ‘the Crossrail Bill select committee’ in the House of Commons. So what you are saying for Crossrail is part of the propaganda. This is most irrespirable. A project that will cost the public £Billions and one that is being imposed on the public .cannot be promoted as being for the public good if the very people are being denied the say by Parliament which is where it is being promoted and which is what you keep pegging your Crossrail promotions to….._2055 Hrs UKtime .1955 Hrs GMT .London Thursday 6 September 2007 .“_Posted in Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »_Khoodeelaar! ‘No to Crossrail hole plot’ campaign organiser Muhammad Haque points out UK political web site’s failures to tell the truth about Crossrail which is not a public transport scheme but a Big Business scheme that is not being allowed to be examined by the people who know about transport and who are affected by the panned scheme…_September 6th, 2007 by khoodeelaar....The UK political web site ‘politics. co.uk’ has pub shed a plug , in line with the other UK pluggers for Crossrail, around the announcement of [Tory MP and David Cameron school-mate] Boris Johnson’s candidature for London mayor. But the web site does not report the truth about the Crossrail scam. “©Muhammad Haque.....Your report “Boris launches ’serious’ mayoral campaign” can’t be serious in the ordinary sense if a he can do is to ‘echo’ the current plugger for the Crossrail holes plot, Ken Livingstone. You have not shown any evidence in all your own retailing [to date] of the Crossrail hole plot that you are yourself running a serious debate on your web site about what the true transport needs and the reasonable solutions in London are. Crossrail is NOT a sound plan for appropriately and economically addressing the issue of Transport. It is a City of London and Big Business plan. You should make this distinction and do so clearly. The other point is that ALL THREE Parties in the UK House of Commons have been lobbied to back Big Business. There has not been any debate within any of the [three ‘mainstream’] parties [in the House of Commons] about transport. As there has been none about the overall UK economy. What we are being told by the propagandists for the scheme about Crossrail is not based on the evidence that people with direct knowledge of the subject and active in the relevant field and the people who are among some of the most adversely and directly affected by the Crossrail hole plot ‘scheme’ have tried to say but have been prevented from saying it by the so-called ‘accountable’ [!] select committee of stooge MPs set up by Tony Blair called ‘the Crossrail Bill select committee’ in the House of Commons. So what you are saying for Crossrail is part of the propaganda. This is most irrespirable. A project that will cost the public £Billions and one that is being imposed on the public .cannot be promoted as being for the public good if the very people are being denied the say by Parliament which is where it is being promoted and which is what you keep pegging your Crossrail promotions to…..__2055 Hrs UKtime .1955 Hrs GMT .London Thursday 6 September 2007 .“_Posted in Uncategorized | Edit |__Khoodeelaar No to Crossrail hole plot - ACTION ARCHIVE 5 May 2006- Tower Hamlets Council must pass the Motion saying No to Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London __September 5th, 2007 by Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot - ACTION ARCHIVE 5 May 2006- Tower Hamlets Council must pass the Motion saying No to Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London __Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot : Tower Hamlets Council AT LAST puts a Khoodeelaar! Question on the Council’s agenda for the full council meeting set for 11 September 2007_September 5th, 2007 By© Muhammad Haque2120 Hrs GMT .London Wednesday 5 September 2007__Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot: Tower Hamlets Council AT LAST puts a Khoodeelaar! Question on the Council’s agenda for the full council meeting set for 11 September 2007_I shall over the coming week examine the details of the events that preceded this unique behaviour! That the bureaucracy of the Crossrail hole-plotting Tower Hamlets Council has been prevailed upon to finally let the community have a token opportunity of asking councillors questions about the Councils’ role in inviting the CrossRail hole attacks on the community.