1928 Hrs GMT London Friday 27 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. Khoodeelaar! Told you so! Poverty-creating agenda behind Big Business looters’ scam Crossrail continues to get passage and promoted by the inane part of UK ‘mainstream’ politics. The Lib Dems in Camden, as we briefly referred to in the last editions. And despite today’s print edition of the CPGB running a ‘two-page’ ‘feature’ or ‘spread’ on the banality of the Nick Clegg Lib Dems Party, they have not, the Morning Scar that is, produced anything of any substance whatever. As always is the case in the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign lexicon the use of the term ‘substance’ is in the universal objective sense. So here is Khoodeelaar! noting and reiterating – on this occasion in the UK of the second of the two Eids being observed across the country – that the POVERTY of the UK G Brown ‘administration’ is its deep, deep ignorance and the callousness with which it fakes its every ‘new’ stunt that is then exposed as bereft of all sense, universally, logically, ethically materially and evidentially speaking. On the day when the ‘news’ broke – though we have continuously predicted the MAIN economic paralysis for SIX YEARS now – that another dam in the zone of recovery-fakery built by the imprudent indulgence in debts-accumulation was going bust in Dubai, the GB regime carries on faking it. This is not a case of a one off incidental ore accidental denial. It is the case or even ‘a’ case of monumental stupidity that has no regard for the catastrophic social and international consequences… Creating any facade based on lies fuelled by intent to stay in power cannot be acceptable in democracy. Ooooooooops! It must therefore be a dummocracy. And here is comes Mr Clegg. He has nothing to offer. And nor has his deputy Vince Cable. Cable utters more like an agent of the allegedly ‘decent’ [that term will be examined in relation to Vince Cable and in context, here in due course] wing of the looters Empire… He makes it ‘attractive’. Only to a limited extent. Marginal, diminishing extents. They do not want to learn. Ignorance is bliss. Moving on to look for something else that might ‘show the way’, we find ourselves left in the dark. LEFT in the darkness of the empty British Left. And the left is extinct. Not that the ‘Left’ in Britain EVER existed as an alternative. For it is in fact a brazenly corrupt wing of the alleged socialist ‘alternative’ to the ‘mainstream’ system… When Dubai goes bust, what do the ‘left’ come up with? Nothing. And the left is bankrupt not only on the ‘economic front’, although the ‘area’, ‘discipline’ of economics’ itself is a confection. Without society, without morality, without the universal context, no disciple can either indicate the truth let alone led to the truth. And it is the truth that is absent. Lies built on lies can lead only to more lies. And the ‘British Left’ is in denial; it is lying when it makes selective allegations. It leaves out the main picture and focusses on bits that suit its limited vision. This is clear in its ‘attack’ on the emptiness of Nick Clegg’s Lib Dumbs Party. The Morning Scar does not call that Party Lib Dumbs. The Khoodeelaar! Campaign does and has. It is one of the analytical devices that we have created…. If the Lib Dems are dumb then the ‘left’ trade unions are just as dumb, if not more so…Which takes us via the RMT’s ‘Wapping-born’ Bob Crow to the west of London MP and Ken Livingstone’s deputy in the 1980s at the ‘GLC’ John McDonnell. [To be continued]

1928 Hrs GMT London Friday 27 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. Khoodeelaar! Told you so! Povert1928 Hrs GMT London Friday 27 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. Khoodeelaar! Told you so! Poverty-creating agenda behind Big Business looters’ scam Crossrail continues to get passage and promoted by the inane part of UK ‘mainstream’ politics. The Lib Dems in Camden, as we briefly referred to in the last editions. And despite today’s print edition of the CPGB running a ‘two-page’ ‘feature’ or ‘spread’ on the banality of the Nick Clegg Lib Dems Party, they have not, the Morning Scar that is, produced anything of any substance whatever. As always is the case in the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign lexicon the use of the term ‘substance’ is in the universal objective sense. So here is Khoodeelaar! noting and reiterating – on this occasion in the UK of the second of the two Eids being observed across the country – that the POVERTY of the UK G Brown ‘administration’ is its deep, deep ignorance and the callousness with which it fakes its every ‘new’ stunt that is then exposed as bereft of all sense, universally, logically, ethically materially and evidentially speaking. On the day when the ‘news’ broke – though we have continuously predicted the MAIN economic paralysis for SIX YEARS now – that another dam in the zone of recovery-fakery built by the imprudent indulgence in debts-accumulation was going bust in Dubai, the GB regime carries on faking it. This is not a case of a one off incidental ore accidental denial. It is the case or even ‘a’ case of monumental stupidity that has no regard for the catastrophic social and international consequences… Creating any facade based on lies fuelled by intent to stay in power cannot be acceptable in democracy. Ooooooooops! It must therefore be a dummocracy. And here is comes Mr Clegg. He has nothing to offer. And nor has his deputy Vince Cable. Cable utters more like an agent of the allegedly ‘decent’ [that term will be examined in relation to Vince Cable and in context, here in due course] wing of the looters Empire… He makes it ‘attractive’. Only to a limited extent. Marginal, diminishing extents. They do not want to learn. Ignorance is bliss. Moving on to look for something else that might ‘show the way’, we find ourselves left in the dark. LEFT in the darkness of the empty British Left. And the left is extinct. Not that the ‘Left’ in Britain EVER existed as an alternative. For it is in fact a brazenly corrupt wing of the alleged socialist ‘alternative’ to the ‘mainstream’ system… When Dubai goes bust, what do the ‘left’ come up with? Nothing. And the left is bankrupt not only on the ‘economic front’, although the ‘area’, ‘discipline’ of economics’ itself is a confection. Without society, without morality, without the universal context, no disciple can either indicate the truth let alone led to the truth. And it is the truth that is absent. Lies built on lies can lead only to more lies. And the ‘British Left’ is in denial; it is lying when it makes selective allegations. It leaves out the main picture and focusses on bits that suit its limited vision. This is clear in its ‘attack’ on the emptiness of Nick Clegg’s Lib Dumbs Party. The Morning Scar does not call that Party Lib Dumbs. The Khoodeelaar! Campaign does and has. It is one of the analytical devices that we have created…. If the Lib Dems are dumb then the ‘left’ trade unions are just as dumb, if not more so…Which takes us via the RMT’s ‘Wapping-born’ Bob Crow to the west of London MP and Ken Livingstone’s deputy in the 1980s at the ‘GLC’ John McDonnell. [To be continued]

y-creating agenda behind Big Business looters’ scam Crossrail continues to get passage and promoted by the inane part of UK ‘mainstream’ politics. The Lib Dems in Camden, as we briefly referred to in the last editions. And despite today’s print edition of the CPGB running a ‘two-page’ ‘feature’ or ‘spread’ on the banality of the Nick Clegg Lib Dems Party, they have not, the Morning Scar that is, produced anything of any substance whatever. As always is the case in the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign lexicon the use of the term ‘substance’ is in the universal objective sense. So here is Khoodeelaar! noting and reiterating – on this occasion in the UK of the second of the two Eids being observed across the country – that the POVERTY of the UK G Brown ‘administration’ is its deep, deep ignorance and the callousness with which it fakes its every ‘new’ stunt that is then exposed as bereft of all sense, universally, logically, ethically materially and evidentially speaking. On the day when the ‘news’ broke – though we have continuously predicted the MAIN economic paralysis for SIX YEARS now – that another dam in the zone of recovery-fakery built by the imprudent indulgence in debts-accumulation was going bust in Dubai, the GB regime carries on faking it. This is not a case of a one off incidental ore accidental denial. It is the case or even ‘a’ case of monumental stupidity that has no regard for the catastrophic social and international consequences… Creating any facade based on lies fuelled by intent to stay in power cannot be acceptable in democracy. Ooooooooops! It must therefore be a dummocracy. And here is comes Mr Clegg. He has nothing to offer. And nor has his deputy Vince Cable. Cable utters more like an agent of the allegedly ‘decent’ [that term will be examined in relation to Vince Cable and in context, here in due course] wing of the looters Empire… He makes it ‘attractive’. Only to a limited extent. Marginal, diminishing extents. They do not want to learn. Ignorance is bliss. Moving on to look for something else that might ‘show the way’, we find ourselves left in the dark. LEFT in the darkness of the empty British Left. And the left is extinct. Not that the ‘Left’ in Britain EVER existed as an alternative. For it is in fact a brazenly corrupt wing of the alleged socialist ‘alternative’ to the ‘mainstream’ system… When Dubai goes bust, what do the ‘left’ come up with? Nothing. And the left is bankrupt not only on the ‘economic front’, although the ‘area’, ‘discipline’ of economics’ itself is a confection. Without society, without morality, without the universal context, no disciple can either indicate the truth let alone led to the truth. And it is the truth that is absent. Lies built on lies can lead only to more lies. And the ‘British Left’ is in denial; it is lying when it makes selective allegations. It leaves out the main picture and focusses on bits that suit its limited vision. This is clear in its ‘attack’ on the emptiness of Nick Clegg’s Lib Dumbs Party. The Morning Scar does not call that Party Lib Dumbs. The Khoodeelaar! Campaign does and has. It is one of the analytical devices that we have created…. If the Lib Dems are dumb then the ‘left’ trade unions are just as dumb, if not more so…Which takes us via the RMT’s ‘Wapping-born’ Bob Crow to the west of London MP and Ken Livingstone’s deputy in the 1980s at the ‘GLC’ John McDonnell. [To be continued]

1000 Hrs GMT London Thursday 26 November 2009: Editor© Muhammad Haque. Khoodeelaar! No to “the Big Business looters’ scam Crossrail agenda of creating new poverty, adding to existing poverty, discrimination and deprivation in inner city East End of London…” campaign told you so! Evidentially UPDATING our dissection of peddlers of Crossrail-touting lies, fabrication and confidence-tricks on ‘local’ ‘benefits’ http://blairedbankruptcyandimmoraiity.blogspot.com Specialist firms hit out at Olympic/Crossrail procurement system 26 November, 2009 | By Greg Pitcher Subcontractors have fiercely criticised the system being used to dish out work on London projects including the 2012 Olympics and Crossrail. As procurement of specialist contractors for the Olympics project reaches a crescendo, Olympic Delivery Authority head of procurement Morag Stuart faced a barrage of anger from subcontractors at a briefing last week. Bidders said so many firms were able to score maximum marks through CompeteFor that main contractors were often reduced to picking a shortlist at random. Other complaints included that contracts disappeared after expressions of interest were submitted, and were even re-advertised after a competition had closed. One told her: “I’ve come across opportunities on CompeteFor that are empty shells. They are posted, we respond, then two weeks later we get an email saying we didn’t make them – but there was never even any information about what they were.” Another said: “We have had a lot of bad experiences. The CompeteFor criteria are supergeneric, contractors just fish through the entries and use who they were going to use anyway.” He added: “We have seen opportunities appear on CompeteFor after we have lost out on them – and we are talking contracts worth millions of pounds.” Another firm, which said it had experience on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics projects, said: “How we were not shortlisted for some of these opportunities in London 2012 is beyond belief. “I am disheartened by [the system] – is it just luck whether you get the chance to bid?” Ms Stuart said that in one case up to 200 bidders had scored 100 per cent on CompeteFor, so the client chose five at random to tender. The ODA has more than £1 billion of construction work yet to hand out for the Games. With the main structures developing at pace, a deluge of Tier 2 contracts is expected to hit the market in the next month or so. A total of 10,000 Olympics contracts are expected to pass through CompeteFor, and more than half of these are yet to come. About 150 Tier 2 deals are expected on the Athletes Village alone. Carillion is expected to place 14 contracts on the portal for the Media Centre; Sir Robert McAlpine is anticipated to have 16 for the main stadium; and Balfour Beatty is forecast to put 11 packages out on the Aquatics Centre. Speaking at the CN-organised event, Ms Stuart defended the ideas behind the system but conceded that it was not perfect. “We do understand some of the feedback we get, and are looking at what we can do to the system. Any serious ideas are welcomed,” she said. She also insisted contracts should not be reappearing and that she would look into any instances of this.

1000 Hrs GMT London Thursday 26 November 2009: Editor© Muhammad Haque. Khoodeelaar! No to “the Big Business looters’ scam Crossrail agenda  of creating new poverty, adding to existing poverty, discrimination and deprivation in inner city East End of London…” campaign told you so! Evidentially UPDATING our dissection of peddlers of Crossrail-touting lies, fabrication and confidence-tricks on ‘local’ ‘benefits’  http://blairedbankruptcyandimmoraiity.blogspot.com

Specialist firms hit out at Olympic/Crossrail procurement system

26 November, 2009 | By Greg Pitcher

Subcontractors have fiercely criticised the system being used to dish out work on London projects including the 2012 Olympics and Crossrail.

 

As procurement of specialist contractors for the Olympics project reaches a crescendo, Olympic Delivery Authority head of procurement Morag Stuart faced a barrage of anger from subcontractors at a briefing last week.

Bidders said so many firms were able to score maximum marks through CompeteFor that main contractors were often reduced to picking a shortlist at random.

Other complaints included that contracts disappeared after expressions of interest were submitted, and were even re-advertised after a competition had closed.

One told her: “I’ve come across opportunities on CompeteFor that are empty shells. They are posted, we respond, then two weeks later we get an email saying we didn’t make them – but there was never even any information about what they were.”

Another said: “We have had a lot of bad experiences. The CompeteFor criteria are supergeneric, contractors just fish through the entries and use who they were going to use anyway.”

He added: “We have seen opportunities appear on CompeteFor after we have lost out on them – and we are talking contracts worth millions of pounds.”

Another firm, which said it had experience on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics projects, said: “How we were not shortlisted for some of these opportunities in London 2012 is beyond belief.

“I am disheartened by [the system] – is it just luck whether you get the chance to bid?”

Ms Stuart said that in one case up to 200 bidders had scored 100 per cent on CompeteFor, so the client chose five at random to tender.

The ODA has more than £1 billion of construction work yet to hand out for the Games. With the main structures developing at pace, a deluge of Tier 2 contracts is expected to hit the market in the next month or so.

A total of 10,000 Olympics contracts are expected to pass through CompeteFor, and more than half of these are yet to come.

About 150 Tier 2 deals are expected on the Athletes Village alone. Carillion is expected to place 14 contracts on the portal for the Media Centre; Sir Robert McAlpine is anticipated to have 16 for the main stadium; and  Balfour Beatty is forecast to put 11 packages out on the Aquatics Centre.

Speaking at the CN-organised event, Ms Stuart defended the ideas behind the system but conceded that it was not perfect. “We do understand some of the feedback we get, and are looking at what we can do to the system. Any serious ideas are welcomed,” she said.

She also insisted contracts should not be reappearing and that she would look into any instances of this.

 

Specialist firms hit out at Olympic/Crossrail procurement system

26 November, 2009 | By Greg Pitcher

Subcontractors have fiercely criticised the system being used to dish out work on London projects including the 2012 Olympics and Crossrail.

 

As procurement of specialist contractors for the Olympics project reaches a crescendo, Olympic Delivery Authority head of procurement Morag Stuart faced a barrage of anger from subcontractors at a briefing last week.

Bidders said so many firms were able to score maximum marks through CompeteFor that main contractors were often reduced to picking a shortlist at random.

Other complaints included that contracts disappeared after expressions of interest were submitted, and were even re-advertised after a competition had closed.

One told her: “I’ve come across opportunities on CompeteFor that are empty shells. They are posted, we respond, then two weeks later we get an email saying we didn’t make them – but there was never even any information about what they were.”

Another said: “We have had a lot of bad experiences. The CompeteFor criteria are supergeneric, contractors just fish through the entries and use who they were going to use anyway.”

He added: “We have seen opportunities appear on CompeteFor after we have lost out on them – and we are talking contracts worth millions of pounds.”

Another firm, which said it had experience on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics projects, said: “How we were not shortlisted for some of these opportunities in London 2012 is beyond belief.

“I am disheartened by [the system] – is it just luck whether you get the chance to bid?”

Ms Stuart said that in one case up to 200 bidders had scored 100 per cent on CompeteFor, so the client chose five at random to tender.

The ODA has more than £1 billion of construction work yet to hand out for the Games. With the main structures developing at pace, a deluge of Tier 2 contracts is expected to hit the market in the next month or so.

A total of 10,000 Olympics contracts are expected to pass through CompeteFor, and more than half of these are yet to come.

About 150 Tier 2 deals are expected on the Athletes Village alone. Carillion is expected to place 14 contracts on the portal for the Media Centre; Sir Robert McAlpine is anticipated to have 16 for the main stadium; and  Balfour Beatty is forecast to put 11 packages out on the Aquatics Centre.

Speaking at the CN-organised event, Ms Stuart defended the ideas behind the system but conceded that it was not perfect. “We do understand some of the feedback we get, and are looking at what we can do to the system. Any serious ideas are welcomed,” she said.

She also insisted contracts should not be reappearing and that she would look into any instances of this.

0. 0940 Hrs GMT London Thursday 19 November 2009: Editor © Muhammd Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the London Crossrail was a Big Business scam, that it was part of the agenda that Big Business devised in order to rob UK public of money that the kitty simply did not have. Not genuine money. And as the realities of the imprudence of peddling Crossrail by a diverted, derailed Gordon Brown in October 2007 begin to dawn two years later albeit under ‘electoral pressures’ [and we are NOT impressed by ‘electoral pressures’ really], we can only note at the unending brazenness of the couriers of Big Business lies. This morning we have been commenting on and rebutting the latest peddling done under a reversed OTT choice of words by them…. We say to them even at this stage: SCRAP Crossrail and get back to reality. Address the upgrade, repair m, maintenance and standards needs on the existing transport networks…[To be continued]

http://www.cnplus.co.uk/technical/crossrail/crossrail-discourages-suicide-bidding/5211064.article

Crossrail discourages suicide bidding

19 November, 2009 | By Michael Lane

Crossrail’s implementation director has insisted that contractors will not be forced to squeeze their margins as the project’s team strives to remain within its £15.9 billion budget.

David Bennett – the man responsible for ensuring the central section of the project is delivered on time and to budget – said that while the market was extremely competitive and cost was a significant factor in bids, it was not the only thing being considered.

He said: “We need to drive the budget down and we will. We are driving it down as far as is humanly possible, consistent with scope and value for money for the sponsors.

“What we’re interested in is getting the best overall bids for Crossrail and that doesn’t mean you’re looking for people to expose themselves commercially.

“You’re looking for the contractors who can bring the most value to Crossrail and who can deliver the job for us.”

“It’s absolutely in our interests that contractors take this on in the best possible way. There is no point in them coming in envisaging either that they’re not going to take any risk or that they’re going to take an awful lot of risk, because then they won’t be able to price it, resource it or manage it in the best interests of the programme.”

There has been some recent speculation in the industry that contractors would make little money on the project, due to its prestige, the dearth of other work available and the long-term nature of delivery.

But Mr Bennett said he found this hard to believe given the “very strong interest” that had been shown by construction companies so far.

Four international consortia – Costain/Skanska/Bilfinger Berger; Kier/Ferrovial/Bam Nuttall; Laing O’Rourke/Bouygues; and Balfour Beatty/Beton- und Monierbau/Morgan Est/ Vinci – are currently in the running for Crossrail’s major tunnelling packages, with a fifth team of Hochtief and Murphy also looking at opportunities.

Two of the project’s main tunnelling packages, C300 and C305, should be awarded in the second quarter of 2010. Procurement for the third major tunnel package, C310, is expected to begin around the same time.

Station platform and tunnelling packages for Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street stations, thought to be worth about £100m each, are also in procurement, as are similar jobs at Whitechapel and Liverpool Street with a combined total of £200m.

Mr Bennett said that Crossrail’s procurement regime was flexible enough to allow for one team to win large tranches of the work.

“If the big world player feels able to take on multiple packages, that’s something that can be considered, but there’s also room for the more conventional but still quite major players to come in and take packages appropriate to their expertise and their ability.”

He added that there would be enough work to filter through the supply chain given the specialist nature of some jobs on the project.

Mr Bennett said he understood the substantial costs firms faced in bidding for work and added that Crossrail was working to manage procurement efficiently, but said contractors who lost out would not have bid costs refunded.

The project’s scope freeze, known as Yellow Diamond day in Crossrail’s offices, is due on 30 November. But Mr Bennett said he preferred to call it a “control point” because change will still be possible thereafter.

He said: “It is colloquially a freeze, but a freeze in itself doesn’t mean things can’t change. What it means is you only change in a very controlled manner. “

0940 [0710] GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was crass. We said this in February 2004 when we first put a letter of evidential rebuttal against the peddling for CRASSrail by Ken Livingstone who was then the peddler-in-chief for City of London CRASSrail scam. The EVENING STANDARD was in the grip of a lying agenda in February 2004. The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was undergoing a period of massive suppression of the truth and it was ferociously racistly mis-edited by Veronica Wadley over the years that witnessed the formal passage of the Big Business CRASSrail package as the ‘Crossrail Bill’ into the “Crossrail Act”. During most of that period, February 2004 to July 2008 [the latter time point when the CRASS Crossrail Bill was given the robber-stamp under the expressly crass aegis of Harriet Harman going OTT in her own stooged role for Big Business wearing her licence as the officially designated ‘leader’ of the House of Commons in the Palace of Ghostsminster] the standardless London EVENING STANDARD carried lies after fabricated lies for the City of London CRASSrole playing Crossrail scam agenda…And it was ceaselessly publishing the fraudulent endorsement of the scam by the ‘local London’ fraudulence-personification Tony Travers. Travers was presenting the usual travesty of the truth as he was justifying his expertise fees. As this was going on, Veronica Wadley was posing as an objective editor as she also engaged in a two-fronted ‘mini-war’ on Ken Livingstone. One front was most unpredictably opened by Ken Livingstone’s stupid assault on the rights and the humanity of a then still unknown reporter called Oliver Finegold [in whose defence we have published over 30 separate items in the past years] and the other was her deeply corrupt promotion of CRASSrail, the City of London and every single piece of sleaze ball dirt-carrier self-server that was adept at jumping onboard the Crossrail scam wagon. In effect it was not a ‘war’ of any sort at all. It was a ploy to make the EVENING STANDARD look neutral when in fact she [then Editor Veronica Wadley] has been professionally and evidentially incapable of being neutral in the International objective sense of the term. She managed to publish lies for Crossrail and in doing so created the untruthful cut-and-paste-proof that ‘the London local newspaper backed the scam’. Suddenly, the Wadley reign was at an end at the lying title. And so we began to see the appearance of a concession to the truth. Very tokenistic, very untruthful in itself. No more than a concession. Which is an outrage and a disgrace. So the so-called new regime – making losses already and this despite the dropping of a cover price for the sinking title- is still labouring under the legacies of lies left behind by Wadley in her wake. It is for this reason that the CURRENT Crossrail agenda assault [as at 18 November 2009] on the ordinary, mostly small businesses in SOHO in central London has been given the pathetic, half-hearted space and prominence in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD. We here reproduce the latest piece on SOHO as carried by the London EVENING STANDARD website: The ‘newspaper’ also suppressed all evidence of the crassness of the scam. And it DID NOT carry one single item of information about the various shapes and forms and lengths and complexities of arguments that we submitted and published ourselves against the Crossrail scam. One of the serious impacts of CRASSrail which we have been drawing attention to over the past now 5 years and 10 months of camapgning has been the losses that small businesses in London will suffer if the CRASSrail scam was allowed to go ahead in the areas of those businesses… We have also been chronicling the That the EXISTING transport infrastructure in London was in urgent need of vital repair, upgrade and improvement. That the costs of those would be appropriately payable by the public sector. That the public sector needed to be run responsibly. That non-party political, non-careerist considerations had to dominate the decision-making. That objective and reliable criteria must be applied for scrutinising the holder of the office in the Onion at London SE1 by those installed in the name of holding the potholder accountable. That the Ghastly London Assembly [GLA=then ‘London Assembly’= and the members grandly styled ‘AM’!] was an insult to all the people in Lon don who have for years suffered from rights, amenities and services because there has been no real accountability to the people in and of London by those who are put in place in the name of the people in and of London. That Crossrail-peddling timeserving careerist Peter Hendy of Transport for London [TfL funded from the public via the UK DAFT DfT] was given far too easy a ride in the BBC London News [TV slot on BBC1] package about rising bus fares and drastically diminishing bus services in London as broadcast during Tuesday 17 November 2009. That despite the BBC London News ‘political editor’ Tim Donovan being ‘live’ to the BBC studio from an apparently ‘live’ news bulletin-manufacturing spot somewhere in London, the contents of the BBC’s dissection of the CRASSness of the ‘Mayor’ left 90% of the key facts out of the bulletin AS BROADCAST. That CROSSRAIL must be put into that sort of news item so that the viewing people in London can see how crass, how irrational and how unnecessarily wasteful the entire transport ‘budgeting’ and spending priorities are under the current Onion-occupant in the name of London… That the BBC has a duty to tell the truth and whoever is writing the agenda ensuring that Crossrail does not get exposed as a drain [which is how Simon Jenkins described it in the London EVENING STANDARD on 30 April 2009] must be identified as the current stooge-maker inside the BBC ion behalf of BECHTEL and other Military Industrial Complex agencies who are in fact behind this Crossrail scam peddling ‘programme’…[To be continued]

0940 [0710] GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was crass. We said this in February 2004 when we first put a letter of evidential rebuttal against the peddling for CRASSrail by Ken Livingstone who was then the peddler-in-chief for City of London CRASSrail scam. The EVENING STANDARD was in the grip of a lying agenda in February 2004. The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was undergoing a period of massive suppression of the truth and it was ferociously racistly mis-edited by Veronica Wadley over the years that witnessed the formal passage of the Big Business CRASSrail package as the ‘Crossrail Bill’ into the “Crossrail Act”. During most of that period, February 2004 to July 2008 [the latter time point when the CRASS Crossrail Bill was given the robber-stamp under the expressly crass aegis of Harriet Harman going OTT in her own stooged role for Big Business wearing her licence as the officially designated ‘leader’ of the House of Commons in the Palace of Ghostsminster] the standardless London EVENING STANDARD carried lies after fabricated lies for the City of London CRASSrole playing Crossrail scam agenda…And it was ceaselessly publishing the fraudulent endorsement of the scam by the ‘local London’ fraudulence-personification Tony Travers. Travers was presenting the usual travesty of the truth as he was justifying his expertise fees. As this was going on, Veronica Wadley was posing as an objective editor as she also engaged in a two-fronted ‘mini-war’ on Ken Livingstone. One front was most unpredictably opened by Ken Livingstone’s stupid assault on the rights and the humanity of a then still unknown reporter called Oliver Finegold [in whose defence we have published over 30 separate items in the past years] and the other was her deeply corrupt promotion of CRASSrail, the City of London and every single piece of sleaze ball dirt-carrier self-server that was adept at jumping onboard the Crossrail scam wagon. In effect it was not a ‘war’ of any sort at all. It was a ploy to make the EVENING STANDARD look neutral when in fact she [then Editor Veronica Wadley] has been professionally and evidentially incapable of being neutral in the International objective sense of the term. She managed to publish lies for Crossrail and in doing so created the untruthful cut-and-paste-proof that ‘the London local newspaper backed the scam’. Suddenly, the Wadley reign was at an end at the lying title. And so we began to see the appearance of a concession to the truth. Very tokenistic, very untruthful in itself. No more than a concession. Which is an outrage and a disgrace. So the so-called new regime – making losses already and this despite the dropping of a cover price for the sinking title- is still labouring under the legacies of lies left behind by Wadley in her wake. It is for this reason that the CURRENT Crossrail agenda assault [as at 18 November 2009] on the ordinary, mostly small businesses in SOHO in central London has been given the pathetic, half-hearted space and prominence in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD. We here reproduce the latest piece on SOHO as carried by the London EVENING STANDARD website:

Crossrail is forcing us out of business and the compensation is tiny, say firms

Sri Carmichael and Benedict Moore-Bridger

17.11.09

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Firms being forced out to make way for Crossrail denounced the compensation process as “appalling” today.

Companies in Dean Street, Soho, accused transport bosses of throwing them out without giving them sufficient cash to pay for the move.

More than 80 got only three months’ notice to vacate premises by tomorrow so a ticket hall for the £16 billion project can be built for Tottenham Court Road. Demolition is due to start in the new year. Most of the shops, pubs, restaurants and law, media and PR firms have already left, with retailers holding discount sales. Many have leases rather than own the freehold of buildings, and want their relocation costs reimbursed.

Today campaigners claimed Crossrail was “playing hardball”, offering a “fraction” of moving costs. Some firms are shutting permanently. Laura Carr, 27, manager of the Couch Bar, said: “It’s the end. I’ve been selling off furniture.”

Holly Hartley, 45, a co-owner of Short Films, said the estimated cost of moving was £32,000, adding: “Crossrail has offered us £1,000 but I’m not going to accept it.” A Crossrail spokesman said: “All claims are dealt with under the terms of the National Compensation Code and many are ongoing.” Landlords were offered 90 per cent of “assessed property value” and there is a helpline.

We have been given the worst Christmas ever’

Domenico Savaresa, 45
Owner, Spaccanapoli restaurant,
101 Dean St
Open: 17 years
Closing
Job losses: 24
“We are a very successful business but could not find anywhere suitable to move to in just three months. The employees are not going to find jobs now. I spent 17 years of my life working to build this place up and now I have nothing. I just have to worry about if and when I get any kind of compensation. It is devastating, but more for my staff.”

Sami Pour, 50
Owner, Donelli shoe shop, 102 Dean St
Open: 30 years
Estimated cost of moving: £300,000
Job losses: potentially four
Mr Pour said he was expecting to lose “tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds” as lawyers had advised him compensation offered by Crossrail would be “minimal”. He said: “It is not easy to find suitable replacement premises. In the meantime we have to close and I am preparing to lose out [in takings while the shoe shop is closed]. It’s like the reverse of winning the lottery.”

Roddy Gye, 58
Owner, GHA Group (media technology), 1 Great Chapel St
Open: 24 years
Estimated cost of moving: £10,000- £12,000
Job losses: none
“All my staff have been working full-time on the move, which has taken weeks of management. We are a small business and have had to find new premises but have no clue what sort of compensation we are going to get. Our concern is the cost involved. It is extremely disruptive. We were not given formal notice until three months before D-day’ — not a lot of time.”

Laura Carr, 27
Manager, Couch bar
97-99 Dean St
Open: nine years
Closing
Job losses: 11
“We made a decision to close on Saturday. We have not been looking for a new venue, that’s it — end of. The bar was quite successful and popular: Soho is quite insular — there’s a big community feel — and so it is a shame it’s going. I don’t think anybody has got compensation yet. In some ways I understand why the development is happening, but I employed 10 staff. The last place I worked at was shut down too.”

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In reply to Jonb, I have supported Boris in promoting Crossrail because whatever decisions Boris takes on supporting or denouncing projects proposed by our previous mayor is the correct one. Ken supporting Crossrail was a mistake, because he was Ken, and Ken was a complete disaster. It’s a simple concept that I presume you are unable to grasp because you are not a fan of Boris.

- Sarah, London

Luke is very much alone in supporting Crossrail with the City. The rest of London does not want to bankroll the City banking failures unlike Boris and Ken and their parties. On top of this, the public are having to pay out most of the £16bn+ for a railway line that replicates the central line and destroys important residential areas and now small business areas of London unless that is you do not care for the social fabric of London. Crossrail is a financial, economic and environmental millstone for Londoners. It is odd that the City do not like paying for anything and yet they claim to be successful. Shambolic

- Val Keller, London UK

Sarah, I am surprised you are blaming Ken – for all the comments on Crossrail you have left up to now, the credit for Crossrail is all with Boris!!

- Jonb, London

And so thanks to Ken Livingstone’s support for this monstrous railway ploughing its way through central London which caught the imagination of the government, we now have a situation where the historical fabric of this city is being ripped apart all in the name of helping a few bankrupt City workers get to their surburbia a little bit quicker. The legacy of Crossrail and Livingstone continues to ruin lives long after he has gone.

- Sarah, London

If my memory serves me well Crossrail has ear marked a station ticket hall at Dean Street since the scheme began in the early 1990s. How anyone can say this is suprise is beyond me.

There is no “good time” for a CPO and I really feel sorry for owners who have to move out – (especially Spaccanapoli – I’ll miss your brilliant pizzas!) but businesses really should have started making plans when the scheme got its green light for parliament in July last year.

Crossrail is coming and about time too!

- Luke, London

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0935 [0710] GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was crass. We said this in February 2004 when we first put a letter of evidential rebuttal against the peddling for CRASSrail by Ken Livingstone who was then the peddler-in-chief for City of London CRASSrail scam. The EVENING STANDARD was in the grip of a lying agenda in February 2004. The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was undergoing a period of massive suppression of the truth and it was ferociously racistly mis-edited by Veronica Wadley over the years that witnessed the formal passage of the Big Business CRASSrail package as the ‘Crossrail Bill’ into the “Crossrail Act”. During most of that period, February 2004 to July 2008 [the latter time point when the CRASS Crossrail Bill was given the robber-stamp under the expressly crass aegis of Harriet Harman going OTT in her own stooged role for Big Business wearing her licence as the officially designated ‘leader’ of the House of Commons in the Palace of Ghostsminster] the standardless London EVENING STANDARD carried lies after fabricated lies for the City of London CRASSrole playing Crossrail scam agenda…And it was ceaselessly publishing the fraudulent endorsement of the scam by the ‘local London’ fraudulence-personification Tony Travers. Travers was presenting the usual travesty of the truth as eh was justifying his expertise fees. As this was going on, Veronica Wadley was posing as an objective editor as she also engaged in a two-fronted ‘mini-war’ on Ken Livingstone. One front was most unpredictably opened by Ken Livingstone’s stupid assault on the rights and the humanity of a then still unknown reporter called Oliver Finegold [in whose defence we have published over 30 separate items in the past years] and the other was her deeply corrupt promotion of CRASSrail, the City of London and every single piece of sleaze ball dirt-carrier self-server that was adept at jumping onboard the Crossrail scam wagon. In effect it was not a ‘war’ of any sort at all. It was a ploy to make the EVENING STANDARD look neutral when in fact she [then Editor Veronica Wadley] has been professionally and evidentially incapable of being neutral in the International objective sense of the term. She managed to publish lies for Crossrail and in doing so created the untruthful cut-and-paste-proof that ‘the London local newspaper backed the scam’. Suddenly, the Wadley reign was at an end at the lying title. And so we began to see the appearance of a concession to the truth. Very tokenistic, very untruthful in itself. No more than a concession. Which is an outrage and a disgrace. So the so-called new regime – making losses already and this despite the dropping of a cover price for the sinking title- is still labouring under the legacies of lies left behind by Wadley in her wake. It is for this reason that the CURRENT Crossrail agenda assault [as at 18 November 2009] on the ordinary, mostly small businesses in SOHO in central London has been given the pathetic, half-hearted space and prominence in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD. We here reproduce the latest piece on SOHO as carried by the London EVENING STANDARD website:

0935 [0710] GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was crass. We said this in February 2004 when we first put a letter of evidential rebuttal against the peddling for CRASSrail by Ken Livingstone who was then the peddler-in-chief for City of London CRASSrail scam. The EVENING STANDARD was in the grip of a lying agenda in February 2004. The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was undergoing a period of massive suppression of the truth and it was ferociously racistly mis-edited by Veronica Wadley over the years that witnessed the formal passage of the Big Business CRASSrail package as the ‘Crossrail Bill’ into the “Crossrail Act”. During most of that period, February 2004 to July 2008 [the latter time point when the CRASS Crossrail Bill was given the robber-stamp under the expressly crass aegis of Harriet Harman going OTT in her own stooged role for Big Business wearing her licence as the officially designated ‘leader’ of the House of Commons in the Palace of Ghostsminster] the standardless London EVENING STANDARD carried lies after fabricated lies for the City of London CRASSrole playing Crossrail scam agenda…And it was ceaselessly publishing the fraudulent endorsement of the scam by the ‘local London’ fraudulence-personification Tony Travers. Travers was presenting the usual travesty of the truth as eh was justifying his expertise fees. As this was going on, Veronica Wadley was posing as an objective editor as she also engaged in a two-fronted ‘mini-war’ on Ken Livingstone. One front was most unpredictably opened by Ken Livingstone’s stupid assault on the rights and the humanity of a then still unknown reporter called Oliver Finegold [in whose defence we have published over 30 separate items in the past years] and the other was her deeply corrupt promotion of CRASSrail, the City of London and every single piece of sleaze ball dirt-carrier self-server that was adept at jumping onboard the Crossrail scam wagon. In effect it was not a ‘war’ of any sort at all. It was a ploy to make the EVENING STANDARD look neutral when in fact she [then Editor Veronica Wadley] has been professionally and evidentially incapable of being neutral in the International objective sense of the term.

She managed to publish lies for Crossrail and in doing so created the untruthful cut-and-paste-proof that ‘the London local newspaper backed the scam’. Suddenly, the Wadley reign was at an end at the lying title. And so we began to see the appearance of a concession to the truth. Very tokenistic, very untruthful in itself. No more than a concession. Which is an outrage and a disgrace. So the so-called new regime – making losses already and this despite the dropping of a cover price for the sinking title- is still labouring under the legacies of lies left behind by Wadley in her wake. It is for this reason that the CURRENT Crossrail agenda assault [as at 18 November 2009] on the ordinary, mostly small businesses in SOHO in central London has been given the pathetic, half-hearted space and prominence in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD. We here reproduce the latest piece on SOHO as carried by the London EVENING STANDARD website:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23770628-crossrail-is-forcing-us-out-of-business-and-the-compensation-is-tiny-say-firms.do

Crossrail is forcing us out of business and the compensation is tiny, say firms

Sri Carmichael and Benedict Moore-Bridger
17.11.09

 

Crossrail is forcing us out of business and the compensation is tiny, say firms

Sri Carmichael and Benedict Moore-Bridger

17.11.09

 

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Firms being forced out to make way for Crossrail denounced the compensation process as “appalling” today.

Companies in Dean Street, Soho, accused transport bosses of throwing them out without giving them sufficient cash to pay for the move.

More than 80 got only three months’ notice to vacate premises by tomorrow so a ticket hall for the £16 billion project can be built for Tottenham Court Road. Demolition is due to start in the new year. Most of the shops, pubs, restaurants and law, media and PR firms have already left, with retailers holding discount sales. Many have leases rather than own the freehold of buildings, and want their relocation costs reimbursed.

Today campaigners claimed Crossrail was “playing hardball”, offering a “fraction” of moving costs. Some firms are shutting permanently. Laura Carr, 27, manager of the Couch Bar, said: “It’s the end. I’ve been selling off furniture.”

Holly Hartley, 45, a co-owner of Short Films, said the estimated cost of moving was £32,000, adding: “Crossrail has offered us £1,000 but I’m not going to accept it.” A Crossrail spokesman said: “All claims are dealt with under the terms of the National Compensation Code and many are ongoing.” Landlords were offered 90 per cent of “assessed property value” and there is a helpline.

We have been given the worst Christmas ever’

Domenico Savaresa, 45
Owner, Spaccanapoli restaurant,
101 Dean St
Open: 17 years
Closing
Job losses: 24
“We are a very successful business but could not find anywhere suitable to move to in just three months. The employees are not going to find jobs now. I spent 17 years of my life working to build this place up and now I have nothing. I just have to worry about if and when I get any kind of compensation. It is devastating, but more for my staff.”

Sami Pour, 50
Owner, Donelli shoe shop, 102 Dean St
Open: 30 years
Estimated cost of moving: £300,000
Job losses: potentially four
Mr Pour said he was expecting to lose “tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds” as lawyers had advised him compensation offered by Crossrail would be “minimal”. He said: “It is not easy to find suitable replacement premises. In the meantime we have to close and I am preparing to lose out [in takings while the shoe shop is closed]. It’s like the reverse of winning the lottery.”

Roddy Gye, 58
Owner, GHA Group (media technology), 1 Great Chapel St
Open: 24 years
Estimated cost of moving: £10,000- £12,000
Job losses: none
“All my staff have been working full-time on the move, which has taken weeks of management. We are a small business and have had to find new premises but have no clue what sort of compensation we are going to get. Our concern is the cost involved. It is extremely disruptive. We were not given formal notice until three months before D-day’ — not a lot of time.”

Laura Carr, 27
Manager, Couch bar
97-99 Dean St
Open: nine years
Closing
Job losses: 11
“We made a decision to close on Saturday. We have not been looking for a new venue, that’s it — end of. The bar was quite successful and popular: Soho is quite insular — there’s a big community feel — and so it is a shame it’s going. I don’t think anybody has got compensation yet. In some ways I understand why the development is happening, but I employed 10 staff. The last place I worked at was shut down too.”

 

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In reply to Jonb, I have supported Boris in promoting Crossrail because whatever decisions Boris takes on supporting or denouncing projects proposed by our previous mayor is the correct one. Ken supporting Crossrail was a mistake, because he was Ken, and Ken was a complete disaster. It’s a simple concept that I presume you are unable to grasp because you are not a fan of Boris.

- Sarah, London

Luke is very much alone in supporting Crossrail with the City. The rest of London does not want to bankroll the City banking failures unlike Boris and Ken and their parties. On top of this, the public are having to pay out most of the £16bn+ for a railway line that replicates the central line and destroys important residential areas and now small business areas of London unless that is you do not care for the social fabric of London. Crossrail is a financial, economic and environmental millstone for Londoners. It is odd that the City do not like paying for anything and yet they claim to be successful. Shambolic

- Val Keller, London UK

Sarah, I am surprised you are blaming Ken – for all the comments on Crossrail you have left up to now, the credit for Crossrail is all with Boris!!

- Jonb, London

And so thanks to Ken Livingstone’s support for this monstrous railway ploughing its way through central London which caught the imagination of the government, we now have a situation where the historical fabric of this city is being ripped apart all in the name of helping a few bankrupt City workers get to their surburbia a little bit quicker. The legacy of Crossrail and Livingstone continues to ruin lives long after he has gone.

- Sarah, London

If my memory serves me well Crossrail has ear marked a station ticket hall at Dean Street since the scheme began in the early 1990s. How anyone can say this is suprise is beyond me.

There is no “good time” for a CPO and I really feel sorry for owners who have to move out – (especially Spaccanapoli – I’ll miss your brilliant pizzas!) but businesses really should have started making plans when the scheme got its green light for parliament in July last year.

Crossrail is coming and about time too!

- Luke, London

0710 GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the EXISTING transport infrastructure in London was in urgent need of vital repair, upgrade and improvement. That the costs of those would be appropriately payable by the public sector. That the public sector needed to be run responsibly. That non-party political, non-careerist considerations had to dominate the decision-making. That objective and reliable criteria must be applied for scrutinising the holder of the office in the Onion at London SE1 by those installed in the name of holding the potholder accountable. That the Ghastly London Assembly [GLA=then ‘London Assembly’= and the members grandly styled ‘AM’!] was an insult to all the people in Lon don who have for years suffered from rights, amenities and services because there has been no real accountability to the people in and of London by those who are put in place in the name of the people in and of London. That Crossrail-peddling timeserving careerist Peter Hendy of Transport for London [TfL funded from the public via the UK DAFT DfT] was given far too easy a ride in the BBC London News [TV slot on BBC1] package about rising bus fares and drastically diminishing bus services in London as broadcast during Tuesday 17 November 2009. That despite the BBC London News ‘political editor’ Tim Donovan being ‘live’ to the BBC studio from an apparently ‘live’ news bulletin-manufacturing spot somewhere in London, the contents of the BBC’s dissection of the CRASSness of the ‘Mayor’ left 90% of the key facts out of the bulletin AS BROADCAST. That CROSSRAIL must be put into that sort of news item so that the viewing people in London can see how crass, how irrational and how unnecessarily wasteful the entire transport ‘budgeting’ and spending priorities are under the current Onion-occupant in the name of London… That the BBC has a duty to tell the truth and whoever is writing the agenda ensuring that Crossrail does not get exposed as a drain [which is how Simon Jenkins described it in the London EVENING STANDARD on 30 April 2009] must be identified as the current stooge-maker inside the BBC ion behalf of BECHTEL and other Military Industrial Complex agencies who are in fact behind this Crossrail scam peddling ‘programme’…[To be continued]

0710 GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the EXISTING transport infrastructure in London was in urgent need of vital repair, upgrade and improvement. That the costs of those would be appropriately payable by the public sector. That the public sector needed to be run responsibly. That non-party political, non-careerist considerations had to dominate the decision-making. That objective and reliable criteria must be applied for scrutinising the holder of the office in the Onion at London SE1 by those installed in the name of holding the potholder accountable. That the Ghastly London Assembly [GLA=then ‘London Assembly’=  and the members grandly styled ‘AM’!]  was an insult to all the people in Lon don who have for years suffered from rights, amenities and services because there has been no real accountability to the people in and of London by those who are put in place in the name of the people in and of London. That Crossrail-peddling timeserving careerist Peter Hendy of Transport for London [TfL funded from the public via the UK DAFT DfT] was given far too easy a ride in the BBC London News [TV slot on BBC1] package about rising bus fares and drastically diminishing bus services in London  as broadcast  during Tuesday 17 November 2009. That despite the BBC London News ‘political editor’ Tim Donovan being ‘live’ to the BBC studio from an apparently ‘live’ news bulletin-manufacturing spot somewhere in London, the contents of the BBC’s dissection of the CRASSness of the ‘Mayor’ left  90% of the key facts out of the bulletin AS BROADCAST. That CROSSRAIL must be put into that sort of news item so that the viewing people in London can see how crass, how irrational and how unnecessarily wasteful the entire transport ‘budgeting’ and spending priorities are under the current Onion-occupant in the name of London… That the BBC has a duty to tell the truth and whoever is writing the agenda ensuring that Crossrail does not get exposed as a drain [which is how Simon Jenkins described it in the London EVENING STANDARD on 30 April 2009] must be identified as the current stooge-maker inside the BBC ion behalf of BECHTEL and other Military Industrial Complex agencies who are in fact behind this Crossrail scam peddling ‘programme’…[To be continued]

0045 GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! Crossrail was CRASS. First proof it was crass was always to be found in the DENIAL of its peddlers of the EXISTING London transport network sinking into ever deeper holes of disrepair, neglect and poor standard. That has again been admitted now by the err.. Persistent peddler of Crossrail on the Ken Livingstone side of the non-divide at the Ghastly ‘London Assembly’, Val Shawcross. Shawcross is an adept faker on the Ken Livingstone fan club. She was, however, forced by events to go on the record during Tuesday and confess that Boris Johnson was phasing out bus services in London! The ‘cause’? Shortage of cash! Oooops!!!! Told you so! That every single peddler of the wasteful, poverty-creating Crossrail scam was faking. We also have pointed out the lying by Crossrail peddlers over the years.. Even the search engine Google is apparently confused. That is a function of the speed with which the peddlers of CRASSRail are having to switch from one fakery to the unprecedented illogical next.. No algorithmic programming or input can deal with that speed of CRASS lying…[To be continued]

0045 GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! Crossrail was CRASS. First proof it was crass was always to be found in the DENIAL of its peddlers of the EXISTING London transport network sinking into ever deeper holes of disrepair, neglect and poor standard. That has again been admitted now by the err.. Persistent peddler of Crossrail on the Ken Livingstone side of the non-divide at the Ghastly ‘London Assembly’, Val Shawcross. Shawcross is an adept faker on the Ken Livingstone fan club. She was, however, forced by events to go on the record during Tuesday  and confess that Boris Johnson was phasing out bus services in London! The ‘cause’? Shortage of cash! Oooops!!!! Told you so! That every single peddler of the wasteful, poverty-creating Crossrail scam was faking. We also have pointed out the lying by Crossrail peddlers over the years.. Even the search engine Google is apparently confused. That is a function of the speed with which the peddlers of CRASSRail are having to switch from one fakery to the unprecedented illogical next.. No algorithmic programming or input can deal with that speed of CRASS lying…[To be continued]

1328 GMT London Monday 16 November 2009: Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole scam Big Business agenda…” Campaign has argued for 5 years and 10 months now [January 2004 – November 2009] that UK Gordon Brown HAD to show that he was competent in allocating huge sums of public money to projects that were not demonstrably viable sustainable productive or justified. We have been chronicling the various serious errors in G Brown’s ‘policies’. Now, the BBC published a confessional of its own and said that financial regulation in the UK was not working [Radio 4, Today programme, Monday 16 November 2009]. What the BBC should have actually said on the Today propgramme was that the Corporation had been allowing the alleged financial regulators to get way with colluding with the wrongdoers. And that the ‘real’ forum for regulation, the ‘elected’ ‘House of Commons’ was a stooged place bereft of both knowledge and courage to hold the looter bankers and their colluding outfits to democratic audit and account. That the lies being printed by agencies of Big Business looters in support of their false claim [as typified the following item we reproduce here from the constriction trade website concerned [http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3151865&c=0] would not be allowed to go unexposed and uncondemned had there been a real regulation of the media in England. That the London CrossRail scam was a viable economic one would not be allowed to appear had there been even minimal standards in the culture of ‘regulation’ of the media. That the BBC itself should have been ashamed of the lies that it carries daily on befall of Big Businesses and assortments of other wrongdoers looting the economy and robbing the public in the UK [To be continued] _________________________________________ CROSSRAIL AND TUBE REVAMP WOULD BOOST ECONOMY BY £24BN 27 October, 2009 By Sophie Griffiths Crossrail and overhaul of London’s tube would benefit the wider UK economy, says research Building Crossrail and completing the modernisation of the tube will generate wider economic benefits for Britain in the order of £24bn additional GDP, new research has revealed. The report by business organisation London First showed that without continued investment, Londoners would face increasingly impoverished travelling conditions on a daily basis. This would include unreliability, slower journeys and much more overcrowding. Some passengers will be put off using the tube altogether and will add to congestion on the roads or simply not travel at all, reducing London employers’ ability to recruit and costing London and the UK the opportunity of further economic growth, the report said. Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who joined London First at the launch of their report said: “My commitment to the tube upgrades and Crossrail is fundamental and unwavering. The benefits of Crossrail will only be realised if continued investment is also provided for the rebuilding of the tube. Without modernisation of the tube, the report said half a million passengers, twice as many as now, would be forced to commute in conditions defined as “very crowded” – the equivalent of four or more people in a telephone box. Meanwhile, the ticket barrier and entrance at Victoria station would be shut every six minutes, for two minutes each time, to maintain safety in the face of severe crowding. Read more: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:pxRrUIKMK_sJ:www.building.co.uk/story.asp%3Fstorycode%3D3151865+Crossrail+and+tube+revamp+would+boost+economy&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk#ixzz0X1kRRdMR

1328 GMT London Monday 16 November 2009: Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole scam Big Business agenda…” Campaign has argued for 5 years and 10 months now [January 2004 – November 2009] that UK Gordon Brown HAD to show that he was competent in allocating huge sums of public money to projects that were not demonstrably viable sustainable productive or justified. We have been chronicling the various serious errors in G Brown’s ‘policies’. Now, the BBC published a confessional of its own and said that financial regulation in the UK was not working [Radio 4, Today programme, Monday 16 November 2009]. What the BBC should have actually said on the Today propgramme was that the Corporation had been allowing the alleged financial regulators to get way with colluding with the wrongdoers. And that the ‘real’ forum for regulation, the ‘elected’ ‘House of Commons’ was a stooged place bereft of both knowledge and courage to hold the looter bankers and their colluding outfits to democratic audit and account.

That the lies being printed by agencies of Big Business looters in support of their false claim [as typified the following item we reproduce here from the constriction trade website concerned [http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3151865&c=0]  would not be allowed to go unexposed and uncondemned had there been a real regulation of the media in England.

That the London CrossRail scam was a viable economic one would not be allowed to appear had there been even minimal standards in the culture of ‘regulation’ of the media.

That the BBC itself should have been ashamed of the lies that it carries daily on befall of Big Businesses and assortments of other wrongdoers looting the economy and robbing the public in the UK

[To be continued]

_________________________________________

CROSSRAIL AND TUBE REVAMP WOULD BOOST ECONOMY BY £24BN

27 October, 2009

By Sophie Griffiths

Crossrail and overhaul of London’s tube would benefit the wider UK economy, says research

Building Crossrail and completing the modernisation of the tube will generate wider economic benefits for Britain in the order of £24bn additional GDP, new research has revealed.

The report by business organisation London First showed that without continued investment, Londoners would face increasingly impoverished travelling conditions on a daily basis.

This would include unreliability, slower journeys and much more overcrowding.

 

Some passengers will be put off using the tube altogether and will add to congestion on the roads or simply not travel at all, reducing London employers’ ability to recruit and costing London and the UK the opportunity of further economic growth, the report said.

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who joined London First at the launch of their report said: “My commitment to the tube upgrades and Crossrail is fundamental and unwavering. The benefits of Crossrail will only be realised if continued investment is also provided for the rebuilding of the tube.

Without modernisation of the tube, the report said half a million passengers, twice as many as now, would be forced to commute in conditions defined as “very crowded” – the equivalent of four or more people in a telephone box.

Meanwhile, the ticket barrier and entrance at Victoria station would be shut every six minutes, for two minutes each time, to maintain safety in the face of severe crowding.

 

 

 

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1255 GMT London Sunday 15 November 2009: Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole scam Big Business agenda…” campaign is this week reiterating the call to all ‘elected councillors on Tower Hamlets Council’ representing’ the ‘Bethnal Green South’ and the Stepney wards IN PARTICULAR to come out and put their position on the table. No, let them put their position to the local community. Do the ‘councillors’ support the Crossrail holes in their wards? If so, let them say why. If they don’t support those Crossrail holes then let them say so too. Let them do it openly. Clearly and very simp

1255 GMT London Sunday 15 November 2009: Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole scam Big Business agenda…” campaign is this week reiterating the call to all ‘elected councillors on Tower Hamlets Council’ representing’ the ‘Bethnal Green South’ and the Stepney wards IN PARTICULAR to come out and put their position on the table. No, let them put their position to the local community. Do the ‘councillors’ support the Crossrail holes in their wards? If so, let them say why. If they don’t support those Crossrail holes then let them say so too. Let them do it openly. Clearly and very simply. Silence is not an option. [To be continued]

1245 Hrs GMT London Sunday 15 November 2009:

In this Muhammad Haque picture of KHOODEELAAR! Campaign supporters seen next to the “No Xrail Hole” sign on the wall in the Hanbury Street London E1 in April 2009, marking the occasion of the CRASSrail holes being abandoned. The holes that had been scheduled to be dug in Hanbury Street and at points to the west had been abandoned under the pressure of our campaign. [To be continued

Editor © Muhammad Haque

Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole scam Big Business agenda…” campaign is this week reiterating the call to all ‘elected councillors on Tower Hamlets Council’ representing’ the ‘Bethnal Green South’ and the Stepney wards IN PARTICULAR to come out and put their position on the table. No, let them put their position to the local community. Do the ‘councillors’ support the Crossrail holes in their wards? If so, let them say why. If they don’t support those Crossrail holes then let them say so too. Let them do it openly. Clearly and very simply.  Silence is not an option.

[To be continued]