Editor: Muhammad Haque
1710 Hrs GMT London Saturday 18 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! action update, analyzing the dire, duplicitous dishonesty of the Big Business CROSSRAIL SCAM as evident in the significant number of comments from across the UK and published on the BUILDING [magazine] web site where Khoodeelaar! has posted a reiteration in brief of our central diagnosis of the Crossrail scam as touted for by the stooged Blaired regime for the looting of the public at the behest of Big Business and the Military Industrial Complex and fronted by Gordon Brown……As we have shown over the past 5 years and 3 months of daily [and sometimes hourly] published results and findings and updates of our ongoing diagnosis of the CRASSLY conceived Crossrail scam, there is no difference between the various crews doing the bidding for Big Business via the stooged Houses of Commons and of ‘Peers’. The Blaired crew and the allegedly opposition crew as typified now by David Cameron are engaged in the same service., And as they do, the are also doing disservice to democracy.. … In the next 24 hours, we shall be going over the ‘contribution’ made by one of John Major’s very own ‘bastards’, [for details, refer to the former ITN political reporter Michael Brunson] John Redwood. Redwood is over-estimated and over-plugged by the zombifying and the zombified media in the ‘British’ ‘mainstream’. Just s is David Willetts. Between the two those tokens of British corruptocracy, the media-hyped brilliance is allegedly to be found in not just two brains but in several.. How astonishing, then to find that BOTH Redwood and Willetts are bereft of any real substance. When it comes to democracy. Ethics, Morality., Civil liberty. Far less universality of humanity…Redwood posed in October 2007 as a ‘critic’ of Gordon Brown’s… Redwood is no critic of Gordon Brown..Nor can he be. Nor could he ever be. Gordon Brown and John Redwood are in the service of the same agency: Big Business and Military industrial Complex..They BOTH belong to the same thing. They BOTH subscribe to the same scheme. They are bureaucratized, institutionalized and installed stooges, in their slightly different but essentially the similarly orientated locations, for the same scam.
[To be continued]
Another US firm nabs Crossrail contract
15 April, 2009
Jacobs Engineering’s appointment as project representative follows wins by Bechtel and Transcend
A third American firm has won a role on the £15.9bn Crossrail scheme.
Jacobs Engineering was confirmed as project representative today, just weeks after Bechtel landed the £400m Crossrail delivery partner role.
Jacobs Engineering’s UK arm has been brought on board to make sure the project is delivered on time and to budget. The firm, which will also be responsible for making sure the project is delivered to the agreed standard, is the third US company to win work on the scheme after Bechtel was appointed at the start of the month and Transcend, a joint venture between Aecom, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group, began work as the project’s programme partner in March.
Andrew Adonis, the transport minister, said: “Jacobs will bring a wealth of experience and expertise and will help us ensure that Crossrail is delivered on time and within budget.”
Readers’ comments
- Matt 15 April, 2009What about ‘british jobs for british workers’????
- Anthony Spender 15 April, 2009Having handed out these “plum” jobs to the americans the least the government can do is ensure that their fees, etc. are not subjected to UK taxation!
- Simo 15 April, 2009Matt, given the article states it would be the UK arm of Jacobs, I suspect that it would be a company based in the UK and employing (for the most part) British workers. Besides, one would also assume it was a competitive tender process and the project would get just as much stick if the costs spiralled upwards and over budget with the contracts being awarded to more expensive but wholly British firms.
- Eric Arthur Blair 15 April, 2009With all this cash being spent on American delivery partners is there enough left to employ people to actually build it? They’ll be over here, over paid and over seeing. We’ll be under paid, under ground and under orders!!
- Mike Silcock 15 April, 2009It is interesting that the government has encouraged the development of small and medium sized architectural and engineering firms in the UK who form the back-bone of government tax revenues in this sector, yet decide to award mega projects to overseas firms. he government has chosen to ignore the wealth of British ingenuity, skill and creative thinking for American bureaucracy and mediocrity.
- Mike 15 April, 2009British jobs for British workers… ah yes.. well that was yesterdays news… should have forgotten alll about that by now ! Our special alliance is with the US.. haven’t you heard….
- KHOODEELAAR! 15 April, 2009KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That CROSSRAIL was NOT about benefitting local people…It was about giving another excuse to Big Business to rob and loot the UK public… AND IMPOVERISH the UK public….
- Marcia Kia Simpson-James 15 April, 2009Gordon Brown, this government and now ‘Lord’ Adonis have already sold Britain and British (that is, English) assets down the drain, so this most recent give-away to the Americans is just a continuation of the same theme. I’m sorry to say that Gordon Brown is Scottish and anything pro-English (including jobs, construction jcontracts, etc) are seen as easy pickings. It would have surprised me if he had given the work to a British company.
- Tony Spender 16 April, 2009Given the feelings expressed above, perhaps Building should start campaigning to SCRAP Crossrail and push for the East London crossing and the extension of the DLR eastwards. Both of these would be far more beneficial to London’s economy!
- Cuthbert Dibble Grubb 16 April, 2009What a load of tosh. These ARE British jobs. British engineers, British consultants, British builders. They just happen to work for American companies.
In the same way as British workers who work for American banks, British workers who work for French power companies or British workers who work for German water providers. They work in the UK, they receive salaries in the UK and spend their hard earned quid in the UK.
Crossrail is fantastic for the UK economy. It needs the best people and if they happen to be working for American companies who cares.
It will generate 14,000 jobs in the UK. What other project is doing so much for UK plc? Then there is the spin off for the local economies, businesses and communities across the whole route. From Whitechapel and Woolwich to Maidenhead and Paddington. £36 billion added to the economy. That’s the British economy.
Crossrail will revolutionise transport in the South East. Stop whingeing and start supporting it. Its happening people and thank god for that!
- Mike Miller 16 April, 2009I can understand all of your concerns, but I’m an American working for one of the three companies in this article, and we’ve already been told internally by our company that very few of us (Americans) will be staffed on Crossrail. Besides that, my company has been incorporated in the UK since the 1950s and have several major offices there. It’s very much a part of Britain.
- Mike Miller 16 April, 2009I can understand all of your concerns, but I’m an American working for one of the three companies in this article, and we’ve already been told internally by our company that very few of us (Americans) will be staffed on Crossrail. Besides that, my company has been incorporated in the UK since the 1950s and have several major offices there. It’s very much a part of Britain.
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