0505 Hrs GMT London Saturday 21 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the BorisKen now installed in the Onion in London SE1 is continuing the touting role that had been so brazenly carried out by his predecessor Ken Livingstone… That the role of tout for Big Business scam is in conflict with Boris Johnson’s pretentious claims that he is talking ‘sense’. All the garbage that the Big Business spinmeisters have confected and contrived over the years to use the pretext of Crossrail as a plausible way to justify their multi£Billion looting of the UK public has been given the ‘stamp’ of the holder of the office in the Onion in London Se1. This was seen in June 2003 when the then touts and agents of Big Business installed in various London local borough councils, obscenely typified in the ghastly, corrupt behaviour of the controlling clique in place at the time in the ‘deprived’ inner city East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council, were marshalled by Big Business to participate in a parade of pseudo professionalism appeasing Big Business and appealing to the lowest common denominations in the ‘intelligence’ of what they knew the brainwashed masses…..This was exhibited in a faked publication – designed as a letter but in fact an advertisement placed in the London EVENING STANDARD in early 2004 by Ken LYINGSTILL Livingstone purporting to be a ‘socialist, democratic, popular movement’ [how utterly corrupting has the peddler tout for Big Business has been!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] for [!!!!!!!] the NEED to FUND the crooks of Big Business Capitalism under the guise of Crossrail…. It is almost six years since that corrupt perpetration ‘led’ by Livingstone and the London EVENING STANDARD has been forced to confess that Crossrail has been, as KHOODEELAAR! has been calling it since 2004, CRASS… We shall be carrying some of these confessions here and on the allied AADHIKARonline sites, blogs and print versions in the next days, weeks and months….[To be continued]
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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]
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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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Muhammad Haque/AADHIKARonline photo of Louise Alexander [pictured here] attending a Tower Hamlets meeting to hear Vince Cable [15 October 2009]. As Weavers Ward councillor in 2006, she spoke at the Khoodeelaar! Demonstration held as part of the action theme “No to CrossRail hole-inviter-Tower Hamlets Council” on Wednesday 1 March 2006. Later that same evening, she spoke in the Tower Hamlets Council chamber to the motion she had tabled for ‘full council’ meeting, asking that the Council adopted the policy of Saying No to the Crossrail hole.. The contents of that motion, tabled formally in Ms Alexander’s name had in effect echoed a key Khoodeelaar! Demand on Tower Hamlets Council to SAY NO to CrossRail hole plan. Just over five weeks before that, on Sunday 22 January 2006 Louise Alexander had attended the big public meeting held at the Brady centre where the Khoodeelaar! Demand on Tower Hamlets Council to Say No to Crossrail hole was unanimously agreed after Organiser Muhammad Haque had moved the motion at the meeting.[To be continued]-1. khoodeelaar ! Reminding ‘Stepney, London E1′ area ‘ward councillors on Tower Hamlets Council: SAY No to Crossrail hole attacks on t’ Stepney Wardless than 5 seconds ago from web. Delete.
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5 businesses ‘could go bust
thanks to Crossrail’
By FRED ATTEWILL – Wednesday, November 4, 2009
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?55_businesses_could_go_bust_thanks_to_Crossrail&in_article_id=761981&in_page_id=34

CROSSRAIL is threatening the future of dozens of businesses which have until next week to find new premises before the bulldozers move in, it has been claimed.
A total of 55 businesses – including pubs, restaurants, law firms and PR companies – have been ordered to leave Soho, central London.
They claim they were given just three months notice of the November 13 quit date, despite plans for the western ticket hall for Tottenham Court Road station in Dean Street being on the table since 1990.
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Some claim they have been left in the dark over compensation for moving, without which many will go bust.
Law partner Ian Penman says his firm has been landed with a six-figure bill after it was told to vacate its offices to make way for the £16billion underground rail project due to open in 2017.
‘If we don’t get sufficient compensation, we’ll probably go out of business,’ he said.
omenico Savarese said his busy pizzeria Spacca Napoli would now be forced to close with the loss of all 22 jobs after he was unable to find suitable new premises in time.
He added he had received no information from Crossrail on compensation for the loss of his profitable business just off Oxford Street.
A spokeswoman for Crossrail insisted businesses directly affected were notified before July 2008.
She said tenants were eligible for compensation under the national code for compulsory purchase.
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0300 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 4 November 2009:
Editor © Muhammad Haque.
KHOODEELAAR! has been defending the East London community against the agenda of Big Business scam, Crossrail. And against all that the Big Business scam entails, symbolizes, typifies and represents. Here is an action update on how we accurate description the role of the stooged MPs’ ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’, two days before the committee of stooged ones sat [Tuesday 17 January 2006] for the first time, we said that they would NOT be telling the truth.. They have, in the two years that followed to July 2008 when the stooged MPs and stooged Peers served as the stooges to allow Harriet Harman to hurry the CRASS Bill into the rubber stamped form of an ‘Act’ sadly, vindicated us one hundred percent. Not only did the stooged timeservers fail to tell the truth, they also failed to hear the truth. They failed to hear of the truth. They in fact blocked people who anted to tell; the truth. They rehearsed the lying charades in both Houses of the Parliament of Ghosts. The Palace of Ghostsminster was therefore confirmed as being in place [ and in place where the allegedly democratic 'mother of parliaments' Palace of Westminster was supposed to be] and in the way of telling the truth about wasteful abuse of £Billions of public money in the UK… That is how crassly the Crossrail scam has been being peddled [To be continued]
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Khoodeelaar1 told you so! That the ‘CrossRail scam’ was crass. It is crass. Each and every single utterance of its promotion is crass. Why? Because it is being peddled by the Big Business interests who want to pocket huge loots in the name of the project and from the UK public. Crossrail is also crass because the same lobby interests who are hostile to democratic audit of public funds and facilities are promoting it. Crossrail is crass because it is being promoted at the expense of transport. Transport infrastructure that is crumbling in and around London. That infrastructure needs more attention than a new scam contrived by the Big Business to make fast and unedited bucks. Unaudited? Yes, unaudited. Who ever audited the £100 million that Alistair Darling [then fronting the DAFTY, 'UK Department for Transport' that has been the touting outfit in Whitehall operating the scam for Big Business] gave away from the UK public to CLRL in 2005? Has anyone seen any audit of where that money went? Who actually took how many £millions by way of bonuses YEARS before bonuses hit the headlines?
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1640 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 28 October 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! We said this morning: “Now even Boris J is rushing around looking for any face-saving ploy to haul in as part of the new bid to confess all.” This is confirmed in a report published in the past 90 minutes on the Internet by the pro-Crossrail web site http://www.regen.net. We publish [below] the full report as it has first appeared on that web site. They run a tricky trade device. The URL linking the piece doesn’t fetch the full texts.. So we reproduce the full texts below.
“Ben Cook, Regen.net, 28 October 2009
London mayor Boris Johnson has announced that developers involved in the regeneration of the Nine Elms area of south London – which stretches from Vauxhall to Battersea Power Station – will be exempt from paying the Crossrail levy.
The Crossrail levy was to be charged on applications for additional office space above 5,000sq ft in London’s “central activities zone” – covering Westminster, parts of Camden, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, the City, Lambeth, Kensington and Chelsea, and Wandsworth – and the northern Isle of Dogs.
A spokesman for the mayor’s office said it was not yet clear whether the contributions developers would make to the Northern Line extension would be less than, or exceed, the amount paid under the Crossrail levy. Johnson said that the developers of the scheme – which will include 16,000 new homes and create up to 25,000 new jobs, according to Wandsworth Council – will instead be expected to “pay towards” the planned Northern Line extension from Kennington through Nine Elms to Battersea. A spokesman for the Mayor’s office said the method by which the developers would pay for the Northern Line extension was being “worked on”, but he added that it would be “through the planning system, rather than via a business rate”. Plans for the regeneration of Nine Elms involve the conversion of almost 200 hectares of derelict and underused land into new communities with green open spaces and new transport links, including a pedestrian and cycle bridge linking Nine Elms to Pimlico and the extension of the Northern Line to Battersea. Edward Lister, leader of Wandsworth Council, said: “The announcement is a sign of just how committed the mayor is to securing the vital transport improvements that will ensure the success of the whole project.” Rob Tincknell, managing director of Treasury Holdings UK, which will redevelop Battersea Power Station as part of the Nine Elms regeneration, said he was delighted that the mayor has given such a strong affirmation of the importance of the Nine Elms regeneration to the future of London. Johnson plans to extend the Northern Line to Nine Elms using an innovative US-style funding tool called Tax Increment Financing (Tif). Tif allows a local public body to borrow for capital investment in a designated area by securing the loan against the increases in tax revenue expected to be generated by the development of the infrastructure.”
The piece is confirmation that Boris is caught out in the CRASSrole confusion all of his own making… He is now dropping the draconian and the crass demand for CrossRail levy which he had imposed on all and sundry. The news comes on the same day when another web site has published the furious reaction to CRASSrole-player Boris that ‘businesses’ in Kingston are emitting. Boris truly has been crass. Will he now see sense and drop the crass peddling role? We shall be reporting whether he does or not.
[To be continued]
Now even Boris J is rushing around looking for any face-saving ploy to haul in as part of the new bid to confess all. Or at least to confess that he caved in to crass Crossrail confections… He now says that the London underground network is more important than Crossrail. “blimey”! Indeed…………. Tuesday’s confession by the occupier at the Onion in London SE1 in the name of the people of London that the London Underground network was far more important than the notional Crossrail was another sign that the successor of Ken Livingstone as the tout in residence of Big Business was getting increasingly nervous about his role [and the impact of any gaffes, errors on top of the dozens he has already collected] in relation to UK Con party’s chances at the scheduled general election in a few months time. After all, BoJo fancies himself as a power-seeker and he would not want to lose the chance by messing up D Cameron’s chances. And as ALL independent indications of economic prospects and movements [or lack of them] show about the UK, CrossRail means more debts, wastes and diversion than it does transport. As KHOODEELAAR! has diagnosed and exclusively asserted in public EVERYDAY for almost 6 years now, Crossrail is all those things: Wasteful, diversionary and unnecessary. This is why we are again telling Boris Johnson to take this sound and politically astute advice: SCRAP Crossrail. Khoodeelaar! No to wasteful Crossrail scam: Only spend money on the EXISTING transport network; improve the quality, the standard of service. This may sound obvious. But the obvious is being overlooked in a big, wasteful way by the peddlers of the Crossrail scam. Those peddlers are typified by Jo Valentine. She has a spot in the constitutionally ambivalent, unaccountable UK House of Pee-rs too. That makes her even more undemocratic and unaccountable than she could be had she been plain Jo. As the Houses of are not accountable, it is not known in public what abuses Jo Valentine has perpetrated in her promotion of CrossRail scam while the pack was being bureaucratically pushed through the two Houses [February 2005 and July 2008] via their stooged ‘Crossrail Bill Select committees’. When we [KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business Crossrail scam agenda…” campaign] told the London Times online in 2007 that we would notionally give the ‘Houses of Pee-rs’ the benefit of the doubt and wait to see how they delivered their constitutional duties. We did so on the theoretical basis. We also did it to point out to the then stooged ‘transport minister’ [the parasitic post that has been passed on to suitably like 'aspirants' as typified by the performance since Harris left and his shoes got filled in ...] ‘ and self-seeker Tom Harris that he must not be so gross as to predict the outcome of the ‘Crossrail Bill Select committee’ in the House of Pee-rs. That we did go on the record to say this was on many levels important. Harris did not have an answer to what we said. Nor did any of his co-peddlers of the scam at the time. And as events have shown, Harris knew that in referring to the House of Pee-rs CrossRail Bill committee he was in fact referring to another familiar stooged body. And he was comfortable with that. We were not. No democratic, constitutionally conscientious person or campaign should be comfortable with that state of affairs…. That Harris was ‘vindicated’ by the stooged behaviour of the House of Peer-s committee concerned shows that there is no democratic decency or integrity in the place.. Against this background, we make the observations we do make here about Jo Valentine… Will Jo valentine come clean and confess all? Will she say how many members of the House of Pee-rs she sought to influence? Will she give a roll call of dishonour ? So far, Jo Valentine has escaped “media attention” linked with any illegal, illegitimate, immoral, disgraceful claims of expense. Mortgages and so on. But she is hitting the headlines in the construction trade sites today [Tuesday 27 - Wednesday 28 October 2009] by returning to lobby for the public Billions [Sterling POUNDS] to be made available to the construction lobby under the name of CRASSRail. How many of those is she in touch with? [To be continued]
0915 hrs GMT London Wednesday 28 October 2009: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Now even Boris J is rushing around looking for any face-saving ploy to haul in as part of the new bid to confess all. Or at least to confess that he caved in to crass Crossrail confections… He now says that the London underground network is more important than Crossrail. “blimey”! Indeed…………. Tuesday’s confession by the occupier at the Onion in London SE1 in the name of the people of London that the London Underground network was far more important than the notional Crossrail was another sign that the successor of Ken Livingstone as the tout in residence of Big Business was getting increasingly nervous about his role [and the impact of any gaffes, errors on top of the dozens he has already collected] in relation to UK Con party’s chances at the scheduled general election in a few months time. After all, BoJo fancies himself as a power-seeker and he would not want to lose the chance by messing up D Cameron’s chances. And as ALL independent indications of economic prospects and movements [or lack of them] show about the UK, CrossRail means more debts, wastes and diversion than it does transport. As KHOODEELAAR! has diagnosed and exclusively asserted in public EVERYDAY for almost 6 years now, Crossrail is all those things: Wasteful, diversionary and unnecessary. This is why we are again telling Boris Johnson to take this sound and politically astute advice: SCRAP Crossrail. Khoodeelaar! No to wasteful Crossrail scam: Only spend money on the EXISTING transport network; improve the quality, the standard of service. This may sound obvious. But the obvious is being overlooked in a big, wasteful way by the peddlers of the Crossrail scam. Those peddlers are typified by Jo Valentine. She has a spot in the constitutionally ambivalent, unaccountable UK House of Pee-rs too. That makes her even more undemocratic and unaccountable than she could be had she been plain Jo. As the Houses of are not accountable, it is not known in public what abuses Jo Valentine has perpetrated in her promotion of CrossRail scam while the pack was being bureaucratically pushed through the two Houses [February 2005 and July 2008] via their stooged ‘Crossrail Bill Select committees’. When we [KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business Crossrail scam agenda…” campaign] told the London Times online in 2007 that we would notionally give the ‘Houses of Pee-rs’ the benefit of the doubt and wait to see how they delivered their constitutional duties. We did so on the theoretical basis. We also did it to point out to the then stooged ‘transport minister’ [the parasitic post that has been passed on to suitably like 'aspirants' as typified by the performance since Harris left and his shoes got filled in ...] ‘ and self-seeker Tom Harris that he must not be so gross as to predict the outcome of the ‘Crossrail Bill Select committee’ in the House of Pee-rs. That we did go on the record to say this was on many levels important. Harris did not have an answer to what we said. Nor did any of his co-peddlers of the scam at the time. And as events have shown, Harris knew that in referring to the House of Pee-rs CrossRail Bill committee he was in fact referring to another familiar stooged body. And he was comfortable with that. We were not. No democratic, constitutionally conscientious person or campaign should be comfortable with that state of affairs…. That Harris was ‘vindicated’ by the stooged behaviour of the House of Peer-s committee concerned shows that there is no democratic decency or integrity in the place.. Against this background, we make the observations we do make here about Jo Valentine… Will Jo valentine come clean and confess all? Will she say how many members of the House of Pee-rs she sought to influence? Will she give a roll call of dishonour ? So far, Jo Valentine has escaped “media attention” linked with any illegal, illegitimate, immoral, disgraceful claims of expense. Mortgages and so on. But she is hitting the headlines in the construction trade sites today [Tuesday 27 - Wednesday 28 October 2009] by returning to lobby for the public Billions [Sterling POUNDS] to be made available to the construction lobby under the name of CRASSRail. How many of those is she in touch with?