1715 GMT London Friday 31 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!……ANOTHER confession by a crassly behaving Crossrail hole scam-peddling propaganda outfit! And another vindication of the KHOODEELAAR! analysis..The analysis which KHOODEELAAR! has been making 24/7, EVERY day, every week, consistently for almost 5 years now… that the London Crossrail scam, as contained [now, post 22 July 2008] in the ‘Crossrail Act’ is not economic. That it is uneconomic., That it is untenable… This time the confession is contained in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD… [To be continued]

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Crossrail: Business leaders fear the economic downturn could make it difficult to raise money for the huge project

Downturn casts doubt over Crossrail funding

Pippa Crerar, City Hall Editor
31.10.08

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BUSINESS leaders have raised fears they could struggle to raise their £3.5billion contribution to Crossrail during the economic downturn.

They admit that firms which are feeling the pinch might struggle to pay the supplementary business rate of two pence in the pound.

A funding shortfall could delay the £16 billion cross-capital rail link which ministers and Mayor Boris Johnson say is essential to London’s economy. London government expert Tony Travers said: “Clearly there will be a loss of some of the business rates but there are also problems with other elements of the funding package.”

Tony Halmos of the City of London Corporation added: “I don’t think anyone is going to pretend that it’s going to be easy to impose that increase when the economic circumstances are bad.”

Graham Capper, communications director of London First, warned the two pence on the rateable value of a company’s premises was “non-negotiable”.

There had been concerns that, with some firms such as investment bank Lehmans going bust, those that were left in the capital would be expected to increase their contribution.

But Mr Capper said: “It’s obviously going to be a harder call on business than it would have been just a couple of years ago. But they can’t make the business rate contribution greater just because the pool of companies paying it is smaller.” He said the Government should tap into the project’s contingency, inject more public cash or pay the special levy over a longer period to make up for any shortfall.

The other main funding sources for the Crossrail project are a £2.7billion loan off the back of future rail fares and a £5.1billion grant from the Government.

Concern has been so acute that last week Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon was forced to issue a guarantee the project would not face any delays.

“The Government is fully committed to Crossrail and is determined that the project will be funded as planned, delivered on time and on budget,” he said.

“If we are to stimulate Britain’s economic growth it is essential we make the right long-term decisions and investments in our transport infrastructure.”

City Corporation boss Stuart Fraser insisted the Square Mile’s local authority would pay £200million from its own coffers as pledged. He told the Evening Standard: “The budgets and funding arrangements for Crossrail are all agreed. As far as the City is concerned, a deal is a deal. Of course, the financial crisis has prompted questions.”

However, Heathrow airport’s owner BAA has not yet committed itself to a £250million contribution to the rail link planned to open in 2017 running from Heathrow to Shenfield.

The supplementary business rate, thrashed out by former mayor Ken Livingstone, will only be paid by firms whose premises have a rateable value of more than £50,000.

A new local government Bill giving the Mayor power to raise the special levy will be announced in the Queen’s Speech in December.

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It’s okay, us Londoners will bail you out, after all, we’re paying for the mayor, the olympics, free travel for under 16’s, upgrading the existing transport infrastrucure, etc, why not just bung another one on the pile, we’re made of money.

- Bob, Cheam

It seems that BAA’s contribution is the problem. In that case, their continued control of Heathrow should be conditional on them providing their share of the Crossrail funding. 

BAA is responsible for the infrastructure required to support Heathrow, so they shouldn’t be allowed to wriggle out of their share.

- Liz, London

They’ve spent all the money subsidising the grotesque comsumerism of super-wealthy bankers, so that they can maintain seven homes each.

- Neil, london uk, Airstrip ONE .

1715 GMT London Friday 31 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!……ANOTHER confession by a crassly behaving Crossrail hole scam-peddling propaganda outfit! And another vindication of the KHOODEELAAR! analysis..The analysis which KHOODEELAAR! has been making 24/7, EVERY day, every week, consistently for almost 5 years now… that the London Crossrail scam, as contained [now, post 22 July 2008] in the ‘Crossrail Act’ is not economic. That it is uneconomic., That it is untenable… This time the confession is contained in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD… [To be continued]

1715 GMT London Friday 31 October 2008: HOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!……ANOTHER confession  by a crassly behaving Crossrail hole scam-peddling propaganda outfit! And  another vindication of  the KHOODEELAAR! analysis..The analysis which KHOODEELAAR! has been making 24/7, EVERY day, every week,  consistently for  almost 5 years now… that the London Crossrail scam, as contained [now, post 22 July 2008] in the ‘Crossrail Act’ is not economic. That it is uneconomic., That it is untenable…        This time the confession is contained in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD… [To be continued]

From the web site  thisislondon.co.uk    [operated for the London EVENING Nostandards STANDARD] at 1712 GMT London Friday 31 October 2008

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Crossrail: Business leaders fear the economic downturn could make it difficult to raise money for the huge project

Downturn casts doubt over Crossrail funding

Pippa Crerar, City Hall Editor
31.10.08

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BUSINESS leaders have raised fears they could struggle to raise their £3.5billion contribution to Crossrail during the economic downturn.

They admit that firms which are feeling the pinch might struggle to pay the supplementary business rate of two pence in the pound.

A funding shortfall could delay the £16 billion cross-capital rail link which ministers and Mayor Boris Johnson say is essential to London’s economy. London government expert Tony Travers said: “Clearly there will be a loss of some of the business rates but there are also problems with other elements of the funding package.”

Tony Halmos of the City of London Corporation added: “I don’t think anyone is going to pretend that it’s going to be easy to impose that increase when the economic circumstances are bad.”

Graham Capper, communications director of London First, warned the two pence on the rateable value of a company’s premises was “non-negotiable”.

There had been concerns that, with some firms such as investment bank Lehmans going bust, those that were left in the capital would be expected to increase their contribution.

But Mr Capper said: “It’s obviously going to be a harder call on business than it would have been just a couple of years ago. But they can’t make the business rate contribution greater just because the pool of companies paying it is smaller.” He said the Government should tap into the project’s contingency, inject more public cash or pay the special levy over a longer period to make up for any shortfall.

The other main funding sources for the Crossrail project are a £2.7billion loan off the back of future rail fares and a £5.1billion grant from the Government.

Concern has been so acute that last week Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon was forced to issue a guarantee the project would not face any delays.

“The Government is fully committed to Crossrail and is determined that the project will be funded as planned, delivered on time and on budget,” he said.

“If we are to stimulate Britain’s economic growth it is essential we make the right long-term decisions and investments in our transport infrastructure.”

City Corporation boss Stuart Fraser insisted the Square Mile’s local authority would pay £200million from its own coffers as pledged. He told the Evening Standard: “The budgets and funding arrangements for Crossrail are all agreed. As far as the City is concerned, a deal is a deal. Of course, the financial crisis has prompted questions.”

However, Heathrow airport’s owner BAA has not yet committed itself to a £250million contribution to the rail link planned to open in 2017 running from Heathrow to Shenfield.

The supplementary business rate, thrashed out by former mayor Ken Livingstone, will only be paid by firms whose premises have a rateable value of more than £50,000.

A new local government Bill giving the Mayor power to raise the special levy will be announced in the Queen’s Speech in December.

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It’s okay, us Londoners will bail you out, after all, we’re paying for the mayor, the olympics, free travel for under 16’s, upgrading the existing transport infrastrucure, etc, why not just bung another one on the pile, we’re made of money.

- Bob, Cheam

It seems that BAA’s contribution is the problem. In that case, their continued control of Heathrow should be conditional on them providing their share of the Crossrail funding. 

BAA is responsible for the infrastructure required to support Heathrow, so they shouldn’t be allowed to wriggle out of their share.

- Liz, London

They’ve spent all the money subsidising the grotesque comsumerism of super-wealthy bankers, so that they can maintain seven homes each.

- Neil, london uk, Airstrip ONE .

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1708 GMT London Thursday 30 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That CROSSRAIL hole scam-backer, City of London and Bankers-propagandist Boris Johnson was not speaking for the people of London. that Boris Johnson did not understand the real transport needs of London and that he did not really care what the money that WAS available to the Budget he has control over is used for. His interest was to enrich the already over-rich and Big Business… Just as Johnson said at the Tory party jamboree…………That Boris Johnson is even more unreliable than anyone could have been led to assume he was as based on the promises proffered in the months before the 1 May 2008 ‘poll’. That Johnson is a stooge and a tout for Big Business just as the previous holder in the post was… That Johnson is now no more acceptable than Ken Livingstone.. [To be continued]

From Times Online

October 30, 2008

Westfield opens to worst retail conditions in 20 years

Marcus Leroux

It was 20 years in the making and the Westfield London Centre opened this morning amid the worst trading conditions retailers have faced in nearly 20 years.

Customers arrived at the west London centre more than an hour and a half before doors opened, to catch a glimpse of the gleaming 43-acre complex, which, with 265 stores and 50 cafes and restaurants, is Europe’s biggest inner-city mall.

Crowds of shoppers thronged the spacious central atrium to catch a glimpse of Leona Lewis, the X Factor star, while others excitedly pointed out the likes of Twiggy and Erin O’Connor, the models who front Marks & Spencer’s advertising campaign. Next, meanwhile, played host to Dannii Minogue.

Frank Lowy, chairman of the Westfield Group, the Australian developer behind the centre, told shoppers at the opening ceremony that he was unconcerned by the timing of the opening.

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He said: “I have 50 years’ experience in shopping centres and business cycles come and go and my experience tells me that this cycle shall pass.”

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, emerged onstage as the orchestra reached a crescendo to insist that all was well in the world of retail.

He said: “I was asked on my way in this morning by a reporter whether this was the right time in these dark days of austerity to be opening a shopping centre as big as 30 football pitches and Buckingham Palace.”

He said it was “one of the silliest questions” he had ever been asked.

”Let me ask you the question, with unemployment rising in the UK, is it right that Westfield make an investment of £1.6 billion and create 7,000 jobs?”

He added: “Gordon Brown says to me we’re in a hole. I say to you, we need a hole the size of Crossrail. The essential thing to do is keep digging.”

Mr Johnson said he is confident that the high end and luxury retailers will find custom, even during a recession. “I think there are a great deal of people sitting on piles of money out there willing to invest in these shops.”

He also called on BBC executives and entertainers to “disgorge themselves of taxpayers’ money” at the centre, helping “poor and needy children”, adding he was confident that the shopping centre will be here after “this recession, the next recession, and the one after that”.

Earlier, Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks & Spencer, was in jovial mood showing reporters around gleaming a new store, one of the five anchor shops with Waitrose, Next, House of Fraser and Debenhams at Westfield.

He said the chain, which unveiled a store with no fewer than four cafes, had done its sums right. He said: “Clearly things are tougher and it will be more difficult than it has been for the last couple of years but I’m optimistic for the longer term.”

He added: “It will take time to get used to it and may take business away from other areas, maybe Oxford Street and Kensington a bit, but we have taken this into account. We believe in total there’s extra business here. And it’s a very important part of developing London.”

Among the shoppers who travelled to London’s latest cathedral of consumerism was Marie Boswell, who had come from Brighton with her two children.

”It’s amazing,” she said. “I haven’t seen anything like it although it’s a bit packed and very difficult to get anywhere.”

Her sister, Caroline Bevan, 41, lives across the A4 from the centre. She said: “It’s about time they’ve done something like this to this part of London. We’ve needed something like this.”

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Boris is genius. How true about the BBC. The direction of the economy probably does lie in the hands of the millions of public sector employees and pensioners who aren’t at risk from redundancy and outsourcing. Spend spend!

Mark, hammersmith,

How has this created 7000 jobs? If this shopping centre is a success, older,smaller ones like Kings Mall in Hammersmith are finished. Next we will hear that opening shops creates money in consumers pockets.

Adrian, London,

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1320 Hrs GMT London Thursday 30 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! told you so! That ALISTAIR Darling was in a dire state of contradictions; that Gordon Brown is wrong, unreliable and plainly misleading to claim the things he did claim about and on the economy and about economics; That in the inner city East End of London where Crossrail will have the holes, as many as 18,000 jobs are expected to be lost with no conceivable, rational, reasonable, realistic project of ANY ‘infrastructure project’ being able to save that many jobs or to create an equivalent number of jobs by ANY of his known, uttered or planned [or conceivable] ‘schemes’….…That Alistair Darling’s spiel as delivered at an address in the ‘City of London’ in the past 50 minutes, is as contradictory as all of his previous ones… that Darling is committing the same mistake as the past holders in the office he holds [UK Finance Minister] perpetrators of political fraud have done… he was talking up the VERY ‘British’ banks that are responsible in significant parts for the CURRENT corrupt economic crisis; that that the banks and their connected operators fail society and the people so much.. so ANY talk of responsible behaviour by ‘the GOVT’ is exposed as a gigantic economic sham and confidence trick when that behaviour is about making even more BORROWED funds available to the same banks or to similar outfits.… Just as it is a big and calculated lie to peddle the myth about J M Keynes as both Darling and Brown have been doing with the aid of the BBC and assorted other propagandists…[To be continued]

 

 

 

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The City and Tower Hamlets, home to Canary Wharf, will be hit hardest with 40,000 jobs lost, says Oxford Economics. The capital is set for more pain than anywhere else in the country, with 97,000 jobs lost next year and a similar number in 2010.Oxford Economics adds that the London jobs total will fall to about 4.5m from 4.7m now.

‘The escalation of the credit crunch will drive a rapid deterioration in employment prospects over the coming year,’ the report says.

‘Financial services will see the deepest job cuts, with losses in the region of 40,000 forecast [in 2009], but most other sectors will be affected.’

The City will lose more than 35,000 jobs, a decline of more than 10%, and Tower Hamlets will see more than 18,000 jobs go over the next two years.

More than 39,000 new financial services jobs have been created in Tower Hamlets since the start of this decade.

Retail will be the next hardest hit, the consultancy says, but the only sector to avoid jobs losses will be the public sector.

The capital is also likely to see far fewer migrants. They have averaged 76,000 a year recently on the lure of jobs.

 

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1440 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 29 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! Latest constitutional law and legal demands to the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council… The following texts represent the set of updated questions that have been delivered to the Council’s chief executive this week. More of the updated texts are being communicated in the next 48 hours. They will be published here as the communications take place.. [To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole scam 

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29 October 2008

 

To 

Martin Smith Esq

Chief Executive

Tower Hamlets Borough Council

Mulberry Place

5 Clove Crescent

London E14  2 BG

 

 

 

 

Dear Mr Smith

 

This is being delivered by hand by a representative group of Khoodeelaar! campaigners for your action. That action is as defined and explained by the Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque to your colleague Mr John S Williams on Tuesday 28 October 2008.

 

We are at the concluding stages of communications to Tower Hamlets Council now. This means that information we are seeking here must be made available to us. If it is not then we shall refer this to external bodies. And of course to the courts.

 

What we are asking for and about:

 

We are  asking you [this refers to the Tower Hamlets Council, all its decision-making  and relevant employees, agents and to the LBTH Council as the constitutionally set up and established organisation for the time being] to provide to Khoodeelaar! and through KHOODEELAAR! to all the relevant residents, tenants, businesses and others that have been involved in supporting [and those who continue to support] the Khoodeelaar! campaign over the past years and who are included in this communication and its implications the following information and answers to questions:-

 How many councillors attended how many meetings of any length and held at any location in the years 2000 to now that had Crossrail as an item referred to in any way?

 How many items of evidence about the local economic, social, environmental and educational situation, condition, priorities, needs, repercussions in Tower Hamlets have been examined in that same item by Tower Hamlets Council and in the context of the transport needs of the people in the area generally and in the context of the Tower Hamlets Councils involvement in the promotion of Crossrail?

Who authorised that Khoodeelaar! and others who have asked questions about Crossrail and the Council;s role should be treated with silence at best and obstruction otherwise?

Why have you not supplied answers to the previous questions, queries/ This refers to ALL the outstanding ones.

What is the difference between Hanbury/Princelet Street and Woodseer Street?

Why have Councillors for affected wards stated lies?

Why has the ‘current leader’ made promises to  Khoodeelaar! in the past 2 years and break every single ones of those?

How many meetings has the ‘current leader’ attended that have had Crossrail as an item of reference in the past years since he became a ‘leading’ member within the Council?

Who decided to block Khoodeelaar! e-mails to the Council? 

What did Denise Jones  mean by the utterance about CROSSRAIL when she gave her speech ending the year as ‘leader’ of the Council earlier this year?

 

 

By

 

[Signed by the KHOODEELAAR! delegation that visited Mulberry Place this morning]

[Wednesday 29 October 2008]

0610 GMT London Wednesday 29 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole plot… No to Big Business take-over scam, No to the degeneration of the inner city East End of London under ‘big projects’ that are trojan, blatant, Brown-fronted Blairing and Blaired schemes , scams and pretexts to destroy the ordinary East End of London….. The KHOODEELAAR! defence of the East End of London covering constitutional, legal, economic,m environmental, social ethical and moral priorities, frameworks………KHOODEELAAR! No to the Crossrail hole-inviting roles of the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council and the Big Business-serving and stooged controlling clique on that Council….. [To be continued]

 

 

Editor©Muhammad Haque

 

 

Key points from the KHOODEELAAR! MANIFESTO 2006 Part B published in London UK at 1000 Hrs GMT on Wednesday 4 January 2006

 

 

PUBLISHING Note at 0558 GMT London wednesday  29 October 2008: 

The description of the campaign area has been  updated in these texts.  The references to the 2006 local Council elections and the ‘Crossrail Bill’ are retained in the texts. They will be updated in the NEW PART of the KHOODEELAAR! Manifesto that is being prepared now…

 

[0558 GMT London Wednesday 29 October 2008]

 

 

1. KHOODEELAAR the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London… will provide maximum possible support for the widest possible public attention to be drawn to the conduct of the controlling group that makes the decisions ‘in the name of and as the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council’ in relation to ALL uses of the ‘resources, human and material and the revenues, the reserves, the stocks, the powers, facilities, influence’ of the LBTH Council over land, properties, the environment, the Council duties, Council links with any party or parties whose objects, aims and plans and or tactics or strategies are or may be in conflict with the interest of the community in Tower Hamlets

 

2. KHOODEELAAR the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London… will monitor the behaviour of the ‘key’ employees in the LBTH Council in relation to the above and will put in place a system whereby any violating behaviour by any employee of the LBTH Council is first drawn to attention of the employees themselves for rectification failing which the implications of the behaviour will be drawn to the public attention of the local community in Tower Hamlets.

 

3. Any ‘key’ or ‘senior’ employee in the LBTH Council (or any of their counterparts acting as a one off contractor or as an agent or ‘representative’ of any duration and acting in the name of the corporate legal entity of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council ) who is authoritatively and reliably known and or is found to have been engaged in any identifiable or actual conduct or behaviour (whether actively or passively) to conceal from the local community the facts of the LBTH Council’s collusion with any agency or agencies in the promotion of the CrossRail hole plan affecting the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area community or similarly affecting any other part of the Borough will be named and their role will be featured in the community audit of Tower Hamlets Council that will be held from time to time.

 

4. KHOODEELAAR the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London… will publish – or cause to be published – the key findings of the independent investigation under the auspices of the London Community Audit Network (un-funded and totally party politically and financially independent organisation for the defence of the democratic rights of the people across London) into the collusion by the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council in the period 2001 – 2005 (so far) with Crossrail hole plan promoters so far. 

 

5. The publication will take place to give the local community the facts of what the Tower Hamlets Council is being used for and by who and with what negative, devastating consequences to the community and against the welfare, safety and future of the people in the community.

 

6. KHOODEELAAR the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London… will ask each councillor to make an immediate and public and fully factual and comprehensive statement on their own understanding and preferences on the Crossrail hole Bill attack on the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area especially in view of the fact that those councillors who were each given a personally addressed copy of all the relevant Questions and analyses by the CBRUK – KHOODEELAAR ! campaign between March 2004 and May 2004 have failed to make any comment to the community about what they (these councillors) think about the Crossrail hole attack plan on the community. Many of the same councillors are already known to be included as candidates for the scheduled May 2006 election to the Tower Hamlets Council.

 

[Part C of the manifesto to appear in the next week]

 

Explanatory notes on the KHOODEELAAR! MANIFESTO 2006 against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London… -

 

A Manifesto is a programme of action that the party publishing it will implement in office following an ordinary election. Here, the KHOODEELAAR campaign is not NECESSARILY fielding candidates for election to the Tower Hamlets Council at the scheduled May 2006 local council election. This manifesto is an advance guidance for observance by those who will seek election to the Tower Hamlets Council and the terms of this manifesto will form the full set of references against which the conduct of the elected councillors will be audited by the community generally and by the KHOODEELAAR! campaign in particular.

 

The Tower Hamlets borough-wide implications of the KHOODEELAAR MANIFESTO 2006, will be felt by and or be relevant to all ordinary members of the population in the East London borough in relation to their consideration and understanding of the behaviour of the ‘elected Tower Hamlets councillors’ [in the individual capacities of those councillors on issues that are raised with them for representation on behalf of the electors - whether or not the electors actually cast their votes or if they voted for the councillor concerned) over any matter that may become the subject of any contention, dispute or debate or controversy related to the use and or the abuse of the ‘constitutional powers of the elected holder of office on a local council’ or over any matter related to or arising from the undemocratic, improper, sleazy or corrupt behaviour of a given councillor or of more than one councillor.

 

KHOODEELAAR Manifesto 2006 against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London... also will be citable, de facto, as a frame of democratic references for the establishment of a democratic right [or more than one right] in the context of the legally definable and the statutory duties [and the remits] of the elected councillor/s and those of the decision-making components or units, agents, agencies and ‘employees’ of the ‘elected Council’ in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

 

The facts of the publication in December 2005 and in January 2006 of the KHOODEELAAR Manifesto 2006 against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London… will be relevant evidence in any formal court or legal proceedings that members of the local community – individually or as group/s- may take or may find themselves involved in, in support of the existence from the dates of the publication of the democratic demands and guidance for the candidates seeking election to the Tower Hamlets Council at the scheduled May 2006 local council election.

 

KHOODEELAAR the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole SCAM and attacks plan on the inner city, East End of London… will – between now and the last moment of any ordinary ‘election campaign’ in connection with the scheduled May 2006 local council election in Tower Hamlets – draw attention of the community to all verifiable cases of abuses and false claims by either any existing councillor/s or by anyone definitely planning to be a candidate to become a councillor after the May 2006 scheduled council election.

 

[To be continued]

 

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1725 GMT London Tueszday 28 October 2008: Khoodeelaar! ACTION ARCHIVE UPDATED commenhary on the Questions to Julia N Jones About Crossrail payment to Tower Hamlets Council on Whitechapel Idea Store

1725 GMT London Tueszday 28 October 2008: Khoodeelaar!  ACTION ARCHIVE UPDATED commenhary on the Questions to Julia N Jones About Crossrail payment to Tower Hamlets Council on Whitechapel Idea Store 

The Residents, tenants, small businesses and the community members backing the KHOODEELAAR! campaign aghast Crossrail holes attacks on the East End of London attended a meeting last night [1830 Hrs GMT Monday 27 October 2008]  in the Greatorex Street [off HANBURY STREET]  London E1. The meeting agreed to pity to the Tower Hamlets Council the following updated questions on the Council’s role in inviting the Crossrail holes attacks on the East End of London. [The texts will appear here overnight] “ This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 0540 GMT London Tuesday 28 October 2008  ACTION ARCHIVE against the corrupt practices of the Tower Hamlets ‘local’ Council acting as the tout for Big business Crossrail scam….”Christine Gilbert, one of the defendants in the court actions announced by Khoodeelaar!, was sent the following questions on 7 March 2006 about the corrupt deal that the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets had made with the CrossRail promoters some years ago. These questions are self-explanatory:- KHOODEELAARONLINE QUOTE Lawcompliance asking [7 March 2006] Christine Gilbert the ‘chief executive’ of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council questions convening the Whitechapel Idea Store and the bribery deal that the corrupt clique made with the Crossrail hole plan promoters”

These questions are based on the evidence we have obtained from a number of different sources including through our ongoing research into the links between Crossrail pyrometers ands individual in control of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council at the given time.

 

 

You are being asked these questions because when we tried to speak to you we were repeatedly given the run around on Monday 6 March 2006.

 

Your name was in fact mentioned by one of the senior employees of the Council.

 

Then we tried to get the information from Heather Wills, but she was said to be forever unavailable.

 

There is in our experience a pattern of behaviour on the parts of employees concerned when it comes to getting them to disclose ordinary information about ordinary matters.

 

We are asking these questions the response to which will be published by Khoodeelaar! on their print and the internet bulletins and sites.

 

 

Questions: 

 

Subject The Idea Store Whitechapel CROSSRAIL payment 

 

1. When did Tower Hamlets Council first have any contact with the Crossrail company [CLRL] [or with any other outfit that may at the relevant time not have been called CLRL but by another name or designation or acronym] about the Idea Store Whitechapel and who represented or acted or spoke or appeared on behalf of OR IN THE NAME OF the LBTH Council and what had in fact prompted that particular reference or set of references at whose centre lay or stood the ‘Idea Store’ ‘Whitechapel’? 

2. Who had initiated the relevant references and who made the link between the “Idea Store” and its “design” and the “Cash” that Crossrail eventually paid about that or with reference to that? 

3. How much money was paid by Crossrail about the “Idea Store”? 

4. When was the payment sought? 

5. When was the payment received? 

6. What legal advice was sought by Tower Hamlets Council if any was in fact at all sought about the deal? 

7. Who acted as the advisor [in any legal advice engagement or briefing]? 

8. What constitutional basis was said to exist at the time when the cash deal was being made for the Crossrail the payment to Tower Hamlets Council? 

9. Did anyone go on the record and are there minutes of the meetings and are there documents showing all the contacts and the communications that took place between the Tower Hamlets Council and the Crossrail interests at the time and covering the whole deal? 

10. Given that the Crossrail plan is yet a theory – as distinct from a legally implementable programme- and the hybrid Crossrail Bill was not even introduced to the UK House of Commons until 22 February 2005, who decided to even contemplate involving the legal and the constitutional entity of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council in a clearly speculative, illegal deal? 

11. If Tower Hamlets Council has been paying cash to so-called ethnic language titles circulating in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council [especially in the past two months] making all manner of claims to the effect that it – the controlling collection of personnel acting as and in the name of the LBTH Council – has not behaved dishonestly, that it has not concealed the core facts from the community about the Council’s behaviour on the Crossrail hole plan, that it has abided by the demands of the community as expressed at the meeting on 22 January 2006 in the motion spoken and moved by Mr Muhammad Haque – then how is it that we are still, at 7 March 2006 having to ask these detailed questions of so many ‘senior’ employees in the LBTH Council about what the Council did in its clearly speculative and unrepresentative deals with Crossrail for any cash payments? 

 

12. Why hasn’t Tower Hamlets Council published the facts about its receipt of cash from Crassrail with reference to the Idea Store? 

 

 

Part 1 of the Khoodeelaar! Questions to Julia N Jones

About Crossrail payment to Tower Hamlets Council on

Whitechapel Idea Store

 

 

1645 Hrs GMT

Tuesday 7 March 2006 

 

KHOODEELAARONLINE UNQUOTE Lawcompliance asking [7 March 2006] Christine Gilbert the ‘chief executive’ of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council questions convening the Whitechapel Idea Store and the bribery deal that the corrupt clique made with the Crossrail hole plan promoters:

1725 GMT London Tueszday 28 October 2008: Khoodeelaar!  ACTION ARCHIVE UPDATED commenhary on the Questions to Julia N Jones About Crossrail payment to Tower Hamlets Council on Whitechapel Idea Store 

The Residents, tenants, small businesses and the community members backing the KHOODEELAAR! campaign aghast Crossrail holes attacks on the East End of London attended a meeting last night [1830 Hrs GMT Monday 27 October 2008]  in the Greatorex Street [off HANBURY STREET]  London E1. The meeting agreed to pity to the Tower Hamlets Council the following updated questions on the Council’s role in inviting the Crossrail holes attacks on the East End of London. [The texts will appear here overnight] “ This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 0540 GMT London Tuesday 28 October 2008  ACTION ARCHIVE against the corrupt practices of the Tower Hamlets ‘local’ Council acting as the tout for Big business Crossrail scam….”Christine Gilbert, one of the defendants in the court actions announced by Khoodeelaar!, was sent the following questions on 7 March 2006 about the corrupt deal that the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets had made with the CrossRail promoters some years ago. These questions are self-explanatory:- KHOODEELAARONLINE QUOTE Lawcompliance asking [7 March 2006] Christine Gilbert the ‘chief executive’ of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council questions convening the Whitechapel Idea Store and the bribery deal that the corrupt clique made with the Crossrail hole plan promoters”

These questions are based on the evidence we have obtained from a number of different sources including through our ongoing research into the links between Crossrail pyrometers ands individual in control of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council at the given time.

 

 

You are being asked these questions because when we tried to speak to you we were repeatedly given the run around on Monday 6 March 2006.

 

Your name was in fact mentioned by one of the senior employees of the Council.

 

Then we tried to get the information from Heather Wills, but she was said to be forever unavailable.

 

There is in our experience a pattern of behaviour on the parts of employees concerned when it comes to getting them to disclose ordinary information about ordinary matters.

 

We are asking these questions the response to which will be published by Khoodeelaar! on their print and the internet bulletins and sites.

 

 

Questions: 

 

Subject The Idea Store Whitechapel CROSSRAIL payment 

 

1. When did Tower Hamlets Council first have any contact with the Crossrail company [CLRL] [or with any other outfit that may at the relevant time not have been called CLRL but by another name or designation or acronym] about the Idea Store Whitechapel and who represented or acted or spoke or appeared on behalf of OR IN THE NAME OF the LBTH Council and what had in fact prompted that particular reference or set of references at whose centre lay or stood the ‘Idea Store’ ‘Whitechapel’? 

2. Who had initiated the relevant references and who made the link between the “Idea Store” and its “design” and the “Cash” that Crossrail eventually paid about that or with reference to that? 

3. How much money was paid by Crossrail about the “Idea Store”? 

4. When was the payment sought? 

5. When was the payment received? 

6. What legal advice was sought by Tower Hamlets Council if any was in fact at all sought about the deal? 

7. Who acted as the advisor [in any legal advice engagement or briefing]? 

8. What constitutional basis was said to exist at the time when the cash deal was being made for the Crossrail the payment to Tower Hamlets Council? 

9. Did anyone go on the record and are there minutes of the meetings and are there documents showing all the contacts and the communications that took place between the Tower Hamlets Council and the Crossrail interests at the time and covering the whole deal? 

10. Given that the Crossrail plan is yet a theory – as distinct from a legally implementable programme- and the hybrid Crossrail Bill was not even introduced to the UK House of Commons until 22 February 2005, who decided to even contemplate involving the legal and the constitutional entity of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council in a clearly speculative, illegal deal? 

11. If Tower Hamlets Council has been paying cash to so-called ethnic language titles circulating in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council [especially in the past two months] making all manner of claims to the effect that it – the controlling collection of personnel acting as and in the name of the LBTH Council – has not behaved dishonestly, that it has not concealed the core facts from the community about the Council’s behaviour on the Crossrail hole plan, that it has abided by the demands of the community as expressed at the meeting on 22 January 2006 in the motion spoken and moved by Mr Muhammad Haque – then how is it that we are still, at 7 March 2006 having to ask these detailed questions of so many ‘senior’ employees in the LBTH Council about what the Council did in its clearly speculative and unrepresentative deals with Crossrail for any cash payments? 

 

12. Why hasn’t Tower Hamlets Council published the facts about its receipt of cash from Crassrail with reference to the Idea Store? 

 

 

Part 1 of the Khoodeelaar! Questions to Julia N Jones

About Crossrail payment to Tower Hamlets Council on

Whitechapel Idea Store

 

 

1645 Hrs GMT

Tuesday 7 March 2006 

 

KHOODEELAARONLINE UNQUOTE Lawcompliance asking [7 March 2006] Christine Gilbert the ‘chief executive’ of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council questions convening the Whitechapel Idea Store and the bribery deal that the corrupt clique made with the Crossrail hole plan promoters:

0605 GMT London Tuesday 28 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! No to CORRUPTING Big Business CRASSLY conceived Crossrail scam…… ACTION ARCHIVE UPDATE… In the years since Saturday 31 January 2004 when the campaign against the Crossrail hole/s attacks on the East End of London …” was begun, the KHOODEELAAR! campaign has researched, investigated and analysed the evidence of the actual role played in the attacks by the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Coun cil…. As part of the ongoing examination of that role, the KHOODEELAAR! campaign organised a public meeting last night [Monday 27 october 2008] for the ‘ward councillors’ from the Council wards directly affected by the Crossrail hole attacks on the E1 area to attend and answer questions from local residents, tenants , traders and small Business representatives….Did the ‘local’ councillors attend? They most certainly did not attend…. However, the fact that the local ward councillors did not attend does not mean that the campaign against the Council’s Crossrail holes-attacks-inviting role is short of evidential materials, with which to establish, show and convey beyond doubt that the ‘local’ Tower Ha lest Council is a vehicle against the local community……[To be continued]

0605 GMT London Tuesday 28 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! No to CORRUPTING Big Business CRASSLY conceived Crossrail scam…… ACTION  ARCHIVE UPDATE… In the years since Saturday 31 January 2004 when the campaign against the Crossrail hole/s attacks on the East End of London …”   was begun, the KHOODEELAAR! campaign has researched, investigated and analysed the evidence of the actual role played in the attacks by the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Coun cil…. As part of the ongoing examination of that role, the KHOODEELAAR!  campaign organised a public meeting last night [Monday 27 october 2008] for the ‘ward councillors’ from the Council wards directly affected by the Crossrail hole attacks on the E1 area to attend and answer questions from local residents, tenants , traders and small Business representatives….Did the ‘local’ councillors attend? They most certainly did not attend…. However, the fact that the local ward councillors did not attend does not mean that the campaign against the Council’s Crossrail holes-attacks-inviting role is short of evidential materials, with which to establish, show and convey beyond doubt that the ‘local’ Tower Ha lest Council is a vehicle against the local community……[To be continued]

 

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Khoodeelaar! Questions to Julia N Jones About Crossrail payment to Tower Hamlets Council on Whitechapel Idea Store [261]

 

This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 0540 GMT London Tuesday 28 October 2008

 

ACTION ARCHIVE against the corrupt practices of the Tower Hamlets ‘local’ Council acting as the tout for Big business Crossrail scam….

 

“

Christine Gilbert, one of the defendants in the court actions announced by Khoodeelaar!, was sent the following questions on 7 March 2006 about the corrupt deal that the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets had made with the CrossRail promoters some years ago.

 

These questions are self-explanatory:-

 

 

KHOODEELAARONLINE QUOTE Lawcompliance asking [7 March 2006] Christine Gilbert the ‘chief executive’ of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council questions convening the Whitechapel Idea Store and the bribery deal that the corrupt clique made with the Crossrail hole plan promoters:

 

 

 

 

LAWCOMPLIANCE

Lawcompliance@hotmail.co.uk

 

 

Questions from

Lawcompliance@hotmail.co.uk

On the instructions of

Khoodeelaar! 

The Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole “plan, scheme, project” Bill 2006

 

 

These questions are based on the evidence we have obtained from a number of different sources including through our ongoing research into the links between Crossrail pyrometers ands individual in control of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council at the given time.

 

 

You are being asked these questions because when we tried to speak to you we were repeatedly given the run around on Monday 6 March 2006.

 

Your name was in fact mentioned by one of the senior employees of the Council.

 

Then we tried to get the information from Heather Wills, but she was said to be forever unavailable.

 

There is in our experience a pattern of behaviour on the parts of employees concerned when it comes to getting them to disclose ordinary information about ordinary matters.

 

We are asking these questions the response to which will be published by Khoodeelaar! on their print and the internet bulletins and sites.

 

 

Questions: 

 

Subject The Idea Store Whitechapel CROSSRAIL payment 

 

1. When did Tower Hamlets Council first have any contact with the Crossrail company [CLRL] [or with any other outfit that may at the relevant time not have been called CLRL but by another name or designation or acronym] about the Idea Store Whitechapel and who represented or acted or spoke or appeared on behalf of OR IN THE NAME OF the LBTH Council and what had in fact prompted that particular reference or set of references at whose centre lay or stood the ‘Idea Store’ ‘Whitechapel’? 

2. Who had initiated the relevant references and who made the link between the “Idea Store” and its “design” and the “Cash” that Crossrail eventually paid about that or with reference to that? 

3. How much money was paid by Crossrail about the “Idea Store”? 

4. When was the payment sought? 

5. When was the payment received? 

6. What legal advice was sought by Tower Hamlets Council if any was in fact at all sought about the deal? 

7. Who acted as the advisor [in any legal advice engagement or briefing]? 

8. What constitutional basis was said to exist at the time when the cash deal was being made for the Crossrail the payment to Tower Hamlets Council? 

9. Did anyone go on the record and are there minutes of the meetings and are there documents showing all the contacts and the communications that took place between the Tower Hamlets Council and the Crossrail interests at the time and covering the whole deal? 

10. Given that the Crossrail plan is yet a theory – as distinct from a legally implementable programme- and the hybrid Crossrail Bill was not even introduced to the UK House of Commons until 22 February 2005, who decided to even contemplate involving the legal and the constitutional entity of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council in a clearly speculative, illegal deal? 

11. If Tower Hamlets Council has been paying cash to so-called ethnic language titles circulating in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council [especially in the past two months] making all manner of claims to the effect that it – the controlling collection of personnel acting as and in the name of the LBTH Council – has not behaved dishonestly, that it has not concealed the core facts from the community about the Council’s behaviour on the Crossrail hole plan, that it has abided by the demands of the community as expressed at the meeting on 22 January 2006 in the motion spoken and moved by Mr Muhammad Haque – then how is it that we are still, at 7 March 2006 having to ask these detailed questions of so many ‘senior’ employees in the LBTH Council about what the Council did in its clearly speculative and unrepresentative deals with Crossrail for any cash payments? 

 

12. Why hasn’t Tower Hamlets Council published the facts about its receipt of cash from Crassrail with reference to the Idea Store? 

 

 

Part 1 of the Khoodeelaar! Questions to Julia N Jones

About Crossrail payment to Tower Hamlets Council on

Whitechapel Idea Store

 

 

1645 Hrs GMT

Tuesday 7 March 2006 

 

KHOODEELAARONLINE UNQUOTE Lawcompliance asking [7 March 2006] Christine Gilbert the ‘chief executive’ of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council questions convening the Whitechapel Idea Store and the bribery deal that the corrupt clique made with the Crossrail hole plan promoters:

 

“

2222 GMT London Monday 27 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! [To be continued]

From the web site of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH

“An economy pumped up on steroids of debt hardly needs another dose

Who was it who said you can’t spend your way out of recession? James Callaghan, of course, at the 1976 Labour conference when he told us “in all candour” that this was no longer an option.

 

By Damian Reece
Last Updated: 9:57PM GMT 27 Oct 2008

Now the inheritor of Labour’s inbuilt incompetence is advocating just that. A big difference with 32 years ago, however, is that inflation, as far as we can tell, is heading downwards from its 5.2pc peak. Deflation is now more of a threat than inflation as the world’s debt burden pulls asset prices and wealth down in a great deleveraging spiral. Deflation and recession spells depression. Gordon Brown’s right in wanting to stimulate the economy but he wants to solve a debt inspired problem by borrowing even more in a consolidation strategy that should appeal only to the dumbest daytime TV addict. An economy already grotesquely pumped up on the steroids of debt, including a misshapen and overdeveloped public sector, hardly needs injecting with even more of the stuff.

We should not pretend that the mess we’re in was caused by anything other than excess – excessive spending by the Government and consumers fuelled by excessive lending by banks and their shadows in the money markets. The time has come to pay for that, however painful, but Brown’s borrowing plans will merely delay the inevitable. What’s good for short term politics is bad for long term economics. Time and again wasting money through public sector spending has been preferred to growing the wealth-creating private sector, where the existence of profit generally means that increasing efficiency and reducing waste are more highly valued. In his speech to business leaders yesterday, Brown said he wanted to “help restore demand and to come to the aid of workers, businesses and homeowners.” Fine, so why not repeal the ludicrous increase in capital gains tax that small businesses were subjected to back in March? Brown can also assume that the Monetary Policy Committee will continue cutting interest rates aggressively, further stimulating activity.

Why should boosting the economy automatically mean the government borrowing more to spend more? Boosting the economy should mean taking this crisis and using it as a rare opportunity. By cutting taxes in specific areas that are a priority for investment, such as the nuclear and other non-oil energy industries, infrastructure projects and technology-based industries, the government would be reflating and reshaping the economy at the same time. The private sector will create jobs, given the right conditions, and they will be lasting jobs in desirable industries rather than non-jobs pursuing the business of bureaucracy that will inevitably result from public spending.

Tax cuts need not be limited to business. Consumers should also benefit from tax cuts which would deliver more immediate benefits to the economy but both would deliver more jobs. Higher employment will be needed not just to take up the slack in the flagging private sector, but just as importantly provide opportunities for workers in a public sector that has to shrink. And that is the final opportunity, which I expect will be missed, of reflating and reshaping the economy – redrawing the boundaries of government and regulation so they are smaller, more efficient but ultimately more effective.

Lest we forget BoE work on stability

THE Bank of England’s Financial Stability Report is finally getting the recognition it deserves. This is due in part to the instability we are all experiencing and the fact that Mervyn King, Bank Governor, and his staff are drawing attention to it.

Financial stability (or instability as is now the case) is one area in which the Bank has had a reasonable track record, spotting wholesale funding problems and risks of super-leverage two years ahead of time in its half-yearly reports. But the importance of the findings was lost. If there was a dereliction of duty, it was wasting the good work that had been done. Financial stability is absolutely vital to the economy, as Sir John Gieve notes when talking about “risks in the financial system” and the “dangers they bring to the wider economy”.

Today’s report points out that the supply of credit would have had to shrink for the first time since 1994 had we not bailed out the banks. Businesses are looking increasingly vulnerable as profitability slips beneath their annual interest bills, it warns, and commercial property businesses face the prospect of default. I suspect retailers will be particularly vulnerable to the instability that is now abroad.

As the report makes clear, the banks will pay a heavy price in regulatory overhaul now their central economic role is being redefined. Wholesale funding will shrink and capital levels will be higher. Banks will be less profitable but stronger in downturns to help rather than hinder. If people forget how vital properly run banks are to our economy, the Financial Stability Report will serve as a reminder.

damian.reece@telegraph.co.uk

 

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1325 GMT London Monday 27 October 2008: KHOODEELAAR! action against Crossrail hole scam……… PUBLIC MEETING organised by residents, small businesses for Tower Hamlets Councillors to answer community questions on their role [these councillors' role] in the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London…[To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! Public meeting on “No to Crossrail holes in London E1 area” ‘local councillors’ for the Tower Hamlets Council  “Wards affected” ! Questions for ward councillors, Tower Hamlets Council KHOODEELAAR! 

Public meeting  6.30 PM Monday 27 October 2008 at BDC at  7-15 Greatorex St   London E1  5NF.