Muhammad Haque the founder and Honorary coordinator of Khoodeelaar the Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill has today received a statement from the Respect coalition, the political grouping of the local MP George Galloway, vowing to scrap ‘any agreement’ for Crossrail plan made by the current Tower Hamlets Council.

The statement is the first one made to KHOODEELAAR about the Crossrail hole since George Galloway was elected MP at the 5 May 2005 general election.

Galloway’s predecessor, Oona King, as MP for the Bethnal Green and Bow Constituency in which the Brick Lane London E1 Area is, had repeatedly failed to take up the advice that KHOODEELAAR gave her to identify with the campaign against the Crossrail assault.

The sum total of her ‘position statements’ on the Crossrail assault on the community was identical to what Tower Hamlets Council ‘leader’ Michael Keith has been plugging on the issue.

[More on that in our later bulletins today]

At a meeting held in the Toynbee Hall in Commercial Street in 2004, Oona King stated that community opposition to the Crossrail hole plan would decrease if Crossrail promoters had made clearer the benefits that Crossrail would bring to the area!

Clearly Oona King had been operating on the assumption that the local community were intellectually deficient and were thus unable to grasp the full implications of the Crossrail violations plan against the community in the East End!

In their communication to KHOODEELAAR today, George Galloway’s RESPECT coalition have confirmed a diametrically opposite position to that shown by Oona King.

The RESPECT coalition state to KHOODEELAAR:
“Were we to take control of the council in May we will tear up any agreement written or verbal made by the current council and use all the resources at our disposal to inform the people who live and work in Tower Hamlets of the threat Crossrail poses and to block those proposals”