Tower Hamlets Council exposed as party to plot for a Crossrail hole
© The Author / KHOODEELAAR / CBRUK / LAWMEDIA 2006 | 14.02.2006 10:02 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World
Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway has said that there is no need fort a Crossrail station at Whitechapel. Why? Because Transport for London already have a scheduled refurbishment programme for Whitechapel in a couple of years time. This exposed that the local Tower Hamlets council has been involved in secret Crossrail -Whitechapel station plot against The East End!
Tower Hamlets council in secret Crossrail -Whitechapel station plot against The East End
1. Campaigning group KHOODEELAAR! [The Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole plan-project Bill] has today disclosed that the ‘excuse’ for digging a Crossrail hole in the Brick Lane Area has been deliberately brought onto the East End by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council.
2. It has emerged that the ‘reason’ for the inclusion in the Crossrail Bill [now in the UK parliament] for powers to dig a devastating and anti-social Crossrail hole in the Brick Lane Area is linked more with the ADDED plan for a Crossrail space around the present Whitechapel Station and stretching almost as far as the present Bethnal Green underground station than with any ‘engineering inevitability’ factor. That is, the claim that the ‘main Crossrail line would require a Crossrail hole to be dug in the Brick Lane, London E1` area and that the Crossrail line would be inoperable without a hole being dug in the Brick Lane area, is exposed as the lie that campaigners have always insisted it was.
3. This news comes hot in the hills of the disclosure at the weekend by local Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway that Transport for London themselves had a scheduled refurbishment programme for the Whitechapel station, to be carried out in two years time anyway. This means that there is no justification whatever for digging the hole in the E1 area. Or, as the MP George Galloway said when he reiterated his total support for the KHOODEELAAR campaign against the Crossrail hole anywhere else in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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1. Campaigning group KHOODEELAAR! [The Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole plan-project Bill] has today disclosed that the ‘excuse’ for digging a Crossrail hole in the Brick Lane Area has been deliberately brought onto the East End by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council.
2. It has emerged that the ‘reason’ for the inclusion in the Crossrail Bill [now in the UK parliament] for powers to dig a devastating and anti-social Crossrail hole in the Brick Lane Area is linked more with the ADDED plan for a Crossrail space around the present Whitechapel Station and stretching almost as far as the present Bethnal Green underground station than with any ‘engineering inevitability’ factor. That is, the claim that the ‘main Crossrail line would require a Crossrail hole to be dug in the Brick Lane, London E1` area and that the Crossrail line would be inoperable without a hole being dug in the Brick Lane area, is exposed as the lie that campaigners have always insisted it was.
3. This news comes hot in the hills of the disclosure at the weekend by local Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway that Transport for London themselves had a scheduled refurbishment programme for the Whitechapel station, to be carried out in two years time anyway. This means that there is no justification whatever for digging the hole in the E1 area. Or, as the MP George Galloway said when he reiterated his total support for the KHOODEELAAR campaign against the Crossrail hole anywhere else in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
[This file continues throughout the day]
This post at 0955 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 14 February 2006
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Khoodeelaar! Questions - Tower Hamlets councillors role on Crossrail h
14.02.2006 13:17
The Brick Lane London E1 Area
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
THE CROSSRAIL HOLE
BILL 2006
____________________________________________
Tuesday 14 February 2006
QUESTIONS TO TOWER HAMLETS COUNCILLORS
ON
CROSSRAIL HOLE
These questions are being put to you to give you one more, and the final, opportunity so you can make a clear unequivocal commitment against the Crossrail hole plan, project, scheme and Bill.
KHOODEELAAR! will publish your response on the internet and locally in the Brick Lane London E1 Area.
We first wrote to all sitting TOWER HAMLETS councillors during January, February and March 2004. That was two years ago.
We did deliver at the MULBERRY PLACE the printed communications that also included a 4 page supplement made up of the then up-to-date constitutional questions as had been put to Christine Gilbert the Tower Hamlets Council’s chief executive.
We have not received your answers to those questions and we have not found any from you either in anything published since that time [January-March 2004] by the Tower Hamkest Council or by any independent group, body or organisation.
We have been surprised therefore to have been informed in the past 3 weeks that a number of persons became willing to take part in an apparently factual programme about the KHOODEELAAR CAMPAIGN and the impact it had created in the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area over the Crossrail hole plan scheme project – Bill.
That satellite Channel S programme AS SHOWN included certain individuals who were identified as being Tower Hamlets Councillors. A number of those made assertions on the programme to the effect that the Tower Hamlets Council actually opposed the Crossrail hole plan. Those making these assertions apparently strongly and on behalf of the controlling group on the Tower Hamlets Council have included Councillor Abdus Shukkur and Councillor Oli Ahmed.
We have examined all the documents as published by Tower Hamlets Council on the matter of Crossrail and we can confirm that there is not one document that contains evidence of one single resolution by Tower Hamkest Council actually opposing the Crossrail Bill provision for digging a hole in the Brick Lane London E1 Area.
Is there in fact a Tower Hamkest Council resolution that is clearly, concisely and categorically composed against the Crossrail hole digging provision in the Brick Lane London e1 area and if there is, what is that resolution?
At what full Council meeting of the LBTH Council was that supposed resolution passed [or the ‘motion’ to that same effect] passed]?
Who had moved the motion?
Who had seconded the motion?
How was the vote cast?
How many votes were cast in favour?
How many votes were cast against?
Where was the fact of that “Tower Hamlets Council resolution against Crossrail hole plan scheme project Bill” published by the LBTH Council and under what headline?
We are publishing the facts of this Questionnaire and the contents on our internet campaign and information sites and media and you will be given the space to accommodate your answers. The deadline for your response is 1200 Hrs GMT on Thursday 16 February 2006
KHOODEELAAR
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