Tower Hamlets Council's controlling clique of the Blairing Party has held the key positions on the inner city, 'one-of-the-most-deprived' boroughs in all of England, throughout the past 12 years following the much-touted for ouster from power of the Lib Dems in 1994. This was caused by the voters across the East End borough responding to UK-wide publicity of racist and outrageously undemocratic conduct of some key Lib Dem councillors in powerful positions on the Council in the run-up to the 1994 council elections. So where have the Lib Dems been for the past 12 years in Tower Hamlets? Nowhere much at all! Not politically at any rate. Until most recently, in the past month. Remarkably, the Lib Dems have been producing a series of motion/s and comments about the hottest political issue affecting the Borough – the Crossrail hole plan against the Brick Lane London E1 area. And affecting the Whitechapel and Mile End park parts of the borough. How come? What might underlie the community ‘presence’ of the Tower Hamlets Lib Dems this time? It is to do with the scheduled 4 May 2006 local council elections including in Tower Hamlets. But it is also to do with the abysmally anti-social and undemocratic behaviour of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council that is to blame for the whole Crossrail hole mess! Given that both Group leader Janet Ludlow and a number of her Lib Dem colleagues have attended Khoodeelaar campaign events so far, its is quite possible that the voters might , just might, forgive the Lib Dems their past mistakes and lack of accountability. If the motion/s put for the scheduled Council meeting on 1 March 2006 by Tower Hamlets Lib Dem councillor Louise Alexander is anything to go by, its is quite possible that the Liberal Democrats might produce a few surprises come 5 May 2006!
And the creeps that will be heading for consignment in the hole of their own crass collusion with Crossrail hole plan might all come from the Blairing freaks-box that carries the poseurs and the abusers pretending now to have been the democratic voice of the Tower Hamlets Council!

KHOODEELAARONLINE QUOTE no-to-crossrail-hole-motion-put-by- COUNCILLOR LOUISE ALEXANDER Wednesday 22 February 2006
“Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Unequivocal motion on Crossrail to Full Council
This Council confirms that:

It is this Council's duty to protect the community's rights not to suffer damage to the environment, health and business.
This Council categorically rejects:

• Any Crossrail intervention shaft in the Brick Lane London E1 area, as contained in the present Crossrail Bill in the House of Commons;
• Crossrail plans for an additional tunnel surfacing in Allen Gardens;
• The use of a conveyor belt to take spoil to dump in Mile End Park;
• The unsubstantiated, uneconomic and wasteful provision of a Crossrail station at Whitechapel which will necessitate digging an evacuation shaft in the Brick Lane London E1 area.


This Council resolves to:
• Use the strongest possible terms when this Council presents the arguments and the evidence in support of any previously-submitted formally-timed petition to the Crossrail Select Committee in the House of Commons.
• Members of this present Council undertake to lobby within their political parties and for the active attention of the Government to represent the interests of the residents of this Borough. This Council undertakes to take action in court and constitutionally to maintain, establish, reinstate and protect the community's right not to suffer the damage to environment, health and business which will be brought about by having an intervention shaft in this area.”
KHOODEELAARONLINE UNQUOTE no-to-crossrail-hole-motion-put-by- COUNCILLOR LOUISE ALEXANDER Wednesday 22 February 2006
KHOODEELAARONLINE QUOTE COUNCILLOR LOUISE ALEXANDER Wednesday 22 February 2006. This is the motion that I will be presenting to the meeting of Full Council on 1st March. It's an unequivocal statement of intent, designed to unite the Council on what has become the hottest topic for the local elections.
I have severe doubts that it will be passed in full. Firstly, officers sometimes restrict which motions are permitted at Full Council. Secondly, the Labour Group have a tradition of tabling amendments to our motions at the last minute, amendments that mute or even change the meaning of the motion. But any amendment or rejection of this motion will tell us a lot about the intentions of the ruling group.
I can't see how the Labour Group will be able to accept the clause that mentions Whitechapel. Cllr Keith has been running around Brick Lane area for the last week apparently trying to prove that he is now anti-Crossrail, conveniently ignoring the fact that were it not for diverting the Crossrail line so that there is a station at Whitechapel, there would be no need for a huge shaft in the Brick Lane area. A Crossrail station at Whitechapel has been the prize that our Council has been negotiating, while short-sightedly ignoring the disruption this will cause.
The Lib Dem Group have also submitted another motion about informing the public and consulting them on such issues as whether it a station at Whitechapel is indeed worth the disruption. The other motion also raises the spectre of secrecy at the way this Council is run. On the same topic, Cllr Khan will be asking how many times the group of 5 Councillors that constitute the Crossrail working group met, and which of these Councillors were present.
Another of our questions to Cabinet Members asks what's the difference between an intervention shaft, an evacuation shaft and a ventilation shaft and which of these are opposed by the Council's petition to the Government about the Crossrail Bill. As you may have noted from my previous Crossrail posting here, I was weak on this important detail.
Given that Mayor Doros Ullah barred the Lib Dems' call for an Emergency Meeting of Full Council before 14th February to debate Crossrail, this Crossrail motion on 1st March will be a key debate in what will be the last meeting of Full Council before the Council elections on 4th May. There will be a demonstration outside the Town Hall beforehand at 6pm. All political parties have been invited to speak.
KHOODEELAARONLINE UNQUOTE COUNCILLOR LOUISE ALEXANDER Wednesday 22 February 2006