By©Muhammad Haque_1225 Hrs GMT_London_Tuesday 16 October 2007

[Updated version]


Desperate to keep his re-election [as scheduled for May 2008] propaganda looking real, as compared to the destabilisation that now looms around Gordon Brown’s administration, ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone has embarked today on abusing the state of the East End of London to give a boost to the image of the discredited Crossrail.

It is discredited because increasing numbers of comments are being made against Crossrail by people who had stayed silent until the multibillion£ UK Govt funding backing for the project was announced last week.

Livingstone has been a main tout for this Crass scheme. And he was quick to brag about 'delivering' the scheme, all designed to get him to appear plausibly justified to claim that he is the candidate that should be re-elected at the scheduled May 2008 London mayor election.

But Livingstone also knows that CRASSrail may in the end come unstuck and with it Livingstone’s very own next plans for the remainder of his egotistic ambitions at the expense of the people of London.

So he is now embarking on a series of spins to talk up the sinking CRASSrail scheme.

Livingstone has issued today a news release that is full of holes. He makes no direct statement, instead he refers to an employee of the GLA to promote the latest lie as ‘fact’.
Livingstone’s spin released today quotes him as stating as follows: -
‘Third, as Doug Oakervee has outlined, I am determined to ensure that people living in East London can take up the thousands of jobs that Crossrail will offer - Cross London Rail Links limited has estimated that as many as 14,000 jobs will be created, many of these in the construction industry. I will ensure that the relevant agencies in London provide the right training and opportunities so that Londoners from all its diverse communities have the chance to work on this flagship project.”
This is another lying spin by Livingstone.
Livingstone is doing this to undermine the campaign against CrossRail lies in the East End
Livingstone’s lying will cost people in London dear.
Estimate of 14000 jobs does NOT mean that the jobs are there! It is a brazen, shameless lie and it must be nailed immediately.
Even Livingstone cannot fast-forward 10 years and make 2007 appear as 2017.
East London has been and continues to be a deeply disenfranchised area because of the corrupt policies of the local institutions. Many of those policies are continuations of the ones first introduced by the egotistic post -hungry Livingstone at the GLC over 20 years ago whereby the corrupting and the disenfranchising, pro-racist ethnicity-linked diseducation of an entire generation and of successive communities was being undertaken. We have across ALL inner London in October 2007 serious skills deficit manifest in the very people in whose name Livingstone is making this latest irresponsible and untruthful claim.
The local schools and other institutions have been and are failing – as they had been allowed to underestimate and under-inspire the overall potentials when Livingstone was setting the corrupting agenda on the GLC.
Livingstone aided the racist programme of ethnicity-linked corruption by the then Inner London Education Authority [ILEA] which created a new bureaucratic of ethnic surrogates employed to preach the lies of Livingstone and other pernicious holders of public office.
Just like the Olympics 2012 stunt, the CRASSrail hole Bill lies are going to expose the lying calculating abuse of office that Livingstone has been involved in.
There are no jobs in CRASSrail for local people. As there never was meant to be. The ‘benefits’ the CRASSrail hole liars keep talking about is the worst possible benefit that any dignified people could be expected to be associated with. It is the most socially condemned welfare cycle and trap to which the mis-educated, the ill educated and the otherwise violated are condemned.
Like the projected out-of-town and City of London-linked users and commuters on the obsolete and outdated projected Crossrail, the ‘main jobs’ will go to people who are from areas far away from the ordinary people of the East End of London.
Livingstone should stop lying any more by stopping the abuse in 2007 of the dire consequences of his previous corrupting and disenfranchising policies imposed on the area more than 20 years ago.