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City's £16bn taxpaying con Crossrail kills Astoria and harms residensts

truthaboutcrossrail | 16.01.2009 14:59

Crossrail will lead to the closure of historic music venues such as the Astoria and threaten social housing areas while developers cash in on a railway that will cost UK taxpayers £15bn+ but benefits the City and Canary Wharf. Former slaver family Howard De Waldens who have a major stake in the developer Great Portland Estates, a company, which has somehow negotiated the ability to buy it back land for a discount while poor taxpayers subsidise it all through the help of Adrian Montague and friends. The £16bn+ Crossrail scheme was scrutinised by the MPs and Lords in the same way as the Hutton Enquiry, ie a whitewash! As a result, the Crossrail Act, given Royal Assent last summer, gives the company the right to make noise and create pollution outside existing laws. Various parts of Londoners in Hackney, Islington, Tower Hamlets, Camden and Westminster will be adversely affected by the appalling rail scheme Crossrail.

Young people have been let down by both Mayor Livingstone and Johnson, both of whom allowed Crossrail to use a heavily tax subsidised rail scheme destroy important historic and cultural buildings in London.

Great Portland Estates will get around £100million for destroying the historic Hanover Square which Crossrail chose over a dodgy car park in Cavendish Square. This would have been the natural choice if the rail scheme really had been about rail would have been the natural choice. Great Portland Estates was advised by the former independent advisor to Crossrail non-other than the ex-lawyer Adrian Montague who is now oddly Chairman of Crossrail.

People to be held to account for the loss of £16bn of taxpayers money include, please ask them to pay it back...lets start with profiteers at the Great Portland Estates

Duke of Portland (Great Portland Estates)
Boris Johnson
Ken Livingstone
Bechtel
Adrian Montague titled with Sir
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Geoff Hoon
Ruth Kelly
Hackney Council
Islington Council
Tower Hamlets Council
Camden Council
Westminster Council

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