The Corporation of London is a rich unaccountable authority that manages housing regeneration funds and supports schemes that mine the value of successful communities and hand them over to corporate interests. The latest project is a rail infrastructure scheme called Crossrail which will enable City interests to take over the Spitalfields area in London and displace a large immigrant community. The man behind this is ex-lawyer Adrian Montague, the man behind British Rail and major health and educational privatisation.
Crossrail is a rail infrastructure project linking the City of London and Canary Wharf with each other and Heathrow. It benefits rich city law and accounting firms and banks as well as making a lot of money for construction firms and developers. The catalyst behind the scheme, the Corporation of London uses its publicity machine to support the project by pretending to fund the scheme initially but once gaining Government support it moves in to request the taxpayer to bank roll the scheme.
Crossrail was a joint venture project between Transport for London (TfL) and the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA). The SRA was created by ex-lawyer and principal architect of privatisation in Britain Adrian Montague. This man has been rewarded time and time again for costing the taxpayers millions while being given massive bonuses. Search Google and see how many hospitals and socially beneficial projects this man has ruined.
Many public transport schemes permits rail interests like the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) and Network Rail to compulsory purchase land to sell it off to developers like Stanhope and Hammersons. Many people had learned how to use the legal system to make sure that communities were protected. But the Government then introduced a mechanism called the hybrid bill to ride roughshod over the East End.
Crossrail plans to dig a huge shaft with a tunnelling and waste transfer point in the heart of Brick Lane and Spitalfields were not known about in the East End of London until it was effectively too late. It published materials in a variety of foreign languages except the languages of certain areas like Spitalfields where many people speak Bengali and Somali. The result was that these people were removed from the process. The normal modus operandi of these projects is to claim a public infrastucture project will benefit the community such as The East London Line Extension but this is false and once a whole area has been demolished, developers like Hammersons buy the land cheaply waiting for a suitable opportunity to build high density office blocks.
Local council Tower Hamlets headed by a body of corrupt Labour councillors such as Leader Helal Abbas and planning officers such as Owen Whalley ensured the community were kept in the dark and supported plans to compulsory purchase the area. They have more recently unveiled plans to turn Spitalfields into an area with more high density office blocks than Canary Wharf. They ensured the community were kept in the dark by forgetting to provide the names of local groups.
The Greater London Assembly led by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, who has been coached by previous City head New Zealander Judith Mayhew to support schemes that will obviously result in displacing poor communities. Livingstone, Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes are all taken up by the City of London's riches built on exploitation and destruction of the social fabric are supporting Crossrail even though it will turn working class and immigrant areas of the East End into construction sites for at least the next ten years. Local Labour member John Biggs is the member for the City, Newham and Tower Hamlets has hardly any support in Newham and Tower Hamlets communities which he has betrayed but yet he still gets to represent them as they are included as part of the City.
In short, the Government led by Tony McNulty, his wife and chief executive of Tower Hamlets Council Christine Gilbert, Tower Hamlets Council Labour councillors, GLA Labour, City, East and Newham GLA Labour member John Biggs are collectively working to remove the East End community from their homes.
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT ADRIAN MONTAGUE AS HE MAY BE COMING YOUR WAY
Crossrail was a joint venture project between Transport for London (TfL) and the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA). The SRA was created by ex-lawyer and principal architect of privatisation in Britain Adrian Montague. This man has been rewarded time and time again for costing the taxpayers millions while being given massive bonuses. Search Google and see how many hospitals and socially beneficial projects this man has ruined.
Many public transport schemes permits rail interests like the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) and Network Rail to compulsory purchase land to sell it off to developers like Stanhope and Hammersons. Many people had learned how to use the legal system to make sure that communities were protected. But the Government then introduced a mechanism called the hybrid bill to ride roughshod over the East End.
Crossrail plans to dig a huge shaft with a tunnelling and waste transfer point in the heart of Brick Lane and Spitalfields were not known about in the East End of London until it was effectively too late. It published materials in a variety of foreign languages except the languages of certain areas like Spitalfields where many people speak Bengali and Somali. The result was that these people were removed from the process. The normal modus operandi of these projects is to claim a public infrastucture project will benefit the community such as The East London Line Extension but this is false and once a whole area has been demolished, developers like Hammersons buy the land cheaply waiting for a suitable opportunity to build high density office blocks.
Local council Tower Hamlets headed by a body of corrupt Labour councillors such as Leader Helal Abbas and planning officers such as Owen Whalley ensured the community were kept in the dark and supported plans to compulsory purchase the area. They have more recently unveiled plans to turn Spitalfields into an area with more high density office blocks than Canary Wharf. They ensured the community were kept in the dark by forgetting to provide the names of local groups.
The Greater London Assembly led by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, who has been coached by previous City head New Zealander Judith Mayhew to support schemes that will obviously result in displacing poor communities. Livingstone, Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes are all taken up by the City of London's riches built on exploitation and destruction of the social fabric are supporting Crossrail even though it will turn working class and immigrant areas of the East End into construction sites for at least the next ten years. Local Labour member John Biggs is the member for the City, Newham and Tower Hamlets has hardly any support in Newham and Tower Hamlets communities which he has betrayed but yet he still gets to represent them as they are included as part of the City.
In short, the Government led by Tony McNulty, his wife and chief executive of Tower Hamlets Council Christine Gilbert, Tower Hamlets Council Labour councillors, GLA Labour, City, East and Newham GLA Labour member John Biggs are collectively working to remove the East End community from their homes.
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT ADRIAN MONTAGUE AS HE MAY BE COMING YOUR WAY
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13.11.2004 19:06
Here's Adrian's biog from Red Pepper (
Adrian Montague
Special Adviser to John Prescott and Lord McDonald, Deputy Chair of Partnerships UK
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Following Labour's election victory, Adrian became the £160,000 a year head of Gordon Brown's Treasury Taskforce on PFI, responsible for drawing up the rules for handing control of hospitals and schools to banks and construction firms.
Adrian was rewarded with a CBE in the last New Years Honours "for services to the private finance initiative", and was given a job as deputy chair of Partnerships UK when the treasury task force itself was privatised this year.
His special talent, however, is in transport. When he worked for city solicitors, Linklaters, he helped John Major draw up the disastrous privatisation plans for British Rail. Under Labour he then "rescued" one PFI scheme: the collapsing Channel Tunnel Rail Link. According to the National Audit Office, thanks to Adrian's scheme "the taxpayer could be exposed to further financial risk of £360 million on current forecasts" in the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link contract.
Adrian's experience in these two transport disasters encouraged John Prescott to make him a member of his Strategic Rail Authority in 2000, a quango designed to help fix the disastrous privatisation of British Rail partly created by Adrian himself. Prescott then made him his Private Finance Adviser in a one-day-a-week, £30,000 a year job, focusing especially on the privatisation of London Underground.
Simultaneously Adrian took a job as adviser with a giant French Bank, Societe Generale. SocGen are the largest shareholder in Alcatel, one of the firms bidding to privatise the Tube.
Also was chairman of British Energy - the other racket that keeps us cold in winter and try and make it difficult for us to generate our own energy...Don't worry these bastards help along global warming quite nicely so heating bills will go down.....
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What a fucking piece of work!
mark r pen
Support KHOODEELAAR campaign in defence of the Brick Lane E1 Area
25.10.2005 22:56
The community in the brick lane London e1 area is being violated by the
Crossrail hole bill.
This bill has been awaiting passage in the UK parliament after the formalities of the select committee have been disposed of. With a strong majority in the commons subject to control; by an openly authoritarian Blarite whipping squad, the barite bill is guaranteed to be passed when the formal vote charade is staged on the bill.
This is then time for string challenge in the society outside of parliament to be voiced against this seriously flawed and anti-social
bill.
The Crossrail hole bill is ill conceived, unnecessary and will make the brick lane area even poorer.
We have been campaigning against the Crossrail hole bill for then past nearly 2 years.
In the next few weeks we are publishing the facts about how the crossrail hole bill will destroy the east end
We are calling on all people of good sense and principle to stand up to the
Promoters of the Crossrail hole Bill.
It is another Millennium Dome only ten times more wasteful of public money and a hundred times more destructive of communities across the east end of London ..”
CBRUK KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole Bill 2005
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Brick Lane London E1 Area Community Against the Crossrail-hole Bill
13.12.2005 18:39
BRICK LANE AREA NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE Bill: Community prepares to say NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE BILL during 'scrutiny'
The item we published on this site in the KHOODEELAAR breaking news edition at 0110 Hrs GMT on 13 December 2005 was taken from a pro-Crossrail hole Bill organisation. We carried it to show the facts of how the pro-Crossrail hole Bill lobby were active in the promotion of the hole Bill.
They are alert and are vigilantly pressing the Blair regime to make more public cash available for the Crossrail hole venture that will enable the city of London interests to reap the harvest of public dosh in the constriction and building bonanza they expect the hole Bill to unleash when that Bill is made into an Act of Parliament.
As the City of London interests crave the loot, the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area faces destruction.
We aim to make sure that the hole attacks the Crossrail Bill will make on the community are exposed for all to see.
We aim to defend the community and to undermine the promotion of the Crossrail hole Bill.
We are aware that the majority of the so-called objections to the Crossrail, hole Bill are petty and are not at all AGAINST the Crossrail plan.
The majority of the so-called objectors are supporters of the Crossrail plan.
Those objectors do not belong in the community.
They do not belong with the community
They do not care about the community.
We aim to draw maximum attention to the violation of one of the most diverse, positive human resources that is the Brick Lane London e1 area. It has emerged as a triumph of human resistance against exploitation and greed. It has done so in stages and gradually over the past three hundred years in the Brick Lane London e1 Area.
Defend the Brick Lane London E1 Area.
Say no to Crossrail hole Bill attacks provisions that will destroy the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area
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