London Indymedia

Respect backs Brick Lane campaign against Crossrail hole

© The Authors KHOODEELAAR, CBRUK, LAWMEDIA, The Respect COALTION 2006 | 29.01.2006 12:37 | Social Struggles | London

George Galloway's RESPECT coalitioin has today confirmed its backing to the campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill. They also vow to scrap any agreement the Tower Hamlets Council may have made for the Crossrail assault on the local community if RESPECT win control of Tower Hamlets Council at the scheduled May 2006 local election

Muhammad Haque the founder and Honorary coordinator of Khoodeelaar the Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill has today received a statement from the Respect coalition, the political grouping of the local MP George Galloway, vowing to scrap ‘any agreement’ for Crossrail plan made by the current Tower Hamlets Council.

The statement is the first one made to KHOODEELAAR about the Crossrail hole since George Galloway was elected MP at the 5 May 2005 general election.

Galloway’s predecessor, Oona King, as MP for the Bethnal Green and Bow Constituency in which the Brick Lane London E1 Area is, had repeatedly failed to take up the advice that KHOODEELAAR gave her to identify with the campaign against the Crossrail assault.

The sum total of her ‘position statements’ on the Crossrail assault on the community was identical to what Tower Hamlets Council ‘leader’ Michael Keith has been plugging on the issue.

[More on that in our later bulletins today]

At a meeting held in the Toynbee Hall in Commercial Street in 2004, Oona King stated that community opposition to the Crossrail hole plan would decrease if Crossrail promoters had made clearer the benefits that Crossrail would bring to the area!

Clearly Oona King had been operating on the assumption that the local community were intellectually deficient and were thus unable to grasp the full implications of the Crossrail violations plan against the community in the East End!

In their communication to KHOODEELAAR today, George Galloway’s RESPECT coalition have confirmed a diametrically opposite position to that shown by Oona King.

The RESPECT coalition state to KHOODEELAAR:
“Were we to take control of the council in May we will tear up any agreement written or verbal made by the current council and use all the resources at our disposal to inform the people who live and work in Tower Hamlets of the threat Crossrail poses and to block those proposals”

© The Authors KHOODEELAAR, CBRUK, LAWMEDIA, The Respect COALTION 2006
- e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com

Comments

Display the following 7 comments

  1. spelling George Galloway — THE EDITOR KHOODEELAAR
  2. Oona King a joke as an MP but was great at supporting warmongering Blairite — anon
  3. KHOODEELAAR question/s to Tower Hamlets Lib Dem Councillor — KHOODEELAAR CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR
  4. KHOODEELAAR campaign commentary Monday 30 January 2006 — Khoodeelaar THE BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA campaign against Crossrail hole Bill [
  5. Will George Galloway be doing any cat impressions? — pervy politician
  6. say no to crossrail hole council - tower hamlets — eastender2006
  7. No more posts showing G Galloway 'backing' Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail! — Eastend Rumours

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

London Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

London IMC

Desktop

About | Contact
Mission Statement
Editorial Guidelines
Publish | Help

Search :