The 'local' East London Advertiser which circulates mainly in Tower Hamlets has shown that it is as prejudiced and as ignorant of the facts in the community's life in February 2006 as it was a hundred years ago when the cause of democracy and transparency became the hottest local topics. In the almost three years since late 2003 that local people have camapaigned against Crossrail, the East London Advertiser has not been able to publish one report without tainting the facts with ignorance and misinformation. Today's weekly print edition of the paper continues the anti-social record by giving Greater London Assembly member and arch Blarite John Biggs a wholly unwarranted space to peddle more myths to make the perniociuous Crossrail plan acceptable
Getting cross with CROSSRAIL in the East End
Exposing John Biggs' Crossrail-hole plug for Tower Hamlets Council
John Biggs has been given another space in the East London Advertiser to make false pretences about Crossrail.
He is lying when he says he is with the people across the Borough who have ‘concerns’ about Crossrail. Then he blandly repeats the lie that Crossrail will bring benefits to the Borough. But fails to cite what the alleged benefits will be or are.
This is the same lie that Crossrail-agents have peddled over the past three years. We have asked hundreds of questions over the lying claims. But Crossrail have not provided any answers, let alone any evidence. John Biggs should not lie against for Crossrail. It is not George Galloway alone that is vocal against Crossrail plan attacks on the East End. Every single person with any sense and with any understanding about economics, about transport and about the geographic, social, economic map and location of Tower Hamlets will know that the Crossrail plan is not for ANY significant or substantial improvement in the quality of the lives of the people in Tower Hamlets. How do we know?
We have not invented this.
Crossrail promoters on publications prove this. Although they have been given hundreds of £millions of public cash to do their propaganda so that Biog Business can get their hands on even more public cash under the pretext of dubious slogans like ‘Crossrail will bring benefits’ or 'Crossrail will bring regeneration’, the Crossrail promoters have not included one instance of one economic evidence that could be legitimately cited to support their false claims.
And that is not surprising. Because the maths, the claims and the costs do not add up. In fact the social and the health costs that will result from any implementation of the Crossrail plans as they stand in Tower Hamlets will be sky-high. Is that a new meaning of ‘benefits’?
Crossrail promoters have said and are continuing to say that the line is mainly to enable a small fraction of alleged business personnel to travel from one region to the East of London to another region to the west of London buy cutting down journey time. It has not been about anything else. Unless we include the subsidiary agenda which is to uproot communities like the Brick Lane London E1 area and make the spaces available for take over by Big Business and the brigades of their greedy agents bent on destroying communities, not defending them.
What kind of democratic representative is John Biggs who is so blind with his keenness to remain a ‘public elected postholder’ that he shows no sense, no reason let alone any common sense about the dangerous attack that Crossrail represents against the people of Tower Hamlets ?
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Why is Tower Hamlets Recorder in denial on Khoodeelaar! no to Xrail?
23.02.2006 10:36
There is a small piece written by local MP George Galloway about Crossrail.
It is on page 12 of the Tower Hamlets Recorder, dated 22 Feb 2006. It wasn't available in the shops on that date.
In the piece, George Galloway says, "Crossrail is a nightmare which the council should have championed against".
Just to be reminded of how openly the Blair Party has been promoting this Crossrail nightmare, go back to page 10 of the same edition of Tower Hamlets Recorder [22 Feb 2006] and you will find a 3 column spread for Crossrail that ahs two names attached to them. John Biggs as the Greater London Assembly member for City and east London and another one, from a Ron Lakemead from 'Commercial Street'.
Both 'letters' repeat lies that Crossrail has been peddling and they do not say anything about the Crossrail nightmare that George Galloway has been mentioning.
Incidentally, there is a reference to "khoodeelaar" who according to George Galloway "have been campaigning to expose the implications of th Crossrail project for more than two years since the detailed plans first appeared".
Galloway mentions that at a recent meeting he held on Crossrail, he was "joined on the platform by Muhammad Haque from Khoodeelaar".
I wonder why there has been no mention of any of the campaigning by Khoodeelaar in the Tower Hamlets Recorder these past two years that the organisation has been campaigning to expose the Crossrail threat to the East End!
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CORRECTION to quotation from George Galloway on Crossrail
23.02.2006 10:55
The CORRECTED sentence should read:
In the piece, George Galloway says, "Crossrail is a nightmare which the council should have campaigned against".
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Degeneration spin rippling out of control in canary Wharf
23.02.2006 14:51
To see just how absurd the propaganda has been about the alleged regenerator - hence the accurate word 'degeneration' which has been created for the phenomenon by the economist Muhammad Haque - benefits linked with the Olympics and the Millennium Dome, the latest hype as carried on the Canary Wharf- based publicity machine called icthewharf leaves nothing to rational and socially responsible imagination.
They have included Crossrail in a list of giant Big Business assaults on the environment and on communities as an unadulterated benefit and bringer of alleged good to the East End.
To view the spin, click anywhere on the internet address quoted below
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Full text of the icthewharf plug for Crossrail, 23 Feb 2006
23.02.2006 17:21
Housing market is buoyant as area benefits from development projects
THE latest housing market survey from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) reveals a continued rise in consumer confidence for the start of 2006. The property market rocketed into the New Year with both the number of house buyers on estate agents' books and the number of sales increasing in January.
The number of properties available dropped as demand outweighed supply.
Sales agreed increased 20 per cent in January, from eight per agent to 10, taking the figures to similar levels experienced in January 2005.
The number of house buyers on NAEA members' books increased in January for the first time in five months. Numbers went from 302 to 355 per agent in a rise of 17.5 per cent.
Housing stock levels dropped in January as sales overtook the number of new instructions for each agent. The number of properties on agents' books fell 6.9 per cent, from 72 to 67 per agent, compared with 75 in January 2005.
Buyers and sellers alike benefited from sensible pricing in January. The difference between asking price and sale price dropped from four per cent in December to 3.7 per cent in January, closing the gap from the 4.5 per cent difference last June.
First-time buyers' share of sales was just 9.06 per cent in January, compared with 11.7 per cent in January 2005.
The time taken to sell a property was slightly reduced, from 18.4 weeks to 18.1 weeks. But the number of viewings before a sale was secured increased from 11 to 12.
Information supplied by N AEA
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