Just as Tony Blair has been shown this past week to have suffered another dramatic reduction of his image, 'thanks' to his visible alliance of stuttering supplication to G W Bush, so is the domestic UK legislature caught in a morass of unimaginative 'law'-making, as the CrossRail Bill 'scrutiny' committee has been showing by its failure to allow bona fide objectors put the evidence before it. Next week's filing in the High Court of the formal challenge against the Secretary of State is set to create a record in the history of battles to make the UK Parliament representative of basic standards of democracy that it is often claimed to typify. The constitutional contribution of the Khoodeelaar! campaign towards democratising the UK parliament will be a fitting one, given that the East End of London has been chosen by the Select Committee to be denied its say in the so-called peoples’ parliament.
So, the long-awaited legal action against the CrossRail plan is starting next week. Was that necessary?
Was that avoidable?
Was there an alternative to taking High Court action?
Will the High court agree with the applicants against the Secretary of State?
What about the local MPs for Tower Hamlets?
What about the local Councils?
Did they approach their local council?
All these questions can be firmly answered on the facts in the negative in that we have done all that could have been reasonably expected of us in the past 31 months since the KhoodeelaAr! Campaign began.
We asked the local council, the local councillors, the regional assembly member concerned, the ‘london mayor’ the local Blairing MP at the time to work with the campaign and in defence of the community against CrossRail.
We have seen the evidence of callous disregard and dishonesty. Blatant lying by all concerned against the community.
We have encountered such systematic corruption on the local Tower Hamlets Council and via that Council that no rational person could expect that council to deliver any ethical or democratic response to the campaign demand that the Council must say No to Crossrail hole project.
It has been a long while since the UK's actual law-making process was put to any real scrutiny at an independent forum.
What goes on in the name of scrutiny in the UK Parliament is so inappropriate, inadequate and patchy that to call it scrutiny is to really abuse the word scrutiny.
There are so many bureaucratic and anti-democratic factors for this lack of democratic audit of the UK parliament.
The most important one is that the 'people' are assumed to accept that elected members of the parliament are by that fact alone and actually actively engage d as the voices of the electors when conducting themselves in the Palace of Westminster.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
And it is not a slogan.
The KhoodeelaAr! campaign over the past 32 months against the CrossRail project has unearthed enough evidence to show that parliament is not working.
It may not sound a staggering statement.
But it is a frightening state of affairs.
Without an active democratic and representative membership of parliament, the people do not stand a chance. The people therefore have no excuse to let the situation get out of control and for parliament to become a rubber stamp for what can only be an authoritarian order
Just so that the campaign against CrossRail is seen in the factual context, ALL THREE MAIN Parties are backing this fundamentally flawed project. The number of independent MPs who voted against is so small as to be insulting.
There is no way that those MPs will make any difference if they followed the in-house voting arithmetic.
Many hurdles have had to be got over before we arrived at this stage.
Was that avoidable?
Was there an alternative to taking High Court action?
Will the High court agree with the applicants against the Secretary of State?
What about the local MPs for Tower Hamlets?
What about the local Councils?
Did they approach their local council?
All these questions can be firmly answered on the facts in the negative in that we have done all that could have been reasonably expected of us in the past 31 months since the KhoodeelaAr! Campaign began.
We asked the local council, the local councillors, the regional assembly member concerned, the ‘london mayor’ the local Blairing MP at the time to work with the campaign and in defence of the community against CrossRail.
We have seen the evidence of callous disregard and dishonesty. Blatant lying by all concerned against the community.
We have encountered such systematic corruption on the local Tower Hamlets Council and via that Council that no rational person could expect that council to deliver any ethical or democratic response to the campaign demand that the Council must say No to Crossrail hole project.
It has been a long while since the UK's actual law-making process was put to any real scrutiny at an independent forum.
What goes on in the name of scrutiny in the UK Parliament is so inappropriate, inadequate and patchy that to call it scrutiny is to really abuse the word scrutiny.
There are so many bureaucratic and anti-democratic factors for this lack of democratic audit of the UK parliament.
The most important one is that the 'people' are assumed to accept that elected members of the parliament are by that fact alone and actually actively engage d as the voices of the electors when conducting themselves in the Palace of Westminster.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
And it is not a slogan.
The KhoodeelaAr! campaign over the past 32 months against the CrossRail project has unearthed enough evidence to show that parliament is not working.
It may not sound a staggering statement.
But it is a frightening state of affairs.
Without an active democratic and representative membership of parliament, the people do not stand a chance. The people therefore have no excuse to let the situation get out of control and for parliament to become a rubber stamp for what can only be an authoritarian order
Just so that the campaign against CrossRail is seen in the factual context, ALL THREE MAIN Parties are backing this fundamentally flawed project. The number of independent MPs who voted against is so small as to be insulting.
There is no way that those MPs will make any difference if they followed the in-house voting arithmetic.
Many hurdles have had to be got over before we arrived at this stage.
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Unjustified plug for CrossRail Committee on the construction trade web site
18.07.2006 20:15
Unjustified plug for CrossRail Committee on the construction trade web site
One of the most persistent pluggers for the CrossRail hole scheme has been the UK construction trade web site.
In common with the rest of the promoters of the CRASSrail project, the web site ahs been lying for CrossRail.
The site has been especially active in promoting the role of the CrossRail Bill ‘select committee’ in the UK House of Commons.
A reasonable examination of the contents, the thrust of the ‘files’ posted on the site will show without doubt that the site has had the agenda – to back the crassly conceived Crossrail Bill.
And the latest file posted this week [Monday 17 July 2006] on the web site allegedly a reasoned report on the latest evidence gleaned from the evidence presented before the Crossrail Bill Select committee shows that it is as careless as the ‘local’ East London Idiotiser, as corrupt as the ‘in-house’ Tower Hamlets Council propaganda sheet ‘EAST END LIES’ and that it is as ignorant in its ‘journalistic’ diligence as that obscenely pretentious ‘local paper mark three’ ‘the Tower Hamlets Recorder’!
The ‘CIOB International news’ publishes the following, in a similarly veined piece of plugs for the CrossRail Bill Select Committee,
‘The Crossrail committee has shown much sympathy towards those local residents who assert that even if the Hanbury Street shaft is built to its smaller dimensions, some of the nearby occupants it will be living as it were at the top of a tower.’
That statement is a multi-faceted lie.
Anyone who has observed the behaviour of the Select committee, - members, staff, clerks, and others – over the particularly relevant period of June 2006, would know, if they had any sense of rationality and ethics left in them, that the CION was plugging the committee as part of a sinister agenda.
To make people think that the Crossrail select committee has been ‘sympathetic’ towards ‘;local residents’. This will be a good background against which to ‘make acceptable’ what is bound to become the main role of that Select committee, come the time for its formal ‘recommendations’ to the House of Commons.
The Select committee was set up to be another poodle in Parliament.
In the UK Parliament there are dozens of poodle committees sitting at any given time during the active parliamentary season.
They do not change anything. What is even more important to understand, they are NOT meant to. And the words of Alan Meale, MP for Mansfield, who is chair of the CrossRail Bill select committee, as uttered while George Galloway was allegedly giving his own evidence on the CrossRail Bill, should be noted with particular care here, HE said that the purpose of the CrossRail Bill Select Committee was to let the Bill through !
In fact if they did they would be scrapped altogether as being any part of the 'process of the UK parliament',
So the CIOB is aggravating the attacks on the Eats End that the Select Committee ITSELF has already perpetrated by obstructing the presentation of evidence and by intimidating others who would have given evidence.
Evidence that would have countered the leis of the Crossrail promoters.
Muhammad Haque
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18.07.2006 21:54
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Khoodeelaar court action - name of judge, court, etc re
19.07.2006 13:17
The court process is complex. it is not a court case like a summary court. Before a judge is identifiable, a whole series of paperwork is being undertaken including with the involvement of the Department fro Transport. That is why we are publishing our very own explanations and information.
Once the case is listed and a court allocated, those details will be announced.
Both on the Khoodeelaar.com website and on our associated web publishing outlets.
1315 Hrs GMT london
Wednesday 19 July 2006
Muhammad Haque
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Crossrail hole plot-backer London mayor ruining infrastructure
04.01.2007 23:35
AADHIKARonline 10th Edn London 2240 GMT Thursday 4 January 2007 Editor ©Muhammad Haque
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the 9th edition at
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2007
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Crossrail hole plot-backer London mayor Ken Livingstone has reduced the ordinary people living in London get excluded from travelling on the so-called public transport as he raises tube and bus fares to the level where they are the most costly in the whole world!Why has it taken so long before the myth of ‘red Ken ‘ was shown up for the really crafty right-winger authoritarian that Livingstone always has been?Why is it that the London Lib Dems, like Geoff Pope, keep failing to make a complete stand against Livingstone and disassociate themselves from ALL of Con Ken’s con tricks?And is the East London Idiotiser being ‘written’ completely by a secret cabal so totally drunk that it has taken to adding unthinkably stupid plugs for the likes of CrossRail hole backer John Biggs?
Another Insult by Crossrail hole-inviter
Tower Hamlets Council to the community in the Brick Lane and
Whitechapel London E1 Area - the sham of
'Conservation area' 'consultation' which was typically brazen in the abject absence of substance and in the utter vacuity of content from the disgracefully shameless controlling clique on the 'local' Tower Hamlets Council
AADHIKARonline is publishing a
Comprehensive series of contextual reports
on the charade staged at the Brady Centre [situated in
Hanbury Street, yes the same Hanbury
Street which is still targeted for a Crossrail ole assault unless
the community can force the abusers of elected posts in the
name of the area that they shall lose their posts and all the
cash and other perks they get from those posts if the Crossrail
hole is allowed to go ahead]
The first of the series of the AADHIKAR Publishing reports
on the INSULTATION
Just how totally corrupt is the
Crossrail hole-inviter Tower Hamlets
Council !
an AADHIKARonline- Khoodeelaar! campaign against
Crossrail hole Bill report
1600 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 4 January 2006
in the past three years of
khoodeelaar! the campaign against crossrail hole
plot we have used phrases and devised words to describe the
crossrail hole attack on the east end
of london
we have used the word crassrail, which is one of dozens
coined by khoodeelaar! organiser
muhammad haque, to describe the crossrail plot.
the word crassrail has also been intended to include a
description of all those who have backed [and
are still backing] backed the flawed project. one main target of
the khoodeelaar! campaign has bee
nothing that khoodeelaar! no to crossrail hole bill has ever said
against the misconduct of tower
hamlets council's crossrail hole-backer controlling clique needs
to be revised, let alone
withdrawn.
why? because the clique on tower hamlets council remains as
brazenly stupid and insulting towards
the people in the borough in whose name the council itself
exists as the claque was at the height of
it
just why the crossrail hole clique in tower hamlets council has
been behaving so stupidly becomes
clear every time we have the occasion to encounter the
evidence of the of idiocy that dominate
what i
ignorance, idiocy, irrationality and the sheer utter absolute lack
of knowledge about community,
about the electorate, about the east end, about the brick lane
and Whitechapel london E1 area, about
although the brick lane and Fournier street conservation
area is not all of the
Khoodeelaar! campaign area, it is, nevertheless a central and
important part of the same area.
So when the Khoodeelaar! campaign found out about the
INSULTATION [another word, coined by
Muhammad haque, this one was coined 20 year earlier in
1986 about the BBCs charade
staged in Lewisham i
Khoodeelaar! concluded that the event was a waste of time
and would not at all address the real
needs and concerns of the people and would be one of a series
that the clique would collect to show
that
When a Khoodeelaar! no o Crossrail hole Bill campaign team
arrived at the event, the proceedings
more than amply justified our total scepticism .
[To be continued]
From the previous editions of AADHIKARonline as published
on Wednesday 3 January 2007
Khoodeelaar! Manifesto for Bethnal Green and Bow against
Crossrail hole Bill - Part 12
1. Khoodeelaar! will take steps to secure the publication to the
constituency at large of all the
evidence of the earnings made in the name of the constituency
by all holders of public and elected
pos
2. Khoodeelaar! will take steps to publish the evidence of the
abuses of the posts by all current and
relevant holders of 'elected' posts in the name of and or from
the constituency of Bethnal green a
3. Khoodeelaar! will take steps to show the fact and the level
of the actual service by way of
'elected representation' of the real, the legitimate, the legal and
the lawful needs, concerns, the
preferences....
4. Khoodeelaar! will initiate de facto 'constituency' surgeries
across issues and areas where
genuine and real concerns exist and which concerns are found
and seen to be neglected or
misrepresented by
[To be continued]
From the previous
editions of AADHIKARonline as published
earlier today Wednesday 3 January 2007
By Muhammad Haque
1710 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 3 January 2007
How sick is it that they
largest number of 'media-platformed'
expressers of shock and even dismay at the brutalities done to
Saddam Hussein are identifiably
from the groups that have been the cause, the causers and the perpetrators of the very crime that they now criminally shamelessly pretend to even have any reservation about ….!
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