Ken Livingstone seems to fly en waves if fantasy. As he did earlier this week while soaking up more media attention than he craves and is usually given. He made all manner of boasts about the dockland light railway [=’DLR’] station at Langdon Park in [the poplar area] in the east end of London. A particular Livingstone propaganda boast was that the dlr station was guaranteed to make the ‘deprived locals’ get out of the rut. This same theme has been Livingstone’s mainstay in his peddling of CrossRail hole plot against the same east end of London.
Livingstone should know that he is telling a serious untruth when he makes this claim.
How?
Because he has parroted the City of London, Canary Wharf and Big business agenda phrases word fur word in ‘justification’ of his creeping touting for ‘CrossRail’ to be given the £Billons of public money...
All these over - hyped ‘transport’ links are products of plans and strategies that are decided by speculators, developers and those big business elements and forces that want to capture the ‘deprived’ east end and adjoining parts and make the areas eventually free of local people and communities. Just as the CrossRail hole plot is a product of Big Business agenda to link up the various Big Business exploitation centres. This has nothing whatever to do with the local East End people our needs our demands.
My latest questions sent in the past hour to the ‘current leader’ of the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council makes the point very clear.
Livingstone should know that he is telling a serious untruth when he makes this claim.
How?
Because he has parroted the City of London, Canary Wharf and Big business agenda phrases word fur word in ‘justification’ of his creeping touting for ‘CrossRail’ to be given the £Billons of public money...
All these over - hyped ‘transport’ links are products of plans and strategies that are decided by speculators, developers and those big business elements and forces that want to capture the ‘deprived’ east end and adjoining parts and make the areas eventually free of local people and communities. Just as the CrossRail hole plot is a product of Big Business agenda to link up the various Big Business exploitation centres. This has nothing whatever to do with the local East End people our needs our demands.
My latest questions sent in the past hour to the ‘current leader’ of the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council makes the point very clear.
B©Muhammad Haque
Organiser
Khoodeelaar! No to CrossRail hole plot
Open letter 12.12 2007 and new questions to Tower Hamlets council ‘leader’ Denise Jones!
[Explanater: Ken Livingstone has been in an unusual spotlight for the past week. Just when the many propaganda utterances of the 'undone mayor' ken Livingstone have come under unprecedented scrutiny precisely at that moment the east London CrossRail hole-inviter council controlling clique decides to fete ken Livingstone’s [current] transport commissioner [after the reluctant retirement of Bob kiley from that hugely beneficial! post] and to use that excuse to make yet another utterance of the very fabrication that Livingstone had been making for Crassrail. As is well recorded, Khoodeelaar! has initiated the demand that Livinsgsine is not allowed to have individual powers in the use or misuse of large sums of public money.]
1140 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 12 December 2007
“Dear Denise Jones
This is from Khoodeelaar! the campaign against CrossRail hole attacks plot on the east end of London.
I am writing this after reading yesterday [Tuesday 11 December 2007] your statements about Crassrail as published by the website which I have quoted below.
As you must be aware by now, we have put this very same question to Tower Hamlets [the ‘local’] council for almost four years – what benefits will CrossRail bring to the EAST END?
Now that you have been quoted as saying ‘huge benefits’, it is utterly important that you list at least enough of those that reasonably can constitute the ground to justify your statement ‘huge benefits’.
If you won’t do that – or if you can’t do that – then you have a moral, a constitutional and a legal duty to say why.
You must also tell us today what stopped you from speaking at the ‘full council’ on 28 November 2007 when I put the same question to the council.
Equally, you have the legal duty to show on what evidence the ‘we’ [meaning, presumably, the democratic and the legitimate entity of Tower Hamlets Council – as opposed to the undemocratic clique that abuses the name and the formal constitutional identity of the council…] EVER came to decide that that position, as again attributed to you in the web site [see quoted below], was either in accord with the legitimate needs, preference or demands of the ordinary East Enders or was the best solution to the transport needs of the people taken in the full context of all the relevant facts and factors.
Again, this too was included in the Khuudeelaar! presentation to the Council on 28 November 2007 and you stayed silent on that.
As did every single one of the others who apparently followed [and still follows] you as the ‘leader’ of the council.
Why didn’t any of you speak with the credible evidence to back up these propaganda claims?
We [the Khoodeelaar! campaign] have said all along – and I reiterate it here in this form for your recollection – that the claim that the Crassrail hole plot is justifiable because it will ‘bring benefits’, must be stated only with evidence that can support such a claim.
If the claim is made without evidence and without credible evidence then the utterance of that claim is nothing but an utter lie.
And a lie that will cost the credibility of anyone who makes it or encourages or presses anyone else to make it.
___________________________________________________________________
http://www.24dash.com/localgovernment/29939.htm
Cllr Denise Jones, Leader, Tower Hamlets Council updated TfL on the council’s position on Crossrail.
She said: “The council has always supported the Crossrail scheme but not at any cost.
"We recognize that Crossrail will bring huge regeneration benefits to the borough but we have some concerns about the construction methods.
"These are being resolved in a number of changes – known as undertakings - by Crossrail which are designed to reduce the environmental impacts. Tower Hamlets Council has secured nearly twice as many undertakings as any other council.”
Organiser
Khoodeelaar! No to CrossRail hole plot
Open letter 12.12 2007 and new questions to Tower Hamlets council ‘leader’ Denise Jones!
[Explanater: Ken Livingstone has been in an unusual spotlight for the past week. Just when the many propaganda utterances of the 'undone mayor' ken Livingstone have come under unprecedented scrutiny precisely at that moment the east London CrossRail hole-inviter council controlling clique decides to fete ken Livingstone’s [current] transport commissioner [after the reluctant retirement of Bob kiley from that hugely beneficial! post] and to use that excuse to make yet another utterance of the very fabrication that Livingstone had been making for Crassrail. As is well recorded, Khoodeelaar! has initiated the demand that Livinsgsine is not allowed to have individual powers in the use or misuse of large sums of public money.]
1140 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 12 December 2007
“Dear Denise Jones
This is from Khoodeelaar! the campaign against CrossRail hole attacks plot on the east end of London.
I am writing this after reading yesterday [Tuesday 11 December 2007] your statements about Crassrail as published by the website which I have quoted below.
As you must be aware by now, we have put this very same question to Tower Hamlets [the ‘local’] council for almost four years – what benefits will CrossRail bring to the EAST END?
Now that you have been quoted as saying ‘huge benefits’, it is utterly important that you list at least enough of those that reasonably can constitute the ground to justify your statement ‘huge benefits’.
If you won’t do that – or if you can’t do that – then you have a moral, a constitutional and a legal duty to say why.
You must also tell us today what stopped you from speaking at the ‘full council’ on 28 November 2007 when I put the same question to the council.
Equally, you have the legal duty to show on what evidence the ‘we’ [meaning, presumably, the democratic and the legitimate entity of Tower Hamlets Council – as opposed to the undemocratic clique that abuses the name and the formal constitutional identity of the council…] EVER came to decide that that position, as again attributed to you in the web site [see quoted below], was either in accord with the legitimate needs, preference or demands of the ordinary East Enders or was the best solution to the transport needs of the people taken in the full context of all the relevant facts and factors.
Again, this too was included in the Khuudeelaar! presentation to the Council on 28 November 2007 and you stayed silent on that.
As did every single one of the others who apparently followed [and still follows] you as the ‘leader’ of the council.
Why didn’t any of you speak with the credible evidence to back up these propaganda claims?
We [the Khoodeelaar! campaign] have said all along – and I reiterate it here in this form for your recollection – that the claim that the Crassrail hole plot is justifiable because it will ‘bring benefits’, must be stated only with evidence that can support such a claim.
If the claim is made without evidence and without credible evidence then the utterance of that claim is nothing but an utter lie.
And a lie that will cost the credibility of anyone who makes it or encourages or presses anyone else to make it.
___________________________________________________________________
http://www.24dash.com/localgovernment/29939.htm Cllr Denise Jones, Leader, Tower Hamlets Council updated TfL on the council’s position on Crossrail.
She said: “The council has always supported the Crossrail scheme but not at any cost.
"We recognize that Crossrail will bring huge regeneration benefits to the borough but we have some concerns about the construction methods.
"These are being resolved in a number of changes – known as undertakings - by Crossrail which are designed to reduce the environmental impacts. Tower Hamlets Council has secured nearly twice as many undertakings as any other council.”
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