On 8 January 2008, the UK Upper Chamber ['House of Lords] 'select committee' on the 'Crossrail Bill' starts receiving formal objections to the 'Bill'. That Bill has just been 'sent' there by the 'Lower House' [=] the 'House of Commons' which gave it the 'Third Reading'. Khoodeelaar! is organising a series of formal objections to be put to that ‘committee’ against the contents and the purpose of the ‘Crossrail Bill’. The background is that constitutional campaigning CAN produce results. May be not all that is wanted. But the Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail hole Bill track record shows that we have had some results. It is a matter of serious consideration whether the same outcome would have been available had we stayed inactive, silent and casual and ‘hoped’ for the part-time, media-fixated ‘faces’ occupying any number of public positions [fetching them handsome cash remuneration and other benefits] in the name of the East End to make the odd, publicity-oriented utterances…
By©Muhammad Haque
2020 Hrs GMT
London
Saturday 22 December 2007
On 30 March 2006, Alistair Darling had to enter a ‘written statement’ in the House of Commons to confirm a change to the relevant contents of the then Crossrail Bill. That change was about the excavation shaft that had been plotted to be sited in the Hanbury Street.
Alistair Darling’s ‘written statement’ was preceded by and was directly linked with a political retreat that our campaign had pushed Darling et al into making – that retreat was signalled in a typically snide and crafty way by Ken Livingstone on Friday 24 March 2006 when Lyingstill made an incredible and unethical announcement that the Hanbury Street CrossRail DIRT hole [‘the excavation shaft’] had been scrapped.
The manner in which Livingstone behaved in staging that stunt on 24 March 2006 was offensive.
But he too was exhibiting the key retreat in the face of our then imminent legal action that had been announced two days earlier as scheduled to start against Darling et al in the High Court with an application being filed on Monday 27 March 2006.
On 18 December 2007, Khoodeelaar! was contacted by the ‘local’ ‘East London Idiotiser’ with an alleged statement issued to them at 1605 Hrs on that date by the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council announcing an alleged bit of ‘good news for Crossrail’, which turned out to be yet another retreat BY Crossrail and the promoters of the unwanted CRASSRAIL hole plot.
The subsequent ‘news report’ , the exposure of the Idiotiser on their getting key facts wrong [again!!!] and the comments on that [so far] are testimony to the fact that the Khoodeelaar! campaign has been actively embarked on the defence of the East End of London against the Big Business ploy disguised as a transport ‘project’.
[To be continued]
2020 Hrs GMT
London
Saturday 22 December 2007
On 30 March 2006, Alistair Darling had to enter a ‘written statement’ in the House of Commons to confirm a change to the relevant contents of the then Crossrail Bill. That change was about the excavation shaft that had been plotted to be sited in the Hanbury Street.
Alistair Darling’s ‘written statement’ was preceded by and was directly linked with a political retreat that our campaign had pushed Darling et al into making – that retreat was signalled in a typically snide and crafty way by Ken Livingstone on Friday 24 March 2006 when Lyingstill made an incredible and unethical announcement that the Hanbury Street CrossRail DIRT hole [‘the excavation shaft’] had been scrapped.
The manner in which Livingstone behaved in staging that stunt on 24 March 2006 was offensive.
But he too was exhibiting the key retreat in the face of our then imminent legal action that had been announced two days earlier as scheduled to start against Darling et al in the High Court with an application being filed on Monday 27 March 2006.
On 18 December 2007, Khoodeelaar! was contacted by the ‘local’ ‘East London Idiotiser’ with an alleged statement issued to them at 1605 Hrs on that date by the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council announcing an alleged bit of ‘good news for Crossrail’, which turned out to be yet another retreat BY Crossrail and the promoters of the unwanted CRASSRAIL hole plot.
The subsequent ‘news report’ , the exposure of the Idiotiser on their getting key facts wrong [again!!!] and the comments on that [so far] are testimony to the fact that the Khoodeelaar! campaign has been actively embarked on the defence of the East End of London against the Big Business ploy disguised as a transport ‘project’.
[To be continued]
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