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East London Advertiser plugs Crossrail lies and fakery by John Biggs

Getting cross with CROSSRAIL in the East End | 23.02.2006 09:26 | Analysis | Indymedia | London | World

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 ?

Getting cross with CROSSRAIL in the East End
- e-mail: getcrosswithcrossrail@hotmail.co.uk

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  1. Why is Tower Hamlets Recorder in denial on Khoodeelaar! no to Xrail? — Bethnal Green and Bow resident
  2. CORRECTION to quotation from George Galloway on Crossrail — khoodeelaaronline
  3. Degeneration spin rippling out of control in canary Wharf — khoodeelaaronline
  4. Full text of the icthewharf plug for Crossrail, 23 Feb 2006 — Khoodeelaaronline

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