By Muhammad Haque
0238 Hrs GMT
London friday ^ June 2008
Boris Johnson should respond to BOTH Tom Harris and STEVE NORRIS by calling the CROSSRAIL hole plot pluggers' bluff... He should demand evidence from them...
There is NO evidence that CRASSly conceived Crossrail hole plot is a response to ordinary public need or demand.... This is why BOTH Houses in Parliament, the Big Business lobby has been active to PREVENT members of the public and the core communities affected by the scam, from giving evidence in Parliament showing that CROSSRAIL is irrelevant, diversuonary, unafforcable, unsustainable, damaging, wasteful and obsolete.......
[More on this during the day today friday 6 June 2008]
By©Muhammad Haque
0210 Hrs GMT
London
Friday 6 June 2008
CRASS talk by Tom Harris is grotesquely untrue!
It is not true to imply, which is what Tom Harris is doing [see the piece below], that Boris Johnson did not support Crossrail.
For unlike, say a single-MP ‘party’ as the case was with George Galloway in July 2005 when the ‘Crossrail Bill’ was processed at ‘Second Reading’ [19 July 2005], the CONSERVATIVE Party did not have to rely on just one of their MPs to express the Party’s position on the issue.
The Tories have ALWAYS supported CRASSrail.
As they are doing now, Friday 6 June 2008.
And as they have continued to do in the time between 19 July 2005 and 13 December 2007 when the Bill was in the House of Commons....Tom Harris is a liar to say that [the ‘Crossrail Bill when it] was first presented to the Commons in July 2005”.
But then what do you expect of a ‘Minister’ who has been appointed to front the Big Business agenda scam!
It is also possible that in addition to being a liar, Crossrail Harris is also incompetent.
But then he is in a Department that is ‘headed’ by Ruth Kelly for whom competence - as the concept is understood in ordinary, normal and objective sense and context - in Government Department has not been a prominent feature [if it has featured at all....!]..
Tom Harris has been told by KHOODEELAAR! on more than ten separate occasions in the past six months and very publicly that we shall have constitutional law claims against him in court.
Just in case he has not been able to read those very publicly [published] warnings, we say it again to him: DO NOT ANY MORE breach, violate, ignore or deny the UK’s constitutional law obligations over this.
If you do, as you have been doing, we shall refer your conduct as evidence and as ground for our application to have the legislative process practised declared invalid and unconstitutional and with that we shall seek to have the statute declared void and unconstitutional...........
[To be continued]
AADHIKARonline quoting from Tom Harris’ blog:
“Crossrail was never important enough to attract Boris’s attention
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The Mayor of London is worried that government the government isn’t committed to Crossrail. This is absurd on two important levels. First: it’s absolutely committed, and there’s no reason to conclude otherwise. The Crossrail Bill is making good progress through Parliament and should get Royal Assent soon.
Second, and more importantly, Boris never supported Crossrail as an MP.
According to The Public Whip, Boris didn’t vote on the Crossrail Bill when it was first presented to the Commons in July 2005. And on the many occasions since, where I have had to pilot the Bill through its Commons stages - at two “additional provisions” debates, public bill committee sessions and Report and Third reading - Boris didn’t turn up. Not once. Never, on a single occasion in the Commons, did Bojo ever express an opinion, or vote one way or the other, on the most important infrastructure project that London has seen for generations.
Perhaps he was too busy to concern himself with such trivialities. Whatever the reason, it undermines his claim that he had a long-term ambition to be Mayor of London. Boris is not stupid; he would have known that a strong commitment to Crossrail could only have helped his mayoral bid. The fact that he never showed an interest in such an important project confirms he had no notion at all of standing before ‘Dave’ went on bended knee.”
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Saving liberty: Gordon Brown must not confuse scare tactics with sense...and he must not lie for the scare mongers... No matter what the lure !!!..
Discrediting of Govt power, as the Brown-fronted Blairing regime has been doing by undermining civil liberties, is bad for society....
By©Muhammad Haque
2310 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
The evidence that the Brown fronted Blairing regime has been guilt of this offence against morality, ethics and universal justice. came actress even on the highly vetted BBC TV programme Question Time, broadcast tonight that ended in the past 50 minutes.
The other point that came across was that the so-called marginal, the so-called minority groupings and individuals in the UK, as represented on that panel tonight, appear to have been the only ones [as symbols and as groupings] left in the Blaired Britain who are speaking out for some of the most important values....
Values that apply to ALL humanity. But values towards the nurturing of which, for all sorts of reasons, the UK has had a significant part to play. Over centuries.
And who pointe that out?
Not the Anglo Saxon member or a European member of the panel or of the [again, very heavily-vetted BBC studio] audience... It was the very Asian named Shami Chakravarti....
And the only Anglo Saxon - who incidentally thinks the Iranians are Europeans trapped in the middle of Asia - Peter Hitchens came behind Shami Chakravarti to echo what she had said...
Not even a former UK Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, found anything to say about this very important values...
What a contrast to the distorted, twisted 'vahloos' that are espoused, quite ignorantly and racistsly by the racist-fetished, Empire-hooked Gordon Brown...
What a tragedy indeed...
Gordon Brown will drown in his own prejudice and in his own ignorance..... Only he can take the trek back to reason, sanity and justice.... NOW.... If Brown fails, or worse, refuses to take the walk back from the precipice, he will vanish with only the stench of the wrongs that he overloaded his cart of career with.....And took leave of sanity, sense and fairness...
Gordon Brown must not confuse scare tactics with sense...and he must not lie for the scare mongers... No matter what the lure !!!..
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
2310 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
The evidence that the Brown fronted Blairing regime has been guilt of this offence against morality, ethics and universal justice. came actress even on the highly vetted BBC TV programme Question Time, broadcast tonight that ended in the past 50 minutes.
The other point that came across was that the so-called marginal, the so-called minority groupings and individuals in the UK, as represented on that panel tonight, appear to have been the only ones [as symbols and as groupings] left in the Blaired Britain who are speaking out for some of the most important values....
Values that apply to ALL humanity. But values towards the nurturing of which, for all sorts of reasons, the UK has had a significant part to play. Over centuries.
And who pointe that out?
Not the Anglo Saxon member or a European member of the panel or of the [again, very heavily-vetted BBC studio] audience... It was the very Asian named Shami Chakravarti....
And the only Anglo Saxon - who incidentally thinks the Iranians are Europeans trapped in the middle of Asia - Peter Hitchens came behind Shami Chakravarti to echo what she had said...
Not even a former UK Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, found anything to say about this very important values...
What a contrast to the distorted, twisted 'vahloos' that are espoused, quite ignorantly and racistsly by the racist-fetished, Empire-hooked Gordon Brown...
What a tragedy indeed...
Gordon Brown will drown in his own prejudice and in his own ignorance..... Only he can take the trek back to reason, sanity and justice.... NOW.... If Brown fails, or worse, refuses to take the walk back from the precipice, he will vanish with only the stench of the wrongs that he overloaded his cart of career with.....And took leave of sanity, sense and fairness...
Gordon Brown must not confuse scare tactics with sense...and he must not lie for the scare mongers... No matter what the lure !!!..
[To be continued]
The CROSSRAIL scam ['The Crossrail Bill'] has been given typical approval by UK Parliament that is populated by agents of undemocracy,....
Editor©Muhammad Haque
1650 Hrs GMT 1750 Hrs UK Time London Thursday 5 June 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! the constitutional law campaign against UK ‘draft bill’ ‘the Crossrail Bill’, and the CAMPAIGN against the agenda that is contained in and represented in the Crossrail hole scam...... UPDATING on the sheer unconstitutionality that pervades the UK Houses of Parliament and its ‘conduct’..... How the violators of constitutionality occupy posts, positions and ‘jobs’ in the House and in the name of the overstated House of parliament.... How the UK ‘Houses of parliament’ daily breach the norms, the codes, the rules, the requirements of what universally constitute ethical behaviour, parliamentary behaviour... and how the present rights and the future security of rights of the people can never be even recognise let alone established or upheld by relying on the parades that go on by the seekers after power, the abusers of power and the pursuers of power... at the expense of the rights of the people at the expense of the needs of the people.... And how all these conclusions, these thoughts, , these findings have again been confirmed in the experience of the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign in the past four years and in relation to the role, the conduct of the ‘formal’ set-up outfits and bureaucracies that have been put in place within the ‘Houses of Parliament at Westminster for the Big Business ploy to loot the public of £Billions under the cover of the CROSSRAIL hole scam..... We show, as we have been reporting throughout, that the misconduct in and via parliament that the ‘executive’ [that is the UK Government and ITS various agencies] perpetrate and perpetuate, go unchallenged by Parliament. By MPs and by the ‘peers’.... And that not only are the utter, the absolute majority of the misconduct not challenged by either ‘House’ the evidence is that the misconduct are CONDONED by both Houses. And via both Houses of parliament...... [To be continued]
1650 Hrs GMT 1750 Hrs UK Time London Thursday 5 June 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! the constitutional law campaign against UK ‘draft bill’ ‘the Crossrail Bill’, and the CAMPAIGN against the agenda that is contained in and represented in the Crossrail hole scam...... UPDATING on the sheer unconstitutionality that pervades the UK Houses of Parliament and its ‘conduct’..... How the violators of constitutionality occupy posts, positions and ‘jobs’ in the House and in the name of the overstated House of parliament.... How the UK ‘Houses of parliament’ daily breach the norms, the codes, the rules, the requirements of what universally constitute ethical behaviour, parliamentary behaviour... and how the present rights and the future security of rights of the people can never be even recognise let alone established or upheld by relying on the parades that go on by the seekers after power, the abusers of power and the pursuers of power... at the expense of the rights of the people at the expense of the needs of the people.... And how all these conclusions, these thoughts, , these findings have again been confirmed in the experience of the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign in the past four years and in relation to the role, the conduct of the ‘formal’ set-up outfits and bureaucracies that have been put in place within the ‘Houses of Parliament at Westminster for the Big Business ploy to loot the public of £Billions under the cover of the CROSSRAIL hole scam..... We show, as we have been reporting throughout, that the misconduct in and via parliament that the ‘executive’ [that is the UK Government and ITS various agencies] perpetrate and perpetuate, go unchallenged by Parliament. By MPs and by the ‘peers’.... And that not only are the utter, the absolute majority of the misconduct not challenged by either ‘House’ the evidence is that the misconduct are CONDONED by both Houses. And via both Houses of parliament...... [To be continued]
CRASStalk by Crossrail hole plot-backing 2012 Olympic Games hosting 'Culture' 'Secretary' exposed in his ignorant use of the word and the concept..
CRASStalk by Crossrail hole plot-backing 2012 Olympic Games hosting 'Culture' 'Secretary' exposed in his ignorant use of the word and the concept....
CRASStalk by Crossrail hole plot-backing 2012 Olympic Games hosting 'Culture' 'Secretary' exposed in his ignorant use of the word and the concept....
By©Muhammad Haque
1612 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 5 June 2008
UK [2012 Olympics Games hosting] department 'minister' Andy Burnham made an appearance today as another of Gordon Brown's 'saviours' in waiting....!
It is not clear whether the same secret and pernicious elements that have been promoting 'Oona King' as a, No, as 'THE' saviour [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!+n] of what they doubly mischievously call 'the Labour Party' [which is in all intents and purposes abolished and is impersonated for by the Blaired Party of which Brown is the current personification...] are behind Burnham's prancing...
Whatever may be the actual description of the immoral and the unethical forces that have been peddling these agents of wrongs, the first indications are that Andy Burnham is as shallow as his 'mate' and fellow careerist James Purnell... [Of Purnell, more, in later parts]
Whatever do they 'teach' them at Oxbridge! [Oops, ‘Cam bridge’!]
The ignorance of Andy Burnham became clear - as well as that of his BBC Radio 5 Lies amoral host, as they BOTH repeatedly misused the word and the concept CYNIC ..
They BOTH meant [ASSUMING that they knew what they were talking about !!!!] sceptic. But they persisted in using 'cynic', 'cynical' and 'cynics'.
Whether there was accuracy and ethics in the stated Conservative, Polish-angsts of the MP who complained on Wednesday 4 June 2008 that there was a collusion between the BBC and the UK Govt over the exact numbers and the implications of the ‘recent’ immigration from the ‘Indian’[!!!!!] subcontinent and elsewhere ‘outside of Europe’, may not be finally known as yet. After all it was just over a day ago that the ‘MP’ made his own ‘newsy’ intervention.
But there is no doubt about the collusion that exists between the Blaired BBC and the Blaired UK Govt flunkeys. And Andy Burnham is a flunkey. As is his BBC Radio 5 Lies host. They are reckless in their lack of affinity with the truth. They care not a jot as to how many lies, fibs and fabrications they contrive, utter and perpetrate.
As Burnham did by repeating the stupid line of the current form of the Blaired regime that the 2012 Olympic Games hosting COSTS were well justified because of the ‘legacy’ that the events would leave for ‘East London’
That lie is a recent confection by the original corrupter of London, Ken Livingstone. Livingstone came up with the legacy lies when he found it impossible to keep denying reports that the costs of the 2012 Olympics Games hosting preparations were already running well over the level of indulgence....
Livingstone’s legacy of lies should have been treated as that. And binned. Along with the lying exhibition of wasteful sub-scams linked with the 2012 Games hosting stunts.
But the binning would only have been thought necessary and implemented by a Govt that had fronters with sense and ethics .
Andy Burnham has not a lot of ethics. In his conduct of office as a fronter...
So vacant is Burnham in the ethics and the morality Department - and so ignorant is he of the depth of people's’ concerns about violations of human rights and universal values that he thought he could ‘address’ any such concerns by dropping Tessa Jowell’s name every so many minutes during his staged appearance on the BBC radio 5 Lies this afternoon....
To think that it is ‘brains’ like these that are ‘fighting hard to support Gordon Brown’ [!!!!!!] and that it is people like these that are even more clueless than Gordon Brown has ever been caught out as being.....
In the stupidity of their immorality THEY WALLOW with glee at the misplaced expectation [!!!!] that by sinking Gordon Brown under the shower of their dirty praise and their ‘support’ they will inherit the glory of ‘true power’ in Government after Brown is sunk.....
They are as wrong on that as they are callous and ignorant and irresponsible when they peddle the 2012 Olympics Games legacy lies...
And as they utter ever incredible stupidities about ‘regenerating’ the ‘world class city’ by building Crossrail..........
[To be continued]
CRASStalk by Crossrail hole plot-backing 2012 Olympic Games hosting 'Culture' 'Secretary' exposed in his ignorant use of the word and the concept....
By©Muhammad Haque
1612 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 5 June 2008
UK [2012 Olympics Games hosting] department 'minister' Andy Burnham made an appearance today as another of Gordon Brown's 'saviours' in waiting....!
It is not clear whether the same secret and pernicious elements that have been promoting 'Oona King' as a, No, as 'THE' saviour [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!+n] of what they doubly mischievously call 'the Labour Party' [which is in all intents and purposes abolished and is impersonated for by the Blaired Party of which Brown is the current personification...] are behind Burnham's prancing...
Whatever may be the actual description of the immoral and the unethical forces that have been peddling these agents of wrongs, the first indications are that Andy Burnham is as shallow as his 'mate' and fellow careerist James Purnell... [Of Purnell, more, in later parts]
Whatever do they 'teach' them at Oxbridge! [Oops, ‘Cam bridge’!]
The ignorance of Andy Burnham became clear - as well as that of his BBC Radio 5 Lies amoral host, as they BOTH repeatedly misused the word and the concept CYNIC ..
They BOTH meant [ASSUMING that they knew what they were talking about !!!!] sceptic. But they persisted in using 'cynic', 'cynical' and 'cynics'.
Whether there was accuracy and ethics in the stated Conservative, Polish-angsts of the MP who complained on Wednesday 4 June 2008 that there was a collusion between the BBC and the UK Govt over the exact numbers and the implications of the ‘recent’ immigration from the ‘Indian’[!!!!!] subcontinent and elsewhere ‘outside of Europe’, may not be finally known as yet. After all it was just over a day ago that the ‘MP’ made his own ‘newsy’ intervention.
But there is no doubt about the collusion that exists between the Blaired BBC and the Blaired UK Govt flunkeys. And Andy Burnham is a flunkey. As is his BBC Radio 5 Lies host. They are reckless in their lack of affinity with the truth. They care not a jot as to how many lies, fibs and fabrications they contrive, utter and perpetrate.
As Burnham did by repeating the stupid line of the current form of the Blaired regime that the 2012 Olympic Games hosting COSTS were well justified because of the ‘legacy’ that the events would leave for ‘East London’
That lie is a recent confection by the original corrupter of London, Ken Livingstone. Livingstone came up with the legacy lies when he found it impossible to keep denying reports that the costs of the 2012 Olympics Games hosting preparations were already running well over the level of indulgence....
Livingstone’s legacy of lies should have been treated as that. And binned. Along with the lying exhibition of wasteful sub-scams linked with the 2012 Games hosting stunts.
But the binning would only have been thought necessary and implemented by a Govt that had fronters with sense and ethics .
Andy Burnham has not a lot of ethics. In his conduct of office as a fronter...
So vacant is Burnham in the ethics and the morality Department - and so ignorant is he of the depth of people's’ concerns about violations of human rights and universal values that he thought he could ‘address’ any such concerns by dropping Tessa Jowell’s name every so many minutes during his staged appearance on the BBC radio 5 Lies this afternoon....
To think that it is ‘brains’ like these that are ‘fighting hard to support Gordon Brown’ [!!!!!!] and that it is people like these that are even more clueless than Gordon Brown has ever been caught out as being.....
In the stupidity of their immorality THEY WALLOW with glee at the misplaced expectation [!!!!] that by sinking Gordon Brown under the shower of their dirty praise and their ‘support’ they will inherit the glory of ‘true power’ in Government after Brown is sunk.....
They are as wrong on that as they are callous and ignorant and irresponsible when they peddle the 2012 Olympics Games legacy lies...
And as they utter ever incredible stupidities about ‘regenerating’ the ‘world class city’ by building Crossrail..........
[To be continued]
Why Boris Johnson will lose vital credibility over London transport if he fails to stop aping Livingstone for the crass Crossrail hole scam...
By©Muhammad Haque
0920 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Boris Johnson, who made a rare appearance during the parade of parliamentary parasites called the PMQs staged in the 'Palace of Westminster' on Wednesday 4 June 2008, is soon going to be an ex-MP. Allegedly. Because his being an ex-MP is not likely o take away from him the considerable access that he has to various lever of power that affect the lives and the rights of the people of and in Lon don...
One of those is the costs that the people will have to bear of staging the gigantic Olympics stunts of 2012.
How is the 2012 Olympic Games hosting linked with Boris Johnson and Crossrail?
Because they are. Also because Johnson is showing signs that he is not going to call a halt to the Big BUSINESS elements setting the AGENDA on London... That is why JOHNSON inserted in his latest comments about ‘alcohol ban’ an unnecessary reference to CRASSrail... In fact, it was both unnecessary and unjustified...
So Boris Johnson needs to get to grips with the actual costs and the other evidence of HOW Crossrail is a diversion, a waste and an obsolescence...
As a helpful backgrounder dated today, I here reproduce the item carried by the web site of the Western Mail, which makes some arguments that are valid against the wastefulness of huge 'infrastructure projects' especially the staging of the 2012 Olympic Games in the name of London....
PS: I should point out for the records, that in the WESTERN MAIL piece, there is this rare reference to Ken Livingstone';s confidence trick. As Livingstone had admitted in that PANORAMA version of the 'Lon don mayor DeBASE' fronted by David Dimbleby.. This is rare except the fact that it had been PREDICTED in and by the KHOODEELAAR! campaign. In the AADHIKARonline pieces ! I examined Livingstone's admission to lying at the time of his confession.......
[To be continued]
PS: I should point out for the records, that in the WESTERN MAIL piece, there is this rare reference to Ken Livingstone's confidence trick. As Livingstone had admitted in that PANORAMA version of the 'London mayor DeBASE' fronted by David Dimbleby.. This is rare except the fact that it had been PREDICTED in and by the KHOODEELAAR! campaign. In the AADHIKARonline pieces ! I examined Livingstone's admission to lying at the time of his confession.......
[To be continued]
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2012 Olympics – sporting dream or nightmare?
Jun 5 2008 by David Williamson, Western Mail
THE most terrifying visions of mayhem are not found on the horror channel but the in the nightmares of the men and women charged with delivering the London 2012 Olympics.
If the last drops of goodwill towards the Games evaporate in the coming months, as costs soar faster than any summer heatwave, Britain may be destined for a fiasco that will make Terminal 5 seem less traumatic than a tremor in a cup of espresso.
The British – and Londoners in particular – glory in wry cynicism and detached irony. As a nation we refuse to take the Eurovision Song Contest seriously, and even the Women’s Institute declines to give the Prime Minister a decent round of applause when he visits.
A country which venerates Victor Meldrew as a role model is not temperamentally suited to host an event which involves welcoming energetic young people from every corner of the globe for a gala of frenetic physical activity and fireworks. And nothing aggravates us British more than the suspicion we have been ripped off.
Such dark convictions are already stirring in Wales and the English provinces.
Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price made headlines last year when he claimed Wales was losing out on £437m.
This calculation centred on the prediction Wales would be denied Lottery funding worth £110m, coupled to the argument – based on the Barnett funding formula used to decide the share of UK spending that Wales receives – that the nation is entitled to £327m as a percentile of the Government’s investment in the Games.
The Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP said it would be a disgrace for some of the poorest regions of the UK to subsidise a London regeneration project.
His complaints gained credibility when then-London Mayor Ken Livingstone was accused of staging a “con trick”.
With not even a hint of sheepishness, he said: “It was, literally, absolutely – this has worked as I planned.”
He told the audience of a London hustings: “I bid for the Olympics because it’s the only way to get the billions of pounds out of the Government to develop the East End.”
The Review of Cultural Tourism in Wales, commissioned by the Assembly Government and launched this week, warns the industry to expect a drop in funding from “traditional sources” as a result of the Olympics.
In December the Assembly Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas admitted the situation was bleak, telling a cross-party group of MPs: “The estimate I have heard is we could be losing up to £70m in Lottery funding, and certainly on behalf of the Government of Wales I would say that we would be very disappointed if there were a further raid on Lottery money...”
Cuts to the Arts Council of Wales have already triggered fears that venues such as the St Donats Arts Centre, home to a spectacular international storytelling festival, are now in doubt.
Scepticism may well fester into outright hostility when cutbacks lead to closures and then job losses in parts of the country far from the Olympics. Concern is already swirling around Britain, and such angst has four years in which to gather destructive momentum.
Such animosity could pit the regions against the capital, but there is just as great a chance that Londoners will not want to miss out on an opportunity to grumble – an activity refined over the centuries into both a national sport and an art form.
The city’s residents are already wondering how it has been possible for the budget for the aquatic centre to spiral from £73m to £242m.
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has said we should not claim that the cost of Games has rocketed from £2.3bn to £9.3bn. This second figure refers to the entire regeneration effort, she says.
Such comments will not convince critics who believe the original estimate was plucked out of the ether at a time when few thought Britain was a serious contender to host the greatest sports extravaganza yet conceived. But by linking the spectacular investment to regeneration and not to sporting she is effectively summoning ministers from Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast to demand a slice of this (very rich) cake.
Ms Jowell has much more to worry about than complaints from Celtic fringes. There is the concrete challenge of ensuring there is water in the swimming pool and seats in the stadiums by the time the Games comes round.
Britain may have once been an imperial nation but its project management skills have been in doubt for a decade.
Cost overrun and/or logistical collapse has defined architectural adventures such as the Millennium Dome, that wobbly bridge, the Scottish Parliament, the new Wembley Stadium and, of course, Terminal 5.
Can we do it? Bob the Builder, and now Boris the Mayor, will shout “Yes we can!”. But if the credit crunch further constricts family incomes and repossessions and unemployment start to spawn headlines, the question may quickly become: “Why are doing it?”
The long-term economic benefits of hosting an Olympic competition is a subject of debate among hard-headed economists. The pressure of deadlines can force up construction costs, and the sporting festival is the type of giant distraction from work that stamps on productivity.
But surely the sight of people with mightier muscles than the pistons on a steam engine will encourage the British public to cancel that night’s kebab and send us running to the local racetrack for a healthy sprint? Could there be a better tool than the Olympics to defuse our fabled obesity time-bomb?
Calvin Jones of Cardiff Business School regards this argument as spurious. He told the BBC last month: “In Sydney, Barcelona, in Athens, no Olympic city or nation has seen any upward swing in participation levels in Olympic or non-Olympic sports following hosting of the Games.”
He added: “Lots of quite clever people in sports consultancies, marketing companies and sports organising bodies have become very adept, very clever at getting lots of money out of the public sector on the basis that there will be long-term benefits that will never be actually measured.”
Criticism has also come from luminaries of the political left, such as George Monbiot. He was appalled by a report from the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions which claimed: “The Olympic Games have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, disproportionately affecting minorities such as the homeless, the poor, Roma and African-Americans...”
Are the Olympics just a tool of neo-oligarchs, a bread-and-circuses distraction which allows the wealthy to remake cities shorn of affordable housing?
Even without injecting such subversive ideas into the populace, it is likely that Londoners will bridle at any constraints on their freedom the contests will impose.
The threat of a terrorist outrage now looms over any major event, none more so than the Olympics, when the world’s attention is fixed on a single city. The challenge for security experts is to find a way of monitoring the multitude of risks without making London seem like a film set for a big-budget version of Orwell’s 1984.
Democratic protesters will also be devising ways to use the Games to blast international limelight on their causes. The chaotic journey of the Olympic torch around the world so far has demonstrated that even the most mildly disruptive act can end up being broadcast that night on global news channels.
Activists already scale the Houses of Parliament at every opportunity; now there will be an even greater choice of roofs from which to unfurl banners and shout slogans.
Yet it is the British public themselves who are the most unpredictable element in the Olympian equation.
Street magician David Blaine stood on a 22m pole in New York for 35 hours in 2002 and was surrounded by cheering well-wishers who saw him as an icon of human resilience.
The next year he came to London to sit in a glass box suspended by Tower Bridge and not eat for 44 days. People from across the country flocked to the spot to mock his vanity, fire paintballs and shout Chaucerian insults.
Britons do not like to be herded or instructed to respond to events with awe and appreciation. The country refused to thank Michael Heseltine and Peter Mandelson for the Millennium Dome they had each worked so hard to fund and fill.
However, as the Queen has discovered on significant birthdays and anniversaries, when the public believe they are choosing to take part in a moment of national celebration they are more than happy to take to the streets and wave flags with happy abandon,
It is critical that the vibrant, diverse and bubbling populace of the UK believe they have ownership of the Olympic Games and it is not the project of the political class and property developers. This can still happen, but the time of “con tricks” must come to an end.
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0920 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Boris Johnson, who made a rare appearance during the parade of parliamentary parasites called the PMQs staged in the 'Palace of Westminster' on Wednesday 4 June 2008, is soon going to be an ex-MP. Allegedly. Because his being an ex-MP is not likely o take away from him the considerable access that he has to various lever of power that affect the lives and the rights of the people of and in Lon don...
One of those is the costs that the people will have to bear of staging the gigantic Olympics stunts of 2012.
How is the 2012 Olympic Games hosting linked with Boris Johnson and Crossrail?
Because they are. Also because Johnson is showing signs that he is not going to call a halt to the Big BUSINESS elements setting the AGENDA on London... That is why JOHNSON inserted in his latest comments about ‘alcohol ban’ an unnecessary reference to CRASSrail... In fact, it was both unnecessary and unjustified...
So Boris Johnson needs to get to grips with the actual costs and the other evidence of HOW Crossrail is a diversion, a waste and an obsolescence...
As a helpful backgrounder dated today, I here reproduce the item carried by the web site of the Western Mail, which makes some arguments that are valid against the wastefulness of huge 'infrastructure projects' especially the staging of the 2012 Olympic Games in the name of London....
PS: I should point out for the records, that in the WESTERN MAIL piece, there is this rare reference to Ken Livingstone';s confidence trick. As Livingstone had admitted in that PANORAMA version of the 'Lon don mayor DeBASE' fronted by David Dimbleby.. This is rare except the fact that it had been PREDICTED in and by the KHOODEELAAR! campaign. In the AADHIKARonline pieces ! I examined Livingstone's admission to lying at the time of his confession.......
[To be continued]
PS: I should point out for the records, that in the WESTERN MAIL piece, there is this rare reference to Ken Livingstone's confidence trick. As Livingstone had admitted in that PANORAMA version of the 'London mayor DeBASE' fronted by David Dimbleby.. This is rare except the fact that it had been PREDICTED in and by the KHOODEELAAR! campaign. In the AADHIKARonline pieces ! I examined Livingstone's admission to lying at the time of his confession.......
[To be continued]
"
2012 Olympics – sporting dream or nightmare?
Jun 5 2008 by David Williamson, Western Mail
THE most terrifying visions of mayhem are not found on the horror channel but the in the nightmares of the men and women charged with delivering the London 2012 Olympics.
If the last drops of goodwill towards the Games evaporate in the coming months, as costs soar faster than any summer heatwave, Britain may be destined for a fiasco that will make Terminal 5 seem less traumatic than a tremor in a cup of espresso.
The British – and Londoners in particular – glory in wry cynicism and detached irony. As a nation we refuse to take the Eurovision Song Contest seriously, and even the Women’s Institute declines to give the Prime Minister a decent round of applause when he visits.
A country which venerates Victor Meldrew as a role model is not temperamentally suited to host an event which involves welcoming energetic young people from every corner of the globe for a gala of frenetic physical activity and fireworks. And nothing aggravates us British more than the suspicion we have been ripped off.
Such dark convictions are already stirring in Wales and the English provinces.
Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price made headlines last year when he claimed Wales was losing out on £437m.
This calculation centred on the prediction Wales would be denied Lottery funding worth £110m, coupled to the argument – based on the Barnett funding formula used to decide the share of UK spending that Wales receives – that the nation is entitled to £327m as a percentile of the Government’s investment in the Games.
The Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP said it would be a disgrace for some of the poorest regions of the UK to subsidise a London regeneration project.
His complaints gained credibility when then-London Mayor Ken Livingstone was accused of staging a “con trick”.
With not even a hint of sheepishness, he said: “It was, literally, absolutely – this has worked as I planned.”
He told the audience of a London hustings: “I bid for the Olympics because it’s the only way to get the billions of pounds out of the Government to develop the East End.”
The Review of Cultural Tourism in Wales, commissioned by the Assembly Government and launched this week, warns the industry to expect a drop in funding from “traditional sources” as a result of the Olympics.
In December the Assembly Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas admitted the situation was bleak, telling a cross-party group of MPs: “The estimate I have heard is we could be losing up to £70m in Lottery funding, and certainly on behalf of the Government of Wales I would say that we would be very disappointed if there were a further raid on Lottery money...”
Cuts to the Arts Council of Wales have already triggered fears that venues such as the St Donats Arts Centre, home to a spectacular international storytelling festival, are now in doubt.
Scepticism may well fester into outright hostility when cutbacks lead to closures and then job losses in parts of the country far from the Olympics. Concern is already swirling around Britain, and such angst has four years in which to gather destructive momentum.
Such animosity could pit the regions against the capital, but there is just as great a chance that Londoners will not want to miss out on an opportunity to grumble – an activity refined over the centuries into both a national sport and an art form.
The city’s residents are already wondering how it has been possible for the budget for the aquatic centre to spiral from £73m to £242m.
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has said we should not claim that the cost of Games has rocketed from £2.3bn to £9.3bn. This second figure refers to the entire regeneration effort, she says.
Such comments will not convince critics who believe the original estimate was plucked out of the ether at a time when few thought Britain was a serious contender to host the greatest sports extravaganza yet conceived. But by linking the spectacular investment to regeneration and not to sporting she is effectively summoning ministers from Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast to demand a slice of this (very rich) cake.
Ms Jowell has much more to worry about than complaints from Celtic fringes. There is the concrete challenge of ensuring there is water in the swimming pool and seats in the stadiums by the time the Games comes round.
Britain may have once been an imperial nation but its project management skills have been in doubt for a decade.
Cost overrun and/or logistical collapse has defined architectural adventures such as the Millennium Dome, that wobbly bridge, the Scottish Parliament, the new Wembley Stadium and, of course, Terminal 5.
Can we do it? Bob the Builder, and now Boris the Mayor, will shout “Yes we can!”. But if the credit crunch further constricts family incomes and repossessions and unemployment start to spawn headlines, the question may quickly become: “Why are doing it?”
The long-term economic benefits of hosting an Olympic competition is a subject of debate among hard-headed economists. The pressure of deadlines can force up construction costs, and the sporting festival is the type of giant distraction from work that stamps on productivity.
But surely the sight of people with mightier muscles than the pistons on a steam engine will encourage the British public to cancel that night’s kebab and send us running to the local racetrack for a healthy sprint? Could there be a better tool than the Olympics to defuse our fabled obesity time-bomb?
Calvin Jones of Cardiff Business School regards this argument as spurious. He told the BBC last month: “In Sydney, Barcelona, in Athens, no Olympic city or nation has seen any upward swing in participation levels in Olympic or non-Olympic sports following hosting of the Games.”
He added: “Lots of quite clever people in sports consultancies, marketing companies and sports organising bodies have become very adept, very clever at getting lots of money out of the public sector on the basis that there will be long-term benefits that will never be actually measured.”
Criticism has also come from luminaries of the political left, such as George Monbiot. He was appalled by a report from the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions which claimed: “The Olympic Games have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, disproportionately affecting minorities such as the homeless, the poor, Roma and African-Americans...”
Are the Olympics just a tool of neo-oligarchs, a bread-and-circuses distraction which allows the wealthy to remake cities shorn of affordable housing?
Even without injecting such subversive ideas into the populace, it is likely that Londoners will bridle at any constraints on their freedom the contests will impose.
The threat of a terrorist outrage now looms over any major event, none more so than the Olympics, when the world’s attention is fixed on a single city. The challenge for security experts is to find a way of monitoring the multitude of risks without making London seem like a film set for a big-budget version of Orwell’s 1984.
Democratic protesters will also be devising ways to use the Games to blast international limelight on their causes. The chaotic journey of the Olympic torch around the world so far has demonstrated that even the most mildly disruptive act can end up being broadcast that night on global news channels.
Activists already scale the Houses of Parliament at every opportunity; now there will be an even greater choice of roofs from which to unfurl banners and shout slogans.
Yet it is the British public themselves who are the most unpredictable element in the Olympian equation.
Street magician David Blaine stood on a 22m pole in New York for 35 hours in 2002 and was surrounded by cheering well-wishers who saw him as an icon of human resilience.
The next year he came to London to sit in a glass box suspended by Tower Bridge and not eat for 44 days. People from across the country flocked to the spot to mock his vanity, fire paintballs and shout Chaucerian insults.
Britons do not like to be herded or instructed to respond to events with awe and appreciation. The country refused to thank Michael Heseltine and Peter Mandelson for the Millennium Dome they had each worked so hard to fund and fill.
However, as the Queen has discovered on significant birthdays and anniversaries, when the public believe they are choosing to take part in a moment of national celebration they are more than happy to take to the streets and wave flags with happy abandon,
It is critical that the vibrant, diverse and bubbling populace of the UK believe they have ownership of the Olympic Games and it is not the project of the political class and property developers. This can still happen, but the time of “con tricks” must come to an end.
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Context to the forthcoming Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole scam” commentary on Boris Johnson's moment in the Westminster 'cockpit'....
0830 GMT 0930 UK Time London Thursday 5 June 2008:
Khoodeelaar! Constitutional law campaign against the Big Business agenda-set ‘Crossrail Bill’ [in the 'legislative' UK 'House of Lords'] continues today with the examination of the parasiting of the UK parliament as has been evident in and via and through the ‘PMQs’ staged on wednesday 4 June 2008….[To be continued]
The Crossrail scam in London is a Big Business distortion of democracy and sabotage of Parliamentary democracy in the UK…
By©Muhammad Haque
0815 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Yesterday in Parliament was no different from any other day in parliament.
If the diversion of the time, the resource and the energy involved in the staging of the spectacle is examined, it will be undeniable that parliament is treated as a joke.
By who?
By the parliamentarians. And by those who peddle the pretence that parliament equals democracy…
The line up of so-called questions allegedly put to the ‘prime Minister’ is a disgrace…
Even the use of the words disgrace and scandal in some of the so-called questions - here typified by the elongated exhibition by the Lib Dems Nick Clegg about ‘knighthood’ and the Zimbabwean situation, failed to get across to any ordinary person watching the exhibition any credible evidence that those who are involved in the charade really recognise the waste of space that they have reduced the institution of parliament to. perhaps reduced is not the word. perhaps parliament was always like that….
It is in this context that the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign against the ‘Crossrail Bill’ becomes so important. As a symbol. As a substance.
Of the opposition to the parasiting of parliament by parliamentarians. Of the assertion of rights as against the violation of rights by those who in parliament alleged that they both recognise rights and uphold rights. Both aspects of that assertion [whether actual or suggested or implied] is a lie…
Nowhere in the listed, recorded proceedings in parliament on Wednesday 4 June 2008 is there any sign that the parasites recognise the existence of people outside the ‘palace ofd Westminster’…
KHOODEELAAR! commentary on the UK Parliament as witnessed on 4 June 2008 and as displayed by the ‘mainstream’ media in the UK that is forever pliant to the parasitic parliament [despite occasional ridiculously made stunts like those staged by the Daily Mail and some others] will be continued during today, Thursday 5 June 2008
[To be continued]
Khoodeelaar! Constitutional law campaign against the Big Business agenda-set ‘Crossrail Bill’ [in the 'legislative' UK 'House of Lords'] continues today with the examination of the parasiting of the UK parliament as has been evident in and via and through the ‘PMQs’ staged on wednesday 4 June 2008….[To be continued]
The Crossrail scam in London is a Big Business distortion of democracy and sabotage of Parliamentary democracy in the UK…
By©Muhammad Haque
0815 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Yesterday in Parliament was no different from any other day in parliament.
If the diversion of the time, the resource and the energy involved in the staging of the spectacle is examined, it will be undeniable that parliament is treated as a joke.
By who?
By the parliamentarians. And by those who peddle the pretence that parliament equals democracy…
The line up of so-called questions allegedly put to the ‘prime Minister’ is a disgrace…
Even the use of the words disgrace and scandal in some of the so-called questions - here typified by the elongated exhibition by the Lib Dems Nick Clegg about ‘knighthood’ and the Zimbabwean situation, failed to get across to any ordinary person watching the exhibition any credible evidence that those who are involved in the charade really recognise the waste of space that they have reduced the institution of parliament to. perhaps reduced is not the word. perhaps parliament was always like that….
It is in this context that the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign against the ‘Crossrail Bill’ becomes so important. As a symbol. As a substance.
Of the opposition to the parasiting of parliament by parliamentarians. Of the assertion of rights as against the violation of rights by those who in parliament alleged that they both recognise rights and uphold rights. Both aspects of that assertion [whether actual or suggested or implied] is a lie…
Nowhere in the listed, recorded proceedings in parliament on Wednesday 4 June 2008 is there any sign that the parasites recognise the existence of people outside the ‘palace ofd Westminster’…
KHOODEELAAR! commentary on the UK Parliament as witnessed on 4 June 2008 and as displayed by the ‘mainstream’ media in the UK that is forever pliant to the parasitic parliament [despite occasional ridiculously made stunts like those staged by the Daily Mail and some others] will be continued during today, Thursday 5 June 2008
[To be continued]
The Crossrail scam in London is a Big Business distortion of democracy and sabotage of Parliamentary democracy in the UK...
The Crossrail scam in London is a Big Business distortion of democracy and sabotage of Parliamentary democracy in the UK...
By©Muhammad Haque
0815 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Yesterday in Parliament was no different from any other day in parliament.
If the diversion of the time, the resource and the energy involved in the staging of the spectacle is examined, it will be undeniable that parliament is treated as a joke.
By who?
By the parliamentarians. And by those who peddle the pretence that parliament equals democracy...
The line up of so-called questions allegedly put to the 'prime Minister' is a disgrace...
Even the use of the words disgrace and scandal in some of the so-called questions - here typified by the elongated exhibition by the Lib Dems Nick Clegg about 'knighthood' and the Zimbabwean situation, failed to get across to any ordinary person watching the exhibition any credible evidence that those who are involved in the charade really recognise the waste of space that they have reduced the institution of parliament to. perhaps reduced is not the word. perhaps parliament was always like that....
It is in this context that the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign against the 'Crossrail Bill' becomes so important. As a symbol. As a substance.
Of the opposition to the parasiting of parliament by parliamentarians. Of the assertion of rights as against the violation of rights by those who in parliament alleged that they both recognise rights and uphold rights. Both aspects of that assertion [whether actual or suggested or implied] is a lie...
Nowhere in the listed, recorded proceedings in parliament on Wednesday 4 June 2008 is there any sign that the parasites recognise the existence of people outside the 'palace ofd Westminster'...
KHOODEELAAR! commentary on the UK Parliament as witnessed on 4 June 2008 and as displayed by the 'mainstream' media in the UK that is forever plaint to the parasitic parliament [despite occasional ridiculously stunts like those staged by the Daily mail and some others - will be continued during today, Thursday 5 June 2008
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
0815 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Yesterday in Parliament was no different from any other day in parliament.
If the diversion of the time, the resource and the energy involved in the staging of the spectacle is examined, it will be undeniable that parliament is treated as a joke.
By who?
By the parliamentarians. And by those who peddle the pretence that parliament equals democracy...
The line up of so-called questions allegedly put to the 'prime Minister' is a disgrace...
Even the use of the words disgrace and scandal in some of the so-called questions - here typified by the elongated exhibition by the Lib Dems Nick Clegg about 'knighthood' and the Zimbabwean situation, failed to get across to any ordinary person watching the exhibition any credible evidence that those who are involved in the charade really recognise the waste of space that they have reduced the institution of parliament to. perhaps reduced is not the word. perhaps parliament was always like that....
It is in this context that the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign against the 'Crossrail Bill' becomes so important. As a symbol. As a substance.
Of the opposition to the parasiting of parliament by parliamentarians. Of the assertion of rights as against the violation of rights by those who in parliament alleged that they both recognise rights and uphold rights. Both aspects of that assertion [whether actual or suggested or implied] is a lie...
Nowhere in the listed, recorded proceedings in parliament on Wednesday 4 June 2008 is there any sign that the parasites recognise the existence of people outside the 'palace ofd Westminster'...
KHOODEELAAR! commentary on the UK Parliament as witnessed on 4 June 2008 and as displayed by the 'mainstream' media in the UK that is forever plaint to the parasitic parliament [despite occasional ridiculously stunts like those staged by the Daily mail and some others - will be continued during today, Thursday 5 June 2008
[To be continued]
The Crossrail scam in London is a Big Business distortion of democracy and sabotage fo Parliamentary democracy in the UK...
The Crossrail scam in London is a Big Business distortion of democracy and sabotage of Parliamentary democracy in the UK...
By©Muhammad Haque
0815 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Yesterday in Parliament was no different from any other day in parliament.
If the diversion of the time, the resource and the energy involved in the staging of the spectacle is examined, it will be undeniable that parliament is treated as a joke.
By who?
By the parliamentarians. And by those who peddle the pretence that parliament equals democracy...
The line up of so-called questions allegedly put to the 'prime Minister' is a disgrace...
Even the use of the words disgrace and scandal in some of the so-called questions - here typified by the elongated exhibition by the Lib Dems Nick Clegg about 'knighthood' and the Zimbabwean situation, failed to get across to any ordinary person watching the exhibition any credible evidence that those who are involved in the charade really recognise the waste of space that they have reduced the institution of parliament to. perhaps reduced is not the word. perhaps parliament was always like that....
It is in this context that the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign against the 'Crossrail Bill' becomes so important. As a symbol. As a substance.
Of the opposition to the parasiting of parliament by parliamentarians. Of the assertion of rights as against the violation of rights by those who in parliament alleged that they both recognise rights and uphold rights. Both aspects of that assertion [whether actual or suggested or implied] is a lie...
Nowhere in the listed, recorded proceedings in parliament on Wednesday 4 June 2008 is there any sign that the parasites recognise the existence of people outside the 'palace ofd Westminster'...
KHOODEELAAR! commentary on the UK Parliament as witnessed on 4 June 2008 and as displayed by the 'mainstream' media in the UK that is forever plaint to the parasitic parliament [despite occasional ridiculously stunts like those staged by the Daily mail and some others - will be continued during today, Thursday 5 June 2008
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
0815 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 June 2008
Yesterday in Parliament was no different from any other day in parliament.
If the diversion of the time, the resource and the energy involved in the staging of the spectacle is examined, it will be undeniable that parliament is treated as a joke.
By who?
By the parliamentarians. And by those who peddle the pretence that parliament equals democracy...
The line up of so-called questions allegedly put to the 'prime Minister' is a disgrace...
Even the use of the words disgrace and scandal in some of the so-called questions - here typified by the elongated exhibition by the Lib Dems Nick Clegg about 'knighthood' and the Zimbabwean situation, failed to get across to any ordinary person watching the exhibition any credible evidence that those who are involved in the charade really recognise the waste of space that they have reduced the institution of parliament to. perhaps reduced is not the word. perhaps parliament was always like that....
It is in this context that the KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law campaign against the 'Crossrail Bill' becomes so important. As a symbol. As a substance.
Of the opposition to the parasiting of parliament by parliamentarians. Of the assertion of rights as against the violation of rights by those who in parliament alleged that they both recognise rights and uphold rights. Both aspects of that assertion [whether actual or suggested or implied] is a lie...
Nowhere in the listed, recorded proceedings in parliament on Wednesday 4 June 2008 is there any sign that the parasites recognise the existence of people outside the 'palace ofd Westminster'...
KHOODEELAAR! commentary on the UK Parliament as witnessed on 4 June 2008 and as displayed by the 'mainstream' media in the UK that is forever plaint to the parasitic parliament [despite occasional ridiculously stunts like those staged by the Daily mail and some others - will be continued during today, Thursday 5 June 2008
[To be continued]
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