Thursday, May 29, 2008

Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail hole plot EXCLUSIVELY says that Wednesdays' rail bridge collapse took place 'very near' Brick Lane.....

1428 Hrs GMT 1528 Hrs UK Time London Thursday 29 May 2008:

Khoodeelaar! the East London 'No to Crossrail hole Bill' Campaign TOLD YOU SO!

That the Big Business Construction conglomerates who have been the main pushers for a CROSSRAIL in London are crass, callous and only motivated by their greed for looting public money...

They don’t care about public and passenger safety... As has again been proven by the Balfour Beatty Construction company contract being shoddy and the near-disaster at the BRICK LANE part of the trains system where the Bridge collapse, concrete debris fall incidents took place last evening, Wednesday 28 May 2008..... [To be continued] That construction conglomerates causing the Crassrail hole plot to be imposed on the East End of London were ONLY interested in making quick and fat profit at the expense of the public.... And that the 'mainstream media' are often prone to peddle the lies of the conglomerates, as they are doing today.... Khoodeelaar! is about to publish evidence that the Bishopsgate 'bridge collapse' of Wednesday 28 May 2008, was followed by the Police blocking off the road in Brick Lane between Quaker Street- Buxton Street and Cheshire Street... for almost four hours on Wednesday evening... turning pedestrians away...... there were fire brigade vehicles, heavy duty police vehicles, ‘armed’ police..............helicopter flew over the area for almost an hour...[To be continued]

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Khoodeelaar! has said for 54 months that Crossrail is a big business ploy to rob the UK Public.. No 'left' grouping supported us.. What has changed?

Khoodeelaar! asks the 'Socialist Party' [a British ‘political’ outfit claiming to be the definitive socialist party] : why they are faking it when allegedly and BELATEDLY ‘attacking’ Ken Livingstone's touting for Big Business...

‘Big Business’ as a two word phrase may have been around before the Crossrail hole plot was launched by Ken Livingstone.

But the KHOODEELAAR! campaign has made the link and has made that link well known in the past 54 months.

Not so the ‘Socialist Party’ . Or indeed any of the other so-called socialist outfits in the UK

ALL of these, to varying degrees- colluded with Ken Livingstone and his fake socialist stunts.

For the years since the 1981 coup that Livingstone staged to oust Andrew Macintosh who had led the then Greater London Council slate for the then Labour Party to victory at the GLC election.

Livingstone at the GLC adopted the first corrupting policy, of bribing a significant number of ‘propaganda outlets’ that included many of the then active left outfits.

It is curious that many of these outfits are also linked with the Ken Livingstone propaganda that has been witnessed in the past 1 year

So much so that many of these left outfits bought into Livingstone's fundamentally stupid line and to describe Boris Johnson as Barmy Boris, or as a joke and so on...

They said that Boris Johnson was a joke!

None of them looked seriously at the history of either the Tory Party or indeed of the Blaired parry. If they did then they kept the facts to themselves.

As far as the public domain is concerned they did not treat the intervention of Boris Johnson at all seriously.


Likewise, they did not examine the career and the careerism of Ken Livingstone...


The result was that even upto the morning of 2 May 2008, a day after the London Assembly and ‘London mayor’ elections [and before the results were officially announced] the ‘left’ was still in delusion and was refusing to see that Livingstone had sunk out of ‘power’ at the ****** Hall London SE1.

Now, some of these ‘left’ outfits are coming out with even more immature analyses...

Like the one below , taken from the ‘Socialist party’. It is the same outfit that has backed historically the main racist policies of the former Labour Party. The result is that it is party to the current imperialist involvement by the UK..

Khoodeelaar! will look at the ‘Socialist party’ in a alter commentary.

For the record, here is what they have published on their web site today Thursday 29 May 2008:


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Johnson's Prince of Darkness

LONDON'S NEW Tory mayor Boris Johnson has appointed a ruthless private equity businessman as his "first deputy mayor" in charge of transport. Trade unionists label Tim Parker the 'Prince of Darkness' - Parker has been in charge at the AA, Kwik-Fit and Clarks Shoes and has a reputation for cutting jobs while cutting himself a lucrative deal from the situation.

Parker pocketed £30 million for himself out of AA when he left last year after sacking a third of the workforce and saddling AA/SAGA with £4.8 billion of debt. He arrived in his own Porsche to sack workers at Clark's shoes in Somerset. He made £25 million from his sacking spree at Kwik-Fit. Parker's so rich, he can afford to work for a £1 salary - obviously anticipating more such 'good tidings' in future.

Johnson pledged in the Greater London elections to sign a 'no-strike deal' with London's transport unions, which the unions oppose. Parker's appointment signals Johnson's readiness, at some stage, to attack the strength of these unions, in particular the militant RMT union on the tubes. The contradiction between public transport and private profit, already increased by the public private partnership (PPP) scheme in London Underground, will become even sharper.

RMT general secretary Bob Crow, said: "The world's finest metro system does not need an asset-stripper or a Prince of Darkness. Tube users and workers have already had more than a bellyful of privatisation with the huge waste and failure of the PPP and the collapse of private tube firm Metronet."

Unfortunately former mayor Ken Livingstone started the move towards big business running London's tubes. He refused to fight the Labour government's private public partnership plans and appointed a former union-buster Bob Kylie as his own transport supremo with a huge salary plus £2 million when he left in 2006.

The unions (and transport users) should now take note of Johnson's plans and prepare for stormy times ahead.
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Boris Johnson has got to be careful about giving propaganda to CROSSRAIL. Or any of Ken Livingstone's crass acts..Beware of Bob Neill MP too !!

2215 Hrs GMT 2315 Hrs UKTime London Wednesday 28 May 2008:

KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail hole plot ..” CAMPAIGN TOLD YOU SO! Now even some of the propagandists of the Big business CRASSrail hole plot scam are conceding, ever so gradually, ever so slowly, that BOTH of Ken Livingstone’s crass scams may have been exactly that - CRASS. And wasteful. Unaffordable by the UK public.....Only last week the same sources confessed that CRASSrail was threatening to let the more important parts of the EXISTING railway underground network remain neglected.... And now they are saying that BOTH CRASSrail and the 2012 Olympic Games hosting stunt may be too costly.....

World CRASS crassness, if ever there were any.... It was a mere 4 weeks ago that the phrase ‘world class city’ was unavoidable., Especially in the litany of lying literature littering the streets of London under the immoral auspices of the careerist Ken Livingstone desperate to cling on to the career at ****** Hall London SE1....... The word is, truth shall prevail.... No matter how hard it is to uphold the truth when the liars brigade are funded by the cash of corruption... Now it seems that both the corrupter concerned and the access to £79 Million of public money with which he sought to bribe would be voters at the 1 May 2008 poll, are out of commission....KHOODEELAR! again tells Gordon Brown to SCRAP CRASSrail Before it wastes any more public resources, which it is doing by allowing the perpetuation of a wasteful, diversionary and corrupt bureaucracy at the public's expense........[To be continued]

Exposing the unconstitutionality of conduct by UK executive and by the pro-Crossrail bureaucracy that controls the UK Houses of Parliament

Khoodeelaar! focussing on the unconstitutionality of conduct by UK executive, as well as by the bureaucracy that controls the UK Houses of Parliament.

By©Muhammad Haque
1900 Hrs GMT
2000 Hrs UK Time
London Wednesday 28 May 2008


If Tom Harris, the Crossrail hole plot ‘minister’ [the UK department ‘for’ Transport, the Daft ‘DfT’ - fronted by Ruth Kelly in Gordon Brown’s current ‘cabinet’] is an insult to the intelligence, then there are other specimen of insult to people's’ intelligence that can be found in the UK House of Commons. And in the UK ‘legislative’ [!!!!!!] ‘House of Lords, come to that.


Why is Tom Harris an insult to the intelligence?

Because he talks leis. He talks unconstitutionality . He talks untruths.

As do ALL the ministers - and whips.

So what is the answer?

The constitutional l law answer is to expose them as being in breach of the constitution The first Principe of constitutionality is that the executive will tell the truth. And nothing but the truth.

In the international context. In the un universal context.

This is order that the people - the presumed, the assumed and the actual proprietors of the de facto republic [!!!!!!] [= in the UK state]

The second acton is of cooers equally frustrating. At the polls. But the UK electoral system itself is no respecter of morality. Not really.


So the third option - which is to expose these liars and to make them the subject of pub lic ridicule. Not because of who they are. But because of their insult to the people...


Harris has been talking a predictably dishonest, antidemocratic, undemocratic , antisocial and unconstitutional package of untruths about the Crossrail hole package.


He has done so whilst the Bill was getting the ‘Third Reading’ in the House of commons. He did so as it was formally passed on to the so-called ‘reviewing’ slot in the House of Lords.


As soon as I spotted the first published instance of Harris’s insult to constitutionality and for Crossrail hole agenda, I published and pointed out that Harris was wrong and that he was behaving in violation of the constitutional duties that every ‘minister’ was under.... And I said that he was undermining the constitutional ‘integrity’ of the UK ‘legislative’ House of Lords...


ASSUMING in a significant way with capital letters that the “legislative’ House of Lords is worthy of being given the recognition of having any integrity whatever....

Going by the behaviour of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ Select Committee, integrity would be the last thing that the ‘House of Lords’ would deserve...

And that is why my advocacy - in DECEMBER 2007 AND JANUARY 2008 [AND ON OTHER DATES] of the theoretical cause of the House of Lords as a legislative part of an ethically OPERATING Parliament, was not followed up by the constitutional conduct by the Select Committee....


And Tom Harris’s remarks were not OPPOSED by anyone in the House of Lords. Or indeed, anyone in any p[art of the UK parliament

Or in the UK ‘mainstream’ UK media.

Or elsewhere...
Mainstream, semi-stream side-stream. On any stream.

What does that tell us about the state of democracy and the state and the quality of discourse about that state in the Uk today?

What quality when there is NO discourse!


[To be continued]

Khoodeelaar! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN for constitutionality exposes Tom Harris.He is a CRASSrail hole plot-peddler. And 'minister'.

Khoodeelaar! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN for constitutionality exposes Tom Harris...

Who he?

He is one of the ministers in Ruth kelly’s Daft Dft!

Who she?

Indeed!



All the key facts will be revealed - as in exposed - here shortly

KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST unconstitutionality by Crossrail cliques

By©Muhammad Haque
1454 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 28 May 2008

What is the evidence that justifies the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the Crossrail hole plot-inviting Tower Hamlets Council DESCRIBING the controlling clique as corrupt?

There is not just one piece of evidence. There are countless items of evidence.

The sum of the evidence both shows that the clique is engaged in wrong conduct about Crossrail. And that it is also engaged in wrong conduct about the overall, the general duties it has towards the people in the Borough of Tower Hamlets about other aspects of life that relate to the duties of a local council.

One of the persistent patterns of the lying behaviour by the corrupt clique on the Tower Hamlets 'locally elected' [!!!!!!!] Council has been their refusal to observe basic standards of ethics and behaviour. Ethics and standards of behaviour that on paper any 'locally elected council' 'administration' would be expected to practise and respect.

And how deep, complete, has been the evidence of the Tower Hamlets Council’s wrong and wrongful behaviour?

As deep as the numbers of years over which the clique has been in control. As deep as the particulars and as extensive as the details of the claque’s collusion with Big Business proponents who have got in league with the Tower ~Hamlets Council with the aim of taking over the land and the spaces in the East End of London under covers of plausible projects but in reality for the benefit of Big Business And to benefit the City of London-linked exploiters at the expense of the people of the East End of London the ordinary population in the borough in the end.

This is seen in the dishonest behaviour of the clique that was fronted by Christine Gilbert at the time.

Gilbert as chief executive in the Council made a most untrue assertion about the actual policy of the clique on Crossrail.

This concerned the so-called cabinet meeting of 6 October 2004.


The Khoodeelaar! campaign observed the meeting and it was clear that the community’s serious opposition to the Council’s collusion with the Crossrail scam [it was not a Bill in Parliament yet - that took place nearly 4 months later] was being sidelined by the clique.

So the Khoodeelaar! campaign organised for the relevant aspect of the community's questions to be put to Christine Gilbert in the context of the clique's conduct.

It was never expected that Gilbert would come out with an admission that her clique was in the wrong. Or that the clique had let the community down. But it was essential for the purpose of extensive evidential processing of her conduct that she was given the opportunity to come clean and admit that her clique had indeed been in the wrong.

Regardless of the actual final position Gilbert would take on the subject under reference, it was expected that she should show normal courtesy and behave in accordance with the rules that require the ‘chief officer’ of the local council to properly and timely acknowledge communications she received.

What did Gilbert do?

Did she behave in accordance with the standards expected of the town clerk?

She behaved with undue delay.

She pretended that she had not received the communications containing the questions.

Was that exceptional?

The answer, on the facts, is that NO.

CHRISTINE Gilbert behaved with the same prejudice and with the same lack of accountability towards the whole population in Tower Hamlets that had been the feature of the Tower Hamlets Council controlling clique for decades.


That is why the KHOODEELAAR! campaign has had to establish new criteria so that the history of neglect as shown by the ‘elected’ local council to the people in whose name the council is ‘elected’ is not repeated. That the people are offered accountable representation by the ‘elected’ council.

That was the only way in which the community’s interests could be defended.

That was the only way that the Crossrail hole attacks could be stopped.

Christine Gilbert behaved with no regard for the constitutional duties of the local Council. She behaved opportunistically and on the assumption that there would no ‘issue made on the floor of the council’ by any of the ‘elected members on the 'Tower Hamlets Council'’.

She showed no recognition of the fact that her conduct, her role and the implications of her conduct and of her role could indeed be challenged in court.

Or did she think that the Khoodeelaar! campaign notes to her and to her clique saying that a time would come when their abuse of power and their collusion with the agenda of the Big Business would be challenged in court was not part of the real programme of action ?

How similar was Christine Gilbert’s disrespect to the ordinary codes of ethical, accountable behaviour to the disrespect shown to ethics, morality and the norms of constitutionality by the bureaucracy set up in the name of the ‘House of Lords’ that has been in fact peddling the Crossrail hole plotting agenda desired by Big Business, a la Bechtel of USA ?

[To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST unconstitutionality by Crossrail cliques

By©Muhammad Haque
1454 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 28 May 2008

What is the evidence that justifies the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the Crossraill hole plot-inviting Tower Hamlets Council DESCRIBING the controlling clique as corrupt?

There is not just one piece of evidence. There are countless items of evidence.

The evidence both shows that the clique is engaged in wring conduct about Corral. But that it is also engage din wrong conduct about the duties it has towards the people in the Borough of Tower Hamlets about other aspects of life that relate to the duties of a local council.

One of the persistent patterns of the lying behaviour by the corrupt clique on the Tower Hamlets 'locally elected' [!!!!!!!] Council has been their refusal to observe basic standards of ethics and behaviour. Ethics and standards of behaviour that on paper any 'locally elected council' 'administration' would be expected to practise and respect.

And how deep, complete, has been the evidence of the Tower Hamlets Council’s wrong and wrongful behaviour?

As deep as the numbers of years over which the clique has been in control. As deep as the particulars and as extensive as the details of the claque’s collusion with Big Business proponents who have got in league with the Tower ~Hamlets Council with the aim of taking over the land and the spaces in the East End of London under covers of plausible projects but in reality for the benefit of Big Business And to benefit the City of London-linked exploiters at the expense of the people of the East End of London the ordinary population in the borough in the end.

This is seen in the dishonest behaviour of the clique that was fronted by Christine Gilbert at the time.

Gilbert as chief executive in the Council made a most untrue assertion about the actual policy of the clique on Crossrail.

This concerned the so-called cabinet meeting of 6 October 2004.


The Khoodeelaar! campaign observed the meeting and it was clear that the community’s serious opposition to the Council’s collusion with the Crossrail scam [it was not a Bill in Parliament yet - that took place nearly 4 months later] was being sidelined by the clique.

So the Khoodeelaar! campaign organised for the relevant aspect of the community's questions to be put to Christine Gilbert in the context of the clique's conduct.

It was never expected that Gilbert would come out with an admission that her clique was in the wrong. Or that the clique had let the community down. But it was essential for the purpose of extensive evidential processing of her conduct that she was given the opportunity to come clean and admit that her clique had indeed been in the wrong.

Regardless of the actual final position Gilbert would take on the subject under reference, it was expected that she should show normal courtesy and behave in accordance with the rules that require the ‘chief officer’ of the local council to properly and timely acknowledge communications she received.

What did Gilbert do?

Did she behave in accordance with the standards expected of the town clerk?

She behaved with undue delay.

She pretended that she had not received the communications containing the questions.

Was that exceptional?

The answer, on the facts, is that NO.

CHRISTINE Gilbert behaved with the same prejudice and with the same lack of accountability towards the whole population in Tower Hamlets that had been the feature of the Tower Hamlets Council controlling clique for decades.


That is why the KHOODEELAAR! campaign has had to establish new criteria so that the history of neglect as shown by the ‘elected’ local council to the people in whose name the council is ‘elected’ is not repeated. That the people are offered accountable representation by the ‘elected’ council.

That was the only way in which the community’s interests could be defected.

That was the only way that the Crossrail hole attacks could be stopped.

Christine Gilbert behaved with no regard for the constitutional duties of the local Council. She behaved opportunistically and on the assumption that there would no ‘issue made on the floor of the council’ by any of the ‘elected members on the 'Tower Hamlets Council'’.

She showed no recognition of the fact that her conduct, her role and the implications of her conduct and of her role could indeed be challenged in court.

Or did she think that the Khoodeelaar! campaign notes to her and to her clique saying that a time would come when their abuse of power and their collusion with the agenda of the Big Business would be challenged in court was not part of the real programme fo action ?

How similar was Christine Gilbert’s disrespect to the ordinary codes of ethical, unaccountable behaviour to the disrespect shown to ethics, morality and the norms of constitutionality by the bureaucracy set up in the name of the ‘House of Lords’ that has been in fact peddling the Crossrail hole plotting agenda desired by Big Business, a la Bechtel of USA ?

[To be continued]

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

If Gordon Brown makes YET ANOTHER U-turn on the budget and 'SCRAPS' the 'fuel tax' then he can SCRAP anything. Especially Crossrail that is wasteful

1650 Hrs GMT 1750UK Time London Tuesday 27 May 2008:

Khoodeelaar! the constitutional law Campaign against the ‘Crossrail hole Bill’ [the ‘Crossrail Bill’, now in the UK ‘legislative’ ! ‘House of Lords’], continuing to dissect the Big Business, anti-constitutional, antidemocratic manipulations of ‘parliament’, the Big Business-influenced sabotage, defiance, violation of due process in the UK Parliament and the Big Businesses, Military Industrial Complex-lobbyed lies being peddled via the bureaucracy of the ‘House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee’; KHOODEELAARR! again advising Gordon Brown to scrap the wasteful, sham CROSSRAIL hole plot Bill NOW..... Especially as the word ‘SCRAP’ is being used in a separate TRANSPORT issue related piece in today’s EVENING no standards STANDARD [see TEXTS REPRODUCED BELOW].. We shall expose the EVENING STANDARD’s own lack of standards when [peddling the CRASSrail hole plot. They have NEVER called on Brown to SCRAP that !!! We assess the ‘difference; between the EVENING STANDARD’s use of ‘scrap’ in relation a fuel-related measure in the ‘budget’ and the same paper’s failure, refusal to use the word SCRAP: about Crosaseail [To be continued]

LONDON, TUESDAY 27.05.08
BROWN SET FOR ANOTHER BUDGET U-TURN AS MINISTERS HINT HE MAY SCRAP FUEL TAX RISES
Last updated at 16:27pm on 27.05.08
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Two Cabinet ministers paved the way for a Budget U-turn on car taxes today as the Government struggled to halt the slide in its popularity.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw and Business Secretary John Hutton stressed that there would be a fresh look at Budget plans to raise vehicle excise duty by up to £200.
Labour insiders are prepared to ditch the most controversial element of the scheme - to impose a retrospective tax on cars bought between 2001 and 2006.
The change could come in the pre-Budget report in the autumn, although it is possible it could be announced even earlier.
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Rebel MPs are pushing the Treasury to stop the damage to Labour by using the final days of the committee stage of the Finance Bill next month to signal that some of the rises planned for next year and 2010 will not go ahead.
Amid fears of a fresh revolt by Labour MPs, Mr Straw said ministers were 'listening to public concerns'.
He added: 'It's already been made clear in respect of vehicle excise duty, that's the car tax, that this is not due to come into force by next April.
'If there are going to be decisions about this, they could be announced in the autumn statement. It's very important that we take proper measures and we judge things properly.'
Similarly, Mr Hutton - referring to the climbdown over scrapping the 10p tax rate - said the Chancellor was 'listening to what people are saying as he has done on a number of occasions recently about tax rises'.
The Business Secretary added: 'People are concerned about it and it is right that we listen to people's concerns.'

Jack Straw and John Hutton have both hinted there could be a U-turn on road tax
Next week a delegation of rebel Labour MPs will meet Mr Darling to voice concerns over backdating the increases in vehicle excise duty to all cars bought between 2001 and 2006.
The move, which was championed as a 'green' tax, will hit seven out of ten motorists, including the owners of popular family cars and small runarounds.
Gordon Brown is facing a fresh backbench rebellion over the plans, which would see seven out of ten motorists hit by higher road taxes.
Mr Hutton said: 'We are trying to get this balance right between encouraging choices to go green but not hammering people.'
Asked about today's action by hauliers, he added: 'Again, the Chancellor has got to take all that into account ... people have the right to protest.'
Hundreds of truckers descended on London in protest at rising fuel costs, amid fresh concerns among MPs about the Government's proposed road tax changes.
Depending on their car engine emissions, millions of drivers will have to pay hundreds of pounds more per year under Budget proposals that kick in in 2009.
Rebel MPs are particularly unhappy the road tax increases will now apply retrospectively and are warning the issue could be as damaging as the 10p tax row.
Mr Darling is set to hold two crisis meetings with backbench Labour MPs next month in a bid to head off the revolt.
Sources close to him today said he was 'very aware' of backbench concerns that the increase could damage the party's waning popularity still further.
At present, motorists are exempt from the top tax band if their car was bought before 2006 but the Budget tax rises - claimed to be a 'green' tax - apply to all vehicles bought between 2001 and 2006.
A host of family cars bought before March 2006 - many used every day for the school run - will see their road tax double from £210 to more than £430.
These include the Vauxhall Zafira 2.0i, the Vauxhall Vectra 2.8i V6 Turbo, the Renault Espace 2.0 Turbo 170, the Ford Galaxy 2.3i Zetec, the VW Passat 3.2 estate and the Honda Accord Tourer 2.4.
According to tax experts, Nissan Micra owners will pay 24 per cent more while the bill for a gas-guzzling Hummer will go up only 14 per cent.

Retrospective: The Budget tax rises apply to all cars bought between 2001 and 2006 as well as new vehicles
Backbenchers warned Gordon Brown and Mr Darling that the issue was so explosive it could match the storm surrounding the abolition of the 10p tax band which saw a Government U-turn and a £2.7billion climbdown.
The rebellion risks further undermining the Prime Minister's authority as he fights to head off a leadership crisis, the row over holding terror suspects for 42 days and fears of a Cabinet resignation over embryology laws.
In the new case of backbenchers flexing their muscles, 42 MPs - 35 of them Labour - have backed a Commons motion from Ronnie Campbell urging ministers to reconsider the car tax.
'It is unfair on people who bought their cars a few years ago not knowing that the Government were going to put this road tax on,' the MP for Blyth Valley said.
'When people get their road tax letter through the door next year and find they have got an extra £200 to pay - well, I don't have to say any more, do I? The motorist is taking the brunt again.'

Rebellion: Labour MP Ronnie Campbell has tabled an amendment asking the Government to reconsider the road tax
The new taxes threaten to wipe thousands of pounds off the value of most cars when they come to be sold.
And from 2010 motorists face a 'showroom tax' of up to £950 when they buy a new car to discourage them from choosing high polluting vehicles.
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Labour MP Rob Marris, a junior member of the Government, said there was a 'significant risk' the issue would outstrip the storm over the 10p starting rate of tax.
'It is retrospective taxation and that is undesirable,' he added.
'Millions of people will be affected. Medium- sized family cars, depending on what sort of engine they have got and what size of CO2 emissions they have got, could be hit very hard.'
Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said: 'There are ways around the fuel price increases that are good news for the climate and good news for drivers' pockets.
'Keeping your speed below 55 can save more money than the recent price hikes and cut CO2 as well.
'But in the long run the Government needs to force car manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles.
'As it is Gordon Brown has failed to take a lead in Brussels where talks on vehicle efficiency are coming to head.'
Neil Greig of the Institute of Advanced Motorists said: 'This will affect millions of motorists and is particularly unfair to those who bought a car based on the size of their family and will now be hit with a tax they weren't expecting.'

Catch-22: A U-turn could make Gordon Brown's leadership look even weaker but without a change of heart, he risks a damaging backbench rebellion
A delegation of rebels will meet the Chancellor when MPs return to Westminster next week.
Mr Marris told the BBC: 'I shall be urging Alistair Darling to have a rethink. There is still time to have discussions and I hope they will be fruitful.'
Under the existing system, cars are divided into seven bands for vehicle excise duty ranging from £300 to zero depending on greenhouse gas emissions.
From next April, there will be 13 groups with the highest cost of road tax increased to £440 and some family models will move up several bands, leaving the middle classes to bear the brunt of the changes.
Rises for small runabouts will also outstrip those for Rolls Royces and Porsches, demolishing Government claims that it is a "green" tax.
Last night Matthew Elliott, of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: 'Now the credit crunch has hit people's pockets, there's no longer any public appetite for higher green taxes.'
A Treasury source told the Mail: 'Alistair knows it is a cause for concern and he very readily agreed to meet these MPs and hear those concerns.
'But he will be will be very disinclined to do anything, whatever it is, before the pre-Budget report in the autumn.
'He has to look at the whole thing in the round. He is already looking for £2.7billion and it ain't easy.
But Environment Minister Joan Ruddock made clear the Government would not be forced into another tax U-turn.
'These things are all a matter of balance,' she said.
'What we cannot afford to do is to lose sight of the environmental agenda because this is everybody's future. This is the future of the planet.'
Mr Campbell, speaking on Radio 4's The World at One, also urged Mr Darling to drop the planned 2p increase in fuel duty in October.
'People just at this moment can't afford it. They really are feeling the pinch,' he said.
A Treasury spokesman said the aim of the road tax reforms was 'to ensure that people gain financially by choosing the car that pollutes the least.
'For 24 out of the 30 most popular models bought in 2006, drivers will generally pay lower rates than they do now.'
It is another headache for Mr Brown, who was warned by civil liberty rebels that he still faces a battle over his proposals to detain terror suspects.
On top of that, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, a Roman Catholic, is reported to be planning to defy the Prime Minister by refusing to vote for his plans to extend embryo research.
• The French President today declared the European Union should consider capping sales tax on fuel products if oil prices rise further.
Nicolas Sarkozy also suggested siphoning off extra revenues from taxes on petrol to create a new fun for professionals hardest hit by the jump in energy prices.
He told RTL radio there was no sign the price of oil was going to fall and said the EU should consider a joint approach to the problem.
'If the price of a barrel of oil continues to rise, are we going to allow VAT (sales tax) to keep rising proportionally? My proposal is that we should stabilise it,' he said.
Such a move would need the approval of all 27 EU member states and could not be introduced unilaterally.


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Panic sweeps through the Labour party and the budget is re-written (10p fiasco), then re-written again (fuel duty), and presumably will be re-written again in the next few weeks. Gordon Brown's claims to economic competence are in tatters.

- Ian, London
Simple solution to high fuel prices: Walk.

There is no limit to how much oil countries can charge for oil, because the alternative is so harsh. So if petrol doubles or triples in price you will still pay for it because its a comparative bargain. One barrel of oil is equivalent to 7 man years of work.

- Peter, Battersea
I'm all for green initiatives and sometime we do need to be pushed, however, while the country's transport links and infrastructure are so poor and in such disarray, this seems ill thought out and badly planned.

- Jamie, London

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KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST Big Business trojan horse 'House of Lords' bureaucracy, updating on lies...

By©Muhammad Haque
1150 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday 27 May 2008


Why is the UK 'legislative' 'House of Lords' a discredited part of the 'British Parliament' ?

The immediate answer is that in a so-called official first report published dated today 27 May 2008, the 'House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee' makes a totally untruthful statement about objectors against the Crossrail Bill.

Khoodeelaar! will be, as we have announce this morning, dissecting the role of the select committee and of the other parts in the course of this week.


We start by exposing the latest utterance of abject lie and unconstitutionality by the report published today in the name of the 'House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee'
It states as follows:-


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32. Some Petitioners chose not to appear and some withdrew their petitions after satisfactory negotiations with the Promoter of the Bill. We were pleased that a sizeable number of Petitioners were able to settle with the Promoter in this way and we are grateful to the specialist experts employed by Crossrail on noise, settlement and compensation issues particularly, Mr Rupert Thornely-Taylor, Professor Robert Mair and Mr Colin Smith respectively, for their work with Petitioners and for their explanation of issues to the Committee and to those Petitioners who did appear.
"


The utterance that " Some Petitioners chose not to appear" is a lie. For it has ben made in the fullest knowledge on the part of the select committee members and its bureaucracy concerned of the literally thousands of statements made by Khoodeelaar! stating that we were OBSTRUCTED from putting our objections in person before the Select Committee.

In the next parts, we shall show AGAIN and with updates [since our last reports] how the obstructions were operated by and by the 'House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee' bureaucracy that has been promoting the agenda of Big Business, Bechtel and City of London interests...

[To be continued]

The Guardian newspaper group is again lying for Big Business Crossrail hole plot today.. It is even blaming Gordon Brown for Ken Livingstone's faults

Khoodeelaar! No to world class lies by CROSSRAIL hole-plot-backer tout Ken Livingstone and his colluders at the Guardian and the other world class touts for the financial fraudulent centre the City ofd London: 0935 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 27 may 2008::: ‘World class evidence of world class lies by the Guardian newspaper which is even today publishing a lying plug for CRASS rail hole plot and stuffing it with garbage of the type that hides the truth about greed, capitalism and racism that cause hunger, famine and starvation

[ To be continued].

KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST Big Business trojan horse for stealing £Billions under covers of 'Crossrail'...

0840 Hrs GMT 0940 Hrs UK Time London Tuesday 27 May 2008:

KHOODEELAAR! NO to Crossrail Bill [now in the UK legislative House of Lords] ;

KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST Big Business trojan horse for looting the public of £Billions under covers of ‘Crossrail’, updating the constitutional law dissection of the corrupt state of ‘parliamentary scrutiny’ .....

And updating on the legal acton programme against the corrupt bureaucracy that has been sabotaging any parliamentary scrutiny of the Crossrail Bill....

[To be continued]

There have been 113 listed objections [called 'petitions'] against the ‘Crossrail Bill’. The Khoodeelaar! objection is listed at 113. The last on the list. Although the objection is listed in the name of KHOODEELAAR! the objection is also backed by all four constituent [parts of the Khoodeelaar! campaign area. That is, people from Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 area signed the prescribed form and reiterated the authorisation of and support for KHOODEELAAR! representation of ALL their opposition to the ‘Crossrail Bill’. All ordinary walks of life in the East End of London have been represented in the Khoodeelaar! constitutional law objections to the ‘Crossrail Bill’.

The actual ‘formally presented’ KHOODEELAAR! No to ‘Crossrail BIll’ document as published on the House of Lords web site [see the document by following the link to KHOODEELAAR!, below] contains only the briefest of points against the ‘Crossrail Bill’.

The details of the objections have been put to the House of Lords. And also published on the web sites of the Items newspaper and of other external publishers, publications and outlets. We shall be taking a detailed updater look at all the key events. In the coming parts..

Monday, May 26, 2008

Khoodeelaar! constitutional law opposition to the 'Crossrail Bill' [UK 'House of Lords'] will now be taken to the European Court -

By©Muhammad Haque
2258 Hrs GMT
['Bank Holiday'] Monday
London
26 May 2008


Gordon Brown today should spare a moment and reflect about the consequences of allowing Big Business CRASSrail hole plot agenda to be given any more GOVT backing. And so should Alistair darling,. Brown’s finance front man in the cabinet. As Darling meets with the alleged ‘30 rebel MPs’ representatives to talk about averting yet another ‘rebellion’, he should consider what he would do if the Khoodeelaar! campaign h as many MPs backing us....

That there are no numbers of MPs supporting the campaign against the Crossrail hole plot must not delude Alistair Darling into thinking that we are any less important .....

Or that we are any less influential over what happens to their administration..

We are about to do what we have been promising for 54 months we would do if the CRASSrail, hole plot is not scrapped: go to court......

Procedures have delayed any court action upto now....

And Alistair Darling should recognise this - a court action has been known to have caused a previous UK Government to scrap an Act of Parliament.....

And the present ‘Crossrail Bill’ is, still, as I write, only a Bill.. a draft piece of dubious legislation..... So it should be far more easy to scrap this Bill than an Act of Parliament.....

The noise that a court action of that magnitude may generate will indeed be quite audible...

Does Brown need that?

[To be continued]

Khoodeelaar! constitutional law opposition to the 'Crossrail Bill' [UK 'House of Lords'] will now be taken to the European Court -

By©Muhammad Haque
2258 Hrs GMT
['Bank Holiday'] Monday
London
26 May 2008


Gordon Brown today should spare a moment and reflect about the consequences of allowing Big Business CRASSrail hole plot agenda to be given any more GOVT backing. And so should Alistair darling,. Brown’s finance front man in the cabinet. As Darling meets with the alleged ‘30 rebel MPs’ representatives top talk about averting yet another ‘rebellion’, he should consider what he would do if the Khoodeelaar! campaign h as many MPs backing us....

That there are no numbers of MPs supporting the campaign against the Crossrail hole plot must not delude Alistair Darling into thinking that we are any less important .....

Or that we are any less influential over what happens to their administration..

We are about to do what we have been promising for 54 months we would do if the CRASSrail, hole plot is not scrapped: go to court......

Procedures have delayed any court action upto now....

And Alistair Darling should recognise this - a court action has been known to have caused a previous UK Government to scrap an Act of Parliament.....

And the present ‘Crossrail Bill’ is, still, as I write, only a Bill.. a draft piece of dubious legislation..... So it should be far more easy to scrap this Bill than an Act of Parliament.....

The noise that a court action of that magnitude may generate will indeed be quite audible...

Does Brown need that?

[To be continued]

Khoodeelaar! constitutional law opposition to the 'Crossrail Bill' [UK 'House of Lords'] will now be taken to the European Court -

By©Muhammad Haque
2258 Hrs GMT
['Bank Holiday'] Monday
London
26 May 2008


Gordon Brown toady should be spare a moment and reflect about the consequences of allowing Big Business CRASSrail hole plot agenda to be given any more GOVT backing. And so should Alistair darling,. Brown’s finance front man in the cabinet. As Darling meets with the alleged ‘30 rebel MPs’ representatives top talk about averting yet another ‘rebellion’, he should consider what he would do if the Khoodeelaar! campaign h as many MPs backing us....

That there are no numbers of MPs supporting the campaign against the Crossrail hole plot must not delude Alistair Darling into thinking that we are any less important .....

Or that we are any less influential over what happens to their administration..

We are about to do what we have been promising for 54 months we would do if the CRASSrail, hole plot is not scrapped: go to court......

Procedures have delayed any court action upto now....

And Alistair Darling should recognise this - a court action has been known to have caused a previous UK Government to scrap an Act of Parliament.....

And the present ‘Crossrail Bill’ is, still, as I write, only a Bill.. a draft piece of dubious legislation..... So it should be far more easy to scrap this Bill than an Act of Parliament.....

The noise that a court action of that magnitude may generate will indeed be quite audible...

Does Brown need that?

[To be continued]

Khoodeelaar! constitutional law opposition to the 'Crossrail Bill' [UK 'House of Lords'] will now be taken to the European Court -

By©Muhammad Haque
2258 Hrs GMT
['Bank Holiday'] Monday
London
26 May 2008


Gordon Brown toady should be spare a moment and reflect about the consequences of allowing Big Business CRASSrail hole plot agenda to be given any more GOVT backing. And so should Alistair darling,. Brown’s finance front man in the cabinet. As Darling meets with the alleged ‘30 rebel MPs’ representatives top talk about averting yet another ‘rebellion’, he should consider what he would do if the Khoodeelaar! campaign h as many MPs backing us....

That there are no numbers of MPs supporting the campaign against the Crossrail hole plot must not delude Alistair Darling into thinking that we are any less important .....

Or that we are any less influential over what happens to their administration..

We are about to do what we have been promising for 54 months we would do if the CRASSrail, hole plot is not scrapped: go to court......

Procedures have delayed any court acton upto now....

And Alistair Darling should recognise this - a court action has been known to have caused a previous UK Government to scrap an Act of Parliament.....

And the present ‘Crossrail Bill’ is, still, as I write, only a Bill.. a draft piece of dubious legislation..... So it should be far more easy to scrap this Bill than an Act of Parliament.....

The noise that a court action of that magnitude may generate will indeed be quite audible...

Does Brown need that?

[To be continued]

Khoodeelaar! constitutional law opposition to the 'Crossrail Bill' [UK 'House of Lords'] shows Gordon Brown how to establish trust by transparency...

1712 Hrs GMT 1812 Hrs UK Time London [‘Bank Holiday’] Monday 26 May 2008: KHOODEELAAR! the constitutional law action against ‘Crossrail hole plot’; KHOODEELAAR! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘South’ and Stepney London E1 Area CAMPAIGN against the Crossrail hole plot, has been arguing for transparency in the conduct of the ‘locally elected’ ‘London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council’. We have been doing this since 31 January 2004.. We have established archives of acton communication addressed to the crucially Crossrail hole plot-inviting role player ‘ chief executive’ [in post in that Council at the time, Christine Gilbert, who was rehabilitated by by Tony Blair and installed at OFSTED after KHOODEELAAR! campaigned for more than two years for her removal on grounds of incompetence,, negligence, falsehood and suppression of evidence and of unlawfully abusing her position ] .... Khoodeelaar! put the focus on the behaviour of the controlling clique by first asking them questions about what they were getting up to in furthering the Big Business Crossrail hole plot agenda against the East End of London. We followed that up on each occasion by then demanding that the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council show legal ground [if any - there was never any, so they never could produce any] on which they had been misbehaving against the community and then when they failed to show any legal ground justifying their misbehaviour, Khoodeelaar! demanded that the perpetrators concerned be disciplined in accordance with the law... That has been the sequence of events in relation to each aspect of the controlling clique's misconduct against the local community and for the Big Business agenda. That approach by Khoodeelaar! has been only one of several constitutional law programmes that the Khoodeelaar! campaign has been carrying out in order to prevent the UNREPRESENTATIVE ‘elected’ [!!!!!!!!!!] local council from doing the damages against the community that it would otherwise do... damages that the particular,persistent pattern of composition of the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council has made it prone to do...
As part of the transparent policy adopted voluntarily from the every start, Khoodeelaar! has been publishing all the key materials on the internet and in our printed KHOODEELAAR! bulletin since February 2004.




Here is a constitutional law action e-mail as Khoodeelaar! sent to Tower Hamlets Council il on friday 7 march 2008:



“Dear [Tower Hamlets Council senior employee]

As I stated in my telephone call to you at 1700 Hrs
today I am sending you this e-mail and to say:

This is to confirm that the Khoodeelaar! campaign against the
Crossrail hole Bill, in its scheduled presentation to
the legislative House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select
Committee later this month will make extensive
references to the role and the conduct of Tower
Hamlets Council and that as of today, Friday 7 March
2008, we have not received the promised and the
overdue response to or replies to our outstanding
questions about the evidence and the factual and the
complete history of the Council’s role in all aspects
of the matter to do with Crossrail so far. In the
absence of the information despite our
contemporaneously requesting all relevant disclosures
from and by Tower Hamlets Borough Council throughout
the 52 months [so far] of the Khoodeelaar! Campaign,
we shall also refer to the series of excuses and the
real obstructions that the LBTH Council's
controlling decision-making clique has exercised in
this matter.
Yours sincerely
Muhammad Haque
Khoodeelaar!
1729 Hrs GMT
Friday
7 March 2008”

[To be continued]

Khoodeelaar! constitutional law opposition to the 'Crossrail Bill' [UK 'House of Lords'] shows the way to Gordon Brown to avoid costly mistake....

1712 Hrs GMT 1812 Hrs UK Time London [‘Bank Holiday’] Monday 26 May 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! the constitutional law action against ‘Crossrail hole plot’; KHOODEELAAR! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘South’ and Stepney London E1 Area CAMPAIGN against the Crossrail hole plot, has been arguing for transparency in the conduct of the ‘locally elected’ ‘London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council’. We have been doing this since 31 January 2004.. We have established archives of acton communication addressed to the crucially Crossrail hole plot-inviting role player ‘ chief executive’ [in post in that Council at the time, Christine Gilbert, who was rehabilitated by by Tony Blair and installed at OFSTED after KHOODEELAAR! campaigned for more than two years for her removal on grounds of incompetence,, negligence, falsehood and suppression of evidence and of unlawfully abusing her position ] .... Khoodeelaar! put the focus on the behaviour of the controlling clique by first asking them questions about what they were getting up to in furthering the Big Business Crossrail hole plot agenda against the East End of London. We followed that up on each occasion by then demanding that the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council show legal ground [if any - there was never any, so they never could produce any] on which they had been misbehaving against the community and then when they failed to show any legal ground justifying their misbehaviour, Khoodeelaar! demanded that the perpetrators concerned be disciplined in accordance with the law... That has been the sequence of events in relation to each aspect fo the controlling clique's misconduct against the local community and for the Big Business agenda. That approach by Khoodeelaar! has been only one of several constitutional law programmes that the Khoodeelaar! campaign has been carrying out in order to prevent the UNREPRESENTATIVE ‘elected’ [!!!!!!!!!!] local council from doing the damages against the community that it would otherwise do... damages that the particular,persistent pattern of composition of the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council has made it prone to do...
As part of the transparent policy adopted voluntarily from the every start, Khoodeelaar! has been publishing all the key materials on the internet and in our printed KHOODEELAAR! bulletin since February 2004.




Here is a constitutional law action e-mail as Khoodeelaar! sent to Tower Hamlets Council il on friday 7 march 2008:



“Dear [Tower Hamlets Council senior employee]

As I stated in my telephone call to you at 1700 Hrs
today I am sending you this e-mail and to say:

This is to confirm that the Khoodeelaar! campaign against the
Crossrail hole Bill, in its scheduled presentation to
the legislative House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select
Committee later this month will make extensive
references to the role and the conduct of Tower
Hamlets Council and that as of today, Friday 7 March
2008, we have not received the promised and the
overdue response to or replies to our outstanding
questions about the evidence and the factual and the
complete history of the Council’s role in all aspects
of the matter to do with Crossrail so far. In the
absence of the information despite our
contemporaneously requesting all relevant disclosures
from and by Tower Hamlets Borough Council throughout
the 52 months [so far] of the Khoodeelaar! Campaign,
we shall also refer to the series of excuses and the
real obstructions that the LBTH Council's
controlling decision-making clique has exercised in
this matter.
Yours sincerely
Muhammad Haque
Khoodeelaar!
1729 Hrs GMT
Friday
7 March 2008”

[To be continued]

Inner city East End of London to Gordon Brown's rescue - by the Khoodeelaar! constitutional law route: It is economical. It is timely. It is prudent.

By©Muhammad Haque
1120 Hrs GMT
London [Bank Holiday’] Monday
26 May 2008



Inner city East End of London to Gordon Brown's rescue - by the Khoodeelaar! constitutional law route: It is economical. It is timely. It is prudent....

Just by scrapping the wasteful ‘Crossrail’ scam, Gordon Brown can achieve several objectives. Without it costing the public a single penny. In fact if Brown can do as we ask him to do, he will restore a good deal of his lost prudence.

SCrapping Crossrail will at once bring to an end the several hundred million pounds that are being waste din maintain the Crassrail bureaucracy.

It will also spare the UK GOVT humiliation by adjudication by the European courts
As Khoodeelaar! has said to Brown all along, the statement by Alistair Darling, made on 22 February 2005 in the House of Commons claiming that he, Darling, was satisfied that the contents of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ were c compatible with the [European Human Rights] Convention....

The contents are NOT compatible.

Also the behaviour of the two select committees - stooged select committee in each of the two Houses of Parliament - that were put in place for the formalities of a bogus scrutiny of the ‘Crossrail Bill’, has shown that THEY TOO are and have been in breach of the UK’s constitutional obligations under the Convention...

If the two ‘Select Committees’ on ‘Crossrail Bill’ have themselves NOT overtly deliberated on breaching the Convention then they have breached the Convention by default and by negligence and by their bureaucracy [for it has in effort been the same bureaucracy: more on this later]

[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1120 Hrs GMT
London [Bank Holiday’] Monday
26 May 2008



Inner city East End of London to Gordon Brown's rescue - by the Khoodeelaar! constitutional law route: It is economical. It is timely. It is prudent....

Just by scrapping the wasteful ‘Crossrail’ scam, Gordon Brown can achieve several objectives. Without it costing the public a single penny. In fact if Brown can do as we ask him to do, he will restore a good deal of his lost prudence.

SCrapping Crossrail will at once bring to an end the several hundred million pounds that are being waste din maintain the Crassrail bureaucracy.

It will also spare the UK GOVT humiliation by adjudication by the European courts
As Khoodeelaar! has said to Brown all along, the statement by Alistair Darling, made on 22 February 2005 in the House of Commons claiming that he, Darling, was satisfied that the contents of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ were c compatible with the [European Human Rights] Convention....

The contents are NOT compatible.

Also the behaviour of the two select committees - stooged select committee in each of the two Houses of Parliament - that were put in place for the formalities of a bogus scrutiny of the ‘Crossrail Bill’, has shown that THEY TOO are and have been in breach of the UK’s constitutional obligations under the Convention...

If the two ‘Select Committees’ on ‘Crossrail Bill’ have themselves NOT overtly deliberated on breaching the Convention then they have breached the Convention by default and by negligence and by their bureaucracy [for it has in effort been the same bureaucracy: more on this later]

[To be continued]

Khoodeelaar! constitutional law opposition to the 'Crossrail Bill' [UK 'House of Lords'] shows the way to Gordon Brown to avoid costly mistake

By©Muhammad Haque
0740 Hrs GMT
London
'Bank holiday' Monday
26 May 2008

Gordon Brown has a constitutional law way out of the costly error that is waiting to happen - the Crossrail hole scam. Khoodeelaar! has given Brown that option, at least since October 2007 when we updated our evidence in the context of the UK’s international constitutional law obligations... In the detailed constitutional law arguments by Khoodeelaar! we show that the 'Crossrail Bill', being pushed through the two 'Houses of UK Parliament,' as a 'hybrid bill', is in fact unconstitutional.

[To be continued]