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Focus on London 2008’: Two out of every five of London's children live below the poverty line
05.07.08 14:07
Great Britain, London, 05 July /corr. TrendNews G.Ahmadova/ London contributes nearly ?220 billion to the UK economy but has three boroughs with the lowest employment rates, a new review of London published today shows. It was said in press – release sent to “Trend News” from Greater London Authority today.
‘Focus on London 2008’ covers a wide range of demographic, social and economic data, providing a statistical portrait of some of the key issues facing the capital. Produced by the Greater London Authority’s statistical arm, Data Management Analysis Group (DMAG) it is a vital tool for anyone researching or writing about London.
According key facts of the Greater London Authority’s statistical arm document, London is home to over 7.5 million residents, an eighth of the UK population.
London is the most multicultural city in the UK and is home to more than two-in-five of the UK Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population.
· London contributes nearly ?220 billion to the UK economy but has three boroughs with the lowest employment rates in Great Britain (Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney).
· In London, 56 per cent of mothers are in employment compared with 69 per cent in the rest of the UK.
· Two out of every five of London's children live below the poverty line.
· London has the highest proportion of households with an income of more than ?1,000 per week but also the highest proportion with an income in the bottom fifth nationally, highlighting inequality within London.
· The rate of hospital admissions caused by alcohol, in London, increased by nearly a half in the four year period between 2001/02 and 2005/06.
· The very interesting fact is the average time taken to travel to work in London is 43 minutes, by far the highest in the United Kingdom. For other regions, mean commuting times varied just between 21 and 24 minutes.
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Even NOTTINGHAM people are angry at £Billions being wasted on London Crossrail while transport needs in English regions are neglected, denied £££
Even NOTTINGHAM people are angry at £Billions being wasted on London Crossrail while transport needs in English regions are neglected, denied £££
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133942&command=displayContent&sourceNode=256758&contentPK=21020518&folderPk=117088&pNodeId=256765
The following item as published by NOTTINGHAM web site today Saturday 5 July 2008, critically refers to the London CROSSRAIL funding.....The views and the references are the respsosnsbility of the pubshers of the web siet. We pubphsx the item for informaton only...
In their criticism, they are udner the impression that London people generally are the ebnficaifreis. This si not the case at all... It is a small numebr of Big bsiess that wioll ebnefit....[To be contineud]
"
WHY NOTTINGHAM'S PARKING LEVY COULD GO NATIONWIDE
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National anti-road levy campaigner Peter Roberts, from Birmingham-based lobbying group Drivers' Alliance, explains why he fears Nottingham's planned Workplace Parking Levy could be rolled out across Britain
As the city of Nottingham stumbles towards a workplace parking levy, many people will say "it is a business tax so I am not affected".
This lack of personal involvement could be why the public backlash against the proposals has yet to match that seen in other cities proposing a congestion charge.
However, this new and untested tax adds cost to business and will significantly impact employers who are already struggling with the significant economic downturn.
The council argues all the money raised will go to improving public transport, but the benefits are mixed.
Better buses and trams are welcome but the proposed tram extension will only help a few people living nearby. For everyone else this is a tax on privately owned parking spaces.
The workplace parking levy will cause business leaders to look at their finances and trim costs as the money has to be found from somewhere. It is likely some will pass the parking charges to their employees; some will reduce their workforce and some will quit Nottingham altogether if this parking tax goes ahead.
Taxation has massively increased over the past ten years with huge rises in council tax, personal tax, motoring tax and stealthy taxes such as parking prices, flight taxes and insurance tax.
There has been a doubling in council tax since 1997, and the general tax burden has increased by 50%. What has happened to all this money, we should have plenty left for public transport improvements?
Motorists alone now contribute around £50bn a year in tax and less than £10 bn is spent on transport.
London has just been given £16bn to spend on crossrail, but Nottingham gets nothing unless businesses or their workers pay a tax for parking. The war against drivers continues and Nottingham is in the front line.
Congestion charges and road pricing have been defeated, but WPL will spread to other regions if Nottingham succeeds.
People power works and by telling your MPs and councillors you want the improvements but no new taxes forces them to look at cost savings instead of tax increases.
You can help by signing a petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NottinghamWPL/
Road pricing was defeated when 1.8m signed last year. Please sign again and help stop the spread of new taxes targeting motorists.
"
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133942&command=displayContent&sourceNode=256758&contentPK=21020518&folderPk=117088&pNodeId=256765
The following item as published by NOTTINGHAM web site today Saturday 5 July 2008, critically refers to the London CROSSRAIL funding.....The views and the references are the respsosnsbility of the pubshers of the web siet. We pubphsx the item for informaton only...
In their criticism, they are udner the impression that London people generally are the ebnficaifreis. This si not the case at all... It is a small numebr of Big bsiess that wioll ebnefit....[To be contineud]
"
WHY NOTTINGHAM'S PARKING LEVY COULD GO NATIONWIDE
Be the first reader to comment on this story
National anti-road levy campaigner Peter Roberts, from Birmingham-based lobbying group Drivers' Alliance, explains why he fears Nottingham's planned Workplace Parking Levy could be rolled out across Britain
As the city of Nottingham stumbles towards a workplace parking levy, many people will say "it is a business tax so I am not affected".
This lack of personal involvement could be why the public backlash against the proposals has yet to match that seen in other cities proposing a congestion charge.
However, this new and untested tax adds cost to business and will significantly impact employers who are already struggling with the significant economic downturn.
The council argues all the money raised will go to improving public transport, but the benefits are mixed.
Better buses and trams are welcome but the proposed tram extension will only help a few people living nearby. For everyone else this is a tax on privately owned parking spaces.
The workplace parking levy will cause business leaders to look at their finances and trim costs as the money has to be found from somewhere. It is likely some will pass the parking charges to their employees; some will reduce their workforce and some will quit Nottingham altogether if this parking tax goes ahead.
Taxation has massively increased over the past ten years with huge rises in council tax, personal tax, motoring tax and stealthy taxes such as parking prices, flight taxes and insurance tax.
There has been a doubling in council tax since 1997, and the general tax burden has increased by 50%. What has happened to all this money, we should have plenty left for public transport improvements?
Motorists alone now contribute around £50bn a year in tax and less than £10 bn is spent on transport.
London has just been given £16bn to spend on crossrail, but Nottingham gets nothing unless businesses or their workers pay a tax for parking. The war against drivers continues and Nottingham is in the front line.
Congestion charges and road pricing have been defeated, but WPL will spread to other regions if Nottingham succeeds.
People power works and by telling your MPs and councillors you want the improvements but no new taxes forces them to look at cost savings instead of tax increases.
You can help by signing a petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NottinghamWPL/
Road pricing was defeated when 1.8m signed last year. Please sign again and help stop the spread of new taxes targeting motorists.
"
Murdoch-ed London Times web site 'publishing' Muhammad Haque comments against Crossrail !
This [see in the box to the right] was retrieved at 1930 GMT by the AADHIKAR Research unit!
BELOW: Muhammad Haque's comments appear at the bottom of the post on the Times web site as checked at 1930 GMT 5 July 2008
[To be continued]
"
ly 5, 2008
Road cash streets ahead of rail
Helen Nugent
Investment in roads has soared in the past six years while resources for rail have scarcely changed, undermining ministers’ claims to be helping people to switch from cars to trains.
Figures seen by The Times show that spending on the road network has risen by more than 60 per cent since 2002 while money devoted to railways has increased by less than 10 per cent. The information, obtainedby the Liberal Democrats from parliamentary answers, comes after Network Rail said that passengers faced acute overcrowding on key train routes because capacity would be exhausted long before any new lines could be built.The Highways Agency has 36 large-scale road schemes under way, but with demand for rail travel booming, the only significant new rail line being planned for England is Crossrail.
Douglas McNeill, transport analyst at Blue Oar, a City stockbroking firm, said: “These figures illustrate the Government’s determination that railways should pay their way rather than depend on taxpayers’ money. That is hard to reconcile with the stated aim of encouraging travellers to switch from rail to road.”
Norman Baker, for the Lib Dems, said: “Unless we see a fundamental change in priorities, we will never escape dependence on oil and meet our climate change obligations.”
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Something to do with the railways being private, more interested in keeping the shareholders happy than providing a good service.
This is why the rail network should be re-nationalised.
Pete, St Albans, England
If the evidence supports your description of what has been happening to undermine "ministers’ claims to be helping people to switch from cars to trains" then that will not be the only aspect of the Department of Transport ministers' follies.Crossrail is a major flaw. Not justified by the transport needs or by the economics of the matter.
Muhammad Haque, London, UK
"
BELOW: Muhammad Haque's comments appear at the bottom of the post on the Times web site as checked at 1930 GMT 5 July 2008
[To be continued]
"
ly 5, 2008
Road cash streets ahead of rail
Helen Nugent
Investment in roads has soared in the past six years while resources for rail have scarcely changed, undermining ministers’ claims to be helping people to switch from cars to trains.
Figures seen by The Times show that spending on the road network has risen by more than 60 per cent since 2002 while money devoted to railways has increased by less than 10 per cent. The information, obtainedby the Liberal Democrats from parliamentary answers, comes after Network Rail said that passengers faced acute overcrowding on key train routes because capacity would be exhausted long before any new lines could be built.The Highways Agency has 36 large-scale road schemes under way, but with demand for rail travel booming, the only significant new rail line being planned for England is Crossrail.
Douglas McNeill, transport analyst at Blue Oar, a City stockbroking firm, said: “These figures illustrate the Government’s determination that railways should pay their way rather than depend on taxpayers’ money. That is hard to reconcile with the stated aim of encouraging travellers to switch from rail to road.”
Norman Baker, for the Lib Dems, said: “Unless we see a fundamental change in priorities, we will never escape dependence on oil and meet our climate change obligations.”
RELATED LINKS
More jam today means congestion tomorrow
Network Failed
HAVE YOUR SAY
Something to do with the railways being private, more interested in keeping the shareholders happy than providing a good service.
This is why the rail network should be re-nationalised.
Pete, St Albans, England
If the evidence supports your description of what has been happening to undermine "ministers’ claims to be helping people to switch from cars to trains" then that will not be the only aspect of the Department of Transport ministers' follies.Crossrail is a major flaw. Not justified by the transport needs or by the economics of the matter.
Muhammad Haque, London, UK
"
Rupert Murdoch-ed London Times web site removes MUHAMMAD HAQUE comment against Crossrail!
Rupert Murdoch-ed London Times web site removes MUHAMMAD HAQUE comment against Crossrail!
But you can still read the comments on the linked picture to the right of here...
But you can still read the comments on the linked picture to the right of here...
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional, legal, ethical, economic, social NO to CROSSRAIL hole plot and NO to Big Business setting the agenda in UK Parliament...
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional, legal, ethical, economic, social NO to CROSSRAIL hole plot and NO to Big Business setting the agenda in UK Parliament....
By©Muhammad Haque
1600 Hrs GMT
1700 Hrs UK Time
London
Saturday 5 July 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! is the campaign that came into existence on 31 January 2004 and has ever since advocated against the Big Business agenda attacks on the people, on the community, on the economy on the environment in the East End of London ... Khoodeelaar! has aimed to stop the Crossrail holes being dug in the East End of London... To date, a number of those holes plans have been dropped from the initial plot.. But a number still remain in the agenda...
The KHOODEELAAR! campaign is actively addressing, on a 24/7 basis, the remaining and the current Big Business agenda pretexts and collisions that are associated with the residual parts of the Big Business Crossrail-linked agenda; Khoodeelaar! is the daily monitor in and from the inner city east End of London of the parasitising of the UK parliament. and of the stooging of the UK Parliament
KHOODEELAAR! has been making accurate and comprehensively vindicated analytical warnings against the abuses of office by Gordon Brown and by the occupant in the name of the people of London of the post created by Tony Blair called the ‘Mayor’ in London....
KHOODEELAAR! published the ONLY and the accurate ADVICE to Boris Johnson on 10 months ago [that is TEN MONTHS before Boris Johnson was featured on the DAILY MAIL London over the RAY LEWIS ‘incidents’ [Thursday and Friday 3 and 4 July 2008 as shown on the front page of today's - saturday 5 July 2008 -’ DAILY MAIL howling , “BORIS: THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF ALREADY “ Saturday 5 July 2008] that he [Boris Johnson, only just ‘rumoured as a candidate to be for the post of mayor in the name of London, ten months ago when we said this to him, that he must SHOW that he, Boris Johnson, was occupying a higher moral and ethical plane than Ken Livingstone ever did....Or any that Ken Livingstone EVER could or would...... It is obvious so far that Boris Johnson did not pay attention to what KHOODEELAAR! told him 10 months ago....
Khoodeelaar! is observing Boris Johnson this weekend and is again advising him to drop Crossrail so that he does not get completely derailed by the obscene wastefulness and irrelevance of Crossrail London.......
Khoodeelaar! is voicing the latest comprehensive form of the concern, the anxiety, the alarm against the behaviour of those who are ‘professionally’ paid in the name of the public but who are habitually letting the public down.... that the inner city East London borough of Tower Hamlets is the site for the most extensive variety of breaches of human rights, of democratic, ethical, accountability norms and requirements and expectations and that the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against Crossrail hole agenda is also the campaign for upholding those aspects of the values that are decent, that are universally desirable that are under attacks so negligently and callously and brazenly by all the agencies, and 'publicly paid for and public maintained' 'institutions' and timeserving careerists... on the local Council, on the regional London Assembly and in the UK Parliament.....
KHOODEELAAR! is the constitutional law campaign from the inner city East End of London borough of Tower Hamlets...
KHOODEELAAR! is the ethical, the moral, the social, the community pro-transparency, pro-environment, pro-democratic daily action AGAINST the Tower Hamlets Council’s controlling clique.... The Tower Hamlets Council controlling clique which has been involved in INVITING the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London... The Crossrail hole attacks are contained in the Crossrail hole agenda The Crossrail hole agenda is partly contained in the ‘Crossrail, Bill’ [still getting rubber-stamped in the UK Houses of Parasited, Stooged parliament] [that is acting, has been acting as an agent and a tout for Big Business and engaged in policies, promotions and projects against the ordinary people in and across the same borough....
Khoodeelaar! is acting in defence of the principle of democratic accountability by the ‘seekers and the holders for the time being of posts, positions and offices in the name of the people in the area and at the expense of the public’...
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1600 Hrs GMT
1700 Hrs UK Time
London
Saturday 5 July 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! is the campaign that came into existence on 31 January 2004 and has ever since advocated against the Big Business agenda attacks on the people, on the community, on the economy on the environment in the East End of London ... Khoodeelaar! has aimed to stop the Crossrail holes being dug in the East End of London... To date, a number of those holes plans have been dropped from the initial plot.. But a number still remain in the agenda...
The KHOODEELAAR! campaign is actively addressing, on a 24/7 basis, the remaining and the current Big Business agenda pretexts and collisions that are associated with the residual parts of the Big Business Crossrail-linked agenda; Khoodeelaar! is the daily monitor in and from the inner city east End of London of the parasitising of the UK parliament. and of the stooging of the UK Parliament
KHOODEELAAR! has been making accurate and comprehensively vindicated analytical warnings against the abuses of office by Gordon Brown and by the occupant in the name of the people of London of the post created by Tony Blair called the ‘Mayor’ in London....
KHOODEELAAR! published the ONLY and the accurate ADVICE to Boris Johnson on 10 months ago [that is TEN MONTHS before Boris Johnson was featured on the DAILY MAIL London over the RAY LEWIS ‘incidents’ [Thursday and Friday 3 and 4 July 2008 as shown on the front page of today's - saturday 5 July 2008 -’ DAILY MAIL howling , “BORIS: THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF ALREADY “ Saturday 5 July 2008] that he [Boris Johnson, only just ‘rumoured as a candidate to be for the post of mayor in the name of London, ten months ago when we said this to him, that he must SHOW that he, Boris Johnson, was occupying a higher moral and ethical plane than Ken Livingstone ever did....Or any that Ken Livingstone EVER could or would...... It is obvious so far that Boris Johnson did not pay attention to what KHOODEELAAR! told him 10 months ago....
Khoodeelaar! is observing Boris Johnson this weekend and is again advising him to drop Crossrail so that he does not get completely derailed by the obscene wastefulness and irrelevance of Crossrail London.......
Khoodeelaar! is voicing the latest comprehensive form of the concern, the anxiety, the alarm against the behaviour of those who are ‘professionally’ paid in the name of the public but who are habitually letting the public down.... that the inner city East London borough of Tower Hamlets is the site for the most extensive variety of breaches of human rights, of democratic, ethical, accountability norms and requirements and expectations and that the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against Crossrail hole agenda is also the campaign for upholding those aspects of the values that are decent, that are universally desirable that are under attacks so negligently and callously and brazenly by all the agencies, and 'publicly paid for and public maintained' 'institutions' and timeserving careerists... on the local Council, on the regional London Assembly and in the UK Parliament.....
KHOODEELAAR! is the constitutional law campaign from the inner city East End of London borough of Tower Hamlets...
KHOODEELAAR! is the ethical, the moral, the social, the community pro-transparency, pro-environment, pro-democratic daily action AGAINST the Tower Hamlets Council’s controlling clique.... The Tower Hamlets Council controlling clique which has been involved in INVITING the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London... The Crossrail hole attacks are contained in the Crossrail hole agenda The Crossrail hole agenda is partly contained in the ‘Crossrail, Bill’ [still getting rubber-stamped in the UK Houses of Parasited, Stooged parliament] [that is acting, has been acting as an agent and a tout for Big Business and engaged in policies, promotions and projects against the ordinary people in and across the same borough....
Khoodeelaar! is acting in defence of the principle of democratic accountability by the ‘seekers and the holders for the time being of posts, positions and offices in the name of the people in the area and at the expense of the public’...
[To be continued]
Friday, July 4, 2008
Crossrail hole plot-INVITING, poverty-creating Tower Hamlets Council clique is silent as deep poverty in the East End is highlighted again............
Crossrail hole plot-INVITING controlling clique in Tower Hamlets Council is again silent on the persistent poverty in the Borough...
By©Muhammad Haque
1438 GMT
London
Friday 4 July 2008
And why is the Crossrail hole plot-INVITING controlling clique in Tower Hamlets Council silent on the problem?
Because the controlling clique is a prime causer of the persistence of poverty.
Because the controlling clique knows that to say anything, it will have to explain why it is so much at fault.
Because the controlling clique knows that it is engage din letting the community down.
Because the lying clique is depriving the community of so much.
And the deprivation of democratic say is the worst form of depravation...
By©Muhammad Haque
1438 GMT
London
Friday 4 July 2008
And why is the Crossrail hole plot-INVITING controlling clique in Tower Hamlets Council silent on the problem?
Because the controlling clique is a prime causer of the persistence of poverty.
Because the controlling clique knows that to say anything, it will have to explain why it is so much at fault.
Because the controlling clique knows that it is engage din letting the community down.
Because the lying clique is depriving the community of so much.
And the deprivation of democratic say is the worst form of depravation...
Crossrail hole plot-INVITING, poverty-creating Tower Hamlets Council clique is silent as deep poverty in the East End is highlighted again............
Crossrail hole plot-INVITING controlling clique in Tower Hamlets Council is again silent on the persistent poverty in the Borough...
By©Muhammad Haque
1438 GMT
London
Friday 4 July 2008
And why is the Crossrail hole plot-INVITING controlling clique in Tower Hamlets Council silent on the problem?
Because the controlling clique is a prime causer of the persistence of poverty.
Because the controlling clique knows that to say anything, it will have to explain why it is so much at fault.
Because the controlling clique knows that it is engage din letting the community down.
Because the lying clique is depriving the community of so much.
And the deprivation of democratic say is the worst from of depravation...
[To be continued]
Boris Johnson is quoted today as saying of poverty in London as shown in a new edition of the GLA report 'Focus on London 2008':-
"....
two cities within one metropolis where only a few streets away from the wealth of the City you find some of the highest rates of unemployment and child poverty in the country. I am determined during my tenure as Mayor to improve the quality of life in this city for all Londoners
"
"
NEWS DESK
London contributes nearly £220 billion to the UK economy but has three boroughs with the lowest employment rates, a new review of London published today shows.
‘Focus on London 2008’ covers a wide range of demographic, social and economic data, providing a statistical portrait of some of the key issues facing the capital. Produced by the Greater London Authority’s statistical arm, Data Management Analysis Group (DMAG) it is a vital tool for anyone researching or writing about London.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said:
‘This important annual study provides a fascinating snapshot of the range of lives Londoners lead and the enormous vibrancy and diversity of our great capital city. It also tells a tale of two cities within one metropolis where only a few streets away from the wealth of the City you find some of the highest rates of unemployment and child poverty in the country. I am determined during my tenure as Mayor to improve the quality of life in this city for all Londoners and it is critical that we have such in-depth analysis so we can direct our policy and resources in the right direction.'
Key facts and figures from the document include:
· London is home to over 7.5 million residents, an eighth of the UK population.
· London is the most multicultural city in the UK and is home to more than two-in-five of the UK Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population.
· London contributes nearly £220 billion to the UK economy but has three boroughs with the lowest employment rates in Great Britain (Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney).
· London has had a higher net start up rate of businesses than the UK for nine of the past ten years.
· In London, 56 per cent of mothers are in employment compared with 69 per cent in the rest of the UK.
· Two out of every five of London's children live below the poverty line.
· London has the highest proportion of households with an income of more than £1,000 per week but also the highest proportion with an income in the bottom fifth nationally, highlighting inequality within London.
· The rate of hospital admissions caused by alcohol, in London, increased by nearly a half in the four year period between 2001/02 and 2005/06.
· There are currently around 100,000 new homes with planning permission but with construction not yet started, and a further 60,000 under construction.
· Oyster card usage has grown steadily and accounted for four-fifths of all bus and Underground journeys by March 2007. The use of public transport has risen to its highest level since the 1950s.
· The average time taken to travel to work in London is 43 minutes, by far the highest in the United Kingdom. For other regions, mean commuting times varied just between 21 and 24 minutes.
"
By©Muhammad Haque
1438 GMT
London
Friday 4 July 2008
And why is the Crossrail hole plot-INVITING controlling clique in Tower Hamlets Council silent on the problem?
Because the controlling clique is a prime causer of the persistence of poverty.
Because the controlling clique knows that to say anything, it will have to explain why it is so much at fault.
Because the controlling clique knows that it is engage din letting the community down.
Because the lying clique is depriving the community of so much.
And the deprivation of democratic say is the worst from of depravation...
[To be continued]
Boris Johnson is quoted today as saying of poverty in London as shown in a new edition of the GLA report 'Focus on London 2008':-
"....
two cities within one metropolis where only a few streets away from the wealth of the City you find some of the highest rates of unemployment and child poverty in the country. I am determined during my tenure as Mayor to improve the quality of life in this city for all Londoners
"
"
NEWS DESK
London contributes nearly £220 billion to the UK economy but has three boroughs with the lowest employment rates, a new review of London published today shows.
‘Focus on London 2008’ covers a wide range of demographic, social and economic data, providing a statistical portrait of some of the key issues facing the capital. Produced by the Greater London Authority’s statistical arm, Data Management Analysis Group (DMAG) it is a vital tool for anyone researching or writing about London.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said:
‘This important annual study provides a fascinating snapshot of the range of lives Londoners lead and the enormous vibrancy and diversity of our great capital city. It also tells a tale of two cities within one metropolis where only a few streets away from the wealth of the City you find some of the highest rates of unemployment and child poverty in the country. I am determined during my tenure as Mayor to improve the quality of life in this city for all Londoners and it is critical that we have such in-depth analysis so we can direct our policy and resources in the right direction.'
Key facts and figures from the document include:
· London is home to over 7.5 million residents, an eighth of the UK population.
· London is the most multicultural city in the UK and is home to more than two-in-five of the UK Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population.
· London contributes nearly £220 billion to the UK economy but has three boroughs with the lowest employment rates in Great Britain (Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney).
· London has had a higher net start up rate of businesses than the UK for nine of the past ten years.
· In London, 56 per cent of mothers are in employment compared with 69 per cent in the rest of the UK.
· Two out of every five of London's children live below the poverty line.
· London has the highest proportion of households with an income of more than £1,000 per week but also the highest proportion with an income in the bottom fifth nationally, highlighting inequality within London.
· The rate of hospital admissions caused by alcohol, in London, increased by nearly a half in the four year period between 2001/02 and 2005/06.
· There are currently around 100,000 new homes with planning permission but with construction not yet started, and a further 60,000 under construction.
· Oyster card usage has grown steadily and accounted for four-fifths of all bus and Underground journeys by March 2007. The use of public transport has risen to its highest level since the 1950s.
· The average time taken to travel to work in London is 43 minutes, by far the highest in the United Kingdom. For other regions, mean commuting times varied just between 21 and 24 minutes.
"
Thursday, July 3, 2008
UK MPs and 'other' Parliamentarians are no match for Big Business agencies that really control Parliament...
By©Muhammad Haque
1450 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 3 July 2008
And it is plain to see.
Not just in Gordon Brown/Geoff Hoon/Keith Vaz being easily found hoist on their own unethical, unconstitutional petards!
Not just in the ‘House of Commons Treasury select Committee’ Chair John McFall failing to focus on the facts at hand!
Most of the times, most of the MPs and ‘other’ 'parliamentarians are absent from their own minds...
They are into areas, territories and interests that are too obscene, too offensive, too dishonourable to detail here or in any dignified commentary.
Engaged away from ethics, morality and priority.
They are embarked on pursuing purposes and interests that are nit quite legitimate, not quite riper...
Most of the 'parliamentarians' are not bothered about addressing the serious issues. Including the huge public sums that may be - and are getting - misallocated....Wasted.. Put into pockets of organised criminal gangs posing as ‘conglomerates’.
The 'Crossrail Bill' was NOT scrutinised. Not at the report stage. Not at any of the 'reading' stages.
NOT even at the ‘select committees’..
And the executive, executing the agenda of the Big Business lobby controlling the Business priorities of Parliament, knew that the utter the vast the overwhelming numbers and majorities of the MPs were too busy trying to feather their own nests to bother about the purpose, the costs, the implications of the Crossrail hole Bill and plot and scam...
[To be continued]
1450 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 3 July 2008
And it is plain to see.
Not just in Gordon Brown/Geoff Hoon/Keith Vaz being easily found hoist on their own unethical, unconstitutional petards!
Not just in the ‘House of Commons Treasury select Committee’ Chair John McFall failing to focus on the facts at hand!
Most of the times, most of the MPs and ‘other’ 'parliamentarians are absent from their own minds...
They are into areas, territories and interests that are too obscene, too offensive, too dishonourable to detail here or in any dignified commentary.
Engaged away from ethics, morality and priority.
They are embarked on pursuing purposes and interests that are nit quite legitimate, not quite riper...
Most of the 'parliamentarians' are not bothered about addressing the serious issues. Including the huge public sums that may be - and are getting - misallocated....Wasted.. Put into pockets of organised criminal gangs posing as ‘conglomerates’.
The 'Crossrail Bill' was NOT scrutinised. Not at the report stage. Not at any of the 'reading' stages.
NOT even at the ‘select committees’..
And the executive, executing the agenda of the Big Business lobby controlling the Business priorities of Parliament, knew that the utter the vast the overwhelming numbers and majorities of the MPs were too busy trying to feather their own nests to bother about the purpose, the costs, the implications of the Crossrail hole Bill and plot and scam...
[To be continued]
Can the UK House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Chair fit to halt Brown's wasteful London Crossrail funding?
Can the UK House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Chair fit to halt Brown's wasteful London Crossrail funding?
If John McFall has been performing with the same failing focus he showed today, then no wonder he has not been very good at 'auditing' the economic performance of the Government.....!
By©Muhammad Haque
1420 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 3 July 2008
UK House of Commons ‘Treasury Select committee’ ‘Chair’ John McFall, ‘MP’, was the subject of one of my comments a few days ago...
I had based that one on evidence of his performance elsewhere.
Today, I observed McFall’s memory and focus fail him totally.
More than once.
In the same session and within a matter of minutes, he misaddressed the ‘Prime Minister’ as the ‘Chancellor’.
And Gordon Brown responded quite graciously in the circumstances.
But what kind of attention deficit have we got to put up with from these over-hyped chairs of ‘select Committees’!
First we find that one, Keith Vaz, had been involved in exchanges of words that suggest that he might be in line for a ‘rewarding’ token of state-conferred dishoinour for betraying the cause of constitutionality, civil liberties and probity in Parliament...
And then we find the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee who cannot distinguish the ‘Prime Minister' from the ‘Finance Minister...’....
What evidence is tehre then that John McFall can disnsgstisng between Big Busioess, Big powre blocks and ordianry people? Big hypes and reality on the ground...
What, if any, can McFall be expecetd to do to prevent Gordoin Brown's admisnoatoin making the folly of easting £Billions in following Biog Busiess agneda Crossrail hype?
[To be continued]
If John McFall has been performing with the same failing focus he showed today, then no wonder he has not been very good at 'auditing' the economic performance of the Government.....!
By©Muhammad Haque
1420 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 3 July 2008
UK House of Commons ‘Treasury Select committee’ ‘Chair’ John McFall, ‘MP’, was the subject of one of my comments a few days ago...
I had based that one on evidence of his performance elsewhere.
Today, I observed McFall’s memory and focus fail him totally.
More than once.
In the same session and within a matter of minutes, he misaddressed the ‘Prime Minister’ as the ‘Chancellor’.
And Gordon Brown responded quite graciously in the circumstances.
But what kind of attention deficit have we got to put up with from these over-hyped chairs of ‘select Committees’!
First we find that one, Keith Vaz, had been involved in exchanges of words that suggest that he might be in line for a ‘rewarding’ token of state-conferred dishoinour for betraying the cause of constitutionality, civil liberties and probity in Parliament...
And then we find the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee who cannot distinguish the ‘Prime Minister' from the ‘Finance Minister...’....
What evidence is tehre then that John McFall can disnsgstisng between Big Busioess, Big powre blocks and ordianry people? Big hypes and reality on the ground...
What, if any, can McFall be expecetd to do to prevent Gordoin Brown's admisnoatoin making the folly of easting £Billions in following Biog Busiess agneda Crossrail hype?
[To be continued]
Crossrail hole plot-INVITING, wrongdoing clique on Tower Hamlets Council has been allowing near-mass branding of youngsters as mentally flawed, sick!
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1110 Hrs GMT 1210 Hrs UK Time London Thursday 3 July 2008: KHOODEELAAR! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area No to ‘Crossrail hole plot-inviting corrupt clique in control of the inner city, East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council.........” CAMPAIGN TOLD YOU SO! That the clique is covering up mass and institutionalised disenfranchisement and criminalisation of the parts of the community that most need the protection of the ‘locally elected Council’. KHOODEELAAR! has also SAID, with concurrent evidence, over the past 55 months, that the corrupt clique that has been in control of the Tower Hamlets Council has been engaged in CREATINg poverty, creating criminality and in adding to the criminalisation and social exclusion, incohesion and disharmony in and across the Borough of Tower Hamlets .. That the mass perpetration of negligence and wrongdoing by Tower Hamlets Council towards and against the various individuals, groups and areas in Tower Hamlets and the corrupt behaviour of the corrupt clique and its colluders among the ‘executive’ employees in dismantling the ‘public sector’ housing stock and in handing over the same to antisocial controllers and profit-seeking exploiters thus adding to existing poverty and disadvantage in Tower Hamlets is unlawful, illegal but the evidence of such behaviour also is akin to the behaviour of the clique in INVITING the Crossrail hole attacks upon the community..... That by sheer ACCIDENT we have come across today Thursday 3 July 2008 the backhanded, reluctant and the twisted admission by the same Council that a number of otherwise innocent young persons has been branded as mentally ill by institutions that are controlled [!!!!! for the UK central Govt funding that such ‘control’ status allows the controlling claque to apply for and receive -as distinguished from, opposed to and different from the clique's providing the services in whose names the clique seeks the funding and pockets the funding] by the same Council.........
We say again: the lies that the corrupt clique has been confecting for Crossrail hole plot over the past at least 8 years are the same lies the same sorts of lies that the controlling clique confects and perpetrates about other areas of its wrongdoing... As we now report with the help of an external web site [SEE the linking words on the column next to this main page] .......
.[To be continued]
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1110 Hrs GMT 1210 Hrs UK Time London Thursday 3 July 2008: KHOODEELAAR! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal green ‘south’ and Stepney London E1 Area No to ‘Crossrail hole plot-inviting corrupt clique in control of the inner city, East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council.........” CAMPAIGN TOLD YOU SO! That the clique is covering up mass and institutionalised disenfranchisement and criminalisation of the parts of the community that most need the protection of the ‘locally elected Council’. KHOODEELAAR! has also SAID, with concurrent evidence, over the past 55 months, that the corrupt clique that has been in control of the Tower Hamlets Council has been engaged in CREATINg poverty, creating criminality and in adding to the criminalisation and social exclusion, incohesion and disharmony in and across the Borough of Tower Hamlets .. That the mass perpetration of negligence and wrongdoing by Tower Hamlets Council towards and against the various individuals, groups and areas in Tower Hamlets and the corrupt behaviour of the corrupt clique and its colluders among the ‘executive’ employees in dismantling the ‘public sector’ housing stock and in handing over the same to antisocial controllers and profit-seeking exploiters thus adding to existing poverty and disadvantage in Tower Hamlets is unlawful, illegal but the evidence of such behaviour also is akin to the behaviour of the clique in INVITING the Crossrail hole attacks upon the community..... That by sheer ACCIDENT we have come across today Thursday 3 July 2008 the backhanded, reluctant and the twisted admission by the same Council that a number of otherwise innocent young persons has been branded as mentally ill by institutions that are controlled [!!!!! for the UK central Govt funding that such ‘control’ status allows the controlling claque to apply for and receive -as distinguished from, opposed to and different from the clique's providing the services in whose names the clique seeks the funding and pockets the funding] by the same Council.........
We say again: the lies that the corrupt clique has been confecting for Crossrail hole plot over the past at least 8 years are the same lies the same sorts of lies that the controlling clique confects and perpetrates about other areas of its wrongdoing... As we now report with the help of an external web site [SEE the linking words on the column next to this main page] .......
.[To be continued]
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The KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of a fundamentally flawed Crossrail project applies to an equally - or an even more diseased Parliament that allows it.[3].
The KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of a fundamentally flawed Crossrail project applies to an equally - or an even more diseased Parliament that allows it...
By©Muhammad Haque
0850 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 3 July 2008
How could Gordon Brown keep a straight face, when even the uniquely stupid Geoff Hoon was unable to keep his face straight?
I say uniquely stupid about Geoff Hoon. why?
He is by no means unique in being stupid.
But his unique acts of stupidity collected as a profile, when he was lying against the people of Iraq in his miscapacity as the UK baggage carrier for the warmongers and invaders against the iraqi people...
Hoon never ceases to be stupid. that is the point about him.
But even he was unable to suppress what must have been even for him a feeling of undeniable indignity as David Ca-Moron successfully drew attention to the Hooned Deal that Brown had obtained with keith Vaz for Vaz's vote and role in the vote FOR the 42 day detention [‘voted’ on on Wednesday 11 June 2008]...
That incident - of Gordon Brown being seen as having in effect misled the country over ‘deals’ for the votes on 11 June 2008 - again showed the poverty of power.... Poverty because there was no ethics, no morality. No sense. Only grubbiness... No standard. Only clinging on.... And these are the people who ASSUME that they are fit to make laws that deny innocent people the liberty....
James Landale, we are coming to look at your brazen stupidity
As Landale exhibited HIS OWN stupidity as he SPAKE again to David Davis [broadcast on BBC TV during the evening of Wednesday 2 July 2008] ....memories came flooding back of how instant and how mechanical and how corrupt the BBC Landale was on Thursday 12 June 2008.
That was when David Davis made his statement saying he was going to resign as an MP and seek reelection over the Gordon Browned Parliament allowing the destruction of freedom and civil liberties in this country...
What a contrast Andrew Gilligan makes to the likes of james Landale.... And Nicholas Witchell. And Huw Edwards. And Jon Sopel. And almost all the rest of them that are still on the payroll being paid in the name of the public...
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
0850 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 3 July 2008
How could Gordon Brown keep a straight face, when even the uniquely stupid Geoff Hoon was unable to keep his face straight?
I say uniquely stupid about Geoff Hoon. why?
He is by no means unique in being stupid.
But his unique acts of stupidity collected as a profile, when he was lying against the people of Iraq in his miscapacity as the UK baggage carrier for the warmongers and invaders against the iraqi people...
Hoon never ceases to be stupid. that is the point about him.
But even he was unable to suppress what must have been even for him a feeling of undeniable indignity as David Ca-Moron successfully drew attention to the Hooned Deal that Brown had obtained with keith Vaz for Vaz's vote and role in the vote FOR the 42 day detention [‘voted’ on on Wednesday 11 June 2008]...
That incident - of Gordon Brown being seen as having in effect misled the country over ‘deals’ for the votes on 11 June 2008 - again showed the poverty of power.... Poverty because there was no ethics, no morality. No sense. Only grubbiness... No standard. Only clinging on.... And these are the people who ASSUME that they are fit to make laws that deny innocent people the liberty....
James Landale, we are coming to look at your brazen stupidity
As Landale exhibited HIS OWN stupidity as he SPAKE again to David Davis [broadcast on BBC TV during the evening of Wednesday 2 July 2008] ....memories came flooding back of how instant and how mechanical and how corrupt the BBC Landale was on Thursday 12 June 2008.
That was when David Davis made his statement saying he was going to resign as an MP and seek reelection over the Gordon Browned Parliament allowing the destruction of freedom and civil liberties in this country...
What a contrast Andrew Gilligan makes to the likes of james Landale.... And Nicholas Witchell. And Huw Edwards. And Jon Sopel. And almost all the rest of them that are still on the payroll being paid in the name of the public...
[To be continued]
KHoodeelaar! has shown up BOTH Houses of UK Parliament as being unfit for purpose: BOTH Houses fail to audit the 'executive'..[2]
The following ILLUSTRATIVE item has been taken from the web site of the London daily Mail at 0810 Hrs GMT Thursday 3 July 2008
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COMMENTARY:
'Egotistical, ambitious, sleazy ... The perfect candidate for a peerage'
By JAMES CHAPMAN
Last updated at 1:20 AM on 03rd July 2008
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Self-regard is not a quality generally in short supply in the world of Westminster politicians.
Yet Keith Vaz's ego has the capacity to take even many of his Labour colleagues by surprise.
He once described himself as 'a leading member, if not the leading member, of the Asian community in this country'.
Europe Minister Keith Vaz, pictured leaving the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London yesterday
Over the last 20 years, he has veered from one extreme of his party to the other - moving from the hard-left Campaign Group of MPs to become one of Tony Blair's most unctuous New Labour supporters.
But consistency, alas, has never been Keith Vaz's strongest point.
More...
Riddle of the Keith Vaz 'reward': How Geoff Hoon may have hinted at an honour for MP who helped win terror vote
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: How much does it cost to buy an MP?
Two years after being elected in Leicester East in 1987, he marched publicly with Muslim constituents who wanted Salman Rushdie's head over his Satanic Verses book.
It later emerged that at the same time, he was telephoning the author to offer his private support.
Once an arch Eurosceptic, he became such a strong pro-European that as Europe Minister, he threatened to hound Eurosceptics out of the Labour Party.
In one leaked piece of correspondence, he was said to have written: 'We know who you Eurosceptics are and we're coming to get you in your constituencies.'
Born in 1956 in Aden, he is a Goanese Catholic christened Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz. His father was the correspondent in Aden for the Times of India.
Vaz, pictured with Shilpa Shetty, once described himself as 'a leading member, if not the leading member, of the Asian community in this country'
Academically brilliant, he want from Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, West London, to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he dropped the Nigel.
His contemporaries there included Mr Blair's chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell, the novelist and Labour supporter Robert Harris and the BBC presenter Andrew Marr.
A solicitor turned barrister, his family's involvement in politics always made it likely he would seek to follow the same route.
His mother, Merlyn, who died in 2003, was a long-serving Labour councillor in Leicester.
An early attempt at entering Parliament as Labour's candidate in Richmond and Barnes ended in failure, as did a bid to become Euro MP for Surrey West the following year.
He was selected as Labour's candidate in Leicester East for the 1987 election - possibly in part thanks to his outspoken support for hugely controversial 'black sections' in the Labour Party.
These were to be clubs closed to white party members and were designed to draw in disaffected ethnic minorities to Labour.
Enlarge
Vaz pictured at a reception in honour of Lord Irvine, who once described him as 'the most incredible networker I have ever met'
Mr Vaz's stance is thought to have helped win him support in Leicester East, a constituency with 16,000 minority workers.
He went on to defeat the sitting Tory MP Peter Bruinvels, a prominent supporter of capital punishment who once offered to act as a public hangman.
But Mr Vaz's supporters may have been disappointed when, on entering Parliament, he reversed his support for 'black sections'.
He prompted outrage in 1990 when he suggested an IRA bomb in Leicester might for some reason have been planted by the Army.
Despite the row, he joined Labour's front bench as a junior environment spokesman in opposition in 1992.
But it was his role as a Parliamentary bag carrier to Derry Irvine, a close friend of Tony Blair, that helped propel him to the political frontline.
Lord irvine, the then Lord Chancellor, described him as 'the most incredible networker I have ever met'.
Appointed Europe Minister in 1999, allegations of sleaze and chicanery began to emerge soon afterwards.
The next year, the Parliamentary standards watchdog was called in to investigate allegations of undisclosed payments to Mr Vaz from businessmen in his constituency.
He was cleared of nine of the 28 allegations of financial wrongdoing-accused of blocking investigation-into 18 and censured for one - failure to register payments of £4,500 from a solicitor he went on to recommend for a peerage.
After collapsing during a TV interview he was dropped by Mr Blair from the Government in 2001.
Ill health was officially the reason given, though Mr Blair was said to believe that his continued presence in the Government was an embarrassment.
And in 2002, another inquiry into whether a company connected to Mr Vaz had taken money from the billionaire Indian Hinduja brothers came to a more damning verdict.
It concluded he had 'committed serious breaches of the code of conduct and a contempt of the House' and recommended that he be suspended from the Commons for a month.
Yet even this humiliation was not enough to keep Mr Vaz down. After the 2005 General election he slowly worked his way back - being appointed head of an ethnic minority task force by Mr Blair in 2006.
Controversially, he won the prestigious chairmanship of the home affairs select committee in 2007, replacing the universally respected John Denham.
He was effectively shoehorned into the post by the Government, which claimed there was not enough time to go through the usual procedure of asking a crossparty group of MPs to come up with a nominee.
Critics say he has used the post for grandstanding and showboating. Only this week, he was criticised by commentators for inviting Cherie Blair for a high-profile appearance before his committee to discuss policing and knife crime, despite her limited expertise on the subject.
Even before the latest controversy, MPs suspect that his ambitions still run deep. 'The rumour running around Labour MPs was that he would be offered a knighthood for his vote on 42 days,' said one MP who knows him.
'I think he wants to be a knight. He sees that it's unlikely he will ever be a minister again and he would like to be a peer of the realm.
Whether after yesterday's disclosure such a dream is possible now seems doubtful.
How the speaker cut off Cameron's attack
David Cameron
Speaker Michael Martin raised eyebrows in the Commons yesterday by abruptly calling time on David Cameron's attack on Gordon Brown.
He cut off the Prime Minister as he rose to answer the Tory leader over charges that he had not been straight with the voters.
Mr Cameron had scored a coup by confronting Mr Brown with the leaked letter from Geoff Hoon to Keith Vaz.
The Tory leader had just asked his third question and Mr Brown was rising to reply when the Speaker called 'order', apparently in reply to noise in the Chamber.
There was a moment of confusion as the Prime Minister sat down, then rose again to answer, at which point Mr Martin turned and called Labour MP Tom Levitt, who asked a question about the environment.
A spokesman for Mr Brown rejected suggestions that the Speaker had rescued the Prime Minister from Mr Cameron's attack. 'The Prime Minister just responded to the Speaker's instruction.'
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COMMENTARY:
'Egotistical, ambitious, sleazy ... The perfect candidate for a peerage'
By JAMES CHAPMAN
Last updated at 1:20 AM on 03rd July 2008
Comments (0) Add to My Stories
Self-regard is not a quality generally in short supply in the world of Westminster politicians.
Yet Keith Vaz's ego has the capacity to take even many of his Labour colleagues by surprise.
He once described himself as 'a leading member, if not the leading member, of the Asian community in this country'.
Europe Minister Keith Vaz, pictured leaving the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London yesterday
Over the last 20 years, he has veered from one extreme of his party to the other - moving from the hard-left Campaign Group of MPs to become one of Tony Blair's most unctuous New Labour supporters.
But consistency, alas, has never been Keith Vaz's strongest point.
More...
Riddle of the Keith Vaz 'reward': How Geoff Hoon may have hinted at an honour for MP who helped win terror vote
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: How much does it cost to buy an MP?
Two years after being elected in Leicester East in 1987, he marched publicly with Muslim constituents who wanted Salman Rushdie's head over his Satanic Verses book.
It later emerged that at the same time, he was telephoning the author to offer his private support.
Once an arch Eurosceptic, he became such a strong pro-European that as Europe Minister, he threatened to hound Eurosceptics out of the Labour Party.
In one leaked piece of correspondence, he was said to have written: 'We know who you Eurosceptics are and we're coming to get you in your constituencies.'
Born in 1956 in Aden, he is a Goanese Catholic christened Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz. His father was the correspondent in Aden for the Times of India.
Vaz, pictured with Shilpa Shetty, once described himself as 'a leading member, if not the leading member, of the Asian community in this country'
Academically brilliant, he want from Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, West London, to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he dropped the Nigel.
His contemporaries there included Mr Blair's chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell, the novelist and Labour supporter Robert Harris and the BBC presenter Andrew Marr.
A solicitor turned barrister, his family's involvement in politics always made it likely he would seek to follow the same route.
His mother, Merlyn, who died in 2003, was a long-serving Labour councillor in Leicester.
An early attempt at entering Parliament as Labour's candidate in Richmond and Barnes ended in failure, as did a bid to become Euro MP for Surrey West the following year.
He was selected as Labour's candidate in Leicester East for the 1987 election - possibly in part thanks to his outspoken support for hugely controversial 'black sections' in the Labour Party.
These were to be clubs closed to white party members and were designed to draw in disaffected ethnic minorities to Labour.
Enlarge
Vaz pictured at a reception in honour of Lord Irvine, who once described him as 'the most incredible networker I have ever met'
Mr Vaz's stance is thought to have helped win him support in Leicester East, a constituency with 16,000 minority workers.
He went on to defeat the sitting Tory MP Peter Bruinvels, a prominent supporter of capital punishment who once offered to act as a public hangman.
But Mr Vaz's supporters may have been disappointed when, on entering Parliament, he reversed his support for 'black sections'.
He prompted outrage in 1990 when he suggested an IRA bomb in Leicester might for some reason have been planted by the Army.
Despite the row, he joined Labour's front bench as a junior environment spokesman in opposition in 1992.
But it was his role as a Parliamentary bag carrier to Derry Irvine, a close friend of Tony Blair, that helped propel him to the political frontline.
Lord irvine, the then Lord Chancellor, described him as 'the most incredible networker I have ever met'.
Appointed Europe Minister in 1999, allegations of sleaze and chicanery began to emerge soon afterwards.
The next year, the Parliamentary standards watchdog was called in to investigate allegations of undisclosed payments to Mr Vaz from businessmen in his constituency.
He was cleared of nine of the 28 allegations of financial wrongdoing-accused of blocking investigation-into 18 and censured for one - failure to register payments of £4,500 from a solicitor he went on to recommend for a peerage.
After collapsing during a TV interview he was dropped by Mr Blair from the Government in 2001.
Ill health was officially the reason given, though Mr Blair was said to believe that his continued presence in the Government was an embarrassment.
And in 2002, another inquiry into whether a company connected to Mr Vaz had taken money from the billionaire Indian Hinduja brothers came to a more damning verdict.
It concluded he had 'committed serious breaches of the code of conduct and a contempt of the House' and recommended that he be suspended from the Commons for a month.
Yet even this humiliation was not enough to keep Mr Vaz down. After the 2005 General election he slowly worked his way back - being appointed head of an ethnic minority task force by Mr Blair in 2006.
Controversially, he won the prestigious chairmanship of the home affairs select committee in 2007, replacing the universally respected John Denham.
He was effectively shoehorned into the post by the Government, which claimed there was not enough time to go through the usual procedure of asking a crossparty group of MPs to come up with a nominee.
Critics say he has used the post for grandstanding and showboating. Only this week, he was criticised by commentators for inviting Cherie Blair for a high-profile appearance before his committee to discuss policing and knife crime, despite her limited expertise on the subject.
Even before the latest controversy, MPs suspect that his ambitions still run deep. 'The rumour running around Labour MPs was that he would be offered a knighthood for his vote on 42 days,' said one MP who knows him.
'I think he wants to be a knight. He sees that it's unlikely he will ever be a minister again and he would like to be a peer of the realm.
Whether after yesterday's disclosure such a dream is possible now seems doubtful.
How the speaker cut off Cameron's attack
David Cameron
Speaker Michael Martin raised eyebrows in the Commons yesterday by abruptly calling time on David Cameron's attack on Gordon Brown.
He cut off the Prime Minister as he rose to answer the Tory leader over charges that he had not been straight with the voters.
Mr Cameron had scored a coup by confronting Mr Brown with the leaked letter from Geoff Hoon to Keith Vaz.
The Tory leader had just asked his third question and Mr Brown was rising to reply when the Speaker called 'order', apparently in reply to noise in the Chamber.
There was a moment of confusion as the Prime Minister sat down, then rose again to answer, at which point Mr Martin turned and called Labour MP Tom Levitt, who asked a question about the environment.
A spokesman for Mr Brown rejected suggestions that the Speaker had rescued the Prime Minister from Mr Cameron's attack. 'The Prime Minister just responded to the Speaker's instruction.'
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Khoodeelaar! has shown up BOTH Houses of UK Parliament as being unfit for purpose: BOTH Houses fail to audit the 'executive'...
Khoodeelaar! has shown up BOTH Houses of UK Parliament as being unfit for purpose: BOTH Houses fail to audit the 'executive'...
This becomes clear whenever there is any issue of substance that the ‘Houses’ ‘consider’.
There is, of course, a lot of hype suggesting that the ‘Houses DO hold the executive to account!
But that is a lie.
As even the formally placed ‘chair’ of the ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee in the House of Lords’ [= our abbreviation of that is= CBSCHL= where the ‘S’ stands for STOOGED rather than “select’] has confessed: They are useless.
They are MEANT to be useless...
That ‘chair’ has said that objectors to Crossrail who are not impressed by the behaviour of the CBSCHL should seek redress in the courts!
Exactly the point that KHOODEELAAR! had been making and IS continuing to make!
The ‘Parliament’ is being discredited by the parliamentarians. And they know it.
And they say it.
As they said so many ways in the 30 minute stunt called the PMQs staged yesterday.
‘Thanks’ to the Daily Telegraph web site which did a strategic job of publishing the Sleaze suggestion linking keith vaz and Geoff Hoon with the Deal on the 42 day detention without trial.... Gordon Brown found himself, once again, lost without anything valuable to say...
None of his alleged ‘British vahloos’ looked remotely useful or even accessible as Ca-moron caught Brown out....
We say again: SCRAP Crossrail NOW, Gordon. lest ye regret thy
boasts and thy banality and thy imprudent ‘commitment’ to fund CRASSrail to the tune of £Billions that ye were ‘tricked’ by the lying Livingstone into making....
[To be continued]
This becomes clear whenever there is any issue of substance that the ‘Houses’ ‘consider’.
There is, of course, a lot of hype suggesting that the ‘Houses DO hold the executive to account!
But that is a lie.
As even the formally placed ‘chair’ of the ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee in the House of Lords’ [= our abbreviation of that is= CBSCHL= where the ‘S’ stands for STOOGED rather than “select’] has confessed: They are useless.
They are MEANT to be useless...
That ‘chair’ has said that objectors to Crossrail who are not impressed by the behaviour of the CBSCHL should seek redress in the courts!
Exactly the point that KHOODEELAAR! had been making and IS continuing to make!
The ‘Parliament’ is being discredited by the parliamentarians. And they know it.
And they say it.
As they said so many ways in the 30 minute stunt called the PMQs staged yesterday.
‘Thanks’ to the Daily Telegraph web site which did a strategic job of publishing the Sleaze suggestion linking keith vaz and Geoff Hoon with the Deal on the 42 day detention without trial.... Gordon Brown found himself, once again, lost without anything valuable to say...
None of his alleged ‘British vahloos’ looked remotely useful or even accessible as Ca-moron caught Brown out....
We say again: SCRAP Crossrail NOW, Gordon. lest ye regret thy
boasts and thy banality and thy imprudent ‘commitment’ to fund CRASSrail to the tune of £Billions that ye were ‘tricked’ by the lying Livingstone into making....
[To be continued]
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The Crossrail hole plot-INVITING corrupt clique controlling the East London Council of 'Tower Hamlets' is smashing the community in the area.....
By©Muhammad Haque
2258 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 2 July 2008
We are daily showing, on the AADHIKARonline web pages, blogs and al,lied publications centring around the campaign against the London Crossrail hole plot just how alienated the controlling clique is from the community.
We are about to show that they are no longer just alienated. they are downright hostile.
They are hostile to the local community.
In this commentary, we show some of the current items of evidence that confirm that in betraying the community for the Big Business agenda of bankrupt economics identifiable with the corrupt City of London and whatever 'Canary Wharf' denotes, the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council has also committed a fundamental political self-destructive act...
One of the likely consequences of this will be seen between now and whenever the next elections take place for the Tower Hamlets Council...
How have they done so?
For a start, the numerical majority of the token, 'formal' decorations that are exhibited as being 'members' of the majority group on the Council are NOT in there making the decisions.
They are NOT even there to make any contributions. .
They are NOt capable of doing so.
This is not OPINION.
This is fact.
Secondly, those who do make the policy and then propel those through the formal 'members' are mostly NOT members.
They are NOT even employed, as such, in the Council. Or ‘by’ the Council.
Some of these are in fact agents of Big Business and their key role is to take over the agenda setting of the Council.
Thirdly, because the formal 'members' are NOt there to represent the community - they do not get to know the difference between representation and letting the constituency down.
Fourthly, we have a democratic vacuum. A deficit.
That void is being filled by the unaccountable, the unseen, the invisible elements that make the actual agenda, decide on what ‘needs to be done’ and what ‘needs to be avoided’.
A third component of their role is to also decide as to what ‘needs to be opposed’.
THEY have decided to apply the resources and the ‘powers’ of the Council in OPPOSING the people in the community. And in particular in opposing what is universally good, what is legitimate.
What is vital for the existence and the progress of the community. And the survival of the community.
This is the point at which the controlling clique decided to INVITE the Crossrail hole attacks upon the community.
Just like the decision to sabotage democracy by imposing an army of consultants who themselves form parts of the clique and aid and abet the clique in fomenting ever new sets and excuses for keeping the operation as corrupt and as unaccountable as they can manage to do --- the corrupt clique in control of Tower Hamlets Council has now ALMOST succeeded in making bit ‘the norm’ that the Council is a PRIVATE company unaccountable to the community.
This is why the clique has been so ferociously dishonest. There has been no .
It knows that ‘local ward councillors’ are not functioning as ward representatives
EVEN if, theoretically speaking, they WERE acting, for a length of a day, as ward councillors, they would not be able to sustain that intellectual position beyond a day. Why?
Because there is no constituency based, ward based political framework that is holding these ‘ward’ ‘councillors’ to account...
.
[To be continued]
2258 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 2 July 2008
We are daily showing, on the AADHIKARonline web pages, blogs and al,lied publications centring around the campaign against the London Crossrail hole plot just how alienated the controlling clique is from the community.
We are about to show that they are no longer just alienated. they are downright hostile.
They are hostile to the local community.
In this commentary, we show some of the current items of evidence that confirm that in betraying the community for the Big Business agenda of bankrupt economics identifiable with the corrupt City of London and whatever 'Canary Wharf' denotes, the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council has also committed a fundamental political self-destructive act...
One of the likely consequences of this will be seen between now and whenever the next elections take place for the Tower Hamlets Council...
How have they done so?
For a start, the numerical majority of the token, 'formal' decorations that are exhibited as being 'members' of the majority group on the Council are NOT in there making the decisions.
They are NOT even there to make any contributions. .
They are NOt capable of doing so.
This is not OPINION.
This is fact.
Secondly, those who do make the policy and then propel those through the formal 'members' are mostly NOT members.
They are NOT even employed, as such, in the Council. Or ‘by’ the Council.
Some of these are in fact agents of Big Business and their key role is to take over the agenda setting of the Council.
Thirdly, because the formal 'members' are NOt there to represent the community - they do not get to know the difference between representation and letting the constituency down.
Fourthly, we have a democratic vacuum. A deficit.
That void is being filled by the unaccountable, the unseen, the invisible elements that make the actual agenda, decide on what ‘needs to be done’ and what ‘needs to be avoided’.
A third component of their role is to also decide as to what ‘needs to be opposed’.
THEY have decided to apply the resources and the ‘powers’ of the Council in OPPOSING the people in the community. And in particular in opposing what is universally good, what is legitimate.
What is vital for the existence and the progress of the community. And the survival of the community.
This is the point at which the controlling clique decided to INVITE the Crossrail hole attacks upon the community.
Just like the decision to sabotage democracy by imposing an army of consultants who themselves form parts of the clique and aid and abet the clique in fomenting ever new sets and excuses for keeping the operation as corrupt and as unaccountable as they can manage to do --- the corrupt clique in control of Tower Hamlets Council has now ALMOST succeeded in making bit ‘the norm’ that the Council is a PRIVATE company unaccountable to the community.
This is why the clique has been so ferociously dishonest. There has been no .
It knows that ‘local ward councillors’ are not functioning as ward representatives
EVEN if, theoretically speaking, they WERE acting, for a length of a day, as ward councillors, they would not be able to sustain that intellectual position beyond a day. Why?
Because there is no constituency based, ward based political framework that is holding these ‘ward’ ‘councillors’ to account...
.
[To be continued]
Khoodeelaar! action against Crossrail hole AGENDA addresses ALL key aspects of life in inner city London and the EAST END of London...
We are daily showing, on the AADHIKARonline web pages, blogs and al,lied publications centring around the campaign against the London Crossrail hole plot just how alienated the controlling clique is from the community.
We are about to show that they are no longer just alienated. they are downright hostile.
They are hostile to the local community.
In this commentary, we show some of the current items of evidence that confirm that in betraying the community for the Big Business agenda of bankrupt economics identifiable with the corrupt City of London and whatever 'Canary Wharf' denotes, the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council has also committed a fundamental political self-destructive act...
One of the likely consequences of this will be seen between now and whenever the next elections take place for the Tower Hamlets Council...
How have they done so?
For a start, the numerical majority of the token, 'formal' decorations that are exhibited as being 'members' of the majority group on the Council are NOT in there making the decisions.
They are NOT even there to make any contributions. .
They are NOt capable of doing so.
This is not OPINION.
This is fact.
Secondly, those who do make the policy and then propel those through the formal 'members' are mostly NOT members.
They are NOT even employed, as such, in the Council. Or ‘by’ the Council.
Some of these are in fact agents of Big Business and their key role is to take over the agenda setting of the Council.
Thirdly, because the formal 'members' are NOt there to represent the community - they do not get to know the difference between representation and letting the constituency down.
Fourthly, we have a democratic vacuum. A deficit.
By©Muhammad Haque
2258 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 2 July 2008
That void is being filled by the unaccountable, the unseen, the invisible elements that make the actual agenda, decide on what ‘needs to be done’ and what ‘needs to be avoided’.
A third component of their role is to also decide as to what ‘needs to be opposed’.
THEY have decided to apply the resources and the ‘powers’ of the Council in OPPOSING the people in the community. And in particular in opposing what is universally good, what is legitimate.
What is vital for the existence and the progress of the community. And the survival of the community.
This is the point at which the controlling clique decided to INVITE the Crossrail hole attacks upon the community.
Just like the decision to sabotage democracy by imposing an army of consultants who themselves form parts of the clique and aid and abet the clique in fomenting ever new sets and excuses for keeping the operation as corrupt and as unaccountable as they can manage to do --- the corrupt clique in control of Tower Hamlets Council has now ALMOST succeeded in making bit ‘the norm’ that the Council is a PRIVATE company unaccountable to the community.
This is why the clique has been so ferociously dishonest. There has been no .
It knows that ‘local ward councillors’ are not functioning as ward representatives
EVEN if, theoretically speaking, they WERE acting, for a length of a day, as ward councillors, they would not be able to sustain that intellectual position beyond a day. Why>? Because their is no constituency based, ward based political framework that is holding these ‘ward’ ‘councillors’ to account...
.
[To be continued]
We are about to show that they are no longer just alienated. they are downright hostile.
They are hostile to the local community.
In this commentary, we show some of the current items of evidence that confirm that in betraying the community for the Big Business agenda of bankrupt economics identifiable with the corrupt City of London and whatever 'Canary Wharf' denotes, the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council has also committed a fundamental political self-destructive act...
One of the likely consequences of this will be seen between now and whenever the next elections take place for the Tower Hamlets Council...
How have they done so?
For a start, the numerical majority of the token, 'formal' decorations that are exhibited as being 'members' of the majority group on the Council are NOT in there making the decisions.
They are NOT even there to make any contributions. .
They are NOt capable of doing so.
This is not OPINION.
This is fact.
Secondly, those who do make the policy and then propel those through the formal 'members' are mostly NOT members.
They are NOT even employed, as such, in the Council. Or ‘by’ the Council.
Some of these are in fact agents of Big Business and their key role is to take over the agenda setting of the Council.
Thirdly, because the formal 'members' are NOt there to represent the community - they do not get to know the difference between representation and letting the constituency down.
Fourthly, we have a democratic vacuum. A deficit.
By©Muhammad Haque
2258 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 2 July 2008
That void is being filled by the unaccountable, the unseen, the invisible elements that make the actual agenda, decide on what ‘needs to be done’ and what ‘needs to be avoided’.
A third component of their role is to also decide as to what ‘needs to be opposed’.
THEY have decided to apply the resources and the ‘powers’ of the Council in OPPOSING the people in the community. And in particular in opposing what is universally good, what is legitimate.
What is vital for the existence and the progress of the community. And the survival of the community.
This is the point at which the controlling clique decided to INVITE the Crossrail hole attacks upon the community.
Just like the decision to sabotage democracy by imposing an army of consultants who themselves form parts of the clique and aid and abet the clique in fomenting ever new sets and excuses for keeping the operation as corrupt and as unaccountable as they can manage to do --- the corrupt clique in control of Tower Hamlets Council has now ALMOST succeeded in making bit ‘the norm’ that the Council is a PRIVATE company unaccountable to the community.
This is why the clique has been so ferociously dishonest. There has been no .
It knows that ‘local ward councillors’ are not functioning as ward representatives
EVEN if, theoretically speaking, they WERE acting, for a length of a day, as ward councillors, they would not be able to sustain that intellectual position beyond a day. Why>? Because their is no constituency based, ward based political framework that is holding these ‘ward’ ‘councillors’ to account...
.
[To be continued]
As London tribunal finds Tower Hamlets Council guilty, how many other cases DO exist of the Council's callousness?
CRASS act by Crossrail hole plot-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council, EXPOSED in a tribunal case verdict today...
The crassness of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council is a theme that the Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail hole plot has pointed out right from the start of our campaign in January 2004.
We have said that Tower Hamlets Council is controlled by a clique that is corrupt. That the Council has been in the corrupt clique's control for most of the time. That decisions made by the corrupt clique are by definition corrupt and or inappropriate and or wasteful;.
This we have said all along and despite the fact that the so-called ‘local’ newspaper, the East London IDIOTISER keeps claiming to be publishing accurate reports about the behaviour of the council when the truth is that the Idiotiser is suppressing the true behaviour of the clique. And of the totally plaint ‘opposition’.
The Conservatives are NOt being treated here as ‘Opposition’. More on the Tower Hamlets Council 'Conservatives' shortly.
Here we publish an item from 24.dash web site which is self explanatory:-
"
Council worker in line for £1 million pay out in pension claim battle
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Council worker in line for £1 million pay out in pension claim battle
A council worker made redundant six months before qualifying for a pension payout could receive £1 million compensation after victory at an employment tribunal today.
John Wooster, 50, from Chigwell, Essex, worked for Tower Hamlets council in east London for 33 years from the age of 16.
He was made redundant months before becoming eligible for a lump sum and pension payments.
Today Stratford Employment Tribunal found that he was unfairly dismissed and a victim of age discrimination.
Mr Wooster said: "This is a great victory. I really hope that this will stop the council from treating anyone else in the appalling way that it has treated me.
"I devoted 33 years of my working life to the council and it repaid me by dismissing me so that it would save money by not paying me my pension entitlements."
The council had claimed that Mr Wooster was a temporary employee while he worked as a senior consultation officer on secondment at East End Homes, a registered social landlord.
The firm offered to pay his salary until he reached the age of 50, but Tower Hamlets refused and he was dismissed on December 29 2006.
Solicitor Helen Murphie said: "Mr Wooster started work with the council when he was 16 and continued to work his way up the ladder until he was 49 and a half. Knowing that he would be entitled to his pension and a lump sum if he were made redundant upon reaching the age of 50, the council deliberately refused to redeploy him and dismissed him immediately."
Judge Pritchard-Witts said the tribunal had "no doubt" that it was Mr Wooster's age that had caused his dismissal.
Mr Wooster followed in the footsteps of his father, Tom, and grandfather, also John, in working for the council.
Wooster Gardens in Poplar, east London, are named after Mr Wooster's grandfather, who was once mayor of Poplar.
The 50-year-old is now claiming £1 million in compensation for loss of employment until his age of retirement at 65, loss of pension, and injury to feelings.
The amount he will be awarded will be decided at a later hearing.
"
The crassness of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council is a theme that the Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail hole plot has pointed out right from the start of our campaign in January 2004.
We have said that Tower Hamlets Council is controlled by a clique that is corrupt. That the Council has been in the corrupt clique's control for most of the time. That decisions made by the corrupt clique are by definition corrupt and or inappropriate and or wasteful;.
This we have said all along and despite the fact that the so-called ‘local’ newspaper, the East London IDIOTISER keeps claiming to be publishing accurate reports about the behaviour of the council when the truth is that the Idiotiser is suppressing the true behaviour of the clique. And of the totally plaint ‘opposition’.
The Conservatives are NOt being treated here as ‘Opposition’. More on the Tower Hamlets Council 'Conservatives' shortly.
Here we publish an item from 24.dash web site which is self explanatory:-
"
Council worker in line for £1 million pay out in pension claim battle
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Wednesday 2nd July 2008 - 3:54pm
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Council worker in line for £1 million pay out in pension claim battle
A council worker made redundant six months before qualifying for a pension payout could receive £1 million compensation after victory at an employment tribunal today.
John Wooster, 50, from Chigwell, Essex, worked for Tower Hamlets council in east London for 33 years from the age of 16.
He was made redundant months before becoming eligible for a lump sum and pension payments.
Today Stratford Employment Tribunal found that he was unfairly dismissed and a victim of age discrimination.
Mr Wooster said: "This is a great victory. I really hope that this will stop the council from treating anyone else in the appalling way that it has treated me.
"I devoted 33 years of my working life to the council and it repaid me by dismissing me so that it would save money by not paying me my pension entitlements."
The council had claimed that Mr Wooster was a temporary employee while he worked as a senior consultation officer on secondment at East End Homes, a registered social landlord.
The firm offered to pay his salary until he reached the age of 50, but Tower Hamlets refused and he was dismissed on December 29 2006.
Solicitor Helen Murphie said: "Mr Wooster started work with the council when he was 16 and continued to work his way up the ladder until he was 49 and a half. Knowing that he would be entitled to his pension and a lump sum if he were made redundant upon reaching the age of 50, the council deliberately refused to redeploy him and dismissed him immediately."
Judge Pritchard-Witts said the tribunal had "no doubt" that it was Mr Wooster's age that had caused his dismissal.
Mr Wooster followed in the footsteps of his father, Tom, and grandfather, also John, in working for the council.
Wooster Gardens in Poplar, east London, are named after Mr Wooster's grandfather, who was once mayor of Poplar.
The 50-year-old is now claiming £1 million in compensation for loss of employment until his age of retirement at 65, loss of pension, and injury to feelings.
The amount he will be awarded will be decided at a later hearing.
"
CRASS talk by Crossrail hole plot-tout Ken Livingstone must be ended with Brown SCRAPPING Crassrail NOW...
Crass talking, Crossrail hole plot-peddling 'Undone mayor' Ken Livingstone has not any basis to utter 'world class' before facing the crises now...!
By©Muhammad Haque
1750 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 2 July 2008
If anyone was disposed to feel ‘sorry’ for Ken Livingstone at his defat on 1 May 2008, they must have now found out that any compassionate feeling of such solidarity would be highly inappropriate...
The man, as KHOODEELAAR! typically exclusive ely diagnosed and published his condition, was, had been, and remains highly egotistically challenged and psychologically destabilised...
It was Livingstone’;s psychological imbalance that had caused him to be so inappropriately closely and unaccountably involved in so many acts of abuse of public funds under the then over-hyped scams at the GLC.
Almost every day now, we are heating of incidents, acts, decisions, arrangements about the 2012 costs overruns... The escalating costs overruns and other faults including design faults and questions are going to get out of reasonable comprehensibility soon...
Just as Livingstone's ego is threatening to burst out of control....
So we say again, anyone who took any decision as based on ken Livingstone's ‘economic wisdom’ [ a more fundamental contradiction is not easy to imagine] especially Anyone near or even 'in' near No 10 Downing Street who might have allowed themselves to be tricked into Canary Wharf and make any announcements about Crossrail.. especially about FUNDING Crossrail to the tune f£ Billions with public money...... please revise such actions IMMEDIATELY....
[To be Continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1750 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 2 July 2008
If anyone was disposed to feel ‘sorry’ for Ken Livingstone at his defat on 1 May 2008, they must have now found out that any compassionate feeling of such solidarity would be highly inappropriate...
The man, as KHOODEELAAR! typically exclusive ely diagnosed and published his condition, was, had been, and remains highly egotistically challenged and psychologically destabilised...
It was Livingstone’;s psychological imbalance that had caused him to be so inappropriately closely and unaccountably involved in so many acts of abuse of public funds under the then over-hyped scams at the GLC.
Almost every day now, we are heating of incidents, acts, decisions, arrangements about the 2012 costs overruns... The escalating costs overruns and other faults including design faults and questions are going to get out of reasonable comprehensibility soon...
Just as Livingstone's ego is threatening to burst out of control....
So we say again, anyone who took any decision as based on ken Livingstone's ‘economic wisdom’ [ a more fundamental contradiction is not easy to imagine] especially Anyone near or even 'in' near No 10 Downing Street who might have allowed themselves to be tricked into Canary Wharf and make any announcements about Crossrail.. especially about FUNDING Crossrail to the tune f£ Billions with public money...... please revise such actions IMMEDIATELY....
[To be Continued]
Does 'Supermum' Nicola Horlick have the courage to join Khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole plot to ADD to the poverty in the East End?
1140 Hrs GMT 1240 Hrs UK Time London Wednesday 2 July 2008: KHOODEELAAR! No to 'Crossrail hole plot' CAMPAIGN told you so! That the 'City of London' HAS KNOWINGLY devised successions of take-over and occupation scams so that it could remove the 'community' that exists in the area targeted by Crossrail hole attacks That some of the most high-profiled career-makers in the same 'City of London' KNOW of the dire, desperate destitution that exists in 'Tower Hamlets'.. This last part is what we are addressing in this edition, which we are starting with a quotation from Nicola Horlick...’the Supermum’...Who is quoted today by a City of London propaganda sheet as saying in an interview, ““Around the City are some of the poorest areas in London, and that juxtaposition just makes you think. If you live in Tower Hamlets your life expectancy is seven years shorter than if you live in Richmond – it drives you to want to do something.” ..
[To be continued]
[To be continued]
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Khoodeelaar! action update on the demands against Crossrail hole agenda, as we put to Parliament via a constituency-linked route on 13 June 2006
"Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail hole Tower Hamlets Council
By©Muhammad Haque
13 June 2006
As the House of Commons 'Select committee' on the 'Crossrail Bill' hears formal presentation of objections from several individuals and local groups in the Brick Lane and Whitechapel area in the Portcullis House, in Westminster, London SW1 starting at 1000 Hrs [0900 GMT] today [13 June 2006], the Khoodeelaar! Campaign is gearing up its pressure on the 'new' Tower Hamlets Council, which has been the single most culpable 'democratic entity' that has touted against the local community and has brought upon the East End the massive threat of the Crossrail attacks. The only democratic and constitutional defence of the community should have been a democratically elected body, the local council! Instead, it is the grassroots community based Khoodeelaar! That has had to be established to defend the community against the treachery and betrayal of the Blaired local council! The battle continues!
©Muhammad Haque
/Khoodeelaar/CBRUK/LAWMEDIA 2006
No to CrossRail-hole Tower Hamlets Council programme Tues 13 June
Khoodeelaar publishes second Motion for the full Council meeting on June 21
On Monday 12 June 2006, Khoodeelaar! The Brick Land and Whitechapel London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole Council delivered the first of a new series of Open Letters to Tower Hamlets councillors. They also included the texts of a draft motion for the full meeting of Tower Hamlets Council scheduled to be held on 21 June 2006.
The demand for Tower Hamlets Council to Say No to CrossRail is the continuation of the demand made by the Khoodeelaar! campaign meeting held on 22 January 2006 which was supported by more than 1000 people who turned up to back the campaign against the CrossRail attack on the Brick Lane London E1 area.
Today’s Khoodeelaar! Campaign activities also include the publication of the latest Khoodeelaar! exposé of the Crossrail-hole-plot backing controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council – and an updated analysis of that clique’s lies for Crossrail as confirmed before the ‘select committee’ on the ‘Crossrail Bill’.
• The Khoodeelaar! Letter to Tower Hamlets Councillors being published today [Tuesday 13 June 2006] will include the following legal and constitutional points:-
• That Khoodeelaar! will take individual councillors to court – when the series of court actions is commenced as soon as possible after the conclusion of the current formal meetings of the ‘House of Commons Crossrail Bill select committee – and that the key ground against the particular councillors will be their roles in either misleading the community or making misleading communications or comments or statements to or about the community and for the CrossRail hole plan scheme project Bill
a. b. That Khoodeelaar! will support and where necessary initiate the full and comprehensive investigation of electoral fraud and offences that might have been committed at the 4 May 2006 elections.
The idea behind the Khoodeelaar! campaign has been a deeply moral and a highly constitutional one – to apply all the known and commonly perceived concepts of democratic representation by causing all holders of public office in the locality to acknowledge their duties in context and to actively engage in delivering the representation that they are in office to deliver.
In the campaign activities focussing on the Crossrail hole-inviting Tower Hamlets Council, we are today publishing details of the meeting of the Council ‘cabinet’ held on 6 October 2004.
That meeting was observed by over fifteen members of the various local groups opposed to the Crossrail hole plan. During that meeting, the then chair of Tower Hamlets Council’s regeneration committee or the ‘lead member’ for ‘regeneration’ made a number of statements that were described by the CBRUK Central Executive council as misleading.
CBRUK Central wrote to the Council’s chief executive Christine Gilbert putting on the record the organisation’s objections to the statements and role of Michael Keith. Christine Gilbert took her time ands did not reply until late in October 2004. When she did reply, she claimed that the interpretation by CBRUK Central of Michael Keith’s statement/s had been inaccurate.
She asserted that she knew because she was present at the meeting concerned and that she also had seen the minutes of the meeting. When Cbrukcentral asked Gilbert to let them have a copy of the alleged version of the alleged minutes, Gilbert failed to deliver. That failure was not exceptional.
Throughout her time in the post of chief executive – a post she occupied after being eased into it by Michael Keith who had played a decisive role in Gilbert’s appointment to the post for which a better candidate was rejected – Gilbert persistently defied the democratic requirements and let the community stay in the dark about all crucial decisions that he took for the controlling clique. Of all the damaging acts, her role in prompting the Crossrail hole attack on the East End has been the most far-reaching one confirming the Big Business and City of London agenda to uproot the community out of its home and to make the East End ready for takeover
…The Khoodeelaar! movement is here to help defeat that assault and betrayal.
©Muhammad Haque
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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Khoodeelaar! guidance for George Galloway on Crossrail hole attacks
13.06.2006 17:20
© Muhammad Haque / Khoodeelaar/ CBRUK /Lawmedia 2006
This is 1522 Hrs in London on Tuesday 13 June 2006.
I have just spoken again in the last five minutes to one of your RESPECT party members while walking down the Hanbury Street. He rushed off saying that he had another urgent matter to attend to. He said he was due to speak to you in a matter of minutes about the CrossRail Bill.
I had told him that Khoodeelaar! had waited for a long time to hear about what you as the local MP and as the RESPECT party were doing to support the campaign against Crossrail.
Over the past few months, in fact since I first met you as the local MP on 30 January 2006, we have heard so many claims about who was doing what 'in the community' about the Crossrail threat that it is time to put the very serious concerns caused by those false and misleading assertions in a new updated version of questions to you. I hope this will focus your attention at least on what we are interested in seeing you do as the local MP.
First of all I record, for the n'th time that I have heard you personally speak unequivocally against Crossrail and over the past 160 days I have chronicled your comments and role as accurately as any of your eols has ever been done by anyone other than by yourself.
As compared to your personal statements of opposition to Crossrail, there have been far too many statements and comments and claims made by persons that are either identifiable as members of your party or those who have made statements while uttering the words as spokespersons for your party.
ALL those statements have fallen short of what the Khoodeelaar! campaign has stood for against CrossRail.
ALL those statements and comments have been in conflict with the position as identifiable by reference to your statements on Crossrail
What is the reasons for this conflict?
If you disagree that there is and has been this conflict then please cite on which ones you are maintaining this stance and I shall be more than willing to provide you with chapter and verse showing how very wide the gulf has been between your stated position against Crossrail and the positions as stated by those speaking as your RESPECT party personnel.
I also recall that on 9 April 2006 you said that a special brochure against Crossrail had been produced and that it would be available in the community immediately.
I have asked for a copy of that and none has been either shown to me or referred top in any statements by anyone from your party to me in the last two months.
Please state what happened to that brochure and if it was shelved then why.
Now, what you need to realise as the local MP is that there is very serious anxiety about what exactly you are doing to defend the local community against the CrossRail programme.
Over the period since 17 January 2006 when I launched the very first public defence of you in the Brick Lane area as against the Blaring media blitz that was sweeping the country against you over your participation in the Channel 4 programme concerned, I have spoken to hundreds of people on the subject of your role in opposing CrossRail. In the past fortnight we in the Khoodeelaar! campaign organisation has had cause to go over every single political component that is relevant in the defence of the community against the corrupt Crossrail hole-backing Tower Hamlets Council. We also have noted the statement made in the name of your party on 2 June 2006 on the satellite TV station called Bangla TV That statement was the same statement in supporting Crossrail as had been the statements of Michael Keith, Helal Abbas, and the Tories and the Liberals.
So, here are the most pressing questions at the moment and on the subject of your role and your practical plans about identifying with the Khoodeelaar campaign against the Crossrail attack on the community.
1. Have you collected your thoughts on the matter as you prepare to address the select committee on Wednesday?
2. If you have, what are the key points you are going to make and what evidential basis?
3. Who apart from Khoodeelaar! would you say has been truthfully, consistently, significantly and emphatically active in a campaigning mode and with campaigning organisation against Crossrail? I ask this because I want to know whether it is apparent to you that a stooge outfit was underway at the behest of the corrupt elements in control of Tower Hamlets Council which was set up to sabotage our campaign of opposition to Crossrail
4. What progress if any have you made in getting across to the two satellite TV stations as to why their obstructions to anti-Crossrail campaigners and their promotions of and touting for pro-Crossrail council was wrong and that it was against the existing broadcasting regulation guidelines and codes/
5. What steps have you taken or prepared to take that you can actually back the objective of defusing the main arguments that the promoters of the plan have confected?
6. You stated on 7 March 2006 that you had not been able to speak on the matter as you were a petitioner.
7. Now that the petition is being formally introduced by you at the scheduled session tomorrow, what can you tell the community now that you will be saying tomorrow against Crossrail and in tangible and lasting solidarity with the community that faces the attacks under the CrossRail programme?
Muhammad Haque
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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"
By©Muhammad Haque
13 June 2006
As the House of Commons 'Select committee' on the 'Crossrail Bill' hears formal presentation of objections from several individuals and local groups in the Brick Lane and Whitechapel area in the Portcullis House, in Westminster, London SW1 starting at 1000 Hrs [0900 GMT] today [13 June 2006], the Khoodeelaar! Campaign is gearing up its pressure on the 'new' Tower Hamlets Council, which has been the single most culpable 'democratic entity' that has touted against the local community and has brought upon the East End the massive threat of the Crossrail attacks. The only democratic and constitutional defence of the community should have been a democratically elected body, the local council! Instead, it is the grassroots community based Khoodeelaar! That has had to be established to defend the community against the treachery and betrayal of the Blaired local council! The battle continues!
©Muhammad Haque
/Khoodeelaar/CBRUK/LAWMEDIA 2006
No to CrossRail-hole Tower Hamlets Council programme Tues 13 June
Khoodeelaar publishes second Motion for the full Council meeting on June 21
On Monday 12 June 2006, Khoodeelaar! The Brick Land and Whitechapel London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole Council delivered the first of a new series of Open Letters to Tower Hamlets councillors. They also included the texts of a draft motion for the full meeting of Tower Hamlets Council scheduled to be held on 21 June 2006.
The demand for Tower Hamlets Council to Say No to CrossRail is the continuation of the demand made by the Khoodeelaar! campaign meeting held on 22 January 2006 which was supported by more than 1000 people who turned up to back the campaign against the CrossRail attack on the Brick Lane London E1 area.
Today’s Khoodeelaar! Campaign activities also include the publication of the latest Khoodeelaar! exposé of the Crossrail-hole-plot backing controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council – and an updated analysis of that clique’s lies for Crossrail as confirmed before the ‘select committee’ on the ‘Crossrail Bill’.
• The Khoodeelaar! Letter to Tower Hamlets Councillors being published today [Tuesday 13 June 2006] will include the following legal and constitutional points:-
• That Khoodeelaar! will take individual councillors to court – when the series of court actions is commenced as soon as possible after the conclusion of the current formal meetings of the ‘House of Commons Crossrail Bill select committee – and that the key ground against the particular councillors will be their roles in either misleading the community or making misleading communications or comments or statements to or about the community and for the CrossRail hole plan scheme project Bill
a. b. That Khoodeelaar! will support and where necessary initiate the full and comprehensive investigation of electoral fraud and offences that might have been committed at the 4 May 2006 elections.
The idea behind the Khoodeelaar! campaign has been a deeply moral and a highly constitutional one – to apply all the known and commonly perceived concepts of democratic representation by causing all holders of public office in the locality to acknowledge their duties in context and to actively engage in delivering the representation that they are in office to deliver.
In the campaign activities focussing on the Crossrail hole-inviting Tower Hamlets Council, we are today publishing details of the meeting of the Council ‘cabinet’ held on 6 October 2004.
That meeting was observed by over fifteen members of the various local groups opposed to the Crossrail hole plan. During that meeting, the then chair of Tower Hamlets Council’s regeneration committee or the ‘lead member’ for ‘regeneration’ made a number of statements that were described by the CBRUK Central Executive council as misleading.
CBRUK Central wrote to the Council’s chief executive Christine Gilbert putting on the record the organisation’s objections to the statements and role of Michael Keith. Christine Gilbert took her time ands did not reply until late in October 2004. When she did reply, she claimed that the interpretation by CBRUK Central of Michael Keith’s statement/s had been inaccurate.
She asserted that she knew because she was present at the meeting concerned and that she also had seen the minutes of the meeting. When Cbrukcentral asked Gilbert to let them have a copy of the alleged version of the alleged minutes, Gilbert failed to deliver. That failure was not exceptional.
Throughout her time in the post of chief executive – a post she occupied after being eased into it by Michael Keith who had played a decisive role in Gilbert’s appointment to the post for which a better candidate was rejected – Gilbert persistently defied the democratic requirements and let the community stay in the dark about all crucial decisions that he took for the controlling clique. Of all the damaging acts, her role in prompting the Crossrail hole attack on the East End has been the most far-reaching one confirming the Big Business and City of London agenda to uproot the community out of its home and to make the East End ready for takeover
…The Khoodeelaar! movement is here to help defeat that assault and betrayal.
©Muhammad Haque
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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Khoodeelaar! guidance for George Galloway on Crossrail hole attacks
13.06.2006 17:20
© Muhammad Haque / Khoodeelaar/ CBRUK /Lawmedia 2006
This is 1522 Hrs in London on Tuesday 13 June 2006.
I have just spoken again in the last five minutes to one of your RESPECT party members while walking down the Hanbury Street. He rushed off saying that he had another urgent matter to attend to. He said he was due to speak to you in a matter of minutes about the CrossRail Bill.
I had told him that Khoodeelaar! had waited for a long time to hear about what you as the local MP and as the RESPECT party were doing to support the campaign against Crossrail.
Over the past few months, in fact since I first met you as the local MP on 30 January 2006, we have heard so many claims about who was doing what 'in the community' about the Crossrail threat that it is time to put the very serious concerns caused by those false and misleading assertions in a new updated version of questions to you. I hope this will focus your attention at least on what we are interested in seeing you do as the local MP.
First of all I record, for the n'th time that I have heard you personally speak unequivocally against Crossrail and over the past 160 days I have chronicled your comments and role as accurately as any of your eols has ever been done by anyone other than by yourself.
As compared to your personal statements of opposition to Crossrail, there have been far too many statements and comments and claims made by persons that are either identifiable as members of your party or those who have made statements while uttering the words as spokespersons for your party.
ALL those statements have fallen short of what the Khoodeelaar! campaign has stood for against CrossRail.
ALL those statements and comments have been in conflict with the position as identifiable by reference to your statements on Crossrail
What is the reasons for this conflict?
If you disagree that there is and has been this conflict then please cite on which ones you are maintaining this stance and I shall be more than willing to provide you with chapter and verse showing how very wide the gulf has been between your stated position against Crossrail and the positions as stated by those speaking as your RESPECT party personnel.
I also recall that on 9 April 2006 you said that a special brochure against Crossrail had been produced and that it would be available in the community immediately.
I have asked for a copy of that and none has been either shown to me or referred top in any statements by anyone from your party to me in the last two months.
Please state what happened to that brochure and if it was shelved then why.
Now, what you need to realise as the local MP is that there is very serious anxiety about what exactly you are doing to defend the local community against the CrossRail programme.
Over the period since 17 January 2006 when I launched the very first public defence of you in the Brick Lane area as against the Blaring media blitz that was sweeping the country against you over your participation in the Channel 4 programme concerned, I have spoken to hundreds of people on the subject of your role in opposing CrossRail. In the past fortnight we in the Khoodeelaar! campaign organisation has had cause to go over every single political component that is relevant in the defence of the community against the corrupt Crossrail hole-backing Tower Hamlets Council. We also have noted the statement made in the name of your party on 2 June 2006 on the satellite TV station called Bangla TV That statement was the same statement in supporting Crossrail as had been the statements of Michael Keith, Helal Abbas, and the Tories and the Liberals.
So, here are the most pressing questions at the moment and on the subject of your role and your practical plans about identifying with the Khoodeelaar campaign against the Crossrail attack on the community.
1. Have you collected your thoughts on the matter as you prepare to address the select committee on Wednesday?
2. If you have, what are the key points you are going to make and what evidential basis?
3. Who apart from Khoodeelaar! would you say has been truthfully, consistently, significantly and emphatically active in a campaigning mode and with campaigning organisation against Crossrail? I ask this because I want to know whether it is apparent to you that a stooge outfit was underway at the behest of the corrupt elements in control of Tower Hamlets Council which was set up to sabotage our campaign of opposition to Crossrail
4. What progress if any have you made in getting across to the two satellite TV stations as to why their obstructions to anti-Crossrail campaigners and their promotions of and touting for pro-Crossrail council was wrong and that it was against the existing broadcasting regulation guidelines and codes/
5. What steps have you taken or prepared to take that you can actually back the objective of defusing the main arguments that the promoters of the plan have confected?
6. You stated on 7 March 2006 that you had not been able to speak on the matter as you were a petitioner.
7. Now that the petition is being formally introduced by you at the scheduled session tomorrow, what can you tell the community now that you will be saying tomorrow against Crossrail and in tangible and lasting solidarity with the community that faces the attacks under the CrossRail programme?
Muhammad Haque
e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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Khoodeelaar! constitutional law campaign against the 'Crossrail Bill' asks: What is the point of this parade of 'Parliament'?
Khoodeelaar! constitutional law campaign against the 'Crossrail Bill' is now poised to encompass an even more extensive remit ...and address the question: should there be a paid parade called Parliament at all?..
By©Muhammad Haque
1830 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Poverty of the present Parliament in the UK is writ large and heard loud and clear in the bankrupt language of the alleged rebel MPs...
They do not have life in their words. It is as dead as John Redwood!
They are, democratically and metaphorically speaking, as dead as Redwood.
The UK Houses of Parliament are not serving democracy. They are not serving the people in the country. They are not doing the job that they are paid to do.. they are thus causing a multifarious disservice and doing damage that cannot be repaired...
Every time the parliamentarians are observed in 'action'. as they have been as they supplicated to Big Business agenda and Douglas Alexander-linked lobbyists for Bechtel USA, the poverty of the MPs became very clear... the Embarrassing ignorance, cowardice and amorality of the Peers became unmistakable....
Packed as they often are as stooges for the ruling cliques and for the dominating cabals that constitute the present [and the 'contemporary' British] Parliament, the ‘ordinary’ members in the House of Commons are as much hostages to the forces of institutionalised, legislative wrongdoing, greed and mass corruption as they are also personally pitiable and undeserving of any claim to legitimacy....
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1830 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Poverty of the present Parliament in the UK is writ large and heard loud and clear in the bankrupt language of the alleged rebel MPs...
They do not have life in their words. It is as dead as John Redwood!
They are, democratically and metaphorically speaking, as dead as Redwood.
The UK Houses of Parliament are not serving democracy. They are not serving the people in the country. They are not doing the job that they are paid to do.. they are thus causing a multifarious disservice and doing damage that cannot be repaired...
Every time the parliamentarians are observed in 'action'. as they have been as they supplicated to Big Business agenda and Douglas Alexander-linked lobbyists for Bechtel USA, the poverty of the MPs became very clear... the Embarrassing ignorance, cowardice and amorality of the Peers became unmistakable....
Packed as they often are as stooges for the ruling cliques and for the dominating cabals that constitute the present [and the 'contemporary' British] Parliament, the ‘ordinary’ members in the House of Commons are as much hostages to the forces of institutionalised, legislative wrongdoing, greed and mass corruption as they are also personally pitiable and undeserving of any claim to legitimacy....
[To be continued]
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