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Tim Wilcox, fronting the News Channel suppression, made incoherent excuses for the entire proceedings of the announcement of the results being effectively sabotaged by the BBC...
They managed, significantly, to keep broadcasting their biased and lies-filled 'comments' by Ian Watson, their so-called political reporter...
See also the AADHIKARonline review of the behaviour of Michael Crick, the BBC's allegedly expert by-election specialist... [The disgraceful careerism of the late Vincent Hannah will be revisited]
[To be continued]
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
BBC Question Time exposes Mark Thompson's bragging utterances to an MPs group: He has to drop Saira Khan ...and the ignorance that she personifies
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BBC Question Time exposes Mark Thompson's bragging utterances to an MPs group: He has to drop Saira Khan ...and the ignorance that she personifies
More, here, shortly
BBC Question Time exposes Mark Thompson's bragging utterances to an MPs group: He has to drop Saira Khan ...and the ignorance that she personifies
More, here, shortly
What cost and what price Haltemprice & Howden? How CLOSE is the issue to who might have drafted the Crossrail Bill plot?
Part 3 of today's commentary on the goings on 'in and around' the British parliament., due here. soon
Crossrail hole plot-backer Alistair Darling's excuses in the Commons today are as untrue as his claims for CRASSrail...
By©Muhammad Haque
1615 Hrs GMT
London Thursday
10 July 2008
This action commentary is about Alistair Darling and Ken Livingstone, two of the peddlers of the CRASSrail hole plot. This commentary is in four parts:
PART 1
Ken Livingstone's self-promoting, ego-linked, careeristic opportunism was displayed again this week when he was able to sneak into the focal lenses of the various licensed broadcast media as he paraded his need for attention via one of the UK House of Commons committees... The excuse for the broadcast media peddling the pathetic appearances was that Livingstone was the former mayor' in the name of London. There was no truth in what he said about various UK Govt departments. For it was one of those Departments, the DfT that he had used to the limits to push for the Crassrail hole plot. Did he make any comp,aunt against that? Did he tell how he LIED to various Govt Departments over the stunt around the London bid to host the 2012 Olympic games? Did he tell how he lied to get Gordon Brown to make that commitment of £Billions of UK public cash to CRASSrail? Not a bit of it. And not surprisingly, either. Because the 'Select Committee' is not made up of morally courageous, let alone constitutionally conscientious and informed people. Most of these Select Committees are STOOGED. And most of these who get on them are there because they have no better role to perform. Had there been real true and truthful scrutiny of the UK Executive then the society would have been spared so many malaise, so many misrepresentations There is a serious central lie at work in the excuses that Gordon Brown has been making for instance to explain the current economic problems. He is blaming the rest of the world. Just as Alistair Darling did Darling the ‘Treasury Questions’ this morning [Thursday 10 July 2008]... Instead of addressing the deficit of democracy and attacking dishonesty, Ken Livingstone was revelling in the defect has been Livingstone;s career.... He NEEDS lack of democracy He craves lack of accountability....As he did in February 2008 when he lost his pretence and told off a meeting of the usually tokenistic London Assembly for behaving unusually in that they [on that exceptional occasion actually] asked him Questions about how and why he was allowing abuse of funds and misusing the public's resources...while he was occupying the post in the name of the people of London
[To be continued]
London mayor Livingstone obstructs Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole
By©Muhammad Haque
1000 Hrs GMT London
Wednesday 26 April 2006
Within minutes [on Monday 24 April 2006] of aadhikaronline reporting the Conservative Party Chair Francis Maude's backing to Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign, London Mayor Ken Livingstone had his office send a strange communication to Khoodeelaar! The legal and democratic significance of the Ken Livingstone communication are enormous, especially in the last week before the scheduled local elections on 4 May 2006
1. Within minutes [on Monday 24 April 2006] of aadhikaronline reporting the Conservative Party Chair Francis Maude's backing to Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign, London Mayor Ken Livingstone had his office send a strange communication to Khoodeelaar! The legal and democratic significance of the Ken Livingstone communication are enormous, especially in the last week before the scheduled local elections on 4 May 2006
2. That communication from the head of Ken Livingstone’s transport department, effectively says that the Khoodeelaar! demands for Ken Livingstone to make full disclosure of all his communications with the clique of corrupt controllers of Tower Hamlets Council are too expensive for the London Mayor to comply with !
3. There is no specific item that the London Mayor has identified in his mayor communication to Khoodeelaar on Monday 24 April 2006 as constituting an allegedly over-the-permitted limit of administration cost request under the Freed of Information Act.
4. The key point is that Khoodeelaar! the campaign against the CrossRail hole Bill attacks plan on the Brick Lane London E1 area, has been issuing ken Livingstone with a series of pre-action [letter before claim] communications and the London mayor has now run out of excuses.
5. At the centre of the Khoodeelaar legal action claims against Ken Livingstone lies in the fact that the mayor has persistently misled Londoners generally and the UK Parliament through his undisclosed deals with the Transport Department and in particular the people of the East End community affected by the CrossRail hole plan.
6. Khoodeelaar! delivered the first demand to ken Livingstone for confirming a number of facts that were linked with the mayor’s release of a news item on 24 March 2006.
7. That was followed within a day or two by other calls on Livingstone to disclose the facts of his dealing with the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council.
8. It was again repeated by Khoodeelaar! no to Crossrail hole campaign updating their calls on Livingstone to deal with the factual questions that arose about the stunt from the written statement about the CrossRail hole Bill that was issued in the UK House of Commons by CrossRail hole Minister Alistair Darling on 30 March 2006.
9. The mayor is on record as having touted for the enlisting of the ‘leaders’ and ‘lead members’ of a number of local councils, including the then leader of Tower Hamlets Council [Helal Uddin Abbas] in February 2004 as part of the Livingstone lobby for CrossRail plan.
10. In a Crossrail-hole-plan promotional ‘letter’ published in 2004 under the name of Ken Livingstone together with the names of Helal Uddin Abbas and others from other local Councils, the promotion of CrossRail was made without a single qualification let alone reservation.
11. Khoodeelaar! immediately wrote to both Livingstone and demanded that the Evening Standard publish the truth about the CrossRail hole plan. Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque told the Editor of the London EVENING STANDARD that their failure to publish the truth about the CrossRail plan [as it still was - because the CrossRail hole Bill was not put before the House of Commons until 22 February 2005, almost a year after Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque was having the series of demands put on Ken Livingstone and Christine Gilbert to tell the truth of their then role in promoting the CrossRail plan. The EVENING STANDARD failed to publish the truth. As did Ken Livingstone.
12.
That was in February 2004.
13. Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque also wrote to Tower Hamlets Council chief Executive Christine Gilbert in February 2004 and in March 2004 asking for a series of detailed answers to questions about her own role in promoting the CrossRail hole plan including the question as to what advice, if any, had she, Christine Gilbert, given to the ruling clique or group on the Tower Hamlets Council. There was no reply. There has been no reply.
14. When Khoodeelaar! issued the latest then updated series of legal claims against Alistair Darling, ken Livingstone, Christine Gilbert and a few others and said that the application to the High Court in London against them would be filed on Monday 27 March 2006, a number of things immediately happened.
15. Ken Livingstone suddenly issued a news release on 24 March 2006 saying that the CrossRail Dirt hole in the Brick Lane London E1 had been scrapped!
16. And that Ken Livingstone Crossrail-Dirt-hole plan against Brick Lane London E1 area scrapping stunt announcement was then used as the peg for the evening TV news which featured the entire cabal of self-seeking politicos doing their fame slots and assorted other fantasies. They were given more time than khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque who did say on the record [BBC London News, Friday 24 April 2006] that as far as Khoodeelaar! was concerned, they had immediately asked Livingstone to substantiate the claims of the scrapping of the Crossrail Dirty hole plan and demanded that Livingstone to answer the outstanding detailed KHOODEELAAR! no to CrossRail hole questions that had been put to him as based on his unqualified plugs for the CrossRail plan over the previous years
17. Accordingly, Muhammad Haque and Khoodeelaar! campaign sent the detailed further questions immediately and also went to City hall on Monday 3 April 2006 and delivered a series of questions for Livingstone to deal with.
18. On the same occasion [3 April 2006] Khoodeelaar demonstrated the campaign’s opposition to Ken Livingstone's role so far and demanded that Livingstone come out with the overdue answers to the extensive and the very comprehensive KHOODEELAAR! No to the Crossrail hole questions which had arisen from Livingstone’s stunt staged on Friday 24 March 2006 about the alleged scrapping of the CrossRail Dirt hole.
19. Livingstone remained silent
20. Until the aadhikaronline news carried the first detailed transcripts of the Khoodeelaar! Organiser’s Questions and answers encounter with Conservative party chair Francis Maude in Brick Lane in the mid afternoon of Monday 24 April 2006.
21. Ken Livingstone’s head of Transports sent an e-mail which is full of typical Ken Livingstone's dissembling. The concept of dissembling as associated with ken Livingstone on 24 April 2006 had already been spotted and identified a month previously [on Friday 24 March 2006] out by Khoodeelaar organiser Muhammad Haque in his news interview with the BBC London political editor Tim Donovan on that date [Friday 24 March 2006].
1615 Hrs GMT
London Thursday
10 July 2008
This action commentary is about Alistair Darling and Ken Livingstone, two of the peddlers of the CRASSrail hole plot. This commentary is in four parts:
PART 1
Ken Livingstone's self-promoting, ego-linked, careeristic opportunism was displayed again this week when he was able to sneak into the focal lenses of the various licensed broadcast media as he paraded his need for attention via one of the UK House of Commons committees... The excuse for the broadcast media peddling the pathetic appearances was that Livingstone was the former mayor' in the name of London. There was no truth in what he said about various UK Govt departments. For it was one of those Departments, the DfT that he had used to the limits to push for the Crassrail hole plot. Did he make any comp,aunt against that? Did he tell how he LIED to various Govt Departments over the stunt around the London bid to host the 2012 Olympic games? Did he tell how he lied to get Gordon Brown to make that commitment of £Billions of UK public cash to CRASSrail? Not a bit of it. And not surprisingly, either. Because the 'Select Committee' is not made up of morally courageous, let alone constitutionally conscientious and informed people. Most of these Select Committees are STOOGED. And most of these who get on them are there because they have no better role to perform. Had there been real true and truthful scrutiny of the UK Executive then the society would have been spared so many malaise, so many misrepresentations There is a serious central lie at work in the excuses that Gordon Brown has been making for instance to explain the current economic problems. He is blaming the rest of the world. Just as Alistair Darling did Darling the ‘Treasury Questions’ this morning [Thursday 10 July 2008]... Instead of addressing the deficit of democracy and attacking dishonesty, Ken Livingstone was revelling in the defect has been Livingstone;s career.... He NEEDS lack of democracy He craves lack of accountability....As he did in February 2008 when he lost his pretence and told off a meeting of the usually tokenistic London Assembly for behaving unusually in that they [on that exceptional occasion actually] asked him Questions about how and why he was allowing abuse of funds and misusing the public's resources...while he was occupying the post in the name of the people of London
[To be continued]
London mayor Livingstone obstructs Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole
By©Muhammad Haque
1000 Hrs GMT London
Wednesday 26 April 2006
Within minutes [on Monday 24 April 2006] of aadhikaronline reporting the Conservative Party Chair Francis Maude's backing to Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign, London Mayor Ken Livingstone had his office send a strange communication to Khoodeelaar! The legal and democratic significance of the Ken Livingstone communication are enormous, especially in the last week before the scheduled local elections on 4 May 2006
1. Within minutes [on Monday 24 April 2006] of aadhikaronline reporting the Conservative Party Chair Francis Maude's backing to Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign, London Mayor Ken Livingstone had his office send a strange communication to Khoodeelaar! The legal and democratic significance of the Ken Livingstone communication are enormous, especially in the last week before the scheduled local elections on 4 May 2006
2. That communication from the head of Ken Livingstone’s transport department, effectively says that the Khoodeelaar! demands for Ken Livingstone to make full disclosure of all his communications with the clique of corrupt controllers of Tower Hamlets Council are too expensive for the London Mayor to comply with !
3. There is no specific item that the London Mayor has identified in his mayor communication to Khoodeelaar on Monday 24 April 2006 as constituting an allegedly over-the-permitted limit of administration cost request under the Freed of Information Act.
4. The key point is that Khoodeelaar! the campaign against the CrossRail hole Bill attacks plan on the Brick Lane London E1 area, has been issuing ken Livingstone with a series of pre-action [letter before claim] communications and the London mayor has now run out of excuses.
5. At the centre of the Khoodeelaar legal action claims against Ken Livingstone lies in the fact that the mayor has persistently misled Londoners generally and the UK Parliament through his undisclosed deals with the Transport Department and in particular the people of the East End community affected by the CrossRail hole plan.
6. Khoodeelaar! delivered the first demand to ken Livingstone for confirming a number of facts that were linked with the mayor’s release of a news item on 24 March 2006.
7. That was followed within a day or two by other calls on Livingstone to disclose the facts of his dealing with the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council.
8. It was again repeated by Khoodeelaar! no to Crossrail hole campaign updating their calls on Livingstone to deal with the factual questions that arose about the stunt from the written statement about the CrossRail hole Bill that was issued in the UK House of Commons by CrossRail hole Minister Alistair Darling on 30 March 2006.
9. The mayor is on record as having touted for the enlisting of the ‘leaders’ and ‘lead members’ of a number of local councils, including the then leader of Tower Hamlets Council [Helal Uddin Abbas] in February 2004 as part of the Livingstone lobby for CrossRail plan.
10. In a Crossrail-hole-plan promotional ‘letter’ published in 2004 under the name of Ken Livingstone together with the names of Helal Uddin Abbas and others from other local Councils, the promotion of CrossRail was made without a single qualification let alone reservation.
11. Khoodeelaar! immediately wrote to both Livingstone and demanded that the Evening Standard publish the truth about the CrossRail hole plan. Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque told the Editor of the London EVENING STANDARD that their failure to publish the truth about the CrossRail plan [as it still was - because the CrossRail hole Bill was not put before the House of Commons until 22 February 2005, almost a year after Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque was having the series of demands put on Ken Livingstone and Christine Gilbert to tell the truth of their then role in promoting the CrossRail plan. The EVENING STANDARD failed to publish the truth. As did Ken Livingstone.
12.
That was in February 2004.
13. Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque also wrote to Tower Hamlets Council chief Executive Christine Gilbert in February 2004 and in March 2004 asking for a series of detailed answers to questions about her own role in promoting the CrossRail hole plan including the question as to what advice, if any, had she, Christine Gilbert, given to the ruling clique or group on the Tower Hamlets Council. There was no reply. There has been no reply.
14. When Khoodeelaar! issued the latest then updated series of legal claims against Alistair Darling, ken Livingstone, Christine Gilbert and a few others and said that the application to the High Court in London against them would be filed on Monday 27 March 2006, a number of things immediately happened.
15. Ken Livingstone suddenly issued a news release on 24 March 2006 saying that the CrossRail Dirt hole in the Brick Lane London E1 had been scrapped!
16. And that Ken Livingstone Crossrail-Dirt-hole plan against Brick Lane London E1 area scrapping stunt announcement was then used as the peg for the evening TV news which featured the entire cabal of self-seeking politicos doing their fame slots and assorted other fantasies. They were given more time than khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque who did say on the record [BBC London News, Friday 24 April 2006] that as far as Khoodeelaar! was concerned, they had immediately asked Livingstone to substantiate the claims of the scrapping of the Crossrail Dirty hole plan and demanded that Livingstone to answer the outstanding detailed KHOODEELAAR! no to CrossRail hole questions that had been put to him as based on his unqualified plugs for the CrossRail plan over the previous years
17. Accordingly, Muhammad Haque and Khoodeelaar! campaign sent the detailed further questions immediately and also went to City hall on Monday 3 April 2006 and delivered a series of questions for Livingstone to deal with.
18. On the same occasion [3 April 2006] Khoodeelaar demonstrated the campaign’s opposition to Ken Livingstone's role so far and demanded that Livingstone come out with the overdue answers to the extensive and the very comprehensive KHOODEELAAR! No to the Crossrail hole questions which had arisen from Livingstone’s stunt staged on Friday 24 March 2006 about the alleged scrapping of the CrossRail Dirt hole.
19. Livingstone remained silent
20. Until the aadhikaronline news carried the first detailed transcripts of the Khoodeelaar! Organiser’s Questions and answers encounter with Conservative party chair Francis Maude in Brick Lane in the mid afternoon of Monday 24 April 2006.
21. Ken Livingstone’s head of Transports sent an e-mail which is full of typical Ken Livingstone's dissembling. The concept of dissembling as associated with ken Livingstone on 24 April 2006 had already been spotted and identified a month previously [on Friday 24 March 2006] out by Khoodeelaar organiser Muhammad Haque in his news interview with the BBC London political editor Tim Donovan on that date [Friday 24 March 2006].
What they said in Parliament on Wednesday 9 July 2008: How it all exposed the poverty of 'democratically elected' Parliament
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
A source [see details in main post] 'discloses' that Tower Hamlets Council controlling clique has ABOLISHED the concept of 'official Opposition'...
By©Muhammad Haque
0212 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 9 July 2008
The following has been obtained by AADHIKARonline research unit at appx 0200 Hrs GMT today Wednesday 9 July 2008 from a blog published by a former Conservative councillor who is based in Kent England UK. The reference to Tower Hamlets, Council is the reason for this being published by AADHIKARonline. The blogger is called Dan Hassett. We are publishing the following just for the record. AADHIKARonline will comment on the situation in Tower Hamlets as part of the continuing, ongoing, daily commentary.
"
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has apparently
taken the bizarre step of abolishing the Official Opposition status,
because they were unhappy that the Conservatives were the opposition
after Respect collapsed on itself. They have now given the chief
scrutiny roles to their own councillors, and even have a Cabinet
member on the scrutiny committee. The Conservatives there rightly
refuse to take their seats on the committee in protest, but attend in an
individual role to oversee the committee.
"
[To be continued]
0212 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 9 July 2008
The following has been obtained by AADHIKARonline research unit at appx 0200 Hrs GMT today Wednesday 9 July 2008 from a blog published by a former Conservative councillor who is based in Kent England UK. The reference to Tower Hamlets, Council is the reason for this being published by AADHIKARonline. The blogger is called Dan Hassett. We are publishing the following just for the record. AADHIKARonline will comment on the situation in Tower Hamlets as part of the continuing, ongoing, daily commentary.
"
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has apparently
taken the bizarre step of abolishing the Official Opposition status,
because they were unhappy that the Conservatives were the opposition
after Respect collapsed on itself. They have now given the chief
scrutiny roles to their own councillors, and even have a Cabinet
member on the scrutiny committee. The Conservatives there rightly
refuse to take their seats on the committee in protest, but attend in an
individual role to oversee the committee.
"
[To be continued]
Monday, July 7, 2008
Crossrail hole plot Big Business agenda-peddling FT's relegation of Crossrail is followed up by a third construction propaganda outlet!
"
Plea for 'crucial' Thames Gateway Bridge
11:01 07 Jul 2008
By Roxanne Millar
Construction of the Thames Gateway Bridge is crucial for improving business around east London, according to firms in the area.
Almost half of companies polled say the bridge is the one scheme that would most benefit their trade and would be better for the bottom line than Crossrail.
The survey, by investment agency Gateway to London, found 48% enthusiastically backed the controversial scheme, which may never be built.
Only around 30% thought Crossrail would help them and 12% said the Channel Tunnel Rail Link would make a difference to their trade.
According to the Financial Times, transport is the biggest issue faced by respondents in the east end, who complain of difficulties with connectivity.
Mayor Boris Johnson has shown opposition to the Thames Gateway Bridge scheme, which he says has significant infrastructure issues.
There are currently no plans to proceed with it.'
"
Plea for 'crucial' Thames Gateway Bridge
11:01 07 Jul 2008
By Roxanne Millar
Construction of the Thames Gateway Bridge is crucial for improving business around east London, according to firms in the area.
Almost half of companies polled say the bridge is the one scheme that would most benefit their trade and would be better for the bottom line than Crossrail.
The survey, by investment agency Gateway to London, found 48% enthusiastically backed the controversial scheme, which may never be built.
Only around 30% thought Crossrail would help them and 12% said the Channel Tunnel Rail Link would make a difference to their trade.
According to the Financial Times, transport is the biggest issue faced by respondents in the east end, who complain of difficulties with connectivity.
Mayor Boris Johnson has shown opposition to the Thames Gateway Bridge scheme, which he says has significant infrastructure issues.
There are currently no plans to proceed with it.'
"
Sunday, July 6, 2008
'Team Boris' has just a few moments before he may find it too late- Boris has got to show higher morality than Livingstone ever had...
[Most of the following part is in fact written in response to the reported comments on the Ray Lewis events as attributed to former Conservative party leader and still serving MP in the UK House of Commons, Ian Duncan Smith. The MUHAMMAD HAQUE ethical commentary will continue after this part below. The initial comment in response to IDS has already appeared on the web site of the Walthamstow Guardian, dated 1215 Hrs UK Time today Sunday 6 July 2008. The version has been edited in relation to 3 words and one sentence]
By©Muhammad Haque
1130 Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
6 July 2008
'Team Boris' has just a few moments before he may find it too late- Boris has got to show higher morality than Livingstone ever had...
By morality I mean higher probity. Higher ethics. Higher accountability. Higher standard all over. Now!
I would add to what Ian Duncan Smith says and say that the problem that the two resignations from Boris Johnson's’ entourage confirm is the absence of autonomous effective and serious thinking inside whoever constitute the ‘Team Boris’ now!
Secondly, IDS is correct to make the particular criticism of the mass propaganda media.
I entirely agree that none of those who have been damning ray Lewis would do anything really significant to save the kids and other young people.
I have been very aware of this.
And I knew, almost a year ago when Boris was being still rumoured to be the Conservative candidate, that he, Boris, would have to show a higher standard of morality and ethics than Ken Livingstone was showing. I
t was not a pleasant spectacle to see the BBC NEWSNIGHT programme wheel in Ken Livingstone to allegedly give the authoritative comment on the then unfolding ‘story’ around Ray Lewis.
What Living stone said was as insignificant, as irrelevant and as untrue on Thursday night as what Livingstone had said a few weeks before the 1 May 2008 London Assembly and mayor elections.
Livingstone has been allowed an irrationally unrigorously flaunted and allocated promotion and platform by the BBC. And what the BBC does is in effect aped and replicated by the rest of ‘Fleet Street’.
Yet the problems remain.
The BBC has not done one single investigative report on the institutions in London and in the rest of the UK that are fully funded, fully staffed and fully failing. No wonder that there is no solution in sight. Except sound bytes and media appearances.
We have in Britain a thoroughly corrupted set of institutions.
And after the devastating, corrupting of the institutions by Tony Blair in and across the UK, the tragedy for London people - and those youngsters and their families and loved ones is that London is left bereft of political representation.
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1130 Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
6 July 2008
'Team Boris' has just a few moments before he may find it too late- Boris has got to show higher morality than Livingstone ever had...
By morality I mean higher probity. Higher ethics. Higher accountability. Higher standard all over. Now!
I would add to what Ian Duncan Smith says and say that the problem that the two resignations from Boris Johnson's’ entourage confirm is the absence of autonomous effective and serious thinking inside whoever constitute the ‘Team Boris’ now!
Secondly, IDS is correct to make the particular criticism of the mass propaganda media.
I entirely agree that none of those who have been damning ray Lewis would do anything really significant to save the kids and other young people.
I have been very aware of this.
And I knew, almost a year ago when Boris was being still rumoured to be the Conservative candidate, that he, Boris, would have to show a higher standard of morality and ethics than Ken Livingstone was showing. I
t was not a pleasant spectacle to see the BBC NEWSNIGHT programme wheel in Ken Livingstone to allegedly give the authoritative comment on the then unfolding ‘story’ around Ray Lewis.
What Living stone said was as insignificant, as irrelevant and as untrue on Thursday night as what Livingstone had said a few weeks before the 1 May 2008 London Assembly and mayor elections.
Livingstone has been allowed an irrationally unrigorously flaunted and allocated promotion and platform by the BBC. And what the BBC does is in effect aped and replicated by the rest of ‘Fleet Street’.
Yet the problems remain.
The BBC has not done one single investigative report on the institutions in London and in the rest of the UK that are fully funded, fully staffed and fully failing. No wonder that there is no solution in sight. Except sound bytes and media appearances.
We have in Britain a thoroughly corrupted set of institutions.
And after the devastating, corrupting of the institutions by Tony Blair in and across the UK, the tragedy for London people - and those youngsters and their families and loved ones is that London is left bereft of political representation.
[To be continued]
Saturday, July 5, 2008
POVERTY CREATION by the City of London EXPOSED AGAIN - showing that Crossrail hole plot peddler Livingstone had been LYING for the City of London...
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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.
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· 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).
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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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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]
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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
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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.
"
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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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
"
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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