0758 Hrs GMT London Thursday 30 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the Crossrail scam agenda is a cult, is being treated as a cult and the pretence of ‘local democracy' is sick-makingly exposed as worse than that.
There is no hiding this fact from some of the utterances by Councillors behvaing like the stooges that they are of the Crossrail scam.
Just note their words.
Incredible, isn’t it.
That these crassly Crossrail-scam-complicit-Councillors are supposed to represent the local people in and of Islington.
They sound just like Rupert Bawden. Allegedly, on behalf of the people of Tower Hamlets’ !
Bawden was the crass-role-playing one [a local Councillor - although he was a stranger in more ways than can be inferred from the routine references to the ‘fact; that he was a councillor in Tower Hamlets] in the name of Tower Hamlets. He uttered idiotic words of such banal ignorance in September 2007 when Khoodeelaar! put our THEN active demands to the FOOL Council that we have had to take an extended break to allow the temptations to get distracted by those. We are evidentially, constitutionally and politically placed now to continue the dissection of Rupert Bawden miniature political irrespsosbilityw,m betrayal and treachery against the local people and community in Tower Hamlets.
We shall do so now. And as a frae of topical reference ion that we shall cite various parts from the item below that we are quoting from the Islington gazette, which is owned by the same anti-social, pro-CRASSrail trading outfit Ar****** that also owns the ‘East London Idiotiser’;.
We shall contrast the roles being played by the ‘islington Gazette’ on the one hand and by the ‘Newham Recorder’ and the ‘East London Idiotiser’ on the other.
In the SHORT term senses of the two temporal phrases
The following item is under review by KHOODEELAAR!. That item has been taken from the web site of the Islington Gazette:
"Years of noise fears after station revamp confirmed
30 April 2009
RESIDENTS have been left disappointed after losing their fight against Crossrail construction chaos.
People living close to Farringdon Station fear years of noise and upheaval after plans to transform the station were approved by Islington Council.
The station site is being substantially upgraded - so it can take longer Thameslink trains and as part of the Crossrail project to connect the mainline railways to the east and west of London.
At a meeting, Islington councillors voted to approve the demolition of Cardinal House at the junction of Cowcross Street and Farringdon Road in Farringdon and for associated Crossrail construction to begin.
Lawyers for Islington Council said there was very little scope for refusing the planning application or substantially changing the conditions of acceptance because the Crossrail Act had already deemed consent for the work and left local authorities virtually powerless to intervene.
Speaking at the meeting Mike James, of Farringdon Road, said: "The demolition of Cardinal House will remove a screen from not only construction work but also from Thameslink. There will be more noise from trains themselves. This project will go on for six or seven years and will equate to around 500 days in which we will have to suffer noise levels outside European Union thresholds."
Sandy Black, also of Farringdon Road, added: "The opening of Crossrail is going to vastly increase noise, day and night, and if construction goes ahead the noise will be unbearable. With the current financial climate there is no foreseeable option for us to move elsewhere."
Councillor Martin Klute (Labour) said: "I would have thought a more robust tactic other than refusal would be to approve the proposal with conditions."
But Councillor George Allan (Liberal Democrat), who chaired the meeting, said: "We can't impose anything on Crossrail that they don't want to accept.
"We regret their proposals, on the grounds they don't go far enough to protect the local environment and amenity, but they could reject any conditions we ask for. While I have great sympathy for the residents I don't think we have the power to instruct Crossrail in this way.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note. Boris Johnson DROPS 'Crossrail' from list of his vision for transport in London !!!
1710 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note. Boris Johnson DROPS 'Crossrail' from list of his vision for transport in London !!!
The dropping could be to do with the ‘new management’ at the EVENING STANDARD or it could in fact be in a subtle recognition of what KHOODEELAAR! has been demanding for years. For years before Boris even thought he was eligible to seek the votes of people of London.
Whatever the predcsie reason for the absence of Crossrail from the list of ‘vision’ for London as published by the Evening Standard, it can only be a positive move for the cause of London..
We shall shortly look deeply into the remaining aspects of Simon Jenkins call in the EVENING STANDARD yesterday [Tuesday 28 April 2-009] to scrap Crossrail.
[To be continued]
FROM the web site of the CRASS ole playing, Crossrail scam-peddling London EVENING nostandards STANDARD
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23682948-details/Mayor's+vision+for+London+over+20+years/article.do
Mayor's vision for London over 20 years
29.04.09
THE Mayor today revealed his vision for how London will grow over the next 20 years.
Boris Johnson's London Plan sets out how the capital will expand, with the city's population expected to rise from 7.56 million to about nine million by 2031.
The draft plan, at www.london.gov.uk/mayor/priorities/planning, is to be consulted on until the autumn, and a final version completed in 2011.
Housing
The plan sets no new target for affordable homes. It abolishes Ken Livingstone's 50 per cent target for new developments, promises to focus on family-sized housing and identifies 28 brown field areas to be developed and a further nine areas, including Canada Water and South Wimbledon, to be more intensively built up.
Each of the brown field sites, which include Waterloo, Victoria and Greenwich, is to house 2,500 homes or create 5,000 jobs. Deprived areas, particularly in east London, will be developed.
Transport
Mr Johnson makes clear his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow and says there must be work on plans for building a new airport in the Thames Estuary.
He also wants to encourage bringing goods into London by rail rather than road, reducing congestion and emissions.
A domestic high-speed rail link will get the Mayor's backing — the Government is drawing up plans for a TGV-style link from London to the North. Cycle “superhighways” will cross the city and high streets and busy pedestrian areas will follow the example of Kensington High Street and Exhibition Road, where “shared space” has been created by ripping up barriers and removing road markings. A greater use of electric vehicles will also be promoted.
Tall buildings
An investigation is to be launched to identify “appropriate” locations for tall building although they are likely to continue to be built in The City, Canary Wharf and Croydon. Mr Johnson also wants to re-establish views of landmarks including World Heritage sites.
Economy
The plan aims to encourage economic development across all of London with a greater emphasis on outer London where office space is cheaper. It proposes renovating existing offices and encouraging mixed-use development. Mr Johnson wants to promote more wheelchair-friendly hotel rooms.
A “Green Enterprise Zone” is to be created in the Thames Estuary.
The development of street and farmers' markets will be supported.
The environment
Carbon emissions will be cut by 60 per cent by 2025 and new recycling targets will be spelled out soon. Planning applications will have to be judged on their energy efficiency.
Growing plants on roof tops will be promoted and “garden grabs” where building takes place in back gardens discouraged.
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note. Boris Johnson DROPS 'Crossrail' from list of his vision for transport in London !!!
The dropping could be to do with the ‘new management’ at the EVENING STANDARD or it could in fact be in a subtle recognition of what KHOODEELAAR! has been demanding for years. For years before Boris even thought he was eligible to seek the votes of people of London.
Whatever the predcsie reason for the absence of Crossrail from the list of ‘vision’ for London as published by the Evening Standard, it can only be a positive move for the cause of London..
We shall shortly look deeply into the remaining aspects of Simon Jenkins call in the EVENING STANDARD yesterday [Tuesday 28 April 2-009] to scrap Crossrail.
[To be continued]
FROM the web site of the CRASS ole playing, Crossrail scam-peddling London EVENING nostandards STANDARD
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23682948-details/Mayor's+vision+for+London+over+20+years/article.do
Mayor's vision for London over 20 years
29.04.09
THE Mayor today revealed his vision for how London will grow over the next 20 years.
Boris Johnson's London Plan sets out how the capital will expand, with the city's population expected to rise from 7.56 million to about nine million by 2031.
The draft plan, at www.london.gov.uk/mayor/priorities/planning, is to be consulted on until the autumn, and a final version completed in 2011.
Housing
The plan sets no new target for affordable homes. It abolishes Ken Livingstone's 50 per cent target for new developments, promises to focus on family-sized housing and identifies 28 brown field areas to be developed and a further nine areas, including Canada Water and South Wimbledon, to be more intensively built up.
Each of the brown field sites, which include Waterloo, Victoria and Greenwich, is to house 2,500 homes or create 5,000 jobs. Deprived areas, particularly in east London, will be developed.
Transport
Mr Johnson makes clear his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow and says there must be work on plans for building a new airport in the Thames Estuary.
He also wants to encourage bringing goods into London by rail rather than road, reducing congestion and emissions.
A domestic high-speed rail link will get the Mayor's backing — the Government is drawing up plans for a TGV-style link from London to the North. Cycle “superhighways” will cross the city and high streets and busy pedestrian areas will follow the example of Kensington High Street and Exhibition Road, where “shared space” has been created by ripping up barriers and removing road markings. A greater use of electric vehicles will also be promoted.
Tall buildings
An investigation is to be launched to identify “appropriate” locations for tall building although they are likely to continue to be built in The City, Canary Wharf and Croydon. Mr Johnson also wants to re-establish views of landmarks including World Heritage sites.
Economy
The plan aims to encourage economic development across all of London with a greater emphasis on outer London where office space is cheaper. It proposes renovating existing offices and encouraging mixed-use development. Mr Johnson wants to promote more wheelchair-friendly hotel rooms.
A “Green Enterprise Zone” is to be created in the Thames Estuary.
The development of street and farmers' markets will be supported.
The environment
Carbon emissions will be cut by 60 per cent by 2025 and new recycling targets will be spelled out soon. Planning applications will have to be judged on their energy efficiency.
Growing plants on roof tops will be promoted and “garden grabs” where building takes place in back gardens discouraged.
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the CRASS role playing, Crossrail hole scam-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council last year
1555 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the CRASS role playing, Crossrail hole scam-inviting clique o Tower Hamlets on 17 December 2008 that the 2012 staging was another item of evidence constituting vindication of the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against Crossrail agenda....
[To be continued]
From the web site of the London Guardian: by-lined to Simon Jenkins
Any fool can raise a tax. But it takes a gutless one to splurge it on this stuff
Austerity vanishes when it comes to the prestige projects saddled on Britain. Ministers fear the IOC more than the IMF
Comments (160)
Simon Jenkins
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 April 2009 23.00 BST
Article history
The barbarians are at the gates. Towers are falling, people are screaming, temple economists are rending their garments, gibbering with dread. And where is the prince at this time of trouble? He is walking in the garden of heavenly delight, feeding the sacred crocodiles. Here there is no credit crunch, only fountains tinkling money. While the citizens starve, the precious ones are fed. On them the gods will always shine.
London yesterday witnessed a surreal scene. The panjandrums of the International Olympic Committee came to town to congratulate Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling on spending so much money. The two of them were well up to the mark, on course to blow the £9bn required for the committee's 2012 Stratford extravaganza. Members were said to be mightily pleased with their humble servants.
These men do real public expenditure. Not for them the hospital trustee taxi or the school governor sandwich. They live in Geneva, wear designer suits, travel first class and expect lavish gifts. They want no vulgar parsimony. Even as the artillery of recession pounds the ramparts of Canary Wharf, the Olympic Development Authority within echoes only to the gurgle of public money vanishing down throats well-lined with bonus.
The Stratford site is up to speed. A stadium with no known after-use is rising to the sky. Money streams down gilded rivulets into the pockets of consultants and contractors (not athletes). Someone is reported to have just walked away with £5m for designing a "small businesses website" of little known effect. Lord Coe, vestal virgin on this acropolis, is purring with pleasure. He will deliver Brown the one thing an embattled ruler most craves: glory. Nero did bread and circuses. Gordon Brown may not do bread but he can do circuses.
Whatever Darling may have said on Wednesday, Brown is happy to show he can splurge on really stupid things. As yesterday's newspapers listed slashed budgets, there was no mention of sacred crocodiles. The rich are to pay an extra £2bn a year (with changed personal tax allowances), their pension funds £3bn. Another billion will be taken from petrol, and £2bn on drink and cigarettes. Assaults are to be made on defence, transport, culture, local government.
These are paltry sums compared with those devoured by the crocodiles. The NHS computer system, which nobody wants, is lost to audit somewhere north of £12.7bn. The project has seen suppliers come and go for years and is now out of control. It is merely a way for the NHS headquarters to mop up the extra sums that Blair and Brown boasted in 2000 that they would spend on health – and found it could not be spent. There is no reason for a single ward to go unstaffed or a single operation to be delayed as long as the NHS spends money like this.
The Home Office's "war on terror" ID cards continue to wander through the Whitehall undergrowth, gorging between £5bn and £19bn, according to estimate. The Trident submarine replacements are so far put at £20bn, plus £180m a year just to run. Brown's beloved aircraft carriers are postponed, but will apparently come in cheap, at a minimum of £3.9bn for two. The first three of Jack Straw's Titan prisons are budgeted at £2.3bn. In prisons there are no economies of scale.
At least these things will last. The reason why the Stratford Olympics stands proud is that its cost is gigantic and devoid of any purpose beyond chauvinist bombast. Even that could have been won at a fraction of the price. The sum of £9bn is the entire yield of the new 50% marginal tax rate between now and 2012. As they sign their cheques to the Inland Revenue, the rich can reflect that in three years' time every penny taken from them will have vanished in the fireworks. Put another way, the extra revenue from petrol, drink and cigarettes between now and 2012 will barely cover the cost of the games.
The IOC is still demanding that London "build in" obsolescence to its facilities, ensuring that buildings are so located and designed as to shriek "Olympics" and be useless for anything else. The Athens site is gathering weeds, and Beijing's stupendous stadium has yet to find another purpose.
The biggest scam is the proclaimed need for an "Olympic village", with detailed specifications that require costly conversion for re-use when the games are over. In Barcelona this cost was said to be more than that of building the village in the first place.
London was so euphoric when it beat Paris in 2005 that it rejected any idea of a low-cost games and ignored all pleas for budgetary discipline. Tessa Jowell, the relevant minister, summoned consultants and let them rip. Even so, the government could in good faith have summoned the IOC last autumn and told it the joke was over. Given the recession, London would still stage a games, but on a reduced basis, mostly using the Wembley stadium and other existing facilities.
There is still no private backer for the Olympic village, which should surely be wiped from the plan. So should the giant press centre, and the IOC's demand that Britain chop down Elizabeth I's tree in Greenwich park to give its horses a day's clear ride. There is plenty of summer accommodation in London for athletes and journalists. What was the point of building a special railway to Stratford if not to get these people back and forth? We managed in 1948.
While austerity is the talk of the moment, there is no such talk when it comes to prestige projects. In the hothouse of Whitehall, the Olympics are like grand weapons platforms, mainframe computers, super-jails and giant wind turbines. They are backed by lobbyists, project managers and industries fat on government contracts. They have publicity traction and spending momentum. They draw the government's name to the flame of celebrity.
Any fool can raise a tax or cut a grant. Labour backbenchers will cheer any project to sting the rich. It is easy to tell a local council to close a swimming pool or library, shut a drug rehab centre or stop training for prisoners. But it takes guts to sink a Trident submarine or clip a hundred million off an Olympic velodrome. It upsets the people ministers meet at dinner. They do not have such courage these days.
As we have seen in the response to the credit crunch, public money nowadays goes not to those with arguments but to those with influence. It goes not to those who can offer welfare to the public but to those who can offer relieving headlines to ministers.
I calculate that the six prestige projects listed above, none of which are economically productive, cost more in total than the revenue of all this week's tax increases for the next three years. The astonishing truth is that ministers are more scared of upsetting the IOC than the IMF.
When politics loses touch with reason, it runs for comfort to those who peddle glory.
KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the CRASS role playing, Crossrail hole scam-inviting clique o Tower Hamlets on 17 December 2008 that the 2012 staging was another item of evidence constituting vindication of the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against Crossrail agenda....
[To be continued]
From the web site of the London Guardian: by-lined to Simon Jenkins
Any fool can raise a tax. But it takes a gutless one to splurge it on this stuff
Austerity vanishes when it comes to the prestige projects saddled on Britain. Ministers fear the IOC more than the IMF
Comments (160)
Simon Jenkins
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 April 2009 23.00 BST
Article history
The barbarians are at the gates. Towers are falling, people are screaming, temple economists are rending their garments, gibbering with dread. And where is the prince at this time of trouble? He is walking in the garden of heavenly delight, feeding the sacred crocodiles. Here there is no credit crunch, only fountains tinkling money. While the citizens starve, the precious ones are fed. On them the gods will always shine.
London yesterday witnessed a surreal scene. The panjandrums of the International Olympic Committee came to town to congratulate Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling on spending so much money. The two of them were well up to the mark, on course to blow the £9bn required for the committee's 2012 Stratford extravaganza. Members were said to be mightily pleased with their humble servants.
These men do real public expenditure. Not for them the hospital trustee taxi or the school governor sandwich. They live in Geneva, wear designer suits, travel first class and expect lavish gifts. They want no vulgar parsimony. Even as the artillery of recession pounds the ramparts of Canary Wharf, the Olympic Development Authority within echoes only to the gurgle of public money vanishing down throats well-lined with bonus.
The Stratford site is up to speed. A stadium with no known after-use is rising to the sky. Money streams down gilded rivulets into the pockets of consultants and contractors (not athletes). Someone is reported to have just walked away with £5m for designing a "small businesses website" of little known effect. Lord Coe, vestal virgin on this acropolis, is purring with pleasure. He will deliver Brown the one thing an embattled ruler most craves: glory. Nero did bread and circuses. Gordon Brown may not do bread but he can do circuses.
Whatever Darling may have said on Wednesday, Brown is happy to show he can splurge on really stupid things. As yesterday's newspapers listed slashed budgets, there was no mention of sacred crocodiles. The rich are to pay an extra £2bn a year (with changed personal tax allowances), their pension funds £3bn. Another billion will be taken from petrol, and £2bn on drink and cigarettes. Assaults are to be made on defence, transport, culture, local government.
These are paltry sums compared with those devoured by the crocodiles. The NHS computer system, which nobody wants, is lost to audit somewhere north of £12.7bn. The project has seen suppliers come and go for years and is now out of control. It is merely a way for the NHS headquarters to mop up the extra sums that Blair and Brown boasted in 2000 that they would spend on health – and found it could not be spent. There is no reason for a single ward to go unstaffed or a single operation to be delayed as long as the NHS spends money like this.
The Home Office's "war on terror" ID cards continue to wander through the Whitehall undergrowth, gorging between £5bn and £19bn, according to estimate. The Trident submarine replacements are so far put at £20bn, plus £180m a year just to run. Brown's beloved aircraft carriers are postponed, but will apparently come in cheap, at a minimum of £3.9bn for two. The first three of Jack Straw's Titan prisons are budgeted at £2.3bn. In prisons there are no economies of scale.
At least these things will last. The reason why the Stratford Olympics stands proud is that its cost is gigantic and devoid of any purpose beyond chauvinist bombast. Even that could have been won at a fraction of the price. The sum of £9bn is the entire yield of the new 50% marginal tax rate between now and 2012. As they sign their cheques to the Inland Revenue, the rich can reflect that in three years' time every penny taken from them will have vanished in the fireworks. Put another way, the extra revenue from petrol, drink and cigarettes between now and 2012 will barely cover the cost of the games.
The IOC is still demanding that London "build in" obsolescence to its facilities, ensuring that buildings are so located and designed as to shriek "Olympics" and be useless for anything else. The Athens site is gathering weeds, and Beijing's stupendous stadium has yet to find another purpose.
The biggest scam is the proclaimed need for an "Olympic village", with detailed specifications that require costly conversion for re-use when the games are over. In Barcelona this cost was said to be more than that of building the village in the first place.
London was so euphoric when it beat Paris in 2005 that it rejected any idea of a low-cost games and ignored all pleas for budgetary discipline. Tessa Jowell, the relevant minister, summoned consultants and let them rip. Even so, the government could in good faith have summoned the IOC last autumn and told it the joke was over. Given the recession, London would still stage a games, but on a reduced basis, mostly using the Wembley stadium and other existing facilities.
There is still no private backer for the Olympic village, which should surely be wiped from the plan. So should the giant press centre, and the IOC's demand that Britain chop down Elizabeth I's tree in Greenwich park to give its horses a day's clear ride. There is plenty of summer accommodation in London for athletes and journalists. What was the point of building a special railway to Stratford if not to get these people back and forth? We managed in 1948.
While austerity is the talk of the moment, there is no such talk when it comes to prestige projects. In the hothouse of Whitehall, the Olympics are like grand weapons platforms, mainframe computers, super-jails and giant wind turbines. They are backed by lobbyists, project managers and industries fat on government contracts. They have publicity traction and spending momentum. They draw the government's name to the flame of celebrity.
Any fool can raise a tax or cut a grant. Labour backbenchers will cheer any project to sting the rich. It is easy to tell a local council to close a swimming pool or library, shut a drug rehab centre or stop training for prisoners. But it takes guts to sink a Trident submarine or clip a hundred million off an Olympic velodrome. It upsets the people ministers meet at dinner. They do not have such courage these days.
As we have seen in the response to the credit crunch, public money nowadays goes not to those with arguments but to those with influence. It goes not to those who can offer welfare to the public but to those who can offer relieving headlines to ministers.
I calculate that the six prestige projects listed above, none of which are economically productive, cost more in total than the revenue of all this week's tax increases for the next three years. The astonishing truth is that ministers are more scared of upsetting the IOC than the IMF.
When politics loses touch with reason, it runs for comfort to those who peddle glory.
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