KHOODEELAAR! No to "Crossrail hole scam" CAMPAIGN organiser Muhammad Haque warned Boris ....

1320 Hrs GMT London Monday 17 August 2009:

The DAILY MAIL’s report [reproduced in text below] starts by referring to Boris Johnson’s betrayal of the pledge he had made before seeking election to the office at the Onion in London SE1 that he would protect ‘London’s architectural heritage’. This has not been the only area featuring any betrayal of pre-election pledge and commitment by balcony-bungler—Boris.

Well before the Conservative Party had made the decision on who their candidate should be for the Onion, KHOODEELAAR! No to "Crossrail hole scam" CAMPAIGN organiser Muhammad Haque had gone on the record, including on the London Times and the London Daily Telegraph web sites, to put the succinct point: that Boris Johnson had to prove that he had a moral standard and he had to ALSO show that his moral standard was higher than any that had been seen in the conduct of Ken Livingstone. Events since the 1 May 2008 election have shown that Boris Johnson is, has been significantly lacking in that regard.

And this again in effect vindicates another KHOODEELAAR! Diagnostic finding on Boris Johnson and his role whilst he still occupies that office in the Onion: that Boris Johnson cannot be treated as a reasonable, far less reliable or informed, person on the legality of life in power. And it is clear that Boris Johnson has shown a marked propensity to abuse the power thing. In doing so Boris Johnson has shown that he has not much respect for the objective standards of accountability or democracy or constitutionality. In fact, he has been prone to act on the most flimsiest of reasons, and mostly on what is ordinarily described as whim and callousness. As with his defence of his receipt from the publishers of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH group of the sum that is otherwise known as a quarter £Million. Nowhere is Boris more calamitous in terms of the damaging long-term consequences of his behaviour than in the peddling of a scam in the name of London.

We here refer to the many zigzag moves, diversions and crashing contradictions in the published and the publicly accessible utterances by Boris Johnson about the Military Industrial Complex-backed Crossrail scam. We also reiterate our reasoned demand put to him on the record on more than 20 separate substantial occasions that he must show objective and independently verifiable evidence to support a single one of the peddling plugs that he has been making for CRASSrail. We assert on the evidence that Boris Johnson has not done that. He cannot do that. Even if he wanted to.

Why? Because there is NO EVIDENCE that he can cite. And we should strongly advise him against trying to fake any evidence. He has uttered enough fakery already. What he should now do is to concentrate on finding a dignified way to backtrack. We will give him a hint. He can make a historic statement and say that he has done a Liverpool on the CRASSrail. That he is able to recall that he is a squashed lemon and that he is ‘mayor’ enough to admit it. And scrap the scam and then move on… We can also tell him that there will not be any votes in CRASSrail. There never have been. Contrary to the idiotic ‘consultants’ 'advice' that he may have been targeted through by the Military Industrial Complex and its propaganda operations in the UK…

[To be continued]



Shedload of trouble for Boris: Mayor forced to tear down his balcony summer house
By DANIEL BATES
Last updated at 12:07 AM on 07th August 2009
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When he was standing for office, a key plank of his election campaign was to safeguard the capital's architectural heritage.
But it would seem that Boris Johnson hasn't managed to match his words with his deeds.
The Mayor of London apparently forgot to seek planning permission for a wooden summer house he built on the balcony of his historic home.





Now you see it, now you don't: The wooden summer house, left, described as a monstrosity by neighbours pictured on Tuesday and, right, the bare balcony yesterday after it was removed
Neighbours were aghast at the ugly protrusion from the elegant Grade II listed Georgian house and alerted the council.
Mr Johnson was duly told to remove it and within hours he and his staff were seen frantically dismantling the eyesore with power tools.
He moved into the £2million house in Islington, North London, in April with wife Marina Wheeler and their four children and put up the summer house a few weeks ago.

Boris Johnson acted quickly to haul the house down
It had four tall windows on the front, two on the side and a flat roof and sat on the first-floor balcony of the five-storey house with a commanding view of the garden.
Resembling a garden shed, it contrasted sharply with the brickwork, sash windows and the white railings of the floor below.
One neighbour said: 'He should be setting an example, not putting up such an eyesore. It was totally at odds with the area, a complete monstrosity. What's more, it was done without any thought for the neighbours.'
Another neighbour said he saw Mr Johnson working late into the night after being told to take it down. 'I walked past Boris's place with my dogs at about 11pm and it was a hive of activity,' he said.
'Boris was stood there in floral shorts looking flustered and they all had power tools at the ready.
'Work carried on through the night until there was no sign that the thing had ever been there. He must have panicked as he would know that it does not look good for the Mayor of London to have such a blatant disregard for the law.'
Islington South Labour MP Emily Thornberry said: 'Boris might think he's above the law but I'm sure he'd be the first to be outraged if one of his neighbours started building work without consulting anyone.'
Islington council said the shed required planning permission because it was attached to a listed building. 'Planning enforcement officers asked Mr Johnson to remove it,' a spokesman said.

A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: 'He is grateful to Islington council for their advice on this matter. The shed has been taken down.'

During his election campaign, Mr Johnson pledged to prevent tall buildings from towering over communities. However, he later faced accusations he capitulated over a proposed 43-storey apartment block on the South Bank.
The summer house episode is the latest in a series of blunders by Mr Johnson. His most recent was suggesting the £250,000 he earns from a newspaper was 'chicken feed'.