1640 [1600] [1548] GMT
London Monday 26 October 2009:
By © Muhammad Haque. The 'local' ‘East London Advertiser’ [= ‘ELA’] has been sinking in circulation loss over recent years. Is it related to the facts of its ‘journalism’?
The ‘records’ of the ‘ELA’s ‘ decline as created by Roy Greenslade [via the London GUARDIAN] and assorted ‘trade’ ‘titles’ would suggest that the’ East London Idiotiser’ was being ground down by the corrupt clique on Tower Hamlets Council for the IDIOTISER’s camapgn against corruption…. [and other myths fostered by the trade titles with a bit of help from the Idiotising ‘editor’ Malcolm S**********].
The Khoodeelaar! Campaign has long held the view based on evidence that the ‘ELA’ is letting down the community. We have chronicled the title’s decline as a ‘local journal’.
We have relied on evidence that was originally used by CBRUK , the main sponsoring movement behind KHOODEELAAR! [CBRUK=’Committee for Bangladeshis’ Rights in the UK’, Estd. initially in defence of the Brick Lane area in July 1989 following the {still unsolved at 26 October 2009} murders in July 1989 of Esmoth Ali and Watir Ali in the Flower and Dean Walk off Brick Lane] to designate the ‘ELA’ as the ‘East London Idiotiser’.
The conduct and the contents of the title have been increasingly unreliable, inconsistent and biased.
To say the least.
And in its ‘coverage’ [!!!!!!!] of the Khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole scam, the Idiotiser has been noticeably idiotic.
While our campaign has been consistent on the facts and authentic in our analysis and absolutely appropriate on the implications, the Idiotiser has been idiotic and unreliable. And the Idiotiser has been very racist. And corrupt.
We have carried out extensive investigation into the Idiotiser and have been publishing our findings over the past years. In this updater, we carry two items from the ‘ELA’. One, from its print version dated 5 January 2006.
The other from its website dated 18 December 2007. BOTH items are by-lined to their reporter at the dates concerned Ted Jeory.
BOTH items are unequivocal in their recognition that the main campaigning group against CROSSRAIL agenda is Khoodeelaar! In fact there is no group mentioned in either item, OTHER THAN Khoodeelaar! as the campaigning group against Crossrail. On the facts, there could not be. Not as THE CAMPAIGN on this issue.
There have been many individuals and groups who have been involved at various times and as opposing the CRoSSRAIL scam.
They have been sporadic. They have had aspects of the Crossrail scam as the target of their camapgn. The one campaign covering all aspects and defending the East End of London against the agenda of the CRoSSRAIL scam is the Khoodeelaar! campaign. …
And the facts and the evidence of the time and of other times support that. But the Idiotiser has vascilated. It has twisted and fabricated. Before those dates and since those two dates. We shall show how and when. And we shall show that it is the IRRELEVANCE, the falsehood and the fakery and the prejudice contained in the contents and the ‘editorial line’ of the Idiotiser under the influence of the current owners ARCHANT that is sinking the over-estimated title
[To be continued]
Crossrail U-turn as protesters smell victory over disruptions
18 December 2007
By Ted Jeory
ted.jeory@archant.co.uk
ANTI-Crossrail campaigners have scored a major victory after transport bosses signalled a U-turn on the scale of disruption they are likely to cause in London's East End.
Crossrail chiefs announced today (Dec-18) they no longer need to build a huge ventilation shaft in Spitalfields, after years of insisting it was needed... including evidence given to Parliament.
It caused fury in the community with protests from traders in Brick Lane and Hanbury Street.
Instead, Crossrail planners intend to 'downgrade' construction work to a simpler and smaller emergency access shaft. It is believed they are now even examining doing without that.
The decision marks a victory for the anti-Crossrail group Khoodeelaar! and its energetic organiser Muhammad Haque. It has been lobbying Tower Hamlets council which supports the entire £16 billion 'super tube' project, urging the Town Hall to represent the concerns of East Enders.
"This is a major victory for the community and the campaign," said Mr Haque.
"It shows if we continue to campaign the way we have, we can get what we want and that the council can be led."
He plans to continue campaigning against other earmarked ventilation shafts in Whitechapel and Stepney Green.
But Tower Hamlets council leader Denise Jones said the Town Hall and other community groups deserved credit.
She insists: "We have all petitioned hard to lessen the disruption in Brick Lane.
"Together we have already achieved massive concessions.
"It is fantastic news, a great testament to what can be achieved when the council and people work together."
Crossrail, however, says it is continuing working on 'ventilation and emergency strategies' with Tower Hamlets council "to see if the need for the Hanbury Street excavation shaft could be removed." But the company insisted no firm decision had yet been made.
The Crossrail Bill goes to the House of Lords on January 9 for the next stage in the approval process, after sailing through the Commons last Thursday.
Government ministers were buoyant on Monday that London's biggest construction controversy since Docklands in the 1970s was now all but over.
Transport Minister Tom Harris said: "Crossrail is expected to add 21 per cent rail capacity to the City of London and 54 per cent to the Isle of Dogs, relieving congestion and overcrowding on the national rail and London Underground networks."
The new 'super tube' with its direct link westward from Thames Gateway to the East End, City, West End and Heathrow will run 24 trains an hour at peak times, one every five minutes in either direction.
The route eastward under Oxford Street and Liverpool Street splits at a major junction planned at Whitechapel, with one branch going to Stratford to join the Shenfield line to Essex, the other under Stepney and Limehouse to the Isle of Dogs, then under the Thames to join the North Kent line to Abbey Wood.
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