Khoodeelaar! Told it years ago. Khoodeelaar! Is still telling it six years later. That what the holder of the office in the name of the people of London says is not any more important than what the objective evidence justifies in anyone saying. In fact we have said that the holder of that office often told untruths and lies. We have showed that on many important issues, the ‘mayor in the name of london’ has backed untruths peddled lies and has abused that office. The costs in money terms in environmental terms and in terms of economic losses and social deficit have been enormous. So why does the holder of the post get away with lying in the name of the people of London? The answer is that the big business that controls the means of propaganda and popular brainwashing in and about London is pushing the agenda that defies democracy and undermines the truth from coming out. It is very rarely that the London EVENING STANDARD - for years the propaganda outlet for big business agenda crossrail scam - allows any significant space to be given to telling at least some of the truth. It occasionally allows a token piece of truth to be told by Simon Jenkins, one of the paper’s former editors. The overwhelming majority of people in london who are outraged by the lies for big business that the EVENING STANDARD publishes in its news, comments and features are never allowed to get in print in the paper their outrage and opposition. So we carry the texts from Simon Jenkins’ a latest piece which exposes the incompetence of Boris Johnson and also, in passing exposes the stupidity of those who keep peddling Crossrail scam agenda… KHOODEELAAR! would only change the headline that the article does not support. We would write: “London can put up with a mayor who shows that he is not an abuser of the powers that he already has. There are many powers that the mayor has which remain unused or misused. The mayor must start using the existing powers properly and honestly…”

0915 [0905] Hrs GMT
 London S
Saturday
03 April 2010.
Editor © Muhammad Haque.

Khoodeelaar! Told it years ago. Khoodeelaar! Is still telling it six years later. That what the holder of the office in the name of the people of London says is not any more important than what the objective evidence justifies in anyone saying. In fact we have said that the holder of that office often told untruths and lies. We have showed that on many important issues, the ‘mayor in the name of london’ has backed untruths peddled lies and has abused that office. The costs in money terms in environmental terms and in terms of economic losses and social deficit have been enormous. So why does the holder of the post get away with lying in the name of the people of London? The answer is that the big business that controls the means of propaganda and popular brainwashing in and about London is pushing the agenda that defies democracy and undermines the truth from coming out. It is very rarely that the London EVENING STANDARD - for years the propaganda outlet for big business agenda crossrail scam - allows any significant space to be given to telling at least some of the truth. It occasionally allows a token piece of truth to be told by Simon Jenkins, one of the paper’s former editors. The overwhelming majority of people in london who are outraged by the lies for big business that the EVENING STANDARD publishes in its news, comments and features are never allowed to get in print in the paper their outrage and opposition. So we carry the texts from Simon Jenkins’ a latest piece which exposes the incompetence of Boris Johnson and also, in passing exposes the stupidity of those who keep peddling Crossrail scam agenda… KHOODEELAAR! would only change the headline that the article does not support. We would write: “London can put up with a mayor who shows that he is not an abuser of the powers that he already has. There are many powers that the mayor has which remain unused or misused. The mayor must start using the existing powers properly and honestly…” [To be continued]


BELOW IS Simon Jenkins exposing the mess that is London environment as caused by the many diggers digging holes all over London. Jenkins challenges Boris Johnson's boasts.....




“City in chaos: as the Standard reported last week, 5,500 London streets are being disrupted by works We need a Mayor with power to dig us out of this hole Simon Jenkins 30.03.10 They're digging up the road outside my house. Again. But then they are digging up Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, Kingsway, Chancery Lane, Aldwych, Bond Street, Bayswater Road, Kensington High Street. Again. They're digging outside Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, Westminster Abbey, the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Royal Festival Hall. They are digging up Goldhawk Road, Kensal Rise, Camden Town, Dulwich, Hammersmith, Lewisham. They are digging everywhere. London has been invaded by demented moles. Who are they? Is al Qaeda laying bombs? Are the French laying the fuses for some Olympics revenge holocaust? Are they for the Government's latest surveillance wires? All I know is that wherever I turn I see someone in a hard hat putting up red-and-white plastic barriers and wheel barrows, then digging a hole and vanishing. He leaves filth everywhere and the traffic can go hang. The logo of Boris Johnson's London is a sign of a man digging dirt. The chaos, the lack of co-ordination and courtesy for others, the repeated disruption, the crazed diversions and sudden street closures, all leave an impression of a city lost to lunacy. The spattering of every street with dirty barriers sends out the same signal as graffiti along a railway carriage, of a metropolis no longer in control of itself. It seems to be awaiting some stone-hurling mob. Barricades are going up, streets are blocked, anarchy and rebellion are in the air. Last week we were told that the number of roadworks in London had broken all peacetime records. The 370,000 undertaken over the past year represented an average of four roadworks per street. Digging by water, electricity, gas, cable companies coupled with local council end-year budget surpluses had produced "a perfect storm", with health and safety adding their bit by demanding ever wider holes and more obtrusive signs. When London was given its own mayor 10 years ago, we thought we would get some change. In the Nineties, the (unelected) minister for London, John Gummer, had capitulated to the privatised utility companies in their outrageous demand for unrestricted access to the ground beneath London's streets. It was a dreadful decision, leading to Oxford Street being dug up 176 times in a single year and the Strand 154 times. When coming to office, both Ken Livingstone and then Boris Johnson declared "holy war on holey roads" and made macho boasts against the utilities. They promised new licences, schedules and controls so that streets were not dug up by different operators over and over again. Johnson pledged a rental and fining system for contractors. A year ago he even revealed a steel pontoon he would put over dormant holes and a hilarious "computer software system" to plan the digging. He said he was very angry and would get very tough. It was all piss and wind. The Mayors have tried for 10 years and have failed. Things have got worse, not better, since they took over. The EVENING STANDARD last week revealed that 5,500 London streets are currently being dug, including almost all the main thoroughfares of the West End and inner London. Any vehicular journey across London is now unreliable - other than by mayoral bicycle. A Transport for London official stated that the roads are now in the worst state they have been since the Blitz, the delays costing "up to a billion pounds a year". Half of all the traffic hold-ups are caused by roadworks. We are not even given a better class of excuse. Last week the following explanations were issued. The growing roadworks were due to the cold weather, burst water mains, "major engineering" and, that mother of all curses, the 2012 Olympics. Doubtless when the Olympics are over, roadworks will be attributed to "the legacy". Nor have they started blaming Crossrail which, unless it is cancelled, will make central London's present traffic seem positively pastoral. Frogs do not know they are dying so long as the water that boils them heats slowly. So with London's drivers. Whether they are in charge of buses, taxis, lorries, vans or those few remaining private cars, they can grow used to the torrents and eddies of the city's maze of streets, provided they can predict the bottlenecks. What no one can handle is the trauma of an unannounced obstruction or a meaningless detour. A Tim Burton movie could not do justice to Bayswater's Queensway over the past year. Something has clearly gone wrong. A series of statutes and regulations have tried to rectify the mistake, including in 1991, 2001 and 2004. All were weakened by industry lobbying of feeble ministers and local leaders, to make them either voluntary or based on charges and fines. This meant the utilities could either disregard the law or pass any extra cost to someone else, usually a consumer - as they doubtless will Johnson's new threatened 10-fold increase in fines. This does not happen abroad, where local government, not private profit, controls the road surface and where the authority of big-city mayors is not diluted by dozens of town halls. In Paris or Frankfurt or Madrid you may dig up a road only in an emergency and only with permission. In Tokyo you can dig at night but must return the road to public use by morning. The waste in London could be obviated, according to the Road Research Laboratory, by forcing utilities to use new tunnelling technology and common conduits. It estimates that 80 per cent of the disruption to London is unnecessary. The truth of the matter is that nobody is in charge. London's Mayor will complain that he has inadequate power over utilities or local boroughs. If so, why did he boast he would "do something"? He has the power of persuasion, the power of the mandate, the power to name and shame. London's leadership is as impotent as it is incompetent. And the bloody light is still on red. "