1255 GMT London Wednesday 04 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO for years! Now even in London's West End, they are finding out that Crossrail can make small, medium businesses shed real tears as they face certain ruin, destruction… being brought upon them by CROSSRAIL just as Khoodeelaar! has been warning about for years….[To be continued]
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?55_businesses_could_go_bust_thanks_to_Crossrail&in_article_id=761981&in_page_id=34
55 businesses 'could go bust thanks to Crossrail'
By FRED ATTEWILL - Wednesday, November 4, 2009
CROSSRAIL is threatening the future of dozens of businesses which have until next week to find new premises before the bulldozers move in, it has been claimed.
A total of 55 businesses - including pubs, restaurants, law firms and PR companies - have been ordered to leave Soho, central London.
They claim they were given just three months notice of the November 13 quit date, despite plans for the western ticket hall for Tottenham Court Road station in Dean Street being on the table since 1990.
Some claim they have been left in the dark over compensation for moving, without which many will go bust.
Law partner Ian Penman says his firm has been landed with a six-figure bill after it was told to vacate its offices to make way for the £16billion underground rail project due to open in 2017.
'If we don't get sufficient compensation, we'll probably go out of business,' he said.
Last supper? Mr Savarese fears for his pizzeria
Domenico Savarese said his busy pizzeria Spacca Napoli would now be forced to close with the loss of all 22 jobs after he was unable to find suitable new premises in time.
He added he had received no information from Crossrail on compensation for the loss of his profitable business just off Oxford Street.
A spokeswoman for Crossrail insisted businesses directly affected were notified before July 2008.
She said tenants were eligible for compensation under the national code for compulsory purchase.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Khoodeelaar! TOLD UK Palace of Ghostsminster and the stooged MPs for Big Business CRASSrail two days before they sat down........
0345 [0330] [0300] Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 4 November 2009:
Khoodeelaar! TOLD UK Palace of Ghostsminster and the stooged MPs for Big Business CRASSrail two days before they sat down as the CRASSLY contrived Crossrail Bill Select ‘committee’ that they WOULD LIE. They did lie. For two years during which they sat in the name of scrutiny, they suppressed the truth and they let Big Business liars push their agenda via that committee within the notional protection of the Palace of Stooges.
KHOODEELAAR! has been defending the East London community against the agenda of Big Business scam, Crossrail. And against all that the Big Business scam entails, symbolizes, typifies and represents. Here is an action update on how we accurate description the role of the stooged MPs' 'Crossrail Bill Select Committee', two days before the committee of stooged ones sat [Tuesday 17 January 2006] for the first time, we said that they would NOT be telling the truth..
They have, in the two years that followed to July 2008 when the stooged MPs and stooged Peers served as the stooges to allow Harriet Harman to hurry the CRASS Bill into the rubber stamped form of an 'Act' sadly, vindicated us one hundred percent. Not only did the stooged timeservers fail to tell the truth, they also failed to hear the truth. They failed to hear of the truth. They in fact blocked people who wanted to tell the truth.
They stooged MPs rehearsed the lying charades in both Houses of the Parliament of Ghosts. The Palace of Ghostsminster was therefore confirmed as being in place [ and in place where the allegedly democratic 'mother of parliaments' Palace of Westminster was supposed to be] and in the way of telling the truth about wasteful abuse of £Billions of public money in the UK… That is how crassly the Crossrail scam has been being peddled
[To be continued]
By © Muhammad Haque
On Sunday 15 January 2006, I wrote the piece and published it on the Internet announcing the then KHOODEELAAR! campaign programme against the CrossRail hole Bill.
It was historic moment.
It was yet two days before we would make a campaign comment about the 'local' MP George Galloway.
Galloway, it will be recalled, had been at the centre of much criticism on that occasion as he was a guest of Channel 4 Big Brother House.
The criticism of Galloway was based on the allegation that he had missed a vital debate on CrossRail as he was absent from his constituency and absent from the UK House of Commons.
As the campaign against the Crossrail hole attacks on the community, we knew that that allegation was not accurate.
However, as we neither belonged to any faction that Galloway was misidentified with nor did we wish to take part in any sectarian mudslinging exchanges, we had not made any definitive comment from KHOODEELAAR! Until Tuesday 17 January 2009.
When I stated Galloway’s name and said that he had a right to be way if that was what he wanted to do, the political atmosphere changed in the constituency and beyond. As far as the cry against Galloway as concerned.
I shall detail those events elsewhere in due course.
Here [see below the straight line] is what I published on the INDYMEDIA websites about the MPs that made up the stooged Select Committee on what was then the “CrossRail Bill|”, about to be stooged by the stooged Select Committee.
[To be continued]
___________________________________________________
https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2006/01/331512.html?c=on
“
On Tuesday of this coming week, 17 January 2006, a UK House of Commons committee is due to start formally looking at the Crossrail hole Bill in view of the petitions that have been submitted mainly by objectors to the Bill. There is no room in that process for the truth of the real political machinations and betrayals during the past three years by the ‘elected’ politicians for the area affected in London
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2006
KHOODEELAAR the BRICK LANE LONDON E1 COMMUNITY campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill is now set to draw public attention to the unnecessary attack via the Crossrail hole scheme on a widely-noted most deprived part of the East End. The publication programme is coinciding with the scheduled start of the formal ‘scrutiny’ of the House of Commons Crossrail Bill by the formally appointed ‘select committee’ beginning next week.
The MPs committee is only going to look at the formally submitted petitions those petitions are in accordance with the overly bureaucratic and jargonised procedure of the House of Commons. There is no room in that process for the truth of the real political machinations and betrayals that have caused the problem of the Crossrail hole to be resisted by the local community in the East End.
For the past 24 months, that defence of the community ahs been carried out by the KHOODEELAAR BRICK LANE LONDON E1 community campaign against the Crossrail hole plan, scheme, project and Bill.
The facts and the evidence of that campaign are essential for a proper and genuine and factual understanding of what the Crossrail hole Bill is about and why it must be scrapped.
Campaign schedule as at 0930 Hrs London Sunday 15 January 2006
1. Publication of the KHOODEELAAR BRICK LANE LONDON E1 COMMUNITY documentary evidence of the role of the former Bethnal Green ands Bow MP Oona King – analysing her promotion of the Crossrail scheme and based on the speech she made in which she stated that the local community would come round to accepting the Crossrail assault on the community if only the Crossrail promoters explained the alleged advantages more!
2. Publication of the latest evidence of the collusion with Crossrail hole scheme promoters by the controlling elements on Tower Hamlets Council which INVITED the Crossrail destruction attacks to the East End under the multiple duplicity of ‘regeneration’.
3. Publication of the KHOODEELAAR demands to the formal Tower Hamlets council for the Council to oppose the Crossrail hole attacks on both the Brick Lane London e1 area as well as on other parts of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The KHODOEELAAR demands date back to January 2004.
4. Publication of the KHIOODEELAAR demands to Gordon Brown [February 2004] and to Tony Blair [March 2004] and to Alistair Darling [May 2004]
5. Publication of the KHOODEELAAR investigation into the overdozing on poverty and deprivation by the controlling corrupt cliques on the Tower Hamlets council who have WANTERD to maintain poverty to remain a factor in the East End as part of the ‘central UK GIOVT. Funding programme as affecting the Borough. The glaring lies that the same cliques have been perpetrating over the past week alleging that they even know what the needs of the community are let alone have any willingness to recognise the community far less show true and democratic respect top the people who actually own the Council but who have been disenfranchised by the corrupt clique that has been in de facto control of the Tower Hamlets Council’s agenda.
6. Publication of the evidence of how Crossrail hole plan would destroy the future of the youths and prematurely blight all community efforts and stability in the East End.
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2006
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2006
London
Wednesday 4 November 2009:
Khoodeelaar! TOLD UK Palace of Ghostsminster and the stooged MPs for Big Business CRASSrail two days before they sat down as the CRASSLY contrived Crossrail Bill Select ‘committee’ that they WOULD LIE. They did lie. For two years during which they sat in the name of scrutiny, they suppressed the truth and they let Big Business liars push their agenda via that committee within the notional protection of the Palace of Stooges.
KHOODEELAAR! has been defending the East London community against the agenda of Big Business scam, Crossrail. And against all that the Big Business scam entails, symbolizes, typifies and represents. Here is an action update on how we accurate description the role of the stooged MPs' 'Crossrail Bill Select Committee', two days before the committee of stooged ones sat [Tuesday 17 January 2006] for the first time, we said that they would NOT be telling the truth..
They have, in the two years that followed to July 2008 when the stooged MPs and stooged Peers served as the stooges to allow Harriet Harman to hurry the CRASS Bill into the rubber stamped form of an 'Act' sadly, vindicated us one hundred percent. Not only did the stooged timeservers fail to tell the truth, they also failed to hear the truth. They failed to hear of the truth. They in fact blocked people who wanted to tell the truth.
They stooged MPs rehearsed the lying charades in both Houses of the Parliament of Ghosts. The Palace of Ghostsminster was therefore confirmed as being in place [ and in place where the allegedly democratic 'mother of parliaments' Palace of Westminster was supposed to be] and in the way of telling the truth about wasteful abuse of £Billions of public money in the UK… That is how crassly the Crossrail scam has been being peddled
[To be continued]
By © Muhammad Haque
On Sunday 15 January 2006, I wrote the piece and published it on the Internet announcing the then KHOODEELAAR! campaign programme against the CrossRail hole Bill.
It was historic moment.
It was yet two days before we would make a campaign comment about the 'local' MP George Galloway.
Galloway, it will be recalled, had been at the centre of much criticism on that occasion as he was a guest of Channel 4 Big Brother House.
The criticism of Galloway was based on the allegation that he had missed a vital debate on CrossRail as he was absent from his constituency and absent from the UK House of Commons.
As the campaign against the Crossrail hole attacks on the community, we knew that that allegation was not accurate.
However, as we neither belonged to any faction that Galloway was misidentified with nor did we wish to take part in any sectarian mudslinging exchanges, we had not made any definitive comment from KHOODEELAAR! Until Tuesday 17 January 2009.
When I stated Galloway’s name and said that he had a right to be way if that was what he wanted to do, the political atmosphere changed in the constituency and beyond. As far as the cry against Galloway as concerned.
I shall detail those events elsewhere in due course.
Here [see below the straight line] is what I published on the INDYMEDIA websites about the MPs that made up the stooged Select Committee on what was then the “CrossRail Bill|”, about to be stooged by the stooged Select Committee.
[To be continued]
___________________________________________________
https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2006/01/331512.html?c=on
“
On Tuesday of this coming week, 17 January 2006, a UK House of Commons committee is due to start formally looking at the Crossrail hole Bill in view of the petitions that have been submitted mainly by objectors to the Bill. There is no room in that process for the truth of the real political machinations and betrayals during the past three years by the ‘elected’ politicians for the area affected in London
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2006
KHOODEELAAR the BRICK LANE LONDON E1 COMMUNITY campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill is now set to draw public attention to the unnecessary attack via the Crossrail hole scheme on a widely-noted most deprived part of the East End. The publication programme is coinciding with the scheduled start of the formal ‘scrutiny’ of the House of Commons Crossrail Bill by the formally appointed ‘select committee’ beginning next week.
The MPs committee is only going to look at the formally submitted petitions those petitions are in accordance with the overly bureaucratic and jargonised procedure of the House of Commons. There is no room in that process for the truth of the real political machinations and betrayals that have caused the problem of the Crossrail hole to be resisted by the local community in the East End.
For the past 24 months, that defence of the community ahs been carried out by the KHOODEELAAR BRICK LANE LONDON E1 community campaign against the Crossrail hole plan, scheme, project and Bill.
The facts and the evidence of that campaign are essential for a proper and genuine and factual understanding of what the Crossrail hole Bill is about and why it must be scrapped.
Campaign schedule as at 0930 Hrs London Sunday 15 January 2006
1. Publication of the KHOODEELAAR BRICK LANE LONDON E1 COMMUNITY documentary evidence of the role of the former Bethnal Green ands Bow MP Oona King – analysing her promotion of the Crossrail scheme and based on the speech she made in which she stated that the local community would come round to accepting the Crossrail assault on the community if only the Crossrail promoters explained the alleged advantages more!
2. Publication of the latest evidence of the collusion with Crossrail hole scheme promoters by the controlling elements on Tower Hamlets Council which INVITED the Crossrail destruction attacks to the East End under the multiple duplicity of ‘regeneration’.
3. Publication of the KHOODEELAAR demands to the formal Tower Hamlets council for the Council to oppose the Crossrail hole attacks on both the Brick Lane London e1 area as well as on other parts of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The KHODOEELAAR demands date back to January 2004.
4. Publication of the KHIOODEELAAR demands to Gordon Brown [February 2004] and to Tony Blair [March 2004] and to Alistair Darling [May 2004]
5. Publication of the KHOODEELAAR investigation into the overdozing on poverty and deprivation by the controlling corrupt cliques on the Tower Hamlets council who have WANTERD to maintain poverty to remain a factor in the East End as part of the ‘central UK GIOVT. Funding programme as affecting the Borough. The glaring lies that the same cliques have been perpetrating over the past week alleging that they even know what the needs of the community are let alone have any willingness to recognise the community far less show true and democratic respect top the people who actually own the Council but who have been disenfranchised by the corrupt clique that has been in de facto control of the Tower Hamlets Council’s agenda.
6. Publication of the evidence of how Crossrail hole plan would destroy the future of the youths and prematurely blight all community efforts and stability in the East End.
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2006
© CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR 2006
Khoodeelaar! TOLD UK CON 'leader' David 'Dave' C that he would go down as a Ca-Moron if he wasn’t careful. He has confessed to being callous now!
2315 GMT
London
Tuesday
03 November 2009
Khoodeelaar! TOLD UK CON 'leader' David 'Dave' C that he would go down as a Ca-Moron if he wasn’t careful. He has confessed to being callous now!
What are we on about?
Indeed!
It is hard to know where Ca-Moron is with ‘policy’.
With the most OTT-hyped ‘Euro-skeptic William Hague openly admitting that he has been lying all those years, there is no room for any doubt that the Con Party is AS CRASS as the other two Parties in the uk Parliament.
[To be continued]
London
Tuesday
03 November 2009
Khoodeelaar! TOLD UK CON 'leader' David 'Dave' C that he would go down as a Ca-Moron if he wasn’t careful. He has confessed to being callous now!
What are we on about?
Indeed!
It is hard to know where Ca-Moron is with ‘policy’.
With the most OTT-hyped ‘Euro-skeptic William Hague openly admitting that he has been lying all those years, there is no room for any doubt that the Con Party is AS CRASS as the other two Parties in the uk Parliament.
[To be continued]
CALLOUS TOWER CRASSRAIL LEVY! Khoodeelaar! Pointing out again that Boris Johnson has been abusing the position he holds in the Onion...
2255 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 03 November 2009
Khoodeelaar! Pointing out again that Boris Johnson has been abusing the position he holds in the Onion at the expense of the collective image of the people of London.
We do so by citing a blog that has been referring in the past week to the Callous Tower in the isle of Dogs that Boris Johnson has been peddling.
In the blog there are references [but no access to any cited fourth party Internet items] to some ordinarily CRASSrole playing timeservers who too condemn Boris Johnson for using Crossrail as a tool to fun a bribery operation.
We use the two words ‘bribery operation’ advisedly.
We also do this in full awareness of the assertion made in the past 6 months by Simon Milton to the effect that he, Milton, was the brain [or could it conceivably be a plural ‘brains’!] of Boris Johnson.
We conclude as based on that assertion that Simon Milton would, if anything, be OK with such an operation, given that he has NOT even now, all these years later, disassociated himself from the role played by the Tories at Westminster City Council in that GRAVE robbery.
We quote the plain texts from that page [see URL immediately below this]
http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/property-planning/2009/10/boris-cuts-crossrail-levy---payments-set-to-quadruple.html
Boris cuts Crossrail levy - payments set to quadruple...
By Patrick Clift on October 27, 2009 2:25 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The mayor has promised developers a discount on his Crossrail levy in new guidance today.
It says Boris Johnson is to allow developers to pay just 80% of his £20 per sq ft tax, for projects starting before 31 March next year, in order to encourage development.
But hang on. Almost every new scheme to stump up for the levy so far has had its payment negotiated down to just 20%, so in effect developers could see their contribution quadruple... hardly a great saving, or a great incentive.
By sheer coincidence, the only scheme to pay 80% of the levy, some £4m, is Commercial Estates Group's Columbus Tower in Canary Wharf, which by sheer, mind-blowing coincidence was the first and only scheme to have been approved by the mayor under his new powers to determine planning applications.
Not that there is any suggestion that the planning permission was sold for Crossrail money. Well, actually there is, from Labour's London Assembly Member John Biggs, who questions the mayor here, here and here. Oh, and here.
But Boris has denied any wrong-doing, insisting planning policy was followed and there is "no question of this application being bought".
Meanwhile, developers in 9-Elms, it was confirmed today, will be spared the levy altogether, but will pay a near-identical amount to London's other great infrastructure challenge, the extension of the Northern Line.
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London
Tuesday 03 November 2009
Khoodeelaar! Pointing out again that Boris Johnson has been abusing the position he holds in the Onion at the expense of the collective image of the people of London.
We do so by citing a blog that has been referring in the past week to the Callous Tower in the isle of Dogs that Boris Johnson has been peddling.
In the blog there are references [but no access to any cited fourth party Internet items] to some ordinarily CRASSrole playing timeservers who too condemn Boris Johnson for using Crossrail as a tool to fun a bribery operation.
We use the two words ‘bribery operation’ advisedly.
We also do this in full awareness of the assertion made in the past 6 months by Simon Milton to the effect that he, Milton, was the brain [or could it conceivably be a plural ‘brains’!] of Boris Johnson.
We conclude as based on that assertion that Simon Milton would, if anything, be OK with such an operation, given that he has NOT even now, all these years later, disassociated himself from the role played by the Tories at Westminster City Council in that GRAVE robbery.
We quote the plain texts from that page [see URL immediately below this]
http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/property-planning/2009/10/boris-cuts-crossrail-levy---payments-set-to-quadruple.html
Boris cuts Crossrail levy - payments set to quadruple...
By Patrick Clift on October 27, 2009 2:25 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The mayor has promised developers a discount on his Crossrail levy in new guidance today.
It says Boris Johnson is to allow developers to pay just 80% of his £20 per sq ft tax, for projects starting before 31 March next year, in order to encourage development.
But hang on. Almost every new scheme to stump up for the levy so far has had its payment negotiated down to just 20%, so in effect developers could see their contribution quadruple... hardly a great saving, or a great incentive.
By sheer coincidence, the only scheme to pay 80% of the levy, some £4m, is Commercial Estates Group's Columbus Tower in Canary Wharf, which by sheer, mind-blowing coincidence was the first and only scheme to have been approved by the mayor under his new powers to determine planning applications.
Not that there is any suggestion that the planning permission was sold for Crossrail money. Well, actually there is, from Labour's London Assembly Member John Biggs, who questions the mayor here, here and here. Oh, and here.
But Boris has denied any wrong-doing, insisting planning policy was followed and there is "no question of this application being bought".
Meanwhile, developers in 9-Elms, it was confirmed today, will be spared the levy altogether, but will pay a near-identical amount to London's other great infrastructure challenge, the extension of the Northern Line.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! tells Boris Johnson to quit going OTT on everything and also to QUIT FAKING IT UP, BIGGING UP every single act, stunt and fabrication
2355 Hrs GMT
London
Monday
02 November 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Does so in the context of the report by RUPERT MURDOCH that D Cameron is saying No to a UK REFERENDUM on the Lisbon treaty.
This shows just how hollow the UK CON PARTY has been all along. As KHOODEELAAR! has chronicled in the context of the UK Con party’s complicity with the corrupt interest s and elements pushing for the corrupting Crossrail scam Big Business agenda.
Boris Johnson is ion serious danger of being exposed as really lacking substance.
Today’s banal utterances around the Oxford Street design re crossing was another illustration of Boris talking irresponsible TOSH.
What has THAT street crossing to do with the size of it in ‘Europe’?
Just so that Boris Johnson does not get the idea that KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail camapgn is alone in advising him to quit overdoing big talk and tosh talk, he can look again at what yesterday's [Sunday 01 November 2009] POLITICS SHOW LONDON contained about another of Boris’ big talk tosh items.
The so-called Boris island airport.
Even the timeserving faker Tony Travers himself called that a political fantasy. That is what Travers meant in his own contrived way.
He faked its status by calling it a ‘political construct’. Thus he kept his marketability. Had he said that that was another typical Boris OTT rubbish, he would not expect to get an invite to Boris’ next dos.
Or indeed to the BBC’s studios.
And in saying what he did say Travers admitted in effect that he too had been uttering lies on all sorts of ‘London issues and policy announcements’ over the past 20 years or so.
He did not go so far as to confess that he had uttered crass on countless occasions in peddling his ‘expertise’ on Crossrail. But we know that he knew that he had done that.
And that is what matters:
we are aware of how many crass utterances these time-servers have been making while neglecting to tell the truth about the needs of the people of London in whose name they utter and they make their pathetic careers.
Time that they quit the fakery and at least told the truth.
[To be continued]
________________________________________________________________________
Time & Date of LATEST UPDATE
6th Edition of day 2238 GMT London Sunday 01 November 2009
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Founding News Editor
Shah M Azizul Haque
AADHIKAR Media Foundation, established with the publication of AADHIKAR the weekly on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. INTO the 6th. CAMPAIGNING year with KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail holes agenda
London
Monday
02 November 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Does so in the context of the report by RUPERT MURDOCH that D Cameron is saying No to a UK REFERENDUM on the Lisbon treaty.
This shows just how hollow the UK CON PARTY has been all along. As KHOODEELAAR! has chronicled in the context of the UK Con party’s complicity with the corrupt interest s and elements pushing for the corrupting Crossrail scam Big Business agenda.
Boris Johnson is ion serious danger of being exposed as really lacking substance.
Today’s banal utterances around the Oxford Street design re crossing was another illustration of Boris talking irresponsible TOSH.
What has THAT street crossing to do with the size of it in ‘Europe’?
Just so that Boris Johnson does not get the idea that KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail camapgn is alone in advising him to quit overdoing big talk and tosh talk, he can look again at what yesterday's [Sunday 01 November 2009] POLITICS SHOW LONDON contained about another of Boris’ big talk tosh items.
The so-called Boris island airport.
Even the timeserving faker Tony Travers himself called that a political fantasy. That is what Travers meant in his own contrived way.
He faked its status by calling it a ‘political construct’. Thus he kept his marketability. Had he said that that was another typical Boris OTT rubbish, he would not expect to get an invite to Boris’ next dos.
Or indeed to the BBC’s studios.
And in saying what he did say Travers admitted in effect that he too had been uttering lies on all sorts of ‘London issues and policy announcements’ over the past 20 years or so.
He did not go so far as to confess that he had uttered crass on countless occasions in peddling his ‘expertise’ on Crossrail. But we know that he knew that he had done that.
And that is what matters:
we are aware of how many crass utterances these time-servers have been making while neglecting to tell the truth about the needs of the people of London in whose name they utter and they make their pathetic careers.
Time that they quit the fakery and at least told the truth.
[To be continued]
________________________________________________________________________
Time & Date of LATEST UPDATE
6th Edition of day 2238 GMT London Sunday 01 November 2009
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Founding News Editor
Shah M Azizul Haque
AADHIKAR Media Foundation, established with the publication of AADHIKAR the weekly on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. INTO the 6th. CAMPAIGNING year with KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail holes agenda
KHOODEELAAR! tells Boris Johnson to quit going OTT on everything and also to QUIT FAKING IT UP, BIGGING UP every single act, stunt and fabrication
2355 Hrs GMT
London
Monday
02 November 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Does so in the context of the report by RUPERT MURDOCH that D Cameron is saying No to a UK REFERENDUM on the Lisbon treaty.
This shows just how hollow the UK CON PARTY has been all along. As KHOODEELAAR! has chronicled in the context of the UK Con party’s complicity with the corrupt interest s and elements pushing for the corrupting Crossrail scam Big Business agenda.
Boris Johnson is ion serious danger of being exposed as really lacking substance.
Today’s banal utterances around the Oxford Street design re crossing was another illustration of Boris talking irresponsible TOSH.
What has THAT street crossing to do with the size of it in ‘Europe’?
Just so that Boris Johnson does not get the idea that KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail camapgn is alone in advising him to quit overdoing big talk and tosh talk, he can look again at what yesterday's [Sunday 01 November 2009] POLITICS SHOW LONDON contained about another of Boris’ big talk tosh items.
The so-called Boris island airport.
Even the timeserving faker Tony Travers himself called that a political fantasy. That is what Travers meant in his own contrived way.
He faked its status by calling it a ‘political construct’. Thus he kept his marketability. Had he said that that was another typical Boris OTT rubbish, he would not expect to get an invite to Boris’ next dos.
Or indeed to the BBC’s studios.
And in saying what he did say Travers admitted in effect that he too had been uttering lies on all sorts of ‘London issues and policy announcements’ over the past 20 years or so.
He did not go so far as to confess that he had uttered crass on countless occasions in peddling his ‘expertise’ on Crossrail. But we know that he knew that he had done that.
And that is what matters:
we are aware of how many crass utterances these time-servers have been making while neglecting to tell the truth about the needs of the people of London in whose name they utter and they make their pathetic careers.
Time that they quit the fakery and at least told the truth.
[To be continued]
________________________________________________________________________
Time & Date of LATEST UPDATE
6th Edition of day 2238 GMT London Sunday 01 November 2009
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Founding News Editor
Shah M Azizul Haque
AADHIKAR Media Foundation, established with the publication of AADHIKAR the weekly on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. INTO the 6th. CAMPAIGNING year with KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail holes agenda, the Big Business SCAM ADDING to poverty in the inner city and in particular the East End of London..” CAMPAIGN
London
Monday
02 November 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Does so in the context of the report by RUPERT MURDOCH that D Cameron is saying No to a UK REFERENDUM on the Lisbon treaty.
This shows just how hollow the UK CON PARTY has been all along. As KHOODEELAAR! has chronicled in the context of the UK Con party’s complicity with the corrupt interest s and elements pushing for the corrupting Crossrail scam Big Business agenda.
Boris Johnson is ion serious danger of being exposed as really lacking substance.
Today’s banal utterances around the Oxford Street design re crossing was another illustration of Boris talking irresponsible TOSH.
What has THAT street crossing to do with the size of it in ‘Europe’?
Just so that Boris Johnson does not get the idea that KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail camapgn is alone in advising him to quit overdoing big talk and tosh talk, he can look again at what yesterday's [Sunday 01 November 2009] POLITICS SHOW LONDON contained about another of Boris’ big talk tosh items.
The so-called Boris island airport.
Even the timeserving faker Tony Travers himself called that a political fantasy. That is what Travers meant in his own contrived way.
He faked its status by calling it a ‘political construct’. Thus he kept his marketability. Had he said that that was another typical Boris OTT rubbish, he would not expect to get an invite to Boris’ next dos.
Or indeed to the BBC’s studios.
And in saying what he did say Travers admitted in effect that he too had been uttering lies on all sorts of ‘London issues and policy announcements’ over the past 20 years or so.
He did not go so far as to confess that he had uttered crass on countless occasions in peddling his ‘expertise’ on Crossrail. But we know that he knew that he had done that.
And that is what matters:
we are aware of how many crass utterances these time-servers have been making while neglecting to tell the truth about the needs of the people of London in whose name they utter and they make their pathetic careers.
Time that they quit the fakery and at least told the truth.
[To be continued]
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Khoodeelaar! is noting 'MP' Susan Kramer's silence on CRASSrail. Wise move there, Ms Kramer. But we are still waiting !
2245 Hrs GMT London Sunday 01 November 2009:
Richmond area [Lib Dems Party] MP Susan Kramer did a wise thing today. She deliberately failed to utter any CRASSrole idiocies with Stephen Pound.
But Susan Kramer was wrong to not counter Pound's untruth about 'Business'. After all, we last had reason to take Ms Kramer to task in her own constituency because she had contradicted herself on CRASSrail.
The subject under reference then? BUSINESS in her Richmond constituency saying NO to Crossrail levy!
In effect they were saying two fingers to THAT CRASSrail!
And Susan Kramer knew it. She should have said THAT to Stephen Pound’s increasingly complacent careeristic face on the London Onion whence the BBC London edition of the Politics Show was broadcast…
[To be continued]
MP Susan Kramer: 'Kingston's Crossrail contributors should be recompensed'
7:20am Wednesday 5th August 2009
Comments (4) Have your say »
By David Lindsell »
Nearly 700 businesses in Kingston who are likely to be asked to pay for Crossrail should be repaid with more investment in transport locally, an MP has said.
Firms from across London will be asked to pay from their business rates from next April, to pay for the high-speed east to west route which will link Heathrow with the City and Canary Wharf.
Kingston companies above a rateable value of £50,000 would be asked to contribute £2.57m in total - 1.4 per cent of the total cost.
Susan Kramer, MP for Richmond Park and north Kingston said: “In return, we must get real investment to solve some of the transport problems we have locally.
“While extensive works are going on at weekends to improve the Tube network, we are seeing very little gain locally.
“The quid pro quo for the support from our area must be more investment to reduce overcrowding, increase train capacity and mitigate the effects of Airtrack on level crossings.”
Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.
In 2004, an official report said the potential cost of the Kingston extension was close to £1bn, effectively ruling out the link.
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Tony from Surbiton, Surbiton says...
11:34am Wed 5 Aug 09
'Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.'
WELL I AM "ANGERED" BY THE LIB DEM FUNDING PROPOSALS - GIVE ME MY COUNCIL TAX BACK!!!
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khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says...
1:35am Thu 6 Aug 09
Muhammad Haque
1247 Hrs UK
Wednesday
05 August 2009
Dear Louise ,
This is further to our telephone conversation in the past
20 minutes.
Lib Dem MPs Susan Kramer is full of contradictions.
As a publicly claiming economics-conscious career-
carrying person with almost acceptable ‘international’
links, she is being irresponsible with her latest stunt for
Crossrail. ..she has not shown why her so-called quid
pro quo demand is realistic, let alone fundable. I put a
series of costs and priority related questions to her
office in the past hour. There was no evidence from her
office justifying Ms Kramer’s stunt. Nor is there any
sign that she has done any study of the transport needs
of london as a whole. It s additionally irresponsible that
she should repeatedly confuse her constituents by
talking and 'moving' in every direction about transport.
Crossrail is wasteful, diversionary scam. There is no
need for it. What the people of London need is an
improved standard of hardware and manners by
transport personnel...and accountable, honest set of MPs
and local and regional political decision makers. Not
another debts-causing scam...Susan Kramer should
support the call for the scrapping of Crossrail. Not add
to the list of subsidiary wasteful indulgences to fund the
main scam..
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Fred1, Surbiton says...
10:32am Thu 6 Aug 09
Thanks for that khoodeelar, I don't think there's any danger of anyone believing anything that an MP says, though. At least not unless they show that it's thoroughly well-researched, which MP's rarely if ever do.
I'm not quite convinced that "improved standard" of hardware and transport staff manners is one of the things that the people of London needs - after all, how much would this cost?
Accountable and honest MPs would be nice, though, but where would you get them from? I'm not sure that such a being exists. Personally I think that elections and "democracy" is nothing but a facade.
If you want something done, you can't rely on the government to do it; no, you've got to do it yourself. That's the way it is, and no posturing about how our so-called "democracy" is supposedly better than the system they have in Iran or the People's Republic of China is going to make the slightest bit of difference to that.
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khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says...
4:21pm Thu 6 Aug 09
Thanks for your comments, Fred. The KHOODEELAAR! Campaign is against Crossrail for the obvious reason that it is uneconomic. We are also against Crossrail because the scam has been blatantly and quite corruptly pushed through the UK Parliament by the Executive defying the authority of Parliament. Or at least by defying the democratic authority that ought to have been asserted by the ordinary members of Parliament.
KHOODEELAAR! has sought in the past nearly six years since we began the campaign against the Crossrail scam, to tell the two Houses of parliament, we lodged formal objections to the ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’ in the House of Lords and before that, a number of our affiliated groups, including the Spitalfields Small Business Association plus several thousand local traders, residents and tenants from across the East End of London signed our communications and formal letters of objections via a listed number of objectors. We wanted Parliament to hear the evidence that Crossrail was not only NOT wanted by the people of the East End or by the people across London but that there was no economic let alone environmental justification for the scam.. Neither House of the UK ‘Parliament’ would allow our evidence to be put to them! Besides, the House of Commons version of the ‘Select Committee’, as chaired by Alan Meale MP , stopped one MP from raising questions about a Crossrail Whitechapel station. That station ‘scheme’ was a direct bribe made to appease and recruit the controlling clique on the local Tower Hamlets Council fore the purpose of the Big Business scam. The reason, as given by Alan Meale –if it can be treated as reason – was that on 19 July 2005 the House of Commons had barred any real examination of the Crossrail scam to be done by the ‘Select Committee’. So what was the point of the Select Committee? The public did not know in June 2006 what they came to know in June 2009, three years later. That the Houses of ‘Parliament’ have been reduced to Houses of Stooges and touts. There is no evidence of any democratic, independent. Objective and rigorous and consistent challenge on any issue that matters to the public in this country by either Houses to the Executive. This is far worse than anything has been associated with Guy Fawkes and his over-recited plans to physically do away with the Palace now worthy of being called Ghostsminster. Any examination of the Crossrail ‘negotiations’ along the original stated route will confirm the pattern of corruption as the key feature of the process. That so much of the Crossrail scam peddling is done by MPs and peers and not by any recognised ordinary public more than proves the diagnosis that it has been a ploy by unaccountable forces that are bent on looting £Billions of UK public money. Khoodeelaar! has been seeking to draw attention to the one thing the ordinary people still can do in this country. SAY NO. It will save £Billions if more people start to say No like we have been saying. It will be most prudent to say No now than after the ‘horse has bolted’. Unlike Gordon Brown, we remain ordinarily committed to the virtue of prudence in public finance and public decision-making. Despite the hype, neither the Conservatives nor the Lib Dems as the two numerically major parties of Opposition have done its work of holding the Executive to account at all on this.
Thank you.
Muhammad Haque
Organiser
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail scam
1615 Hrs
London
Thursday 06 August 2009
Richmond area [Lib Dems Party] MP Susan Kramer did a wise thing today. She deliberately failed to utter any CRASSrole idiocies with Stephen Pound.
But Susan Kramer was wrong to not counter Pound's untruth about 'Business'. After all, we last had reason to take Ms Kramer to task in her own constituency because she had contradicted herself on CRASSrail.
The subject under reference then? BUSINESS in her Richmond constituency saying NO to Crossrail levy!
In effect they were saying two fingers to THAT CRASSrail!
And Susan Kramer knew it. She should have said THAT to Stephen Pound’s increasingly complacent careeristic face on the London Onion whence the BBC London edition of the Politics Show was broadcast…
[To be continued]
MP Susan Kramer: 'Kingston's Crossrail contributors should be recompensed'
7:20am Wednesday 5th August 2009
Comments (4) Have your say »
By David Lindsell »
Nearly 700 businesses in Kingston who are likely to be asked to pay for Crossrail should be repaid with more investment in transport locally, an MP has said.
Firms from across London will be asked to pay from their business rates from next April, to pay for the high-speed east to west route which will link Heathrow with the City and Canary Wharf.
Kingston companies above a rateable value of £50,000 would be asked to contribute £2.57m in total - 1.4 per cent of the total cost.
Susan Kramer, MP for Richmond Park and north Kingston said: “In return, we must get real investment to solve some of the transport problems we have locally.
“While extensive works are going on at weekends to improve the Tube network, we are seeing very little gain locally.
“The quid pro quo for the support from our area must be more investment to reduce overcrowding, increase train capacity and mitigate the effects of Airtrack on level crossings.”
Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.
In 2004, an official report said the potential cost of the Kingston extension was close to £1bn, effectively ruling out the link.
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Tony from Surbiton, Surbiton says...
11:34am Wed 5 Aug 09
'Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.'
WELL I AM "ANGERED" BY THE LIB DEM FUNDING PROPOSALS - GIVE ME MY COUNCIL TAX BACK!!!
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khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says...
1:35am Thu 6 Aug 09
Muhammad Haque
1247 Hrs UK
Wednesday
05 August 2009
Dear Louise ,
This is further to our telephone conversation in the past
20 minutes.
Lib Dem MPs Susan Kramer is full of contradictions.
As a publicly claiming economics-conscious career-
carrying person with almost acceptable ‘international’
links, she is being irresponsible with her latest stunt for
Crossrail. ..she has not shown why her so-called quid
pro quo demand is realistic, let alone fundable. I put a
series of costs and priority related questions to her
office in the past hour. There was no evidence from her
office justifying Ms Kramer’s stunt. Nor is there any
sign that she has done any study of the transport needs
of london as a whole. It s additionally irresponsible that
she should repeatedly confuse her constituents by
talking and 'moving' in every direction about transport.
Crossrail is wasteful, diversionary scam. There is no
need for it. What the people of London need is an
improved standard of hardware and manners by
transport personnel...and accountable, honest set of MPs
and local and regional political decision makers. Not
another debts-causing scam...Susan Kramer should
support the call for the scrapping of Crossrail. Not add
to the list of subsidiary wasteful indulgences to fund the
main scam..
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Fred1, Surbiton says...
10:32am Thu 6 Aug 09
Thanks for that khoodeelar, I don't think there's any danger of anyone believing anything that an MP says, though. At least not unless they show that it's thoroughly well-researched, which MP's rarely if ever do.
I'm not quite convinced that "improved standard" of hardware and transport staff manners is one of the things that the people of London needs - after all, how much would this cost?
Accountable and honest MPs would be nice, though, but where would you get them from? I'm not sure that such a being exists. Personally I think that elections and "democracy" is nothing but a facade.
If you want something done, you can't rely on the government to do it; no, you've got to do it yourself. That's the way it is, and no posturing about how our so-called "democracy" is supposedly better than the system they have in Iran or the People's Republic of China is going to make the slightest bit of difference to that.
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khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says...
4:21pm Thu 6 Aug 09
Thanks for your comments, Fred. The KHOODEELAAR! Campaign is against Crossrail for the obvious reason that it is uneconomic. We are also against Crossrail because the scam has been blatantly and quite corruptly pushed through the UK Parliament by the Executive defying the authority of Parliament. Or at least by defying the democratic authority that ought to have been asserted by the ordinary members of Parliament.
KHOODEELAAR! has sought in the past nearly six years since we began the campaign against the Crossrail scam, to tell the two Houses of parliament, we lodged formal objections to the ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’ in the House of Lords and before that, a number of our affiliated groups, including the Spitalfields Small Business Association plus several thousand local traders, residents and tenants from across the East End of London signed our communications and formal letters of objections via a listed number of objectors. We wanted Parliament to hear the evidence that Crossrail was not only NOT wanted by the people of the East End or by the people across London but that there was no economic let alone environmental justification for the scam.. Neither House of the UK ‘Parliament’ would allow our evidence to be put to them! Besides, the House of Commons version of the ‘Select Committee’, as chaired by Alan Meale MP , stopped one MP from raising questions about a Crossrail Whitechapel station. That station ‘scheme’ was a direct bribe made to appease and recruit the controlling clique on the local Tower Hamlets Council fore the purpose of the Big Business scam. The reason, as given by Alan Meale –if it can be treated as reason – was that on 19 July 2005 the House of Commons had barred any real examination of the Crossrail scam to be done by the ‘Select Committee’. So what was the point of the Select Committee? The public did not know in June 2006 what they came to know in June 2009, three years later. That the Houses of ‘Parliament’ have been reduced to Houses of Stooges and touts. There is no evidence of any democratic, independent. Objective and rigorous and consistent challenge on any issue that matters to the public in this country by either Houses to the Executive. This is far worse than anything has been associated with Guy Fawkes and his over-recited plans to physically do away with the Palace now worthy of being called Ghostsminster. Any examination of the Crossrail ‘negotiations’ along the original stated route will confirm the pattern of corruption as the key feature of the process. That so much of the Crossrail scam peddling is done by MPs and peers and not by any recognised ordinary public more than proves the diagnosis that it has been a ploy by unaccountable forces that are bent on looting £Billions of UK public money. Khoodeelaar! has been seeking to draw attention to the one thing the ordinary people still can do in this country. SAY NO. It will save £Billions if more people start to say No like we have been saying. It will be most prudent to say No now than after the ‘horse has bolted’. Unlike Gordon Brown, we remain ordinarily committed to the virtue of prudence in public finance and public decision-making. Despite the hype, neither the Conservatives nor the Lib Dems as the two numerically major parties of Opposition have done its work of holding the Executive to account at all on this.
Thank you.
Muhammad Haque
Organiser
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail scam
1615 Hrs
London
Thursday 06 August 2009
Khoodeelaar! is CHALLENGING 'MP' Stephen STUPID POUND to explain 'Business' [3]
From the web site of the LONDON EVENING STANDARD:
Triple business rates increase 'is putting small traders at risk'
Nicholas Cecil and Mirand Bryant
28.10.09
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Small firms face being driven to the wall by a "triple whammy" of business rate increases, MPs were warned today.
Mark Field, Conservative member for Cities of London and Westminster, accused Chancellor Alistair Darling of seeking to "plunder" businesses and treating them like "cash cows".
In a Commons debate, Mr Field highlighted the impact of three tax moves:
* The five per cent increase in business rates this year.
* The business rate revaluation, which will come into effect in April next year.
* The levy being imposed to raise £3.5 billion for Crossrail.
Mr Field told MPs today: "Many firms will have to absorb a triple whammy of taxation. Companies in my constituency are being plundered to such a degree that I fear their success is being taken for granted. With trading conditions so tough, such a level of taxation could scupper the city's fragile economy."
He said that with a revaluation of last year's property rental values, the average business rates bill in Westminster is expected to soar by 38 per cent next year. The move would rake in an extra £456 million for the Treasury.
While the revaluation aimed to be fiscally neutral, many firms in the capital would lose out because of the high rental values before the recession. Mr Field said a very big Oxford Street store would face an estimated £3 million rise in business rates for 2010/11. For a small firm in Soho the figure would be £1,500.
Meanwhile, companies with a rateable value of more than £50,000 have to pay the Crossrail levy.
Mr Field said increased valuations would also push about 3,500 more Westminster companies above that threshold. One Soho trader, Richard Piercy, 47, who owns Zest Pharmacy in Broadwick Street, said: "My shop has been here since 1950 so is a real part of the community. I love working in Soho but I'm very worried by these huge business rate increases.
"It's unfair that we shoulder the burden for the rest of the country.
"It's a ruinous formula. Along with any rent review that will bring us into line with ludicrous rates paid in the boom years, many businesses will face a very uncertain future."
Ministers say London is getting transitional relief to lessen the impact of the rates shake-up. The capital will get £935million out of £2billion of transitional funding available, the Department for Communities said.
In outer London, just over half of firms would pay lower rates as a result of the reforms, by an average of £950.
A spokesman added that companies are also being allowed to delay paying 60 per cent of this year's business rate increase. Firms will be able to spread the payment over the next two years.
We're being used as short-term cash cow'
Tim Bryars, 35 Antique map and book seller, Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road
Mr Bryars said his business rates bill of £4,325 had risen to £7,696 for this year, and would rise a further 30 per cent in April.
“Instead of supporting small businesses, government is using them as a short-term cash cow. And it is very short-term, because soon those businesses will be gone.” He said two map shops had already shut and “I'm worried we won't be able to survive”
Holly Andrew, 36, Pall Mall Printers and Stationers, Royal Opera Parade, Covent Garden
Miss Andrew said her business rates were £6,500 per year — almost half her rent — and could rise by up to 38 per cent. “It worries me because my rent is already very high and the rates make it higher. I do old-fashioned printing, which has demand here. A shop like this needs to be here. If all the little shops were sent out of London it would make it a very empty town.”
Triple business rates increase 'is putting small traders at risk'
Nicholas Cecil and Mirand Bryant
28.10.09
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Small firms face being driven to the wall by a "triple whammy" of business rate increases, MPs were warned today.
Mark Field, Conservative member for Cities of London and Westminster, accused Chancellor Alistair Darling of seeking to "plunder" businesses and treating them like "cash cows".
In a Commons debate, Mr Field highlighted the impact of three tax moves:
* The five per cent increase in business rates this year.
* The business rate revaluation, which will come into effect in April next year.
* The levy being imposed to raise £3.5 billion for Crossrail.
Mr Field told MPs today: "Many firms will have to absorb a triple whammy of taxation. Companies in my constituency are being plundered to such a degree that I fear their success is being taken for granted. With trading conditions so tough, such a level of taxation could scupper the city's fragile economy."
He said that with a revaluation of last year's property rental values, the average business rates bill in Westminster is expected to soar by 38 per cent next year. The move would rake in an extra £456 million for the Treasury.
While the revaluation aimed to be fiscally neutral, many firms in the capital would lose out because of the high rental values before the recession. Mr Field said a very big Oxford Street store would face an estimated £3 million rise in business rates for 2010/11. For a small firm in Soho the figure would be £1,500.
Meanwhile, companies with a rateable value of more than £50,000 have to pay the Crossrail levy.
Mr Field said increased valuations would also push about 3,500 more Westminster companies above that threshold. One Soho trader, Richard Piercy, 47, who owns Zest Pharmacy in Broadwick Street, said: "My shop has been here since 1950 so is a real part of the community. I love working in Soho but I'm very worried by these huge business rate increases.
"It's unfair that we shoulder the burden for the rest of the country.
"It's a ruinous formula. Along with any rent review that will bring us into line with ludicrous rates paid in the boom years, many businesses will face a very uncertain future."
Ministers say London is getting transitional relief to lessen the impact of the rates shake-up. The capital will get £935million out of £2billion of transitional funding available, the Department for Communities said.
In outer London, just over half of firms would pay lower rates as a result of the reforms, by an average of £950.
A spokesman added that companies are also being allowed to delay paying 60 per cent of this year's business rate increase. Firms will be able to spread the payment over the next two years.
We're being used as short-term cash cow'
Tim Bryars, 35 Antique map and book seller, Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road
Mr Bryars said his business rates bill of £4,325 had risen to £7,696 for this year, and would rise a further 30 per cent in April.
“Instead of supporting small businesses, government is using them as a short-term cash cow. And it is very short-term, because soon those businesses will be gone.” He said two map shops had already shut and “I'm worried we won't be able to survive”
Holly Andrew, 36, Pall Mall Printers and Stationers, Royal Opera Parade, Covent Garden
Miss Andrew said her business rates were £6,500 per year — almost half her rent — and could rise by up to 38 per cent. “It worries me because my rent is already very high and the rates make it higher. I do old-fashioned printing, which has demand here. A shop like this needs to be here. If all the little shops were sent out of London it would make it a very empty town.”
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A leading business rates adviser has suggested the Mayor of London has overestimated his calculations for his Crossrail Levy on business rates and called for it to be reduced by 20%.
The Mayor today published a prospectus for consultation, under which many large businesses in London will be required to pay at least a 5% supplement on their business rates bills for between the next 24 to 30 years commencing next April. The supplement, which will be used to assist funding the development costs of Crossrail is to be paid by all London businesses whose Rateable Values exceed £50,000 at a rate of 2p per £ Rateable Value.
Jerry Schurder, head of business rates at Gerald Eve, which advises 40% of the FTSE 100, said: “The prospectus clearly and helpfully sets out details of the expected development costs of this essential project for London, the timetable and the amounts to be generated from the Business Rate Supplement, but it appears to underestimate the increase in London’s rateable value base that will arise from the revaluation that will take effect in April.
“The Mayor has assumed that the new assessments will be about 15% above those presently in force, but the revaluation effects revealed in CLG’s consultation paper on 8 July imply at least a 30% growth in rateable values. Furthermore, may properties that will previously have fallen beneath the £50,000 threshold and therefore exempt from the supplement, will find in 2010 that their values have increased and will have to pay the full supplement.
The prospectus quotes the Mayor as saying ‘ we will consider the impact of the 2010 business rates revaluation before publishing the final arrangement for the business rates supplement by the end of January 2010’.
Schurder urged the Mayor to adopt the lowest possible supplement at least in the initial years, to assist London’s businesses through the recession. “My expectation of the outcome of the 2010 revaluation and analysis of the Crossrail funding requirements, suggest that the levy could be reduced by 20% to 1.6p.”
Schurder added: “With the Uniform Business Rate next year expected to be about 40p per £ of rateable value a 2p Crossrail Business Rates Supplement will add at least 5% to liability at a time when businesses need to reduce costs, not increase them. Many ratepayers in inner London will see their rateable values increase by well in excess of London’s 30% average but they will not face those increases immediately in 2010 as the Government plans to cap increases in rates bills at 12.5% in real terms. An average medium sized business in London, whose rateable value increases from £100,000 now to £200,000 after the revaluation, will see its business rates bill increase from £48,500 this year to £53,000 next year. The Crossrail supplement of £4,000 – adds another 8.2% on to this year’s bill”.
Schurder appealed to the Mayor to remember his calls to the government to reduce business rates. “Businesses regard Crossrail as a essential project, but may feel aggrieved at having to pay a supplement for at least 7 years before they receive any benefits once the trains start running. The Mayor has called on the Government not to increase business rates following revaluation in order to support business recovery – they will expect him to do whatever he can to help them, by keeping the Crossrail levy as low as possible”.
Gerald Eve, chartered surveyors and property consultants, make or save money from property - acting for around 40% of the FTSE100 on property asset management, agency and professional matters.
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30.07.2009
A leading business rates adviser has suggested the Mayor of London has overestimated his calculations for his Crossrail Levy on business rates and called for it to be reduced by 20%.
The Mayor today published a prospectus for consultation, under which many large businesses in London will be required to pay at least a 5% supplement on their business rates bills for between the next 24 to 30 years commencing next April. The supplement, which will be used to assist funding the development costs of Crossrail is to be paid by all London businesses whose Rateable Values exceed £50,000 at a rate of 2p per £ Rateable Value.
Jerry Schurder, head of business rates at Gerald Eve, which advises 40% of the FTSE 100, said: “The prospectus clearly and helpfully sets out details of the expected development costs of this essential project for London, the timetable and the amounts to be generated from the Business Rate Supplement, but it appears to underestimate the increase in London’s rateable value base that will arise from the revaluation that will take effect in April.
“The Mayor has assumed that the new assessments will be about 15% above those presently in force, but the revaluation effects revealed in CLG’s consultation paper on 8 July imply at least a 30% growth in rateable values. Furthermore, may properties that will previously have fallen beneath the £50,000 threshold and therefore exempt from the supplement, will find in 2010 that their values have increased and will have to pay the full supplement.
The prospectus quotes the Mayor as saying ‘ we will consider the impact of the 2010 business rates revaluation before publishing the final arrangement for the business rates supplement by the end of January 2010’.
Schurder urged the Mayor to adopt the lowest possible supplement at least in the initial years, to assist London’s businesses through the recession. “My expectation of the outcome of the 2010 revaluation and analysis of the Crossrail funding requirements, suggest that the levy could be reduced by 20% to 1.6p.”
Schurder added: “With the Uniform Business Rate next year expected to be about 40p per £ of rateable value a 2p Crossrail Business Rates Supplement will add at least 5% to liability at a time when businesses need to reduce costs, not increase them. Many ratepayers in inner London will see their rateable values increase by well in excess of London’s 30% average but they will not face those increases immediately in 2010 as the Government plans to cap increases in rates bills at 12.5% in real terms. An average medium sized business in London, whose rateable value increases from £100,000 now to £200,000 after the revaluation, will see its business rates bill increase from £48,500 this year to £53,000 next year. The Crossrail supplement of £4,000 – adds another 8.2% on to this year’s bill”.
Schurder appealed to the Mayor to remember his calls to the government to reduce business rates. “Businesses regard Crossrail as a essential project, but may feel aggrieved at having to pay a supplement for at least 7 years before they receive any benefits once the trains start running. The Mayor has called on the Government not to increase business rates following revaluation in order to support business recovery – they will expect him to do whatever he can to help them, by keeping the Crossrail levy as low as possible”.
Gerald Eve, chartered surveyors and property consultants, make or save money from property - acting for around 40% of the FTSE100 on property asset management, agency and professional matters.
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Crossrail levy could be "final straw" for "fragile" Elephant & Castle regeneration
Monday 9 February 2009
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Labour, Lib Dem and Green London Assembly members have joined forces to implore Mayor of London Boris Johnson to reconsider plans to charge developers at Elephant & Castle a levy to fund Crossrail.
Last month we reported on Southwark Council's concern that a plan by Boris Johnson to raise £300 million towards the cost of Crossrail from office developers in the Central Activities Zone (CAZ) would deter developers from building at the Elephant & Castle and hamper much-needed transport improvements.
The Mayor wants to change the London Plan to allow him to demand contributions towards the east-west rail link from the promoters of large office developments in central London.
Developers in north Southwark and north Lambeth would be stung for the Crossrail levy even though the proposed rail link doesn't come near either borough.
Now three London Assembly members – the Green Party's Jenny Jones (who is also a Southwark councillor), Lib Dem Caroline Pidgeon (who also represents Southwark's Newington ward) and Labour's Valerie Shawcross (the constituency member for Lambeth & Southwark) have written a joint letter to Boris Johnson highlighting their "serious concerns" and urging him to reconsider.
he project is in a fragile state
"The multiple damaging impact of the loss of the Cross River Tram, plus the serious economic climate and the delays by TfL on the funding negotiations for the Elephant & Castle scheme, mean that the project is in a fragile state," warn the three AMs.
They argue that including Elephant & Castle in the Crossrail levy area "could be the final straw in the viability of the scheme".
The letter continues: "The amount of money you would raise at the Elephant & Castle would be minimal in the overall project, but could halt the much-needed regeneration. There is so much to put right at the Elephant & Castle. It seems absurd that one important scheme could cause a serious setback to another."
Mayor: I'll do all I can to see regeneration goes ahead
The Mayor argues that Crossrail and the Elephant & Castle regeneration need not be mutually exclusive.
"The Mayor wants to ensure that local people and businesses in Elephant and Castle are able to enjoy the benefits of both regeneration of the area and Crossrail, and he intends to do all he can to make sure both happen," said a spokesman for Boris Johnson.
"Crossrail will relieve congestion on the rail and Underground networks all over the capital, and not just in places that are directly served by the line. That is why the Mayor has put forward proposals to use the planning system to seek financial contributions for Crossrail from major new office developments – which give rise to additional congestion – in the Central Activities Zone. This area includes Southwark, which will particularly benefit from reduced congestion on the Jubilee Line when Crossrail is up and running.
"Each case will be looked at carefully on its merits, and factors like the viability of a scheme will be carefully weighed when decisions about contributions are taken."
Lend Lease deal still not signed
Southwark Council's forward plan now indicates that the signing of the crucial development agreement between the authority and Lend Lease has slipped to May 2009 – 17 months behind the original schedule. The council continues to attribute the hold-up to Transport for London delays in providing cost estimates relating to the rebuilding of the Northern line tube station at the Elephant.
"TfL is working with the London Borough of Southwark and the developer designate (Lend Lease) on a multi-modal feasibility study of the Elephant and Castle including possible changes to the underground station," said Boris Johnson in a written answer published last week. "This work is not complete. Initial qualified cost information will become available in January 2009, with further information to follow through in summer 2009 when the full study report is scheduled to be completed."
Growing concern over loss of green space at housing sites
Local campaigners have called a public meeting on Friday 27 February to discuss the loss of green spaces and play areas on the so-called 'early housing sites' dotted around the Elephant & Castle, such as the 162 homes in five schemes approved just before Christmas. Open areas at Library Street, New Kent Road and St George's Road – as well as other sites in Walworth – will all be built on.
The early housing sites were originally intended to rehouse the tenants of the Heygate Estate. It now seems likely that the Heygate will be empty before any of the current crop of schemes has been built.
The organisers of the meeting are calling for local people to have some input into the redevelopment of the cleared Heygate site before the Lend Lease deal is signed.
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Monday 9 February 2009
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Labour, Lib Dem and Green London Assembly members have joined forces to implore Mayor of London Boris Johnson to reconsider plans to charge developers at Elephant & Castle a levy to fund Crossrail.
Last month we reported on Southwark Council's concern that a plan by Boris Johnson to raise £300 million towards the cost of Crossrail from office developers in the Central Activities Zone (CAZ) would deter developers from building at the Elephant & Castle and hamper much-needed transport improvements.
The Mayor wants to change the London Plan to allow him to demand contributions towards the east-west rail link from the promoters of large office developments in central London.
Developers in north Southwark and north Lambeth would be stung for the Crossrail levy even though the proposed rail link doesn't come near either borough.
Now three London Assembly members – the Green Party's Jenny Jones (who is also a Southwark councillor), Lib Dem Caroline Pidgeon (who also represents Southwark's Newington ward) and Labour's Valerie Shawcross (the constituency member for Lambeth & Southwark) have written a joint letter to Boris Johnson highlighting their "serious concerns" and urging him to reconsider.
he project is in a fragile state
"The multiple damaging impact of the loss of the Cross River Tram, plus the serious economic climate and the delays by TfL on the funding negotiations for the Elephant & Castle scheme, mean that the project is in a fragile state," warn the three AMs.
They argue that including Elephant & Castle in the Crossrail levy area "could be the final straw in the viability of the scheme".
The letter continues: "The amount of money you would raise at the Elephant & Castle would be minimal in the overall project, but could halt the much-needed regeneration. There is so much to put right at the Elephant & Castle. It seems absurd that one important scheme could cause a serious setback to another."
Mayor: I'll do all I can to see regeneration goes ahead
The Mayor argues that Crossrail and the Elephant & Castle regeneration need not be mutually exclusive.
"The Mayor wants to ensure that local people and businesses in Elephant and Castle are able to enjoy the benefits of both regeneration of the area and Crossrail, and he intends to do all he can to make sure both happen," said a spokesman for Boris Johnson.
"Crossrail will relieve congestion on the rail and Underground networks all over the capital, and not just in places that are directly served by the line. That is why the Mayor has put forward proposals to use the planning system to seek financial contributions for Crossrail from major new office developments – which give rise to additional congestion – in the Central Activities Zone. This area includes Southwark, which will particularly benefit from reduced congestion on the Jubilee Line when Crossrail is up and running.
"Each case will be looked at carefully on its merits, and factors like the viability of a scheme will be carefully weighed when decisions about contributions are taken."
Lend Lease deal still not signed
Southwark Council's forward plan now indicates that the signing of the crucial development agreement between the authority and Lend Lease has slipped to May 2009 – 17 months behind the original schedule. The council continues to attribute the hold-up to Transport for London delays in providing cost estimates relating to the rebuilding of the Northern line tube station at the Elephant.
"TfL is working with the London Borough of Southwark and the developer designate (Lend Lease) on a multi-modal feasibility study of the Elephant and Castle including possible changes to the underground station," said Boris Johnson in a written answer published last week. "This work is not complete. Initial qualified cost information will become available in January 2009, with further information to follow through in summer 2009 when the full study report is scheduled to be completed."
Growing concern over loss of green space at housing sites
Local campaigners have called a public meeting on Friday 27 February to discuss the loss of green spaces and play areas on the so-called 'early housing sites' dotted around the Elephant & Castle, such as the 162 homes in five schemes approved just before Christmas. Open areas at Library Street, New Kent Road and St George's Road – as well as other sites in Walworth – will all be built on.
The early housing sites were originally intended to rehouse the tenants of the Heygate Estate. It now seems likely that the Heygate will be empty before any of the current crop of schemes has been built.
The organisers of the meeting are calling for local people to have some input into the redevelopment of the cleared Heygate site before the Lend Lease deal is signed.
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