KHOODEELAAR! Continuing the dissection of UK Tory Con confusion on transport & their dubious utterances from the Manchester jamboree

KHOODEELAAR! Continuing the dissection of UK Tory Con confusion on transport & their dubious utterances from the Manchester jamboree

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Monday 5 October 2009:
Editor © Muhammad Haque.

KHOODEELAAR! The evidential, the environmental, the economic, the legal, the ethical, the constitutional law campaign against “the big business looters’ agenda Crossrail scam” has told them so for years. That there is no such thing as ‘Crossrail’. What there is at most is a project.

We call it the big business Crossrail scam. And we do so again this evening [Monday 05 October 2009] as based on the report we reproduce from the web site of the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER. We reproduce the item because it too contains new evidence of the crassness of those who peddle the CrossRail scam.

What is the crassness? For a start, it is the pretence that lying for Crossrail will make the scam legitimate.

Theresa Villiers is quoted by the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER as saying “I totally appreciate the benefits of Crossrail. However, we have also said that we will work hard to ensure value for money across government spending. There will be no exceptions to that.” KHOODEELAAR! Has edited bits of the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER here. But we have retained the original attributed texts. What the Villiers spiel says is that she is faking it. Again. And doing so by ignoring the KHOODEELAAR! Advice that we have been publishing over the past 2 days. If Villiers fully appreciates the benefits of CrossRail, what is then stopping her from spelling those out? And her ‘appreciation’ is not really enhanced by the predictably shoddy plug for CRASSrail that is attributed by NEW CIVIL ENGINEER to Steve Norris.

Neither Villiers nor Norris nor indeed the NEW CIVIL ENGINEER at all mentions the small matter of transport in London. We have said that the word ’transport’ carries more accurate meaning and substance than the word Crossrail. In fact the word ‘Crossrail’ stands for a scam at the expense of transport in London. And there is the core of Crossrail crassness. They get the facts twisted. They get the needs confused. They then get the costs and the benefits totally messed up. This is why we have argued that before the 'Crossrail Bill' was given the rubber stamp by the stooged MPs and the stooged peers in the Palace of Ghostsminster, the purpose, the demand and the economic benefits as well as the environmental implications should have been examined in detail. They did not do that. One of the consequences of that failure is this endless CRASS peddling of a liability that the UK economy does not need and the public have not asked for.

[To be continued]


Crossrail must make: "significant savings"
5 October, 2009 | By Ed Owen
Crossrail will be under pressure to come in well under its £16bn budget under a Conservative government, NCE can reveal.

Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers confirmed that: “I totally appreciate the benefits of Crossrail.
However, we have also said that we will work had to ensure value for money across government spending.
“There will be no exceptions to that,” she said.
Former Conservative Mayoral candidate Steven Norris said: “This is a value for money issue, and there are some value and improvements to be made,” he said.
But Norris said Crossrail chief executive Rob Holden should have a relatively easy time to make savings.
“When Crossrail was costes in 2007, the credit crunch has lowered prices by some 20%.
“So the ironic consequence is that they are in at a much better value for money and there is great incentive to come in well under the current [£16bn] figure,” he said.