2205 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday
25 November 2009
Editor © Muhammad Haque
When Andreas Whittam-Smith gloated of his ‘Independent’ in that stupidly infantile ‘catchphrase’ ‘It is. Are you?’ the gloating assault constituted a serious immorality.
For nothing in Whittam-S’s RECORD had warranted that gloat. What is worse, the cheer-leading fellow-travelling fakers of ‘Fleet Street’ in that now ridiculously vintaged decade in London, knew that they were peddling a lie as they engaged in that sick season. It was intolerable to witness the obscene gloating and placing of Whittam-S’s boast.
Nothing in the sickly ignorant ‘newspaper’ justified that gloat. Not in the year of its launching and not since.
And despite the marginal ground for tolerance created by one or more offspring of Claud and Patricia Cockburn, the Independent continues to remain moribund and aimless.
The depth of the aimlessness is in the facts of the peddling it keeps doing,. Bechtel, the real force behind the Crossrail scam could not have wished for a more pliant supplicant.
Whittam S’s ‘professional, journalistic [!!!!]’ epitaph should be written in an original confession and a LASTING apology to all the people who were ever taken in by the original lie.
The immorality the crassness and the corruption that the Independent now typifies is of course the tip of the iceberg of lies, fraud and deception that is ‘Fleet Street’.
Contrary to the mythology now being peddled by Paul Dacre [who is in effect helping to sink the Whittam-S title by ‘hosting’ it so ominously] about a ‘free press’, the story of ‘Fleet Street’ is the story of the ‘Street of Fraud’.
And the latest round of lies being promoted as ‘news’ and ‘fresh news’ by the Independent about Crossrail’s debts – in fact Transport for London’s ill-conceived act of incompetence shows that not only are the CRASSrole-players in denial but also that those who ought to know and who are supposed to be there to hold these peddlers to account are sleeping too.
And that includes the likes of Mike Tuffrey on the awful London Assembly of sleepwalkers.
Tuffrey is the one who almost regained consciousness a few months ago around one or more forgettable mishaps attaching to the chief tout of Big Business Boris Johnson. But as is historically the case, Tuffrey vanished again. Back to the safety of the hole of ignorance non-commitment that he has made a career in.
How else could Tuffrey’s lot let the likes of that transparent faker Val Shawcross appear almost thoughtful?
Transport is the big looting arena. And the looters are robbing the London public daily. Yet none of the paid placemen and women is upto the job of exposing them. They are not even able to notice what is going on.
And that is where the latest lie for Crossrail is being allowed to gain plausibility before it becomes almost accepted.
The lie that getting the public more into debt is an achievement!
What kind of economics is that!
How is that a world class act?
Unless of course like everything else about Crossrail, they really mean World CRASS?
[To be continued]
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