Muhammad Haque's latest comment on the London Times' business correspondent’s item describing the CrossRail hole plot [they don't use the word hole'] as a bottomless pit
By© Muhammad Haque
for the Times, London web site
1940 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 13 May 2007
The UK Transport crisis is considerable and deserves to be addressed. But spin and propaganda for Big Business will not solve the problems that we face.
The CrossRail hole plot is a seriously flawed project. But its promoters have been in denial and have resolved to mislead the public and rely on spin and propaganda for it.
It will not deliver the alleged benefits its agents and touts have been claiming it will do.
The only guarantee that can be made about the consequences of the current Crossrail Bill being allowed to go through will be the waste of £Billions of public money that will make the Millennium Dome disaster a picnic.
Gordon Brown or whoever is in place as the UK Prime Minister in the next few months has a duty to make sure that all the constitutional and economic and environmental flaws that we have pointed out in the present Crossrail hole Bill are meticulously and extensively and manifestly comprehensively dealt with and examined before the scheme is given the financial go-ahead.
The next Comprehensive Spending Review must not be used as a deadline for dealing with the massive transport problems that the Crossrail Bill does not go anywhere near even truthfully cataloguing [in the supporting documentation to the formally presented Crossrail Bill] let alone technically resolving.
It is also unconstitutional, as the promoters of the project have failed to consult the people truthfully and effectively.
Also the so-called select committee in the UK House of Commons which has been put in place in the name of scrutiny is a sham and is moribund and ham-fisted.
The Khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill, is now at the final stages of preparation of the series of constitutional challenges that we shall mount first in the UK courts and eventually in the European courts forums.
For 40 months, I have been studying the Crossrail hole Bill documentation, promotion literature and have been organising the Khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole plot.
In this time. I have initiated and conducted extensive communications with the holder of the post of Secretary of State, the Department for Transport and of course with the CLRL company that the DfT and the Transport for London set up to promote the scheme.
Most of the key criticisms I have of the scam have been published in headline forms on the internet since July 2004.
I am publishing several brief summaries of daily commentaries covering the economic, social and the environmental and the constitutional unacceptability and unsuitability of the Crossrail hole plot
I have asked more than 1000 questions of all key promoters.
There has not been one answer that meets the requirements of logic, economics, environmental and social justice from any of them.
What they have shown is a brazenness that is entirely based on the number of elected voting fodder that the given party can mobilise within the confines of the current parliament, mainly the House of Commons.
The same has been true of the local Tower Hamlets Council.
And the ‘undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone has disgraced the office he currently holds by fuelling such propaganda of lies for Big Business and at the expense of the local community that to state the litany of Livingstone's lies will take up an entire extended edition of the printed format of the Times!
