Saturday, April 4, 2009

KHOODEELAAR! Evidential notes on a memorial event about the life and work of East London campaigner Daniel 'Dennis' Flood

KHOODEELAAR! Evidential notes on a memorial event about the life and work of East London campaigner Daniel 'Dennis' Flood


2345 Hrs GMT London Saturday 4 April 2009: KHOODEELAAR!

No to “Big Business agenda CrossRail scam”. CAMPAIGN was represented at a community event in memory of East London campaigner Daniel Dennis’ Flood, held earlier today at the Cranbrook estate community centre off the Roman Road in Bethnal Green today [Saturday 4 April 2009]. ‘Dennis’ as Daniel had become known to the majority, who spoke, was described as a selfless, caring and very principled human being. Daniel possessed a unique sense of humour that at times was so brutal as to leave some of his ‘targets’ almost speechless. Everyone who spoke of him had at least one incident of Daniel’s life that showed what a uniquely valuable role he played in defence of others. He played key parts especially in the past few years of intense battles against the destruction of public ownership of housing in the East End of London. Many in the East End of London enjoying their housing and homes would not be doing so had it not been for the selfless dedication in defence of their housing and human rights by Daniel Flood. This was how Kevin Ovenden remembered the many contributions that Dennis Flood had made. Another, Daniel’s close campaigning partner and friend Carole Swords, recalled how he had physically exposed the deep ignorance and callousness of some of the holders of positions on the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council. Carole Swords gave a graphic description of how Daniel had brought justifiable ridicule upon one particular Tower Hamlets Council agent of the programme of destruction of Council housing. Another close friend who like Carole Swords, had worked hard to defend Council housing alongside ‘Dennis’, was Paola Cottage. She too gave entertaining accounts of how Dennis had caused a few of the perpetrators of attacks on Council housing really tough times. Khoodeelaar! campaign organiser Muhammad Haque agreed with the other speakers, saying that Daniel ‘Dennis’ epitomised the anti-dote and human excellence against the depravity and the deprivation of the agenda being pursued by the likes of the Tower Hamlets Councillors who had been perversely boasting of the area as the most deprived borough in the country. Rob Hoveman who worked with Daniel on many actions against the Tower Hamlets Council controlling group shared the view that Dennis was not a hypocrite and spoke truthfully. He also spoke of Dennis taking significant risks in order to protect colleagues from unwelcome attention or even attacks. Cyril Furby described Dennis as a practical man with no time for pretentiousness. Campaigners against Housing privatisation who successfully fended off Tower Hamlets Council’s attacks on Council housing in the Collingwood estate spoke warmly of the role that Dennis Flood had played in that battle..[To be continued]

Saturday, October 6, 2007

The shallowness and the imprudence of Crassrail hole plot plugger Gordon Brown! How the egotist Ken Livingstone abused Brown's inexperience .......!

The shallowness and the imprudence of Crassrail hole plot plugger Gordon Brown! How the egotist Ken Livingstone abused Brown's inexperience to promote Livingstone's undignified need to cling on to the post of the 'Undone mayor' at the scheduled May 2008 election....!


The full commentary here soon

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The exposure of Gordon Brown as a CRASS plugger of CRASSRAIL hole plot came far faster than even I had observed! - Muhammad Haque 0235 GMT 7.10.2007


By©Muhammad Haque
0235 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 7 October 2007


The exposure of Gordon Brown as a CRASS plugger of CRASSRAIL hole plot came far faster than even I had observed! - Muhammad Haque 0235 GMT 7.10.2007

The exposure of Gordon Brown as a CRASS plugger of CRASSRAIL hole plot came far faster than even I had observed!

Now, I really think that Alistair Darling must do the decent thing and NOT ADD to his liabilities over CRASSrail when he finally manages to deliver a face-saving ‘financial’ scenario on Tuesday 9 October 2007.

On Friday I asked the question “Will Alistair Darling be able to cure the sickness of Crassrail lies that made Gordon Brown look sickened on Tuesday?” [see the contents of my post on 5 October 2007 reproduced below].

Now I am saying that as Gordon Brown has admitted to being EVEN Sicker than I had diagnosed, it would be extremely ill-advised of Darling to go into any more idiotic detail in plugging the CRASSrail plot.

He should keep the CRASSrail promotion to such limited extents that no reasonable use can later be made of his statement [due on Tuesday] in evidence against him should he actually be sued for his parts so far in promoting the CRASSrail plan.

Gordon Brown’s confession that ‘dealing with financial crises’ [ see the BBC’s over-hyped Andrew Maar interview, due for broadcast in 7 hours fro now] has been one of the factors persuading him to NOT call a snap general election in Britain now, should serve as a clear indication to Darling that FINACIAL irresponsibility will come back to haunt hi.

The ‘package’ that they peddled about Crossrail throughout the past week and culminated on Friday, is a CRASS package. It is forced, unspontaneous and was flogged via the media stunt on Friday [2 days ago] for specific, rich-punters-linked electoral purposes [ones that have now vanished!], NOT for economic ones. NOT for UK macro economic benefits. This assessment pubs in less than 12 hours [in Ross Clark’s piece written during the day on Friday and published in the Times on Saturday 6 October 2007] after Brown mouthed the Ken Livingstone lies for Crassrail, must give Alistair Darling serious pause for thought. He must scrap the CRASSrail hole scheme now.

So CROSSRAIL is, in effect exposed as unjustifiable by its crass promoters themselves.

It should never have been plugged or peddled.

Time now for CRASSrail to be scrapped.

This is what I have told the Times newspaper web site this morning, in response to their latest significantly remarkable assessment of Gordon Brown’s use of Crossrail as an electoral too:

"On Gordon Brown's stunt on Crossrail, you say: "the final go-ahead for the long delayed Crossrail scheme – so important to those southeast marginal seats (tick);" ! You do not say anything about Crossrail being about addressing any transport needs, far less about brining in £60 Billion worth of benefits over Decades! Those are only two of the claims made in the last few weeks by the pluggers of this seriously flawed and unsuitable scheme. And Gordon Brown himself had resisted Crossrail for most of the 10 years that he was the UK finance Minister. So what was it that caused him to claim last Tuesday that he [and his transport fronter Ruth Kelly] had been working day and night to put together a finance package for the same unjustifiable scheme? It could only have been his now exploded plot to call a snap poll. Your description again shows that Crossrail was never part of addressing the transport needs of the economy, either in London or in the rest of the UK. A genuine one now must be found.



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Will Alistair Darling be able to cure the sickness of Crassrail lies that made Gordon Brown look sickened on Tuesday? - The Muhammad Haque commentary

Crassness at the centre of the flawed Big Business London Crossrail scam continues to be exposed - the Muhammad Haque daily world commentary

0735 Hrs GMT
London Friday 5 October 2007

The crassness in the confection of the present CrossRail scam is exposed by the minute. And the pace of revelations has got even faster after the corrupt contrivance between the Big Business tout ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone – fronted on this by a sickened-looking Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the City of London [Tuesday 2 October 2007]- and the City of London mob.

More disclosures of the opportunistic ‘deal’ are expected in the next hours, days weeks and beyond.

And many of those disclosures are going to be made after today's rushed statement by Alistair Darling has been delivered.

I shall have a good deal more to say about Darling himself on the CRASSrail project, after he has done his speech making as scheduled to take place during today.

Darling is unlikely to make a speech that can restore Gordon Brown to any position where he could ever again claim to be ‘prudent’, whether or not his original claim to being the prudent occupant of the office of UK Finance Minister was justifiable in the long run.

And this view is gaining evidential ground following his capitulation to the programme of egotistic self-promotion by Ken Livingstone on the one hand and Livingstone's Big Business mentors on the other over CRASSrail.

Far from it being an objectively justifiable optimum economic decision measuring the demand, supply and productivity in the context of the ordinary population and its capacity, the ‘deal’ has been as corrupt, uneconomic and wasteful one as could be imagined.

It will be, as I have said all along, a source of huge waste of public resource.

For a start, Gordon Brown was placed into a lying position [or trap] in his speech on Tuesday 2 October 2007 when he made a claim – and physical looked sick, uncomfortable as he made it – that the CRASSrail plot would be given the go ahead after cuts were made on other public expenditure areas.

What he did not tell his audience mainly made up of the City of London mob was that he had conceded central Govt funding aid to the very City which he was claiming would make a ‘contribution’ to the costs construction of the CRASSrail project.

That kind of lying will not do Gordon Brown's career or his image as a 'not-Blair’ incumbent at No 10 Downing Street any good at all.

Worse, it will not do the UK economy any favours either.

So how did Gordon Brown find himself as appearing to be Ken Lyingstill Livingstone's agent talking to the City of London mob on that one?

[To be continued]

Friday, October 5, 2007

The exposure of Gordon Brown as a CRASS plugger of CRASSRAIL hole plot came far faster than even I had observed! - Muhammad Haque 0235 GMT 7.10.2007

By©Muhammad Haque
0235 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 7 October 2007

The exposure of Gordon Brown as a CRASS plugger of CRASSRAIL hole plot came far faster than even I had observed!

Now, I really think that Alistair Darling must do the decent thing and NOT ADD to his liabilities over CRASSrail when he finally manages to deliver a face-saving ‘financial’ scenario on Tuesday 9 October 2007.

On Friday I asked the question “Will Alistair Darling be able to cure the sickness of Crassrail lies that made Gordon Brown look sickened on Tuesday?” [see the contents of my post on 5 October 2007 reproduced below].

Now I am saying that as Gordon Brown has admitted to being EVEN Sicker than I had diagnosed, it would be extremely ill-advised of Darling to go into any more idiotic detail in plugging the CRASSrail pot.

He should keep the CRASSrail promotion to such limited extents that no reasonable use can later be made of his statement [due on Tuesday] in evidence against him should he actually be used for his parts so far in promoting the CRASSrail plan.

Gordon Brown’s confession that ‘dealing with financial crises’ [ see the BBC’s over-hyped Andrew Maar interview, due for broadcast in 7 hours fro now] has been one of the factors persuading him to NOT call a snap general election in Britain now, should serve as a clear indication to Darling that FINACIAL irresponsibility will come back to haunt hi.

The ‘package’ that they peddled about Crossrail throughout the past week and culminated on Friday, is a CRASS package. It is forced, unspontaneous and was flogged via the media stunt on Friday [2 days ago] for specific, rich-punters-linked electoral purposes [ones that have now vanished!], NOT for economic ones. NOT for UK macro economic benefits. This assessment pubs in less than 12 hours [in Ross Clark’s piece written during the day on Friday and published in the Times on Saturday 6 October 2007] after Brown mouthed the Ken Livingstone lies for Crassrail, must give Alistair Darling serious pause for thought. He must scrap the CRASSrail hole scheme now.

So CROSSRAIL is, in effect exposed as unjustifiable by its crass promoters themselves.

It should never have been plugged or peddled.

Time now for CRASSrail to be scrapped.

This is what I have told the Times newspaper web site this morning, in response to their latest significantly remarkable assessment of Gordon Brown’s use of Crossrail as an electoral too:

"On Gordon Brown's stunt on Crossrail, you say: "the final go-ahead for the long delayed Crossrail scheme – so important to those southeast marginal seats (tick);" ! You do not say anything about Crossrail being about addressing any transport needs, far less about brining in £60 Billion worth of benefits over Decades! Those are only two of the claims made in the last few weeks by the pluggers of this seriously flawed and unsuitable scheme. And Gordon Brown himself had resisted Crossrail for most of the 10 years that he was the UK finance Minister. So what was it that caused him to claim last Tuesday that he [and his transport fronter Ruth Kelly] had been working day and night to put together a finance package for the same unjustifiable scheme? It could only have been his now exploded plot to call a snap poll. Your description again shows that Crossrail was never part of addressing the transport needs of the economy, either in London or in the rest of the UK. A genuine one now must be found.



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Will Alistair Darling be able to cure the sickness of Crassrail lies that made Gordon Brown look sickened on Tuesday? - The Muhammad Haque commentary

Crassness at the centre of the flawed Big Business London Crossrail scam continues to be exposed - the Muhammad Haque daily world commentary

0735 Hrs GMT
London Friday 5 October 2007

The crassness in the confection of the present CrossRail scam is exposed by the minute. And the pace of revelations has got even faster after the corrupt contrivance between the Big Business tout ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone – fronted on this by a sickened-looking Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the City of London [Tuesday 2 October 2007]- and the City of London mob.

More disclosures of the opportunistic ‘deal’ are expected in the next hours, days weeks and beyond.

And many of those disclosures are going to be made after today's rushed statement by Alistair Darling has been delivered.

I shall have a good deal more to say about Darling himself on the CRASSrail project, after he has done his speech making as scheduled to take place during today.

Darling is unlikely to make a speech that can restore Gordon Brown to any position where he could ever again claim to be ‘prudent’, whether or not his original claim to being the prudent occupant of the office of UK Finance Minister was justifiable in the long run.

And this view is gaining evidential ground following his capitulation to the programme of egotistic self-promotion by Ken Livingstone on the one hand and Livingstone's Big Business mentors on the other over CRASSrail.

Far from it being an objectively justifiable optimum economic decision measuring the demand, supply and productivity in the context of the ordinary population and its capacity, the ‘deal’ has been as corrupt, uneconomic and wasteful one as could be imagined.

It will be, as I have said all along, a source of huge waste of public resource.

For a start, Gordon Brown was placed into a lying position [or trap] in his speech on Tuesday 2 October 2007 when he made a claim – and physical looked sick, uncomfortable as he made it – that the CRASSrail plot would be given the go ahead after cuts were made on other public expenditure areas.

What he did not tell his audience mainly made up of the City of London mob was that he had conceded central Govt funding aid to the very City which he was claiming would make a ‘contribution’ to the costs construction of the CRASSrail project.

That kind of lying will not do Gordon Brown's career or his image as a 'not-Blair’ incumbent at No 10 Downing Street any good at all.

Worse, it will not do the UK economy any favours either.

So how did Gordon Brown find himself as appearing to be Ken Lyingstill Livingstone's agent talking to the City of London mob on that one?

[To be continued]