By©Muhammad Haque
1055 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday
13 May 2008
[Continuing from the previous item about Tower Hamlets Council published here this morning]
Just how solid is that ‘belief’? Or, rather. how sound is that ground for that ‘belief’ by the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council that there is no ‘alternative’ to the current clique, that may take over the Council at the next coun cil election?
The ‘candidates’ have not spoken yet.
But by looking at the behaviour of the ‘candidates’ it is reasonable to say that they feel that they are not vincible. That they will, remain in the ‘majority’ group and they will ‘reign’ in the Tower Hamlets Borough!
And why should they feel so confident?
Part of the reason is to be found in what janet did!
Janet Ludlow!
Ludlow was allegedly the ‘leader of the group that was known as the ‘official opposition’ on Tower Hamlets Council upto the May 2006 council election.
She had anything upto 16 councillors including herself, that belonged, on paper, to the same group. They were treated as the official opposition on Tower Hamlets Coun cil...
But did they oppose?
And if they did, did the voters notice their opposition?
This could not be tested more comprehensively than on the matter of the Janet Ludlow role on Crossrail hole plot....
Khoodeelaar! campaign has published quite a significant number of pieces about Janet Ludlow’s role.
In fact, not even the ‘local’ ‘East London Idiotiser’ has written so much about Janet Ludlow.
We examine her role in context, next
[To be continued]
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
The only values that will save Brown and society are the values of universal justice and fairness...
Gordon Brown's travails - real and media-hyped- confirm one thing: the only hope the ordinary people have against the power-gangs, is in awareness...
By©Muhammad Haque
0440 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 11 May 2008
First [that is only yesterday sat 10 May 2008] it was Cherie 'Booth' Blair being flaunted by Rupert Murdoch to sharpen the knife in .Gordon Brown's direction And this morning [Sunday 11 May 2008], it is John Prescott, who is being reported as having claimed to have advised Blair in the past to sack Gordon Brown when Brown was still the UK finance minister in Blair's administration.
Then there has been Peter Mandelson. Giving advice to Gordon Brown
And of all people, Alistair Campbell. Advising Gordon Brown
These are signs if any new were needed that the .Gordon Brown administration is in comprehensive trouble.
If these events in fact lead to Brown’s administration dying, then the post mortem will not necessarily blame Brown. What will be blamed, in a genuine analysis, is the fact that Blair had succeeded in destroying the very things on which he had made so many boastful claims. His boasts were to the opposite effect. He boasted of supporting the democratic structures and institutions that he was in fact smashing up...
The institutions of honesty, transparency in public life. Or the place of honesty and transparency; in public life.
.Gordon Brown has a serious shortage of sound honest opinion. Everyone within any reasonable range of 'power' [however transient, however shallow] is making their pitch. In secret. And in the case of Charles Clarke , he is getting as bitter because of losing power as he was when Blair first sacked him in effect.
The void of democratic audit, of critical mass that could save Brown was created by Blair. And Brown aided Blair in doing that.
Where should Brown turn now?
He should start even at this late stage, to tell the truth and the whole truth.
Her should discard fabrication. And mobilise the masses of people he helped to push into poverty and deprivation to unite behind a banner that will save his career and deliver the limited but only sure way of support in the next 10 years and beyond.
If he can’t see this or if he will not do this then Brown will deserve to go....
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
0440 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 11 May 2008
First [that is only yesterday sat 10 May 2008] it was Cherie 'Booth' Blair being flaunted by Rupert Murdoch to sharpen the knife in .Gordon Brown's direction And this morning [Sunday 11 May 2008], it is John Prescott, who is being reported as having claimed to have advised Blair in the past to sack Gordon Brown when Brown was still the UK finance minister in Blair's administration.
Then there has been Peter Mandelson. Giving advice to Gordon Brown
And of all people, Alistair Campbell. Advising Gordon Brown
These are signs if any new were needed that the .Gordon Brown administration is in comprehensive trouble.
If these events in fact lead to Brown’s administration dying, then the post mortem will not necessarily blame Brown. What will be blamed, in a genuine analysis, is the fact that Blair had succeeded in destroying the very things on which he had made so many boastful claims. His boasts were to the opposite effect. He boasted of supporting the democratic structures and institutions that he was in fact smashing up...
The institutions of honesty, transparency in public life. Or the place of honesty and transparency; in public life.
.Gordon Brown has a serious shortage of sound honest opinion. Everyone within any reasonable range of 'power' [however transient, however shallow] is making their pitch. In secret. And in the case of Charles Clarke , he is getting as bitter because of losing power as he was when Blair first sacked him in effect.
The void of democratic audit, of critical mass that could save Brown was created by Blair. And Brown aided Blair in doing that.
Where should Brown turn now?
He should start even at this late stage, to tell the truth and the whole truth.
Her should discard fabrication. And mobilise the masses of people he helped to push into poverty and deprivation to unite behind a banner that will save his career and deliver the limited but only sure way of support in the next 10 years and beyond.
If he can’t see this or if he will not do this then Brown will deserve to go....
[To be continued]
Friday, May 2, 2008
Muhammad Haque, first comments after the formal announcement that Boris Johnson is 'mayor' in the name of London
0445 Hrs GMT
London saturday 3 may 2008
You had better keep your word, Boris.
Every single word that you uttered from that script as you gave the acceptance speech around midnight [Friday 2 May saturday 3 May 2008]
[To be continued]
London saturday 3 may 2008
You had better keep your word, Boris.
Every single word that you uttered from that script as you gave the acceptance speech around midnight [Friday 2 May saturday 3 May 2008]
[To be continued]
Khoodeelaar! the CAMPAIGN against the abuse of office by the ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone; the Khoodeelaar! CAMPAIGN has done so accurately...
2120 Hrs GMT 2220 Hrs UKtime London Friday 2 May 2008:
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot CAMPAIGN; Khoodeelaar! the East London, the inner London, the inner city CAMPAIGN against poverty-creation by Ken Livingstone:
Khoodeelaar! the CAMPAIGN against the abuse of office by the ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone; the Khoodeelaar! CAMPAIGN has accurately described Ken Livingstone in the past 4 years and 4 months in every detail...
The accuracy is likely to be vindicated IN EFFECT by the mainstream media in the next few hours......
[To be continued]
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot CAMPAIGN; Khoodeelaar! the East London, the inner London, the inner city CAMPAIGN against poverty-creation by Ken Livingstone:
Khoodeelaar! the CAMPAIGN against the abuse of office by the ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone; the Khoodeelaar! CAMPAIGN has accurately described Ken Livingstone in the past 4 years and 4 months in every detail...
The accuracy is likely to be vindicated IN EFFECT by the mainstream media in the next few hours......
[To be continued]
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Even in ‘the City of London ‘ some elements are beginning to read some writings on the political wall this week.,..
1120 Hrs GMT 1220 Hrs UK Time London Thursday 1 May 2008: Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole plot-peddler Ken Lyingstill Livingstone”, No to “Big business”, No to “the charade of ‘mayoral debates’”, No to “the 20 recycled lies by Ken Livingstone as being recycled by the Daili Error [='Mirror']” CAMPAIGN.......
Khoodeelaar! is adding to the already substantial documentary evidence showing that even in ‘the City of London ‘ some elements are beginning to read some written gs on the political wall this week.,..
that it may be, just may be conceivable that the liar Ken may get to lose the post he has abused for 8 years in the name of the people of London....
KHOODEELAAR! here republishes the web site piece from a small title [and itself not really a newspaper rather a lobby , propaganda, ‘in-house’ freely given out sheet for the Big Business interests themselves] called CITY AM, as it reports [over the past 24 hours] as follows
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HOME > NEWS > SPOTLIGHT LATEST
Crunch time for Ken Livingstone as London threatens to vote him out
30/04/2008
KEN LIVINGSTONE looks exhausted and, given the latest opinion polls, who can blame him?
He sits by a small table in a bland room on the ground floor of the Labour Party’s headquarters, with his mobile glued to his ear, as he listens to messages.
A water main has just burst near City Hall, causing it to be evacuated, and the mayor is concerned Thursday’s election count will not take place at his headquarters.
Livingstone could do without problems like these. Embattled is the only way to describe the 62-year-old mayor, now in his eighth year in office and pushing for a third term in City Hall.
In most polls he lags behind his main rival, Tory candidate Boris Johnson. His administration has recently been engulfed in a series of rows, one which led to his race adviser Lee Jasper resigning early last month.
SECRET PLANS
Last week, leaked emails showed the mayor had approved secret plans to hike the cost of transport fares after the election. (For the record, he promises that “fares and council tax will not go up other than broadly in line with inflation” if he is elected tomorrow. Whether many believe this, we will find out on Friday).
Rarely has opinion been so divided about Livingstone. He seems to have angered as many people as have embraced his radical policies over the last few years, most notably the congestion charge (which all mainstream candidates now support). Londoners seem to either love him or loathe him.
Supporters say he is a charismatic, progressive thinker and a welcome break from some over-polished Westminster politicians. Critics insist he doesn’t listen to Londoners’ concerns, has got into bed with Islamic extremists and has surrounded himself with some unpleasant characters and advisers.
When asked what he will do for the City and London’s economy, Livingstone is happy to skate around the question. “We [the mayor’s office and the City Corporation] have been supportive of each other; we both get huge benefit out of the dynamism of the City.
“Usually you find that business people and myself have been supportive of each other’s positions in terms of lobbying the government on non-doms or the squalid state of Heathrow or how essential it was to get Crossrail,” he says.
RISKY PLEDGE
Livingstone is quick to bring up the £16bn Crossrail project. Transport — in particular his commitment to pushing through Crossrail on time and budget — has been key to his manifesto in 2008. He says he wants to be held accountable for getting the project right.
His pledge is certainly a risky one, given the fiasco of recent large undertakings such as Wembley stadium and Terminal 5. “You’ve got a £16bn project. If it goes £4bn over, that is money that comes out of the business rate or from fare payers.
That can be the difference between 1.5 per cent growth in the economy and a recession,” he says. He defends the big salaries dished out to Transport for London (TFL) executives — something that Johnson has attacked — and says that the person in charge of managing Crossrail can expect a handsome pay packet.
PUNCH AND JUDY
The trading of insults, the claims and counter-claims between Livingstone and Johnson have been entertaining but have they gone too far? The Mayor doesn’t seem to think so and is keen to indulge in yet more of what Tory leader David Cameron once called “Punch and Judy” politics.
“For nearly two decades he [Johnson] has pumped out this reactionary bilge when he was writing for the Spectator and the Telegraph, saying he didn’t like Europe,” says Livingstone, smiling. “How can you be a friend of the City if you have constantly been hostile to the EU, which is a crucial part of our economic base?”
He accuses his rival of “pandering” to the average Daily Telegraph reader in the Home Counties who “props up the bar in the golf club”. Livingstone also accuses Johnson of being badly prepared for the job. “It never occurred to him he would have to run for election in London,” he says.
It’s probably true that everyone, including the mayor, has been surprised by how well Johnson has performed in the polls. It’s hard to say whether Lambeth-born Livingstone dislikes the Tory candidate as much as he lets on — the two have seemed almost chummy during election events.
The mayor cuts a paternal figure when talking about Johnson, tipping him as future mayor and saying he could benefit from some time in City Hall before eventually rising to the position.
It’s certainly a job that needs to be taken seriously. “You can’t make a city successful but you really can screw it up,” Livingstone observes. On that, few voters will disagree.
By Alex Delmar-Morgan
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Khoodeelaar! is adding to the already substantial documentary evidence showing that even in ‘the City of London ‘ some elements are beginning to read some written gs on the political wall this week.,..
that it may be, just may be conceivable that the liar Ken may get to lose the post he has abused for 8 years in the name of the people of London....
KHOODEELAAR! here republishes the web site piece from a small title [and itself not really a newspaper rather a lobby , propaganda, ‘in-house’ freely given out sheet for the Big Business interests themselves] called CITY AM, as it reports [over the past 24 hours] as follows
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HOME > NEWS > SPOTLIGHT LATEST
Crunch time for Ken Livingstone as London threatens to vote him out
30/04/2008
KEN LIVINGSTONE looks exhausted and, given the latest opinion polls, who can blame him?
He sits by a small table in a bland room on the ground floor of the Labour Party’s headquarters, with his mobile glued to his ear, as he listens to messages.
A water main has just burst near City Hall, causing it to be evacuated, and the mayor is concerned Thursday’s election count will not take place at his headquarters.
Livingstone could do without problems like these. Embattled is the only way to describe the 62-year-old mayor, now in his eighth year in office and pushing for a third term in City Hall.
In most polls he lags behind his main rival, Tory candidate Boris Johnson. His administration has recently been engulfed in a series of rows, one which led to his race adviser Lee Jasper resigning early last month.
SECRET PLANS
Last week, leaked emails showed the mayor had approved secret plans to hike the cost of transport fares after the election. (For the record, he promises that “fares and council tax will not go up other than broadly in line with inflation” if he is elected tomorrow. Whether many believe this, we will find out on Friday).
Rarely has opinion been so divided about Livingstone. He seems to have angered as many people as have embraced his radical policies over the last few years, most notably the congestion charge (which all mainstream candidates now support). Londoners seem to either love him or loathe him.
Supporters say he is a charismatic, progressive thinker and a welcome break from some over-polished Westminster politicians. Critics insist he doesn’t listen to Londoners’ concerns, has got into bed with Islamic extremists and has surrounded himself with some unpleasant characters and advisers.
When asked what he will do for the City and London’s economy, Livingstone is happy to skate around the question. “We [the mayor’s office and the City Corporation] have been supportive of each other; we both get huge benefit out of the dynamism of the City.
“Usually you find that business people and myself have been supportive of each other’s positions in terms of lobbying the government on non-doms or the squalid state of Heathrow or how essential it was to get Crossrail,” he says.
RISKY PLEDGE
Livingstone is quick to bring up the £16bn Crossrail project. Transport — in particular his commitment to pushing through Crossrail on time and budget — has been key to his manifesto in 2008. He says he wants to be held accountable for getting the project right.
His pledge is certainly a risky one, given the fiasco of recent large undertakings such as Wembley stadium and Terminal 5. “You’ve got a £16bn project. If it goes £4bn over, that is money that comes out of the business rate or from fare payers.
That can be the difference between 1.5 per cent growth in the economy and a recession,” he says. He defends the big salaries dished out to Transport for London (TFL) executives — something that Johnson has attacked — and says that the person in charge of managing Crossrail can expect a handsome pay packet.
PUNCH AND JUDY
The trading of insults, the claims and counter-claims between Livingstone and Johnson have been entertaining but have they gone too far? The Mayor doesn’t seem to think so and is keen to indulge in yet more of what Tory leader David Cameron once called “Punch and Judy” politics.
“For nearly two decades he [Johnson] has pumped out this reactionary bilge when he was writing for the Spectator and the Telegraph, saying he didn’t like Europe,” says Livingstone, smiling. “How can you be a friend of the City if you have constantly been hostile to the EU, which is a crucial part of our economic base?”
He accuses his rival of “pandering” to the average Daily Telegraph reader in the Home Counties who “props up the bar in the golf club”. Livingstone also accuses Johnson of being badly prepared for the job. “It never occurred to him he would have to run for election in London,” he says.
It’s probably true that everyone, including the mayor, has been surprised by how well Johnson has performed in the polls. It’s hard to say whether Lambeth-born Livingstone dislikes the Tory candidate as much as he lets on — the two have seemed almost chummy during election events.
The mayor cuts a paternal figure when talking about Johnson, tipping him as future mayor and saying he could benefit from some time in City Hall before eventually rising to the position.
It’s certainly a job that needs to be taken seriously. “You can’t make a city successful but you really can screw it up,” Livingstone observes. On that, few voters will disagree.
By Alex Delmar-Morgan
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Isn't it VERY telling that Ken Livingstone has boasted that he actually lied about the 2012 Olympics and that the BBC let him get away with that lie?
Khoodeelaar! No to Big Business CROSSRAIL hole plot-tout Ken Lyingstill Livingstone who has been boasting about 'World class city of London' at 0955 Hrs GMT Thursday 1 May 2008:
How is it that you have not made any comment yet about the rise in food prices?
Is this your world class silence in keeping with the truth about you - that you are a world class liar and fabricator and the server?
Is it too uncomfortable a truth to face upto the truth of how they ‘world class’ financial centre the city of London is set to unravel ?
[To be continued]
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Is the London Times [Murdoched or not] correct to say in effect that Ken Livingstone is deeply disturbed and poisonous?
If the Times has got its facts right then how is it that it too has been failing to tell the truth about Livingstone's biggest con so far on the public, the CRASSrail hole plot?
Rupert Murdoched Times, London, featuring two faces, belonging to the Big Business Crossrail hole plot-tout 'Undone mayor' Ken Livingstone [the 'incumbent' = 'sitting' = 'current'] 'mayor' in the name of London and one of his challengers, the Tory Boris Johnson, at today's elections that are reportedly taking place in London as ‘scheduled’... ...
The same Times newspaper is also reporting the fact today Thursday that Livingstone is so desperate to cling on to the post [of ‘Undone mayor’] that gives him such access to loads [like in over £Billions] of public cash to use and abuse [this is AADHIKARonline saying, NOT the Murdoched Times] ... that he mounted on Wednesday 30 April 2008 a most vitriolic, vicious attack on the one challenger, that eh fears most as far as the election is concerned .
That challenger to Livingstone, according to the Times., is Boris Johnson...
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How is it that you have not made any comment yet about the rise in food prices?
Is this your world class silence in keeping with the truth about you - that you are a world class liar and fabricator and the server?
Is it too uncomfortable a truth to face upto the truth of how they ‘world class’ financial centre the city of London is set to unravel ?
[To be continued]
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Is the London Times [Murdoched or not] correct to say in effect that Ken Livingstone is deeply disturbed and poisonous?
If the Times has got its facts right then how is it that it too has been failing to tell the truth about Livingstone's biggest con so far on the public, the CRASSrail hole plot?
Rupert Murdoched Times, London, featuring two faces, belonging to the Big Business Crossrail hole plot-tout 'Undone mayor' Ken Livingstone [the 'incumbent' = 'sitting' = 'current'] 'mayor' in the name of London and one of his challengers, the Tory Boris Johnson, at today's elections that are reportedly taking place in London as ‘scheduled’... ...
The same Times newspaper is also reporting the fact today Thursday that Livingstone is so desperate to cling on to the post [of ‘Undone mayor’] that gives him such access to loads [like in over £Billions] of public cash to use and abuse [this is AADHIKARonline saying, NOT the Murdoched Times] ... that he mounted on Wednesday 30 April 2008 a most vitriolic, vicious attack on the one challenger, that eh fears most as far as the election is concerned .
That challenger to Livingstone, according to the Times., is Boris Johnson...
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When will the licence-payers get any say to tell the BBC agenda setters to stop lying. Full stop?............
Khoodeelaar! No to CROSSRAIL hole plot, No to Big Business agenda on society....
0920 Hrs GMT London Thursday 1 May 2008:
How many voters being propelled into 'exercising ' their 'right' to vote today will really know what the difference is between voting and not voting? How many media outlets have told the truth about what the voted-in holders of the various positions have been up to in the term that has just ended? What chance IF ANY that the UK's state broadcasting outfit the most pervasive BBC is telling the truth to the voters? When will the licence-payers get any say to tell the BBC agenda setters to stop lying. Full stop?............
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0920 Hrs GMT London Thursday 1 May 2008:
How many voters being propelled into 'exercising ' their 'right' to vote today will really know what the difference is between voting and not voting? How many media outlets have told the truth about what the voted-in holders of the various positions have been up to in the term that has just ended? What chance IF ANY that the UK's state broadcasting outfit the most pervasive BBC is telling the truth to the voters? When will the licence-payers get any say to tell the BBC agenda setters to stop lying. Full stop?............
..[To be continued]
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Is Crossrail hole plot-backer, Olympics 2012 stunt tricks confessor Livingstone about to unleash a farrgo of Hillary C-like tears on TV....?
Desperate, tired, exposed Ken CROSSRAIL hole plot-peddler Livingstone should not do anything stupid at stage....
Desperate, tired, exposed Ken CROSSRAIL hole plot-peddler Livingstone tries yet another lying ploy.....It is possible that Livingstone is toying with the idea of a yet unheard of desperate stunt to draw a last minute barrage of sympathy votes....Almost like Hillary Clinton’s tearful TV appearance or worse...
About his career, in so far as it is adversely affected by the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the Crossrail hole and Livingstone's role in that hole plot...
Word reaches the KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail hole plot-peddler Ken Livingstone” CAMPAIGN around 7 PM UK Time on Tuesday 29 April 2008 that the ‘reception’ the liar ‘received’ during his 12 minutes long ‘appearance’ at the ‘Altab Ali Park’ on Sunday 27 April 2008, convinced the conniving trickster that he did indeed need to play the ‘I will scrap the Crossrail hole-in the East End part of the plot’, after all !!!!!!
The lying careerist Ken Livingstone paid a much-orchestrated and unduly over-publicised ‘visit’ to Brick Lane on friday 25 April 2008.
He was deliberately accompanied into the Brick Lane mosque by a number of identifiable members of the parasitic and the controlling clique on the Crossrail hole-inviting Tower Hamlets Council.
As I have already re[ported shortly after that incident , Khoodeelaar! had decided against holding a demonstration outside the mosque., Or outside any place of worship.
And as I have also observed, we did not wish to mount any demonstration in the Altab Ali Park on sunday - as almost ALL the ‘public’ present there were as curious as we were about that strange ass,assembly.
It was an embarrassing event that had neither truth nor spontaneity about it.
We had the spectacle of four contextually very senior white ‘personalities’ address a relatively small ‘peace rally’ where the lack of communication between the ‘distinguished’ ‘speakers and guests’ and the ordinary, East London, ‘Altab Ali park-attending’ Bangladeshi ‘audience’ could not be more pronounced....
And when Livingstone left the Park by a back exit, he did indeed look a spent personality, despite his two loyal aides and comforters.
In the time between Tony benn’s ‘inaugural’ ‘methodist socialist sermon’ and Ken Livingstone's physical departure from the Altab Ali Park, nothing was said or encouraged from the ‘platform’ that would inspire anyone present.
Unless those present were already linked with one parasite outfit or another that had been party to the orchestrated staged event called the ‘Peace Rally’.
It was an insult to the cause of Peace. And it emphatically was NOT a peace rally.
So it was a sham. And a lie.
What an u wrongly authentic political obituary to the lying self-serving pretend socialist ken Livingstone.....
It was a staged event to beg people to vote for Ken Livingstone on Thursday 1 May 2008.
By the looks of things, and by the sounds of things, people are unlikely to have been ‘won over’.
As if there was any ethical or moral let alone spiritual vision on offer that people could in theory be said to be being called to follow...
It was apathetic that the former [!!!!!] Viscount Stansgate [‘Anthony Wedgwood Benn’] [=’Tony Benn’] looked as bored, fed up and uncomfortable as did the majority of the unattached, ordinary members of the local public who did find themselves as making up the ‘audience’.
It was worse than a captive audience... It was a very bored and very absent audience
That gathering had been advertised and promoted quite widely... On top of the expensively produced Ken Livingstone election leaflet that was being dished out throughout the weekend in East London by a mainly relatively newly-arrived army of ‘Asian’-looking
and professionally engaged ‘volunteers’, fresh-faced and plastic-briefed Anglo-Saxon parades of youthful ‘Ken leaflet-distributors’ too have been visible across the populated parts of ordinary Tower Hamlets.
The prospect is looking distinctly a worrying one. To say the least.
[To be continued]
Desperate, tired, exposed Ken CROSSRAIL hole plot-peddler Livingstone tries yet another lying ploy.....It is possible that Livingstone is toying with the idea of a yet unheard of desperate stunt to draw a last minute barrage of sympathy votes....Almost like Hillary Clinton’s tearful TV appearance or worse...
About his career, in so far as it is adversely affected by the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the Crossrail hole and Livingstone's role in that hole plot...
Word reaches the KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail hole plot-peddler Ken Livingstone” CAMPAIGN around 7 PM UK Time on Tuesday 29 April 2008 that the ‘reception’ the liar ‘received’ during his 12 minutes long ‘appearance’ at the ‘Altab Ali Park’ on Sunday 27 April 2008, convinced the conniving trickster that he did indeed need to play the ‘I will scrap the Crossrail hole-in the East End part of the plot’, after all !!!!!!
The lying careerist Ken Livingstone paid a much-orchestrated and unduly over-publicised ‘visit’ to Brick Lane on friday 25 April 2008.
He was deliberately accompanied into the Brick Lane mosque by a number of identifiable members of the parasitic and the controlling clique on the Crossrail hole-inviting Tower Hamlets Council.
As I have already re[ported shortly after that incident , Khoodeelaar! had decided against holding a demonstration outside the mosque., Or outside any place of worship.
And as I have also observed, we did not wish to mount any demonstration in the Altab Ali Park on sunday - as almost ALL the ‘public’ present there were as curious as we were about that strange ass,assembly.
It was an embarrassing event that had neither truth nor spontaneity about it.
We had the spectacle of four contextually very senior white ‘personalities’ address a relatively small ‘peace rally’ where the lack of communication between the ‘distinguished’ ‘speakers and guests’ and the ordinary, East London, ‘Altab Ali park-attending’ Bangladeshi ‘audience’ could not be more pronounced....
And when Livingstone left the Park by a back exit, he did indeed look a spent personality, despite his two loyal aides and comforters.
In the time between Tony benn’s ‘inaugural’ ‘methodist socialist sermon’ and Ken Livingstone's physical departure from the Altab Ali Park, nothing was said or encouraged from the ‘platform’ that would inspire anyone present.
Unless those present were already linked with one parasite outfit or another that had been party to the orchestrated staged event called the ‘Peace Rally’.
It was an insult to the cause of Peace. And it emphatically was NOT a peace rally.
So it was a sham. And a lie.
What an u wrongly authentic political obituary to the lying self-serving pretend socialist ken Livingstone.....
It was a staged event to beg people to vote for Ken Livingstone on Thursday 1 May 2008.
By the looks of things, and by the sounds of things, people are unlikely to have been ‘won over’.
As if there was any ethical or moral let alone spiritual vision on offer that people could in theory be said to be being called to follow...
It was apathetic that the former [!!!!!] Viscount Stansgate [‘Anthony Wedgwood Benn’] [=’Tony Benn’] looked as bored, fed up and uncomfortable as did the majority of the unattached, ordinary members of the local public who did find themselves as making up the ‘audience’.
It was worse than a captive audience... It was a very bored and very absent audience
That gathering had been advertised and promoted quite widely... On top of the expensively produced Ken Livingstone election leaflet that was being dished out throughout the weekend in East London by a mainly relatively newly-arrived army of ‘Asian’-looking
and professionally engaged ‘volunteers’, fresh-faced and plastic-briefed Anglo-Saxon parades of youthful ‘Ken leaflet-distributors’ too have been visible across the populated parts of ordinary Tower Hamlets.
The prospect is looking distinctly a worrying one. To say the least.
[To be continued]
Muhammad Haque, first comments on BBC News 'London mayoral election platform' to Boris Johnson, as fronted by Gavin Esler 29.04.2008
By©Muhammad Haque
1718 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 29 April 2008
That ignorance uttered by Gavin Esler, one of the ‘Military Industrial Complex’ in-house servants who did 'significant and mentionable' of ‘service in the war of lies’ against the people of the world targeted by the Military Industrial Complex [='MIC'] by the MIC, was putting on a 'smily, almost innocent' chappie appearance as he gave the BBC ritualistic platform to ‘candidate for mayor of London’ Boris Johnson [on the yet again renamed ] BBC News slot in the past 25 minutes...
That Esler was able to pass no comment on Johnson's statement about what he, Johnson, would ‘do’ [if elected on the scheduled poll on Thursday 1 May 2008] with the LDA funds or that Esler said nothing about Johnson's statement of a 'mayor's fund', shows the unfathomable depth of ignorance on the part of the BBC...
And that Esler’s silence confirms again the operation of an agenda, a real plan inside and via and by the BBC to keep 'viewers and listeners' in the dark about the reality of what is being done in the name of society or in the name of an ....
[To be continued]
1718 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 29 April 2008
That ignorance uttered by Gavin Esler, one of the ‘Military Industrial Complex’ in-house servants who did 'significant and mentionable' of ‘service in the war of lies’ against the people of the world targeted by the Military Industrial Complex [='MIC'] by the MIC, was putting on a 'smily, almost innocent' chappie appearance as he gave the BBC ritualistic platform to ‘candidate for mayor of London’ Boris Johnson [on the yet again renamed ] BBC News slot in the past 25 minutes...
That Esler was able to pass no comment on Johnson's statement about what he, Johnson, would ‘do’ [if elected on the scheduled poll on Thursday 1 May 2008] with the LDA funds or that Esler said nothing about Johnson's statement of a 'mayor's fund', shows the unfathomable depth of ignorance on the part of the BBC...
And that Esler’s silence confirms again the operation of an agenda, a real plan inside and via and by the BBC to keep 'viewers and listeners' in the dark about the reality of what is being done in the name of society or in the name of an ....
[To be continued]
Muhammad Haque, first comments on BBC News 'London mayoral election platform' to Boris Johnson, as fronted by Gavin Esler 29.04.2008
By©Muhammad Haque
1718 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 29 April 2008
That ignorance uttered by Gavin Esler, one of the ‘Military Industrial Complex’ in-house servants who did 'significant and mentionable' of ‘service in the war of lies’ against the people of the world targeted by the Military Industrial Complex [='MIC'] by the MIC, was putting on a 'smily, almost innocent' chappie appearance as he gave the BBC ritualistic platform to ‘candidate for mayor of London’ Boris Johnson [on the yet again renamed ] BBC News slot in the past 25 minutes...
That Esler was able to pass no comment on Johnson's statement about what he, Johnson, would ‘do’ [if elected on the scheduled poll on Thursday 1 May 2008] with the LDA funds or that Esler said nothing about John's statement of a 'mayor's fund' shows the unfathomable depth of ignorance on the part of the BBC...
And that Esler’s silence confirms again the operation of an agenda, a real plan inside and via and by the BBC to keep 'viewers and listeners' in the dark about the reality of what is being done in the name of society or in the name of an ....
[To be continued]
1718 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 29 April 2008
That ignorance uttered by Gavin Esler, one of the ‘Military Industrial Complex’ in-house servants who did 'significant and mentionable' of ‘service in the war of lies’ against the people of the world targeted by the Military Industrial Complex [='MIC'] by the MIC, was putting on a 'smily, almost innocent' chappie appearance as he gave the BBC ritualistic platform to ‘candidate for mayor of London’ Boris Johnson [on the yet again renamed ] BBC News slot in the past 25 minutes...
That Esler was able to pass no comment on Johnson's statement about what he, Johnson, would ‘do’ [if elected on the scheduled poll on Thursday 1 May 2008] with the LDA funds or that Esler said nothing about John's statement of a 'mayor's fund' shows the unfathomable depth of ignorance on the part of the BBC...
And that Esler’s silence confirms again the operation of an agenda, a real plan inside and via and by the BBC to keep 'viewers and listeners' in the dark about the reality of what is being done in the name of society or in the name of an ....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to "Crossrail hole Lord Cash box, Blair's Chequers massages, Ken Livingstone and Jack Straw's 'laughter' with the BBC's....'...
By©Muhammad Haque
1500 Hrs GMT
London
29 April 2008
Khoodeelaar! examining the 'mayoral' 'election' tv broadcast by Crossrail hole agenda-peddler Ken Livingstone...
"
Lord Cash box, Blair's Chequers massages, Ken Livingstone and Jack Straw's 'laughter' with BBC's Victoria Derbyshire...
"
In that broadcast, Ken Livingstone was imaged in a visual display that could only be assigned to the seeker of a ‘national’ office, rather than to a careerist recidivist engaged for another spot of opportunity to burgle the public in whose name he was given the trust the last two terms.......
But the link to ‘national’ is denser in the psychology of Ken Livingstone than may at first appear from the fact that Livingstone is only claiming to be interested in the ‘London mayor’ job.
And the link is not at all pleasant. Far less antiracist.
The ‘antiracist’ card that the paid ‘fronters’ for Ken Livingstone have been flaunting across the inner city parts of London these past fortnight, making all manner of claims along the line that Livingstone is THE antiracist antidote to the ‘Fascist’ BNP....That card being overplayed by Livingstone would clearly be exposed as another Ken Livingstone sham, another big time Livingstone lie.... if the truth were told and known of just how racist Ken Livingstone is and has been.
As has become very clear in the behaviour of every single one of the Blaired Party’s career timeserving tout for the agenda of Big Business, it would not be surprising in the climate of gloom surrounding Gordon Brown right now that even the Lyingstill Livingstone might be harbouring the ambition of succeeding Brown .....
How is that so?
The behaviour of Jack Straw, for instance.
Even the man of straw, [that is a phrase that I had devised about Straw in the 1980s when he was pretending to be spokesman on education in the Neil DIRE Kinnock’s ‘front bench’ in the House of Commons] was abel to protrude a spontaneous smile flicked in the direction of the BBC’s massage-imbibed Victoria Derbyshire inside a BBC radio studio yesterday [Monday 28 April 2008] as if he felt confident at the target's expense when referring to Carole Caplan’s Chequer’s massages...........
Compared to ken Livingstone's ego and ambition, Jack Straw’s equivalent may yet appear too modest and small...
When Livingstone appeared in that election broadcast, he staged the appearance at the Canary Wharf .... Whence he looked down upon the landscape that lay under his gaze.........As he lied about the thousands of jobs that had been created there!!!!.
Now, Livingstone is criticised, ever so mildly, of course [!!!!!], by his ‘former Labour Party comrades’ [Who and WHAT are they ?????] , many of whom are still MPs - for being a fantasist.
But nobody has as yet actually written anything chronicling the deeply clinical insanity that the man suffers from...
When that mayoral tv broadcast went out, containing Livingstone's words of boasts about rising numbers of jobs... the UK economy had already been in the middle of a marked slowdown... That slowdown is continuing today...
So what kind of nutter had could have authorised - or did authorise pr or did approve that that broadcast should go out ?
Only an insane ‘decision maker’ would have given the go ahead to that sort of content...
But the broadcast did go out...
Evidential note: at 1500 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 29 April 2008:
1: Spelling of the Chequers masseuse Carole [‘Lord Cash box’ ‘Mail on Sunday’ an d the “daily Mail’ 27 and 28 April 2008 - to date, to be checked]
2. [='big business'+’Military Industrial Complex’+ BP+Shell, et al, galore, ‘City of London’ interests] in Britain [notice, for instance, ‘energy-economics minister’ John REDEYED Hutton’s justificatory words via the BBC this morning backing the Multi£Billion profit just announced by SHELL and BP and his total, brazen and politically criminal silence on the question that had been put to him by the presumably still-fully-contaminated BBC junior corespondent about the workers’ right to fair pay....]
[To be continued]
1500 Hrs GMT
London
29 April 2008
Khoodeelaar! examining the 'mayoral' 'election' tv broadcast by Crossrail hole agenda-peddler Ken Livingstone...
"
Lord Cash box, Blair's Chequers massages, Ken Livingstone and Jack Straw's 'laughter' with BBC's Victoria Derbyshire...
"
In that broadcast, Ken Livingstone was imaged in a visual display that could only be assigned to the seeker of a ‘national’ office, rather than to a careerist recidivist engaged for another spot of opportunity to burgle the public in whose name he was given the trust the last two terms.......
But the link to ‘national’ is denser in the psychology of Ken Livingstone than may at first appear from the fact that Livingstone is only claiming to be interested in the ‘London mayor’ job.
And the link is not at all pleasant. Far less antiracist.
The ‘antiracist’ card that the paid ‘fronters’ for Ken Livingstone have been flaunting across the inner city parts of London these past fortnight, making all manner of claims along the line that Livingstone is THE antiracist antidote to the ‘Fascist’ BNP....That card being overplayed by Livingstone would clearly be exposed as another Ken Livingstone sham, another big time Livingstone lie.... if the truth were told and known of just how racist Ken Livingstone is and has been.
As has become very clear in the behaviour of every single one of the Blaired Party’s career timeserving tout for the agenda of Big Business, it would not be surprising in the climate of gloom surrounding Gordon Brown right now that even the Lyingstill Livingstone might be harbouring the ambition of succeeding Brown .....
How is that so?
The behaviour of Jack Straw, for instance.
Even the man of straw, [that is a phrase that I had devised about Straw in the 1980s when he was pretending to be spokesman on education in the Neil DIRE Kinnock’s ‘front bench’ in the House of Commons] was abel to protrude a spontaneous smile flicked in the direction of the BBC’s massage-imbibed Victoria Derbyshire inside a BBC radio studio yesterday [Monday 28 April 2008] as if he felt confident at the target's expense when referring to Carole Caplan’s Chequer’s massages...........
Compared to ken Livingstone's ego and ambition, Jack Straw’s equivalent may yet appear too modest and small...
When Livingstone appeared in that election broadcast, he staged the appearance at the Canary Wharf .... Whence he looked down upon the landscape that lay under his gaze.........As he lied about the thousands of jobs that had been created there!!!!.
Now, Livingstone is criticised, ever so mildly, of course [!!!!!], by his ‘former Labour Party comrades’ [Who and WHAT are they ?????] , many of whom are still MPs - for being a fantasist.
But nobody has as yet actually written anything chronicling the deeply clinical insanity that the man suffers from...
When that mayoral tv broadcast went out, containing Livingstone's words of boasts about rising numbers of jobs... the UK economy had already been in the middle of a marked slowdown... That slowdown is continuing today...
So what kind of nutter had could have authorised - or did authorise pr or did approve that that broadcast should go out ?
Only an insane ‘decision maker’ would have given the go ahead to that sort of content...
But the broadcast did go out...
Evidential note: at 1500 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 29 April 2008:
1: Spelling of the Chequers masseuse Carole [‘Lord Cash box’ ‘Mail on Sunday’ an d the “daily Mail’ 27 and 28 April 2008 - to date, to be checked]
2. [='big business'+’Military Industrial Complex’+ BP+Shell, et al, galore, ‘City of London’ interests] in Britain [notice, for instance, ‘energy-economics minister’ John REDEYED Hutton’s justificatory words via the BBC this morning backing the Multi£Billion profit just announced by SHELL and BP and his total, brazen and politically criminal silence on the question that had been put to him by the presumably still-fully-contaminated BBC junior corespondent about the workers’ right to fair pay....]
[To be continued]
Overdoing the blonde image to undermine 'other languages' in inner city schools- Another Crossrail agenda!
KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business agenda Crossrail hole plot, No to the City of London interests-linked Big business tout Ken Lyingstill Livingstone :
The First record of noticing the item [picture in the column on the left of this comment] at 1325 Hrs GMT on Tuesday 29 April 2008:
Tower Hamlets, in East London, is being cited [again in the context of the racist ‘reporting of the publication of ’ an ‘official survey containing’ ‘statistics’] as a borough where allegedly large number of non-English speaking youngsters attend schools -
Khoodeelaar! will comment FURTHER on this during the later parts of today Tuesday 29 April 2008
The First record of noticing the item [picture in the column on the left of this comment] at 1325 Hrs GMT on Tuesday 29 April 2008:
Tower Hamlets, in East London, is being cited [again in the context of the racist ‘reporting of the publication of ’ an ‘official survey containing’ ‘statistics’] as a borough where allegedly large number of non-English speaking youngsters attend schools -
Khoodeelaar! will comment FURTHER on this during the later parts of today Tuesday 29 April 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Big Business plot to loot the UK public of £Billions under covers of 'Crossrail' will be even more wasteful than the 2012 Olympics staging has become
2158 Hrs GMT 2258 Hrs UKtime London Monday 28 April 2008:
Khoodeelaar! the ‘No to Crossrail hole plot against the East End of London’ CAMPAIGN ‘TOLD YOU SO’ - that is SAID IT ON THE RECORD - for more than 4 years now, that the key tout in London for Big Business Crossrail hole plot, the ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone, was, has been, is and will continue to be A LIAR...
If our description of the lying Ken Livingstone has been straight and open, some of the ‘mainstream’ ‘media’ confessions to knowing that Livingstone was a liar, are now making it very clear that the evidence is undeniable that Livingstone is untrustworthy, that he has lied, that he is unfit to deserve the mandate from the people of London for any extension of Livingstone's reign in the name of the people of London....
Khoodeelaar! is saying this on the day that Simon Jenkins, one of the most pervasive ’mainstream’ British ‘establishment’ ‘timeserving’ ‘commentators’ has himself admitted that Livingstone does not deserve to be trusted because he is a self-confessed liar......
[To be continued]
"
Mayoral Elections
HEADLINES:
Speaking his piece: Ken Livingstone, campaigning at the Londoners For Peace rally in Whitechapel at the weekend
No mayor should ever serve three terms, Ken
Simon Jenkins
28.04.08
Londoners should vote for Boris Johnson as Mayor on Thursday. They should do so for one reason that overrides all others. Nobody, however able, should serve more than two terms in an elected position of such prominence.
The present Mayor, Ken Livingstone, said as much in 1998 in calling for term limits for mayors, since "corruption tends to flourish the longer they are able to hold on to power".
He was right then and has been proved right ever since. His standing for a third term is a gesture of crude egotism.
The London Mayoralty has yet to come of age. It is only eight years old and has yet to attract the calibre of leadership enjoyed by German, French, Spanish and American cities. But it is maturing.
Both Livingstone and Johnson were high-profile MPs before running for Mayor. Others, such as Richard Branson, Michael Portillo, Alan Sugar and Greg Dyke are known to have considered the post. A better list might be inclined to run if there is a change this time.
So far, all Livingstone has done is put the office on the map. His quirky, mischievous and mildly irresponsible behaviour offered a comfort zone for a feisty and sceptical metropolitan electorate. But he has depended, as always, on his enemies.
First, Margaret Thatcher sanctified him during his dreadful leadership of the Greater London Council in 1981-86 by abolishing it. Then Tony Blair rescued a man he thought unworthy even of junior ministerial office by making the new Mayoralty directly elected, thus allowing him to defeat the Labour candidate in 2000.
Then John Prescott kept in being a 400-strong oversight directorate in Whitehall, to stop Livingstone returning to his bad old ways of chaotic extravagance - in which it was barely successful.
Anyone who questions Johnson's competence to run London should read Andrew Hosken's account (in Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone) of the talents Livingstone brought to the job in 2000. They were zero. In five years at the GLC, he had taxed and spent to the limit of recklessness, including a staggering £50 million on adverts attacking Thatcher's government and £29 million on "women's issues". He showed not an ounce of responsibility.
Livingstone undoubtedly rose to the job of Mayor. He embraced capital as well as labour in the "wide tent" leadership inculcated by direct election. He supported high salaries (not least for his staff) and non-dom tax avoidance. His early alliance with big-money developers and architects may have wrecked London's skyline but it aided his reelection funds.
Yet there are few real credits to set at his door. The prosperity of the metropolis has been due not to him but to Thatcherite privatisation and deregulation of financial services, policies which he earned his political spurs opposing, however much it now suits him to pretend otherwise. For him to claim an iota of credit for London's boom is cheek.
His two most substantive initiatives were an attempt to stop Gordon Brown's privatisation of the Tube and the congestion charge. He was right on the first but failed to win, despite hiring Britain's most costly public servant, Bob Kiley. Hurling a billion pounds at the buses hardly compensated for running what is now the most expensive public transit system in the world.
As for the congestion charge, it has proved a very expensive way of collecting a tax, one that has been imitated nowhere else. Meanwhile, Livingstone's failure to co-ordinate London's utilities has left the streets more dug-up and shambolic than ever.
Property developers may be able to con him with "soft bribes" of a few council flats in return for pepper-potting London with massive luxury blocks, referred to by the Standard's Rowan Moore as "privately controlled spaces outside which is a sea of public grot".
The scandal of the £2.6 billion blown on the so-called London Development Agency ("creating" 80,000 jobs in a city supposedly short of labour) would have gone unnoticed had it not been for this newspaper. This is not honest government.
At innumerable elections rallies, Livingstone has offered no vision for London's future. He cannot handle questions on London's population growth, its appearance or its street crime. Any fool can tax-and-spend on police, but London's force is still overwhelmingly officeand car-bound, to the fury of its citizens.
Then last week, Livingstone admitted he had lied about the Olympics, explaining "exactly how I plotted to ensnare the government" into spending double his estimate on London infrastructure.
If a £9 billion wasteland of unwanted stadiums, sheds and concrete walkways in the East End is his idea of valuefor-money urban renewal, that is reason enough to vote him from office.
In a nutshell, Livingstone has not been an inspirational Mayor, least of all one meriting a third term. Of his opponents, the Liberal Democrat Brian Paddick has not begun to cut the mustard.
Johnson is undeniably untested, but he has survived the campaign with his wildness curbed and only the occasional mishap, as over his estimates of the cost of bus renewal. He would be nothing like as dangerous a choice as four more years of Livingstone.
Johnson has thought respectably about crime policy - including restorative justice that Ken has ignored. He wishes to reform development control and restore borough autonomy. He should certainly reduce the doubleinflation tax rises of Livingstone's regime. Above all, he is well placed to honour HL Menken's adage of urban democracy, a lways " chuck the rapscallions out".
London's election has been unprecedented news. It has featured daily in the national press and on television and even drawn reporters from overseas - hilariously in this week's New Yorker. There have been a dozen packed debates between the contestants. Such a festival of participation is unprecedented in the meek history of British local government.
Those who deplore direct election as un-British, who dislike "personality in politics" and despise localism, have been shown the door. London's Ken v Boris show has given British democracy a shot in the arm. Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and other cities should be eating their hearts out.
Civic pride may still be a raucous, bawling infant. But it is alive and kicking. Nothing will serve it better than a high turnout and a vote for change on Thursday. Go for Boris.
Link to:
"
Khoodeelaar! the ‘No to Crossrail hole plot against the East End of London’ CAMPAIGN ‘TOLD YOU SO’ - that is SAID IT ON THE RECORD - for more than 4 years now, that the key tout in London for Big Business Crossrail hole plot, the ‘Undone mayor’ Ken Livingstone, was, has been, is and will continue to be A LIAR...
If our description of the lying Ken Livingstone has been straight and open, some of the ‘mainstream’ ‘media’ confessions to knowing that Livingstone was a liar, are now making it very clear that the evidence is undeniable that Livingstone is untrustworthy, that he has lied, that he is unfit to deserve the mandate from the people of London for any extension of Livingstone's reign in the name of the people of London....
Khoodeelaar! is saying this on the day that Simon Jenkins, one of the most pervasive ’mainstream’ British ‘establishment’ ‘timeserving’ ‘commentators’ has himself admitted that Livingstone does not deserve to be trusted because he is a self-confessed liar......
[To be continued]
"
Mayoral Elections
HEADLINES:
Speaking his piece: Ken Livingstone, campaigning at the Londoners For Peace rally in Whitechapel at the weekend
No mayor should ever serve three terms, Ken
Simon Jenkins
28.04.08
Londoners should vote for Boris Johnson as Mayor on Thursday. They should do so for one reason that overrides all others. Nobody, however able, should serve more than two terms in an elected position of such prominence.
The present Mayor, Ken Livingstone, said as much in 1998 in calling for term limits for mayors, since "corruption tends to flourish the longer they are able to hold on to power".
He was right then and has been proved right ever since. His standing for a third term is a gesture of crude egotism.
The London Mayoralty has yet to come of age. It is only eight years old and has yet to attract the calibre of leadership enjoyed by German, French, Spanish and American cities. But it is maturing.
Both Livingstone and Johnson were high-profile MPs before running for Mayor. Others, such as Richard Branson, Michael Portillo, Alan Sugar and Greg Dyke are known to have considered the post. A better list might be inclined to run if there is a change this time.
So far, all Livingstone has done is put the office on the map. His quirky, mischievous and mildly irresponsible behaviour offered a comfort zone for a feisty and sceptical metropolitan electorate. But he has depended, as always, on his enemies.
First, Margaret Thatcher sanctified him during his dreadful leadership of the Greater London Council in 1981-86 by abolishing it. Then Tony Blair rescued a man he thought unworthy even of junior ministerial office by making the new Mayoralty directly elected, thus allowing him to defeat the Labour candidate in 2000.
Then John Prescott kept in being a 400-strong oversight directorate in Whitehall, to stop Livingstone returning to his bad old ways of chaotic extravagance - in which it was barely successful.
Anyone who questions Johnson's competence to run London should read Andrew Hosken's account (in Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone) of the talents Livingstone brought to the job in 2000. They were zero. In five years at the GLC, he had taxed and spent to the limit of recklessness, including a staggering £50 million on adverts attacking Thatcher's government and £29 million on "women's issues". He showed not an ounce of responsibility.
Livingstone undoubtedly rose to the job of Mayor. He embraced capital as well as labour in the "wide tent" leadership inculcated by direct election. He supported high salaries (not least for his staff) and non-dom tax avoidance. His early alliance with big-money developers and architects may have wrecked London's skyline but it aided his reelection funds.
Yet there are few real credits to set at his door. The prosperity of the metropolis has been due not to him but to Thatcherite privatisation and deregulation of financial services, policies which he earned his political spurs opposing, however much it now suits him to pretend otherwise. For him to claim an iota of credit for London's boom is cheek.
His two most substantive initiatives were an attempt to stop Gordon Brown's privatisation of the Tube and the congestion charge. He was right on the first but failed to win, despite hiring Britain's most costly public servant, Bob Kiley. Hurling a billion pounds at the buses hardly compensated for running what is now the most expensive public transit system in the world.
As for the congestion charge, it has proved a very expensive way of collecting a tax, one that has been imitated nowhere else. Meanwhile, Livingstone's failure to co-ordinate London's utilities has left the streets more dug-up and shambolic than ever.
Property developers may be able to con him with "soft bribes" of a few council flats in return for pepper-potting London with massive luxury blocks, referred to by the Standard's Rowan Moore as "privately controlled spaces outside which is a sea of public grot".
The scandal of the £2.6 billion blown on the so-called London Development Agency ("creating" 80,000 jobs in a city supposedly short of labour) would have gone unnoticed had it not been for this newspaper. This is not honest government.
At innumerable elections rallies, Livingstone has offered no vision for London's future. He cannot handle questions on London's population growth, its appearance or its street crime. Any fool can tax-and-spend on police, but London's force is still overwhelmingly officeand car-bound, to the fury of its citizens.
Then last week, Livingstone admitted he had lied about the Olympics, explaining "exactly how I plotted to ensnare the government" into spending double his estimate on London infrastructure.
If a £9 billion wasteland of unwanted stadiums, sheds and concrete walkways in the East End is his idea of valuefor-money urban renewal, that is reason enough to vote him from office.
In a nutshell, Livingstone has not been an inspirational Mayor, least of all one meriting a third term. Of his opponents, the Liberal Democrat Brian Paddick has not begun to cut the mustard.
Johnson is undeniably untested, but he has survived the campaign with his wildness curbed and only the occasional mishap, as over his estimates of the cost of bus renewal. He would be nothing like as dangerous a choice as four more years of Livingstone.
Johnson has thought respectably about crime policy - including restorative justice that Ken has ignored. He wishes to reform development control and restore borough autonomy. He should certainly reduce the doubleinflation tax rises of Livingstone's regime. Above all, he is well placed to honour HL Menken's adage of urban democracy, a lways " chuck the rapscallions out".
London's election has been unprecedented news. It has featured daily in the national press and on television and even drawn reporters from overseas - hilariously in this week's New Yorker. There have been a dozen packed debates between the contestants. Such a festival of participation is unprecedented in the meek history of British local government.
Those who deplore direct election as un-British, who dislike "personality in politics" and despise localism, have been shown the door. London's Ken v Boris show has given British democracy a shot in the arm. Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and other cities should be eating their hearts out.
Civic pride may still be a raucous, bawling infant. But it is alive and kicking. Nothing will serve it better than a high turnout and a vote for change on Thursday. Go for Boris.
Link to:
"
ARCHIVE of evidence in the KHOODEELAAR! Constitutional law campaign against CROSSRAIL hole agenda
ARCHIVE of evidence in the KHOODEELAAR! Constitutional law campaign against CROSSRAIL hole agenda
"Khoodeelaar legal action against Crossrail-hole Council& their bribed liars
Copyrights The Editor/Khoodeelaar/cbruk/lawmedia 2006 | 15.03.2006 12:41 | Social Struggles | London
The Khoodeelaar! Campaign IN DEFENCE OF THE East End of London in general and in partcuar in defenec of the Brrick
Lane, Whietchapel, Bethnal green south and Steoeney London e1 AREA AND against a corrupt local council colluding with the crassly conceived Crossrail hole plan project scheme bill now in the uk house of commons got a step closer to being taken to the domestic courts uk yesterday with the announcement of a series of legal actions against the local tower hamlets council in London’s east end. Campaigners have unearthed evidence showing that contrary to the impression SOUGHT TO be created by the controlling clique on tower hamlets council to the effect that they WERE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY OPPOSITION TO THE Crossrail hole plan, Tower Hamlets Council under Michael Keith’s leadership had all along been lying to the community and to the public at large about the facts and the extents of the Controlling clique’s collusion against the East End and with the promoters of the Crossrail hole assault on the East End. Khoodeelaar! Campaign organiser Muhammad Haque declared a raft of constitutional law actions against Tower Hamlets Council and against their paid propaganda organs that had been used so far to lie against the East End communities affected by the Crossrail hole attacks.
To view the details of the legal action and other Khoodeelaar campaign against Crossrail hole events announced at the news conference on Tuesday 14 March 2006, log on to
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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Khoodeelaar legal action against Tower Hamlets Council - background
15.03.2006 13:14
The basis facts are that the mass mobilisation in support of the Khoodeelaar! Campaign against Crossrail hole that took place on Sunday 22 January 2006 gave a very clear choice to the Council.
The controlling group has refused to take that option and to sow the seeds of dissension in the community by adopting a confrontational approach to the
Khoodeelaar campaign.
We are fully behind Khoodeelaar and if the Tower Hamlets council has not yet recognised the monumental impact the Khoodeelaar campaign is having, it is living in a fool's paradise.
Over the weekend, telephone calls from Asia were received in London to the effect that many exporters of goods intended to ordinary delivery at addresses in Brick Lane, were refusing to send items on the 'basis that the UK Government is breaking up Brick Lane'.
[More on this later on our web sites]
"Khoodeelaar legal action against Crossrail-hole Council& their bribed liars
Copyrights The Editor/Khoodeelaar/cbruk/lawmedia 2006 | 15.03.2006 12:41 | Social Struggles | London
The Khoodeelaar! Campaign IN DEFENCE OF THE East End of London in general and in partcuar in defenec of the Brrick
Lane, Whietchapel, Bethnal green south and Steoeney London e1 AREA AND against a corrupt local council colluding with the crassly conceived Crossrail hole plan project scheme bill now in the uk house of commons got a step closer to being taken to the domestic courts uk yesterday with the announcement of a series of legal actions against the local tower hamlets council in London’s east end. Campaigners have unearthed evidence showing that contrary to the impression SOUGHT TO be created by the controlling clique on tower hamlets council to the effect that they WERE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY OPPOSITION TO THE Crossrail hole plan, Tower Hamlets Council under Michael Keith’s leadership had all along been lying to the community and to the public at large about the facts and the extents of the Controlling clique’s collusion against the East End and with the promoters of the Crossrail hole assault on the East End. Khoodeelaar! Campaign organiser Muhammad Haque declared a raft of constitutional law actions against Tower Hamlets Council and against their paid propaganda organs that had been used so far to lie against the East End communities affected by the Crossrail hole attacks.
To view the details of the legal action and other Khoodeelaar campaign against Crossrail hole events announced at the news conference on Tuesday 14 March 2006, log on to
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
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Khoodeelaar legal action against Tower Hamlets Council - background
15.03.2006 13:14
The basis facts are that the mass mobilisation in support of the Khoodeelaar! Campaign against Crossrail hole that took place on Sunday 22 January 2006 gave a very clear choice to the Council.
The controlling group has refused to take that option and to sow the seeds of dissension in the community by adopting a confrontational approach to the
Khoodeelaar campaign.
We are fully behind Khoodeelaar and if the Tower Hamlets council has not yet recognised the monumental impact the Khoodeelaar campaign is having, it is living in a fool's paradise.
Over the weekend, telephone calls from Asia were received in London to the effect that many exporters of goods intended to ordinary delivery at addresses in Brick Lane, were refusing to send items on the 'basis that the UK Government is breaking up Brick Lane'.
[More on this later on our web sites]
Friday, April 25, 2008
Crossrail hole plot-peddling Big Business agent 'Undone Mayor' Ken Lyingstill Livingstone has claimed that he can con everyone for ever!
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot-peddling, Big Business-agenda-promoting 'Undone mayor' Ken Livingstone, at 0820 Hrs GMT London Friday 25 April 2008:
What trick are you contriving in your conniving, careerist little mind to deny the fact that the people who are involved in creating the prospect of a ‘summer of unrest’ do not agree with you when you lyingly spin that London is ‘ahead’ of other capitals?
That the people who marched in the streets of London, Manchester, Cardiff and other parts of Britain on Monday 24 April 2008 and demanded fair pay in the Blaired Britain fronted by Gordon Brown and con-spun [this is another Khodoeelaar! word, devised to reflect the truth fo the situation.... more later] by you, Ken ‘the Big Business, city of London-tout’ Livingstone do not agree with you that you ever even understood let alone had any faith in the idea of fair society.....
[To be continued]
[To be continued]
What trick are you contriving in your conniving, careerist little mind to deny the fact that the people who are involved in creating the prospect of a ‘summer of unrest’ do not agree with you when you lyingly spin that London is ‘ahead’ of other capitals?
That the people who marched in the streets of London, Manchester, Cardiff and other parts of Britain on Monday 24 April 2008 and demanded fair pay in the Blaired Britain fronted by Gordon Brown and con-spun [this is another Khodoeelaar! word, devised to reflect the truth fo the situation.... more later] by you, Ken ‘the Big Business, city of London-tout’ Livingstone do not agree with you that you ever even understood let alone had any faith in the idea of fair society.....
[To be continued]
[To be continued]
Crossrail hole plot-peddling Big Business agent 'Undone Mayor' Ken Lyingstill Livingstone makes another mistake ..'lying is OK'!.
Crossrail hole plot-peddling Big Business agent 'Undone Mayor' Ken Lyingstill Livingstone has made another mistake ...
Ken Livingstone’s mistake this time is that he can continue to act with criminality and callousness and then pass that off as if he were motivated by charity...
He must assume that ALL the voters that he is targeting for the 1 May 2008 scheduled ‘London elections’ are equally stupid, gullible and immoral and that they will indeed be taken in by his tactic and again vote for him for a ‘third term’.
They will do so BECAUSE he is a liar and that his lying involves his being given access to appropriate [misappropriate] and use and abuse £Billions of public money...
As in relation to the Big Business plot under covers of Crossrail...
As in his boast aired on BBC1 Question Time last night that he did con the public over his Olympics 2012 Bid lies...
[To be continued]
Ken Livingstone’s mistake this time is that he can continue to act with criminality and callousness and then pass that off as if he were motivated by charity...
He must assume that ALL the voters that he is targeting for the 1 May 2008 scheduled ‘London elections’ are equally stupid, gullible and immoral and that they will indeed be taken in by his tactic and again vote for him for a ‘third term’.
They will do so BECAUSE he is a liar and that his lying involves his being given access to appropriate [misappropriate] and use and abuse £Billions of public money...
As in relation to the Big Business plot under covers of Crossrail...
As in his boast aired on BBC1 Question Time last night that he did con the public over his Olympics 2012 Bid lies...
[To be continued]
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Muhammad Haque's first comments on BBC's latest PLUGS for the post - and the posthodler/s- of ‘mayor’ in the name of London, will appear here shortly
KHOODEELAAR! No o Crossrail Bill CAMPAIGN organiser Muhammad Haque's first comments on the BBC's latest PLUGS for the post - and the posthodler/s- of ‘mayor’ in the name of London, will appear here shortly
Thursday, April 17, 2008
how is it that the EVENING STANDARD is not itself owning upto shielding Ken Livingstone and his touting for CRASSrail ?
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plotters' propaganda :
Ethical comment and queston to the 'Editor' and the pub lishers of the ‘EVENING standardless STANDARD’ at 1635 Hrs GMT London Thursday 17 April 2008:
If Ian Blair was being IN EFFECT shielded by the entourage and establishment of Ken Livingstone - and the fact has just been admitted by the MPA, how is it that the EVENING STANDARD is not itself owning upto shielding Ken Livingstone over the damning evidence that DOES exist of how corruptly Livingstone has been plugging the Big Business Crossrail scam in gthe name of London ? ...
.[To be continued]
Ethical comment and queston to the 'Editor' and the pub lishers of the ‘EVENING standardless STANDARD’ at 1635 Hrs GMT London Thursday 17 April 2008:
If Ian Blair was being IN EFFECT shielded by the entourage and establishment of Ken Livingstone - and the fact has just been admitted by the MPA, how is it that the EVENING STANDARD is not itself owning upto shielding Ken Livingstone over the damning evidence that DOES exist of how corruptly Livingstone has been plugging the Big Business Crossrail scam in gthe name of London ? ...
.[To be continued]
Why isn’t the London EVENING STANDARD confessing to suppressing the evidence that would indict Big Business Crossrail hole tout Ken Livingstone.?
1620 Hrs GMT 1720 Hrs UK Time London Thursday 17 April 2008: Khoodeelaar! "No to Crossrail hole Bill" CAMPAIGN quoting from the web site of the London ‘EVENING STANDARD’ [at 1620 Hrs GMT on Thursday 17 April 2008]
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HEADLINES:
Pressure: Sir Ian Blair's position was threatened by report
Probe on Menezes killing is shelved to protect Ian Blair
Justin Davenport, Evening Standard
17.04.08
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Met 'fixes figures by deterring victims from reporting crimes'
Comment: publish and risk being damned
A key inquiry into the Met's handling of the Stockwell shooting has been shelved for political reasons.
The investigation examined Scotland Yard chief Sir Ian Blair's role following the police killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.
The publication of the report in the run-up to the mayoral election could have led to renewed calls for Sir Ian to resign, and in turn damage Ken Livingstone, a key supporter of the commissioner.
Brian Paddick, the Lib-Dem candidate and former Scotland Yard officer, has said he would not allow Sir Ian a second five-year term as commissioner, while Tory contender Boris Johnson has also hinted that he does not fully back Sir Ian.
After interviewing more than 20 police officers and officials, the inquiry was due to deliver a report in February.
Today, however, the Metropolitan Police Authority admitted publication of the report had been delayed because of "political sensitivities" surrounding the mayoral and London Assembly elections.
A spokesman said the report into the 2005 shooting had still not been completed but had been held over because of the election "purdah". The spokesman added that there was the possibility of "people making political capital out of it".
But MPA insiders and senior sources said there had been " inexplicable" delays to the publication of what is expected to be a controversial review.
The report is believed to examine in detail why Sir Ian was not told that the wrong man had been shot until 24 hours after it happened.
The study was originally expected to have been finished in time for the February MPA meeting but was then delayed until last month'smeeting - well before politicians and civil servants are expected to go into purdah in advance of elections.
The decision to delay the report was condemned today by Tory members of the MPA and a Lib-Dem member of the review panel itself.
Richard Barnes, Tory leader on the London Assembly, said: "Clearly if this report is so politically sensitive, it must be damning of the Met. I find it appalling that this has not been published. We are a statutory body in our own right and we should continue as normal, never mind the election."
One of the review's panel members, Lib-Dem Dee Doocey, said: "I had expected that we would at least have a draft by now but we had an email in March saying it was delayed and we have not heard anything since. If this is the reason for the delay then I am astonished."
Mr de Menezes, 27, an electrician, was shot by CO19 officers at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005 after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber following the previous day's failed terror attacks across London.
The MPA inquiry was announced last September by the authority's chairman and Labour London Assembly chief, Len Duvall, who also announced he would chair the review. It was intended to examine issues surrounding how the Met handled information following the shooting and why Sir Ian was kept in the dark.
An MPA spokesman said the decision to delay the report was made at "corporate level".
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HEADLINES:
Pressure: Sir Ian Blair's position was threatened by report
Probe on Menezes killing is shelved to protect Ian Blair
Justin Davenport, Evening Standard
17.04.08
Related Articles
Met 'fixes figures by deterring victims from reporting crimes'
Comment: publish and risk being damned
A key inquiry into the Met's handling of the Stockwell shooting has been shelved for political reasons.
The investigation examined Scotland Yard chief Sir Ian Blair's role following the police killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.
The publication of the report in the run-up to the mayoral election could have led to renewed calls for Sir Ian to resign, and in turn damage Ken Livingstone, a key supporter of the commissioner.
Brian Paddick, the Lib-Dem candidate and former Scotland Yard officer, has said he would not allow Sir Ian a second five-year term as commissioner, while Tory contender Boris Johnson has also hinted that he does not fully back Sir Ian.
After interviewing more than 20 police officers and officials, the inquiry was due to deliver a report in February.
Today, however, the Metropolitan Police Authority admitted publication of the report had been delayed because of "political sensitivities" surrounding the mayoral and London Assembly elections.
A spokesman said the report into the 2005 shooting had still not been completed but had been held over because of the election "purdah". The spokesman added that there was the possibility of "people making political capital out of it".
But MPA insiders and senior sources said there had been " inexplicable" delays to the publication of what is expected to be a controversial review.
The report is believed to examine in detail why Sir Ian was not told that the wrong man had been shot until 24 hours after it happened.
The study was originally expected to have been finished in time for the February MPA meeting but was then delayed until last month'smeeting - well before politicians and civil servants are expected to go into purdah in advance of elections.
The decision to delay the report was condemned today by Tory members of the MPA and a Lib-Dem member of the review panel itself.
Richard Barnes, Tory leader on the London Assembly, said: "Clearly if this report is so politically sensitive, it must be damning of the Met. I find it appalling that this has not been published. We are a statutory body in our own right and we should continue as normal, never mind the election."
One of the review's panel members, Lib-Dem Dee Doocey, said: "I had expected that we would at least have a draft by now but we had an email in March saying it was delayed and we have not heard anything since. If this is the reason for the delay then I am astonished."
Mr de Menezes, 27, an electrician, was shot by CO19 officers at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005 after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber following the previous day's failed terror attacks across London.
The MPA inquiry was announced last September by the authority's chairman and Labour London Assembly chief, Len Duvall, who also announced he would chair the review. It was intended to examine issues surrounding how the Met handled information following the shooting and why Sir Ian was kept in the dark.
An MPA spokesman said the decision to delay the report was made at "corporate level".
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The scheduled 1 May 'London mayor and GLA elections' coinciding with two Ward by-elections in Tower Hamlets, will NOT produce fair results.....
The scheduled 1 May 'London mayor and GLA elections' coinciding with two Ward by-elections in Tower Hamlets, will NOT produce fair results....We are examining just how bad the situation is for ordinary people in the inner r city East end of London.... And showing how Ken Livingstone represents corruption, lack of say and no democracy.....
By©Muhammad Haque
1200 Hrs GMT
1300 Hrs UK Time
London Thursday 17 April 2008
Harriet Harman's immorality and the latest display of her dire, desperate careerism when she pranced on a criminally socially exclusive 'political' platform appearing to give endorsement to yet another ethnicity-linked, morally and ethically bankrupt and intellectually empty and corrupting agenda for the servile clique on the Tower Hamlets Council...
Servile clique is the phrase justified on the evidence of the servility to Big Business as exhibited by the clique on Tower Hamlets council...
Did Harman know that the Khoodeelaar! question as put to the Crossrail hole plot -inviter Tower Hamlets Council clique in September 2007 was answered by a cliquester councilor who used words that left no doubt as to the servility-delivery location of that clique and their 'controlled' council vis a vis the Big Business Crossrail hole plot scammers?
[Top be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1200 Hrs GMT
1300 Hrs UK Time
London Thursday 17 April 2008
Harriet Harman's immorality and the latest display of her dire, desperate careerism when she pranced on a criminally socially exclusive 'political' platform appearing to give endorsement to yet another ethnicity-linked, morally and ethically bankrupt and intellectually empty and corrupting agenda for the servile clique on the Tower Hamlets Council...
Servile clique is the phrase justified on the evidence of the servility to Big Business as exhibited by the clique on Tower Hamlets council...
Did Harman know that the Khoodeelaar! question as put to the Crossrail hole plot -inviter Tower Hamlets Council clique in September 2007 was answered by a cliquester councilor who used words that left no doubt as to the servility-delivery location of that clique and their 'controlled' council vis a vis the Big Business Crossrail hole plot scammers?
[Top be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! Open letter to the OFT: Will the OFT now say the same thing about £Billion waster CROSSRAIL London scam?
KHOODEELAAR! Open letter to the OFT: Will the OFT now say the same thing about £Billion waster CROSSRAIL London scam?
[More texts herwe soon of KHOODEELAAR! challenge to the Office of Fair Trading, Thusrday 17 April 2008]
From the web site of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH:
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OFT accuses construction firms over cartel
By Angela Monaghan
Last Updated: 10:57am BST 17/04/2008
Government agencies and local authorities are clients who may have overpaid on billions of pounds of building contracts, the Office of Fair Trading has warned, as it accused 112 construction companies of bid-rigging.
Balfour Beatty is among the 112 companies accused of bid-rigging
Following a three-year investigation, the companies have been accused of forming cartels with rivals to bid an inflated price for work on schools, hospitals and other projects to make sure they do not win.
The list of companies accused of bid-rigging include Balfour Beatty, the UK's biggest construction company and builder of the 2012 Olympic aquatics centre in London, and Carillion, the second biggest company.
The full OFT statement and names of the 112 companies
OFT has taken aim since John Fingleton arrived
More on the construction and property sector
Those accused could face fines of up to 10pc of global turnover.
The allegations cover a wide range of construction projects in both the public and private sectors mainly in Yorkshire and Humberside.
The OFT also makes the more serious claim that a handful of the businesses, about 5pc, have produced fake invoices based on agreements with rivals whereby the successful bidder paid a "compensation payment" to the unsuccessful party.
In response to the OFT's statement, Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "If these firms have been ripping off taxpayers it is a disgrace – especially from such prominent and supposedly reputable organisations. Public sector projects are paid for by ordinary people who struggle to make ends meet.
"Any company found to have been price-rigging should be punished harshly, but responsibility also lies with the public officials who were such a soft touch."
During the investigation raids have been carried out on almost 60 companies in the search for evidence and 77 companies have volunteered information in an effort to qualify for leniency if fines are imposed.
In a statement this morning Balfour Beatty said: "The company and its operating businesses have co-operated fully with the OFT in all aspects of its investigation. As a result and subject to ongoing co-operation, the OFT has granted leniency to Balfour Beatty, thus reducing any fines which might ultimately be levied on Balfour Beatty or any of its operating businesses.
"Balfour Beatty is confident that all of its subsidiaries are now fully compliant with the Competition Act. Balfour Beatty neither promotes nor condones anti-competitive behaviour."
The contractors now have two months to make written and oral representations to the OFT before it makes a final decision in early 2009 on whether or not competition law has been infringed and how much the companies will be fined.
The OFT has powers to impose fines of up to 10pc of a company's worldwide turnover.
It claims to have uncovered evidence of bid-rigging involving thousands of tenders with a combined value of almost £3bn.
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[More texts herwe soon of KHOODEELAAR! challenge to the Office of Fair Trading, Thusrday 17 April 2008]
From the web site of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH:
"
OFT accuses construction firms over cartel
By Angela Monaghan
Last Updated: 10:57am BST 17/04/2008
Government agencies and local authorities are clients who may have overpaid on billions of pounds of building contracts, the Office of Fair Trading has warned, as it accused 112 construction companies of bid-rigging.
Balfour Beatty is among the 112 companies accused of bid-rigging
Following a three-year investigation, the companies have been accused of forming cartels with rivals to bid an inflated price for work on schools, hospitals and other projects to make sure they do not win.
The list of companies accused of bid-rigging include Balfour Beatty, the UK's biggest construction company and builder of the 2012 Olympic aquatics centre in London, and Carillion, the second biggest company.
The full OFT statement and names of the 112 companies
OFT has taken aim since John Fingleton arrived
More on the construction and property sector
Those accused could face fines of up to 10pc of global turnover.
The allegations cover a wide range of construction projects in both the public and private sectors mainly in Yorkshire and Humberside.
The OFT also makes the more serious claim that a handful of the businesses, about 5pc, have produced fake invoices based on agreements with rivals whereby the successful bidder paid a "compensation payment" to the unsuccessful party.
In response to the OFT's statement, Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "If these firms have been ripping off taxpayers it is a disgrace – especially from such prominent and supposedly reputable organisations. Public sector projects are paid for by ordinary people who struggle to make ends meet.
"Any company found to have been price-rigging should be punished harshly, but responsibility also lies with the public officials who were such a soft touch."
During the investigation raids have been carried out on almost 60 companies in the search for evidence and 77 companies have volunteered information in an effort to qualify for leniency if fines are imposed.
In a statement this morning Balfour Beatty said: "The company and its operating businesses have co-operated fully with the OFT in all aspects of its investigation. As a result and subject to ongoing co-operation, the OFT has granted leniency to Balfour Beatty, thus reducing any fines which might ultimately be levied on Balfour Beatty or any of its operating businesses.
"Balfour Beatty is confident that all of its subsidiaries are now fully compliant with the Competition Act. Balfour Beatty neither promotes nor condones anti-competitive behaviour."
The contractors now have two months to make written and oral representations to the OFT before it makes a final decision in early 2009 on whether or not competition law has been infringed and how much the companies will be fined.
The OFT has powers to impose fines of up to 10pc of a company's worldwide turnover.
It claims to have uncovered evidence of bid-rigging involving thousands of tenders with a combined value of almost £3bn.
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