AADHIKARonline The 7th Edn 1030 Hrs GMT London Monday 12 March 2007
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AADHIKARonline The 6th Edn 1020 Hrs GMT London Monday 12 March 2007
What George Galloway’s 'RESPECT' Party had claimed to stand for in opposition to CrossRail hole attacks on the East End
Khoodeelaar QUOTE George Galloway MP’s assistant Rob Hoveman, writing to Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque on Sunday 29 January 2006.
This quoted communication has been subjected to minimal editing – mainly to correct some typing errors that were in Mr Hoveman's original as sent to [and as received by] Khoodeelaar!. All the contents have otherwise been left unaltered.
“Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:10:01 +0000 From: "Respect - the Unity Coalition" View Contact Details To: bricklanekhoodeelaar@yahoo.co.uk Subject: respect party's position on crossrail Dear Muhammad Haque, [This surname has been corrected]
My apologies if there has been a delay in this response from the Respect Party with reference to our position on Crossrail. Our position has been repeatedly stated in our literature and on our website and most recently in the TV discussion on STV's Reality with Mahee on Thursday. I hope the position outlined below clarifies the position.
1) The first and most important aspect of our position on Crossrail is that there must be no intervention shaft in Hanbury Street or anywhere in Tower Hamlets. We believe it is quite unnecessary as the rail line can technically be built with end to end tunnelling, particularly if the link to Whitechapel station is abandoned. Whitechapel station has planned refurbishment by LUL in 2009 and there is no need for a Crossrail link to Whitechapel. Were we to take control of the council in May we will tear up any agreement written or verbal made by the current council and use all the resources at our disposal to inform the people who live and work in Tower Hamlets of the threat Crossrail poses and to block those proposals.
2) We are sceptical of some of the claims made for Crossrail. We are in favour of improved public transport but this is an extraordinarily expensive project, even before cost begin to rise, as they always do, once the project actually starts. The funding for this project is still not in place. More importantly, the council and Crossrail's claims for community and work benefit have not been established. We simply do not believe these claims and fear that Crossrail as currently envisaged is part of the attempt to drive the City East, Canary Wharf north, and the resident community out of Tower Hamlets and particularly out of the areas where the Bangladeshi community primarily lives and works. In that respect we see it as part of a bigger plan in pursuit of this project which the current council is signed up to.
3) Our total opposition to the intervention shaft and our scepticism over the Crossrail project as it currently exists are why George Galloway spoke against the bill on its second reading last July when the principle of the bill was debated and voted on, and he was one of only 24 MPs to vote against it. The bill, which threatens to devastate Bangla Town, has the full backing of the government and was unfortunately voted for by a majority of New Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem MPs. George Galloway has entered his own petition against the bill and is supporting the petitions of a number of campaigning groups in Tower Hamlets. These are due to be heard by the Select Committee on the bill in the next few weeks and months. He is not allowed to be a member of this Select Committee as its function is quasi-judicial and no MP with an 'interest' in the bill can be on the committee. If the bill is not changed and the shaft is given legal authority, the blame for this will lie squarely with Tony Blair and the New Labour government.
4) We are very disappointed that the New Labour council failed to publicise the threat to Tower Hamlets years ago when it became apparent to all who studied the issue. Instead the Cabinet endorsed the project in principle in October 2004 and merely raised the possibility of the shaft being relocated to Woodseer Street instead of Hanbury Street. This was a dereliction of duty in our opinion and they also bear responsibility for the threat that Crossrail still presents to Tower Hamlets.
5) However we want to work with everyone who wants oppose the Crossrail Bill and in particualr the intervention shaft, whether they come from other political parties or none. The council's stunt of going to the Commons to raise the Crossrail Bill a couple of weeks ago was clearly motivated by the desire to get party political advantage against George Galloway and Respect, despite the fact we have consistently raised out total opposition to the shaft over the last year or more. However we are very pleased that this has raised awareness of the threat more broadly in Tower Hamlets. We are keen to see and support community initiatives against the bill. We must use the petitioning process either to persuade the committee to dump the shaft or to delay progress of the bill, which could achieve the same thing. But we also want to help promote petitioning initiatives and help build and participate in whatever meetings may be called over the issue. We must also look forward to building demonstrations, including demonstrations we should take to parliament. If the Labour Council can go to protest at parliament as a stunt, so the people of Tower Hamlets must have the right to protest at parliament against a bill which threatens us all. Finally, we must be prepared to take non-violent direct action to stop Crossrail if we do not succeed in parliament. If enough people physically act to prevent the digging, they will not be able to dig and the threat of non-violent direct action itself will strengthen the case against the shaft in parliament.
This is a brief outline of our position and we would be delighted to elaborate on this by email or in the discussions George Galloway has with you tomorrow.
With best wishes,
Rob Hoveman, Assistant to George Galloway MP ” Khoodeelaar UNQUOTE George Galloway MP’s assistant Rob Hoveman, writing to Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque on Sunday 29 January 2006.
AADHIKARonline The 4th Edn 0940 Hrs GMT London Monday 12 March 2007
The strange silence of ‘local MP’ George Galloway
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The search engine ‘Google’ yielded the following result at 0910 Hrs GMT on Monday 12 March 2007 to the question ‘George Galloway MP’ about ‘Crossrail’ “Your search - "George Galloway MP"+"Crossrail" - did not match any documents.”
Given that last week, Ken Livingstone, the Crossrail hole plot-peddling, lying mayor of London who has been the main tout on Crossrail for Big Business and the City of London interests staged another dire stunt with Blair at No 10 Downing street [and in the nearby area where paid for Business agents were parading strictly Business interest festoons and placards for CRASSrail to go with the promotion] did so following, by a month or so, the Khoodeelaar! formal deputation to No 1`0 Downing Street demanding the scrapping of the Crossrail hole plot against the East End, the ‘local MP' George Galloway would have been expected to have featured in some activity on the issue!
Given also the fact that while Khoodeelaar! maintains the mobilisation against the CRASSrail plot, certain individual groups in the area, allied with Khoodeelaar! have kept up their formal presentations against the Crossrail hole plot to the ‘Crossrail Bill’ ‘select committee’ in the UK House of Commons, it would have been expected that as the ‘local MP’ George Galloway would have played at least a consistent part in support of that activity.
Given that the ‘select committee’ is chaired by Alan Meale – before whom Galloway presented his own ‘arguments’ in support of his own ‘petition against the Crossrail hole’ in June 2006, it would have been expected that he, Galloway, would have shown at least some care and concern as to whether he was acting as if none of the statements against the Crossrail hole plot that he had made were meant to be taken seriously at all.
It looks as if Galloway has decided that he is ‘better off’ not continuing to state in parliament or in the constituency any more opposition to Crossrail plot. If he has decided along that line, he has not said so in the constituency. Most certainly not to Khoodeelaar! Not to the other active groups – who are part of the Khoodeelaar movement against the Crossrail hole plot. So, is Galloway’s failure a failure? Or is it a calculated business strategy that his other ‘friend’, London mayor Ken Lyingstill Livingstone, has shown him would be worth his political and related business while? In accordance with the standard of ethics and transparency that the Khoodeelaar! movement abides by, we have given ample opportunity to Galloway to explain his silence. He has remained silent on why he has not spoken against Crossrail in the House of Commons [or in the Constituency] over so many particular incidents relating to Crossrail that have taken place since he last made any statement about the subject.
[To be continued]
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AADHIKARonline The 1st Edn 0850 Hrs GMT London Monday 12 March 2007
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot against the East End of London: The evidence of the Khoodeelaar! Campaign – the arguments, the ‘support’, the ‘commitments’ – review of some key ‘contributions’ to the scenario of the campaign so far
What ‘local MP’ George Galloway said about Khoodeelaar!
What the ‘local MP George Galloway’s assistant Rob Hoveman said to Khoodeelaar!’
What ‘Opposition Councillor’ Abjol Miah said to Khoodeelaar! About his [Abjol Miah’s] intentions to support the campaign against CrossRail within and on Tower Hamlets Council]
What ‘local MP George Galloway’s business associate Ron McKay said to Khoodeelaar’ on the question of the ‘RESPECT’ group’s being compromised by association with crooks in the Brick Lane London E1 Area
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