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Stop Ken Livingstone making London people poorer

Action against Livingstone making London poorer | 18.06.2007 14:39 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

The poverty level in London is concealed from wide view by a consistent ploy adopted by the mainstream media. As usual, the Guardian and the BBC are treating the poorer parts of London as legitimate targets for further attacks. Hence their blanket coverage of the spin by Livingstone...Whatever fantasy Livingstone says, the BBC gives it the treatment of undisputed fact...





The community in the East End held a very effective demonstration against Education Secretary Alan Johnson last Wednesday. Johnson was stopping at 2 spots, curry houses, as part of the deputy Labour leadership contest in which he is a candidate. But Johnson was forced to confess that he didn't have the evidence to support Crossrail hole .Yet in the House of Commons, Johnson had voted for Crossrail. And he had loudly endorsed it, in words that could only have been scripted by Crossrail hole plan backer Ken Livingstone...


The failure by Alan Johnson to show he knew what he was talking about on Crossrail when he had been voting for it, was a significant piece of evidence showing the shallowness of the Crossrail scheme [just like the Millennium Dome, like the 2012 Olympics Games bid] .

Yet the BBC failed to report or to cover the event.

As the BBC have failed to cover all the demonstrations and campaign actions taking place in the area for over 3 years now against Crossrail.

Action against Livingstone making London poorer

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More Information?

18.06.2007 15:53

I think this article could have benefited from more information, what is the Crossrail scheme? What exactly is the problem?

Gary McQuiggin


read today's 'evening standard' expose on thames gateway

18.06.2007 18:31

And you can see just how dangerously irresponsible the promotion of crossrail is.

Thames gateway has been promoted by the govt using almost identical spin and slogans about regeneration that they have been using to plug crossrail. But even an Mps committee, not the most progressive at any time, found Thames gateway to be a disaster.

Read also the three reports published by the guardian web site in May 2007 and on 4 June 20907. And you will see just how irresponsible they have been in citing the costs of the crossrail scheme. One week they are saying it will cost £10 billion and the next they are cutting the cost to under £9 billion.

As if that were not evidence enough of the serious flaws in the crossrail promotions, read today's FT item saying that crossrail will cost £15 billion!


Now, how callous is that!

if in a matter of 2 weeks they can cite three different figures- all in the £Billions- as being the cost of the SAME scheme then is there any doubt that if it really gets given the go ahead there will be dozens of times of the cost of the millennium dome?

Do NOT go to the crossrail web sites. They are spin and untruths.


Even today's London evening standard [Monday 18 June 2007] plug for crossrail is utterly contradictory.

a londoner


CORRECTION - the Guardian's Crossrail falsehood 4 June 2007

18.06.2007 19:53


CORRECTION

The date quoted should be 4 June 2007 not '4 June 20907. '

This is how the Guardian web site on 4 June 2007 publicised the Crossrail fabricated costs and other falsifications

"Labour deputy leadership candidates back Crossrail


Dan Milmo
Monday June 4, 2007
Guardian Unlimited


All six candidates for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party have given Crossrail a boost by backing the £8.7bn transport project.................. "

a londoner


really?

19.06.2007 08:48

I am not sure that you can accuse Cross Rail of being shallow - it will go quite deep underground i believe.

As for your continued ranting about it, perhaps if you could be bothered to actually outline why you object to it so much, actual reasons rather than unsubstantiated rants against Livingstone, Blair, BBC and the Guardian, you might get more interest from people.

Just a thought, although as this has been mentioned many times to you and you have yet to provide any serious reasons for your opposition i doubt much will be forthcoming now.

And yes i do support the Cross Rail development, London needs it as do the millions of people trying to travel across the city on the overcrowded dacaying tube trains we have now.

If you are concerned about the effect the development is going to have on your area of London then you need to start putting together some cogent arguments and alternatives to the scheme or at least have a plan that will mitigate the worst effects, as you see them, when the digging starts.

More thought and less shouting and sloganeering might get you a lot further.

I hope you take this in the constructive spirit that it is meant.

danger


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