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Did OFSTED's Christine Gilbert order suppression of evidence against Crossrail?

AADHIKARonline in association with KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail scam | 14.11.2008 16:00 | Analysis | World


KHOODEELAAR! is raising the question on Christine Gilbert's role today as part of our constitutional law campaign action updates. Gilbert failed and refused and neglected to answer the many questions that the campaign against Crossrail hole had put top her between 2004 and 2006 when she was chief executive in Tower Hamlets Council.

By©Muhammad Haque
1600 GMT
London Friday 14 November 2008


The questions that need to be answered about Christine Gilbert's suitability include these:-

Has she recognised the flaws in her role of associating too closely with careerists and 'councillors bolding key and power-weilding positions on the local Council'?

Has she recognised the truth of what the ordinary people had been telling her about the leis that she was backing about failing schools letting down the entire community?

Has she got the morality and the ethics and the intellectual detachment to tell the truth and to expose negligence, contempt and corruption by holders of publicly paid for posts and positions?

[To be continued]



ACTION ARCHIVE on Christine Gilbert, as published by KHOODEELAAR! on 10 June 2006 asking Blair TO DROP Gilbert as [his then ill-chosen] head of OFSTED


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OFSTED - East London lesson for Cronying Tony Blair – Drop Christine
© Muhammad Haque | 10.06.2006 20:18 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London

The Khoodeelaar! campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill - Blair’s de facto salvaging of the career of Christine Gilbert via the Ofsted appointment is only significant as a peripheral indicator of how immoral his decision making is, contrary to the routine professions that he is at all a morally active ethically laudable decision maker… the central lesson is that his judgement is seriously flawed and that he is as anti-democratic and unconstitutional on this one as he has been on all key issues of the day in his 'premiership'.. Blair’s recent acknowledgement that the crossrail bill [now in the uk house of commons] had to be ‘handled sensibly’ showed the latest public confirmation that our campaign against Crossrail bill was affecting him and his unaccountable entourage.

Khoodeelaar! has been leading the campaign for both democratic accountability as well as for moral and ethical accountability from the elected holders of office in the inner city east end of london. This week's announcement that the chief officer in tower hamlets council was leaving was accompanied by another announcement of breathtaking immorality from Tony Blair’s establishment. Blair’s de facto salvaging of the career of Christine Gilbert via the Ofsted appointment is only significant as a peripheral indicator of how immoral his decision making is, contrary to the routine professions that he is at all a morally active ethically laudable decision maker… the central lesson is that his judgement is seriously flawed and that he is as anti-democratic and unconstitutional on this one as he has been on all key issues of the day in his 'premiership'.. Blair’s recent acknowledgement that the crossrail bill [now in the uk house of commons] had to be ‘handled sensibly’ showed the latest public confirmation that our campaign against Crossrail bill was affecting him and his unaccountable entourage. Weeks earlier, he had conceded that the crossrail bill was proving an unexpected liability when he was forced to shunt the crossrail bill minister Alistair darling off to the dti . He brought in a most unsuitable replacement in the form of Douglas Alexander, who has no manifest democratic credentials to warrant any different treatment from the campaign against crossrail hole bill than had applied to his predecessor in post.blair has now shown a third admission that the crossrail bill is in trouble.

He has got london mayor ken Livingstone to mount a counter to the khoodeelaar! Campaign against Crossrail hole bill Livingstone has teamed up with his apparent adversary, the monopoly london evening ‘newspaper’ the evening standard. But neither the EVENING STANDARD editorial [2nd in a month] aimed at Gordon Brown nor the full page puff for Crossrail-hole-Ken makes any economic sense.The Crossrail hole Bill plugs are full of ‘planned economic growth’ and ‘planned benefits’ but they are way out of sync with the actual economic analysis.The UK economy is NOT growing. The world economic trends also discourage any hocus pocus exaggeration that Ken Livingstone is prone to making There is no justification for the Crossrail hole line because the EXISTING railway infrastructure can be maintained and improved and added to with less cost to the public purse and within a shorter time than would be the case if a CrossRail line were to be constructed.

That is the general objection.

The local East End economy has no need for it.

No demand for it.

And the Crossrail hole station at Whitechapel will NOT serve the local east End economic. It will be a link to take over the Eats End . By people who will target the area for economic takeover.

Those facts are being confirmed again by some of the disclosures being heard before the formally sitting Crossrail Bill select committee. The more facts get confirmed, the more substance is lent to the Khoodeelaar! campaign for the scrapping of the Crossrail hole Bill.
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AADHIKARonline in association with KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail scam
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Comments

Display the following 10 comments

  1. Another, the ex, Chief Inspector of OFSTED, has lots to answer for — quicksurfer
  2. Ofsted knew of Baby P tragedy..... Yet ED BALLS is uttering procedures! — AADHIKARonline in association with KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail scam
  3. OFSTED accused of poor performance! News! — weekendinspector
  4. OFSTED is money, time and opportunity WASTED — local governor
  5. woodhead returns to damn ofsted — neighbour
  6. What evidence? — Norville B
  7. Ah - I see — Norville B
  8. At last! an MPs' 'committee' stages a show of 'audit' of OFSTED and Gilbert! — AADHIKARonline in association with KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail scam
  9. OFSTED's Christine Gilbert is wrong, again! As is the Guardian to plug her — AADHIKARonline in association with Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail scam
  10. OFSTED is accused, albeit mildly, by MPs committee chair Sheerman — AADHIKARonline
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