Khoodeelaar! is a Seelottee language word, devised by Muhammad Haque in East London in 2004 whilst setting up the campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill.. It is a word with multiple messages conveying the theme of defending the community against attacks. Khoodeelaar! is a word of alert. Of alarm too! The nearest comparable word, in terms of performance in a Western European language is the French Oyez!. The meaning of course is different. Khoodeelaar! is intended to be shouted out. Screamed even! Just like the French Oyez. Khoodeelaar! means that the aggressive party hostile to our community is about to dig the hole; that the attacker is digging the hole while we the community are not watching; that the enemy force is sinking our community.... that the Crossrail hole is being given the go-ahead against our community....
[To be continued]
Friday 13 June 2008
Thursday 12 June 2008
Action against Crossrail Bill - Updated summary of grounds against Ruth Kelly follows shortly
Action against Crossrail Bill - Updated summary of grounds against Ruth Kelly follows shortly
Tuesday 10 June 2008
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole Bill CAMPAIGN is due to start legal action against Ruth Kelly - more, here, soon
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole Bill CAMPAIGN is due to start legal action against Ruth Kelly - more, here, soon
Sunday 8 June 2008
Boris Johnson has made his first major mistake in office: ape Ken Livingstone and he has done so to come across as an anti-Scottish sub-racist!
Boris Johnson has made his first major mistake in office: ape Ken Livingstone and he has done so to come across as an anti-Scottish sub-racist!
By©Muhammad Haque
0240 Hrs GMT
0340 Hrs UKTime
London Sunday 8 June 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole scam; Khoodeelaar! No to the ‘Crossrail Bill’ [ the Big Business-prompted, uneconomic, wasteful and obsolete ‘hybrid’ draft piece of legislation that is being given the bureaucratic stamp of approval now in the UK ‘legislative’ ‘House of Lords’] the East London, inner city, 'deprived community'- based constitutional law and pro-democracy campaign against "the CRASSly conceived, Big Business-prompted wasteful, diversionary London Crossrail ..."
TOLD YOU SO!
That the peddlers of the CROSSRAIL scam do not have reason on their side.
They have racism on their side!
Time after time they keep showing desperation by attacking Scotland and the Scottish people for the lack of substance in the London CRASSrail scam..
They did it in the months leading up to Gordon Brown taking up official tenancy at No 10 Downing Street London SW1...
They did it when the shallowness of the Crossrail scheme was being exposed by Khoodeelaar! and by all other ordinary observers concerned
They did it by turning on the anti-Scottish sub-racist line and having it fronted by then incumbent in the post of ‘mayor’ in the name of London, the ‘undone mayor’ as Khoodeelaar! described Ken Livingstone..
And they were wrong...
The Crossrail scam peddlers have found in the mean time that there is no evidence on the ground and most importantly among ordinary people in London for the public funding of Crossrail that does not address the real the overwhelming majority of the transport needs of London... In other words, there is no electoral or politically strategic justification let alone economic demand for Crossrail in London...
So what do they do?
They resort back to stoking up hatred and now an even more open anti-Scottish almost racist propaganda.......
They are saying incredible things..
They are lying... And they are confirming that the London Crossrail is NOT about solving the transport needs of London... They are saying Crossrail is a big stick with which to beat up the Scottish people politically. That in other words, Crossrail is NOT about solving London’s transport needs...Just as the racist Matthew Parris [who claims to have written some of Margaret Thatcher’s poisonously prejudiced speeches and who is a self-confessed liar and fabricator] urged Tony Blair to PUNISH the ‘Brick Lane’ area by DIGGING the Crossrail hole in the East End community’s heart, in the immediate aftermath of the people of Bethnal Green and Bow electorally ousting Blair’s multifariously promoted ‘Babe’ and Crossrail hole-plot-peddler Oona King at the May 2005 general elections .....[since rehabilitated a dozen times in all sorts of mysterious ‘careers’ ‘ guises’ and ways, with her current location being in the political kitchen of Gordon Brown at No 10 Downing Street]........ .... And to confirm just how total is the desperation on the part of the Big Business agents, lobbyists and touts peddling Crossrail so that they can still loot for Big Business the £Billions of UK pub lic cash, they have now apparently recruited Boris Johnson to their immoral, antisocial and plainly wasteful adventure... The same Boris Johnson that they have been accusing again in the past 3 days of not having backed Crossrail as a Bill when he, Johnson, was still an active MP...... Especially noticeable is the couple of ‘blogs’ that the main Crossrail hole plot peddling ‘minister’ Tom Harris has published on the internet in the past 3 days... Khoodeelaar! is putting this on the record, as we have done in the past 6 months, that Tom Harris is lying, just las Ken Livingstone had lied... And we are also exclusively making the point here that behind Boris Johnson’s sudden ‘conversion’ to being a ‘pro-Crossrail zealot’ in the course of the past 3 days is not unconnected with the Big Business lobbys... For they must have found out that by painting Boris Johnson as being anti-Crossrail, they were losing even more justification than they already had lost...... And as for Johnson’s appearance this morning [Sunday 8 June 2008] as another version of ‘Crossrail-peddling ken Livingstone’, we have bad news for him.... Johnson did not have the sense to reply to Tom harris’ retailing of the accusation that Johnson had failed to support Crossrail in the Commons, KHOODEELAAR! had the ethical and the constitutional and the political courage and we pointed the constitutional law position on Johnson's recorded conduct and behaviour in the House of Commons and on Johnson's' role... We are now going to point out to Johnson that he will be exposed as being an idiot for trying on the clothes that do not fit him... The clothes that he has suddenly given some thoughts to the matter of Crassrail. He has given no thoughts... And if he had done so, he would have discovered that Crossrail is indeed CRASSrail... Boris must resist the racist the racist, or sub-racist, or semi-racist or psedo-racist temptation, urge and propensities... Even though the Scottish people are in less danger of being damaged by the racist onslaught being mounted against them collectively the agents of Big business the danger is this: RACISM, or sub-racism or any kind of prejudice can gain political acceptance... That can only ruin whatever fragile balance and equilibrium there exists ins society..... That equilibrium deserves to be protected and truly valued.... and supported, not weakened..... So racism and all that geos with it....must be shunned and actively disowned by all holders of public office... By showing they the only argument they can make for Crossrail is by being racist, they have definitely put paid to any claim that they could later make....
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
0240 Hrs GMT
0340 Hrs UKTime
London Sunday 8 June 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole scam; Khoodeelaar! No to the ‘Crossrail Bill’ [ the Big Business-prompted, uneconomic, wasteful and obsolete ‘hybrid’ draft piece of legislation that is being given the bureaucratic stamp of approval now in the UK ‘legislative’ ‘House of Lords’] the East London, inner city, 'deprived community'- based constitutional law and pro-democracy campaign against "the CRASSly conceived, Big Business-prompted wasteful, diversionary London Crossrail ..."
TOLD YOU SO!
That the peddlers of the CROSSRAIL scam do not have reason on their side.
They have racism on their side!
Time after time they keep showing desperation by attacking Scotland and the Scottish people for the lack of substance in the London CRASSrail scam..
They did it in the months leading up to Gordon Brown taking up official tenancy at No 10 Downing Street London SW1...
They did it when the shallowness of the Crossrail scheme was being exposed by Khoodeelaar! and by all other ordinary observers concerned
They did it by turning on the anti-Scottish sub-racist line and having it fronted by then incumbent in the post of ‘mayor’ in the name of London, the ‘undone mayor’ as Khoodeelaar! described Ken Livingstone..
And they were wrong...
The Crossrail scam peddlers have found in the mean time that there is no evidence on the ground and most importantly among ordinary people in London for the public funding of Crossrail that does not address the real the overwhelming majority of the transport needs of London... In other words, there is no electoral or politically strategic justification let alone economic demand for Crossrail in London...
So what do they do?
They resort back to stoking up hatred and now an even more open anti-Scottish almost racist propaganda.......
They are saying incredible things..
They are lying... And they are confirming that the London Crossrail is NOT about solving the transport needs of London... They are saying Crossrail is a big stick with which to beat up the Scottish people politically. That in other words, Crossrail is NOT about solving London’s transport needs...Just as the racist Matthew Parris [who claims to have written some of Margaret Thatcher’s poisonously prejudiced speeches and who is a self-confessed liar and fabricator] urged Tony Blair to PUNISH the ‘Brick Lane’ area by DIGGING the Crossrail hole in the East End community’s heart, in the immediate aftermath of the people of Bethnal Green and Bow electorally ousting Blair’s multifariously promoted ‘Babe’ and Crossrail hole-plot-peddler Oona King at the May 2005 general elections .....[since rehabilitated a dozen times in all sorts of mysterious ‘careers’ ‘ guises’ and ways, with her current location being in the political kitchen of Gordon Brown at No 10 Downing Street]........ .... And to confirm just how total is the desperation on the part of the Big Business agents, lobbyists and touts peddling Crossrail so that they can still loot for Big Business the £Billions of UK pub lic cash, they have now apparently recruited Boris Johnson to their immoral, antisocial and plainly wasteful adventure... The same Boris Johnson that they have been accusing again in the past 3 days of not having backed Crossrail as a Bill when he, Johnson, was still an active MP...... Especially noticeable is the couple of ‘blogs’ that the main Crossrail hole plot peddling ‘minister’ Tom Harris has published on the internet in the past 3 days... Khoodeelaar! is putting this on the record, as we have done in the past 6 months, that Tom Harris is lying, just las Ken Livingstone had lied... And we are also exclusively making the point here that behind Boris Johnson’s sudden ‘conversion’ to being a ‘pro-Crossrail zealot’ in the course of the past 3 days is not unconnected with the Big Business lobbys... For they must have found out that by painting Boris Johnson as being anti-Crossrail, they were losing even more justification than they already had lost...... And as for Johnson’s appearance this morning [Sunday 8 June 2008] as another version of ‘Crossrail-peddling ken Livingstone’, we have bad news for him.... Johnson did not have the sense to reply to Tom harris’ retailing of the accusation that Johnson had failed to support Crossrail in the Commons, KHOODEELAAR! had the ethical and the constitutional and the political courage and we pointed the constitutional law position on Johnson's recorded conduct and behaviour in the House of Commons and on Johnson's' role... We are now going to point out to Johnson that he will be exposed as being an idiot for trying on the clothes that do not fit him... The clothes that he has suddenly given some thoughts to the matter of Crassrail. He has given no thoughts... And if he had done so, he would have discovered that Crossrail is indeed CRASSrail... Boris must resist the racist the racist, or sub-racist, or semi-racist or psedo-racist temptation, urge and propensities... Even though the Scottish people are in less danger of being damaged by the racist onslaught being mounted against them collectively the agents of Big business the danger is this: RACISM, or sub-racism or any kind of prejudice can gain political acceptance... That can only ruin whatever fragile balance and equilibrium there exists ins society..... That equilibrium deserves to be protected and truly valued.... and supported, not weakened..... So racism and all that geos with it....must be shunned and actively disowned by all holders of public office... By showing they the only argument they can make for Crossrail is by being racist, they have definitely put paid to any claim that they could later make....
[To be continued]
Friday 6 June 2008
Boris Johnson has got to up the ante and call Ken Livingstone's Crossrail bluff... by telling the truth about the wasteful, the flawed Crossrail.....
The lesson of the Giles Chichester, et al, ‘activities’....... That Boris Johnson has a heavier duty today than on any previous day to show that he is against sleaze... and against lying in public office....
By©Muhammad Haque
1605 Hrs GMT
London
Friday 6 June 2008
It has been a day loaded with irony!
I say this because the day’s print edition of the Murdoched Times leads with the comments from John Major about the tottering regime apparently fronted by Gordon Brown...... The idea behind putting that Major Major spin and spiel on the front page of the Murdoched Times [Friday 6 June 2008
] was to maximise the pressure on Gordon Brown.
Any pressure linkable with John Major playing the moral high ground was going to be quote tenuous... The fact that the Murdoched Times ‘editor’ [or may be Murdoch himself] contrived to bring back John Major shows that they must have thought that Gordon Brown could be ‘persuaded’ to surrender. Sooner than is normally expected of him.
yet look! Will the bastards ever go away?
Wherever John major seems to appear politically apolitical, with an ever so slight hint of his doing his old party a favour, some bastard or other appear even more determined than ever to spoil it for Major...
This time it is Chichester...
What irony !
Or was it planned?
Ca-Moron is NOT only a dodgy-looking car salesman , of whatever variety, he is also very dodgy when it comes to party political sleaze,. It does not do that he makes claims and is allowed to make claims as if HE is not compromised....
He is more compromised than the mainstream media have told us so far.
Ca-Moron has been caught lying on taking money from the public
And it has taken a half-real, ‘USA-accented’ blonde to be flaunted as the ‘champion for free speech in England’ [!!!] before a s[specimen bench of the otherwise regimented English judiciary ordering the disclosure of the relevant information about MPs expenses, to have a reasonable idea of just how morally compromised and vacant and shallow David Cameron is. Along with Tony Blair... And Gordon Brown...
Now the ‘competition’ is going to have to be between all the [so far] exposed dodgy
customers doing their business under the grandly titled palace of westminster....
there is no choice for honest people.....
Unless the just-resigned [as MP] politician Boris Johnson shows that he is made of morally substantial stuff...
He can start to lose the baggage of fabrication, lying [about his adultery] and conspiracy [for his chum the convicted fraudster Darius Guppy] by doing something genuinely moral and ethical.
By telling the truth and by behaving as if he is not engaged in setting up a little corrupt careerists empire of his own....
If he can rise above the sea of temptation that ****** Hall [that Blair had built] holds, he can still outlive Cameron......
What is even more important: He can begin the overdue task of delivering a role model of a public post holder that the people of this Metropolis so badly need and want.
Johnson can start by stopping the Crossrail hole plot peddling liars...
He can begin that by telling Crossrail hole agenda peddler Tom Harris that Harris is as ignorant about transport as he is contemptuous of democracy, accountability and constitutionality....
Johnson can say that he himself has not seen or heard any substantial evidence in support of Crossrail. He can say that Crossrail does not equal meeting the transport needs of London. He can say that even Gordon Brown’s own chosen expert. Rod Eddington’ who ‘advised’ Brown on the future of railways transport in the UK did not endorse Crossrail. Johnson cans ay that this is the view of the USA business news outfit Forbes... And that even the UK Channel 4 News reported in October 2007 that Rod Eddington had advised AGAINST Crossrail....
It is about time that Johnson called Ken Livingstone's Crossrail bluff and exposed it as another Confidence trick.....being asserted by Livingstone via Harris and Norris from beyond the mayoral career-grave....
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1605 Hrs GMT
London
Friday 6 June 2008
It has been a day loaded with irony!
I say this because the day’s print edition of the Murdoched Times leads with the comments from John Major about the tottering regime apparently fronted by Gordon Brown...... The idea behind putting that Major Major spin and spiel on the front page of the Murdoched Times [Friday 6 June 2008
] was to maximise the pressure on Gordon Brown.
Any pressure linkable with John Major playing the moral high ground was going to be quote tenuous... The fact that the Murdoched Times ‘editor’ [or may be Murdoch himself] contrived to bring back John Major shows that they must have thought that Gordon Brown could be ‘persuaded’ to surrender. Sooner than is normally expected of him.
yet look! Will the bastards ever go away?
Wherever John major seems to appear politically apolitical, with an ever so slight hint of his doing his old party a favour, some bastard or other appear even more determined than ever to spoil it for Major...
This time it is Chichester...
What irony !
Or was it planned?
Ca-Moron is NOT only a dodgy-looking car salesman , of whatever variety, he is also very dodgy when it comes to party political sleaze,. It does not do that he makes claims and is allowed to make claims as if HE is not compromised....
He is more compromised than the mainstream media have told us so far.
Ca-Moron has been caught lying on taking money from the public
And it has taken a half-real, ‘USA-accented’ blonde to be flaunted as the ‘champion for free speech in England’ [!!!] before a s[specimen bench of the otherwise regimented English judiciary ordering the disclosure of the relevant information about MPs expenses, to have a reasonable idea of just how morally compromised and vacant and shallow David Cameron is. Along with Tony Blair... And Gordon Brown...
Now the ‘competition’ is going to have to be between all the [so far] exposed dodgy
customers doing their business under the grandly titled palace of westminster....
there is no choice for honest people.....
Unless the just-resigned [as MP] politician Boris Johnson shows that he is made of morally substantial stuff...
He can start to lose the baggage of fabrication, lying [about his adultery] and conspiracy [for his chum the convicted fraudster Darius Guppy] by doing something genuinely moral and ethical.
By telling the truth and by behaving as if he is not engaged in setting up a little corrupt careerists empire of his own....
If he can rise above the sea of temptation that ****** Hall [that Blair had built] holds, he can still outlive Cameron......
What is even more important: He can begin the overdue task of delivering a role model of a public post holder that the people of this Metropolis so badly need and want.
Johnson can start by stopping the Crossrail hole plot peddling liars...
He can begin that by telling Crossrail hole agenda peddler Tom Harris that Harris is as ignorant about transport as he is contemptuous of democracy, accountability and constitutionality....
Johnson can say that he himself has not seen or heard any substantial evidence in support of Crossrail. He can say that Crossrail does not equal meeting the transport needs of London. He can say that even Gordon Brown’s own chosen expert. Rod Eddington’ who ‘advised’ Brown on the future of railways transport in the UK did not endorse Crossrail. Johnson cans ay that this is the view of the USA business news outfit Forbes... And that even the UK Channel 4 News reported in October 2007 that Rod Eddington had advised AGAINST Crossrail....
It is about time that Johnson called Ken Livingstone's Crossrail bluff and exposed it as another Confidence trick.....being asserted by Livingstone via Harris and Norris from beyond the mayoral career-grave....
[To be continued]
Boris Johnson must show that he is on the side of transparency, constitutionality and real prudence... And he must say NO to wasteful Crossrail.....
THURSDAY, 5 JUNE 2008
Boris Johnson must show that he is on the side of transparency, constitutionality and real prudence... And he must say NO to wasteful Crossrail.....
By Muhammad Haque
0238 Hrs GMT
London friday June 2008
Boris Johnson should respond to BOTH Tom Harris and STEVE NORRIS by calling the CROSSRAIL hole plot pluggers' bluff...
He should demand evidence from them...
There is NO evidence that CRASSly conceived Crossrail hole plot is a response to ordinary public need or demand.... This is why BOTH Houses in Parliament, the Big Business lobby has been active to PREVENT members of the public and the core communities affected by the scam, from giving evidence in Parliament showing that CROSSRAIL is irrelevant, diversionary, unaffordable, unsustainable, damaging, wasteful and obsolete.......
[More on this during the day today friday 6 June 2008]
By©Muhammad Haque
0210 Hrs GMT
London
Friday 6 June 2008
CRASS talk by Tom Harris is grotesquely untrue!
It is not true to imply, which is what Tom Harris is doing [see the piece below], that Boris Johnson did not support Crossrail.
For unlike, say a single-MP ‘party’ as the case was with George Galloway in July 2005 when the ‘Crossrail Bill’ was processed at ‘Second Reading’ [19 July 2005], the CONSERVATIVE Party did not have to rely on just one of their MPs to express the Party’s position on the issue.
The Tories have ALWAYS supported CRASSrail.
As they are doing now, Friday 6 June 2008.
And as they have continued to do in the time between 19 July 2005 and 13 December 2007 when the Bill was in the House of Commons....Tom Harris is a liar to say that [the ‘Crossrail Bill when it] was first presented to the Commons in July 2005”.
But then what do you expect of a ‘Minister’ who has been appointed to front the Big Business agenda scam!
It is also possible that in addition to being a liar, Crossrail Harris is also incompetent.
But then he is in a Department that is ‘headed’ by Ruth Kelly for whom competence - as the concept is understood in ordinary, normal and objective sense and context - in Government Department has not been a prominent feature [if it has featured at all....!]..
Tom Harris has been told by KHOODEELAAR! on more than ten separate occasions in the past six months and very publicly that we shall have constitutional law claims against him in court.
Just in case he has not been able to read those very publicly [published] warnings, we say it again to him: DO NOT ANY MORE breach, violate, ignore or deny the UK’s constitutional law obligations over this.
If you do, as you have been doing, we shall refer your conduct as evidence and as ground for our application to have the legislative process practised declared invalid and unconstitutional and with that we shall seek to have the statute declared void and unconstitutional...........
[To be continued]
AADHIKARonline quoting from Tom Harris’ blog:
“Crossrail was never important enough to attract Boris’s attention
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The Mayor of London is worried that government the government isn’t committed to Crossrail. This is absurd on two important levels. First: it’s absolutely committed, and there’s no reason to conclude otherwise. The Crossrail Bill is making good progress through Parliament and should get Royal Assent soon.
Second, and more importantly, Boris never supported Crossrail as an MP.
According to The Public Whip, Boris didn’t vote on the Crossrail Bill when it was first presented to the Commons in July 2005. And on the many occasions since, where I have had to pilot the Bill through its Commons stages - at two “additional provisions” debates, public bill committee sessions and Report and Third reading - Boris didn’t turn up. Not once. Never, on a single occasion in the Commons, did Bojo ever express an opinion, or vote one way or the other, on the most important infrastructure project that London has seen for generations.
Perhaps he was too busy to concern himself with such trivialities. Whatever the reason, it undermines his claim that he had a long-term ambition to be Mayor of London. Boris is not stupid; he would have known that a strong commitment to Crossrail could only have helped his mayoral bid. The fact that he never showed an interest in such an important project confirms he had no notion at all of standing before ‘Dave’ went on bended knee.”
Boris Johnson must show that he is on the side of transparency, constitutionality and real prudence... And he must say NO to wasteful Crossrail.....
By Muhammad Haque
0238 Hrs GMT
London friday June 2008
Boris Johnson should respond to BOTH Tom Harris and STEVE NORRIS by calling the CROSSRAIL hole plot pluggers' bluff...
He should demand evidence from them...
There is NO evidence that CRASSly conceived Crossrail hole plot is a response to ordinary public need or demand.... This is why BOTH Houses in Parliament, the Big Business lobby has been active to PREVENT members of the public and the core communities affected by the scam, from giving evidence in Parliament showing that CROSSRAIL is irrelevant, diversionary, unaffordable, unsustainable, damaging, wasteful and obsolete.......
[More on this during the day today friday 6 June 2008]
By©Muhammad Haque
0210 Hrs GMT
London
Friday 6 June 2008
CRASS talk by Tom Harris is grotesquely untrue!
It is not true to imply, which is what Tom Harris is doing [see the piece below], that Boris Johnson did not support Crossrail.
For unlike, say a single-MP ‘party’ as the case was with George Galloway in July 2005 when the ‘Crossrail Bill’ was processed at ‘Second Reading’ [19 July 2005], the CONSERVATIVE Party did not have to rely on just one of their MPs to express the Party’s position on the issue.
The Tories have ALWAYS supported CRASSrail.
As they are doing now, Friday 6 June 2008.
And as they have continued to do in the time between 19 July 2005 and 13 December 2007 when the Bill was in the House of Commons....Tom Harris is a liar to say that [the ‘Crossrail Bill when it] was first presented to the Commons in July 2005”.
But then what do you expect of a ‘Minister’ who has been appointed to front the Big Business agenda scam!
It is also possible that in addition to being a liar, Crossrail Harris is also incompetent.
But then he is in a Department that is ‘headed’ by Ruth Kelly for whom competence - as the concept is understood in ordinary, normal and objective sense and context - in Government Department has not been a prominent feature [if it has featured at all....!]..
Tom Harris has been told by KHOODEELAAR! on more than ten separate occasions in the past six months and very publicly that we shall have constitutional law claims against him in court.
Just in case he has not been able to read those very publicly [published] warnings, we say it again to him: DO NOT ANY MORE breach, violate, ignore or deny the UK’s constitutional law obligations over this.
If you do, as you have been doing, we shall refer your conduct as evidence and as ground for our application to have the legislative process practised declared invalid and unconstitutional and with that we shall seek to have the statute declared void and unconstitutional...........
[To be continued]
AADHIKARonline quoting from Tom Harris’ blog:
“Crossrail was never important enough to attract Boris’s attention
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The Mayor of London is worried that government the government isn’t committed to Crossrail. This is absurd on two important levels. First: it’s absolutely committed, and there’s no reason to conclude otherwise. The Crossrail Bill is making good progress through Parliament and should get Royal Assent soon.
Second, and more importantly, Boris never supported Crossrail as an MP.
According to The Public Whip, Boris didn’t vote on the Crossrail Bill when it was first presented to the Commons in July 2005. And on the many occasions since, where I have had to pilot the Bill through its Commons stages - at two “additional provisions” debates, public bill committee sessions and Report and Third reading - Boris didn’t turn up. Not once. Never, on a single occasion in the Commons, did Bojo ever express an opinion, or vote one way or the other, on the most important infrastructure project that London has seen for generations.
Perhaps he was too busy to concern himself with such trivialities. Whatever the reason, it undermines his claim that he had a long-term ambition to be Mayor of London. Boris is not stupid; he would have known that a strong commitment to Crossrail could only have helped his mayoral bid. The fact that he never showed an interest in such an important project confirms he had no notion at all of standing before ‘Dave’ went on bended knee.”
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