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MUHAMMAD HAQUE, the organiser of Khoodeelaar! The Campaign against Crossrail hole plot’, posted at 1025 Hrs GMT this morning [Thursday 31 January 2008] the following comment in response to a report carried by the Wimbledon Guardian
Your item “New business is unusual in Sutton” by Lisa Williams” contains too many false comparisons. The assumptions underlying those are equally unfounded.
What you have stated will be included in the list of inaccuracies and wrong references to 'East London' that we shall be citing in the actual detailed evidence that we are preparing to present to Parliament [at the meeting/s of the UK ‘House of Lords’] ‘CROSSRAIL BILL’ ‘SELECT COMMITTEE’ to be held in probably a matter of weeks
What is supposed to be meant by “the next Canary Wharf “ ?
The PRESENT Canary Wharf is NOT about “East London”.
It never has been.
No ‘Canary Wharf’ will ever be.
You quote Chris Wood of the Sutton Chamber of Commerce as referring to “East London” as if it did not include Barking and Dagenham [mentioned in the second paragraph where you report the release of some figures by MP Paul Burstow].
Canary Wharf was imposed on and is physically on land that is in ‘East London’ but with plans that came from a very far away place. The distance between the ordinary people and community in the parts of the East London borough of Tower Hamlets that had been populated before Canary Wharf was imposed and the commuter-culture ‘thousands’ who figure in the ‘work force’ that maintains the imposed extension cannot be adequately described in one sentence.
The difference represents several centuries of intra-societal discrimination and exploitation.
Those are being continued today with the apparently political signboards being exhibited on the geographical ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council.
As soon as the immediate surroundings could be treated as sufficiently altered to a state where the ordinary East End people could in effect be pushed further into the social exclusion zones and categories then we have begun to see the appearance, for the first time ever in this part of ‘East London’, of the "appropriate" political representation from the Canary Wharf ‘ward’ [!] on Tower Hamlets Council.
Just so that there is no room for assuming that ‘Canary Wharf’ ‘Politics’ is in any way ‘East Loudon people’s democratic or social representation politics’, the personnel manning and womanning the fronting of the ‘Canary Wharf’ political agenda have ALL been drafted in from the suitably Canary Wharf –ite Schools, stables and ideological shires in other places, not ideologically so different from the Sutton that you have in the background of the thoughts applied in your report!
These fronter are equally silent about the serious flaws in and of the Crossrail scheme. Just as they are silent on the fact that the 2012 Olympic Games hosting diversion is not going to make any qualitative improvements to the economic or the social entitlements or rights of the ordinary people across ‘East London’.
The above summarised statement represents the condition that has existed across East London where STUNTS are being staged by the likes of the current occupant in the post of the mayor of London and their co-careerists and time-servers who have been fabricating a scenario in the name of the ‘East London’ people by projecting the ‘2012 Games’ and Crossrail on to the propaganda platforms suggesting that the two things mean the people in the area will ‘benefit’.
This propaganda has been a gigantic and multi-faceted lie.
This is why for the past four years Khoodeelaar! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area Campaign against the CRoSSRAIL hole Bill [the hybrid ‘Crossrail Bill’ now in the UK Parliament – the ‘House of Lords’] has been campaigning to put the facts on the record as we as to stop the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London.
[The KHOODEELAAR! Objections to the ‘Crossrail Bill’, will be detailed in the next parts of these reports and commentaries]
