KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London
First Response to Gordon Brown from the East End of London
DON’T DEGENERATE the East End, Gordon. Scrap the CrossRail hole plot Bill!
By©Muhammad Haque 1600 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 11 July 2007
You will be tested on your claim made today that you were making the statement “in the interests of good and open government and public debate”.
I have noticed your use of the word ‘regeneration’ too. Here in inner city East End, that word is a most provocative one. It is a mark of the untruth that has been perpetrated against the ordinary population in the East End of London .
Successive administrations – at all eves, staring from the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council and the sets of controlling cliques on it and the newly created and wasteful ‘Greater london Assembly’ through to the Blaired departments and units and agencies of the UK central Government - have abused the word and have done so to further deny and deprive and impoverish the very people whom they have collectively referred to in their routine inclusions of the word in general statements about public expenditure programmes and agendas. They have done so to denote the implementation of a programme that in fact had been conceived to take away more of the rights and resources from the people they were claiming to be ‘helping’ in their relevant schemes. On every occasion, they did the opposite to helping the people or the areas concerned. In other words, they DEGENERATED the areas affected by those plans they were promoting as being about ‘regeneration’. It has happened on dozens of occasions. As it is happening now. As it is bound to happen in a far worse way than even you seem to realize, if the currently drafted version of the ‘Crossrail he plot Bill’ [the ‘hybrid ‘Crossrail Bill’ in the House of Commons] is left as it is.
The test of whether you are any more reliable or any more trustworthy than Tony Blair was, lies in your conduct in response to
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