Muhammad Haque reviewing the Eddington Review on UK transport
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The 7th Edition published from London at 2035 Hrs GMT /UK time on Saturday 2 December 2006
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– Publishing programme on Saturday 2 December 2006 – The forthcoming editions of the AADHIKARonline news and commentary pages will be dedicated mainly to the series under “ Khoodeelaar! Response to the Rod Eddington Report on Transport, as officially published on Friday 1 December 2006”. The report itself is titled as follows: “The Eddington - Transport Study - The case for action -Sir Rod Eddington’s advice to Government December 2006
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[in this edition] include these:-”
Those that had been madly promoting the lie in their media slots to the effect that Rod Eddington would approve of what they had been retailing for the Construction conglomerates [the real forces behind the Crossrail juggernaut] suddenly find their powers of promotion and propaganda failing them just when they were required to show that they were not all drunken liars. To make a factual report on the contents and the implications of the finally published Eddington Review.. The chief propagandist for Big Business touts on Crossrail, the mayor of London Ken Livingstone, was also found to have suddenly lost the ability to insinuate dire threats against the entire UK economy if CrossRail were not rushed and constructed at huge costs to the public purse! Why? One reason is that Eddington is if anything, more a member of the Big Business club than any of the cabal of conceited CrossRail pluggers in the media.
And even they know that Eddington knows what he is talking about, having been at the helm at British Airways for a significant period before being given the task by Gordon Brown to do a review of the UK’s transport economy from the public perspective.
So the only comments they could make, as I denounced their stereotype the lying Crossrail-hole-plot-backer Ken Livingstone-promoting Guardian for doing hours before the actual Review was published, was to condemn Eddington in advance.
And the Ken Livingstone news release in apparent response to the [publication of the Eddington Review, is so bereft of substance that in comparison with this poor show by Livingstone, his usually bankrupt mayoral propaganda handouts and lies- sheets ON OTHER topics appear to have at least ‘some’ substance !
[To be continued]
One of the comment pieces published in the INDEPENDENT on Saturday 2 December 2006 about the Rod Eddington report on Transport actually says that had Eddington been advising the UK Government of the day ten years previously, there would have been no Channel Tunnel rail Link. Which is absolutely clearly in line with the economic analasyis that Khoodeelaar! has been making about the Crass zeal for Crossrail shown by 'the entire establishment' groups so far. Eddington does not endorse Crossrail in a ringing way. And it is because CrossRail is NOT a meritorious project. View the INDEPENDENT piece by-lined to that paper's 'Transport' editor Barrie Clement, by CLICKING HERE
Eddington warning against the dangers of being seduced by grand projects with speculative returns!
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