Boris Johnson diddn’t have to support Crossrail in UK Parliament. He belonged to the main Opposition. Which did support it. Tories should oppose it...

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.”