Tuesday, May 27, 2008

If Gordon Brown makes YET ANOTHER U-turn on the budget and 'SCRAPS' the 'fuel tax' then he can SCRAP anything. Especially Crossrail that is wasteful

1650 Hrs GMT 1750 UK Time London Tuesday 27 May 2008: Khoodeelaar! the constitutional law Campaign against the ‘Crossrail hole Bill’ [the ‘Crossrail Bill’, now in the UK ‘legislative’ ! ‘House of Lords’], continuing to dissect the Big Business, anti-constitutional, antidemocratic manipulations of ‘parliament’, the Big Business-influenced sabotage, defiance, violation of due process in the UK Parliament and the Big Businesses, Military Industrial Complex-lobbyed lies being peddled via the bureaucracy of the ‘House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee’; KHOODEELAARR! again advising Gordon Brown to scrap the wasteful, sham CROSSRAIL hole plot Bill NOW..... Especially as the word ‘SCRAP’ is being used in a separate TRANSPORT issue related piece in today’s EVENING no standards STANDARD [see TEXTS REPRODUCED BELOW].. We shall expose the EVENING STANDARD’s own lack of standards when [peddling the CRASSrail hole plot. They have NEVER called on Brown to SCRAP that !!! We assess the ‘difference; between the EVENING STANDARD’s use of ‘scrap’ in relation a fuel-related measure in the ‘budget’ and the same paper’s failure, refusal to use the word SCRAP: about Crosaseail [To be continued]


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LONDON, TUESDAY 27.05.08
BROWN SET FOR ANOTHER BUDGET U-TURN AS MINISTERS HINT HE MAY SCRAP FUEL TAX RISES
Last updated at 16:27pm on 27.05.08
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Two Cabinet ministers paved the way for a Budget U-turn on car taxes today as the Government struggled to halt the slide in its popularity.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw and Business Secretary John Hutton stressed that there would be a fresh look at Budget plans to raise vehicle excise duty by up to £200.
Labour insiders are prepared to ditch the most controversial element of the scheme - to impose a retrospective tax on cars bought between 2001 and 2006.
The change could come in the pre-Budget report in the autumn, although it is possible it could be announced even earlier.
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Rebel MPs are pushing the Treasury to stop the damage to Labour by using the final days of the committee stage of the Finance Bill next month to signal that some of the rises planned for next year and 2010 will not go ahead.
Amid fears of a fresh revolt by Labour MPs, Mr Straw said ministers were 'listening to public concerns'.
He added: 'It's already been made clear in respect of vehicle excise duty, that's the car tax, that this is not due to come into force by next April.
'If there are going to be decisions about this, they could be announced in the autumn statement. It's very important that we take proper measures and we judge things properly.'
Similarly, Mr Hutton - referring to the climbdown over scrapping the 10p tax rate - said the Chancellor was 'listening to what people are saying as he has done on a number of occasions recently about tax rises'.
The Business Secretary added: 'People are concerned about it and it is right that we listen to people's concerns.'

Jack Straw and John Hutton have both hinted there could be a U-turn on road tax
Next week a delegation of rebel Labour MPs will meet Mr Darling to voice concerns over backdating the increases in vehicle excise duty to all cars bought between 2001 and 2006.
The move, which was championed as a 'green' tax, will hit seven out of ten motorists, including the owners of popular family cars and small runarounds.
Gordon Brown is facing a fresh backbench rebellion over the plans, which would see seven out of ten motorists hit by higher road taxes.
Mr Hutton said: 'We are trying to get this balance right between encouraging choices to go green but not hammering people.'
Asked about today's action by hauliers, he added: 'Again, the Chancellor has got to take all that into account ... people have the right to protest.'
Hundreds of truckers descended on London in protest at rising fuel costs, amid fresh concerns among MPs about the Government's proposed road tax changes.
Depending on their car engine emissions, millions of drivers will have to pay hundreds of pounds more per year under Budget proposals that kick in in 2009.
Rebel MPs are particularly unhappy the road tax increases will now apply retrospectively and are warning the issue could be as damaging as the 10p tax row.
Mr Darling is set to hold two crisis meetings with backbench Labour MPs next month in a bid to head off the revolt.
Sources close to him today said he was 'very aware' of backbench concerns that the increase could damage the party's waning popularity still further.
At present, motorists are exempt from the top tax band if their car was bought before 2006 but the Budget tax rises - claimed to be a 'green' tax - apply to all vehicles bought between 2001 and 2006.
A host of family cars bought before March 2006 - many used every day for the school run - will see their road tax double from £210 to more than £430.
These include the Vauxhall Zafira 2.0i, the Vauxhall Vectra 2.8i V6 Turbo, the Renault Espace 2.0 Turbo 170, the Ford Galaxy 2.3i Zetec, the VW Passat 3.2 estate and the Honda Accord Tourer 2.4.
According to tax experts, Nissan Micra owners will pay 24 per cent more while the bill for a gas-guzzling Hummer will go up only 14 per cent.

Retrospective: The Budget tax rises apply to all cars bought between 2001 and 2006 as well as new vehicles
Backbenchers warned Gordon Brown and Mr Darling that the issue was so explosive it could match the storm surrounding the abolition of the 10p tax band which saw a Government U-turn and a £2.7billion climbdown.
The rebellion risks further undermining the Prime Minister's authority as he fights to head off a leadership crisis, the row over holding terror suspects for 42 days and fears of a Cabinet resignation over embryology laws.
In the new case of backbenchers flexing their muscles, 42 MPs - 35 of them Labour - have backed a Commons motion from Ronnie Campbell urging ministers to reconsider the car tax.
'It is unfair on people who bought their cars a few years ago not knowing that the Government were going to put this road tax on,' the MP for Blyth Valley said.
'When people get their road tax letter through the door next year and find they have got an extra £200 to pay - well, I don't have to say any more, do I? The motorist is taking the brunt again.'

Rebellion: Labour MP Ronnie Campbell has tabled an amendment asking the Government to reconsider the road tax
The new taxes threaten to wipe thousands of pounds off the value of most cars when they come to be sold.
And from 2010 motorists face a 'showroom tax' of up to £950 when they buy a new car to discourage them from choosing high polluting vehicles.
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Labour MP Rob Marris, a junior member of the Government, said there was a 'significant risk' the issue would outstrip the storm over the 10p starting rate of tax.
'It is retrospective taxation and that is undesirable,' he added.
'Millions of people will be affected. Medium- sized family cars, depending on what sort of engine they have got and what size of CO2 emissions they have got, could be hit very hard.'
Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said: 'There are ways around the fuel price increases that are good news for the climate and good news for drivers' pockets.
'Keeping your speed below 55 can save more money than the recent price hikes and cut CO2 as well.
'But in the long run the Government needs to force car manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles.
'As it is Gordon Brown has failed to take a lead in Brussels where talks on vehicle efficiency are coming to head.'
Neil Greig of the Institute of Advanced Motorists said: 'This will affect millions of motorists and is particularly unfair to those who bought a car based on the size of their family and will now be hit with a tax they weren't expecting.'

Catch-22: A U-turn could make Gordon Brown's leadership look even weaker but without a change of heart, he risks a damaging backbench rebellion
A delegation of rebels will meet the Chancellor when MPs return to Westminster next week.
Mr Marris told the BBC: 'I shall be urging Alistair Darling to have a rethink. There is still time to have discussions and I hope they will be fruitful.'
Under the existing system, cars are divided into seven bands for vehicle excise duty ranging from £300 to zero depending on greenhouse gas emissions.
From next April, there will be 13 groups with the highest cost of road tax increased to £440 and some family models will move up several bands, leaving the middle classes to bear the brunt of the changes.
Rises for small runabouts will also outstrip those for Rolls Royces and Porsches, demolishing Government claims that it is a "green" tax.
Last night Matthew Elliott, of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: 'Now the credit crunch has hit people's pockets, there's no longer any public appetite for higher green taxes.'
A Treasury source told the Mail: 'Alistair knows it is a cause for concern and he very readily agreed to meet these MPs and hear those concerns.
'But he will be will be very disinclined to do anything, whatever it is, before the pre-Budget report in the autumn.
'He has to look at the whole thing in the round. He is already looking for £2.7billion and it ain't easy.
But Environment Minister Joan Ruddock made clear the Government would not be forced into another tax U-turn.
'These things are all a matter of balance,' she said.
'What we cannot afford to do is to lose sight of the environmental agenda because this is everybody's future. This is the future of the planet.'
Mr Campbell, speaking on Radio 4's The World at One, also urged Mr Darling to drop the planned 2p increase in fuel duty in October.
'People just at this moment can't afford it. They really are feeling the pinch,' he said.
A Treasury spokesman said the aim of the road tax reforms was 'to ensure that people gain financially by choosing the car that pollutes the least.
'For 24 out of the 30 most popular models bought in 2006, drivers will generally pay lower rates than they do now.'
It is another headache for Mr Brown, who was warned by civil liberty rebels that he still faces a battle over his proposals to detain terror suspects.
On top of that, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, a Roman Catholic, is reported to be planning to defy the Prime Minister by refusing to vote for his plans to extend embryo research.
• The French President today declared the European Union should consider capping sales tax on fuel products if oil prices rise further.
Nicolas Sarkozy also suggested siphoning off extra revenues from taxes on petrol to create a new fun for professionals hardest hit by the jump in energy prices.
He told RTL radio there was no sign the price of oil was going to fall and said the EU should consider a joint approach to the problem.
'If the price of a barrel of oil continues to rise, are we going to allow VAT (sales tax) to keep rising proportionally? My proposal is that we should stabilise it,' he said.
Such a move would need the approval of all 27 EU member states and could not be introduced unilaterally.


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Panic sweeps through the Labour party and the budget is re-written (10p fiasco), then re-written again (fuel duty), and presumably will be re-written again in the next few weeks. Gordon Brown's claims to economic competence are in tatters.

- Ian, London
Simple solution to high fuel prices: Walk.

There is no limit to how much oil countries can charge for oil, because the alternative is so harsh. So if petrol doubles or triples in price you will still pay for it because its a comparative bargain. One barrel of oil is equivalent to 7 man years of work.

- Peter, Battersea
I'm all for green initiatives and sometime we do need to be pushed, however, while the country's transport links and infrastructure are so poor and in such disarray, this seems ill thought out and badly planned.

- Jamie, London

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The already questionable, sub-legitimate status in society of the 'House of Lords' has been made even worse by their Crossrail-peddling lies....

By©Muhammad Haque
1150 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday 27 May 2008


The already questionable, sub-legitimate status in society of the 'House of Lords' has been made even worse by their Crossrail-peddling lies....

Why is the UK 'legislative' 'House of Lords' a discredited part of the 'British Parliament' ?

The immediate answer is that in a so-called official first report published dated today 27 May 2008, the 'House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee' makes a totally untruthful statement about objectors against the Crossrail Bill.

Khoodeelaar! will be, as we have announce this morning, dissecting the role of the select committee and of the other parts in the course of this week.


We start by exposing the latest utterance of abject lie and unconstitutionality by the report published today in the name of the 'House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee'
It states as follows:-


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32. Some Petitioners chose not to appear and some withdrew their petitions after satisfactory negotiations with the Promoter of the Bill. We were pleased that a sizeable number of Petitioners were able to settle with the Promoter in this way and we are grateful to the specialist experts employed by Crossrail on noise, settlement and compensation issues particularly, Mr Rupert Thornely-Taylor, Professor Robert Mair and Mr Colin Smith respectively, for their work with Petitioners and for their explanation of issues to the Committee and to those Petitioners who did appear.
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The utterance that " Some Petitioners chose not to appear" is a lie. For it has ben made in the fullest knowledge on the part of the select committee members and its bureaucracy concerned of the literally thousands of statements made by Khoodeelaar! stating that we were OBSTRUCTED from putting our objections in person before the Select Committee.

In the next parts, we shall show AGAIN and with updates [since our last reports] how the obstructions were operated by and by the 'House of Lords Crossrail Bill Select Committee' bureaucracy that has been promoting the agenda of Big Business, Bechtel and City of London interests...

[To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST Big Business 'Crossrail' trojan horse for looting UK public of £Billions...

0810 Hrs GMT 0910 Hrs UK Time London Tuesday 27 May 2008: KHOODEELAAR! NO to Crossrail Bill [now in the UK legislative House fo Lords] ; KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST Big Business trojan horse for looting the public of £Billions under covers of ‘Crossrail’, updating the constitutional law dissection of the corrupt state of ‘parliamentary scrutiny’ ..... And updating on the legal acton programme against the corrupt bureaucracy that has been sabotaging any parliamentary scrutiny fo the Crossrail Bill....

[To be continued]

There have been 113 listed objections [called 'petitions'] against the ‘Crossrail Bill’. The Khoodeelaar! objection is listed at 113. The last on the list. Although the objection is listed in the name of KHOODEELAAR! the objection is also backed by all four constituent [parts of the Khoodeelaar! campaign area. That is, people from Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ and Stepney signed the prescribed form and reiterated their authorisation of and support for KHOODEELAAR! representation of ALL their opposition to the ‘Crossrail Bill’. All ordinary walks fo life have been represented in the Khoodeelaar! constitutional law objections to the ‘Crossrail Bill’.
The actual document as published on the House fo Lords web site [see the document by following the link to KHOODEELAAR!, below] contains only the briefest of points against the ‘Crossrail, Bill’. The details of the objections have been put to the House fo Lords. And also published on the web sites of the Items newspaper and of other external publishers, publications and outlets. We shall be taking a detailed updater look at all the key events. In the coming parts





House of Lords
Session 2007 - 08
Publications on the internet
Crossrail Bill


PETITIONS DEPOSITED AGAINST THE CROSSRAIL BILL
Name of Petition
By whom deposited
 
 
1. James Middleton
James Middleton
2. Domaine Developments Limited
Sharpe Pritchard
3. Mintel International Group Limited 
Sharpe Pritchard
4. Roy Alfred Carrier  
Roy Alfred Carrier
5. Leo F. Walters  
Leo F. Walters
6. Paddington Residents' Active Concern on Transport (“PRACT”)  
John Zamit
7. John Payne  
John Payne
8. Patricia Mary Singleton  
Patricia Mary Singleton
9. Hutchison Ports (UK) Limited, The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company, Harwich International Port Limited and Maritime Transport Services Limited  
Howard Bassford
10. Iver Parish Council; The Rambler’s Association; and The Open Spaces Society  
Eugene Suggett
11. Greene King Retailing Limited and Greene King Neighbourhood Estate Pubs Limited  
Bircham Dyson Bell
12. BAA Limited, Heathrow Airport Limited and Heathrow Express Operating Co Limited  
Bircham Dyson Bell
13. Bonhams 1793 Limited and 101 New Bond Street Limited  
Bircham Dyson Bell
14. Sir John Cass's Foundation  
Bircham Dyson Bell
15. Association of West India Dock Commercial Ship Owners  
Julian Cartwright
16. Lancaster Investments 
Peter Purvis
17. Greater London Offices (Old Broad Street) Limited  
Peter Purvis
18. Patricia Gaynor Jones  
Patricia Gaynor Jones
19. The Spitalfields Society  
Patricia Gaynor Jones
20. Selina Mifsud and others  
Rupert Wheeler
21. Ainscough Crane Hire Limited 
Philip Maude
22. Nicholas Morse and others  
Roy Adams
23. Smithfield Market Tenants’ Association  
Clifford Tibber
24. Gray’s Waste Services Limited  
Vizards Tweedie LLP
25. Possfund Custodian Trustee Limited 
Vizards Tweedie LLP
26. Scottish Widows plc and Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society  
Vizards Tweedie LLP
27. Jean Lambert MEP and others  
Alan Francis
28. Coal Pension Properties Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
29. Three Valleys Water plc  
Bircham Dyson Bell
30. EMI Music Publishing Limited  
Bircham Dyson Bell
31. Buccleuch Property Fund (Hayes) Limited  
Bircham Dyson Bell
32. Mendip Rail Limited  
Bircham Dyson Bell
33. The Freight Transport Association Limited  
Bircham Dyson Bell
34. The Rail Freight Group  
Bircham Dyson Bell
35. Residents Society of Mayfair and St James’s Mayfair Action Group  
Marina Morrison Atwater
36. David Duncan Coode Monro and Adam Scott 
Jeremy Pickering
37. Great Western Studios Management Ltd 
Adam Withington
38. David James Saunderson 
David James Saunderson
39. Maidenhead Civic Society 
Mrs Christina Sell
40. Westbourne Park Villas Residents Association 
Lady Margot Bright
41. Port of London Authority 
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
42. Tesco Stores Limited; Tesco Property Holdings Limited; Tesco Red (Nominee 1) Limited; and Tesco Red (Nominee 2) Limited 
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
43. Tesco Pensions Trustees Limited 
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
44. London Borough of Bexley 
Sharpe Pritchard
45. Brentwood Borough Council 
Sharpe Pritchard
46. British Board of Film Classification 
Sharpe Pritchard
47. Camden London Borough Council 
Sharpe Pritchard
48. Canary Wharf Group plc 
Sharpe Pritchard
49. Ferrotec (UK) Limited 
Sharpe Pritchard
50. Grand Central Studios Limited 
Sharpe Pritchard
51. Lamborfore Management Limited 
Sharpe Pritchard
52. Council of the London Borough of Havering 
Sharpe Pritchard
53. Council of the London Borough of Newham 
Sharpe Pritchard
54. Council of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 
Sharpe Pritchard
55. Seymour Development Limited 
Sharpe Pritchard
56. Westminster City Council 
Sharpe Pritchard
57. Council of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 
Sharpe Pritchard
58. Wood Wharf (General Partner) Limited 
Sharpe Pritchard
59. Landor (Dundee Wharf) Limited (1) Landor Residential Limited (2) and Ballymore Ontario Limited (3) Fortress Limited  
Sharpe Pritchard
60. Fortress Limited 
Sharpe Pritchard
61. London Borough of Hillingdon 
Sharpe Pritchard
62. Trustees of the SS Robin Trust 
Jim Fitzpatrick MP
63. City Aviation Properties Limited 
SJ Berwin LLP
64. London City Airport Limited  
SJ Berwin LLP
65. Marketspur Limited 
SJ Berwin LLP
66. Eleanor Street Travellers All Residents Group 
Marian Mahoney
67. Bond Street Investments Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
68. ATOC Ltd - Association of Train Operating Companies 
Bircham Dyson Bell
69. B S Services (Hayes) Limited and Leemark Engineering (Hayes) Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
70. Land Securities plc; LS Portfolio Investments Limited; LS ONC Holdings Limited; and LS Victoria Properties Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
71. Royal Docks Management Authority Ltd 
Bircham Dyson Bell
72. Quarry Products Association Ltd 
Bircham Dyson Bell
73. Tilfen Land Ltd 
Bircham Dyson Bell
74. Tarmac Ltd 
Bircham Dyson Bell
75. Kingsgate London Properties 
Bircham Dyson Bell
76. South West Regional Assembly 
Bircham Dyson Bell
77. Consolidated Developments Ltd 
Bircham Dyson Bell
78. Hammerson (Paddington) Limited and Domaine Developments Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
79. Mr Lloyd Christopher Biscoe as liquidator for JTA Joinery Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
80. EDF Energy Networks Ltd 
Bircham Dyson Bell
81. BNP Paribas Jersey Unit Trust Corporation Limited and Anley Trustees Limited as Trustees of Henderson Central London Office Fund 
Bircham Dyson Bell
82. Standard Life Investments Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
83. Aggregate Industries (UK) Limited; London Concrete Limited; and Plasmor Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
84. British Land Company plc 
Bircham Dyson Bell
85. Habitat UK Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
86. The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets 
Bircham Dyson Bell
87. National Grid Property Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
88. Centrewest London Buses Limited 
Burges Salmon LLP
89. Centrewest London Buses Limited 
Burges Salmon LLP
90. First Greater Western Limited 
Burges Salmon LLP
91. FirstGroup plc and behalf of its subsidiaries First Greater Western Limited and Centrewest London Buses Limited 
Burges Salmon LLP
92. City of London Corporation 
City Remembrancer
93. CTC - Cyclists Touring Club 
Chris Peck
94. Bombardier Transportation UK Limited 
Pinsent Masons
95. The Spitalfields Community Association 
Jil Cove
96. Woodseer and Hanbury Residents Association 
Guy Carpenter
97. The Crossrail Coalition of Residents and Petitioners (The Coalition) 
Guy Carpenter
98. Blaxmill Limited 
Denton Wilde Sapte LLP
99. Staffordshire County Council 
Bircham Dyson Bell
100. Everest Properties Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
101. The Moor House Limited Partnership 
Bircham Dyson Bell
102. Freightliner Group Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
103. English Welsh & Scottish Railway Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
104. Souzel Properties Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
105. The Brewery Trust 
Bircham Dyson Bell
106. British Waterways Board 
Bircham Dyson Bell
107. Great Portland Estates plc and others 
Bircham Dyson Bell
108. Summerpark Homes Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
109. The Prudential Assurance Company Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
110. Network Rail Infrastructure Limited 
Bircham Dyson Bell
111. Spitalfields Small Business Association Ltd 
Kay Jordan
112. Michael Pritchett 
Michael Pritchett
113. Khoodeelaar! 
Muhammad Haque

 
 

KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST Big Business 'Crossrail' trojan horse for looting UK public of £Billions...

KHOODEELAAR! the inner city, East End of London CAMPAIGN AGAINST Big Business trojan horse for looting the public of £Billions under covers of ‘Crossrail’