The UK 'Left' 'groupings' cannot now start a scare-mongering tactic to compensate for their follies...
after Boris Johnson 'ousted' Livingstone...
Khoodeelaar! asks the 'Socialist Party' why they are faking it when allegedly attacking Ken Livingstone's touting for Big Business...
‘Big Business’ as a two word phrase may have been around before the Crossrail hole plot was launched by Ken Livingstone.
But the KHOODEELAAR! campaign has made the link and has made that link well known in the past 54 months.
No so the ‘Socialist Party’ . Or indeed any of the other so-called socialist outfits in the UK
ALL of these, to varying degrees. colluded with Ken Livingstone and his fake socialist stunts.
They said that Boris Johnson was a joke!
None of them looked seriously at the history of either the Tory Party or indeed of the Blaired parry. If they did then they kept the act to themselves.
As far s the public domain is concerned they ddi not treat the intervention of Boris Johnson at all seriously.
Or indeed the career and the careerism of Ken Livingstone...
The result was that even upto the morning of 2 May 2008, a day after the London Assembly and ‘London mayor’ elections the ‘left’ was still in delusion and was refusing to see that Livingstone had sunk out of ‘power’ at the ****** Hall London SE1.
Now, some of these left outfits are coming out with immature analyses...
Like the one below , taken from the ‘Socialist party’. It is the same outfit that has backed historically the main racist policies of the former Labour Party. The result is that it is party to the current imperialist involvement by the UK..
Khoodeelaar! will look at the ‘Socialist party’ in a later commentary.
For the record, here is what they have published on their web site today Thursday 29 May 2008:
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Johnson's Prince of Darkness
LONDON'S NEW Tory mayor Boris Johnson has appointed a ruthless private equity businessman as his "first deputy mayor" in charge of transport. Trade unionists label Tim Parker the 'Prince of Darkness' - Parker has been in charge at the AA, Kwik-Fit and Clarks Shoes and has a reputation for cutting jobs while cutting himself a lucrative deal from the situation.
Parker pocketed £30 million for himself out of AA when he left last year after sacking a third of the workforce and saddling AA/SAGA with £4.8 billion of debt. He arrived in his own Porsche to sack workers at Clark's shoes in Somerset. He made £25 million from his sacking spree at Kwik-Fit. Parker's so rich, he can afford to work for a £1 salary - obviously anticipating more such 'good tidings' in future.
Johnson pledged in the Greater London elections to sign a 'no-strike deal' with London's transport unions, which the unions oppose. Parker's appointment signals Johnson's readiness, at some stage, to attack the strength of these unions, in particular the militant RMT union on the tubes. The contradiction between public transport and private profit, already increased by the public private partnership (PPP) scheme in London Underground, will become even sharper.
RMT general secretary Bob Crow, said: "The world's finest metro system does not need an asset-stripper or a Prince of Darkness. Tube users and workers have already had more than a bellyful of privatisation with the huge waste and failure of the PPP and the collapse of private tube firm Metronet."
Unfortunately former mayor Ken Livingstone started the move towards big business running London's tubes. He refused to fight the Labour government's private public partnership plans and appointed a former union-buster Bob Kylie as his own transport supremo with a huge salary plus £2 million when he left in 2006.
The unions (and transport users) should now take note of Johnson's plans and prepare for stormy times ahead.
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