Muhammad Haque daily London commentary - Open Letter to Boris Johnson, 'DON'T back Crossrail hole Bill' - 1

By©Muhammad Haque
1740 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 17 July 2007

An Open Letter to Boris Johnson!

DO NOT Back Crossrail hole plot, Boris!
Prove Livingstone is a liar by demanding all the flaws of the Crossrail hole plot be published by Ruth Kelly!
Say No to one of the crassest of con-Lyingstill Ken Livingstone’s anti-social scams


Dear Boris Johnson,

It may be that you will not even be the official Dave Ca-moron party candidate for the post of mayor of London when the time comes!

It is possible that some event or other may stand in the way!

However, while the hyped up media frenzy continues around your announcement of your intention to try to replace the Lyingstill Livingstone as the elected holder of the post of ‘mayor of London’, I must put a few facts about you and about your bid for the official banner carrier in the name of [and possibly at the expense of the people of] London just for the records.

I am very aware that you are just as ignorant about the world as the next prospective and likely candidate in the London of 17 July 2007.

So what I am saying is not for your personal use but for the benefit of that small number of people who may still be interested in the facts.

Facts have a tendency of getting in the way of a good propaganda line.

And your biggest propaganda 'asset' [!] is that you are a recognisable member of a party fronted by Dave Ca-Moron.

Recognisable in the sense that you have an almost real life baggage about you as a ‘politician in Blaired Britain’.

You are a known liar.

Perhaps I should describe what I mean by ‘known’ here. I mean evidentially provable. That which can be proved by production of evidence. Evidence that almost certainly be admissible.

You also posses the following additional achievements as a lying politician and propagandist.

You are a known confidence trickster.

I here refer to your corrupting role in trying to fix it in the media for your friend the convicted criminal who went to prison for fraud and related offences.


Far from maintaining an objective, moral, ethical, truthful, courageous and sustainable distance from an honest standpoint, you in fact acted as an earlier version of the likes of Derek Draper, Charlie Whelan, Alaistair Campbell and Lance Price.

I have only named four of the publicly- paid major liars installed in the first ten years f the Blair regime. Countless others followed and colluded with those four liars.

You are a known adulterer. And a serial, shameless adulterer at that!

[To be continued]

Muhammad Haque says the London Times is wrong to perpetuate the spin for unaccountable local councils

I must say that your otherwise important contribution to the overdue debate about the role of local councils in the UK is marred by your contradictory arguments. The most important flaw in your argument is the assumption that election promises must always or necessarily be about or be followed by council expenditure. What about accountability? How long must it be before it is acknowledged in fact that it is as important to have accountability as it is to have the money, to serve the local communities? Without true accountability, NO council, no matter where they are or what class or section or type of constituency they are elected by, can even begin to represent the people in terms of material services needed locally if there is no true accountability by the elected councillors and by their bureaucracies. Can we start having this understood and appreciated by all concerned? It is a given that money is needed. But what happens when the decision makers are allowed to decide on what happens to the money in eternal secretary that is not being broken even by the increasingly undermined [and very limited] Freedom of Information legislation? Before councillors were allowed to pay themselves salaries, it was argued that with reasonable income being allowed, we would see the dawn of an era of high quality representatives on our local councils! What a costly and damaging and anti-democratic spin that was. With the tangible prospect of awarding themselves ever increasing salaries [de facto], councillors on most councils that I have observed, are prone to behave just as irresponsibly as they would have been before. And the scramble for a post as councillor is even uglier now in most inner city areas in the UK than it ever was.

The more income-seeking individuals are encouraged to seek to become councillors, the less likely it is that councils for the peoples’ representation will be revived. They cannot be revived. They can only be discredited and thereby made in effect redundant… The political parties are not constituted in ways that even recognise the need for accountability by holders of elected office locally or regionally or at the UK central level.. This is a fundamental crisis of the very fact or nature of democracy in Britain and it is one that has not been given the serious and the sustained attention it deserves