VERY STRANGE "news" "stance" indeed! A front-bench "Labour" "MP" finds ANYTHING at all wrong with the Big Biz agenda PROPAGANDA scam Crossrail construction!

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary.

 London Friday 09 November 2012

VERY STRANGE "news" "stance" indeed! 

A front-bench "Labour" "MP" finds ANYTHING at all wrong with the Big Biz agenda PROPAGANDA scam Crossrail construction! 

It is quite clear that the parliamentary questions put on the House of Commons record in the name of Chuka Umunna we're not at all spontaneous ones.

In fact they very clearly are  imitations of the questions that some trade unions might have asked themselves! And must have asked themes.

And this is where any "novelty" about the questions disappears from the scene. 

HAD they been original and spontaneous then there might be SOME conceptual basis to assume that

the FRONT BENCH of the Labour Party Opposition in the UK House of Commons was being allowed to engage and was engaging in independent thinking based on the objective;y verifiable; evidence of the desirability or the undesirability of certain practices.

As the facts show, the Chuka Umunna Questions were a tame imitation of those devised and promoted by some of the very closely involved trade unions in construction work.

If it were a non Trade Union bureaucracies-linked question, Chuka Umunna would have been VERY ABSENT from THIS PLATFORM!

And there lies the evidences  of a stooged parliament. Stooged to power that resides somewhere other than the ethically democratically  sited constituency.

During the Big Biz promotion of the Crossrail Construction scam via the "Crossrail Bill", ALL the "Labour" MPs toed the BiG Biz agenda line. As did the Lib Dems. as did the Tories!

It is against that solid background of stooged behaviour by "MPs" that I say, again: time to free the people from the shacles of stooges wearing guises as "elected MPs"!

[To be continued]

Citing CONSTRUCTION NEWS web site,
the following item was retrieved by AADHIKAROnline
at 2045 Hrs GMT
London Friday 09 November 2012:

http://www.cnplus.co.uk/technical/crossrail/government-blacklisting-investigation-should-include-crossrail-umunna/8638446.article?blocktitle=Crossrail&contentID=5772

Government blacklisting investigation should include Crossrail

9 November, 2012 | By Matthew Bell

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has called on the government to extend its blacklisting investigation on major public works to Crossrail contractors.

The move follows Parliamentary questions tabled last month on possible blacklisting by firms working on the Olympics.

Mr Umunna said evidence given by Ucatt during a Scottish Affairs select committee “suggests that blacklisting was used on an ‘industrial scale’ by construction firms in relation to public contracts”.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson said in an official response to Mr Umunna that the ODA “has no evidence that blacklisting was used by companies working on the Olympic Park, nor of any case to believe that public monies were used to pay for any information of this sort on construction workers”.

Olympic Delivery Authority chief executive Dennis Hone said on Wednesday that the body would have “gone after” firms if it had seen blacklisting in practice.

Mr Umunna has now tabled Parliamentary questions to two government departments demanding investigations into possible blacklisting on Crossrail.

Ucatt has questioned whether public money paid to contractors was used to search a blacklist held by the Consulting Association, which was shut down in 2009 after compiling lists of several thousand workers with real or supposed union and political backgrounds. Its lists were accessed by over 40 construction firms.

Mr Umunna has asked the departments for transport and business, innovation and skills to investigate blacklisting claims regarding Crossrail, including the possibility that public money paid to firms was used to consult the Consulting Association’s list.

The Information Commissioner’s Office is working with the GMB and Ucatt unions to establish whether any of their members are included on the Consulting Association’s blacklist.

The watchdog was heavily criticised last month when it revealed that up to 95 per cent of the Consulting Association’s files were left untouched during a blacklisting investigation it carried out in 2009.

MR UMUNNA’S LATEST PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS ON PUBLIC WORKS BLACKLISTING:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will (a) investigate allegations that blacklists i) were used; ii) are being used by contractors completing construction work on public contracts relating to the delivery of Crossrail; (b) investigate whether such contractors used public monies received under such contracts to pay to obtain information on construction workers from lists maintained by the Consulting Association.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what a) discussions; b) correspondence ministers or officials in his department have had with a) construction companies; b) trade unions; c) Crossrail Ltd; d) other parties on allegations that blacklists i) were used; ii) are being used by contractors completing construction work on public contracts relating to the delivery of Crossrail.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business Innovation & Skills i) what discussions ii) what correspondence ministers or officials in his department have had with a) ministers or officials in other departments; b) construction companies; c) trade unions; d) Crossrail Ltd; e) other parties on allegations that blacklists i) were used; ii) are being used by contractors completing construction work on public contracts relating to the delivery of Crossrail.