Tuesday's [19 June 2007] Khoodeelaar! Demonstration against Crossrail hole Bill -plotter Ken Livingstone, held outside the 'City Hall, near the Tower Bridge in London, was a historic event.
Inside the 'city hall' was a Ken Livingstone-plugging stunt being staged to mark the 250th anniversary of the battle of Polashee [they didn't call it that, not in their promotional utterances] with one of the recent tools of imperialism as being the source of comment.
Livingstone was billed to reap yet another positive point as being the 'world class mayor of London' canny enough to benefit from the legacy of the racist East India company fronted by Robert Clive.
They had not planned for a Khoodeelaar! Demonstration to arrive just before the 'celebrations' were to start....
The links the campaign against Crossrail made between Ken Livingstone's crazy promotion of the seriously flawed Crossrail hole Bill in 2007 and the racist East India Company in 1757 are wider than may have appeared when the slogans began to be shouted like the following
'Robert Clive - We Say No'
'Ken Livingstone - We Say No'
'East India Company - We Say No'
'CrossRail Company - We Say No'
[To be continued]
