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6:27pm Wednesday 30th January 2008

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Although you would hardly be fooled into thinking Sutton was the next Canary Wharf it may still come as a surprise to know that the borough has the second lowest number of new businesses in London.

Figures released to MP Paul Burstow show that, with its 525 new VAT registrations in a year, Sutton had the fewest new businesses in 2006 in London - second only to the borough of Barking and Dagenham.

"That doesn't surprise me," said Michael Norman, owner of new dry cleaner Press 2 Dress in Cheam Road.

"Business rates are so high here. There's a lack of places for new outlets to rent and if we apply for start-up grants we're told we can only have them if we're setting up in a deprived area. If I was starting a business in Peckham I'd be laughing," he said.

Sutton's geography may be one reason why the rate is so low, explained Chris Wood of Sutton Chamber of Commerce.

"East London is perceived to be an area of investment because of the Olympic sites and the Crossrail. Also, we don't have a business district in Sutton nor do we have any big businesses here already. Businesses tend to attract their own kind, it's the snowball effect," he said.

But both men agreed that Sutton was a good place for business.

"It has an extremely pleasant environment, good transport links to the airports and central London," said Mr Wood.

To overcome the problem the chamber has been encouraging businesses in its twin towns to set up branches in Sutton. The council and Mr Burstow have also been lobbying the Government to get a fair deal for Sutton in the distribution of grants.


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Muhammad Haque, London says...
10:25am Thu 31 Jan 08



Your item “New business is unusual in Sutton” by Lisa Williams” contains too many false comparisons. The assumptions underlying those are equally unfounded.

What you have stated will be included in the list of inaccuracies and wrong references to 'East London' that we shall be citing in the actual detailed evidence that we are preparing to present to Parliament ‘CROSSRAIL BILL’ ‘SELECT COMMITTEE’ to be held in probably a matter of weeks

What is supposed to be meant by “the next Canary Wharf “ ?

The PRESENT Canary Wharf is NOT about “East London”. It never has been. No ‘Canary Wharf’ will ever be.

You quote Chris Wood of the Sutton Chamber of Commerce as referring to “East London” as if it did not include Barking and Dagenham .

Canary Wharf was imposed on and that is in ‘East London’ but with pans that came from a very far away place. The distance between the ordinary people and community in the parts of the East London borough of Tower Hamlets that had been populated before Canary Wharf was imposed and the commuter-culture ‘thousands’ who figure in the ‘work force’ that maintains the imposed extension cannot be adequately described in one sentence.

The difference represents several centuries of intra-societal discrimination and exploitation.

Those are being continued today with the apparently political signboards being exhibited on the geographical ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council.

As soon as the immediate surroundings could be treated as sufficiently altered to a state where the ordinary East End people could in effect be pushed further into the social exclusion zones and categories then we have begun to see the appearance, for the first time ever in this part of ‘East London’, of the "appropriate" political representation from the Canary Wharf ‘ward’ on Tower Hamlets Council.

Just so that there is no room for assuming that ‘Canary Wharf’ ‘Politics’ is in any way ‘East Loudon people’s democratic or social representation politics’, the personnel manning and womanning the fronting of the ‘Canary Wharf’ political agenda have ALL been drafted in from the suitably Canary Wharf –ite Schools, stables and ideological shires in other places, nut ideologically so different from the Sutton that you have in the background f the thoughts applied in your report!

These fronter are equally silent about the serious flaws in and of the Crossrail scheme. Just as they are silent on the fact that the 2012 Olympic Games hosting diversion is nut going t make the economic or the social entitlements or rights of the ordinary people across ‘East London’.

The above summarised statement represents the condition that has existed across East London where STUNTS are being staged by the likes of the current occupant in the post of the mayor of London and their co-careerists and time-servers who have been fabricating a scenario in the name of the ‘East London’ people by projecting the ‘2012 Games’ and Crossrail on to the propaganda platforms suggesting that the two things mean the people in the area will ‘benefit’.

This propaganda has been a gigantic and multi-faceted lie. This is why for the past four years Khoodeelaar! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area Campaign against the CRoSSRAIL hole Bill has been campaigning to put the facts on the record as we as to stop the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London.

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Muhammad Haque, London says...
10:33am Thu 31 Jan 08

Your item “New business is unusual in Sutton” by Lisa Williams” contains too many false comparisons. The assumptions underlying those are equally unfounded.

What you have stated will be included in the list of inaccuracies and wrong references to 'East London' that we shall be citing in the actual detailed evidence that we are preparing to present to Parliament ‘CROSSRAIL BILL’ ‘SELECT COMMITTEE’ to be held in probably a matter of weeks

What is supposed to be meant by “the next Canary Wharf “ ?

The PRESENT Canary Wharf is NOT about “East London”. It never has been. No ‘Canary Wharf’ will ever be.

You quote Chris Wood of the Sutton Chamber of Commerce as referring to “East London” as if it did not include Barking and Dagenham .

Canary Wharf was imposed on and that is in ‘East London’ but with plans that came from a very far away place. The distance between the ordinary people and community in the parts of the East London borough of Tower Hamlets that had been populated before Canary Wharf was imposed and the commuter-culture ‘thousands’ who figure in the ‘work force’ that maintains the imposed extension cannot be adequately described in one sentence.

The difference represents several centuries of intra-societal discrimination and exploitation.

Those are being continued today with the apparently political signboards being exhibited on the geographical ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council.

As soon as the immediate surroundings could be treated as sufficiently altered to a state where the ordinary East End people could in effect be pushed further into the social exclusion zones and categories then we have begun to see the appearance, for the first time ever in this part of ‘East London’, of the "appropriate" political representation from the Canary Wharf ‘ward’ on Tower Hamlets Council.

Just so that there is no room for assuming that ‘Canary Wharf’ ‘Politics’ is in any way ‘East Loudon people’s democratic or social representation politics’, the personnel manning and womanning the fronting of the ‘Canary Wharf’ political agenda have ALL been drafted in from the suitably Canary Wharf –ite Schools, stables and ideological shires in other places, not ideologically so different from the Sutton that you have in the background of the thoughts applied in your report!

These fronters are equally silent about the serious flaws in and of the Crossrail scheme.

Just as they are silent on the fact that the 2012 Olympic Games hosting diversion is not going to make the economic or the social entitlements or rights of the ordinary people across ‘East London’.

The above summarised statement represents the condition that has existed across East London where STUNTS are being staged by the likes of the current occupant in the post of the mayor of London and their co-careerists and time-servers who have been fabricating a scenario in the name of the ‘East London’ people by projecting the ‘2012 Games’ and Crossrail on to the propaganda platforms suggesting that the two things mean the people in the area will ‘benefit’.

This propaganda has been a gigantic and multi-faceted lie.

This is why for the past four years Khoodeelaar! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area Campaign against the CRoSSRAIL hole Bill has been campaigning to put the facts on the record as we as to stop the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London.
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