Thread: Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control - Guardian/Observer
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Old July 4th 12, 11:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control - Guardian/
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:54:10PM -0500, wrote:
In article ,
(Charles Ellson) wrote:
Devolution (including the London Assembly & Mayor)
That isn't devolution, that is a jumped-up county council.
A bit more than that. It also controls a transport system carrying half the
nation's passengers.

That's pretty much *all* it is. The mayor has no significant powers
over anything else that people care about. And I'm not sure what powers
the assembly has at all.

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