Thread: Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control - Guardian/Observer
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Old July 4th 12, 03:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control - Guardian/
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:54:10PM -0500,
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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.

The mayor has rather more planning powers than any county council. The
assembly is purely a scrutiny body. A bit like parliament.

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