On Oct 22, 2:56*pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" T.C.Roll-
wrote:
The fact that Mrs T's government was /so/ unpopular in the mid-80s
that Labour managed to control the GLC as well, and that she was so
incapable of tolerating dissent that she abolished it as a result, is
fairly irrelevant.

Which is not a "fact" as I've pointed out elsewhere; the drive to abolish
the GLC predated Ken coming to power. Also the crucial election was 1981
(and won by Labour on a moderate manifesto with a moderate leader who was
promptly deposed) and wasn't that different from 1967, 1973 or 1977 when the
incumbent Westminster government lost the GLC in a mid term election.

....? Surely your link below highlights the fact that the main drive to
abolish the GLC came in 1983, by which time Ken had been in power for
two years...

http://www.election.demon.co.uk/glc/glccomment.html

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