Thread: These writhing whales of the road have swung their hefty rear ends round our corners for the final time.
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Old July 29th 09, 02:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default These writhing whales of the road have swung their hefty rearends round our corners for the final time.
On Jul 29, 12:44*pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" T.C.Roll-
wrote:
It's now
become an entrenched myth that Thatcher abolished the GLC purely because of
Livingstone, but it would have been abolished anyway because of the
opposition of borough councils and the limited services it provided.

Hmm. Central government has the power to restructure local government.
Had the 1980s Tory government been primarily concerned with
administrative efficiency, it would have removed some powers from the
boroughs and some from itself and given them to the GLC (and also
GMCC). Instead, it wiped out that level of government completely.

....and it's planning to do the same again with the English regions.
And probably the feckin' GLA too. Grr.

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