On 2 Jun, 20:25, Paul Harley wrote:

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:56:00, Tom Barry
wrote:

The issue of replacing Cooke was raised - the Tories didn't want the
Deputy taking over (she's a Labour councillor!) so there's going to be
an open invitation to current members to put themselves forward as an
interim until September, when a new one would be appointed anyway.

The Transport Committee did have the option of giving Brian Cooke
three months notice of termination of contract, which would have
carried TravelWatch over (almost) until the new appointee took up
his/her post, but they chose the most severe action open to them.


Good, I think it was thoroughly deserved.


Interestingly, London TravelWatch have issued a manifesto for the new
Mayoral term 2008-2012, which can be seen he

http://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/document/3159/get


Yes - this got discussed on uk.transport.london at the end of Feb/
start of March in the "Mayoral Manifesto from London Travel Watch"
thread. Note however that this was intended to add to the public
debate on transport as opposed to being a partisan statement in favour
of the candidates or indeed against the incumbent.