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Boris admits bendy-buses are safe - but he'll axe them anyway
Walter Briscoe wrote:
Your memory of history differs from mine. ISTR Mrs Thatcher's government eliminated the GLC and ILEA. At the time, I thought that adding another ring of buroughs to London could have served her purpose, permanently gerrymandered London and be justified from a transport perspective. Some of the boroughs such as Watford and Epsom & Ewell had fought hard campaigns against being added to the Greater London area in the 1960s and would probably have done so again. But more generally the problem was that the GLC did not deliver that high a proportion of services, especially to the outer boroughs, with the result that politicians in the latter were demanding its abolition regardless of which party was in County Hall. Adding another ring of boroughs would have been very awkward, and also have had knock-one effects on the surrounding county councils (and the division of services in the counties was substantially different from London so this would also have meant the boroughs taking on additional duties that weren't always suitable for borough/district level.) It is ahistorical to see the abolition of the GLC as being all about Thatcher trying to shut Livingstone up. |
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