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August 29th 15, 11:27 AM
Robin9
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e27002 aurora
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:18:14 -0500,
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(e27002 aurora) wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:02:07 +0100 (GMT+01:00), tolly57
wrote:
-- No not the country, London fares for children. Article on BBC
London news 6.30 p/m yesterday highlighted the cost of fares for
children across the capital. Because TFL run more services north
of the river children up to age 11 can travel free whereas in the
south, national rail charge over fives. About time the mayor got
control of services within the M25.
Or, have HMG return "London South of the Thames" to Kent and Surrey.
There are enough issues North of the River to resolve.
Oi! Watch it you! I was born and brought up in that part of LONDON. It's
been part of the capital since at least 1854.
The present GLA is an overweening structure that, like its predecessor
will fail. Its costs will rise, its employees will become complacent.
It will be a proxy political battle ground for national issues, and
tend towards corruption. Would that this were not so, but it is.
Power begets power.
This is already the situation but what you are suggesting is not the solution.
First, it is unlikely that most people in Bromley and Bexley will want
to re-join Kent. Second, removing Bromley and Bexley will not change the
attitudes within the GLA or within County Hall.
The real solution is to scrap the office of Mayor Of London and to return
London to how it was before the Blair government inflicted this extra
layer of government upon us.
As there has been a huge change in attitude towards public transport
since 1997, most of the funding London has secured towards it in the past
decade or so would have been forthcoming anyway. Apart from public
transport, what real, incontrovertible benefits have come with a Mayor for
London?
Has either Mayor dealt effectively with the housing crisis? Has either Mayor
pursued policies likely to reduce air pollution? Has either Mayor devised a
strategy for creating employment for the large number of people who leave
school barely able to read, write and do basic arithmetic?
After the old GLC was abolished by Thatcher's government - in my opinion,
one of only two things that dreadful government got right: the other was
defeating Scargill - London was quite well run. I would love to go back to that
arrangement.
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