Mizter T wrote:
Tom Barry wrote:

Yes, but so what? You can just as well say that Railtrack was a
creation of the Treasury - indeed, you could consider London
Overground a creation of the Treasury, in that if they hadn't of
agreed to it then it wouldn't have happened. One could go further and
say that the rail maintenance businesses of Balfour Beatty and co are
the result of the Treasury driven privatisation of BR.

The point was the Gordon Brown connection in all three, rather than the
Treasury one. I just thought it rather ironic, considering the current
political complexion of TfL, that they may have a Hobson's choice of
three things set up by Gordon Brown to pick from to run a key project.

Tom