London Lefties
Paul Foot, 17 September 1987
If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it
by Ken Livingstone.
Collins, 367 pp., £12, August 1987,0 00 217770 6 Show More
by Ken Livingstone.
Collins, 367 pp., £12, August 1987,
A Taste of Power: The Politics of Local Economics
edited by Maureen Mackintosh and Hilary Wainwright.
Verso, 441 pp., £22.95, July 1987,0 86091 174 8 Show More
edited by Maureen Mackintosh and Hilary Wainwright.
Verso, 441 pp., £22.95, July 1987,
“... The Greater London Council was set up by the Conservative Government in 1963 because the old London County Council was redistributing wealth of every kind from the London rich to the London dispossessed. A ‘new London’ was created, which extended well into the safe Tory areas in Surrey, Kent and Essex. The new authority seemed certain to be Conservative in perpetuity, but just in case it didn’t turn out that way, the Government stripped the London County Council of most of its more crucial functions, control over which passed to the new borough councils ... ”
