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	Greater London Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greater London covered the counties of London and most of Middlesex, plus parts of Essex, Kent and Surrey, a small part of Hertfordshire and the County Borough of Croydon, County Borough of East Ham and County Borough of West Ham which had been independent of county control.
		The new Greater London Authority (GLA) was established in 2000.
		Mayor of London and the London Assembly of the Greater London Authority (GLA) 2000 +
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_London_Council (1358 words)

	Greater London Council biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to its abolition in 1986.
		The Labour Party had controlled the LCC from 1934 and by the 1950s elections were becoming uncompetitive, as the LCC boundaries by then covered only the inner city.
		Greater London covered the counties of London and Middlesex plus parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey, and the county boroughs of Croydon, East Ham and West Ham.
	www.biography.ms /GLC.html (991 words)

	City Mayors: Mayor of London
		To make this happen, the Mayor's priorities are to rebuild London's failing transport system, to ensure that London has the number and quality of police officers it needs to reduce crime and the fear of crime throughout Greater London, and to celebrate London's diversity through all aspects of the city's culture.
		While staff in the Greater London Authority are appointed by the London Assembly, the Mayor appoints the boards of Transport for London and the London Development Agency.
		The Greater London Authority (GLA) is not a traditional local authority providing a range of public services but, under the direction of the Mayor, exists to provide strategic direction for the future of London.
	citymayors.com /uk/london.html (1393 words)

	Parliamentary Elections and Election Administration in Denmark
		These steps correspond to the main phases of the conduct of elections, which are (1) the administrative procedures connected with the preparation of an election, (2) the rules for polling and counting, and (3) the administrative procedures after election day, including the final computations as well as the election approval procedure.
		When an election is called, however, additional staff are temporarily assigned to assist the election unit in carrying out its tasks at the national level, directly connected with the conduct of the election.
		Normally, all council members except the mayor are elected to function as polling supervisors, and especially as chairman of the polling supervisors at the polling station.
	www.ft.dk /baggrund/00000048/00232623.htm (13232 words)

	Garbagegate - Three Decades of the Loony Left
		Islington council denied information to the only opposition councillor on the grounds that he would use it against the council, and one of the councillors conducted pay negotiations with a shop steward who was his brother-in-law.
		Camden council intended to apply a homosexuals' charter from October, under which it would be possible for homosexuals to demand like child-minders if they feared that their children might be 'corrupted' by heterosexual child-minders.
		Camden council in North London was spending £10,000/year on giving free flying lessons to fls, homosexuals and the unemployed at a time when it faced a cash crisis in the form of a £20million budget deficit and the prospect of sacking 2,000 staff.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /garbagegate/archive3/loony.htm (4857 words)

	Environmental activism and social networks: campaigning for bicycles and alternative transport in West London
		London is an interesting case not only because its transport system is currently overloaded and car use is so high, but also because of its strong planning system and the wide range of actors involved in decision-making, from planners to private developers and lobbyists (from local residents though car commuters to conservationists and green anarchists).
		London is Britain’s capital city, and one of a handful of global cities linked into truly international networks of finance, capital, and movement.
		London experiences the most intense and widespread road congestion in the country; vehicles in inner London averaged less than 10 mph in the years 1998-2000 and only 3mph in the central business district, the slowest average in the postwar period.
	www.simonbatterbury.net /pubs/annals.htm (8315 words)

	New Statesman: London's team spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In London we are about to see what its potential is in practice, as a new tier of government is constructed, building on the numerous institutional arrangements that have sprung up in the capital since the abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986.
		When applying the test of shared responsibility to London over the past hundred years it is clear that private philanthropy at the turn of the century, the postwar welfare state and the 1980s market economy all failed to deliver.
		There are many, but the most vital to London's economic success and social cohesion over the next few years are infrastructure priorities in transport and housing, and the opportunities for young people provided by the education sector.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4338_v126/ai_20036355 (1519 words)

	London Bulletin: All eyes now on the London prize - 07/01/2004
		Ms Gavron, the London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey, had won the early nomination by beating off her nearest rival, MP Tony Banks, but she made it clear that she wants to ensure “the party is a winner” in London.
		London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey, Nicky Gavron has been a councillor in London for 15 years and first decided to stand for election in Haringey after the abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986.
		A former chair of housing, regeneration and transport and environmental planning committees, she was Labour leader of the London Planning Advisory Committee and served for two years as Mr Livingstone’s deputy mayor.
	www.alg.gov.uk /doc.asp?doc=10831&cat=1380 (1374 words)

	GLC Fares Fair, Blueprint for a Green London, London's public transport
		In 1981 the newly elected Labour Greater London Council began implementing a series of transport commitments that very nearly made London the environmental jewel of Europe.
		Millions of Londoners chose to leave their cars at home and, since London is the hub of the national public transport network, the idea looked set to spread across the nation.
		Denning said that the majority on the GLC had decided to honour their election promise 'come what may', even after they had been told it would injure taxpayers more seriously than they had originally realized (before Hesletine's grant penalties were known).
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Congress/7727/farefare.htm (1673 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: London Snapshot: Mayor Takes All. by Mark Greif. April 5, 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As head of a body called the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 to 1986, a powerful metropolitan organization that employed 27,000 Londoners, he was the populist hero of the opposition.
		The London debacle is a final challenge to New Labour's authority -- with confusion remaining over the diminished mandate Dobson might carry, as a New Labour puppet, if elected to the new mayorship.
		The one place Ken's actual policies diverged from those of the other London candidates was his strong opposition to the partial privatization of the Underground.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2000/04/greif-m-04-05.html (1290 words)

	Livingstone, Ken on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1973 as a Labour member, he became GLC leader in 1981.
		He was elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1987 and became a candidate for mayor of London in 1999 after a new, Labour-controlled Parliament established an elected London mayoralty.
		Ken Livingstone: The Brad Pitt of London politics is cool and focused, despite opposition and wilful pigeons.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LivngstK1.asp (924 words)

	London chronicle by John Gross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1981 he had seized control of the city’s governing body, the Greater London Council, ousting his predecessor—a respected moderate—in a brutal putsch.
		His time as leader of the council was marked by inefficiency and waste, and a non-stop display of hard-left gesture politics.
		Travel and transport in London are a disaster, and while he isn’t the only one at fault he bears a heavy share of the responsibility.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/20/summer02/gross.htm (1242 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine \| Big City Bosses - London
		Sitting in his office in city hall, a postmodernist protuberance on the River Thames opposite the Tower of London, Ken Livingstone is entitled to a laugh at the expense of his many critics.
		After a decade in local government, the Labour politician was elected head of the Greater London Council (glc), as the capital's governing body was then known, in 1981.
		Before London's first mayoral election in 2000, Livingstone was ejected from the Labour Party for breaking his promise not to oppose the party's official candidate — whom he subsequently trounced.
	www.time.com /time/europe/html/050516/livingstone.html (835 words)

	Red Action Discussion Page
		In 1976 in a by-election in West Bromwich the NF candidate Martin Webster had got 16.2 percent of the vote.
		In May 1977 the Nazis had gained 119,000 votes in the elections to the Greater London Council-more than the Liberals.
		And in the 1981 Greater London Council elections, the Nazis got just 2.1 percent of the vote compared to 5.7 percent in 1977.
	www.redaction.org /wwwboard/msgs5/6370.HTM (1380 words)

	Plato on utopia
		The Assembly is responsible for the election of most of the city's officers and magistrates.
		The Council is composed of 90 members chosen by election from each property class for a total of 360 members.
		This Council is to possess various sorts of knowledge and it must also educate its own members.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-utopia (4946 words)

	Royal Britain Chronology
		The Great Fire of London was the worst in the history of the capital; it lasted three days (2 to 5 September) and destroyed four fifths of the City: St. Paul’s Cathedral, 87 parish churches, most of the civic buildings and 13,000 houses.
		The flames fanned by a strong east wind, raged throughout Monday and during part of Tuesday; on Wednesday the fire slackened and on Thursday it was thought to be extinguished.
		London Blitz (aerial bombardment of London) during the Battle of Britain began in 1940 after the British retreat from Dunkerque (Dunkirk).
	www.cofc.edu /~mccandla/Lonchron.html (1304 words)

	Bermondsey by election, 1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was recruited by the Conservative government to the board of the London Docklands Development Corporation, as he did not wish to be disqualified, the post was made non-salaried until such time as Mellish chose to accept payment.
		He was also a contributor to London Labour Briefing, a magazine which circulated among the London left, and had written an article suggesting the use of extra-Parliamentary direct action by the Labour Party.
		The polls showed, at first, that the Labour vote was substantially down on the 1979 election figures but that none of the rival candidates were particularly close.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /UK-Parliamentary-by-elections/Bermondsey-by-election-1983.html (927 words)

	Greater London Council Election Results
		The Greater London Council was established by the London Government Act 1963, which received Royal Assent on 31st July 1963.
		Initially, it was elected in multi-member electoral areas comprising the whole of each London Borough, but these were accepted as too large for genuine local representation, and from 1973 the GLC was elected from single-member electoral areas, identical to the constituencies used for Parliamentary elections.
		GLC members from inner-London electoral areas were also appointed to the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) together with one member each from the inner London Boroughs; in 1986 ILEA was directly elected with two members returned from electoral areas identical to the inner London Parliamentary constituencies (there had been a boundary change in 1983).
	www.election.demon.co.uk /glc/glcelection.html (609 words)

	Mayor of London - Biography
		Ken Livingstone was born in Lambeth in 1945 and educated at Tulse Hill Comprehensive School.
		From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of Camden Council, where he was Chair of the Housing Committee from 1978 to 1980.
		In 1973 he was elected as a Labour member of the Greater London Council.
	www.london.gov.uk /mayor/mayorbiog.jsp (201 words)

	City Mayors: London's congestion charge
		Despite of the prophets of doom and even some of its supporters back in 2003, the centre of the UK capital has achieved and maintained its figure of 30 per cent fewer traffic delays inside the charging zone compared with the period before charging was introduced.
		The London congestion charge was strongly opposed by Conservative members on the London Assembly (London’s municipal council) and 'The Evening Standard', London’s evening newspaper.
		London’s public has always supported the scheme, while opinion in the business community was divided.
	www.citymayors.com /report/congestion_charge.html (1447 words)

	The National Archives \| Search other Archives \| Accessions to Repositories \| Major Accessions to Repositories 1994: ...
		Fabian Society, LCC Election 1892: election leaflets of candidates for the London County Council Election of 1892 and returns to the questionnaire issued as Fabian Tract No 26, Questions for London County Councillors.
		Fabian Society: School Board Elections: 1899-1902, Ephemera relating to School Board Elections and the 1902 Education Bill and replies to a Fabian Society questionnaire about the constitution of School Boards, Town or Urban District Councils and Boards of Guardians in 1899.
		LCC Election 1907: 1906-1907, papers illustrating the 1907 London County Council Election, particularly the Progressive Party; they include leaflets notes and replies to questions by Wallas.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /accessions/1994/94returns/94ac97.htm (1485 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: Ken Livingstone
		Mr Livingstone was born in Streatham, south London, on 17 June 1945.
		But in May 1981, the day after Labour won a small majority on the GLC, group leader Andrew McIntosh was ousted and Mr Livingstone voted into his place instead.
		But after the Conservatives axed the council in 1986 and he crossed the Thames from County Hall to the House of Commons as MP for Brent East in 1987, he faced the relative powerlessness of the backbenches.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3012347.stm (1012 words)

	Greater London Council Election results: Lambeth
		Solomon sought election as a 'Lambeth Residents for Democratic Local Government' candidate.
		Webb sought election as a 'Ratepayer's Watchdog' candidate.
		Chaney sought election as a 'Fair Rates' candidate.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /glc/glclm.html (112 words)

	BBC - London - News - Ken Livingstone: From the GLC to the GLA
		Ken Livingstone’s election as Mayor of London in May 2000 marked his return to the political stage after years consigned to the back benches following the collapse of the Greater London Council.
		His policies of championing grants to fringe groups as head of the GLC from 1981 to 1986 turned 'Red Ken' into a tabloid hate figure and would establish him as a key figure of the 'loony left'.
		He said the decision to run was the hardest of his political life but said he decided to stand because of the "principle of London’s right to govern itself".
	www.bbc.co.uk /london/news/kenlivingstone.shtml (516 words)

	Background: Mayor Ken Livingstone - The World Technology Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Central London had historically suffered from one of the worst levels of traffic congestion in the United Kingdom.
		He served on the Northern Ireland Select Committee after Labour's election victory in 1997, and was a member of the Greater London Authority Bill Standing Committee.
		At the election on 4 June 2004 he was returned for another 4 year term with 55.4% of the votes cast -- 828,380.
	www.wtn.net /2004/bio410.html (977 words)

	S/R 25: "Red Ken" and the Greens in London (Part 2) (Hawkins)
		The London Socialist Alliance did twice as well in the district votes (3.1%) than the party list vote (1.6%), underscoring the stupidity of the splits, on the one hand, and also suggesting that many of these voters went Green in the party list vote because the Greens had a much better chance to gain seats.
		Immediately after the election and in light of the Greens' strong showing, the media engaged in frenzied speculation that Livingstone might choose the Greens' Johnson for Deputy Mayor.
		By 1985, once the miners' strike was suppressed, Thatcher turned her attention back to the Left Labour councils in London, Liverpool, Birmingham, and other cities, which were threatening rebellion against her funding cuts.
	www.greens.org /s-r/25/25-12.html (1481 words)

	Monthly Review: Socialism, ecology, and democracy: toward a strategy of conversion
		An opening occurred in 1981 in London, with the election of a radical municipal government.
		The success of this and other popular enactments was rudely undone in 1986, however, when the national government (under Margaret Thatcher) simply abolished the Greater London Council.
		Measures such as those of London and Bologna, like various municipal recycling programs, show something of what can be done at the level of public services.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n2_v44/ai_12252590/pg_3 (1447 words)

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