By Alan Clinton
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-09-29Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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(Chief Whip, Islington Council)
They are further unhappy, as indeed are Labour boroughs also. about how the Tory government would redistribute the £300 million per annum debt charges currently owed by the GLC. Knowing the record of Thatcher and Lawson, it can hardly be thought likely they would take on such debts themselves.
It is not surprising that the Association of Metropolitan Authorities has voted against the abolition of its constituen members and that the Labour-controlled Association of Metropolitan Authorities has opposed the steps to enforce cuts through "rate capping' and the proposed increase in their own functions probably with even less finance.
On the Labour side there have been those who have thought that the traditional means of consensus' in such discussions is insufficSun