"Politics Gone Mad" at Birmingham
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,C-1 A DECISION of Birmingham Trans
port Committee, granting facilities to the committee of inquiry into London Transport to visit the city's transport undertaking, was reversed at a special meeting of the committee on Monday.
Describing the chanted decision as "polities gone mad," Conservative members said the chairman had stated that if the Socialists had set up the committee of inquiry he would have granted facilities.
Ald. H. Watton, Socialist chairman of the transport committee, said after the special meeting that the committee had agreed to supply information for the inquiry asked for in a questionnaire. He added that his committee considered that a visit to the undertaking by members of the inquiry was "unnecessary." The earlier decision had, therefore, been rescinded.
The original decision, endorsing the action of the general manager in granting facilities for inquiry, was passed at the last ordinary meeting of the transport committee, when nore Conservative members than Socialists attended.
A statement issued by the Conservative members of the committee on Monday alleged that Ald. Watton had said he would not agree to the inquiry on the ground that it had been set up by a Conservative Minister of Transport, It added: "We wish to entirely dissociate ourselves from this action."