It's not what you know in the GLC
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AS IS widely known, anyone can run a newspaper, the BBC, a railway or a bus company. Safe in this knowledge, the Greater London Council's Transport Committee has nominated a 25year-old black secretary on the staff of a trade union to be a part-time director of London Transport.
Board members are required by law to have wide experience and ability in transport, industrial, commercial or financial matters, administration, applied science or the organisation of workers. Despite Merle Amory's undoubted charms and secretarial skills, two years' experience in local government, a job in a trade-union office and political support for Ken Livingstone, GLC leader and transport supremo, hardly match up to the strict conditions imposed by the London Transport Act. But as they say at County Hall, anything for a laugh.