Fair's fair, Dr Livingstone
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IF THOSE who elected a party to power in the Greater London Council on a something-fornothing bus and Underground railway ticket did not foresee the obvious consequences of their cupidity, they Ken the noo. They have condemned all Londoners to staggering rates, including a heavy bill of legal costs, as well as to much increased fares for a reduced service in the future.
Among the innocent victims of this folly is a gently reared elderly spinster of my acquaintance who lives in a fourroomed flat (including kitchen) in a small block in a Labourcontrolled London suburb. The rates, even without the GLC's illegal 6.1p in the £ supplement, are £800 a year. She wishes to move because she can no longer afford to live there but nobody will buy the flat with such a rating millstone. (asked her how she reacted t the GLC leader's bland demand that the Government should play Stanley to his Livingstone and rescue him. She has never been on a spree to the Isle of Wight with a party of Conservative ladies but her rep had a distinctly salty tang.