THE LABOUR Greater London only been in office for a couple of weeks. But in that time it headlines on a number of occasions.
The Labour group plans to stop financing civil defence in London, has no intention of attenWedding aing ine koyal and it accommodated the reopic s Marchers when they were in London. And conference week Labour leader, Livingstone announced that he wanted to use GLC money to support Soviet dissidents.
Over the next period the GLC will either move more and more into concentral TrollaTon government or go back on the promises made In is election manitesto.
the Labour Council has has managed to hit the after all in favour of employees having time off pay but Threats because it was threats of surcharge that divided the councillors this might bode ill in the future.
Now the G! C face the problem of environment Michael Heseltine's punitive cuts in government subsidy with a possible massive rate rise How will the Labour GLC respond to this? Ken Livingstone spoke to MIKE FISHER after the first full council meeting since the 'We will stand by our programme. takes our last remaining £200m, that's the last of his penalities. another fl a week on top of the extra f2 a week the Tories have put the ported the idea on the committee.
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the question of unilateral versus multilateral though, I think that Brian has got hold of the wrong end of the stick. He argues that we must choose one or the other, that it is impossible to support both and that cuts in London.
'So at the next general Labour would be pledged to make good the Tory cuts in rate support grant, we would saying lo voters, Labour government would mean f3 a week cut in your rates. How can the Tories answer that?
'If Heseltine tries to ung up research and informatior. service available to trade unionists. pears to be under no illu. Ken Livingstone sion as to what he car achieve at County Hall For him the split that of cured in the Labour group over whether or not to pa! council worker the could greet the march for jobs does not change in situation.
It has always beer clear that there would bi no majority in the counc for any deliberate act tha would lead to surcharge Most of the Labour righ don't believe that's correc and have larg: number lawyers barristers concerned abou their professional pos: tion. Confident 'We have a right wir but no social democrats Any democra would be lost in the GL where we have a straigh choice between a socialis GLC elected or manifesto all councillors support, vicious Thatcherite Torie:
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rates as a result of their We have to support both