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by pjc50 727 days ago
The London Mayor and more recently the Manchester Mayor have been huge successes in transport coordination. I don't think many people would a priori say "the best structure for a large city is fifty non-coordinated boroughs". You could make a clearer case for abolishing the boroughs (especially some of the more corrupt and incompetent ones) and running the city as a unitary whole.

The only reason the GLC was abolished in the first place was naked party politics.
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bhickey 727 days ago
> especially some of the more corrupt and incompetent ones

Do you have particular boroughs in mind?

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pjc50 727 days ago
The mayor of Tower Hamlets is one of the few people in the UK to have a conviction for electoral fraud. Somehow this didn't stop him getting elected again.
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