Ken — the people's choice?
Sir: The full-page advertisement from the GLC (17 March), which invites us to 'say no to no say in who runs London', is surely the product of a well-developed sense of the ironic. Alternatively, it must be supposed that Mr Livingstone's public relations men take it for granted that Londoners cannot now recall the circumstances in which the GLC leader himself assumed office in order to run London.
For the record, Mr Livingstone took over by ousting Andrew McIntosh, his moderate Labour predecessor, in a palace coup 24 hours after the polls had closed in 1981. The economy of effort involved in this transfer of power is widely admired even now but the proceedings had absolutely nothing to do with London voters having any say in who runs the GLC.
Colin Smith
Campaign to Abolish the GLC, 9/9a New Bond Street, London WI
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