22 March 1989: A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since the London County Council was set up 100 years ago,and it was as volatile an issue then as it is now“Then there is the question of water. Water is one of those points which have wrecked a powerful government before now, and may wreck governments again.”
No, or not a prediction from a current member of the Westminster opposition but from the Earl of Rosebery,a Liberal peer and future Prime Minister, opening the first official assembly of the London County Council a century ago this week.
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Source: theguardian.com