How we are Governed – The London County Council at Work
Title : How we are Governed - London County Council at Work in 1899
Author : Robert Donald
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1899
Page Count : 14
Image Count : 23
Word Count : 6,617
File Size in MB : 8
File Type : PDF
"There were others who looked upon it as a dangerous institution, and called the councillors a collection of faddists and busybodies, doing things which they ought to leave alone, and leaving undone things which they ought to do. There were enthusiastic supporters on the one side, vehement enemies on the other. Eminent men had from the first been found in the Council, but they did not save it from the hostility of the people vaguely defined as “ the classes.” At the last election some people, hitherto apathetic and indifferent, organised and voted, and “the masses” did not show such a lively sense of services rendered and promised as formerly, so that all round there was a moderating and sobering effect.
And now that the Council is more equally divided between parties, and has received the leavening influence of a dozen lords, it has become more respectable in the eyes of its former enemies. It may be less active, but that they think is an improvement. It may not..."
