Manchester bus franchising

[Barney]

RE: Manchester bus franchising

(20/02/2023 16:06)KXW212 Wrote:  You can't ban somebody from submitting a legal and compliant bid, because it upsets a poorly thought
out politically motivated scheme.

To which scheme and which political party are you referring? Is it the Conservative government that passed the Transport Act of 1985 that introduced bus deregulation or the Labour controlled Greater Manchester Combined Authority that has decided to use the Bus Services Act of 2017 legislation - also passed by a Conservative government - to introduce franchising?