Some thoughts on Dave's Demise or as it is known here in Sheffield "Resigning to spend more time with someone else's family".
He has constantly been given credit for the Socialist Republic of S. Yorkshire and its cheap bus fares policy in Sheffield. Cobblers.
The low cost bus fares was a policy set up by the South Yorkshire County Council in 1974 and applied equally across South Yorkshire the main towns of which were Rotherham Doncaster and Barnsley. Blunkett became Leader of Sheffield Council in 1979. As for flying the Red Flag over the Town Hall, the local hierarchy in the Labour Party fought tooth and nail to stop this happening.