Submitting... We aren’t holding him to his pledge to actually take our bus services into public ownership, we are just asking for greater control over the routes, prices and frequencies by ‘franchising’, similar to the set-up in London and soon in Manchester. Instead, he is introducing a much more vague ‘Enhanced Partnership’, of which no-one really knows the exact meaning, but which crucially allows the bus operators to continue in control of the service and to put shareholders first. Compare this with Tracy Brabin, who was elected mayor of West Yorkshire just four weeks ago. She is going ahead with an Enhanced Partnership.