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THE ONLY reason for "ending Britain's bus services" was ideology, Shadow Transport Secretary Gwyneth Dunwoody told a rally of busmen at Central Hall, Westminster, last week.
Every other country in the western world had rejected the theories upon which the White Paper on buses was built.
"The only concession to the facts has been the Government's trial areas. But even the White Paper admits that the experience in the trial areas was a failure," she told the London rally.
"But the Transport Secretary is undeterred, he admits that his experiments have failed and in the next breath he demands that the rest of the country must suffer the same ideological experiment."
Mrs Dunwoody said Nicholas Ridley had little choice but to stand by his theories because if he looked at the facts, he would have to look at the success of the Labour Party in running public transport.