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RNA waits for Spence to act

16th August 2001
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• The Road Haulage Association is waiting for People's Fuel Lobby leader Andrew Spence to explain to them exactly why he wants to blockade their headquarters.

Spence threatened back in June that he would launch the action, by himself if necessary, on both the major associations' headquarters. At the time Spence said his plan would `bring the associations from their gin brigade to start repre

senting us, the people who pay their subscriptions" over the fuel duty issue (CM14-20 June).

Geoff Dunning, northern director of the RHA, has written to Spence inviting him to a faceto-face meeting where Dunning says he will tell Spence that his belief that the RHA has forgotten him and its members is 'far from the truth".

Spence has yet to respond to Dunning's call. He says he is "busy with his farming work," the reason he also gives for his failure to blockade so far. However, he says he will accept Dunning's offer. "We want to put some grass-root messages across and tell the RHA where they are going wrong," he says.

• Former PFL chairman Mark Francis has lambasted Spence's blockade plan.

Francis describes Spence as a "loose cannon" in the fuel fight and says members of the People's Fuel Lobby should distance themselves from his call.


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