HFA targets Labour MPs
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III by Liam O'Brien
The RHA intends to throw its weight behind a Hauliers and Farmers Alliance picket of the Labour Party at its forthcoming party conference in Brighton.
The HFA, which now wants to lobby Labour politicians instead of disrupting traffic, is persuading RNA national chairman John Bridge to back it. The talks followed the HFA's failed Dover blockade and aborted drive-tosurvive protest.
Bridge says the RHA is likely to advise members to join the HFA at their peaceful picket of the Labour conference on 24-28 September, with the 24th being the main day of protest. The RHA's protest tanker is scheduled to been display at Brighton
during the Labour conference.
The FIFA is organising coach parties from various parts of the country to Brighton and is offering discount travel and accommodation packages.
Len Johnson of the HFA says: We are giving them every opportunity to go. There is no excuse not to turn up. We are trying our best to help them, If they don't help themselves, we might as well all give up."
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