Road campaigner for southern comfort
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NORTHERNERS traditionally regard southerners as featherbedded, if not feather-brained, but this attitude has been reversed north and south of the Thames. Jeremy Hawksley, secretary of Movement for London, thinks that in the matter of roads the inhabitants of East Surrey and West Kent are being sacrificed to the softies of Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.
While those from the north of the river can belt down the Ml, M40/A40 and M4 to central London, he says, the southern sufferers have to slog through darkest Tooting, Streatham and Brixton. Although they all pay the same special road taxes, they do not get equal treatment.
Jeremy's message to the underprivileged is to lobby Government for a new southern route into the capital. All power to his elbow but as a .Hertfordshire hedonist I can assure him that driving to central London through Hendon, Hampstead and Highgate is not a laugh a minute.
THOSE WHO ARE inflamed by Government regulations will stoke up a good old blaze when they hear that under 1982 regulations plastic containers for petrol must be marked: "Petrol Highly Flammable" whereas under 1929 regulations steel cans must be labelled: "Petroleum Spirit Highly Inflammable."
Contrary to appearance, "flammable" is obviously an 'In" word.