Time to call a halt THE LEGISLATION that the socialists
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propose will cost all taxpayers dearly, and depress industrial output even further than the present all-time low.
Added to all this the far more serious matter of apathy, which is now apparent in all industries—due mainly to excessive and unnecessary penal taxation—and which, of course, will be made infinitely worse by forcing people to work even less, when what is manifestly needed is more work, and production, assisted by allowing workers to keep more of their pay packets.
As (according to this proposed legislation) more and more laws, including those proposed, are to be "rigidly enforced", would it not be slightly "less wrong" therefore, for all drivers to stop IMMEDIATELY their time was up (bearing in mind that, presumably, a tachograph cannot lie), WHEREVER they happen to be? One must assume that, if they proceed, say, to a parking place, or their depot, which in either case may be only a few minutes' drive away, they are breaking the law just as much as if they stop, for instance, halfway along Oxford Street. In other words, is it not likely that the socialists will only understand, and notice, militant action?
I suggest therefore, that every individual operator must take a belligerent attitude (with the consequences). Nothing less will be understood. We are not dealing with sensible, prudent people, but with those who will see only their doctrinaire principles applied, whatever the outcome, or cost.
It is also extremely likely, in view of past experiences, that there are just as good (or better) brains outside Parliament as there are inside; and that ways and means will be found to combat anything which is not democratic, or fair. In fact, I suggest that it is our duty to see that this happens.
W. A. G. SAYERS Sayers Transport Service Ltd., Newbury.