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THE BRITISH DISEASE?

27th August 1992
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• This week Commercial Motor is accused of being: "Illinformed and biased'' and having an attitude problem "typical of the ignorant British ... concerning anywhere outside your little island.'' .1 Campion of Creil in France says CM was wrong to suggest that the French Government allowed French drivers to hold thousands to ransom (see Dear Sir, page 35). Well if they didn't allow it, why didn't they stop the blockade the minute it started?

Campion says the British should wake up and take a leaf out of the French driver's book "... instead of crying into your tea, stick together and do something." Presumably the message here is that if British hauliers created chaos for 10 days they'd get everything they've ever wanted,

He goes on: "As for the companies that continued to send over trucks to France when it was clear nothing was getting through the blockade, and are crying now for compensation, maybe the lesson learnt for their greediness and foolishness in expecting to be let through is a good lesson."

We'll now pause for explosions all over the UK from those operators clobbered by the blockade and quite rightly expecting to be compensated. Greedy? Hardly.

There's more trouble on the way. The IRU is warning of fresh blockades in France and Spain. Will they achieve anything? Maybe they will — but at whose expense? The British, so foreigners tell us, are slow to rise and difficult to stir. Considering the way they treat others it's a pity more foreign hauliers / haven't caught 7

the British disease.

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