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No Policy?
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Fr HE Labour Party may well wish to remain discreetly quiet 1 about its plans for road transport, should it form the next Government. But this smacks of catchpenny tactics that, by and large, fool nobody. Socialists still dream of an " integrated " transport system and at each utterance of their leader, Mr. Harold Wilson, it becomes more apparent. This is what he said on Tuesday (as reported on page 5 of this issue):— " We cannot solve this (the railways' insolvency) problem until we have an integrated policy which will make sure that where profits are creamed off from rail to road they are brought into the transport pool as a whole, and not siphoned off to private owners ".
This is pure 1947-type doctrinaire, and operators should not be fooled either by the new approach or the " absence " of official policy. If elected, Mr. Wilson's party intends to turn the clock back a decade or so and carry on where it left off. And in addition it has every intention of forcibly controlling C-licence working.
If this is the policy Labour is so coy about and is what lies ahead for road transport in a Socialist-controlled economy, then Mr. Wilson must be honest and say so. Road transport must demand the facts before the voting starts.