ROAD HAULAGE lobby longer holds any particular tical power, former Conative environment secre' Mr Peter Walker claimed week.
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le said at the RHA agriculid and livestock conference he weekend : "It's not good ugh to Stand back 'complatly without trying to perde the electorate that you right.
You fought one of the. few maigns with enough impact that the Government dexi to drop chunks of the 7 Transport Act. With ades and car stickers and lassive rally in Hyde Park aChieved massive impact," I Mr Walker.
Iut later in answer to a ,sition from RHA area sec3.ry Mr Bob Ward he said: ytt are in no great lobby ition now — you need to te individual letters to your 's putting a cogent point view — talk to your MPs." He told the conference that with 200,000 out-of-work building workers we should be thinking about using them to build the roads that have been cancelled and postponed. "The cost of having these men unemployed against using them would put no strain on the 'balance of payments," he said.
"The cost of non-completion of the roads programme that I agreed when Secretary of State in 1970 will be astronomical. The savings in fuel and time would be enormous — you must argue against these cuts and I hope you will mobilise in an efficient and effective way," said Mr Walker.
He warned that the newly agreed pay pact with the unions would not stand up if the inflation rate did not go down. "Inflation is not coming down and the unions will break the policy one by one.
"Re-negotiation of the policy will mean another run on the pound."