How about "crawling" to tax dodgers?
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HAS JOHN Prescott, Shadow Transport Secretary, pioneered a new fashion in protest by swimming two miles down the Thames to the House of Commons to deliver a letter to the Prime Minister condemning the dumping of nuclear waste at sea? Whether the case he put was as watertight as the case enclosing the letter is a matter for debate.
Will Labour MPs who have scorned the Government's campaign against vehicleexcise-duty dodgers crawl on their hands and knees along the road for two miles to Downing Street to emphasise their argument that vehicle duty should be collected through increased fuel tax?
The estimate that £174m a year is being lost through tax evasion is disturbing, not least to law-abiding hauliers who have to face competition from unscrupulous operators who get by on Guinness labels for their tax discs. Could they be thwarted if all Guinness off-sales were dispensed in cans instead of bottles?