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Jdo for hauliers )URING the General Election Impaign, candidates will be articularly receptive to rpresentations from 3nstituents," the Road Haulage ssociation delicately reminded s members. Arm-twisting by fly other name can be as
ainful and effective.
The association listed 11 letters on which members hould seek candidates' support, hey were all worthy, although ome were too esoteric for nyone other than a specialist to nderstand. Apart from some ratuitously offensive xceptions, any prospective MP rho was bombarded with the lot as my sneaking sympathy. But hauliers have suffered nore than enough at politicians' lands and deserve their small riumphs, even if they amount to ro more than the reddening of a .andidate's neck. for parties to travel from A to B and walk back to A. Meanwhile, operators at B would be carrying marchers to A to begin the tramp home. This should benefit the shoe trade and chiropodists as well as passenger transport, and stimulate employment without putting Britain again in hock to the International Monetary Fund.