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FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT rr HE Conservative Party has repeated
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its faith in the Geddes Committee's proposals to scrap the licensing system for goods vehicles. Though not exactly wholehearted in tone, the Party has given this election pledge: "Conservatives have broadly accepted the conclusions of the Geddes Committee and will, when returned to power, seek to widen competition in road haulage on the lines recommended in the report."
The promise is to be found in a massive, 375-page campaign guide for 1966 which all Tory MPs and candidates will carry with them in the election.
Designed to provide ammunition for election platforms, the guide asserts that the Labour Party has shelved the Geddes report. and its long-standing antipathy to private road haulage makes it unlikely that it will readily agree to measures designed to promote its competitive efficiency.
About co-ordination, it says that the Socialists have not the faintest idea what this means, or how to set about it. The National Plan analyses transport problems in terms which clearly vindicate Tory policies. The attempt to "relate everything to everything else" means that the Labour Government has done nothing about anything.
The guide says that Labour has remained persistently hostile to private hauliers, largely because of the co-ordination idea.