NO UNITY
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So the government didn't give the industry the help it required to survive. That doesn't surprise me. Sure, I'm all for charging foreigners for using our roads—after all, we pay to use theirs—and the reduction in VED is most welcome. But cuts in whatever form are needed now, so that we can still put food on our tables and pay our mortgages.
However, Blair & Co knew they wouldn't have to give too much, and what little they did give would look to the public as if they were helping an already ailing transport system.
Added to the fact that the transport organisations are publicly distancing themselves from direct action, preferring dialogue, is it any wonder more and more hauliers are going to the wall?
And what of the big players? Where is their support when it is needed? Or are they afraid they won't get their gongs at Buck House if they are seen to be rocking the boat?
Whatever you might think, if there isn't unity in order to help the cause you will only have yourselves to blame when the P45s are dished out.
Ken Quinn, by e-mail.