How Will You Vote ?
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IT would be hard to look far in this week's issue without finding something about next Thursday's General Election. In common with many people in road transport, The Commercial Motor has done its best to determine just what is the Socialists policy for road transport. We asked Mr. Wilson, who declined to be drawn into this quest for truth. We asked Mr. Strauss (the Shadow Minister of Transport) and got some answers; but not the key one.
We have asked, we have reported, we have commented—and it boils down to this; if they form the next Government the Socialists WILL foster expansion of British Road Services whether or not 13.R.S. thinks such expansion to be a good thing. How they propose to do it, they will not say. To what extent they will do it has not been defined.
Without any doubt at all they will actively restrict C licence trunk movements. Nobody can be sure they will not severely restrict such A-licensed activities as they do not intend to buy. Nobody knows whether they intend to pay adequate compensation for businesses they acquire.
The Commercial Motor would be grossly failing in its duty if it did not make it absolutely clear that anyone engaged in road transport who helps to put a Socialist government into power is taking a very grave chance with his livelihood.
Under no circumstances has anyone been able to pin the Labour Party down on its transport policy. In the absence of reassurance, it is prudent to anticipate the worst.
Your vote is your own affair—so is your business and your job. How will YOU vote?