| Scottish representatives of the
fuel blockade echoed their English colleagues' attempt to appropriate the memory of the
Jarrow March by insisting last night that their own slow moving convoy of trucks would pay
tribute to past industrial disputes in Central Scotland. Pausing only to
light another Crown Corona and fart loudly, a Scottish complete trucker explains:
"Think back to that climactic struggle between Thatcher and the miners in 1984.
Remember the workers, starved by the state, beaten by the police, assailed on all sides by
a hostile media. And then remember the role of the hauliers, standing four square with
those willing to pay us enough money to drive through picket lines at 60mph. That's the
kind of greed that continues to inspire us today."
The fuel blockade strategy will include a planned slow drive
down through Central Scotland to join up with the English truckers at Jarrow. |
Representatives of ex-mining
communities in Scotland welcomed the truckers' wish to drive slowly. "We would
certainly like the truckers to drive slowly through all the ex-pit villages they've only
previously visited with police escort. And we can promise that we will listen carefully to
the truckers' case while they trundle at a snail's pace past conveniently located piles of
bricks from demolished pit buildings." Elsewhere, the road haulage
industry denied that global warming was anything to do with burning fossil fuels. The
enviromental crisis was, a spokesman asserted, all the fault of bureaucrats in Brussels in
particular and foreigners in general.
And in any case, the spokesman went on, eighteen wheelers
have plenty of ground clearance to deal with flooded roads - so that's alright then. |
