Dear Mr Livingstone
 
I left school at age 15 back in 68, to join the transport industry via Suttons of st Helens, seemed the most natural thing to do, after all my old man worked there, and I could walk to work in 5 minutes from where I lived in Sutton Heath,

It was either Pilks(Pilkington glass) the pit, or Suttons or the dole    why transport? Why not, at 21 I passed my HGV 1 and  off I headed, first for the continent in those days it was run by the British, with foreign lorries,  scania 140s, and 141s if you were lucky and Volvo 88 and the odd 89, I drove a Magrius Deutz,  column change, day cab, and did Torino and Milan in that for a outfit in Barking Essex , don't ask me !   but not a foreign word was spoken.

 Any way, as I said, goodbye, all my lorries are in the Commercial motor this week, thank you labour and particular Livingstone, I hope you sleep well in your lefty beds.

l built my removal business from scratch unlike you Livingstone, I didn't play the system, I got on my bike and turned my life around from the grubby little council house the butler sink and the outside bog, I bought an old two hundred quid tranny, delivering parcels for parcel line then a Luton followed by a 7 and half ton cargo then another I obtained my CPC under grand father rights because I worked like a miner at the coal face roping and sheeting in the freezing cold, changing tyres on the M54, well before the operators licence.unlike you Livingstone and your cnd banners and your so called support of the working classes, your probably having tea with lady Thatcher.

You're a traitor to your original cause, but maybe not maybe the temptation of  that £180,000 salary is a temptation too much for any mortal.

Well my little fleet are for sale now, 38 long years of hard sweat and tears down the swanny, and for what ! 1 mile down the road a new sign suddenly appeared and I say suddenly because unlike Sainsbury's Tesco and Asda we didn't even get a years notice.

I bought my 17 tonner from Pickfords  and I worked hard for it, lugging boxes to the top floor flat with no lift, for what ! what was the point? Livingston's biggest lie was about to hit the streets of London. What did I spend nearly two grand having it beautifully sprayed for,? How much Mr Livingston do you imagine it cost me to have it sign written? how many moving jobs running up and down stairs with both hands full and the woman's dressing gown, wrapped around my neck?

why did you introduce another tier of autocrats or beaurocrats  'transport for London' 'the environment agency' and another silly 'think tank', how the hell did we manage before, the green lobby and the pink lobby and no doubt by this time next year there'll be no lorries and for that` matter no cars either.

John Hayes owned and ran Redbridge Removals Employing 5 drivers and 10 porters. His vehicles travelled throughout the UK and Europe. After 38 years in the industry Redbridge Removals closed it's doors at the end of january 2008