WHAT have the rural communities done to upset Gordon Brown?
Why are we now facing a 20p per gallon rise in the cost of petrol?
Does anyone in Westminster - especially Labour MPs who represent seats where public transport is not at its best - realise that people depend on their cars for their very existence?
In rural communities, bus services are patchy, train services simply do not exist and supermarkets, post offices, banks, entertainment - everything - are not just on the street corner, but many miles away.
It's easy for him to slap 20p on a gallon of petrol, plus £5 on the car tax. He's obviously not stopped to think about those in rural communities and how it will hurt.
B GAVIN, Jessel Street, Mill Hill, Blackburn.
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