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25/9/07 : Shoppers' views sought on 'Tory tax on food'
Labour Councillors and campaigners are joining Reading West MP Martin Salter and Anneliese Dodds, parliamentary spokesperson for Reading East, in a campaign against plans in a Conservative Party Quality of Life report to force supermarkets and other out-of-town shopping centres to charge for car parking.
Martin Salter says: "Thousands of hard-working families rely on local supermarkets for their weekly food shopping and are not likely to go anywhere else, so this scheme is really just a Tory tax on food that will do nothing for the environment."
Anneliese Dodds adds: "The real area where action is needed to protect the environment is reducing the amount of unnecessary packaging and plastic which is discarded every single day. Greenpeace revealed recently that there are 46,000 bits of plastic debris floating on every square mile of ocean, much of it plastic bags blown from landfill sites. This packaging is strangling our planet and to protect our environment we must first of all bring pressure on manufacturers and retailers to cut packaging to the minimum."
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