Just got back from a weekend in Amsterdam, we got out at the central station not a WAV cab in sight
Don't you just love being in the EU? 
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| Author: | echo15 [ Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Wav in europe |
Just got back from a weekend in Amsterdam, we got out at the central station not a WAV cab in sight Don't you just love being in the EU?
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| Author: | Sussex [ Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wav in europe |
echo15 wrote: Just got back from a weekend in Amsterdam, we got out at the central station not a WAV cab in sight
Don't you just love being in the EU? Saw a few in Spain a few years ago. Mercs with rear hydraulic tail lifts. I suppose the only reason we don't have them is the price. |
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| Author: | Nigel [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wav in europe |
Sussex wrote: echo15 wrote: Just got back from a weekend in Amsterdam, we got out at the central station not a WAV cab in sight Don't you just love being in the EU? Saw a few in Spain a few years ago. Mercs with rear hydraulic tail lifts. I suppose the only reason we don't have them is the price. Don't the drivers abroad get subsidised off the Government? I remember going to Tenerife and one driver telling me that Taxi drivers get subsidised off the Government when buying their vehicles. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wav in europe |
Nigel wrote: Don't the drivers abroad get subsidised off the Government? I remember going to Tenerife and one driver telling me that Taxi drivers get subsidised off the Government when buying their vehicles.
Their vehicles, as far as I know, are heavily subsidised. |
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wav in europe |
Sussex wrote: Nigel wrote: Don't the drivers abroad get subsidised off the Government? I remember going to Tenerife and one driver telling me that Taxi drivers get subsidised off the Government when buying their vehicles. Their vehicles, as far as I know, are heavily subsidised. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they are heavily subsidised. What I don't understand is why we haven't managed to get subsidies from our government or indeed the EU 
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| Author: | Stationtone [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:38 am ] |
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At the DFT workshop it was said that Paris had only 48 wavs.They also mentioned that Britain was way ahead of it european neighbours. |
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| Author: | Stationtone [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wav in europe |
toots wrote: Sussex wrote: Nigel wrote: Don't the drivers abroad get subsidised off the Government? I remember going to Tenerife and one driver telling me that Taxi drivers get subsidised off the Government when buying their vehicles. Their vehicles, as far as I know, are heavily subsidised. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they are heavily subsidised. What I don't understand is why we haven't managed to get subsidies from our government or indeed the EU I think the taxi card scheme was meant to be some sort of subsidy.In Dundee a few years ago you were giving 1500 pounds for putting on a wav.They then changed it when more and more drivers put on wavs.Now they give extra taxi card journeys to wheelchair passengers. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:12 pm ] |
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been barcelona, and up the costas, saw a few E7 things but mainly HCs are very nice top range saloons, with all the toys+leather barcelonas taxis are yellow/black, couldnt say yve seen any obvious WAVs, just typical pro-EU/anti-UK legislation again... straight bananas, Kg not lbs, lts not gallons.....ours isnt legal chocolate either... |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:24 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: straight bananas, Kg not lbs, lts not gallons.....ours isnt legal chocolate either...
Been reading the Sun again? |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:00 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: straight bananas, Kg not lbs, lts not gallons.....ours isnt legal chocolate either... Been reading the Sun again? well i aint been lying in it have i? none of that really happened then? |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:35 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: gusmac wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: straight bananas, Kg not lbs, lts not gallons.....ours isnt legal chocolate either... Been reading the Sun again? well i aint been lying in it have i? none of that really happened then? I still see bent bananas at Tescos, and our chocolate is still on sale as well. 
So, for that matter, are our sausages and our crisps. Despite euro-sceptic inspired scare stories to the contrary. |
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| Author: | Nigel [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:49 pm ] |
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In Tenerife all the Taxis were top of the range Merc Diesels with leather interior and all the toys. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:52 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: gusmac wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: straight bananas, Kg not lbs, lts not gallons.....ours isnt legal chocolate either... Been reading the Sun again? well i aint been lying in it have i? none of that really happened then? I still see bent bananas at Tescos, and our chocolate is still on sale as well. So, for that matter, are our sausages and our crisps. Despite euro-sceptic inspired scare stories to the contrary. doesnt mean they didnt TRY though does it i suppose the story that the central EU banks wanted every member states gold reserves (the only true worth of any national economy) transferred physically to them was fictional too? Gordon Brown lost between 2 and 3 BILLION GBP selling gold reserves at a price dictated by the EU, he is gonna break this country 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:03 pm ] |
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EU delay chocolate decision Tuesday, 14 March 2000 A final decision in a 27-year EU battle over British chocolate has been postponed. Euro MPs were expected to vote to allow chocolate made with up to 5 per cent vegetable fats to be marketed in all 15 member states - ending discrimination against the UK's favoured chocolate bars in some continental markets. But the decision in the European Parliament in Strasbourg was postponed until tomorrow. If MEPs vote in favour, high milk content chocolate bars from Britain will have to be labelled as Family Milk Chocolate in other parts of Europe. The concession is a small price to pay after years in which the UK confectionery industry has fought off repeated attempts to force changes in the content of UK chocolate bars - and to refuse to allow it to be called chocolate at all. An updated EU Chocolate Directive looks certain to oblige EU countries to accept all chocolate, as long as the vegetable fat content does not exceed 5% of the finished product and there is clear labelling. British milk chocolate will continue to be called Milk Chocolate on the home market, but will have to be labelled Family Milk Chocolate if exported to the rest of the EU. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EU to scrap straight banana laws Wednesday, 12 November 2008 We will soon be able to buy knobbly carrots and ugly apples again Curvy cucumbers will be back on sale in the shops from next July if, as expected, more than two dozen laws banning imperfect-looking fruit and veg are scrapped today. EU-wide marketing standards ensuring only the finest-looking produce reaches supermarket shelves have been in force for 20 years. But to reduce red tape and bureaucracy - and make cheaper fruit and veg available as household bills rise - eurocrats say it is time the unnecessary restrictions disappear. EU standards currently stipulate the size and shape of 36 types of fruit and veg sold in Europe, from apricots to watermelons. If today's vote goes through, the rules will be repealed for 26 of them, including artichokes, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, cucumbers, onions, peas, carrots, plums, and ribbed celery. Specific market rules would stay in place for the 10 products which account for 75% of EU fruit and veg trade - apples, citrus fruit, kiwi fruit, lettuces, peaches/nectarines, pears, strawberries, sweet peppers, table grapes and tomatoes. But national authorities could exempt even those 10 from the rules on shape and size, as long as they are put on sale labelled as "product intended for processing" or something similar. The Commission said that, if the vote goes through, the changes cannot be implemented until the start of July next year, for practical reasons. But when the mis-shapen produce does reach the shelves, retailers estimate it could be sold as much as 40% cheaper than the current "class one" goods. Conservative MEP Neil Parish said: "These crazy rules have to go immediatelly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Janet Devers, 64, said she was "in shock" at the decision to sentence her for selling the goods in pounds and ounces rather than kilos and grams. Magistrates ordered Mrs Devers, from Wanstead, east London, to pay just under £5,000 in costs and told her she would have a criminal record after being found guilty of eight offences under the Weights and Measures Act. Related Articles * Janet Devers, the metric martyr The "metric martyr" was also convicted of selling vegetables for £1 a bowl rather than counting them out individually, a common practice among Britain's estimated 40,000 market traders to help customers confused by metric measures. "I am flabbergasted by the decision," the pensioner and mother-of-two told The Sunday Telegraph. "Last year the EU commissioner said that Brussels didn't want to criminalise people selling in pounds and ounces – and yet the British authorities are doing exactly that. |
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| Author: | echo15 [ Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:05 pm ] |
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We didn't see one PH either!
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