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| Author: | Stinky Pete [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Councils spying on taxi drivers |
Daily Mail article on council using anti-terror laws |
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| Author: | no tips [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:00 pm ] |
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if the councils put this money into extra collections instead if the spying all would be happy and there would be no rubbish in the streets |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:45 pm ] |
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Quote: Shami Chakrabarti: 'Snooping appears to have become the favourite pastime in town halls up and down the land'
beautiful british name |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:23 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: Quote: Shami Chakrabarti: 'Snooping appears to have become the favourite pastime in town halls up and down the land' beautiful british name So this lady is trying to protect our freedoms, and all you can do is rip the pi** out of her name. 
For the record, her, and her sister who works for the BBC, are fine people doing a good job. |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:40 pm ] |
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Bloody Council Jobsworths..have they forgotten who it is that pays their wages....its us..The Council Tax Payer. Up the Revolution!!!! |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:13 pm ] |
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Sussex wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: Quote: Shami Chakrabarti: 'Snooping appears to have become the favourite pastime in town halls up and down the land' beautiful british name So this lady is trying to protect our freedoms, and all you can do is rip the pi** out of her name. For the record, her, and her sister who works for the BBC, are fine people doing a good job. i think we have all seen what the BBC is worth this week sack em all i say, and the council desk jockey's.... |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:22 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: i think we have all seen what the BBC is worth this week
I think the BBC is simply fantastic. Maybe a tad PC/tree hugging, but full value for money. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:56 pm ] |
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Sussex wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: i think we have all seen what the BBC is worth this week I think the BBC is simply fantastic. Maybe a tad PC/tree hugging, but full value for money. so you agree with Wossie getting £18,000,000 per year? er, hello, credit crunch..... hes a "comedian" according to the info available 
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:37 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: so you agree with Wossie getting £18,000,000 per year?
Of course not, but that doesn't mean the BBC is rotten. That said, I quite like Ross and, dare I say it, Brand. 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:38 pm ] |
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the SERVICE is quite good, but the content can be dire, ross/brand are the sort that let it down just to be trendy and to appeal to the very young, as al Murray said about the war in Iraq (to a student) "when you pay for the guns/missiles THEN you can complain how they are used, and not before" and hes right isnt he, so why is the BBC (paid for by the taxpayer) always sucking up to trendy younger sorts when they dont pay towards it? we have patients lying in corridors on trolleys due to the lack of beds through funding cuts and wossie is on £18,000,000 of taxpayers money children have have collections to get school books and the BBC gives away money like that, mind you, i heard they spent £17,000,000 on taxis so maybe i can see where your coming from |
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| Author: | toots [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:33 pm ] |
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Apparently when it comes to Taxis the BBC don't appear to think outside the box so to speak. They do have a company in Manchester and no doubt other parts of the country that they have contracts with, but, it would seem that nobody has told them they only have to pay for the taxi one way. So if they required somebody picking up in Liverpool for e.g they would use somebody like Cabfind to source a company to supply a taxi in Liverpool to go to Manchester rather than ask the Manchester company to go pick somebody up from Liverpool and bring them to Manchester. This use of the likes of Cabfind is not cheap and they are doing this all the time and costing the taxpayer a bundle. I wouldn't mind so much but most of the time it is to pick up celebs, it must be the poor ones that have no money to pay for their taxi to appear on shows to keep them a celeb, it's all kinda strange to me 
With regards to the council spying on us we've had quite a few taxi drivers done for dropping litter. In fact I heard they spent a week watching a couple of drivers who made a habit of visiting Maccys and dropping their litter then sent an accumalated fine to both of them You also receive a notice about the laws of dropping litter and apparently if your passenger throws litter out of your vehicle it is YOU who is fined not the passenger 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:55 pm ] |
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I could be a BBC national taxi co-ordinator then, and introduce amazing ideas like.... Manchester airport to Salford........lets use a Manchester taxi firm or even more radical, lets put it all out to tender for a price per mile nah, they would sack me for being stupid |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:09 am ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: ross/brand are the sort that let it down just to be trendy and to appeal to the very young
The very young, as you put it, are also entitled to a bit of the BBC's time/out-put. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:10 am ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: we have patients lying in corridors on trolleys due to the lack of beds through funding cuts and wossie is on £18,000,000 of taxpayers money
The same could be said for many of those so-called premiership superstars. |
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| Author: | acabbie [ Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:32 am ] |
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Ross signed up for £18,000,000 over 3 years, a lowly 6 million a year
Guess he can be funny at times, annoying at others but no way worth 18 big ones over 3 years. The BBC in London no longer use Taxi's but instead prefer to use the services of the PH mob, guess it may have something to do with their PC policy seeing as the majority of PH drivers i see around are of an ethnic origin. 
BBC value for money ? hmmm, not sure; some of the content such as the documentaries are fantastic, very informative and very well filmed but then you get tripe such as vicar of Dibley, Little Britain and strictly come dancing not to mention that God awful Eastenders that really should be taken off air ASAP.
Check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/ for more info on your licence fee......though had to giggle at this bit:- Quote: he BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests.
Are you sure about that BBC ?
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