captain cab wrote:
The vested interests to which you refer are generalised, and this is something that gets people confused.
Admittedly, if I was a multiple plate holder in a restricted authority, I may have a vested interest, the same goes for a single plate owner. However, you constantly fail to grasp the fact that some in the trade have borrowed money, with their houses/kneecaps/testicles as security.
Whilst it is all well and good a small section of the sacred goat that is M&R stating that these people will be respected, the fact of the matter is that they aren't, when councils delimit, they (the poor sucker who has a plate on hp) are shafted, pure and simple.
As for the activities currently around the nation, the domino theory is a fact, but an insult and disrespectful to everybody concerned.
We can express views, but ultimately we are not responsible for the actions of LAs.
By the way, I don't think the bit you alluded to in M&R is actually there, it's in one of the articles on the frontpage.
As for the vested interests, I don't think it really matters how many plates people have or how they got them or how long they've had them, a vested interest is a vested interest, ie:
From Dictionary.com:
- A special interest in protecting or promoting that which is to one's own personal advantage.
- vested interests - Those groups that seek to maintain or control an existing system or activity from which they derive private benefit.
From Bartelby.com
A phrase that indicates a deep personal (and possibly financial) interest in some political or economic proposal: “As a major stockholder of the Ford Motor Company, Senator Bilge had a vested interest in legislation restricting the import of Japanese autos.” The plural, vested interests, often refers to powerful, wealthy property holders: “His radical policies enraged vested interests.”