Brummie Cabbie wrote:
Now where have I heard exactly those conditions of IMO and if you look at the timings when they were set up, the NATU was specifically born just before the Select Committee hearings on Cross Border issues so that they could be invited as 'national reps for taxi users'.
So you're saying the TransComm itself had some input as regards to NATU's set up?
Or NATU set itself up because of the TransComm meeting?
On the first point that would certainly be unsatisfactory, but I don't think NATU has said anything much regards the cross-border issue and indeed has questioned restricted numbers, which is certainly something that the TransComm wouldn't welcome
If on the other hand it's the second point that's more relevant then I can't really see the issue - the rare occasion when these issues are being debated on the national stage would seem an opportune time to set up a consumer representative organisation, don't you think?
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Now that's one way of getting on the panel of people that a select committee might invite or listen to, but how can you put that kind of set-up on a par with the NTA, LTDA, Unite, GMB, etc, who have spent decades and half centuries representing the trade
So because any consumer organisation has to be set up from scratch then to that extent you're implying that it lacks legitimacy?
And perhaps you're right about the LTDA, but the NTA, Unite, GMB et al, "represent
the trade"?
They represent a vested interest therein is perhaps a better way of putting it.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black bum
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