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Standard gets the horn over taxi claim


Northcliffe House's noisy protest

The London Evening Standard appears to have ruffled a few feathers among the London cabbie community. A handful of black cabs expressed their displeasure outside the paper's Northcliffe House headquarters on Wednesday lunchtime, honking their horns in unison before deciding to move on.

Monkey hears that the protest was over this article in Friday's Standard which claimed cabbies were holding London mayor Boris Johnson to "ransom" in asking to increase fares by 20% during next year's Olympics and Paralympics.


The article carried a smattering of vox pops slamming the cabbies' demands as "absolutely outrageous", "shocking" and "profiteering". Standard hacks might have a long wait for a taxi after work tonight.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamo ... sfeed=true

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

That told the Standard didn't it.

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IDFIMH

Good job the hacks didn't come out (that's the journalist hacks, not the drivers) or they might have got a good handbagging

They were too busy making up stories

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

well they'd never sell any papers if they only printed truth would they !

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