jasbar wrote:
Problem is GA that it's pseudo-elected officials like you who have dragged the trade down.
How have you gathered enough information to decide that I am a pseudo-elected official .................. and could you please supply evidence on exactly how I have dragged the trade down. Please don't hesitate to be specific.
jasbar wrote:
What exists is little more than a trade desperate to hang onto its restrictive practices to avoid it having to compete in the wider economic world.
Absolute nonsense ............ 80% of my members do not have a plate which could attract a premium so have no plate value to protect ............. it should also be pointed out that what we would like to see is a trade regulated by high professional standards ................ never mind the wider economic world ........... we much prefer to live in the real world.
jasbar wrote:
Where have our "representatives" ever promoted modernisation? Where have they ever directly involve those whom they purport to represent? Where have they ever fedback information about the cabal they operate in.
I couldn't possibly comment on your representatives Jasbar but we constantly promote modernisation and seek new opportunities for our members .................. oh and when we were consulted on the 36 policy changes we insisted that all drivers be individually consulted, and they all recieved consultation papers ......... and when the ph operators found out they insisted that their drivers left the consultation to them (and most did, although this was reported to the council).
jasbar wrote:
Truth is, without the coming of the internet, sites like TDO, we would still all be subject to the tried and tested management techniques of the vested interest taxi trade:-
Mushroom management - Keep them in the dark and feed them sh i te.
Unless you moved to Gateshead. You don't need to tell me about the power of internet forums I have been involved in them for more years than I care to remember ......................... but what you should remember is that they are bias to the oipinion of the site owners and so what gets debated are the more imotive issues .................. now I can tell you that some people will put up with a whole load of $hit to get their points across whilst others are not willing to put up with the abuse and stop posting ................. and its only fools that believe chasing people away from forums with a tirade of abuse means that they are right.
B. Lucky
