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WTD says not self employed
no answer on are your members involved in importing drivers
Do you fear another Brighton im sure you do a small outfit such as yours CANT deal with Europe and your members realise it.Cant put fares up beacuse your not political enough and you know it.Equals powerless so your members are wasting their contributions is the penny beginning to drop??????????????????????????????????????????????
Note your back in schnide comment mode youve been tumbled mate.

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Bit late for you Terry?

Problems sleeping at the moment?

Would'nt have anything to do with the potential embarrasment of having 6 people turing up next week in front of your impressive stage line up?

Well if that's the case regarding the WTD then it inst an issue, because the NTA are self employed.

I am not aware of NTA members importing drivers, but am aware of a number of PH Operators who do.

Why should I fear 'another Brighton' ?

Why cant I deal with Europe? I believe the IRU can.

I tend to believe Politics has no part to play in licensing, we have licensing law which is different to licensing policy.

As for subscriptions, please tell me why my local association should pay your union £10,000, because £10,000 is what we would be expected to pay.

Furthermore, please tell me why I should pay your union £10,000 when I myself know more about the licensing policy and system here, than you do.

Is the penny beginning to drop that you know about as much about the provincial licensed trade as a turnip????????

Is the penny beginning to drop that I wouldnt want my subscriptions to go towards keeping idiots like yourself in a position you are vastly under qualified for????????

Is the penny beginning to drop that I wouldnt want to put my subscriptions towards a political party????????

Is the penny beginning to drop that some people consider this a profession and we dont really need people representing us who have only entered the profession because they managed to f*ck up their own??????

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Bollitics

I am pretty sure a few of you out there are either stupid, ignorant, blind or illiterate. To blame deregulation on any one political party is tantamount to blaming every German for the holocaust, every Iraqi for the insurgency or every Muslim for 7/7. The last few years has shown us, whether your local authority is Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem or No overall control, they are all seemingly guilty of bringing in deregulation in their own little berg, very often on the whim of a licensing department.

Fair enough, the 1985 transport act hasn’t helped keep regulation, but given the alternative, there is a mechanism in place if a local authority has the ‘will or the way’ to retain a degree of control. So blame it on the sunshine, blame it on the moonlight, blame it on the good times, blame it on the Tory’s. If you like Labour that is. Naturally, if you like the Tory’s, you can blame three terms of Labour intransigence, the OFT report or whatever you like to keep the current mob from being held in the moral dock for treason. If you like the Lib Dems, then you could naturally make yourself out to be a little bit of a joke and tell people nobody would expect you to take power anyway.

So why is the Reiver bothering his backside writing about such a moronic issue as politics?

Well, it appears to me that local politicians have a political version torretts syndrome, however, instead of shouting expletives, they shout deregulation. It doesn’t seem to matter what political persuasion they are, it would appear to be a disease that affects politicians of all political ilks.

It was interesting to see ‘Cab Trade News’ recently having a pop at David Cameron, new leader of the Tories. Fair enough I suppose, I mean the guy in the picture does appear a little smug, a little like a double glazing salesman. The same paper states Labours answer will be Gordon Brown, to reinvigorate the Labour Party. Really? Gordon Brown reinvigorate? Surely that’s a contradiction in terms. The guy has the charisma of a Turnip. It would seem criticising the Tories is fair play, but we cannot seemingly ask what exactly after 10 years of labour rule have the current hypocritical bunch done for us? VAT is still in cab fares, we are still treated as third class in the transport system, we cannot reclaim fuel duty, they let their OFT dog’s loose on us and in three years time the first phase of the government DDA will start (very nice in Manchester but what about Appleby in Westmoreland?)

I almost forgot, whilst the press can have a pop at David Cameron, he didn’t actually give the order to invade Iraq, based on one of the biggest lies since the big bad wolf tried told little red riding hood the bears had eaten the porridge (fairly tales were never my forte).

Someone far more intelligent than me once did say, War begins because politics fails. Obviously, we have a bunch of failures in Parliament, but significantly more in local politics.

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Funny, in a post you made a few minutes ago and about three hours after you posted the above you claim that you employ drivers.



What about NTA members who are PH operators?

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The NTA are self employed, my drivers are employees.



That'll be me and my 2 PHV's?

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Anyone going to answer the questions????????????
Capt you obviously lack any understanding of the real world POLITICIANS decide everything your last episcle was the longest suicide note in history.Unorganised,politicaly nieve,no money,no influence,divided ,racist,exploiters,and the exploited.dangerous,near the bottom of the earnings league,recognise the industry,youve obviously had a great influence,and still wont listen Europe could through the WTDcould be your graveyard.The shame is you could take many with you!

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Terry, your talking b*llocks.

Politically your in the 19th Century

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George Carlin

So the hypocritical bunch of halfwits that govern us have banned smoking in public places have they? It does make sense, I mean smoking does kill people. Obviously, invading places like Iraq on the false pretence they are making weapons of mass destruction doesn’t kill people then? Although I’m fairly certain the families of the 100 British soldiers killed would disagree. Things are certainly far better in Iraq now aren’t they, I mean they have no running water and no electricity, but they are free after all.

Next time your near a cab rank on a Saturday night / Sunday morning, the people are not killing each other due to a craving for cigarettes, yet the government in their infinite wisdom don’t choose to ban alcohol do they?

The government are making laws like no other government has ever done before, and that’s a fact too (I know its rare to have facts in this column but please do try and keep up). The nanny state has never been so much of a nanny.

I smoke, I’m a smoker…. when I go to Spain, the cigarettes, made in the UK but sold in Spain, cost me about 1/3rd of the price they cost here, this equates to paying one hell of an amount of tax per cigarette. So please, you liberal bunch of non-smokers out there, don’t go down the road of saying I cost the country more money, because I don’t, I pay tax, more tax than you.

Indeed, when I eventually have to visit hospital, I want / demand an entire ward to myself, because at almost £5 per pack, with £4 tax, at 1 pack per day, that equates to £1460 per year or £29200 over 20 years. I pay more than a non-smoker, so I want better facilities, indeed the more I smoke the better the facilities should be. In the ‘Reiver wing’ of the hospital, dedicated to us smokers, we will ban all non-smokers, it will be obligatory to slap nurses across the backside and go ‘ooooh matron’.


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Sorry I was a bit confused by your curious phrase "the NTA are self employed", because of course the NTA is not a person and thus can't be self employed. However, I construed the phrase to mean that the NTA and its constituent members were self-employed, and I had assumed that your firm was a constituent member and thus to that extent your drivers too? Or is NTA membership merely optional? Or perhaps only the self-employed are eligible for membership?

And if employed drivers are eligible for membership how do you know that the NTA has no such members?

But perhaps you could clear things up by simply saying what you actually mean when you say "the NTA are self-employed"?



Well, I don't know, I daresay there are others operating PH vehicles?

For example, when the NTA was based in Brighton and Mr NTA was part of Brighton Streamline, they operated PH, didn't they?

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Well if you want things decided at the local level under the current legislation then I'm afraid you're stuck with the politics

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And nationaly surely??????????

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