Taxi Driver Online

So is the only representative organisation in Edinburgh the (defunct?) Cabforce?

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Taxi Driver Online
www.taxi-driver.co.uk

and rcff of course
we cant forget him, for that matter we cant shoot of him iether! unfortunately
if he was an animal we could get him put down,poor guy obviously ate to much beef from realcabforce during the bse scare

Quite hard going, handing all those New Letter out to all these digruntled drivers looking to challenge the council for their own plate.


I know, I've been beating them off with a stick but they just won't listen to me. I keep telling them to buy a plate for 45K but they want one for £700 can't understand it myself. I thought 45K was a good price but they don't seem to think so.

Going to my bed now, the strain of it all.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

is it just me or is rcff post getting a tad worse over time
here is his early work



hardly poetry i think we all agree but its gotta be better than this



i think the post seem to be getting shorter and punchier
or is he just getting to his point by editing out all the meaningless p*sh
and just leaving the cursing in ???

Well if there is any others it must be a secret, cause I have not heard of one, ridiculous really considering there are 3000 plus license holders.

Thats probably got more to do with the mess this is turning into than anything else.

lol I wouldn't take much notice of what others say Ali, especially the people you refer to as idiots? They are no doubt happy in their own little world so perhaps we should leave them that way.

Regards

JD

Well it's grabbed plenty of your attention, so it must be doing something right.

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IDFIMH

Well all the time you are on here, then we are helping all your fellow drivers earn more. Also we are doing your punters a big favour by keeping them out of your cab.

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IDFIMH

It's called losing the argument, and losing the plot.

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all gone very quiet
everyone must be busy reading

Streetcar dont believe everything you read and hear, a recent report stated that in Edinburgh



One in nine of city population 'living in poverty' says study

GARETH EDWARDS


MORE than 50,000 people in Edinburgh are living in poverty and relying on benefits, new figures reveal.

And 9000 of the city's residents are classed as living in Scotland's most deprived areas, which include parts of Craigmillar, Muirhouse and Pennywell.


The sobering figures come from a new study into deprivation in Scotland, which looks at the nation's most impoverished areas and examines why people are trapped in the cycle of poverty.

Looking at health, education, housing and employment, it has been drawn up to help the Scottish Executive work out where investment needs to be channelled to tackle social problems.

The study found that in Edinburgh, 52,821 people were classed as income deprived - 11 per cent of the city's total population.

And 24 areas of the city, with populations of around 750 people, were classed as being in the most deprived five per cent areas of Scotland.

Craigmillar was highlighted as the most deprived area in Edinburgh - the 19th most deprived in Scotland - and it was estimated that at least half of the people there were out of work.

David Walker, secretary of Craigmillar Community Council,

said: "I can imagine Craigmillar will be fairly high up the list when it comes to low levels of income. The last analysis we saw put the average earnings of residents in Craigmillar at £10,000 a year, so we're well aware of this problem.

"It is becoming increasingly difficult for families on low income to take that step up."

The Social Focus on Deprived Areas report divided Scotland into population "pockets" of around 750 people, and gathers figures on education, the NHS and the multiple index of deprivation.

The study gathered information about families who are on benefits, including income support, jobseeker's allowances and working families tax credits.

It used the information to find which areas of Scotland were classed as in the most deprived five per cent.

In total, 9256 people lived in the city's - and Scotland's - worst areas, including Craigmillar Castle Loan, Muirhouse Crescent, and Niddrie Mains.

Across Scotland, household incomes are increasing, but there is no indication that the gap between rich and poor is closing.

The analysis showed that people living in the 15 per cent most deprived areas of Scotland were four times more likely to be receiving income support than those living in the rest of Scotland.

More than 40 per cent of children in these areas were dependent on someone in the home receiving income support, compared with just ten per cent of children in the rest of Scotland.

Christina Cran, spokeswoman for Shelter Scotland, the housing and homeless charity, said: "The deprivation and poverty that exists in Scotland is often hidden from sight.

"Shelter staff see each day the effects that a mixture of issues such as debt, bad housing and insecurity can have on people's lives. It can bring about ill health, a lack of self-esteem and a cycle of homelessness that can be hard to break.

"Shelter hopes the new research from the Executive is used to bring about real change to people's lives in Scotland's life by investing support and finance into areas of multiple deprivation."

Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm said: "We are absolutely committed to tackling the problems of our most deprived communities. It is essential we know the full picture so that resources can be targeted where they are needed. This detailed analysis gives us that."

Lord Provost Lesley Hinds said: "While Edinburgh has a strong economy, we are aware that there are also deprived areas

http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=2006192005

It's the same all over the place.


As for an exit strategy, not compensation, a gradual process, however this will probably not be an issue up here for the forseeable future.

you sound so confident william, you almost have me believing you
a gradual process of what? doing nothing
as for forsight, some peoples are shorter than others

compensation is a hard one to qualify
who paid what,when,was it a free plate etc
it certainly wouldnt be right just to give anyone who has a plate £40,000
would it

Well I think Skull posted something along similar lines on the other thread.


Skull wrote

"De-restriction does not have to be a cataclysmic affair. No one said put hundreds of cabs on right away. (Regardless of what the papers say, I never said a hundred) De-restriction could mean a number of cabs being put on every month to a working formula. Let’s say 8-10-15 cabs for instance. A proper waiting list with the opportunity to acquire your licence sometime in the future, you would still have the opportunity to buy a plate from someone who wants to sell. The advantages being you don’t have to wait for your turn on the list. The qualification requirement for topo test could and should be set by taxi drivers together with other modules which create a higher standard of professionalism within the trade slowing down the whole process. A host of things could be done, but this would mean taking control back from the council and the trade mandarins who claim to represent us."


Or in other words Ali an exit strategy