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Aye, you're right enough, it was only a matter of time before it started to bite.

I reckon it will be about August before it really hits. The worrying thing is, auld Gordon Brown is in the last chance saloon. If he can't kick start the economy now he's fecked and job are already starting to go .. . .

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

You can't fault anyone paying 50K for a plate under the economic conditions we have now.

A perfect time to buy?

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

Stu, where are you?

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

I'm still here Skull, just in just now, the taxis are working well tonight again, well oiled machine springs to mind.

Lots of EuroIV vehicles out there as well by the way, quality thats hard to find elsewhere.

Not trying to disparage you and Jims efforts at delivering your blueprint for change but it seems mad to try and change the success that the taxi trade is in Edinburgh.

Agents for change! Agents for tupperware parties might be more suitable.

Personally I can't wait for the second one and then the third and then etc, etc.

Actually since Jim has done this for me, apparently, I look forward to the handover of the licence,free, should he get it.

I just wished I'd bought in earlier Skull, you must be full of regrets as well and you had your chances before I suppose but even then it would appear that the thought of the quick easy cash got the better of you.

I believe you make your own luck in this world, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, I've already won stage one and this is just the spoils from stage one which allows me to move seamlessly to stage two.

Anyway thats in the past now and I'm looking forwards not backwards and to be honest I think most people are, your still fighting yesterdays battles whilst most people are preparing for tomorrows.

By the time you get what you want it will only be because nobody else wants it.

Do you know Skull there is one thing that puzzles me about you guys and I've always wanted to ask, and it is this, how come you lot all failed, considering you all have an insatiable appetite for taxi licences how come none of you have one after all those years?

Can't say I noticed much of a difference in business levels in Edinburgh, if anything this has been a very busy couple of nights, theres been four taxis past my window in the last couple of minutes.

It seems fairly steady here.

Delusion is a funny thing Stu, it sort of skews your perception of reality. Not that you were ever in the real world, you visited occasionally but couldn’t handle it.

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

Well the last two nights were fairly busy when I was out there, and that is the real world.

I wouldn't try and talk it down to much if I was you, have you just arrived in this country or something, do you remember only the good times?

I remember the early seventies, three day week, oil crisis,rampant inflation, strikes and then the late seventies culminating in the winter of discontent.

The first half of the nineteen-eighties, mass unemployment, more strikes and very little pay for the working man and woman.

The early nineties were interesting as well, still here though and still surviving,Worked through it all apart from the early seventies.

Workers always win in the end Skull and I have others things I can do, other things I want to do, I'll do them as well.

I've never relied on the council to bail me out so my conscience is clear, to be fair I've got to much to do at the moment to deal with this childish rubbish just now Skull.

I'll speak to you later, much.

Stu, Friday was shi*e. The work just isn’t there. Yes, you can still make money but you’ve got to milk the hours. It’s bloody hard going. There is very little country work and picking a choosing your jobs is becoming a thing of the past. I found myself picking up shi*e just to get money on the meter. It could be said that, I like to pick an choose my fares, but who really wants to pick up shi*?

I think you’ve got a severe does of seeing your world through rose tinted spectacles. You should have gone to specsavers, it would have cost you a lot less than 50K.



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

This may come as a surprise to you Gary but Fri was actually ok.
Yes it's getting a lot quieter on a Fri and Sat and to quote you here,"the work just isn't there".Now tell us all,what would solve the non eventful weekends then...."more taxi's on the road" .I don't know if you realise the extent of which you have contradicted yourself in this post but read it again and it's as plain as the nose on your face."It's bloody hard",now are you saying it would not be "bloody hard"with all the extra taxi's on the road ?."Very little country work",now is that a bad thing, taking into account the price of diesel which you keep reminding us of ?
"i found myself picking up sh*te just to get money",now are you saying you are not providing the public with a service here ?
I don't know what Jim will make of this point giving that he tells us all it is the public who are being let down
Now do you still think it is Stu with the "rose tinted glasses"?
I do look forward to your response here and that what you really meant was......

Skull if you shovel sheet fast enough you end up with a nice pile,
its far better to do loads of short quick ones, than longer runs when its busy, remember every time you hit the hired button it starts at what ever your starting rate starts at, giving you more

Maybe thats why I always done okay at the taxiing, I never discriminated, always remember many a mickle macks a muckle.

It makes you wonder how owners can charge £300+ for a rental now doesn't it?

As for more cabs, I say once again; same driver, same job, driving his own single shifted taxi.

You're not to quick on the uptake are you Saf?

The only ones to suffer are ar*holes like you

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

And I repeat, 6 licences issued last year all bar one double shifted !!

Point

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

Your the one not getting it.
Double shifting is only common because there are far more drivers than cabs to go round.
Supply and demand.

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