MR T wrote:
You still have not to explained what a carpetbagger is..... and as for the lottery.... there is nothing to stop a council from putting in place a policy... that policy could be that licences would only be issued to existing drivers that have been in the trade for more than three years... it could include both private hire and hackney.... it could include a number of things as long as they are reasonable..... I repeat define carpetbagger.....
There's lots of factors that could be considered, and I gave an extreme example earlier. Another might be mutli-plate holders
But you've already significantly tightened your definition of a lottery - you orginally said "everyone's name in a hat" - and are thus missing the point I made.
I could tighten my definition of a lottery even more... but then that would not be fun..... I like to see how many little grey cells other people have.... or even if they have any...