Taxi Driver Online

After another rant about a comment or comments on TDO by the Dundee license (Tory) chairman at the start of the monthly meeting it is apparent that he has become obsessed with TDO .It has become a regular thing that he starts the meeting with his views on comments that have been made on TDO . His latest rant was to accuse STATIONTONE of being a political loose cannon . If the definition of a political loose cannon is someone that wants Scotland to be rid of Tory Westminster influence forever by wanting Independence and Dundee to never again have a labour administration who brought the city of Dundee to its knees and ruined the Dundee taxi trade then the Tory councillor must be spot on .
I just hope that he has used his own computer for visiting a social Internet forum site and not a council one but i am sure a FOI will clear that up . SAOR ALBA

I'm not so sure you're right on this one.

The cab trade has continuenly griped about councillors and LO's not understanding the cab trade........can the cab trade therefore admonish them for looking at TDO and getting a generalised view??

Your position on Scottish independence is well known, how this can be used against you in a licensing matter is personally beyond me, and I would hope every decent thinking person.

But if councils are reading TDO......then I would generally applaud this and them for doing so, they'll probably learn more from TDO than any meeting they attend.

CC

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I can't see how a licensing councillor visiting a taxi trade forum on a council computer could be deemed to be off-limits, Tone, so I can't really see you getting very far with that one.

Indeed the original intention behind TDO was to get the likes of LOs and councillors reading it, but in view of much of the material on here it's perhaps preferable if they didn't

But unless the current TDO admin wants merely a private forum for invited members - or someone else wants to set up another site to cater for such a market - then you're just going to have to accept that whatever you say on here is for public consumption and is thus fair game politically.

Well said Captain Cab, but somehow I doubt if the chairman mentioned Tone's stance on independence. That's what Tone's written above and is clearly his own interpretation. I don't think Tone said that the chairman actually mentioned Tone's views on independence.

Thanks.....and yeah you're right, what TDO is about is getting councillors and LO's on board......hopefully they'll see us having rucks and sucklike but appreciate certain issues are quite contentious?

I disagree with stationtone on numerous things......but how can his political views....and I presume they're on scots being allowed to go their own way.....be confused with taxi policy???

CC

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George Carlin

Perhaps it's a question of who's doing the confusing - Tone or the licensing chairman.

I would have thought the word political would have given it away

You clearly have not been reading my posts since i joined this forum ye numpty

Well perhaps you could explain rather than just namecalling?

What a lazy answer, i bet you do not know i spend many many hours unpaid trying to do the best for taxis drivers and operators in the Dundee area , i do not get it right all the time but i try ye numpty .

No, I don't know how many unpaid hours you spend on Dundee taxi matters, but I do know that I've spent thousands of hours setting up TDO and subsequently trying to make the best of it as an...er...I've kind of forgotten its initial purpose, but suffice to say things didn't quite work out as intended.

And I do know that the last time you raised your chairman mentioning something from TDO you had to issue an apology on here.

And I do know that you've been using a taxi trade forum to promote the SNP and Scottish independence.

And I do know that on many occassions you've connected your local SNP politicians and councillors with taxi policy in Dundee.

And I do know that in opening this thread you turned an unspecific comment from your licensing chairman about you being a 'political loose cannon' into a specific point about party politics and Scottish independence.

And I do know you made an irrelevant point about councillors using local authority computer equipment to read Taxi Driver Online.

Thus doesn't this thread actually prove the point that your licensing chairman was trying to make?

So rather than shouting abuse at people who question what you say wouldn't you do better to do yourself a favour and think about what you're posting and where you're posting it if you make it obvious what your real-life identity is?

Have you ever wondered why myself - who set TDO up - and the current administrators don't use their real names?

Perhaps, but I would imagine that the more likely result is to see a bunch of sociopathic, misanthropic, racist, homophobic bigots defaming, abusing and threatening each other and indeed councillors, officials, politicians and members of the public, and thus give it a very wide body swerve.

I mean, it's difficult enough to get the powers that be interested in the trade as it is, so do you really think calling them 'window lickers' and 'cnuts' is the best way to go about things, not to mention the stuff posted by the even bigger loose cannons on the forum?

Unfortunately for many people in the trade, forums like this just demonstrate that they can be their own worst enemies.



As I said in my response to him above it seems to be Tone who's bringing the overty political aspect into taxi policy, which is supposedly non-political. And then blaming other people who bring that to his attention.

That is spot on. Its amazing how quick you get a response from a Council when the matter has been ventilated on here.

Yes, I think that was the point of Tone's thread

Seriously though, if you're even halfway correct if the dross that's posted on here could be eliminated then we could have seen Captain Casey or Sussex as prime minister by now.

Thus I suspect David Cameron's position won't be threatened anytime soon

I will use any outlet to give support to Independence if your no happy cancel my membership