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Taxi boss who supported Better Together reveals his anger after SNP councillor calls for cab boycott



GRANGE Radio Cabs owner Gordon Alexander says they've lost about 50 hires a day since David Alexander, ex-leader of Falkirk Council, urged people not to use his firm.

A NO-SUPPORTING taxi boss yesterday condemned a leading SNP councillor for urging customers to boycott his firm.

David Alexander – a former leader of Falkirk Council – wrote in a Facebook message that Grange Radio Cabs were “owned by a unionist who had all his cars running for Better Together”.

He added that SNP supporters “may want to remember this if they are looking for a cab”.

Grange owner Gordon Alexander, who is not related to the councillor, says his firm have lost about 50 hires a day following the Facebook message in December.

Gordon appeared in a Better Together leaflet but said his business partner Derek Martin was an SNP supporter. He added: “Derek is a staunch SNP man and was totally disgusted by the Facebook post. We have lost a significant amount of work.

“I helped the No campaign but it is totally false that we had drivers running for Better Together.

“I don’t know why he wrote this. I’ve never seen the man in my life.”

Labour councillor Craig Martin, now leader of the council, has written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urging her to suspend councillor Alexander.

He added: “I’ve been approached by other business figures who have concerns that this could just be the tip of the iceberg in Falkirk.”

Cllr Alexander has since removed the controversial Facebook post but continues to claim that his remarks were accurate.

He said: “People have the right to choose what causes they endorse and, equally, people have the right to choose where they contract services based on accurate information.

“If the owners are concerned about the content of a Facebook post seen by a few dozen people,
then I find it strange they seek to highlight the issue in a national newspaper.

“That would appear to be the actions of a political activist rather than a concerned businessman.”

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/polit ... er-4958199

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George Carlin

very true - people have the right to ask for white drivers (except in the UK where you'll get vilified by the press who pump up racist tensions with every other story), people have the right to make sick jokes about bin lorries (except in Scotland where you'll get reported to the police), people have the right to sketch cartoons lampooning others (except in the UK where our press would be prosecuted), people have the right to make ill informed comments about ebola victims (except in Scotland where you'll get reported to the police)


this is the chap - http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/coun ... ander.aspx

heres the expenses - https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/cou ... 1406061503

not guilty - http://www.publicstandardscommissioner. ... 1/lafa1146

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George Carlin

Aye...We are fast changing into an oppressed state up here, It's like communism wrapped in a very thin veneer of Goldleaf..

SNP COUNCILLOR HITS BACK AT FALKIRK TAXI BOSS AMID BOYCOTT CLAIMS



A SNP councillor has hit back at newspaper reports he urged a boycott of a Falkirk taxi firm because the owner supported the Better Together campaign.

David Alexander – a former leader of Falkirk Council – is said to have wrote in a Facebook message that Grange Radio Cabs were “owned by a unionist who had all his cars running for Better Together”.

Adding that SNP supporters “may want to remember this if they are looking for a cab”.

Grange Radio Cabs owner Gordon Alexander, says his firm have lost about 50 hires a day as a result.

Councillor Alexander has responded saying he’s never asked for a boycott of the taxi firm.

http://www.centralfm.co.uk/posts/falkir ... es-boycott

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Oh it is not just where you are! Our local rag has taken its forum off that covered many topics & has stopped any comments at the bottom of an article unless it is about sport.......censorship, and political protection, is alive and well.

Before long there will a knock on the door in the middle of the night

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

A certain narrow minded councillors (who's now in denial) brain must be connected directly with his sphincter, thus allowing it to squeeze petty and prejudiced shite out without first going through any processes of rational thought or fairness....I bet he even has the gall to promote the virtues of diversity and equaility in his council doings..it's double standards at it's worse.

What a non-story. How could he possibly know why his firm is 50 hires a week down on last year? If they even are, that is.
People are entitled to phone any firm they like, and if they don't want to phone his that's just tough.
Perhaps he should have considered public opinion before wrapping his firm up in the Union Jack.

I doubt the good people of his area pay that much attention to the facebook postings of Cllr Alexander or any other local politician. I dare say the local paper gets far more attention.
One has to wonder what he hopes to achieve by washing his unionist linen in such a public way? He can't exactly make people phone his firm.
Maybe he wants to shed even more hires next month?

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50 hires a day? that'll be about a 1/5-1/4 of his daily total. I think he may have been economical with the truth, in this statement.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

i USED TO USE PH company then they put a vote Tory leaflet in their window i refrained from torching the gaff ,,,,,,,,,,,,,but never used them again

Then there was a Driver i used to request and he turned out to be a Royalist blue nose,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,wont use that piece of sh$te either.

and as for Tottenham supporters fekk orf never ever or HUN SUPPORTERS

SOCIALISTS GUNNERS CELTIC SINN FEINN INLA

TROTSKYITES

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Typical communists

Typical brain dead fascist answer

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as usual from the SCAB

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