Roselyn wrote:
Kenny MacAskill has never said the things that "guest" attributes to him. Talk about myth making!
In big cities like Edinburgh the knowledge test must be passed. It takes a great deal of time and effort to pass the Edinburgh test. It is a huge commitment and anyone passing the test has made a big personal investment. Men who pass the test tend to stay in the black cab business for many years. These drivers tend to recognise each other after a while especially the ones working off a radio , which is most of the Edinburgh fleet. Sex offenders who prey on strangers tend to be opportunists and this environment does not attract them.
Edinburgh PHCs are driven by men who pass no test but they can only pick up when instructed over their radios.Sex offenders tend not to find this environment attractive either. But PHC drivers in Edinburgh tend not to be in the job long or at least work more erratically. They tend not to know each other though that in itself should not be a problem. But if the culture changes,and PHCs picking up illegally becomes more common ,as will happen if they are externally plated, then such opportunists will be more attracted to these jobs. I don`t want my daughters put at risk because some people want , for their own ends, to change a system which is working reasonably well at the moment.
I also oppose your de-limitation because I am not convinced that a free for all would eventually find its own level. Only the cowboys and crooks would gain. I note that there have been no developed arguments on this site to dissuade me. Let`s hear them listed!
This is from the Edinburgh Evening News 03/01/04
Furthermore, some of the
new intake are not the sort of you want. In Dublin it led to a marked increase in rapes and sexual assaults. In Edinburgh at present these problems are thankfully rare.
FINALLY a loosening of regulations will make it easier for money launderers and drug traffickers to enter the industry.
A de-regulated system offers a golden opportunity for organised crime.
With ready cash and ample muscle, they can move into the traffic jungle. Honest hard-working folk are replaced by rogues. That is thankfully something we have avoided in the taxi trade in this city. However de-regulation could see us head the way of the private hire trade in parts of the west of Scotland.
Now who's myth making
you see he has made the same play on words as you have "de-regulated" now you tell me where about in the OFT report does it mention de-regulating the trade.
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Furthermore, some of the new intake are not the sort of you want. In Dublin it led to a marked increase in rapes and sexual assaults. In Edinburgh at present these problems are thankfully rare." so you see they want to deny "some of the new intake" the chance of regular honest self employment, the part from the SNP web site states that everyone should be able have their potential freed so that our Country's poor economic performance (which they go to great pains to blame on everyone else) can match that of our competitors,so it comes as a suprise that on the one hand they claim they can transform Scotland by freeing our potential and then tell us that we may not be the sort you want, therefore stopping people starting and running thier own business
although if the market is limited it's fine for some of the new intake to drive someone else's vehicle.
Once again "sex offenders"I can only say I am baffled by your arguments on this, "These drivers tend to recognise each other after a while especially the ones working off a radio , which is most of the Edinburgh fleet" sex offenders who pray on strangers tend to be opportunists and this environment does not attract them, and then go on to say that the PHC is not an attractive environment either
"They tend not to know each other though that in itself should not be a problem." well why would not knowing someone turn someone into afore mentioned rapist.
"I don`t want my daughters put at risk because some people want , for their own ends, to change a system which is working reasonably well at the moment." simple solution tell her to only ever use black cabs!
I notice that you say the system is working reasonably well, I think your arguments lend some credence to having a single tier system.
"I note that there have been no developed arguments on this site to dissuade me. Let`s hear them listed" have you actually read any of the site? have you read the myth and reality report,but lets be quite clear about the rape claim, your daughters will be at far greater risk wandering the streets than they would ever be in a Licensed vehicle, I believe that in 90% of rape cases the rapist is known to the victim, the chances of a stranger raping someone is still thankfully rare, I also think if you look at the figures it is more likely you would have a young male attacked by other young male/s and I think males are just as entitled not to be harmed by any kind of abuse,or are we less valued in your eyes,is having a son harmed diffrent from having your daughter harmed.
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