Seems the coward Scottie has finally been stung into action. Cop this ...
You still living in cloud cuckooland then skull? Taylor is an arrogant d*%khead with little or no credibility anywhere. You are verging on the same.
I think taylor imagines himself in front of judge and jury and one by one making sensational disclosures about council members and officials. Face it, it just ain't gonna happen.
The council commissioned a report from "experts" as they are entitled, if not required, to do and acted on its recommendations. If that report is flawed, the council still acted in good faith. So where exactly have they erred in law? Even if they have acted in bad faith, should the general public be put at risk, in order to benefit a greedy few, when it is widely known there is no demand for extra taxis and to add to the existing fleet would place enormous pressure on existing operators and drivers, resulting in a further lowering of standards? Your sums don't add up.
I would agree that 2000 drivers on 1000 cabs = 2000 shifts and equally that 2000 drivers on 2000 cabs = 2000 shifts, but these stats are too simplistic. Each shift would of necessity be longer. The market remaining static means everyone need to work longer to make the same money. An existing owner losing a rental of £250 per week needs to make that up. Cash that remained within the trade will now go to line the pockets of suppliers outwith the trade. A driver paying £250 per week rental will find running a cab will cost more than that and will need to work longer. More cabs on the road chasing the same work? or more cabs on the ranks with owners contemplating the evil that was thrust upon them?
We'll take taylor's argument later!
Name calling from the anonymous child. What a hero.
The council did not commission a report from "experts". It commissioned a pre-determined (easily proved) result. In case Scottie hasn't realised it, this is a criminal offence. And we all know where criminals go, don't we?
The council didn't act in good faith. No less than Cllr Wigglesworth himself has gone on record as saying that the report was flawed. He's had every chance to "act in good faith" but, though a man of the cloth, has singularly failed to do so. Perhaps he will in the draft taxi action plan?
This isn't about any greedy few, it's about the many. Those on the interested parties list who have watched demand increase and for the licence they should have been granted given to private hire. Those 41 applicants who saw the demand. The guys who have been asked to pay £350 for a six night rental.
In fact the greedy few are the owners who have been ripping off the workers with high rentals and the public with high tariffs for years, while denying them the right to even know what's going on in the trade. The cabal, cartel even. That means the Scotties of this world.
There will be no lowering of standards. The council set them, they're entitled to beef them up. They have a duty to make sure it doesn't happen. And it won't. I have every faith they will do this. It's what they're good at.
More cabs on the road? Yeah, for sure. But cabs which will be working when customers need them. Not sitting in front of an owner's house at 1am because he's harvested enough cash from the public and his driver, the rest can go to hell for all he cares. Service Scottie, service. Know what this means?
You've lost it Scottie. You've barred us from posting on your site, and told lies about the posts and pms you've been sent (interesting that gladrags reckons pms are private given his record). It has died.
Your juvenile incoherent ramblings are irrelevant. Because no one is listening to you. Even your yah boo boys, and plinks like knight, all anonymous cowards, know the game is over. And they're partly responsible. By excluding us from fasties, they caused the refocussing of effort which has made the difference.
Thanks boys. The skull and I will forever be in your debt and eternally grateful that your stupidity has had such a profound effect.
Finally tell us Scottie, how does a guy putting a new E7, single shifted, doubling up as his private vehicle, work out as more than the extortionate rentals now being charged by greedy owners?
In six years:
private hire have risen from 357 to over 800.
Plate values have risen from £20K to over £50K (at this rate, in five years this will be over £125,000 - clearly intolerable)
Tariffs have increased by around 37%
Customer levels have dropped by the same amount
Rentals for six nights have gone up from £180-200 to well over £300 for the same.
So Scottie, why should any driver who wants his own licence plate because he knows he can control his own costs and working hours better, be denied the opportunity to compete in the taxi and wider transport market?
Where does it say in the licensing conditions that a driver automatically comes with the licence?
Do you seriously think the council is going to risk having all this exposed in front of a sheriff, just to protect the likes of greedy bar stewards like you who would rather see our customers use any other form of transport if it served to protect their plate values?
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Sell out high buy in low. I would be punting that plate as fast as you could say ITS. Although there might not be the buyers there once was 