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Railway child
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:17 pm 
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The difference between the OFT and M&R, and the aptly named Select Committee, is that the former are based on evidence, the latter is based on out-dated dogma and rhetoric.


Surely the other way round - It could not be more obvious that the OfT tried desperatly, and failed, to get the evidence to fit their preconceived ideas


That comment is unfair, unjust and biased.

They started with a clean sheet and idiots in our trade, and some on here got the terms of reference extended to private hire.

I would cosider that you also have a preconceived idea as to how evrything should work. And it's only fair if it agrees with your way of thinking
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What Pre conceived ideas might that be?

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That 'any and all' arrangements that do not fit the dogma of the free market and discredited Thatcherite policies of the seveties and eighties are inherantly wrong.
Even here, and you will see by my posts elsewhere, that the LA are no friends of mine, they have seen the light and taken back the work of some departments back into public control.
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Not one sided they just didn't have a clue :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Well if the Select Committee asked proper and sensible questions in the first place, not the stupid and pointless ones the T&G put them up to, then maybe the OFT would have shined. :wink:

But that's not my point. The one sided issue has got nothing to do with who was present at the SC meeting, but those who weren't i.e. representatives of 120,000 licensed (or soon to be licensed) drivers, and 60,000,000 potential customers.

Clearly they skipped the SC mind. :? :? :? :? :? :?

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Railway child wrote:

That 'any and all' arrangements that do not fit the dogma of the free market and discredited Thatcherite policies of the seveties and eighties are inherantly wrong.

You have still not highlighted what the OFT pre conceived ideas were. It doesn't help matters you making an opinionated statement on dogma. This organisation happens to have the word "Fair" in its title. For one to operate in a free market things have to be equally fair to all concerned, or hadn't that occured to you? There is no dogma in that.

I specificaly asked you what those pre-conceived ideas were? Now if you can't tell me what those pre-conceived ideas were, I'm quite happy to leave it at that.

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John Davies wrote:
Railway child wrote:

That 'any and all' arrangements that do not fit the dogma of the free market and discredited Thatcherite policies of the seveties and eighties are inherantly wrong.

You have still not highlighted what the OFT pre conceived ideas were. It doesn't help matters you making an opinionated statement on dogma. This organisation happens to have the word "Fair" in its title. For one to operate in a free market things have to be equally fair to all concerned, or hadn't that occured to you? There is no dogma in that.

I specificaly asked you what those pre-conceived ideas were? Now if you can't tell me what those pre-conceived ideas were, I'm quite happy to leave it at that.

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The pre-conceived ideas were, it appears to me any way, that all and any restrictions are wrong and they then sought to justify that position and that position alone.
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In March's PHM, Mr Roland prints the Select Committee's response, and says no further comment is needed.

Clearly he had the same opinion at the committee meeting, that no comment was needed.

National Private Hire Association, I don't think so.

Perhaps a trading standards complaint is due. :(

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Nah Suspect, Mr Roland just knows when he's licked, just like he did with Taxibank
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Sussex Man wrote:
In March's PHM, Mr Roland prints the Select Committee's response, and says no further comment is needed.

Clearly he had the same opinion at the committee meeting, that no comment was needed.

National Private Hire Association, I don't think so.

Perhaps a trading standards complaint is due. :(


representation, the word is a joke

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