In Mr Casey's most recent Taxi Talk column he claimed that the term delimitation was being used to describe the lifting of quantity controls for reasons of political correctness. He also mentions that some say that the term deregulation is considered by some to be scaremongering - perhaps he's alluding to people like us.
Despite the fact that we've discussed this issue ad nauseum on here and other forums in the past, I think Wayne is missing the point a bit, but whether deliberately or otherwise I'll leave for others to decide
But I think the objection that myself and others have to the use of the term deregulation is that it is not specific enough, and thus it's not entirely clear what anyone using the term is on about.
There are three main planks of regulation in the the trade - quantity and quality controls, and fare control.
Thus if you use the term deregulation without qualification then the implication is that all three planks are being removed, which is obviously untrue when the term is generally used in the UK. Thus to be accurate you must be more specific - 'deregulation of numbers' is fine, but a bit long-winded, thus I use either de-limitation or derestriction.
An example of the misuse of the terms relates to references to the deregulation of taxis abroad, and then using the results to predict what will happen in the UK. In fact some of these studies do indeed refer to deregulation and thus the removal of fare and quality controls as well as quantity controls, thus any comparison with the UK is invalid.
And the reason we consider the term deregulation as scaremongering is that the implication of its use is that fare and quality controls are to be removed, but there has been no such proposal in the UK in recent years from either the OFT or the DfT.
Of course, some people in the trade have actually went as far as claiming that the OFT proposed deregulation in the fullest sense and that this would thus lead to sex offenders in the trade, but this was obviously complete rubbish.
It's not about political correctness, it's just about accuracy, but then again that doesn't seem to be Taxi Talk's strong point.