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New Driver licenses for London.
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Author:  Capt Taxi [ Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:14 am ]
Post subject:  New Driver licenses for London.
With the general downturn in the economy and in particular, events in the City in the past weeks leading to tens of thousand of job loses,does anyone know how many driver licenses the PCO intend to issue for 2008?

During the 1988/93 slump,1992 was the worst year and if my memory serves me well the PCO issued 750 licenses with about 100 retiring or loosing their licences.

Unlike many licensing authorities in the UK,London does not control licence numbers.
This could be a double wammy for many drivers.
Author:  gusmac [ Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: New Driver licenses for London.
Capt Taxi wrote:
With the general downturn in the economy and in particular, events in the City in the past weeks leading to tens of thousand of job loses,does anyone know how many driver licenses the PCO intend to issue for 2008?

During the 1988/93 slump,1992 was the worst year and if my memory serves me well the PCO issued 750 licenses with about 100 retiring or loosing their licences.

Unlike many licensing authorities in the UK,London does not control licence numbers.
This could be a double wammy for many drivers.


I would have thought the London 'knowledge' would have been a strong limiter on it's own.
Author:  Capt Taxi [ Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:03 am ]
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''I would have thought the London 'knowledge' would have been a strong limiter on it's own.''

It is during times of full employment,however our beloved past mayor,the glorious Livingstone instigated many schemes to get wimmin and ethnics subsidised by taxpayers, into the trade (known as Ken's Kabbies).

I don't care what your sex or ethnicity is,but I am worried about creating taxi drivers for work that is no longer not there.
Author:  grandad [ Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:00 pm ]
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[quote="Capt Taxi"]''I would have thought the London 'knowledge' would have been a strong limiter on it's own.''

It is during times of full employment,however our beloved past mayor,the glorious Livingstone instigated many schemes to get wimmin and ethnics subsidised by taxpayers, into the trade (known as Ken's Kabbies).

I don't care what your sex or ethnicity is,but I am worried about creating taxi drivers for work that is no longer not there.[/quote]

Isn't that a double negative which means a positive therfore you are saying the work is there. :wink:
Author:  acabbie [ Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:50 pm ]
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it's gonna be a heck of a shock to the system to swap eating in the ivy for eating in the royal oak......... :lol:
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:13 pm ]
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Kens kabbies - for ethnics?

shame it wasnt Krafty Kens Kabbies

the initials woulda scared em off...






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Author:  Sussex [ Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Driver licenses for London.
Capt Taxi wrote:
With the general downturn in the economy and in particular, events in the City in the past weeks leading to tens of thousand of job loses,does anyone know how many driver licenses the PCO intend to issue for 2008?

As many as pass the KoL I would imagine. :?
Author:  GBC [ Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:34 pm ]
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I was driving a Taxi during the last slump, there's absolutely no comparison with the current slowdown.

Sure it's a bit quieter than last year, but last time around it was as dead as a dodo.
Take last night, I never really stopped bar the usual lull around 9.30, the bars were all full, the restaurants were all busy, it's mainly another media generated sensationalist recession.

This guff and scaremongering about houses going down 10% and how the worlds going to end . . . . FFS they’ve gone up about 250% over the last decade . . of course they’re going to fall back. :roll:
Author:  Capt Taxi [ Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:10 pm ]
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grandad says ''Isn't that a double negative ''

To quote Vicky Pollard,''Yes but no....''
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:08 pm ]
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GBC wrote:
Sure it's a bit quieter than last year, but last time around it was as dead as a dodo.


I never knew what a dodo was until now;

Dodo

I suppose it's because they are extinct that we use the phrase, "Dead as a Dodo".
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