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wannabeeahack
PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:34 am 
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France lead the way....."In a bid to assuage the mounting discontent from taxi drivers, the French state in late December imposed a mandatory 15-minute delay between customer booking and pick-up times for VTCs in a bid to give taxis an edge"

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France lead the way....."In a bid to assuage the mounting discontent from taxi drivers, the French state in late December imposed a mandatory 15-minute delay between customer booking and pick-up times for VTCs in a bid to give taxis an edge"


taxi licensing is a matter for individual member states

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France lead the way....."In a bid to assuage the mounting discontent from taxi drivers, the French state in late December imposed a mandatory 15-minute delay between customer booking and pick-up times for VTCs in a bid to give taxis an edge"


Unfair competition laws that un...
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France lead the way....."In a bid to assuage the mounting discontent from taxi drivers, the French state in late December imposed a mandatory 15-minute delay between customer booking and pick-up times for VTCs in a bid to give taxis an edge"

And it's being challenged.

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Sussex wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
France lead the way....."In a bid to assuage the mounting discontent from taxi drivers, the French state in late December imposed a mandatory 15-minute delay between customer booking and pick-up times for VTCs in a bid to give taxis an edge"

And it's being challenged.


Does France still have the burkha ban?

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Does France still have the burkha ban?

I think that ban has been upheld by their courts.

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Yes,the burkha ban is lawful in France,who represented those opposed to the ban,non other than good old UK. money grabbing lawyers.
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Sussex wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:

Does France still have the burkha ban?

I think that ban has been upheld by their courts.


Do their courts not give a feck about the ECHR and EU Courts of Justice like ours do...good on them if they don't.
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Sussex wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:

Does France still have the burkha ban?

I think that ban has been upheld by their courts.


Do their courts not give a feck about the ECHR and EU Courts of Justice like ours do...good on them if they don't.


its only us in the UK that toe the line, cos we are British, by jove

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Belgium has also banned the wearing of the burqa.
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Yes,the burkha ban is lawful in France,who represented those opposed to the ban,non other than good old UK. money grabbing lawyers.


I see a school "passenger assistant" daily in a full Burkha, cant imagine whats her id badge photo or how anyone checks

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wannabeeahack wrote:
heathcote wrote:
Yes,the burkha ban is lawful in France,who represented those opposed to the ban,non other than good old UK. money grabbing lawyers.


I see a school "passenger assistant" daily in a full Burkha, cant imagine whats her id badge photo or how anyone checks


Could be anybody underneath it..even a man!
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bloodnock wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
heathcote wrote:
Yes,the burkha ban is lawful in France,who represented those opposed to the ban,non other than good old UK. money grabbing lawyers.


I see a school "passenger assistant" daily in a full Burkha, cant imagine whats her id badge photo or how anyone checks


Could be anybody underneath it..even a man!


and if you ask the question........boom, racist

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bloodnock wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
heathcote wrote:
Yes,the burkha ban is lawful in France,who represented those opposed to the ban,non other than good old UK. money grabbing lawyers.


I see a school "passenger assistant" daily in a full Burkha, cant imagine whats her id badge photo or how anyone checks


Could be anybody underneath it..even a man!


I am pretty certain that some who were under travel restrictions in the UK, actually managed to leave dressed in a Burkha #-o

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