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CC it must be your lucky day 2 skippy's agreeing with you



jasbar PH in the smoke have to have a meter and they are set at the council rate are they not PH and taxis must have the meters on when a punter is in the cab going from A to B withing that council area but both are free to charge under the shown meter price if they so wish

And kindly post any Scottish questions in the relevant Scottish section

So what?

PH can have a meter fitted, doesn't mean they have to use it. PH can offer a pre-agreed fare.

And, just because there is a Scottish section, that doesn't mean that matters pertaining to Scotland aren't relevant to the taxi trade in the UK generally and vice versa.

Or do you think that English taxi trades operate in some kind of exclusive bubble?

Christ, it's like dealing with idiots as well as fools. And there's you agreeing with vested interest CC too.

Come to think of it, taxis don't have to meter the fare either - unless hailed from the street.

Contract customers pay a fare set off the meter, by prior arrangement.

No wonder they dont take you seriously on the dark hole site

Regardless of if the hire is from the street by phone or prior arrangement the meter has to be on from A to B the only exception being a school contract


MMMMMMMMMMMM yes the 19 canteen police act

So fixed price contracts don't exist then do they? Dear oh dear.

Skippy43, you really have to put your brain in gear before engaging your mouth. If you're gonna be a barrackroom lawyer you really should get your facts straight.

What you quoted applies to fixed out of town fares, not contracts. All other hires, off the street, must be metered according to licensing conditions.

There again, these conditions are written in such a way there is always a loophole.

As for me not being taken seriously on "the dark hole site"? Who cares. You seem to be one these puir wee soles that cares what others think of you. I don't. Never have.

I'm respected by those I want to respect me. As for the rest, I don't care a toss. That's why I'm not a socialist, why I don't care about the common good, why I only care about me, and mine.

That's also why this nation is no longer defendable. Who would bear arms to protect what we have in our selfish nation. My defence begins and ends at my front door.

Hitler came a calling today, we'd all be signing up at the local poly to learn German. Sad isn't it? But true.

And there's you worrying about what people think of you.

Learn contempt, man. And survive. Before son of Adolf reaches for his passport.

Thank god he,s picking on the other skippys and not me for once

The Scottish section was created by the English section in order to avoid having to read scotch crap on every single thread on the forum.

The english, and some sensible scots, are able to debate matters without having to resort to the sort of bile that appears to come from the keyboards of a small minority of scots using the forum.

When I see a properly constructed argument from you, couched in appropriate language, I may join your debate. So far, I've had a long wait for that and, I suspect, I may be waiting a good deal longer.

Good evening to you, sir.

When a reasoned argument is met with the response "crap" then you aint gonna join in are you?

You seem to think you live in the English bubble. That only English matters. That the UK doesn't exist unless it is only about English part of the UK.

What happens in any part of the country should be of interest to all in the UK. Else the UK doesn't really exist. And your hiving all Scottish contributions, whether pertaining to Scotland or the rest of the UK, into some forum backwater is tantamount to racism.

Any wonder that Scottish nationalism, and Welsh and Irish too, is fuelled by the manic English bulldog mentality of the mental pygmies on forums.

Real people enjoy the cut and thrust of real debate. The make real attempts to engage the argument. Not just decry and belittle those who make the argument.

If you can't or won't respond intelligently, why not just back your butt back into your hole of ignorance?

The expected response.

From you, yes.

That's because you have no argument, nor the wit to articulate one.

But then, I guess that's why we have the poor quality of government we have now. because it's you and your ilk who would bump their gums on forums, rather than engage with the real issues.

Nae wonder the country's fecked.



BTW Only a numpty would refer to anything as "Scotch" other than whisky. All it does is betray even more of your ignorance.

But then, you're happy being ignorant, aren't you?

I thought the crap remark achieved a number of things.

Firstly (and perhaps primarily), it summed up your point of view in a matter of four letters.

Your argument wasnt reasoned, it was the same 'sh*te' (a five letter word used for dramatic effect) as we have got from you for a good number of years.

You have issues with surveys, in your view they are always fixed, which I suppose is dependant upon if your a wannaplate or a gorraplate.

Personally I would like to see surveys extended, the taxi trade and local authority need to know if the trade and policies imposed on it are succeeding.

It has nothing to do with a vested interest because I don't believe in vest's (although they possibly do exist).

regards

CC

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Not what Mrs CC is saying she said you still wear them and string ones at that

The "crap" remark did little more than betray your extremely limited intelligence.

Why survey's? The capitalist free market system is designed to allow the market to match supply and demand. What could possibly be more efficient. It wouldn't matter whether a survey was rigged or not.

The only reason you want the status quo is because you're working your own angle. Now, I have no difficulty about that, it's just that you could be honest enough to admit it, and that you place your own interests above that of the drivers who are exploited and the customers whom you don't care if they get a cab or not, just so long as your wee world isn't disturbed and your illusion is propped up.

Kinda shows that you're not a very nice guy. Quite a saddo really.

I bet you believe in God too

Not really, the crap remark summed up your diatribe.

Your now saying surveys aren't rigged?

The market isn't free as you should well know, the market is affected by the local authority who dictate fares and the myth of 'standards', the free market is a complete fallacy.

The fact seems to be, so long as you get a 'free' plate you don't give a to$$, just so long as the floodgates don't open because you wont be able to sell it....again.

It kinda shows you as a fraud, but we know that already

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

No, the "crap" remark marks you as a mental pygmy, an intellectual dwarf.

The market isn't free, tru, but our political "masters" all allegedly adhere to the principles of the free market. At least in public they do. But we all know that politicians are liars.

There is no such thing as a "free" plate. Only the right of an individual to apply for a plate. In over 70% of LAs, that right is properly adhered to. It's only in LAs where councils and the trade exploit drivers and customers that rights are restricted. But then, you already know this.

"Sell it ... again"? Never having held a plate before, how could I sell it again? And if I did sell a plate, wouldn't I just be doing something the council and the trade actively encourages, and you agree with? So, what's your problem?

And anyway, don't I want the floodgates to open? Haven't I already said as much? Haven't I long argued that removing the restriction restores the rights of drivers and customers over the restriction of those rights by selfish trade greedos?

So, you're wrong again, I DO want the floodgates to open, tempered of course by the quality controls that invests in drivers, not owners willing to prostitute their financial well being to a bank to fund an illegal plate value that requires high tariffs, ripping off customers, to fund it.

As for me being a fraud. How so? I've been open all the way down the line about what I'm working towards. You on the other hand, claim some moral high ground that simply conceals your own naked greed and fear of losing your protection from the plate restriction.

I'm not the fraud, you are. And you're a despicable liar and a coward to boot.

Here's laughing at you kid