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Anyway, the fashion changed in Brighton, at that time. When I was first got there, it was all Skodas, most of them amazingly small for a cab - and then they all bought these Peugeot estate cars... nice cars, though.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

No wav's then?..... Oh dear they will be over saturated with people wanting licences there

Yes, there were. A fifth were T-Rex´s... I mean, TX´s.
Impressive those huge inbuilt fire-extinguishers in them, by the way... made you feel much safer when ranking behind one.
So... did they solve the problem now? I made up a joke about it at that time: always have the precise fare ready when you get off, the driver may not have time to give you change back.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

Yeah, but then rest assured that English Money, big companies and global players do and since long. I have at least one brit fare each day in Zurich, lawyers, bankers and business people of all kind, transferring UK-money, hidden away from tax illegally or more often completely legally, transferring entire head offices to Switzerland, costing UK-economy thousands and thousands of jobs.
Cab-business is the same s...t job anywhere in the world, the global companies don´t have frontiers anymore, they don´t care if some nigger working low wages for them is black or white.
We all have got to wake up!
The bosses think European, so we need to do this as well!

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

Must be a wonderous thing to be safely outside the influence of the UK equality Bill....

Yeah, I get the point of this joke. And I don´t want be lame, but it´s not reflecting my point of view but of those who employ people for low wages. Moreover I know that cabbies in England are all self-employed, but, is this alll you´ve got to say to that?

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

We have enough of them here oversaturating the trade to destruction.....
Does Europe bloody care? I think not....
Plus we don't have the time to write novels, as most cabbies are semi illiterate and can't even spell correctly, but use txt English? No wonder the trade here has become the S***t job it now is.
The mental capacity of most UK taxi drivers leaves a lot to be desired.... believe it!!

what an insult!!! I'll have you know that I am not semi Illiterate but Fully Illiterate!!! however I can spell correctly "C...O...R...R...E...C...T...L...Y" !, see told ya I could.

I said most bloodnock, that exempts you

Below, next to the two convincing arguments of the page-three-girl to let one´s eye settle there for a moment, he saw a small announcement, for the small minority of Sun-readers taking note of an announcement at all, which was neither large, nor in possession of two convincing arguments
J. Lembke, "42 is the answer, but what´s the question anyhow", an authorised h2g2-sequel.

Moreover, here´s a thought.
What about, don´t ask what Europe can do for you, ask yourself what you can do for Europe?
English cab-trade, as desolate as it maybe is at the moment, still has the highest standards in Europe, as far as I can judge. When it comes to the acceptance as a means of transport, work ethics, colleagueship, competence, percentage of "indiginous" drivers, job-identification - a lot has to do with the strict licencing, surely, so whoever does this job sticks to it.
Look at the trade in Zurich, it´s a mess! A ramshackle! (Germany is not in any way better, by the way.) It´s only because there´s so much money in Zurich they can be so self-indulgent and completely incompetent.
Yet, whoever discusses the business in Zurich, points out to the black cabs in London, as an example of how it should be, may it no longer be what it used to be or not.
There was a "colleague" honking at me in Zurich for changing lanes which the situation required yet left me in front of him, and he wasn´t even competing with me, for he was from out of town! It made me so furious I could have jumped out and throttled him!
This would never have happened in Brighton, colleagues would honk at you for not letting them in, because that´s the etiquette.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

I mean, just so you don´t get me wrong. To fill up vacancies in the cab-trade with people who are completely unfit just because they are unskilled immigrants who are otherwise unemployed, instead of reducing licences, is... well, absurd is harmless, it´s just outrageous, for it ruins the business.
But then again, this has happened all over Western-Europe!!!!
So, it wouldn´t be bad to take action against in a European scale.

Honestly, I don´t want to talk anybody here into thinking European, all I want is to shed some light on this subject, here. Moreover I will do this on the other forums as well, German and French. (There is none appropiate in Switzerland.)

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

Half the reason the trade is in the mess that it is, why it is over saturated and nobody has the guts to say what needs to be said.....but I'm not really allowed to say that as it is racist and bigoted!!

How many drivers,of taxis or PH would there be, if the min wage had to be paid by law if they dont own the vehicle

In what way don't they own the vehicle

I mean if they settle/rent a vehicle or it's on HP/lease then surely you don't think the supplier of the vehicle should pay them a wage. If it's part and parcel of the job they do like a school run (using grandad as an example) then they are employed and should already be on minimum wage. Explain yourself Skippy cos it's too early in the morning and I'm already confused

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Then there is something wrong with the country, when free speech and independance of mind is suffocated by the PC´s.
No one should forget that the past, say, 15 years of economical boom in the UK is definitely partly owed to globalisation - and the cab-trade profited by that, too.
Yet, whereas bancruptcy bankers who caused the recession still get pampered so not to loose their millions of boni, we are left with all the negative implications of this down-turn alone, for we don´t have any lobby worth speaking off.
We should work on that.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)