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It has to be said, you never physically own the plate, you buy the ability to act as a cabby and the goodwill of existing custom, ok it's jumping a queue, but so it's the same when one company buys another, or in football it would be I've bought say Plymouth Argyle so I can be in the football league rather than have to start ground up and hope to win my way into the league, it happens in every field of business, it's only in the taxi trade some seem to have a problem with it, and to be extreme about it, if the taxi trade has to accept an un-regulated environment then that means nobody should ever be turned down when applying to open a bar as well and however many bars they want to open, it's the same principle, and when it's saturated to the point where men are fighting each other over a job and one pulls out a gun and shoots the other because he thought it was his job, whose going to explain to his widow how that situation was ever allowed to become?

Are you drinking on your meds again?

It has to be said, you never physically own the plate, you buy the ability to act as a cabby and the goodwill of existing custom, ok it's jumping a queue, but so it's the same when one company buys another, or in football it would be I've bought say Plymouth Argyle so I can be in the football league rather than have to start ground up and hope to win my way into the league, it happens in every field of business, it's only in the taxi trade some seem to have a problem with it, and to be extreme about it, if the taxi trade has to accept an un-regulated environment then that means nobody should ever be turned down when applying to open a bar as well and however many bars they want to open, it's the same principle, and when it's saturated to the point where men are fighting each other over a job and one pulls out a gun and shoots the other because he thought it was his job, whose going to explain to his widow how that situation was ever allowed to become?

How can you compare the pub industry to the public transport industry? There is almost no comparison.

A pub licence is not transferable, and the business is sold only on the condition the proprietor is issued with a new licence by the council.

The establishment is also subject to planning permission. You can't drive a pub around the streets picking up punters.

Oh and your "goodwill and existing custom" is a load of nonsense also.

How can you compare the pub industry to the public transport industry? There is almost no comparison.

You can't drive a pub around the streets picking up punters.

You can compare anything with anything you like. It's quite a good comparison imo. Both have owers that don't do the actual work, both are required to be licensed, both licenses can be removed by the licensing office, both require a 'fit & proper' person to hold said trading/drivers license and both can be regulated as to how many fit into an area, both have standards attached to licensed property/vehicle.



Now you're just being infantile

The council doesn't restrict publican operating licenses as they issue a new licence subject to application.

The building is subject to planning permission as a licensed premises which is a whole different ball game to licensing taxis and picking up punters.

A building is in a fixed a taxi is mobile

1 - It's unit comparison.

2 - Yes it is, if I wanted a pub and the LL didn't want to go but would for a good drink it's the same.

3 - Granted, but my point is how can you limit one i.e pub, and then say all can have the other, it's still a business that requires a license.

4 - How so? who buys a business if there is no custom, you buy to be able to serve existing custom, hence the goodwill.

1 - It's unit comparison.

2 - Yes it is, if I wanted a pub and the LL didn't want to go but would for a good drink it's the same.

3 - Granted, but my point is how can you limit one i.e pub, and then say all can have the other, it's still a business that requires a license.

4 - How so? who buys a business if there is no custom, you buy to be able to serve existing custom, hence the goodwill.

Now seriously and this isn't a dig or ridicule, me and you have been able to converse recently in a much better way than we used to, however I read between the lines a very bitter man towards life in general, is that a fair summary, or is it just how it reads?

if it is fair you need to go see at least the Doctor, I say this because I have a mate who is very much the same and but for the pills he takes he would be dead by his own hand by now, I used to call him Suicide in response to the abuse he'd hand me out, he is an up and down, it's either head in hand severely depressed or dancing around like Harry Hill and the Big Yin rolled into one, if you see yourself there, get help, and that is genuine I'm not taking the pee this time

You can't quantify goodwill.

But the comparisons are there though, working your way says nobody should deny me anything I desire regardless of the impact of it.

Now seriously and this isn't a dig or ridicule, me and you have been able to converse recently in a much better way than we used to, however I read between the lines a very bitter man towards life in general, is that a fair summary, or is it just how it reads? if it is fair you need to go see at least the Doctor, I say this because I have a mate who is very much the same and but for the pills he takes he would be dead by his own hand by now, I used to call him Suicide in response to the abuse he'd hand me out, he is an up and down, it's either head in hand severely depressed or dancing around like Harry Hill and the Big Yin rolled into one, if you see yourself there, get help, and that is genuine I'm not taking the pee this time.

The building is subject to planning permission as a licensed premises which is a whole different ball game to licensing taxis and picking up punters.

Strictly speaking it's the value of a business in excess of its assets.

So if a taxi firm sold for £200,000 but the vehicles and equipment are only worth £50,000 then the goodwill is £150,000.

But of course if any of the £150,000 is due to restricted numbers then that isn't proper goodwill beause it's merely due to the closed market.

That's as maybe but it is still a licensed premises and that license can be removed and is a bugger to back if it is removed. Same goes with any licensed premises. I know an application for a casino here was turned down because the population doesn't warrant 2 casinos

And that's where the comparison ends, both are licensed by the council. What a great comparison, they are so similar as to be almost identical-not.

It's a bit like comparing apples and bananas because they come under the category of fruit.


Deary me . . .