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gusmac
 Post subject: Re: Not Doom, presumably
PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:20 pm 
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
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Come on... Mr Tin can.... I thought you would have been ripping this to pieces by now.... and explaining how they have all got it wrong....... etc etc.....

Sorry Mr GrumpyFace, but I was too busy playing spot-the-driver:
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Law Commission
Frances Patterson QC Commissioner, Public law team
Richard Percival Team manager, Public law team
Vindelyn Smith-Hillman Economic Adviser
Jessica Uguccioni Team lawyer, Public law team
Hannah Gray Research assistant, Public law team
Trade associations
Paul Brent Chairman, National Taxi Association
Bob Oddy General Secretary, Licensed Taxi Drivers Association
Patrick Connor National Taxi Trades Group
Tommy McIntyre National Taxi Representative, Unite the Union
Mick Carty RMT
Bryan Roland General Secretary, National Private Hire Association
Steve Wright MBE Chairman, Licensed Private Hire Car Association
Patrick Raeburn Private Hire Board
Mick Hildreth Secretary, GMB Professional Drivers National Organising Committee
Bill Bowling Legislation officer, National Limousine and Chauffeur Association
Geoffrey Riesel Chairman, Radio Taxis Group – representing radio circuit operators
Julian Francis Government Affairs Manager, London Taxi Company
Donald Pow General manager, Allied Vehicles
Deborah Hunter Sales and marketing executive, Digitax Electronics UK Ltd.
Regulatory bodies
Sarah Wooller Head of Taxi and PSV regulation branch, Department for Transport
Pippa Brown Taxi and PSV regulation branch, Department for Transport
Simon Woodward Lawyer, Department for Transport
John Mason Director of Taxi and Private Hire, Transport for London
Tom Moody Transport for London
Roger Butterfield Honorary solicitor, National Association of Licensing Enforcement Officers
Eddie Gorman National Chair, National Association of Licensing Enforcement Officers
Huw Thomas Integrated Transport Division, Welsh Government
Yvonne Lewis Licensing Officers, City and County of Swansea Council
Dafydd Jones Principal Licensing Officers, Gwynedd County Council
Myles Bebbington Vice Chair, Institute of Licensing
Vicki Ball Policy Manager, People 1st, Go Skills
User groups
Dai Powell OBE Chair, Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Group
Ian Millership Vice Chair, National Association of Taxi Users
Consultants
James Button James Button and Co Solicitors, author of Button on Taxis
Darren Tenney S2IPA Consultancy (Shared Service Implementation and Policy Advisers)

At least they were there!!

You weren't with your bigoted, outdated, look what I wrote in 2005 claptrap; than f*kc!!


And I suppose you were there, endowing all with your Victorian values?

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Dusty Bin
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:41 pm 
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Another heavyweight contribution from Brummie :lol:

I'm sure that one day he'll actually attempt to address the issues, but he seems to get so excited about these things I suspect it's probably a good thing that he merely sticks to abusing people, otherwise he'd probably blow a fuse :D

My old article clearly hit the spot though \:D/
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Dusty Bin
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This contradiction was ably demonstrated by an article in the July issue of Press Cuttings Monthly entitled ‘I don’t want to drive the bloody thing myself’, written by a taxi proprietor from Bournemouth. The title says it all, and neatly demonstrates the ethos of those who think local authorities should assist in this aim by limiting the number of taxis while at the same time ensuring a constant supply of people to drive them. Indeed, Bournemouth does restrict taxi numbers, but clearly the supply of new drivers is not good enough for the article’s author, who makes the wholly self-serving suggestion of allowing new drivers to join the trade without even paying a licensing fee. After a year the driver would sit a proper knowledge test, which he would then presumably pass with flying colours, having learnt ‘on the job’. Thus in effect the proprietor wants no knowledge test at all, with the public having to suffer the consequent poor service, and the drivers having earnings decreased because of the extra numbers caused by reducing entry to the driving side of the trade to a bit of form filling.

Of course, the author ‘deserves to take it easier’, but clearly there are not enough so-called ‘drifters’ coming into the trade to make this possible. Another obstacle is deemed to be the minimum wage in the rest of the economy – if this is considered a problem it ably demonstrates the kind of money this proprietor would be willing to see drivers earning in order that he could take it easy. But, hey, he deserves it, and clearly nothing should stand in the way of him ‘living of the income of hard working drivers’, as he put it. And the pitiful wages that such drivers would be earning would obviously be of no concern to him.


Came across the article mentioned above recently, and the author's final sentence sums his attitude up nicely:

"Make it easier for people to join our trade, we need them". ](*,)
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Dusty Bin
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"The current low unemployment levels mean there are not enough drifters in the work place to satisfy the amount of cabbies who want and deserve to take it easier." [-(
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Dusty Bin
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"The minimum wage ensures that potential drivers remain in the PAYE sector rather than joining the cab trade". :roll:

"Why not let them fill out the forms with a very basic local knowledge test and if successful let them drive free of charge for a year". :roll:

(By "free of charge" I suspect he means the licensing fees charged by the council rather than the extortionate rentals he'll be charging drivers.)
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Brummie Cabbie
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:25 pm 
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Doom wrote:
Here we go, you wrote in 2005, a lot has changed since 2005 mate.

Oh but that's his masterpiece Mr Doom!!

Didn't you know that Rusty Chin believes his 2005 scribblings are on a par with Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

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Dusty Bin
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Good to see you getting stuck into the substance as usual :lol: :oops:
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Dusty Bin
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By the way, you must have the most ironic signature on TDO :lol:
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Brummie Cabbie
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Good to see you getting stuck into the substance as usual :lol: :oops:

I just love your holier than thou attitude.

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Dusty Bin
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
Dusty Bin wrote:
Good to see you getting stuck into the substance as usual :lol: :oops:

I just love your holier than thou attitude.


Thanks, and I'm sure one day you'll have something useful to say as well :D
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Brummie Cabbie
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Dusty Bin wrote:
By the way, you must have the most ironic signature on TDO :lol:

Like I said, I just love your holier than thou attitude.

What makes you believe that what you wrote in 2005, whatever that may be, is the Gospel according to Dusty Bin and that it is blasphemy to contadict your scribblings?

It's your view and so be it. But that is all it is, just like my view is my view and that is all it is.

Others may disagree, some quite forcefully, but that seems to irritate you to the point of loosing it.

Why?

You just seem to dislike anyone contradicting you.

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Will you boys play nicely, you don't want sending to the naughty step do you?

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Dusty Bin
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
Others may disagree, some quite forcefully, but that seems to irritate you to the point of loosing it.

Why?

You just seem to dislike anyone contradicting you.


More irony :lol:

You seem incapable of any sort of argument at all, never mind a forceful one.

Yet you constantly seem to be loosing it. All the exclamation marks are a bit of a giveaway. :D
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Dusty Bin
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grandad wrote:
Will you boys play nicely, you don't want sending to the naughty step do you?


So who is it that keeps on bitching and backbiting, Grandad?

Anyway, who cares, the TDO admin knows it's always been a choice between the likes of Brummie and myself, so since Brummie seems to be back on TDO for more than five minutes then it's perhaps time for me to say goodbye again.

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Brummie Cabbie
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Dusty Bin wrote:
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Will you boys play nicely, you don't want sending to the naughty step do you?


So who is it that keeps on bitching and backbiting, Grandad?

Anyway, who cares, the TDO admin knows it's always been a choice between the likes of Brummie and myself, so since Brummie seems to be back on TDO for more than five minutes then it's perhaps time for me to say goodbye again.

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Now that is silly, especially from a very decent blogger like you.

You do produce excellent scribblings, which I do admire, believe it or not.

It's just that you don't seem to try and see the other guys or gals point of view.

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