Non D. Plume wrote:
I’ve decided to use my real name
You mean your real name is not "Your local TOA". You do surprise me? Quote:
I’m Derek Cummins and I’m the Chair of the T&G Wirral taxi branch.
What this man really means is I'm Derek Cummins and I regularly misrepresent the facts, I believe you are also the person who describes himself as "Your local TOA". You are also the person who said not giving way to another hackney carriage driver coming out of a side road, is breaking the law.
You also said overtaking another hackney carriage vehicle and picking up a flagger is also breaking the law. Untrue facts Mr "Local TOA".
Mr TOA interpreted a certain section of the 1847 act to fit his own warped concept on etiquette. The fact remains that he published his theory as fact in his own magazine, which he says, is for the professional Taxi trade? If they are expected to believe that nonsense I would call it the Gullible Taxi trade.
I'm sure you being a top man will know the issue number I'm referring to, Mr local TOA. Just in case you don't, a little research won't go ammis.
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and Mark Royden is the Branch Secretary. Firstly I’d like to say that I’m neither a ‘gorraplate’ nor a ‘wannaplate’ but an ‘adderplae’ and certainly don’t want another one, despite my bank manager pleading with me to take £25000 off his hands for a new cab.
Well that’s all fine and Dandy, now can we get down to some real facts here? I don't think many people on this site are particularly interested in your life history.
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Secondly to clear the Mark Royden issue up, Mark was issued a plate under Wirral’s managed growth policy which we are both in favour of.
How unfortunate that Wirral council doesn't share your enthusiasm for a restricted growth policy. Wirral council has implemented their own interpretation of managed growth with the introduction of instant growth and for them it is working just fine. Have you got any words of comfort for the new owners you tried to stop from obtaining a free license? Administration charges excluded, of course.
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but we are totally opposed to the free-for-all of outright delimitation.
Does this mean, as long as councils don't exercise their right to lift numbers you won't intimidate them like you tried to do with Wirral Councillors?
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To state that he’s a wannaplate is misleading.
If Mr Royden didn't wanna plate why did he apply in the first place? There seems to be something lacking in your logic. Either he wanted a plate or he didn't want a plate, considering the fact he got a plate, he must have wanted one in the first place. Or is there some other interpretation you care to put on it? We could do with some light entertainment.
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A case in point is a private hire trade rep that received a plate in the same tranche as Mark Royden, and immediately sold it for £16K; to protect his identity we shall call him Garry Baldi.
Why protect his identity? Its very magnanimous of you Mr "local TOA" but we are not taken in by this pious statement of magnanimity. You allowed this persons name to be plastered all over Taxitalk, in fact you dedicated a full page to Mr. Gari Baldi, didn't you Mr "local TOA" you revelled in exposing the fact that he had sold his plate shortly after it was issued. Your scruples are not worth the paper you wipe your backside on. Are they Mr local TOA?
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There’s an old Liverpool saying that’s sadly fallen out of use, ‘act soft and I’ll buy you a coalyard’
There's an old John Davies saying, "Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent".
The rest of the tripe in this post is not worth responding to, only to say that this person who is the Deputy Editor of Taxitalk magazine knows full well what the true plate value is in Manchester and it is not 20K.
You will have to draw your own conclusion as to why he didn't mention the true figure?
JD
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