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Have CRT been lying to their members about job total figures? Have resignations been made because of this?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Is there a cab firm in the UK that tells the truth over job totals?

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IDFIMH

Remember that the council has accepted job total and response time figures from the two main companies in Edinburgh as proof of no demand.

Such figures being a fabrication would be akin to the companies perpetrating a fraud. And fraud is a criminal offence.

And that would place those responsible directly in the frame.

Furthermore, evidence suggested by licence applications as proof of increasing demand, at a time when the council itself was telling us that the city economy was "burgeoning" was ignored. While the evidence also suggests that the companies may have been fabricating figures with the council making no attempt to audit or verify the veracity of the information provided.

This is not the action of a council seeking the truth, rather one which merely accepted the expedience of their policy being fulfilled. I submit this goes beyond normal council procedures and into the realms of criminal activity.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

You've just got too much time on your hands!

I can smell another of your useless ill-informed and lying campaigns coming on.

Why not tell us about something you DO like? or is there no such thing? the whole world is corrupt - except you, of course.(inyour dreams)

Why don't you phone CRT and ask them Jim

Because you sure as hell won't get the answer on a public internet forum where nobody has the answer that your looking for!


Or is this another one of your "mouth open, belly rumble" shouting from the treetops where virtually no on except your lap dogs and let's get this straight. NO ONE pays the slightest bit of interest to the [edited by admin] spewing out your mouth/keyboard


I expect the usual reply of the same regurgitated schpeel of plates owner by council, sheep, pretend businessmen & similar unoriginal put downs at your earliest convenience

So I take it, you believe you actually own the plate, and you are, in fact, a businessman?

After all these years Garry and learning to read too, you still can't understand that it is the physical plate that "belongs to City of Edinburgh Council." It is only the tangible device that indicates the vehicle is licensed for use as a taxi. The businessmen that you so despise operate their businesses (successfully, unlike you) using these vehicles which are licensed by the council.

So, just as a public house licensee, a bookmakers licensee and a street traders licencee operate their businesses under a licence, so does a taxi operator licensee his.

It may be difficult for you to grasp but try to look at it objectively, without your usual blinkers on and you might just realise that, despite the recession making things tight for us all, these businesses are still going, and it is you who is struggling.

What I do like, relish even is the fact that you are a complete plank. You've never contributed anything worthwhile to any debate about the trade. You're just another serf happy to touch forelocks to your masters. I relish your pain, because if you weren't rattled you wouldn't even be on this forum.

And why would I want to fone Murray's company anyway. Do you honestly think the scumbag would tell the truth?



Now go on Swannee, gives us more of your pain, because we're pashing ourselves

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Swannee writes:

I think you will find that all the licenses you have quoted are non-transferable. They are, in fact, issued anew, if the applicant is deemed to be a “fit and proper person” to hold the licence. There is no back door de facto transfer of the licence and no artificial licence value. Their business is sold on financial performance and is subject to the new applicant being approved by the council for the sale of the business to go through.

As for a taxi being a business, everything is controlled by the council except for, your working hours. If you buy anything, it's a job.

You're not only a dreamer Swannee but a hell of a slow learner. You don't really believe you are a bona fide businessman do you, with a real business to sell?

Oh and Swannee, I wouldn't drive a taxi again supposing my life depended on it. The thought of working alongside guys like you makes me, want to throw-up. You have no real business and what's even worse, no dignity to speak of. You are simply a serf, working for the man.

Swannee writes:

You need to wake up son, there is no recovery. The Edinburgh Taxi Trade, is circling the drain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19174649

Here comes another tax cut for the uber rich, less spending on vital services and much reminding that were all in it together chaps, what!

Oh and a fortune blowing on nuclear subs.........

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http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

Nuclear Subs is small potatoes.

It's much worse than that. For the last twenty years people were borrowing on the equity of their properties. Thinking the housing bubble would never burst and the value of property would increase for ever.

From Businesses, to high-ticket items like cars and holiday's everything was bought on the never, never. The economic driver, which kept people in work and the economy booming was debt, simply printed into existence, which few will ever pay back.

Now there are no economic drivers to speak of and the economy is on its arse end.

Printing money is no solution to this recession/depression and the monetary system as we know it, is going down.

What's coming around the corner is scary? We might need these Subs after all.

Skull
"Oh and Swannee, I wouldn't drive a taxi again supposing my life depended on it. The thought of working alongside guys like you makes me, want to throw-up."

Yet the irony is you spend numerous hours a week browsing taxi forums & commenting on taxi issues

If the thought of the taxi trade upsets you so much why do you keep hanging onto it?

No, I think you check my posts you will find I normally comment on the broader issues, such as what's in the news, politics and the economy.

However, the real irony is, everything Jim, and I said would happen has, except for de-restriction, which is largely irrelevant because both the economy and Ph, is conspiring to bring the trade to its knees anyway. It's finished as a viable profession. You needed the London model ten years ago, to have any chance of weathering the economic storm, coming your way.

I think I find it gratifying to see you suffering from your own ignorance. It's like you don't want to learn from your mistakes and have no intentions to changing things for the better. Your stupidity seems to know no bounds, and you refuse to do anything in an attempt to save yourselves.

The trade does have one purpose though, it serves as a litmus test for the real economy. You only have to check out fasties to see how bad things really are.

Your trade, in its present form is finished, yet you Longshanks, still try to defend it. Trust me, if you think, it's bad now it will be far worse in another year's time.

Still got the vivid imagination then!! Tell me what pain I'm in that you are not suffering more of?

Yes I have to work extra like most other guys in the trade. (I currently get by on 5 x 10 hour shifts per week. What do you work? oh you don't, do you?)

No I don't doff cap or touch forelock to anyone. Equally I don't go around squealing like a pig that the world owes me a living.

So all in all you are suffering a great deal more pain than I am.

Oh and the only reason I even look at your ravings is for a laugh to brighten my day. You and Mrs Malaprop certainly have a lot in common!!!

"We will not anticipate the past, our retrospection will now be all to the future." Skull & J-asbo (Spring 2003)