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On the other hand, I doubt if you would say these things in the LTDA's journal (say) with your real name appended, so I suspect you are not naive enough to realise how you sound.




http://www.ltda.co.uk/taxi/issue_93/pg29.htm

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I can understand the frustration of the cab driver over this incident, but if I was to get a letter like that sent to me, then the chances of me addressing anything in it would be less than none.

Whatever we may think of the PCO, they are only allowed to do what the acts say they can. And if in the act it doesn't bar non english speaking people, then the PCO can't act.

But hopefully they should be able to sort out the insurance issue. Maybe he was running on a fleet insurance. Who knows? :?

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Now you seem familiar :roll:

So what you are trying to say is that you either can't or won't debate issues, so other people are to blame for that #-o

But then you give us your tuppence worth anyway :-k


No, unless its your past self catching up on you? When you used to be a more militant taxi driver.

Mick? Nope.
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I note the registrant of this site is none other than wife of my old mate Mr Button.

All these rumours would appear to be true.

Or will you tell me the registrants details were submitted as a bit of a joke to wind people up?

Quite who Mr Button is on the forum, well who knows, or indeed who cares?

Good luck James, you may even remember me from about 3 years ago?

http://www.law.bham.ac.uk/prospectus/li ... button.htm
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Only two people have ever mentioned the registration of this site, despite it being up for nearly two years. One was the Mansfield plank, and the second one was you. :shock:

Anyone who really knows anything about Mr Button (licensing brief) will know that he is really, in the main, a council side man. Anyone who knows anything about Taxi Driver Online, knows that, more times than not, they are not council side folk.

Was it a wind up, who knows? But one has to wonder why anyone really cares. :-k

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On the other hand, I doubt if you would say these things in the LTDA's journal (say) with your real name appended, so I suspect you are not naive enough to realise how you sound.




http://www.ltda.co.uk/taxi/issue_93/pg29.htm

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Well that certainly proves my point about not having a name appended.

And the letter certainly raises a number of valid points. One of which is of course the fact that the driver's English was very poor, of course this is a bit more valid that nationality/race etc per se.

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Now you seem familiar :roll:

So what you are trying to say is that you either can't or won't debate issues, so other people are to blame for that #-o

But then you give us your tuppence worth anyway :-k


No, unless its your past self catching up on you? When you used to be a more militant taxi driver.

Mick? Nope.


How was I more militant in the past?

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I note the registrant of this site is none other than wife of my old mate Mr Button.

All these rumours would appear to be true.

Or will you tell me the registrants details were submitted as a bit of a joke to wind people up?

Quite who Mr Button is on the forum, well who knows, or indeed who cares?

Good luck James, you may even remember me from about 3 years ago?

http://www.law.bham.ac.uk/prospectus/li ... button.htm


Another one incapable of a bit of simple research, and who jumps to the most ridiculous conclusions because of people sharing a surname :lol:

People having the same surname? Whatever next :D

But given your comments the other week, you must think I'm a fearsome debater on here (although of course you didn't quite put it like that!), and people consistenty associate this site (wrongly) with qualified professionals.

Shucks :oops:

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I note the registrant of this site is none other than wife of my old mate Mr Button.



Wrong, you mean you think that, you don't know it - you should try checking your facts before turning supposition into fact. :-s

You seem to think that anyone who shares the same surname must be the same person or closely related, unless, of course, it's something like Smith or Jones. #-o

The name was just to do with the domain name registration, nothing to do with the site per se.

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Mick? Nope.


So you'll be yellowbadgecabby then :lol:

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Mick? Nope.


So you'll be yellowbadgecabby then :lol:


Well its not Greenbadgecabby. :?
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http://www.law.bham.ac.uk/prospectus/li ... button.htm


Well, your better looking than I thought Dusty. :wink:
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I'm a bit better looking than Mr Button, if only because I'm a few years younger :D

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Well its not Greenbadgecabby. :?


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It seems that the London black cab trade was instrumental in keeping the second-tier (minicabs) unregulated for so long, apparently because they were worried about how legitimising the sector would pose a greater competive threat.


Mr/Mrs TDO, I'm still waiting for the evidence on this one.

As long as I can remember, the London Taxi trade has always called for a licensing process with regard to minicabs, not as you suggest encouraging it to remain a free for all both in types of drivers employed and vehicles operated.


I noticed Clive Efford at PMQs last week and this brought to mind your question.

In the second reading of the PHV (London) Bill, its sponsor Sir George Young said:

In 1989, Westminster city council proposed that the then current London Local Authorities Bill should empower London boroughs to license minicabs, but pressure from the taxi trade dissuaded the council. The Select Committee on Transport investigated the subject in 1994, and recommended that London's private hire vehicles should be regulated. The Government accepted that principle.

Efforts to bring London into line foundered for a number of reasons. Pressure on Government time often squeezed Bills out. The Bill was not in the Queen's Speech, nor was it in the previous one. Private Members' Bills hit the anxieties of the black cab trade which was concerned about giving credibility to the minicab by licensing it.

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