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Swannee writes:




And were out at the Airport exactly do you believe the public have unrestricted access?



Honestly, you lot love to dream.

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Swannee, I don't think there is a square inch of that airport which operates without some sort of restriction.

Your problem is, you are looking at the legislation and reading into it what you want.

Oh and even if you had a valid argument, which I doubt, to take it through the courts may take years, and hundreds of thousands of pounds, for it to see the light of day. And I said before, the Airport Authorities would simply move the goalposts, and it would start all over again.

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As usual you only see what you want to see.

Airports are regarded as public places for the smoking and licensing laws so there is no reason or way they can claim otherwise.

Edinburgh airport may try to move the goalposts but all they have succeeded in doing up til now is alienating the public by overcharging them at every opportunity. So public support for what they say and do is on the wane.

Remember their wonderful slogan Edinburgh Airport - where Scotland Meets the world? Substitute Edinburgh Airport = where they fleece the world.

But I digress.

So come on Garry, admit it, you know the airport and ECPH are in the wrong. And would you give up without a fight?

Listen, the airport is a place of business operating on private land, they even write their own bylaws ffs. You are dreaming, if you think that in anyway, this constitutes a public thoroughfare, according to the CGSA. I don't believe the CGSA has any bearing on the operation at the airport.


section 133 of the CGSA.



I agree the airport operates a restrictive practice, deliberately fettering access to services, and denying customers the opportunity to exercise their freedom of choice, which turns the pubic into sheeple, lining up to be sheered.

Even so, this is an entirely different argument to the one you, and Tony Kensnowt appear to be making.

As for ECPH, they are paying to provide a service to a private entity, and I am afraid. Money talks and bullsh*t walks, and Stevie Malcolm is doing the talking.

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I'm not dreaming Skull and I'm certainly not nailing my colours (or anyone else's) to any mast.

I simply point out that somewhere can be a public place regardless of who owns it. Ownership is irrelevent.

It doesn't have to be a road, nor does it have to be outside. These are also irrelevent.

Airport byelaws can't and don't allow them to ignore the law of the land. The CGSA is statute law, remember. That outranks anything their little fiefdom decrees.
If Airports do whatever they like, it's not because they can. It's because nobody has had the bollocks and deep pockets to challenge them.

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Listen, the airport is a cul de sac. Planes drop out of the sky, and the public, are subject to all sorts of restrictions going in and coming out of the Terminal. I think it is a very big stretch to claim it has unrestricted access, and is therefore, a public thoroughfare and should be treated as such. I honestly, don't see the relevance of how the CGSA would apply, in this case.

Oh and that's without even discussing the security implications.

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If the CGSA doesn't apply, one wonders why anyone bothers with a licence at all

Let alone one from a council which restricts them

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you're confusing public place with public thoroughfare.

Airport byelaws are secondary to the the primary legislation of the CGSA etc and their byelaws can only be applied when they do not contradict primary legislation. And that has been to court (in the early nineties, I think it was)

Yes the public may be subject to all sorts of restrictions, but their access is not. A car park can have barriers and all sorts of restrictions but it remains a public place.

CRT, will lose simply because they don't have the time, money or the resources to outmaneuver the Airport. And the issue of property, whether it be public or private are far more complex than you think. I honestly wouldn't know where to start.

You are dreaming, if you believe, you have a clear understanding of what the Airport can and cannot do.

Anyhoo CRT, are simply fighting the wrong kind of war to win and that's the real problem.

Oh and trust me, my personal feelings don't come into it. I would rather see CRT, win out against the Airport purely from a David and Goliath perspective, but I am pretty sure they are going about it the wrong way.

There are many ways to win a war but going head to head on this issue, isn't one of them. This is going to cost a lot of money to achieve absolutely nothing and CRT, are going to get their bum felt in the long run.

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Why not take a leaf out of the French book, there is only one way in and out, now if a few cabs were to suddenly break down on this road in both directions,

Direct Action, not a chance, they don't have the balls.

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So would anyone care to comment on what they think, CRT is trying to achieve by taking the council into court?

Oh and I assume there was some kind of vote where CRT members were asked, if they wanted to go ahead with challenging the council?

And of course, the offer of resignations would be on the table, if all goes pear-shaped?


How about you Swannee, you seem to be the only one defending this madness?

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Let's hope the questions don't get any harder?????????????????????????????

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So no one knows what CRT, are trying to achieve through their legal challenge, the members were never asked, and the committee is not about to resign, if they lose their court case.

Money well spent...

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Once again.

Nothing ever changes in the trade, does it?

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