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As I think I said, there seems to be a new procedural requirement under the Enterprise Act to consult interested parties, so this could be relevant.

I would like to know how they decide who the interested parties are, and how they consult them!!!

Dusty

Good God Wharfie,

Are you so small minded that you can't see that changes don't have to be so dramatic or as immediate as you suggest.

Yet again you berate a former brother member who is also a brother union member, I believe, in the deteriation of his business, however slight, the sad thing is you are so blind you cannot see that your statements are completely unfounded as well as being mis-informative and argumentative.

""ha" "ha" your going down the pan and your going to lose all the money you paid for your plate you mug" is hardly the kind of attitude one would expect from someone who claims to have strong trade union beliefs. Particularly when the same union you profess to support wholeheartedly accept that people have the right to work and through a well constructed policy of managed growth aim to provide it whilst protecting the incomes of those CURRENTLY WORKING IN THE TRADE. Please note the emphasis on the words in capital letters as owner drivers who have bought their own right to work are entitled to protct their investment as is anyone else who has heavily invested in any business.

We have had this argument many times, there will never be agreement between those who have and those who havn't and we will never see it as long as people have no consideration for the position of others, as in the same way as Sussex man and yourself don't seem to be bothered about premiums allready paid those individuals who have paid won't be bothered about you or him not getting a plate. This is why the union have a policy of increasing nubers to allow more plates gradually increasing numbers and gradually decreasing premiums.

The dinosaurs of the trade will become extinct, but I don't think that current attitudes will see progression, and thats attitudes from either side.

B. Lucky

The old chestnut of the T&G protecting LTI again.

Why is it that the T&G support the LTI models then?

PUBLIC SAFETY MATE thats why and being a member of the union you know exactly their stance, european full body M1 specification.

You refer to the payments exchanged for plates as a "bung" inferring that the money exchanged was in some way illegal. Plates have changed hands for the past 6 years with the councils full knowledge and acceptance here in Gateshead.

What a world YOU live in Wharfy mate, brother drivers is it, I'd just like to know what the colour of YOUR sky is.

No-one is left stranded in Gateshead exept for those booking P/H matey, I was finished and at home by 3am both Friday and Saturday night just gone mate and our clubs kick out at 2am, I left our ONLY NIGHT rank at 1am tonight mate cause THERE WERE MORE SEATS IN TAXIS OUTSIDE THAN THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE CLUB, can you believe that Wharfy mate some of the blokes sitting at the back of the rank will wait an hour and still pull off empty, yeah massive un-met demand and loads of people stranded. Oh and there were still P/H scumbags flimping the area. ( I will use the word scumbag in the same way as Sussex Man uses the word leech and queue jumpers against H/C, this is therefore not mean't in any way to be applied to all P/H drivers but is applied to the ones that act illegally and put the publics lives at risk).

Oh aye, just how many current plateholders actually got their "rights given for nothing", I suggest that if any the numbers are very low indeed.

B. Lucky

What gets at me sometimes is the Union's phraseology such as "Right to work" and "the right not to have to pay for work".

Why is it that the T&G support the LTI models then?

PUBLIC SAFETY MATE thats why and being a member of the union you know exactly their stance, european full body M1 specification.

That is, unless paying a T&G member to hire or buy a plate

Dusty

Oh aye, just how many current plateholders actually got their "rights given for nothing", I suggest that if any the numbers are very low indeed.

if you are going to go bellow the belt do like mick and move to another forum like taxiandprivatehireforums.

Out of 507 plates in Dundee, I think it's about 507, give or take none!!

That's not a good example though Mick, I was just being facetious!

In most places it's a lot less, only a few.

Like Mr Royden in the Wirral!!

Dusty