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Yes, I think we'd established that.

Gosh, who could have predicted who would crawl out from under their stones to join in the fun?

But this makes me wonder why you guys get so het up about an anonymous individual posting stuff on an internet forum that in the grand scheme of things is neither here nor there, indeed an individual who you're quite sure isn't even in the trade.

Perhaps you should concentrate your efforts on the likes of the LC and Brummie's bête noire noire Kris Beuret rather than someone who doesn't even intend responding to the consultation.

All of which frivolity reminds me that rather than spending a couple of hours a day on here achieving little more than raising Mr T's blood pressure I'd maybe be better spending my time actually reading beyond page 15 of the consultation. Who knows what juicy morsels lie within the other 200 plus pages

Are you applauding yourself at finally understanding something that was said ages ago

Okay Dusty..... you can go back on all the threads through TDO. and you will not find that I have suggested that every city and borough in England and Wales should be capped.

I believe that they should have the right to make that decision themselves. I am also aware that there are places that have never been regulated and work perfectly well.

But you think and advocate that the whole country should have numeral restraints removed which means that you belief that people should have this forced upon them against their will... you know what is best for everyone else. a bit like the Third Reich

You continuously ignore the fact that some drivers need fleet's to be able to make a living... these people don't exist in your world.... in your world it is simply what is best for the owner driver, of which you pretend to be one .

Most drivers who drive for fleets to so because they can't get a drive anywhere else and more than likely cannot get insured... but the fleet's can insure them... but you never recognise the fact that they have a right to earn a living.

And as for my blood-pressure... it's never been lower, I checked it only a hour ago.
but the constant question is why does TDO have a cuckoo in its nest.

As for all that stuff equating derestriction with the Third Reich, blah blah....well I don't think I need to add anything to that.

you don't recognise your obsession with controlling other people's lives

It's you who's the taxi baron

You really don't get it, do you?

No, I was applauding you, but all I did on the other thread was doubt the claim about PHV drivers not wanting to do street work, or at least the amount of such drivers, and instead wondered if it was about things such as mandatory WAVs and a misunderstanding of what a single-tier system is about, since as the Advisory Group minutes demonstrated even the experts don't seem to have a clue about what it would mean.

But then you came along and made the point about some current taxi drivers driving past people on the rank, which was a bit of a red herring, as was the subsequent stuff about kebabs and puke etc.

I well understood the point being made initially and it was you who took the thread on a wild goose chase.

The thing is, i think if i was going to go round every ph company and ask if theyd like the best of both worlds.I.E would you like your radio and also be able to pick up of the rank they would probally say yes.The vast majority anyway.But the vast majority would also want to sit at the few places that are available on the few ranks that work in the day.i also think they would want to come out and do that busy hour from 2 till 3 am(yeah right busy !) The vast majority probally think being a hackney in a restricted area is easy money.Like dusty says "plate barons" that charge inflated rents to drivers.In the real world though you should find out how much work there really is to go around on the streets, and can it really be diluted anymore.

In your opinion it was a red herring I merely said what happened, you don't know what happens because unlike me you don't live here. I'll be doing some market research soon and talking to lots of ph drivers here would you like me to find out how many of them would like to be able to pick up off ranks while I'm at it

you don't recognise your obsession with controlling other people's lives

Yes, instead you no doubt subscribe to the Toots perspective that drivers "need protecting from themselves".

By your logic, if you were a slavemaster and William Wilberforce was proposing the abolition of slavery you'd accuse him of "an obsession with controlling other peoples lives" and of a "Third Reich" attitude.

(OK, Wilberforce was years before Nazism, but you get my drift )

Hi Mr Percival, I'm Kags from the Wirral, please don't derestrict, there's too many taxis you know, and some people need protecting from themselves, cos I know better than them. In fact reminds me of the time I said that the trade suited me because it's flexible and I can fit it round my other several sources of income, but please don't let other drivers who rely on the trade for a living have a taxi if they want one, because they'll just cherrypick when they want to work, and they need protecting from themselves you know.

And as I said, there's too many taxis, but I know a nice man from Sefton called Trevor who has a fleet, and instead of drivers running their own taxi if it suits them they can go to Trev and get a drive there and pay him his inflated rentals, because remember if they drove for themselves there'd be too many taxis and they need protecting from themselves, ideally by driving a taxi for the selfless and benevolent Trev. And anyway, allowing drivers the choice to work for themselves would amount to controlling peoples' lives and be like the Third Reich, innit?And don't forget that if anyone disagrees with this then they can't be a real taxi driver, in fact he'll probably be a child pretending to be an adult whose Daddy in fact drives a PHV, thus clearly not a real taxi driver at all and needs to grow up a bit