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Sussex .. I agreed it should have been dated the1st April..... it would have been more appropriate

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I don't believe I have said that any body represents the whole of the trade..... in fact it would be a impossibility..... and you know that......
This secret society.... seems to be behaving rather foolishly,. secrecy depends on people not knowing........ a bit like a web site.... where people do not give their real names... but the meeting of minds group...... must have made a big mistake inviting Taxi Talk.... a national trade magazine.... to report on how the group progresses...... secrecy... it is all in your mind..... smoke and mirrors......

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I'm not saying anyone has said that, including you, but I'm pretty certain some people associated with the MoM would luv it if that was the case.

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IDFIMH

I have had dealings with members of the GMB for many years... they are professional people...
BUT..I have not stopped laughing at the thought that the incompetent individuals representing the GMBPDB would be stupid enough to send a letter of complaint to a government department (Mr Farmer) over a non-existent letter that has not been sent to him.. priceless.... absolutely priceless.....
And nobody can blame Pat as he is away sunning himself on a sandy shore..

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I can only comment on what I see in black and white and that is exactly what I am doing. The minutes of these proposals are correct are they not? Therefore have not all my comments been associated with these proposals and the persons advocating them?

If the GMBPDB wish to inform David Farmer that they will not make commitment to these proposals until such time they have had the opportunity to consider their consequences and consulted with their own membership, then they have to be commended.

It doesn't matter if the letter and proposals were sent or not, the GMBPDB has pre-emptied any premature misunderstanding in these proposals but it wouldn't surprise me if this lot sent the letter and proposals anyway, which would no doubt say a great deal about those participating in this exercise.

I suspect you would have been happy to have signed the document without consulting your membership. We shall see if the NTA consult all 60 or so their associations along with the ACCURATE DETAILS of what these proposals actually mean for cab drivers.

I have one question for you if you don't mind answering.

What happens to this process if the GMBPDB find these proposals not in the best interest of taxi drivers and reject them completely?

Perhaps the taxi trade could then get some real issues sorted out prompted by the GMB.

Personally I suggest dumping NAPHLEO because they have nothing whatsoever to do with the best interest of cab drivers, they have demonstrated that time and time again. I would also dump anyone who doesn't have a mandate from hackney carriage and private hire drivers.

Then perhaps the cab trade can gain back some of the ground that has been given away by you lot.

Regards

JD

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With respect, I was at the meeting in Liverpool and I know what was said. I have no regrets about the letter being sent to Mr Farmer.

Regards
BB

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Mick Hildreth (07814 032002)
GMB PDB P39 Southern Region Branch Secretary
mick.hildreth@gmbtaxis.org.uk
www.gmbpdb.org.uk

Oh goody..... I do hope the GMB will be providing the readers with copies of the GMBPDB's minutes for at least the last two or three meetings of their own.... or do they have something to hide..... or even a separate agenda......

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Mere confirmation that Mr Cummins is a t*** of the highest order.

If he thinks I'm really upset that I wasn't invited to the MoM, then he best go back to giving his wrong legal advice to drivers.

But he is typical of some that have attended the MoM in that he is taking all he is told by some as read, and rolling over on his belly and being tickled into agreeing with what he is told.

Now he may be a patsy, but thankfully there are some of us that aren't.

Still at least he is keeping to type by not publishing the proposals or commenting on them.

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IDFIMH

If I didn't know better...... I would swear that this was written by ??

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I find it rather pathetic that Mr Derrick Cummins of Taxitalk magazine who describes himself as a major player in the taxi trade thought it more relevant to criticise a comment made on TDO by Sussex than to explain to all hackney carriage and private hire drivers in the United Kingdom just exactly what dastly deeds this unrepresentative motley crew have concocted?

I notice Mr Cummins fell short of explaining to all you guys in England, Scotland and Wales just what they had done on your behalf. Perhaps you thought here is a guy who had the perfect opportunity to set the details out in chapter and verse and yet all he could do was make false accusations about TDO and those behind it.

Mr T said Cummins was invited to the meeting of minds exercise to report the proceedings, well quite frankly I don't see much reporting but what I do see is Mr Cummins saying he was there because he represents the taxi trade? I wonder which part of the taxi trade he actually does represent?

Mr T tried to explain away Mr Cummins involvement in all this by saying he was invited to report proceedings, I think we now know just why he was there and it wasn't in the capacity of reporting anything.

On the other hand perhaps he was playing a duel role, first as a representative of the taxi trade and second as a miniature Goebbels type propagandist for his magazine of misinformation?

I notice he had the good sense not to contradict anything I ever wrote about these meeting of minds proposals but you might have thought a man standing on high moral ground such as his perceived elevation takes him would not have batted an eyelid in explaining why my observations were wrong and his were right?

Perhaps Mr Cummins doesn't understand what these proposals mean but didn't he say at the opening of his meaningless diatribe that it was a case of MOM to the rescue? So why didn't he go on and tell the UK cab trade just exactly what we cab drivers have been rescued from? Instead he made a calculated decision to leave all cab drivers in suspense in the hope that they can read between the lines of an empty prognosis and draw their own conclusion as to how it effects them? On the other hand perhaps he thinks that cab drivers are that stupid that they don't need to know what he and his Liverpool cronies have in store for them?

Needless to say everyone will get to know the facts from TDO in the next few days after I get over this very bad illness that struck me down a few weeks ago.

In the meantime we shall wait and see what the other taxi magazines have to say about this because you can bet your bottom dollar that none of them will tell it how it is but then again, perhaps they don't even realise the full extent of what they are trying to do?

Regards

JD

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

OKKKKK

Needless to say JD.... or whoever you are.......A. version will be presented on TDO.... factional I think not.... fictional it certainly will be..... reds under the bed..... fictional documents being sent to the Ministry for Transport..... and your own version of what everything means.... you play to a certain audience ...... but I think a great many people have decided your show is wanting and have left the theatre...... have fun with the GMB .
ps.. I thought you never read Taxi Talk ..it was below you..... or so you said... have fun

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

In that case you will have ample opportunity to prove the facts wrong. Of course it is widely known that you were invited by me to give your own version of what these proposals mean but I suspect you declined that offer knowing that on this website bull-chit wouldn't pass first base therefore remaining silent was probably your only option.

Perhaps you have a convenient excuse as to why Mr Cummins didn't address the factual questions that I have posed on several occasions regarding these proposed legislative changes, instead of plucking one obscure comment from Sussex out of the hat?

It appears that a minor misunderstanding by Sussex was the only nettle of comfort Mr Cummins could grasp in order to to try and exonerate the decisions taken by this meeting of mindless. Can you tell us why this tinpot magazine didn't explain to the whole taxi trade just what has been proposed on its behalf by these so called representatives of the Taxi trade? Can you also advise us where TDO has ever said that a letter "HAS" been sent to the DfT? I'm curious where Mr Cummins gets his information.



Fiction is something you guys peddle, TDO only deals in reality. You've read my comments on this issue and so has everyone else therefore if my comments and observations are fictional then a man of your capabilities shouldn't have too much of a problem highlighting were the fiction starts and ends.

I think you should either chit or get of the pot because without constructive foundation your empty rhetoric is meaningless. I'm sure similar unfounded comments will get more than their fair share of adverse exposure on this website.

You have read my comments on this issue since I pointed out the proposed changes in 2007, you have the opportunity to take the floor and advise us all where the this so called fiction you talk about starts and ends? knowing your ability to misrepresent the facts I predict that we will never see the light of day of you substantiating your allegations because they simply aren't true and what's more we all know it.

Considering Mr T is incapable of backing up his accusations, then If anyone else wishes to do Mr T's job for him, then be my guest

Regards

JD

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