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Are you having a laugh?
Go on a waiting list for years in the hopes that some kind soul will hand back a licence worth thousands, instead of flogging it on.
You may as well put your grandchildren's names down as they are born. They may just get a chance before they die.

How many names were on the waiting list in Edinburgh before it was closed?


Discriminatory? - Yes. Equally? - No.
Local rules regarding vehicle choice are a joke also.
Yet many councils do this as well as restricting numbers.
Doesn't that make them even more discriminatory?



I didn't say I wanted an end to all restrictions - Just the restrictions on licence numbers.
Only a complete fool would want a total free-for-all.

I believe licences should be held by drivers as a tool of their trade, not held by speculators or carpet-baggers as a cash cow or investment.
Licences should be available equally to anyone prepared to meet the required standards.
Not bought and sold and rented out by the "I was here first" brigade as a nice little earner.

I also believe councils should not be dictating what type vehicle can be used. This should be decided nationally and applied equally to all areas and all taxi licences.

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my kids doing fine thanks,pity your concern is not sincere.
but thats just you eh..trev the nice guy
and yes you did try to incite violence against me/or my property trev you know it and i can prove it.

mind you! youre doing a decent job of proving it youreself

how? you ask??
dead simple trev, i didnt say you threatened me did i ???
as for any real threat trev i know youre full of [edited by admin] "it would just happen"
dream on c'mon get real.

but no one is stopping a plunber from doing this are they.

the restriction of licence to operate is the difference and you know it so why prattle on like this hasnt been debated for years already.

like when a plumber passes his final exam he has to sign sommit to say he can only work if he pays another qualified plumber x amount per week,or a lump sum of x amount.
when you look at it like that you see how ridiculous it really is.

And the plumber just substitutes his rip-off Corgi annual registration fee instead.

£2,000 per annum last I heard.

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Corgi registration is only a requirement for gas fitters.
As far as I am aware they don't restrict numbers.
I don't suppose a corgi installer can rent out or sell their registration either.

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But they work in a FREE MARKET; they set their own charges.

The cab trade DOES NOT, although we are told that in de-restricted LAs market forces will prevail. But they will only prevail in a free market. The cab trade only has half of the components of a free market & therefore market forces will be twisted, warped, distorted.

But in a free market, everything to do with costs & prices has to be completely unregulated, otherwise you do not have a free market, where market forces can prevail.

And that is the rub. The cab trade is being hoodwinked by politicians into believing that in de-restricted LAs there is a free market, where market forces will prevail.

Rubbish, there isn't.

But there is in the PH trade, because their fares are completely unregulated.

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I agree.

As I stated earlier I don't want a free market.
Nor do I want one where first in has the lion's share and everyone else grafts for the leftovers - all arranged by the local council.
Why should newer drivers have to wet the beaks of the greedy just to make a living?

Deregulated fares or not, the law of supply and demand would still apply.
If you want to cut your prices you can already. You don't need deregulated fares to do that.
The only thing you can't do is charge over the odds. Why you should want to I don't know.

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Because that is a free market. When supply of a commodity or service is plentiful, that commodity or service is cheap. And when it is scarce the price goes up.

That's what happens to most PH hirings on a Friday & Saturday night!

And if you price yourself too high, you loose the fare.

That's a free market operating to market forces.

But what we have is a pseudo free market supposedly operating to pseudo market forces with cost & price restrictions all round.

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and that is worse than Mr T's restricted market because....?

Do you want a completely free market?

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Was actually the point I was driving at.....we have regulation even in deregulated areas...the market is warped.

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My point was, you either have a restricted market as Mr T suggests, or you have a completely free market.

But the notion of being told that de-restriction is a 'market forces will prevail' situation is nonsense, because the legislators only want to give the cab trade those components of a free market theory (because that is what it is, just a theory) that they are willing to give us & then call it market forces.

And the best thing is that the cab trade, by & large, have swallowed that idea, which is incomplete.

Me personally? I think that if the legiislators are not prepared to give the cab trade all the other components of a free market trade, then the only way forward, with those restrictions, & that is what they are, is for a system of controlled growth in the cab trade.

By that I mean the system that Manchester & Bristol now have; issue plates when a survey shows they are required in the numbers identified by a survey & have an annual survey.

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