Taxi Driver Online

From:

Jim Taylor

To:

Donald McLeod
Council Solicitor - Licensing
City of Edinburgh Council

24th November 2010

Dear Mr Macleod

RE:-

1) Cab4u LLP - Statement of reasons for refusal of taxi licence

2) FOI - Equality Impact Assessment based on "Breaching Human Rights" document

3) FOI - Recent unpublished internal demand survey



1) Cab4u LLP - Statement of reasons for refusal of taxi licence

I refer to your email of 20th May and note that we have still not received the statement of reasons for the refusal of our application for a taxi operator's licence. The council is now severely in dereliction of its statutory duty in respect of the terms of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 to provide same.

In accordance with our rights as applicants under the the Act we require that you provide us with this statement by return.

2) FOI - Equality Impact Assessment based on "Breaching Human Rights" document

Freedom of Information Request ref JBT - 24/11/2010 - A

You will recall that we presented our document "Breaching Human Rights" both before and in support of application. The council had ample time to consider this prior to taking the action it did, to issue licences.

Despite this, the council appears to have ignored the contention of breach made within that document when it had a statutory duty to properly and fully consider it as required by the Human Rights Act 1998.

In consequence, the council has breached my Human Rights by applying a discriminatory clause of legislation which has never been fully considered for compliance with the Human Rights Act 1998, which adopted the European Charter of Human Rights - both of which serve to protect individuals against discrimination - and when the council is legally obliged to do so when the matter has been raised with it.

I therefore request under Freedom of Information the fullest information as proof that you fully and properly considered these allegations of a Human Rights breach prior to the last issuing of taxi licences, and that you provide me with the documentary evidence to prove this - to include emails, letters, minutes of meetings and any other relevant documentation.

In particular I request a copy of the Equality Impact Assessment the council was duty bound to conduct prior to the issuing and refusal of licences earlier this year. This document should be in existence and I therefore anticipate your providing it without undue procrastination or delay.

3) FOI - Recent unpublished internal demand survey

Freedom of Information Request ref JBT - 24/11/2010 - B

It has been drawn to my attention that since the last Halcrow report, when a "demand" was identified for an additional 30 taxi licences, the council has been conducting its own internal demand surveys.

I also understand that there seems to be some confusion as to why the latest survey is being deliberately withheld by the council.

In view of this I make formal request under Freedom of information that you provide me with the fullest details of all surveys carried out internally by the council, to include the dates the surveys were conducted, along with the dates of publication. This to include any surveys conducted but which remain unpublished to date.

Mr Macleod, I thank you for your assistance with these matters and look forward to your earliest reply.

Regards

Jim Taylor

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

From:
Donald McLeod
Council Solicitor - Licensing
City of Edinburgh Council



To:

Jim Taylor

24th November 2010

Dear Mr Taylor,
Go and f**k yourself


Regards

Donald McLeod

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Grandad,

Isn't impersonating a government official a criminal offence?



BTW Even it is done by an imbecile?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Do you not think he'll ask you to pay, due to the cost of assimilating all the documents you requested? If he does, will you?

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Information ... tement.pdf

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

If mr Taylor put half as much effort he puts into letter writing into driving a taxi he'd have been able to buy his own cab many times over. Maybe if he wasn't home, tucked up safe and dry at 3am where loads of vulnerable lassies could use his assistance then he wouldn't need to go on his personal crusade against the cab trade

You're not paying attention. Why should I pay for a licence which is non-transferable and which I could never own, and which should be mine by right? Now get with the program.

As for your insinuatiuon about my working practices these are entirely a matter for me. I don't have to explain myself to you.

And it's not down to me alone to ensure that vulnerable females can reasonavly get the taxi they need. But it is the trade's, and you would defend the restriction that causes the shortage, Shame on YOU.
So, get with it.

You got real concerns about female safety, then you should be helping us to de-restrict this trade.

If the politicians on City of Edinburgh Council really cared about the public, and female safety, they would place the public interest before all else, and de-restrict the trade. Shame on THEM that they don't care.


So, what is it? Do you have real concerns and are you with us?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Your the one not paying attention mr Taylor

I said buy a cab, nothing about a plate


Also it's the cab trades concern to service the public during unsociable hours and your attempting to argue that more cabs will service the need that's not there, yet the cab trade is one car down as your banging away on your keyboard at 2am

Is it the fact your home at 2am, anything to do with the fact that there is not alot of demand for cabs at 2am on a cold wednesday night/Thursday morning and you don't want to sit on a rank for an hour so at a time to get a fare?

Why would he buy a cab if he can't get a plate?

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http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

jasbar, I should be hurt that you failed to answer my enquiry, preferring, instead, to keep up your tirade against all those who disagree with you, but I'm not. I'm not even going to expect one.

Why? Simply because I tagged you a wind-up merchant a while back, and nothing has been posted, by you since then, to change my opinion. There's better at it, than you are, both in reality and cyberspace, but no matter. You'll keep on keeping on till you either take a step too far, and are barred from this site, or you tire of getting the good folk of TDO to keep feeding you more material to throw back at them distorted to your agenda. I fully expect one of the above to occur shortly.

So in the full expectation of being ignored again, I bid you good day and good luck with the fishing.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

Fink he's talking the part with 20 to 50k scenario and get car and plate for whatever sum you agree to be conned out of !

I won't ignore you this one time.

This trade is going to be de-resricted. Get it. It is going to be de-restricted.

The campaign continues until it is. End of. There is NO prospect that the ludicrous vested interest will prevail.

Now, you should realise that there is a huge job to do to rebuild the trade, to take back commercial control from this over-bearing, control freak council, if indeed it is not already too late.

If you had ANY real interest in protecting our market, and giving a real service to the public, and EARNING the rewards that would come from this, then you would be be with us rather than spouting personal attacks.

You attack me, you might think you've won a chocolate watch, but all the while our trade is going dpwn the toilet.

Look to London where cabbies are held in professional high regard. Minicabs take the business the cabbies don't want. And anyone reaching the required standard can drive his own taxi.

That's what we are bringing here.

Get used to it

BTW Why should I ever be barred from this site. Is there anyone who has articulated the arguments wth reason and logic better than the skull and I?

So we ridicule the mentally challenged morons who attack personalities because the argument is going to damage their vested interests and their petty illusions of grandeur?

We don't have to take the p-sh out of folks like you. We do it through choice because it's good sport, an entertaining diversion and we despise you, what you stand for and to show our complete contempt for you.

Unlike you, we don't have a need to be popular. We don't care about trying to live under your false illusion.

But we know we're right - every other market sector in our economy proves this.

Now grow up!

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Yet still you didn't answer my question. And where, besides calling you a "wind-up merchant" did I spout a personal attack? I still think the same.

You have no idea who I am, but you despise me? You have no knowledge of the work I do to protect my income and those who work with me, yet you show me contempt?

These two points alone only strengthen my belief that you only come on here to get a reaction. Not to better the trade or those who work in it. (tho you may well be doing so elsewhere) How would I know?

As I said a wind-up merchant. Only this 53 yr old ain't biting (or intending grow up).

Time to try a different bait, old chap. The last one slipped the hook.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

Sounds like you've answered your own question. This alone is enough reason to despise you.

Now Mr Pan, as I said, grow up. You've obviuosly reached 53 years without ever doing so.

Dearie me.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

_________________
Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"