Taxi Driver Online

The only hunting I have ever done is chasing a mouse around a bedroom p*** pot. Tally Ho. The wife woke up with a terrible fright.

Claude

I prefer the variant czar myself, because you don't often get the chance to use the z key, do you?

But I normally just use tsar, just to be conformist, that's the way of the world, innit?

BTW Maurice, I think Mayor Ken is a good argument for a taxi tsar, because he's a politician, and politicians aren't normally given the task of setting prices and qualitiative standards, and closing markets etc (not that Ken has the powers to do the latter).

As I said, these powers in relation to the post, railways, electricity, gas, telecoms etc are handed to specialists, not politicians.

Dusty

BTW if Mick or anyone else has an article or suchlike about the T&G's National Cab Act proposal then we should be able to put an article on the front page, so bring it on!!

Dusty

dusty mate, to call accountants specialists, is a liitle misuse of the word,in the context in which you used it.
each of the people you quote are indeed politicians, they are merely selected by an independant panel of politicians.

look very closely at thier c.v.s and you will find a common link somewhere to the Labour Party.

check very closely at thier predecessors and you will find a link to the conservative party.

Ken Livingstone, may be a politician but he was an " independent" one.

and he was directly elected by the people of London, who unlike the bodies you quote decided to choose someone unconnected with the Britsh President

Wharfie

Yes Geoff, the theory doesn't always work perfectly in practise, and obviously Parliament is the final arbiter on these things.

But I think the idea is to leave these things to people who aren't worried about day-to-day newspaper headlines and suchlike, and who may have a personal interest in policy, like local councillors in many areas.

Dusty

yes there is an adminastrative move to depoliticise the administration, in the way you suggest, indeed to leaders of councillors of yesteryear are now on salaries of such bodies, my great friend sir John Harman from Kirklees council has environment Agency Chair.

my ex junior Pam Warhurst is vice chair at countryside commission

Wharfie

And you are driving a cab.

you havnt got to be too almighty Andy, I enjoy it and well, maybe I will go back one day who knows.

there was the brain of britain, who was a taxi driver, and I think solicitors sometimes claim to have been (be) taxidrivers.

one chief executive of a metropolitain council used to open up by claiming he had driven dustcarts, his political head winced.

Wharfie

Yes, very funny Geoff

Nothing wrong with driving a cab, as Andy should know, but he's just 'aving a larff methinks.

Dusty

As if ?