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Would that be the same Eric Barry, who once said in the T&G's Cab Trade News:

The OFT report is dangerous fantasy stuff because it totally ignores one enormous factor which affects the honest taxi driver. Namely, the widespread use of private hire car operations, for laundering cash from drugs and other criminal activities.
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The private hire cars do not have to make real profits they just have to appear to. The real cash is made peddling drugs and the firm appears to be operating legally because it is fronted.
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At the moment, the crooks haven’t crossed into the taxi trade in big numbers. The OFT plans will open the floodgates to them.

TDO wrote:

He's been around a long time in fact I think he's been Chairman of Central Radio cabs but I don't know if he is still is involved in that outfit? He is on the Hire car consultation group representing the TGWU, which would appear to be a Taxi club for pro regulationists. It wouldn't surprise me if it was them that advised CEC they would win their legal battle with Salteri et al?

Regards

JD

Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in

JD wrote:

TDO wrote:

Spoken like a true taxi driver :lol:

Do you're research JD - you're quick enough to jump on anyone else who posts this sort of pejorative cr4p. :roll:

Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in fact - just research your FACTS before making this kind of post :-|

And before you have a go at me - I know - My kind of posts are usually insubstantive T!tty Thomson and Tw4tty Taylor windups :twisted:

You see - some of us glasshouse dwellers CAN throw stones :lol:

JD wrote:

TDO wrote:

Spoken like a true taxi driver :lol:

Do you're research JD - you're quick enough to jump on anyone else who posts this sort of pejorative cr4p. :roll:

Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in fact - just research your FACTS before making this kind of post :-|

And before you have a go at me - I know - My kind of posts are usually insubstantive T!tty Thomson and Tw4tty Taylor windups :twisted:

You see - some of us glasshouse dwellers CAN throw stones :lol:

T O R N C A S U A L T Y

T A Y L O R S A C * N T

Its that simple

Yup, TC is a leg end in his own mind!

:lol:

TornCasualty wrote:

JD wrote:

TDO wrote:

Spoken like a true taxi driver :lol:

Do you're research JD - you're quick enough to jump on anyone else who posts this sort of pejorative cr4p. :roll:

Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in fact - just research your FACTS before making this kind of post :-|

And before you have a go at me - I know - My kind of posts are usually insubstantive T!tty Thomson and Tw4tty Taylor windups :twisted:

You see - some of us glasshouse dwellers CAN throw stones :lol:

A taxi forum is the only place where TC gets the chance to attack people who make him feel inferior. This is why he will never let anyone in Edinburgh know who he really is. TC is one of the; Now that I have bought my plate I must be a businessman brigade. His claims of winding people-up are only an attempt to hide his ignorance and inadequacy. Without TDO or Fasties, this guy wouldn’t have an opinion, or at least, no one would know that he had one in the first place.

Isn’t it strange how the internet is giving people like this a voice? You woud not even know they existed otherwise.

Author:	JD [ Fri May 11, 2007 8:41 am ]
Post subject:	Edinburgh Taxi driver elected as councillor.
Half of Edinburghs 58 councillors elected last week are new. Amongst them is Taxi driver Eric Barry, elected as Labour councillor for Colinton/Fairmilehead, he has been involved in the party for about 11 years. He plans to continue driving taxis. Mr Barry represents the TGWU Edinburgh cab branch on the Hire car hire licensing consultation group. I suppose that position won't be open to him much longer? Mr Barry is a staunch supporter of keeping the lid on Edinburgh operator licenses but I wonder what committees he will sit on? Does anyone know of any other cab drivers elected as councillors? Regards JD

Author:	grandad [ Fri May 11, 2007 11:10 am ]
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He will have to declare an interest and be excluded from anything to do with taxi licensing etc.

Author:	TDO [ Fri May 11, 2007 5:28 pm ]
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Would that be the same Eric Barry, who once said in the T&G's Cab Trade News: The OFT report is dangerous fantasy stuff because it totally ignores one enormous factor which affects the honest taxi driver. Namely, the widespread use of private hire car operations, for laundering cash from drugs and other criminal activities. […] The private hire cars do not have to make real profits they just have to appear to. The real cash is made peddling drugs and the firm appears to be operating legally because it is fronted. […] At the moment, the crooks haven’t crossed into the taxi trade in big numbers. The OFT plans will open the floodgates to them.

Author:	JD [ Fri May 11, 2007 8:47 pm ]
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TDO wrote: Would that be the same Eric Barry, who once said in the T&G's Cab Trade News: The OFT report is dangerous fantasy stuff because it totally ignores one enormous factor which affects the honest taxi driver. Namely, the widespread use of private hire car operations, for laundering cash from drugs and other criminal activities. […] The private hire cars do not have to make real profits they just have to appear to. The real cash is made peddling drugs and the firm appears to be operating legally because it is fronted. […] At the moment, the crooks haven’t crossed into the taxi trade in big numbers. The OFT plans will open the floodgates to them. He's been around a long time in fact I think he's been Chairman of Central Radio cabs but I don't know if he is still is involved in that outfit? He is on the Hire car consultation group representing the TGWU, which would appear to be a Taxi club for pro regulationists. It wouldn't surprise me if it was them that advised CEC they would win their legal battle with Salteri et al? Regards JD

Author:	TornCasualty [ Sat May 12, 2007 6:26 am ]
Post subject:	My signature says it all
JD wrote: TDO wrote: Would that be the same Eric Barry, who once said in the T&G's Cab Trade News: The OFT report is dangerous fantasy stuff because it totally ignores one enormous factor which affects the honest taxi driver. Namely, the widespread use of private hire car operations, for laundering cash from drugs and other criminal activities. […] The private hire cars do not have to make real profits they just have to appear to. The real cash is made peddling drugs and the firm appears to be operating legally because it is fronted. […] At the moment, the crooks haven’t crossed into the taxi trade in big numbers. The OFT plans will open the floodgates to them. He's been around a long time in fact I think he's been Chairman of Central Radio cabs but I don't know if he is still is involved in that outfit? He is on the Hire car consultation group representing the TGWU, which would appear to be a Taxi club for pro regulationists. It wouldn't surprise me if it was them that advised CEC they would win their legal battle with Salteri et al? Regards JD Spoken like a true taxi driver Do you're research JD - you're quick enough to jump on anyone else who posts this sort of pejorative cr4p. Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in fact - just research your FACTS before making this kind of post And before you have a go at me - I know - My kind of posts are usually insubstantive T!tty Thomson and Tw4tty Taylor windups You see - some of us glasshouse dwellers CAN throw stones

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Author:	JD [ Sat May 12, 2007 7:56 am ]
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TornCasualty wrote: Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in I did do a little research on the hclcg, exactly what is it you find distasteful about my post? Could it be that I dared to offer an opinion on the Hclcg? I'm not having a go at anyone, looking at the make up of the HCLCG It appears to me to be a restrictive Taxi drivers club? Apart from the two or three involved in the equality groups? What's your take on the HCLCG? JD

Author:	jasbar [ Mon May 14, 2007 3:06 pm ]
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TornCasualty wrote: JD wrote: TDO wrote: Would that be the same Eric Barry, who once said in the T&G's Cab Trade News: The OFT report is dangerous fantasy stuff because it totally ignores one enormous factor which affects the honest taxi driver. Namely, the widespread use of private hire car operations, for laundering cash from drugs and other criminal activities. […] The private hire cars do not have to make real profits they just have to appear to. The real cash is made peddling drugs and the firm appears to be operating legally because it is fronted. […] At the moment, the crooks haven’t crossed into the taxi trade in big numbers. The OFT plans will open the floodgates to them. He's been around a long time in fact I think he's been Chairman of Central Radio cabs but I don't know if he is still is involved in that outfit? He is on the Hire car consultation group representing the TGWU, which would appear to be a Taxi club for pro regulationists. It wouldn't surprise me if it was them that advised CEC they would win their legal battle with Salteri et al? Regards JD Spoken like a true taxi driver Do you're research JD - you're quick enough to jump on anyone else who posts this sort of pejorative cr4p. Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in fact - just research your FACTS before making this kind of post And before you have a go at me - I know - My kind of posts are usually insubstantive T!tty Thomson and Tw4tty Taylor windups You see - some of us glasshouse dwellers CAN throw stones Once again the halfwit torn casualty only tells you what he wants you to believe. The Hire Car Licensing Consultation Group is a colection of "Uncle Toms" who are totally subservient to the council policy of restriction, because it protects their vested interest - £50K plate values and high rentals. In fact the council holds the threat of opening the trade up to them like the sword of Damocles. It has been fairly successful in suppressing opposition to draconian administration of the trade. remove the threat of derestriction and the Council loses much of its power to suppress real debate about the injustices it perpetrates on the trade. (The disciplinary procedures are a case in point where the council interprets the Law to allow temporary suspension of licence holders, something describe by a Sheriff in Dumfries as "illogical". Nevertheless it serves to instil fear.) The HCLCG meets in secret, it is not an open public forum. The minutes of this group are not formally published, although they sometimes leak down to the trade after 3 or 4 months. Given the poor reporting of what takes place at these meetings, and they do have the power to make recommendations to the Regulatory Commitee and hence to the Council executive, by the time much of the trade gets wind of what they're doing, it's too late to make any input. Democracy? A democratic deficit. It is entirely unrepresentative. As for Barry. The man is a democratic disgrace, which is why he fits in so well with the fascist Labour party. He is allegedly the secretary of the Edinburgh Cab Branch of the T&G. When the Branch was established the elections for office bearers were held before the majority of those who wished to join could get a chance to vote. All that happened was that Barry's sycophantic clique had found a new vehicle to spout its vested interest bile. Nothing has emanated from the T&G of any worth in Edinburgh since. There has been no real protest about any measures the Council have taken against the interests of the trade. If there are any members, there are only a handful. There has been no attempt to recruit since inception. That presumably would upset the balance of Barry's clique. Does anyone if meetings are held, apart from the trumped up annual whizzbang to keep the illusion going? It speaks volumes that Labour voters could vote for this man simply because of a Labour ticket. I shudder to think that long standing voters, who exercise their democratic right based on some spurious notion of past Labour values, have been suckered into supporting candidates like Barry. The only positive is that the majority of voters realised the true worth of what Labour has in achieved in Edinburgh over the last 25 years and stiffed them. Perhaps there's hope for us yet. Except the halfwit TC of course.

Author:	Skull [ Mon May 14, 2007 3:17 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: My signature says it all
TornCasualty wrote: JD wrote: TDO wrote: Would that be the same Eric Barry, who once said in the T&G's Cab Trade News: The OFT report is dangerous fantasy stuff because it totally ignores one enormous factor which affects the honest taxi driver. Namely, the widespread use of private hire car operations, for laundering cash from drugs and other criminal activities. […] The private hire cars do not have to make real profits they just have to appear to. The real cash is made peddling drugs and the firm appears to be operating legally because it is fronted. […] At the moment, the crooks haven’t crossed into the taxi trade in big numbers. The OFT plans will open the floodgates to them. He's been around a long time in fact I think he's been Chairman of Central Radio cabs but I don't know if he is still is involved in that outfit? He is on the Hire car consultation group representing the TGWU, which would appear to be a Taxi club for pro regulationists. It wouldn't surprise me if it was them that advised CEC they would win their legal battle with Salteri et al? Regards JD Spoken like a true taxi driver Do you're research JD - you're quick enough to jump on anyone else who posts this sort of pejorative cr4p. Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in fact - just research your FACTS before making this kind of post And before you have a go at me - I know - My kind of posts are usually insubstantive T!tty Thomson and Tw4tty Taylor windups You see - some of us glasshouse dwellers CAN throw stones A taxi forum is the only place where TC gets the chance to attack people who make him feel inferior. This is why he will never let anyone in Edinburgh know who he really is. TC is one of the; Now that I have bought my plate I must be a businessman brigade. His claims of winding people-up are only an attempt to hide his ignorance and inadequacy. Without TDO or Fasties, this guy wouldn’t have an opinion, or at least, no one would know that he had one in the first place. Isn’t it strange how the internet is giving people like this a voice? You woud not even know they existed otherwise.

Author:	jasbar [ Mon May 14, 2007 3:18 pm ]
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Yup, TC is a leg end in his own mind!

Author:	Ross [ Mon May 14, 2007 6:24 pm ]
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T O R N C A S U A L T Y T A Y L O R S A C * N T Its that simple

Author:	TDO [ Mon May 14, 2007 9:23 pm ]
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Yes, Ross, the word 'simple' is very apt indeed

Author:	TornCasualty [ Mon May 14, 2007 9:45 pm ]
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Ross wrote: T O R N C A S U A L T Y T A Y L O R S A C * N T Its that simple Damn Ross I wish I'd thought of that

Author:	TornCasualty [ Mon May 14, 2007 9:50 pm ]
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jasbar wrote: Yup, TC is a leg end in his own mind! Having re-read my post I can't see where I state anything other than the fact that JD should have done his research before opining that the HCLCG (of which he couldn't even get the name correct) had been advising the council on court action

Author:	TornCasualty [ Mon May 14, 2007 9:58 pm ]
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Skull wrote: TornCasualty wrote: JD wrote: TDO wrote: Would that be the same Eric Barry, who once said in the T&G's Cab Trade News: The OFT report is dangerous fantasy stuff because it totally ignores one enormous factor which affects the honest taxi driver. Namely, the widespread use of private hire car operations, for laundering cash from drugs and other criminal activities. […] The private hire cars do not have to make real profits they just have to appear to. The real cash is made peddling drugs and the firm appears to be operating legally because it is fronted. […] At the moment, the crooks haven’t crossed into the taxi trade in big numbers. The OFT plans will open the floodgates to them. He's been around a long time in fact I think he's been Chairman of Central Radio cabs but I don't know if he is still is involved in that outfit? He is on the Hire car consultation group representing the TGWU, which would appear to be a Taxi club for pro regulationists. It wouldn't surprise me if it was them that advised CEC they would win their legal battle with Salteri et al? Regards JD Spoken like a true taxi driver Do you're research JD - you're quick enough to jump on anyone else who posts this sort of pejorative cr4p. Try researching on HCLCG in Edinburgh, or Central Taxis Edinburgh or in fact - just research your FACTS before making this kind of post And before you have a go at me - I know - My kind of posts are usually insubstantive T!tty Thomson and Tw4tty Taylor windups You see - some of us glasshouse dwellers CAN throw stones A taxi forum is the only place where TC gets the chance to attack people who make him feel inferior. This is why he will never let anyone in Edinburgh know who he really is. TC is one of the; Now that I have bought my plate I must be a businessman brigade. His claims of winding people-up are only an attempt to hide his ignorance and inadequacy. Without TDO or Fasties, this guy wouldn’t have an opinion, or at least, no one would know that he had one in the first place. Isn’t it strange how the internet is giving people like this a voice? You woud not even know they existed otherwise. T!tty - you will never make me feel inferior - you are a nothing more than a source of amusement to me And once again - no plate to sell, never had one, will never buy one, will never sell one. Not interested in plate values - you're the one interested in plate values, though why an failed ex-taxi driver no longer in the trade would be interested just shows the lack of depth of your sad miserable little life

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Author:	Skull [ Tue May 15, 2007 12:02 pm ]
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Oh I see you are not inferior because you are stupid, you have nothing to lose, and are not interested in plate values. You are only here to attack those who make you feel superior. Aye good one TC lets face it, without the Internet you wouldn’t have an opinion anyone would know about. I think it is you who is sad and miserable and if this was not the case you wouldn’t be frightened to back-up your banal comments? JT and I give people every opportunity to confront us with their wisdom but to no avail. We are not talking about fighting in the street just the opportunity to state their case in public. Remember Talk 107? You lot were pathetic. I have yet to meet a cabby with any balls especially the trades so called representatives and you are no different TC. You don’t wind people up TC but you are the epitome of the Edinburgh cabby. BTW, haven't you notice how every time you make a tit of yourself with some stupid comment you claim it's a windup? Just thick perhaps....