TornCasualty wrote:
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.
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