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I'm not sure if you are an absolute nutter, or not.

I suppose it takes all sorts.

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IDFIMH

Sure it takes all sorts, Sussex, we can´t be all on as good terms as you are to the council, can we.
What´s more, to declare me one will certainly not endanger those said good terms.
Besides, Brighton has always been a magnet for nutters, ey? So, home is where the heart is!

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

Maybe you should have jumped in front of the boat race

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I think it´s a fine line between choosing unusual forms of protest and being a nutter.
Moreover, we live in a world where people won´t listen to men of reason and rather turn towards a nutter, especially the media does it. So many brilliant voices are no more than a crier in the wilderness and remain unheard.

So, what to do?
I don´t think there isn´t a simple solution anywhere, so I just follow my instincts on whatever I do. I have tried reason with HCO, haven´t I? To make an exception for someone in my situation makes perfect sense and if they are not even willing to make one for me because they fear that the walls will cave in, well, that´s saying something.

The drivers are the superiors of the HCO´s, for they and the tax-payers are paying their bread, not the other way round, like it used to be. And I don´t really mean English HCO´s in particular, for I have witnessed this commanding attitude in two other countries as well.

Wherever you look offices try to treat their clients as customers now - it seems HCO´s world-wide are the last resorts of this good old barracks tone what they used to have in the offices decades ago.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

You don't have to have good relations with anyone to work out the basics.

There are people with licenses, and people without them.

If you haven't got one then you need to gain one in the same way as everyone else.

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IDFIMH

Councils are bending the rules all over the uk,there can't be anyone on this forum who hasn't had experience of this.so why not Brighton or is it because he's not from Brighton? So common Sussex lets be knowing what rules they have bent in the past for others,then jochen will have claims for racism.

I agree that rules are occasionally broken, or perhaps a better phrase is 'flexibility is shown'.

However when you bang on about fighting the good fight and how you are going to get your way no matter what, then the flexibility aspect goes out of the window.

The way of the world I'm afraid.

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IDFIMH

Good answer

Well, Sussex, my answer to what you first said is very simple, I have a Brighton-license. I can show it to you. So, tell me please, why should it be not good? (Actually, here the council shows flexibility, because I am not supposed to keep that old license, but they know that I just wouldn´t give it back, so they are making a .... what? ... yes, an exception.) Yes, I know, I know, it is expired, because I didn´t renew it. Couldn´t renew it.

Now, who put me into the position of fighting the good fight? The council did it, because I wrote to them several letters and emails, BEGGING them to make an exception for me, they refused. I had been there in person two times (each time flew over from Germany) no, they don´t even won´t to spare me the DSA-test, because, may I quote the head of B&H HCO "that´s exactly where it starts, that everybody would come wanting to have it done their way". (Surely not the exact words, but more or less.)

So, may I point out, Sussex, that the flexibility aspect has gone out of the window BEFORE I was forced to fight the good fight.

And as for racism, well, I will press charges for discrimination, that is a discrimination of those drivers who are on and off in the UK , let them be foreign or English (!), because this applies for English drivers too, who are on and off in the UK, therefor not being able to keep their UK-driving license (legally).

So racism has nothing to do with it, if they perhaps would have been more generous with me if I would have been a Brightonian is an entirely different matter, for I don´t have any proof of that.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

Then what is the problem?

Or is it a case that it ran out and wasn't renewed?

If so then that's your fault, no-one else's.

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IDFIMH

I think it is useless, Sussex. You know that it wasn´t my fault and I pretty much gather you are basically on your own here with that way of looking at it anyway.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

Well that wouldn't be the first time.

But that's not the point, it doesn't matter what the good people on TDO say and do, it's all down to the officers of B&H Council, and they say that you don't have a license, therefore you need to go back to square one to get another one.

Now I'm not saying you are not a 'fit and proper' person to hold a license, even if your actions are a bit iffy, but you let your license run out.

I agree you was out of the country, but you still let your license run out.

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IDFIMH

I have to say that I hope you get all that you want, but I do agree with Sussex - if you let your licence expire without renewing, you only have yourself to blame.

Best of luck with it.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

I received an email from the Local Gov Ombudsman today, where he pretty much already decided in favour of the council, as I have expected it. I can still send him my point of view until beginning of May, but I have already very specifically described my point of view, so I see the case well decided against me.

at Sussex: so, my actions are a bit iffy? Well, why didn´t you put me up then for two weeks so I didn´t have to go in a tent? Why didn´t anybody put me up? ( I have asked people and I did an ad.) So, I decided not to waste too much money and go in a tent. (Which was obviously wrong for I am seriously SICK now. ) Yet, without that, there wouldn´t have been "Occupy B&H HCO", right?

Anyway, Sussex, let´s not get this personal, you´re on good terms with the council and there is nothing wrong with that, I might have been on extremely good terms with them, had they renewed my license, then I would have praised them up and down the country. Only they didn´t.

Anyway, I am not the kind of guy who wants to have a pat on the shoulder for everything he is doing, but if the good people from the TDO can understand me, most cabbies can and that´s reassuring enough.

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)

The worst cold for years now. Just had a stroll over the nearby cemetery (for I had to be out of the flat for an hour) envying the dead, lying there!

(Off Sussex zone: Well, this just adds to my aggravation, doesn´t it. I mean, who are they, blaming me for their crappy regulations, not doing their jobs! I will write them something soon, giving up polite and just for fun demand they resign right away and that they ought to be indited with whatever a lawyer of mine could come up with, if I weren´t only too poor to get me one.)

I should have gone in one of the many gay bars in Brighton! I have just read an article saying that gays are challenged by picking up straights and that they would buy drinks and obviously provide you with a bed! (If only I wouldn´t suffer from anal fissures ) The funny thing was an adviser for heteros how to hang out an a gay discotheque, especially for ladies: rule number 1: your vagina does not have any power here! (meaning they are treated just as edit-by-adminly as a normal guy in a hetero joint.)

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Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)