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Good questions, but that's what the rest of us have been saying for years.

But I think the answer lies in the 'legitimisation' argument.

After all, if PH had been regulated years ago, a lot of the stuff you post on here might never have arisen.

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So you're saying that if I came across a car crash and took one of the parties home and charged them for it, the I wouldn't be taking advantage if I'd have been working that day anyway?

Surely you 'took advantage' if you took people home who would otherwise have went by bus or tube?

As I said, we all take advantage, it's just a question of degree, but while the mincab drivers charging hundreds were way OTT, surely even saint GBC (O:) ) was taking advantage, even if only a teensy-weensy little bit?

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Oh yes, everyone in London just carried on regardless of the ' 3 underground incidents and a bus'.

So why was central London deserted in the late evening if all the buses and trains were operating by late afternoon and your night colleagues were doing jack?

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On holiday from this thread maybe

But you'll be glad to hear that I'm taking a permanent holiday from this thread, because never the twain shall meet

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The point I was trying to get across, was that if all the buses and train stations had been allowed to remain open, as they were at the height of the IRA atrocoties, people (The Majority) would have continued their lives as per the norm.

You forget most of us down here has been there seen it and got the proverbial T-Shirt.

As for Saint GBC, good point.

Not according to this Journalist.

5th para down.





22 January 1998


SLT calls for support for London's minicabs bill


Diana Lamplugh, Director, The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, the national charity for personal safety, will be at the House of Commons tomorrow to call for full parliamentary support for Sir George Young's Private Members Bill, proposing legislation for minicabs in London. The bill, which will mean that all the capital's minicabs be licensed through the Public Carriage Office, gets its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday 23 January.

A conference organised by the Trust at Stringfellows last week found that while 51% of Londoner's have no idea that minicabs are not regulated (Which? Magazine, September 1997), more than one rape a week occurred in a London minicabs in 1997 (Met. Police).

"We're calling on MPs and peers to consider their mothers, sisters, friends and daughters when they vote for this bill," says Diana Lamplugh OBE. "Last week's conference showed that we cannot risk any more assaults or rapes by unlicensed minicab drivers," explains Mrs Lamplugh. "Black cab and minicab representatives were unanimous in their support of legislation, understanding that the detail of the regulations could be agreed at a later stage."

The Trust has been campaigning for regulation of minicabs in the capital for ten years, knowing there are real dangers for everyone, particularly the most vulnerable - retired, elderly and disabled people, young children, teenagers and women travelling on their own, as well as tourists and visitors to London.

But that's 1998, innit?

And it's the third paragraph, not the fifth - there's only four anyway

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