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Thursday, 16 June 2011

The National Cab Act 2011.

We have received an Email today from our source close to Westminster, “TheMouseInTheHouse” tells us the report from the commons select Committee is almost ready and MUST be published online by July 19 this year. This is obviously when Parliament rises for summer recess. This would follow the same path and time scale of last year’s Equality bill. We would expect this bill to clear Commons before Xmas 2011 and clear Lords before March 2012. The Act can then be ratified around October 2012.

We are told the report recommends the repeal of section 16 of the Transport Act 1985. This in effect will de-limit Hackneys nationwide. The purpose is to remove the burden of bi-annual market research surveys to limit the number of hackneys on the road. “TheMouse” further alleges that a better way to contain numbers is by quality restrictions. To that end it is proposed that all new Hackney and Private hire vehicles being licensed for the first time will be required to pass Euro 5 emission standards.

Further speculation of the report is not needed. “TheMouse” promises us we will have a sneak preview before publication. However if you were toying with the idea of selling, do it on the “Hurry Up”.

Source; http://rainycityripoff.blogspot.com/


http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/vie ... hp?t=16987

Oh and before anyone says it won't happen in Scotland. You're kidding yourself on. You can bet your boots this is all being written in accordance with European Legislation.

Your little world of plate “values” is hanging by a thread once again. I wonder if this is why the council is buying time by appealing to the court of session. I knew there had to be a political imperative to all their dicking around.

I suppose I'll have to do the annual return for the LLP then.

Oh well

Well there you have it, we said it couldn't last, and now it's happening. Court cases being fought up and down the country, European Legislation rewriting national legislation and the state of the economy all contributing to the downfall of vested interests and plate values. What's the bet Scotland is next?

Scotland is included in this there is no escape

A nice wee surprise for Dougie Smith when he comes back from his holiday.

What form do you think his denial will take "New York, New York"

You've got to laugh. All this fighting over plates, and it's the Government that pulls the plug. This country must be truly [edited by admin].

The banks break the economy, and the usual suspects head off to the Cayman Islands as part of their retirement package. Politicians get caught with their hands in the cookie jar and slap themselves on the knuckles. Then the press gets caught hacking anyone with a dick or a pair of tits and sometimes both. Meanwhile, Inspector Frank Smith's mob turns a blind eye because the cops just happen to be in the pocket of News International.

Did I miss something or are taxi drivers not that important in the greater scheme of things?

I wouldn't hold out much hope of the Transport Committee providing much assistance in relation to derestriction, Skull.

When it last met a few years ago to discuss the OFT report the members were so far up the cartel's backside you couldn't see them. In particular, I think the current chairwoman is a union person from Liverpool, so she just dutifully followed the union line back then.

So now she's the chairman I think the imeptus for the investigation was the Liverpool hackney cartel moaning about hundreds of Sefton-plated PH operating under a flag of convenience but actually working in Liverpool.

A bit like a PH firm opening in Fife and plating there to get round the £1,500 licence application fee, but actually doing all their work in Edinburgh. Imagine the reaction of the Edinburgh taxi cartel if hundreds of Fife-plated PH started operating in the city. Of course, that woudn't be allowed under the Scottish rules, but it's OK south of the border.

Anyway, I think the restricted numbers aspect was barely mentioned during the whole thing, so given that and in view of the above I'd be very surprised if anything happens in that regard.

And even if it did, the Committee isn't the government, and certainly has no remit in Scotland, so there would be a lot of other barriers in the way before anything concrete happened.

But that doesn't stop the cartels panicking, and of course cartels are always characterised by paranoia and insecurity.

While under normal circumstances, I wouldn't disagree, but things have changed in the last few years. The country's [edited by admin] for one. And the Tories have a sort of Darwinian approach to the survival of vested interests, especially when it's their ar*e that's on the line.

Anything can happen.

Just had a quick glance through report and I'm not sure if it even mentions restricted numbers, thus much as I expected.

It does.

But really it ONLY mentions it and does not take a firm position on restrictions.

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What does it say about national legislation regarding acts of public authorities?

Thanks - I just looked at the pictures

It says we're all fecked

It's all here:

http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/vie ... hp?t=17181

Unfortunately the link is to an embargoed copy with a red stamp all the way through it, but the Parliament website doesn't seem to have it in pdf format, just web pages:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/commi ... ies/taxis/

Funnily enough the volume 2 part of the report seems to be in pdf, but that looks like the detailed evidence.

'Liverpool taxi cartel hands Transport Committee Chairman Louise Ellman the report they want published (minus restricted numbers)'

http://www.unitetheunion.org/PDF/015-CT ... L%20A4.pdf