Gateshead Angel wrote:
Well its quite simple, services cannot be provided by a un-restricted sector because of the "objectives" of the provider.
Thats not all, Saturday night I cancelled a night out because the PH car I'd booked from home had apparently been (even though I was standing at my front door) and I hadn't come out, the next car they had available was 2 hours later.
Don't believe you, bet you were in your powder room frantically applying a last-minute bit of fast-tan
I'm still not sure what all this has to do with de-restricting taxi numbers, perhaps your address is blackballed.
You should tell Frankie to go PH, he'd make as much on Saturday alone as he makes doing a full week on the hacks
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Un-restricted PH cannot meet the demands of the consumer and they are not restricted by numbers, how then can it be argued that by allowing unlimited numbers both the PH and HC unmet demand will be met.
The argument offered for derestriction delivers nothing at all to the consumer, all it does deliver is a drivers right to a plate.
Sadly for selfish people like you, you should be aware that people's basic rights to a minimal level of treatment comes above the rights of others, that's why the likes of slavery and sending children up chimneys was abolished years ago.
But in any case, you've still not said how consumers do not benefit from de-restriction, look at the inflated fares they are paying in Brighton to raise the price of the likes of Scanner's plate by tens of thousands since he bought it.
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If people were more honest about what they wanted then the argument would be more honest, what I mean is don't hide behind an argument that the consumers are suffering and will be better served by a un-restricted market, when the unrestricted side of the trade are letting consumers down in greater numbers than the restricted HC side of the trade.
The case we've been making is for both consumers AND drivers, and the OFT and the Govt made the case for both as well.
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At the end of the day, appart from it getting dark, all these people want to do is get something for nothing, the reason they stay anonymous is in case they ever get what they want and have to face the people they have forced into hardship, or they realise because they work in a derestricted area the hardship their "ideals" cause, they wish to keep their identity secret and very probably agree with those struggling to their faces but come on here and berate them and their opinions
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Well I haven't seen many people care about the 'hardship' of PH drivers and HC jockies caused by those self same people being afforded privileged treatment.
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Never mind though, when these people get another proper job they'll be away, and then the real taxidrivers who have been forced out will return to bring the trade out of the s**t again.
Wot, you don't mean 'wor M***' do you
So you the real taxi driver will return when you get it all your own way, but in the meantime you'll stay in a huff selling the fast tan.
So you're certainly not a real taxi driver, but you're not a real fast-tan man either, just in it until the taxi trade goes your way again and you'll ride back on your white horse as its saviour.
Hope you tell your clients that your just in the fast tan business until something better comes along!!