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By the way, the taxi vehicle retailer who had the Eureka! moment regarding restricted numbers wouldn't be Donald Pow of Allied Vehicles, perchance?

It's perhaps worth recalling that he made some pretty ropey statements at the Advisory Group meeting towards the end of last year:



Ah, so a restricted market is bad when it suits Allied, but good when it, er, suits Allied

And restricted numbers ties in with the theme of equality, eh?

Perhaps the Allied Vehicles motto goes something like:



Anyway, Mr Pow continued:



Like Blackpool?



'Business' models?

'Excess profits' is a maybe the phrase he's looking for.



But none of them want to work the streets anyway

And is this another version of the derestriction-means-less-cabs-but-we'll-all-go-bankrupt-anyway argument?

Or perhaps he's one of those who thinks HCs don't do pre-booked work?



Eh? So he's advocating distorting the market numbers-wise and then he's saying the free market should lead standards?

And of course if standards were left to the market then Allied wouldn't sell many WAVs anyway. Except for in Sefton and Blackpool, obviously

ESP, innit?

But thanks for repeating it, since it's well worth another read, even though I say so myself

Altering posts does not add to your credibility

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I added a bit to my own post, and I can't see what that's got to do with my credibility.

But perhaps this demonstrates that you're a bit sensitive regarding your comment about the Third Reich and how that affects your credibility. And ditto Toots and her comment about drivers "needing to be protected from themselves"?

You wouldn't....... but you didn't give her the chance to reply.... doing it behind her back was not nice

I don't understand why I should be sensitive making that comparison....... but it does seem to be haunting you.

but at least you owned up

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

The LC are shoving it up your arse

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What about the slavery of the PH Operator?

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Well that was a completely wasted post!!

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NB to self: Please don't try and be a little sarcastic cos some on here clearly don't have a sense of humour and may well take words such as 'drivers need protecting from themselves' as a serious comment

With regards to the drivers not wanting to invest in a £30k WAV so they can pick up from the ranks even tho they may not want to they are clearly not the ones that need protecting from themselves they already realise it's a fruitless exercise and they'll still be tied to ph circuit that they've just tried to escape from and they know that their customers prefer saloons.

When I refer to not giving a feck that is purely from a personal point of view, I don't need to give a feck cos I can always earn a decent living doing something else, not everybody is able to do that and I do care whether drivers are able to earn a decent living, even if it does mean they have to rent a vehicle in much the same way as one may need to rent a shop, which is why I have the stance I have regarding restriction. De-restriction was one of the worse decisions our council made imo and had a bad effect on the ability of drivers to earn a living not long after it happened, top that with a recession and things are now really quite bad for all the drivers and no doubt there are a lot that are taking risks, be that with the long hours they work or putting off maintenance on their vehicles.

With the LC plans to derestrict everywhere and lowering standards for ph and not really giving much by way of enforcement I think it's a bloody marvelous idea

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

What about it?

Don't quite get your point, but if it makes you happy then I'll repeat the post again to make sure the chronology is unimpeachable

Can just imagine you meeting the LC at Coventry, Toots.

On the contrary, since you said nothing to doubt the substance and merely immaturely quoted the whole post just to add a few words then I suspect my points were bang on, irrespective of whether this mysterious vehicle dealer that you cited earlier was or wasn't Mr Pow and/or Allied Vehicles.

But presumably it was all meant to be said in secret anyway or you would have named names

So it's taken you all night to come up with that excuse?

But for anyone not very good at humour and whose offerings may be misconstrued, that's what the smilies are for



Yes, that much is obvious, but - and I don't know how many times this needs repeating - the point originally was about a one-tier system. There was no impediment in terms of different PH/HC barriers to entry.

As per another recent post, I was looking in that old Advisory Group thread for Mr Allied Vehicles' comments and came across that bit where you simply couldn't/wouldn't recognise that some restricted areas could be more or less tightly restricted than others. This kind of reminds me of that