I'd like to see that waiting list......51 plates 51 on a waiting list?

But members of Newcastle Hackney Carriage Association say the current limit of 51 taxis is needed in order to protect their livelihoods.

There are currently 51 people on the borough council's waiting list for Hackney carriage licences.

So would I, but thats what it says

Its ages since we had a ruck gus, and I'm kinda warmed by our seemingly mutual feeling of agreeing to disagree (been there done that - I aint gonna change your mind, you aint gonna change mine.....but I'll but you a drink if I ever get to aberdeen)

so thanks for pointing out the obvious.....I'll again say 51 peeps on a waiting list, whem there's 51 cabs is a quite remarkable figure......and I'm guessing the reason both your good self, and the honourable chap from brighton aint making too many waves about our usual arguments....is the extraordinary co-incidence?

Would you bet against the 51 applicants mostly being the current jockeys on the 51 existing licences?

Any way we can find out?

pmsl...ask for a survey?

ffs mate, you can't be that desperate for me to drive 200 miles to but you a f8cking pint

I don't even drink

The LO is the monkey. You should have gone to the organ grinder, instead of swallowing a load of pish about non existent European legislation.
Now tell the truth. The driver standards were non-existent because it suited the plate holders to have a big pool of cheap mugs. When the lid came off, you were all royally screwed.



Do you think every [edited by admin] who doesn't agree with you is Sussex? Maybe Skull is right about you.

I've no real desire to fall out with you Gus, but c'mon it may be ok up there but down here it's saturated to the hilt by drivers who won't play the game.

And how did it get that way? It didn't happen in an afternoon now, did it?

It got that way because a PH Baron (who has eyes on flooding us with NX8's) has someone in his pocket, let me tell you this,


One of my enquiries was about how drivers were getting badges the week they arrived

Answer

They are taking their test online in their own country

Why isn't there still a rule of the one year UK licence and one year resident in the UK before consideration for licencing?

Answer

It's not down to us, the EU law states etc,

So what you basically have is a fleet of uncheckable CRB drivers taking a test in a room hundreds of miles away without any idea whose answering the questions, and the CRB from another country is about as much use as bucket of water in a firestorm, all nicely tucked up in a deal with the Baron that basically means #500pw before they see a penny,

Here's another snip, there are about 4 Barons, all PH, one whose Asian (yes I will name and shame) got done for human trafficking did time for it yet still has well over 100 PH licences, how does that work,

Our effective LO who moved abroad and then returned a few years later was replaced by a woman you simply can't talk to, she either avoids you or laughs at you as she returns fire to a question, that's if she isn't over the local bar having an extended lunch, I was in there at 4pm the other day and they were snowed under as there were only two in that day, two who are very old friends of mine btw, she announces she's popping out, well if looks could kill the minute she was out of the room, and this is what you are up against now, complete clowns in high position, our whole council is riddled with them, we have at least three who should be in jail now but thanks to a good PR machine with the local rag and nights out round the local chief constables house ensure it all gets brushed away without charge, the leader of the council was investigated some years before he arrived here and found fundamentally dishonest but still got away with it due to a leaky case, since it's been here it's awarded itself a 100k pay rise taking his annual wage to 150k pa, they are a joke tbh but the way it is now they have surrounded themselves with friends and become untouchable.

Our effective LO who moved abroad and then returned a few years later