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ted1


TF Newbie!
Posts:1
15 Jun 2007 9:52 AM Alert 

 

Sir,
In an article on page 10 of Taxi-Today, June 2007, you present a fact less diatribe debasing the integrity of all hackney and private hire drivers within the three authorities of Mid-Sussex, Adur and Lewes.  The article also maligns the character of staff within the six authorities responsible for licensing and school run allocations, namely, Mid-Sussex, Adur, Lewes, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex County Council and West Sussex County Council.
I have attached a document, and its circulation list, so that you may consider it for publication to redress the GMB – lies basically.  I don’t believe that anyone should be denied a right of reply to such fallacious nonsense and I am hoping that the policies of your publication allows for just such a response.  Of course, possible exceptions to this view may well exist in the form of members of the GMB.
You will find that my document, unlike that produced by the GMB, contains only fact and these facts are referenced to source documentation, unlike the vexatious content of the GMB’s scurrilous allegations.
 
You will find the item you published on the GMB website.  You will find my FACTUAL response, that is, the attachment to this correspondence. [in next post below] 
If you look at the Online forum, you will see that the GMB staff and representatives accredited with the Publicity shot deny all accountability for the content.  Despite being named in the document, both online and in your published copy.
 
I thank you for your time and hope you will allow us to redress the balance with facts rather than malicious lies.
 
Yours sincerely, Ted Johnson.

Tony
Bradford

TF Post Graduate
Posts:672
15 Jun 2007 10:06 AM Alert 

Ted,

below is your attachment you sent me as mentioned in above post. i've removed the circulation list as it as direct line phone numbers etc. but the rest of the attached letter you sent is in its entirety. i will post the GMB piece from page 10 June issue of Taxi-Today.

 

Dear Sir,

            As a licensed hackney carriage driver I feel compelled to draw your attention to the following statement of Terence Flanagan, GMB Professional Driver Branch Secretary, (Contactable on 07958 275339 or GMB Press Office: Rose Conroy, or Steve Pryle  who all three are, seemingly, associated with the GMB). And ask that you make a formal complaint to Terence Flanagan, GMB representative, Rose Conroy and Steve Pryle of the GMB Press Office, for the disingenuous portrayal of the three local authorities of Adur, Mid-Sussex and Lewes their employees and the licensed hackney and private hire drivers within your District.  The statement implies that the staff of East Sussex County Council, West Sussex County Council and the staff of Brighton & Hove City Council who are responsible for allocating school runs are failing to pay due regard to the children’s safety when allocating school runs to taxi companies within Adur, Mid-Sussex and Lewes authorities.

The statement may or may not have the support of the GMB.

The statement that is set out below was taken from GMB Website on Monday 14th of May 2007.  It is alarming for several reasons, its disregard for fact, its attack on the integrity of council staff and the amazing insight into the lack of methodology used by councillors and the former Brighton and Hove leader to reach conclusions that should be aimed at helping their electorate. 

While these points are discussed below it should also be borne in mind that the question of whose interests these people truly represent as depicted within the document duplicated below must be considered.

 

The allegations of Terence Flanagan, GMB Professional Driver Branch Secretary (contactable on 07958 275339), or GMB Press Office: Rose Conroy, or Steve Pryle 07921 289880 are hopefully not the views or current policy determining beliefs of the GMB itself.