I would appear to me that the advice and guidance in relation to the cunning stunt that can only discredit what is the germ of a good idea is being spurned.
Testing in levels of driving skills is clearly a good idea but it is necessary for a full discussion and debate within the industry first.
I wouldn't mind betting this hasn't been seriously debated among the representative and so called representative organisations within the industry
Should it be a two tier testing system, one for private hire and one for hacks or are we moving towards a completely integrated trade as some have suggested. Should it or they, the tests, incorporate topographical testing, testing in relation to customer care or any other disciplines or should it be separate. Who pays and who tests, how do we ensure the tests are uniform as far as feasible etc
It would be ridiculous to debate for ever and a day, nearly as ridiculous as to put in a lot of work getting signatures on a half baked petition to the PM that won't even raise an eyebrow of the civil servant who throws it in the bin.
That isn't to say that it is a bad idea, its just saying lets work out a few of the details and how a successful campaign can be conducted before we embark on it
As for Steve's comments on Thatcher I never thought I would live to see the day when such crap came out of a Geordie
I can remember miner’s wives from Monkweirmouth ( I’ve probably spelled that wrong so you can have a go at that if your afraid of addressing the real issues) colliery around Labour and trade union meetings in London during the great strike, raising money and collecting food, standing on the street with them and outside football grounds with collection buckets.
A tremendous response from working people who were putting in fivers and tenners. Insults and threats from the city slicker scum you refer to as entrepreneurs (once they had realised it was only four women and a skinny kid doing the collection)
The reason this country is in the state it is today is the shallow city ponces and bankers, thieves and parasites who chisel a living off of the backs of ordinary working people.
In the overall scheme of things the tweedle dee and tweedle dumb parliamentary politics is to some extent an irrelevance, the government is only there to administrate and facilitate on behalf of big business and the City of London while creating the illusion of democracy for the Muppets who think that voting every five years for who is going to push you about is democracy.
The real reason this country is in a mess is the inevitable debt crisis that must come to a head at some point in time. It was sparked by the US sub prime mortgage crisis that spread through the global economy manifesting itself most graphically in this country in the Northern Rock crisis.
There is debt corruption and exploitation infesting our economy and it is of very little relevance if either tweedle dee or tweedle dumb is facilitating the next rip off in return for party donations via a third party.
There will be a serious recession next year that could go on for some time. That will have a detrimental effect on us as it is always the little luxuries that go first like a cab.
If you fail to understand anything in this post it must be because I am an idiot so probably the best thing to do will be to find a spelling mistake and talk about that
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