Uber ban
#16
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 3,520
Re: Uber ban
Leaving the EU doesn't preclude the UK from forming its own protectionist policies. If I remember correctly, Labour's argument against the Common Market back in the day was that it would risk introducing greater free market policies to the UK at the expense of economic regulation and workers' rights they had fought so hard for. Jeremy Corbyn, as we all know, is a closet Brexiter.
Anyway, we live in a time of shocking hypocrisies in views. Sit back and enjoy it.
Anyway, we live in a time of shocking hypocrisies in views. Sit back and enjoy it.
#17
I still dont believe it..
Joined: Oct 2013
Location: 12 degrees north
Posts: 2,775
Re: Uber ban
Blimey - those bremoaners really want to pollute the entire forum with their dour stuff, get back to the brexit thread... NB the eu is a highly protectionist blok, most in the world according to many.
#18
Re: Uber ban
Suggest you sign this petition - supporting uber in london - impressive - half a million signatures , nobody except the black cab drivers and their friends think the black cab is a worthwhile institution.
https://www.change.org/p/save-your-u...ntent=ex5%3Av4
https://www.change.org/p/save-your-u...ntent=ex5%3Av4
#20
Re: Uber ban
Not only that, but support a business that (i) gives easy, almost no-questions-asked employment opportunities to recently arrived immigrants, (ii) takes work away from what are mainly hard-working British family men, and (iii) increases the UK's reputation as a deregulated low wage zero-hours gig economy.
#21
Re: Uber ban
I'm really neutral on brexit. Frankly I'll benefit either way. I just find it ironic that people want a free market on one hand and not on another.
#22
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Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine
Posts: 13,112
Re: Uber ban
Can't believe nobody's mentioned yet the screaming hypocrisy: on the one hand "everyone's" up in arms about the govt's "disgraceful" behaviour about allowing dangerous living conditions (Grenfell Tower), and now they're also up in arms about the result of due diligence of Uber which has found that it's not fit for purpose but they still want it to continue.
****ing people who think they know better than professionals.
****ing people who think they know better than professionals.
#23
Re: Uber ban
Got no sympathy for black cab drivers. Expensive, and hard to find in many parts of London, unwilling to go to many parts of London.
Uber sidestepped all these issues. Surely with some kind of better registration of drivers it could be better.
Got no problem with people working for themselves. No one has issues with gardeners doing people's gardens in London so why drivers.
Uber sidestepped all these issues. Surely with some kind of better registration of drivers it could be better.
Got no problem with people working for themselves. No one has issues with gardeners doing people's gardens in London so why drivers.
#24
Re: Uber ban
Not only that, but support a business that (i) gives easy, almost no-questions-asked employment opportunities to recently arrived immigrants, (ii) takes work away from what are mainly hard-working British family men, and (iii) increases the UK's reputation as a deregulated low wage zero-hours gig economy.
#25
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Location: Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine
Posts: 13,112
Re: Uber ban
Got no sympathy for black cab drivers. Expensive, and hard to find in many parts of London, unwilling to go to many parts of London.
Uber sidestepped all these issues. Surely with some kind of better registration of drivers it could be better.
Got no problem with people working for themselves. No one has issues with gardeners doing people's gardens in London so why drivers.
Uber sidestepped all these issues. Surely with some kind of better registration of drivers it could be better.
Got no problem with people working for themselves. No one has issues with gardeners doing people's gardens in London so why drivers.
#27
Re: Uber ban
Got no sympathy for black cab drivers. Expensive, and hard to find in many parts of London, unwilling to go to many parts of London.
Uber sidestepped all these issues. Surely with some kind of better registration of drivers it could be better.
Got no problem with people working for themselves. No one has issues with gardeners doing people's gardens in London so why drivers.
Uber sidestepped all these issues. Surely with some kind of better registration of drivers it could be better.
Got no problem with people working for themselves. No one has issues with gardeners doing people's gardens in London so why drivers.
You could make your arguments about dentists... who needs a trained and expensive dentist, just phone someone up and they can have a go, after all they've got the internet?
Your comment about registration is key - the Mayor isn't out to destroy the uber concept, he's just saying that the safeguarding aspects aren't fit for purpose.
#28
Re: Uber ban
There have been to many instances of crime, 32 cases of rape and sexual assault would require someone to sit up and take notice!!
Uber drivers accused of 32 rapes and sex attacks on London passengers over the past year | The Independent
Also as someone said if a black cab driver refuses to take you to your destination report him, which you can do as his licence details are plastered all over the cab!
Finally the point about being professional is correct,I would much prefer getting in a black cab than one that the smells make me think I am back in Dubai!
Uber drivers accused of 32 rapes and sex attacks on London passengers over the past year | The Independent
Also as someone said if a black cab driver refuses to take you to your destination report him, which you can do as his licence details are plastered all over the cab!
Finally the point about being professional is correct,I would much prefer getting in a black cab than one that the smells make me think I am back in Dubai!
#29
Re: Uber ban
Can't believe nobody's mentioned yet the screaming hypocrisy: on the one hand "everyone's" up in arms about the govt's "disgraceful" behaviour about allowing dangerous living conditions (Grenfell Tower), and now they're also up in arms about the result of due diligence of Uber which has found that it's not fit for purpose but they still want it to continue.
****ing people who think they know better than professionals.
****ing people who think they know better than professionals.
Group hug in a taxi anyone?
#30
Forum Regular
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 198
Re: Uber ban
This thread is all over the shop with people's own petty mindedness shoe-horned in. Going back to the Brexit one.