But that was before Brighton and the Sunday Times expose'.
The evidence is there!
We've seen dozens of emails, implementing top TfL directors and management in conspiring against the the Taxi trade, and complicity in covering up Uber contraventions.
TfL knew about Uber sex assaults, fake medical, fake DBS searches, they said and did nothing.
Rank and file Taxi drivers are now bemused by the silence from our main representative orgs and Unions, who continue to sit in their hands. Only one is out there punching it's weight, fighting our corner and the others are turning their noses up.
We've had churchillian speeches about "I won't stand shoulder to shoulder with a PH org" but we've still seen a meteoric rise in the membership of the new GMB Taxi branch, as drivers get fed up with laying what they believe is money for no representation.
What's happened over the weekend is massive and we've seen it spread through the national media, with This Times, regarding, the Telegraph, Evening Standard and the Sun as well as BBC news.
Compliance officers are harassing Taxi drivers on ranks over Taxi news paper. Even though the add van has been out distributing copies to driver, their own marshals don't appear to have a copy with the Uber Rapist Gets 12 Years headline. Sort of, "we'll supply the bullets but it's for you to fire the gun".
If our orgs don't join together, pick up the baton and run with it, we are in danger of this scandal being swept under the carpet by a corrupt, conspiring, collaborating licensing authority.
It's been said many time that our biggest battles are amongst our own trade with orgs refusing to support each other, simply because they want all the kudos for themselves. (All or nothing)
If Uber are eventually given a full 5 year licence, the blame will not lay with the Mayor or TfL, but with the orgs who sit out the final battles.