GREED IS GOOD?
Yes, folks the infamous words of Gordon Gecko, it's now time for the cab trade to reflect on those words and how that statement could lead to our demise.
Outside the cab trade, next time you buy a £5.00 T Shirt remember over 1000 people were buried alive in a clothing factory in Bangladesh as prices dictate low standards.
GREED is GOOD?
When you visit the supermarket and there is yet another 3 for 2 on vegetables, remember the people paying the price are pickers on farms that are effectively slaves living in appalling conditions and probably immigrants that depress local wages and the knee table social unrest, if you buy 6 cans of lager for a fiver, your also killing your local pub.
Politicians of all parties over many years failed to regulate the Gordon Gecko's of the city, so guess what... they run up a tab that we all are paying!
It's why Fire Stations and Ticket offices are closing to be sold off or rented out to another famous non UK taxpayer, it's nothing to do with pensions or efficiency and that's why TfL will 'licence' anything that moves.
GREED is GOOD?
In the cab trade we have had 'entrepreneurs' saying we have to offer PH as the customer demands it, nothing to do with them taking a bigger cut of the ride of course, enough is never enough for some?
We have Non UK tax paying Foreign companies invading (for once well done Ian Dale of LBC) and offering what we contend is unlawful 'competition' to the worlds best cab trade. Surge pricing!
GREED is GOOD?
We now have the comedy of TfL (using our money of course) to obtain a High Court ruling on TfL's own regulations, what of course should have been done is that no licence should have been given until everything checks out, after all that's what happens to us.
All of course underpinned by Greed and it's consequences, profit is not a dirty word, that's what feeds our families but it must be fair, reasonable and non exploitative.
So that's greed analysed, we also know now that TfL are not and never will be, up to the task and privilege of licensing the worlds No.1 cab trade.
The TfL board is set up to hold them to account, if you read the minutes of the 'whistle stop' meetings it's clear that is the last thing it does.
The mayor 'flip flops' from own half baked pronouncement to another. His deputy on transport seems to in effect have disappeared from this issue.
So just like my old fairway, TfL and it's board are no longer fit for purpose and after a public enquiry, we need to move to a separate body founded on non political, robust and fair principles that meets with all of the cab trade on an equal footing, no shabby meetings with some and not others, no divide and rule just plain old honesty.
NOW THAT'S WORTH A DEMO A WEEK!
I'm Spartacus
