HAHAHAHA. I bet this will affect pricks like Kiko and SvN who are hipster twats.
HAHAHAHA. I bet this will affect pricks like Kiko and SvN who are hipster twats.
1) what is poober?
2) what is hipster?
Sadiq Khan is one of the most sinister, corrupt motherfuckers going, hopefully this will end the urban liberal love affair with him.
Considering Ubers penchant for bribes and general corruption, if it were so, Sadiqs not doing a very good job of profiting off his.
It's not just private companies that can offer bribes.
The irony of Labour supporting London being aghast at a pro-union, anti-innovation, anti-consumer decision like this is marvellous.
What are you basing this on?Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Prior knowledge. He'll never get outed in the current 'anyone prominent & ethnic is wonderful' climate, although Zac Goldsmith had a rubbish attempt at it.
Examples? All the Labour supporters I follow that live there hate Uber. Although a couple of black guys I know are kicking off because traditional cabbies just won't pull over for them.
You need only scan Twitter to see the outrage manifesting itself.
Prior knowledge of what? It seems like you've been saying this for years but do you actually have any evidence of anything or are you just going to keep hinting at 'dodgy brown fella' forever?
Who do you think I am, MI5? I'm going to keep hinting at 'dodgy brown fella' forever.
Who do you think we are? The Metropolitan Police? Just say what your accusation is.
It's not 'Labour supporting London', you need to be more specific. Corbynistas will love it. It's more the monied young who are socially liberal and economically pro-market - i.e. the views which dominate the production and consumption of mainstream media, and the sector that keeps London going - who will hate it.
wasn't he involved in some pretty dodgy voting fraud shit?
Whats the point in this? I'm sure there are more people that like good, cheap taxi services than there are people in black cab unions, so it can't be for popularity.
I'm undecided between massive midjudgement of the mood, and just another manifestation of the 'Who cares - I've got the electorate sewn up' mentality that tends to dominate London politics.
There will certainly never be another Tory mayor again in our lifetimes, so they don't have to worry on that front.
Uber.
Burn it down! burn it down!
We suffered the same fate here as über went on a years hiatus in August according to themselves. It has been pretty handy and I much preferred it to cabs in London too.
Convenience and marginally lower prices, all that matters in life.
Yes, denying consumers a choice is great for long term prosperity.
Giving the fanny classes even a little taste of pinko economics can only serve the country well in the long run.
Ah, poor consumers! What are they going to do now?
The fanny classes, I like that.
Someone needs lessons in capitalism.
GS? Bring it to the table.
It's been a long old road for 'Melvyn Bragg and that'.
It's actually an interesting topic for categorising people based on their reactions to the ban. The pro-ban people seem to encompass Corbynistas, Nigel Farage, and various Blairite types who want to tell you how to live your life. An unholy alliance if ever there was one.
What's capitalism?
INDIVIDUALISM. CONSUMERISM. PURCHASING POWER.
Twaddle.
In any case, I bet nothing will happen. Uber will promise to behave better, the government will be glad they could reach an agreement that benefits everyone, Twitter will celebrate.
Can a brother get some context
edit: I'm guessing they're banning uber?
Uber will allegedly not be allowed to operate in London anymore because Greyball. Cue outrage from all sides.
The less obviously mental people attempting to justify it by saying that the cabbies have to meet various regulations... So get rid of those you idiots. The private hire/taxi thing is stupid. This is what it must have been like in the sixties.
Change.org petition out there to 'REVERSE THE UBER BAN'. Interesting to see people using platforms normally reserved for grassroots activism.
Weirdly, he didn't declare that in the bio of the petition.
Maybe they should. How is letting some companies ignore regulations they don't like ok though? Are we going to extend that courtesy to individuals?
You say 'grassroots activism', but really you mean a shop window for cranks.
Yeah like I said, grassroots activism. Been to a protest?
They aren't ignoring them. They just aren't subject to the same ones as 'traditional' black cabs, which subject themselves to a body of regulations designed to prevent other people from breaking into the market. It's more like having to get hygiene certificates for your own house because chefs see people feeding themselves as a threat to their livelihoods.
And employment laws that they're ignoring.
Traditional cab companies do operate like fucking cartels in most places. As to not being subject to the same rules, that is mostly because they decided so, not the other way around. I don't know the London specifics, but in the US they have gotten away with a lot of shit (main issues being labor related) just because Silicon Valley, mate.
Omg the Vice City taxi missions.
Which ones?
Classifying drivers as self-employed when they're quite clearly Uber employees. Even though they lost the case you still don't get the benefits that you're supposed to.
They were appealing that, so not ignoring anything.
Actually it's considerably cheaper in here because the taxi monopoly (well the license is monopolized) and it was easier to get one in certain places. But even if that's the case your leap of logic in your reply was something else.
Black cabs can fuck off. Uber has made London affordable to travel around in when you need a cab. I do hope the quite excellent TFL reverse their decision sharpish.
TFL should just make their own version.
Gett are running a black cab service for £3 across Waterloo to Islington.
Hop on the back of a Deliveroo bike instead.
Because I never go to London these days, I hadn't realised how massive Deliveroo has become until I visited a couple of regional cities last week. Every third person is one of those fuckers on a bike.
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