Taxis - Black Cabs, Uber, Illegal Cabbies

He was a rape apologist who enjoyed stalking women online and issuing death threats.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/gig-economy-uber-lyft-insecurity-crisis

https://www.cityam.com/uber-wins-bid-to-regain-london-operating-license/

no doubt cabbie twitter will take it in their stride...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54974425

Where's my tiny tiny violin?

would explain why they're all on twitter 24/7 doing nothing but bitching about LTNs and making racist remarks about Sadiq Khan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55048847

LTDA in exagerated marketing campaign shocker? Colour me surprised!

It also seems to have missed the bit where the cabbie explains that the card machine is "broken"

Cycling Mikey catches a black cabbie Whatsapping at the wheel. Black cabbie tries to make a citizen's arrest, accuses Mikey of being a paedophile:

https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1361991474045403136

His “not a racist” Twitter profile is something.

impressive combination of racism, antivaxx and cycling hate goin on in there. Seems like a right prick. Sometimes good things happen on twitter, but people like this exist with a following and it makes me sad

Claiming pedophile somewhat remind me of QAnon conspiracy theories.

That's a libel suit in the making. This cabbie better have access to Elon Musk's lawyers and the US justice system's interpretation of protected "free speech".

There seems to be a few cabbies in that thread who are attacking Mikey.
They also insult anyone who stands up for low traffic neighbourhoods. If one gets caught out with dodgy logic the rest pile in with nasty comments. Ive been on the receiving end a year ago but just stopped commenting on the thread. Seems to be their way? You also see the hate Sadiq Khan, Will Norman or Simon Munk get when they tweet?
There is one great knowledgable black cabbie called Guido Acasa on Twitter, worth a follow.
In other news Jeremy Vine started following me yesterday 👍

UK Supreme Court says Uber drivers are employees

Yes, this sounds good (unless there's some bedevilling legal detail in it somewhere that I wouldn't understand):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/19/uber-drivers-workers-uk-supreme-court-rules-rights

Now to apply this to Amazon and other rubbish companies.

UK Supreme Court says Uber drivers are employees

Workers, not employees, I think.

(There's a distinction between the legal status of the two, but I'm not sure what it is.)

Just read that, found this;

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It's interesting how things change. 13 years ago when I signed up here, as a courier, no one gave a hoot about our working conditions, though they were exactly the same as the ones now being legislated on. The most we got was people dressing up like us and cosplay isn't really an act of class consciousness. Though it's true we weren't helped by almost every book or article written by couriers about couriers being so upbeat and depoliticised and reinforcing stereotypes about 'freedom' and other such bollocks and most couriers being disorganised and willing to trade a laissez-fair attitude towards income tax in return for having no rights.

I did try for about two years to get the LCC to develop a courier membership model that would give them access to third-party insurance while working, but it ran into so many barriers that I gave up. Evidently, you have to be a union and take out legal action.

25 years ago Courier Companies also had a laissez-fair attitude to ID and would pay in cash or cash able cheque, the Nat West in Shoreditch didn’t ask for ID when cashing them.
Driving Licences didn’t have photos.
Some couriers had worked for the same company under multiple names, some literally didn’t exist in the legal world a lot were on student visas, a few were signing on.

“Dibble, I took enough drugs this weekend to floor a horse” was an acceptable excuse to take Monday off.(I worked in the Control room for a while, digging the Push bikes out of bed on busy Mondays was part of my job.The Monday after Glastonbury we would be below half strength).

If you had these “benefits “ you didn’t mind missing out on holiday pay. And on a motorbike for West 1 I could make £600 a week before expenses (and of course tax).

You can’t be half in half out of the mainstream and you shouldn’t be forced to be by a company so when the “benefits” are taken away it just becomes an exploitative job without holiday pay or a minimum wage.

I was a courier from 1992 to 2010 and a Controller for some of that time, I know what it was like.

Wow! I always wonder what were the labour 90s like in this country. I hear that someone of my profession could buy a house in islington!

Don't you have a cargo bike video to update or something? You're wasted on here.

amey's videos are timeless, they don't need 'updating'.