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True. I didn't say condoned the racing. Just that the fairest way to deal with a horse with a broken leg is to put it to sleep rather than let it suffer.

...to sleep with a lullaby and a bolt gun.

You obviously don't understand why they have to put the horse down do you?

I'm not a huge fan of horse racing but I don't detest it and I even won the work sweepstake yesterday. It isn't nice when you hear that some of the horses are destroyed after the race but it's the most humane thing to do as its hard to immobilise a horse to let the broken leg heal. The horse could catch pneumonia and die a longer and more painful death. Would you rather that happened?

Also this is not just a problem with race horses. It happens to working horses too, so I suppose you should check your facts before going off on one. Your understanding of the situation is limited and your analogy is poor.

Christ - The word destroy and humane in the same sentance

How is it sport to run a animal into the ground until it needs to be put down for the sake of gamblers and bookmakers to make vast profits out of people who cannot afford to bet

Still better than modern farming.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Jockey+Farm,+Nellington+Rd,+Rusthall,+Tunbridge+Wells,+Kent+TN4+8SH,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&t=h&hnear=Jockey+Farm,+Nellington+Rd,+Rusthall,+Tunbridge+Wells,+Kent+TN4+8SH,+United+Kingdom&z=16

I disagree.

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Jockeys in the wild.

Escaped jockeys.

Release a scented jockey into a field and let the hunt chase him down and beat him to death with an oar. All the toffs win.

One in 10 rich 'pay under 20% basic tax rate'

Fcuking parasitic cnuts.

I'm astonished

Both at how small the first number is, and how large the last one is.

Minicab firm Addison Lee calls to break London bus lane ban

Apparently Addison Lee drivers are being told to drive in bus lanes, a policy that many drives have seemed to have preemptively taken up a while a go.

They're pretty meaningless numbers, to be honest.

Define "rich" for a start.

"The Treasury says almost one in 10 people earning more than £10 million a year pay less than 20% in income tax."
I suppose the article is actually surprisingly positive:-
"Overall, more than 73% of those earning more than £250,000 paid tax at a rate above 40%, including 81% of those earning £5-10 million and 72% of those earning £10 million-plus."

Minicab firm Addison Lee calls to break London bus lane ban

Apparently Addison Lee drivers are being told to drive in bus lanes, a policy that many drives have seemed to have preemptively taken up a while a go.

just heard this.

fuuuuuuck

I think they've got a point, if you allow minicabs in bus lanes, then why not Addison Lee (regardless of what we think of them as drivers).

If minicabs were working directly for TfL (so were effectively mini buses), and the drivers got a salary, then the special status would be justified, but I don't see how it is in this case, it is an unfair advantage (the same as the fact black cabs can be hailed, others can't).

Unless I've missed some important fact about why black cabs have a special status, to me it makes sense it should be both or neither.

black cabs are allowed because that's how professionals get about

Surely the solution to this is to ban black cabs from bus lanes.

They'll be so enraged that they'll ram the Addy Lee cabs in revenge, and the roads will (after the temporary cab/people carrier apocalypse) be a much safer place?

^this.

They're more likely to ban buses from bus lanes. In these times of austerity, prioritising transport for plebs cannot be justified.

Nah, buses get replaced more frequently, and burn a hell of a lot more fuel- much more tax money from them.

Cab drivers frequently run 30 year old shit-boxes running on bio-diesel, and this is just a wild guess, but maybe, just maybe, they don't declare (and pay tax on) all their cash fares.

I think they've got a point, if you allow minicabs in bus lanes, then why not Addison Lee (regardless of what we think of them as drivers).

If minicabs were working directly for TfL (so were effectively mini buses), and the drivers got a salary, then the special status would be justified, but I don't see how it is in this case, it is an unfair advantage (the same as the fact black cabs can be hailed, others can't).

Unless I've missed some important fact about why black cabs have a special status, to me it makes sense it should be both or neither.

its a lot harder to be come a black cab driver, you gots to do the knowledge innit.guess

So people will still use them because they offer a better service.

I'd rather use a driver who knows the route, rather than needing to follow a GPS

Black cabs are taxi, they're trained to take you through the quickest and shortest way, also can be flagged down from the street (also have disable access, very important).

Minicab cannot be flagged down, and have to give a fixed price before the journey, which render the whole point of needing the bus lane redundant.

I hope they haul them out of the bus lane if they are found in it.

Ed's a frequent contributor to that blog in his other guise as voice of the cabbie.