Tackling the big issues Rob?

[DRiddle]

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/council-chiefs-clamp-down-on-taxi-driver-dress-code-as-new-stricter-taxi-licensing-rules-to-come-in-to-force-1-9396216

Rob Cook tackling the big issues in one of the most socially deprived boroughs in Europe.

[Land Phil]

Yes, this Hartlepool, taking nana to the Mecca in her slippers isn't the same as taking James Bond to the Casino Royale.

I am not the biggest  user of Taxis but I have always found drivers either polite or quiet and appropriately dressed. Some councillors could learn a thing or two.

[Inspector Knacker]

If their was a dress code for Councillors, doubtless some would advocate an appropriate allowance for it? Mind you, top hats and tails, silver topped canes and evening gowns and fox stoles don't come cheap.
We have a lot of pressing problems in this town, mostly self inflicted. Taxi driver dress codes are well down the list of priorities. Try concentrating on the important things, er, on second thoughts, don't bother, leave it till a responsible adult can be found.

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

I hear they also don't open doors and bow.

[fred c]

Small minded councillors who consider being a jobsworth is a civic duty.....

[Inspector Knacker]

I hear they also don't open doors and bow.

plus being ever so humble to their 'betters' and compulsory touching their forelock and cap wringing.

[mk1]

plus being ever so humble to their 'betters' and compulsory touching their forelock and cap wringing.

Who can forget the SCABs complaint that an underling did not  hold open the door for 'andsome' Stephen's 'grand entrance' to the Borough Hall

[fred c]

plus being ever so humble to their 'betters' and compulsory touching their forelock and cap wringing.

Who can forget the SCABs complaint that an underling did not  hold open the door for 'andsome' Stephen's 'grand entrance' to the Borough Hall

I had forgotten about that little show of petty spite......they are so far up their own a***'s they are in danger of turning inside out.

[Inspector Knacker]

As my mother would say, "beggars on horseback".

[kevplumb]

they admitted they can't enforce it on BBC tees this morning so, to put it bluntly, it's a paper exercise worth jack

[Bluenose]

cant enforce  it but again its style over substance .  Cant say when have arrived late from work  and got off one of the multitude of trains which serve the town  i  don't care what taxi driver is wearing .  More concerned if i will survive the pot holed journey home . But I suppose its a question of priority.

[DRiddle]

Mark my words, this will have developed from probably ONE councillor who got into a taxi and was grossly offended by a cabby wearing tracksuit Bottoms or 'worse' still shorts.

In the meetings when agenda items are discussed on various matters, what you find is only maybe one or two councillors contribute meaningfully to the contents of the report. Others though, are desperate to say something, ANYTHING, to justify their existence and appear to be contributing.

What will have happened here is the report will have focused on general safety, roadworthiness, MOT checks, back ground checks, designated pick up/drop off zones etc.

Some muppet from the Labour side will then have remembered the time they got a taxi and the driver was wearing a t-shirt and shorts and was 'exposing a knee cap'. They'll have voiced this and the officers, too embarrassed or scared to say what they really think, will add it to the report after on vote to do so in which labour support the ridiculous point one of their own has made.

That's how it works. Talk to anyone within the council or who follows these things and they'll back me up. Marjorie James in particular has a list of things she's said as long as your arm that were ridiculous, but we're given serious consideration and time by people who didn't dare say 'that's utter nonsense' Marjorie . . .

[Inspector Knacker]

Can't we just give them a large lapel badge that states, DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!!

[jawsbbc]

Mark my words, this will have developed from probably ONE councillor who got into a taxi and was grossly offended by a cabby wearing tracksuit Bottoms or 'worse' still shorts.

In the meetings when agenda items are discussed on various matters, what you find is only maybe one or two councillors contribute meaningfully to the contents of the report. Others though, are desperate to say something, ANYTHING, to justify their existence and appear to be contributing.

What will have happened here is the report will have focused on general safety, roadworthiness, MOT checks, back ground checks, designated pick up/drop off zones etc.

Some muppet from the Labour side will then have remembered the time they got a taxi and the driver was wearing a t-shirt and shorts and was 'exposing a knee cap'. They'll have voiced this and the officers, too embarrassed or scared to say what they really think, will add it to the report after on vote to do so in which labour support the ridiculous point one of their own has made.

That's how it works. Talk to anyone within the council or who follows these things and they'll back me up. Marjorie James in particular has a list of things she's said as long as your arm that were ridiculous, but we're given serious consideration and time by people who didn't dare say 'that's utter nonsense' Marjorie . . .

and why do you think that is david ?? because james, cranney, sab and cab  all p**s in the same pot,  as did rmw before he jumped ship