On Friday Morning, GLA UKIP Councillor David Kurten put out a statement saying that after last weeks tough questioning of Sadiq Khan, he has magically rediscovered the missing £24m he cut from the Taxi delicensing scheme and made it available to London's Black Taxi Drivers.....
Taxi Trade pundits started taking bets on how long it would take a certain General Secretary that's been totally overshadowed these last few months, to claim the kudos...and it appears, we didn't have to wait long.
In an email to his members, the General Secretary of the LTDA said:
I met the Mayor along with colleagues from Unite.
‘As a direct result of this meeting’, the Mayor has announced this morning, that he has reinstated the missing funds and that the trade now has access to the original £42 million. Not one word about the wonderful performance from Councillor Kurten at City Hall last week.
In spite of a mess up by the Met police who failed to advise organisers that school children were protesting about 'Climate Change', Friday's "Where Buses Go, Taxis Go" protest in Parliament Square was heavily attended by rank and file drivers from every org. They were joined by senior officials and committee members from the ITA, UCG, RMT and the LCDC.
Again, MPs and members from the House Of Lords came out and spoke with drivers, almost all in support of the action.
After the protest, the London Cab Drivers Club’s Chairman, Grant Davis accused the LTDA Gen Sec, Steve McNamara of being ‘out of touch’ with the conditions his members face daily. He issued a challenge for him to give up his £90,000 per annum pay check for just one month and try to get by renting and driving a Taxi for a month.
See Grants controversial periscope video here :-
After the protest ended on Friday, the General Secretary of the United Cabbies Group Trevor Merrals made a fantastic speech which you can view here :-
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT:
In his speech to London Taxi Radio in the Square on Friday afternoon, Trevor said :-
Our trade is at its lowest ebb ever, they are trying to destroy us by stealth and we ain’t having it !!!
The trade knows it’s got to wake up
The trade knows it’s got to fight
Do you want to fight like men and women, or go meekly to you’re demise???
They said, if you don’t like what we are doing then take us to court
This week the trade put its hand in its pocket and went to court.
We didn’t go looking for this fight but this is a fight we are going to have.
The days of a disunited London Taxi Trade are over.
We are sending a message to our opponents, you’ve had a good run on our expense but we’ve turned up to the party...a bit late, but we are here now.
The laughing stops and we are deadly serious.
Other news this week:
The sales of new electric taxis don’t seem to be going to plan as LEVC lay off another 40 workers just two weeks after the news they were laying off 20% (70) of their workforce. On Friday morning, GLA Cllr David Kurten announced that after his tough questioning of Sadiq Khan over the missing £24m from the Diesel Taxi delicensing budget, the Mayor magically rediscovered the money
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