General Discussion
Yes Mrs C, get back in the kitchen where you belong and get my tea and I don't want tongue pie.
Yes, you only need to stand outside The Lansdowne on Friday nights to see how well we all get on.
You got it dead right OLD FART. Dawlush, because it is !
Well Smella , perhaps your name gives the game away. I have lived here for almost three years and have found the people here very warm and welcoming. Drivers are more polite and shopkeepers are helpful. Go to the pub and integrate, you'll soon find friends.
Strikes me Lynn is more interested in making sure that Broolyn Bridge is historically correct in his memories, than what he has to say, which I endorse. I too had to walk two miles to school and received coporal punishment on numerous occasions, Did it do me any harm? Well I'm still a 'orrible ba****d.
Here you are FredBassett. Section 71 of the Best Practise Guide, issued by the Government for local authorities when licensing taxis , states the following.....Language proficiency.... Authorities may also like to consider whether an applicant would have any problems in communicating with customers because of language diifficulties.
In Bristol, before you can have a licence to drive a hackney carriage, you must have held a full UK driving licence for a year and in addition, like London drivers must pass " A Knowledge", It could well be that the same should apply here.
I believe that the original issue of this thread, has now been forgotten and the debate has turned into a slanging match between people regarding racism and immigration. I'll just say this. "When in Rome." Also, " This small island were we live cannot keep the doors open as they are, it is unsustainable."
Mrs C, why shouldn't the lady say she is a better choice, as she is from here, her local knowledge is invaluable as a taxidriver. I'd rather be driven by someone who knows where they are going.
I have read with interest all the comments on the rights and wrongs of this lady displaying a flag with local driver written on it. I myself drove a taxi in Bristol for twenty years before retiring here and what is common to here and Bristol, is not the rights and wrongs of what the lady has done, but the actions of the jobworths and Councillors , who are unable to see the bigger picture and ...
