Bran Dawri wrote:AllSeeingSkink wrote:Surely that just comes down to an enforcement thing? Taxi drivers could do the same thing if there was no enforcement ensuring a license was actually being used by the correct person.
The obvious answer to May: If driving an uber is a job, the employer must follow the same rules as everyone else, so good on the mayor for forcing them to do just that.
Yep, someone really should have been reminding her to say businesses instead of jobs. Bizarre timing, too, jumping in to say that Uber and their model are hunkydory
after they've apologised, acknowledged they need to do better, and promised to work with TFL to achieve that. She is queen of mistiming, though.
EDIT: also well worth pointing out that banning Uber trading in London would have
no effect whatsoever on Uber operting in London. It would only mean you couldn't operate on behalf of Uber if your business is registered to a London adress (ie. if your car is registered to your home and your home is in London). Have an address outside of London and drive in to then work in London? Fine. Buy an incorporated address (for what, £20?)? Fine. So most of the big song and dance about incoveniencing the public is absolute nonsense.