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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.


Like the kind uber are now losing their license over for refusing to perform? Yeah, pretty much.
No, I'd suggest harsh enforcement on the level of individual drivers. Heavy fines for letting someone else use your credentials and heavy fines for using someone else's credentials. At a company level there'd be heavy fines for not making sure drivers have credentials in the first place.

That way if someone gets a charge levelled against them they can't use the excuse "well someone else was using my license" because they'll get heavy fines for admitting that in the first place.

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beast_gts wrote:
"At a stroke of a pen, what the mayor has done is risked 40,000 jobs and of course... damaged the lives of those 3.5 million Uber users." - Prime Minister Theresa May

Uber ruling puts jobs at risk, says Theresa May


So weird when free market advocates forget how the market works. Suspending uber stops uber from offering taxi rides. It doesn't stop the demand for taxi services. Supply from companies that meet regs will step in to fill the gap.

There's disruption in the short term, of course, which is why something like shouldn't be a first option, but this is at the end of a long process for London. The alternative at this point would be to simply not enforce regs on companies that refuse to comply.

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 sebster wrote:
beast_gts wrote:
"At a stroke of a pen, what the mayor has done is risked 40,000 jobs and of course... damaged the lives of those 3.5 million Uber users." - Prime Minister Theresa May

Uber ruling puts jobs at risk, says Theresa May


So weird when free market advocates forget how the market works.


All too often they take free market to mean "as long as it suits us".
   
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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.

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