A Federal Future

Hoping for federalism across the UK with more co-operation and less point scoring.

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@KristineGlidde1 @AbeNormal93 @KhanSaba1278 Why does the Merchants name not feature on the slip?

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@JohnMcnab58552 @TotalAlchemy @afneil I’d rather pay £9k a year to get into the course I wanted than be capped out. I’d rather have more than 6 hours a week face to face teaching time. Scotlands HE sector was once thriving, it’s skint now.

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@GMB Travelodge have a 24/7 phone number. Arriving late at night in Jan I called it repeatedly to ensure they could check me in. There was no answer. I was stuck outside the hotel, up a deserted London side street, until the night security guard eventually let me in.

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@Hollz2012 @DerekMasson We rocked up at 11:20 as the reminders said 12 and are now hanging around until 1. Why not send out decent comms? Lots of pissed off people already 🤣

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@OVOHydro @TicketmasterUK today’s Glasgow event Cirque/Wicked event. Reminders from ticketmaster and yourself 12:00. Not doors open at 12. It’s freezing and families/pensioners are stuck outside. Why not say doors open at 12, and cite the correct start time🤷‍♀️

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@AllisonPearson Layered with Cointreau it transforms to the Jaffa cake cocktail.

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@SimonCalder I’ve got a forecast too. Beware black cabs at Heathrow, they are taking the mickey with student travellers returning home. £140 charged from LHR to Watford, meter switched off, no mention of a metered fare - for a 50 min journey. Should have been half that amount.

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport Thank you for replying. It’s over to @TfL complaint team now.

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@TfL @HeathrowAirport @CabvisionTaxi My daughter was charged £140 for a 15 miles journey terminal 3 to Watford. No badge number but can the driver be traced from this?

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport Where can a passenger see the rates in the price guide and who sets them? The tariffs online, in no combination, tally to that exorbitant fare. 50mins (along a very convoluted route, which had a closed road) does not add up to anywhere near £150.

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@dobbies I received your Black Friday mailing today on the 14th of December. @RoyalMail my mail would have made Santa blush today, you have stored it at your depot for weeks. I received 3 weeks worth in one day.

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport Thank you. I have caught up with my daughter today. The driver was outside the cab, with a laminated binder he flicks through. Says the price is £150 but you can travel for £140. No meter on or mentioned AT ALL. That binder sounds like a Pirates map. He robbed her blind. 🏴‍☠️

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport This complaint will be interesting in many levels if you are saying the regulators guidance is not a useful reference. Does Cabvision get a % of the transaction value? So in effect you would benefit from this overinflated price?

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport It says in your guidance if the journey starts and ends in Greater London. Heathrow and Watford are Greater London. Your guidance says the meter should be on?

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport First section- set the taxi meter. There was no meter on, no explanation of a meter. Be interesting to see where this complaint goes. I am 100% behind black cabs, and I understand their regulated framework. My anger and disappointment is that this didn’t happen.

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport Agree, however the trip was 50 mins. She gets in, driver says it’s £150 to Watford, but I’ll do it for £140. No reference to a metered fare. No steward at the rank. His was the only cab there. My daughter is autistic, arrives at T3 after a long flight and this driver was at it.

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@PaulDDDaughters @BeingBoycie @foster_pau13712 @TfL @SadiqKhan @TheLTDA @UnitedCabbies @The_LCDC Even better for our complaint then, it should be watertight.

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@PaulDDDaughters @BeingBoycie @foster_pau13712 @TfL @SadiqKhan @TheLTDA @UnitedCabbies @The_LCDC The black cab is supposed to be regulated. She was ripped off, plain and simple. Driver was at it and a complaint has been submitted to TfL. The fact black cabs are regulated gave her a false sense of security.

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@CabvisionTaxi @TfL @HeathrowAirport I understand that, but she was in the cab for max 50mins, daytime. I’ve modelled it - that is £90-£100 absolute tops. Blatant exploitation, by a chancer at an international terminal. Doesn’t help that she’s autistic so she wouldn’t have challenged him. I have complained to tfl.

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@PaulDDDaughters @BeingBoycie @foster_pau13712 @TfL @SadiqKhan @TheLTDA @UnitedCabbies @The_LCDC This was what my daughter was charged today, black cab Heathrow to Watford. She would 100% have been better in an uber.