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Also, causing gridlock and disrupting the commute is not the best way to make friends and influence people. Unless you have a really clear moral outrage, people will get pretty upset at you as well as those you have a problem with. (If it were otherwise the transit unions would have a much easier time of things.)

"illegal to install taximeters" isn't going to resonate with the public, I think. It's hardly the abuse and exploitation by an monstrous and inhuman Management that kick-started unionization in the first place, anyway.



What would probably resonate is the 'no tax paid in the UK' argument - that's something that everyone can understand as a negative.


Oh god, you have reminded me of a 'No tax paid' by Google/Amazon/Starbucks scandal last year. [1]

Yes, definitely, the Tax card is enormously effective in UK.

I wish the legacy businesses would rather change themselves, seeing how ineffective they are, instead of spending resources on fighting innovation.

[1] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20560359


"This taxi driver could be a criminal and/or scam you in the fare" might resonate with people.

It might also tap into latent racism about immigrants driving around with the same level of licencing.


Uber drivers still have to be licensed minicab drivers in London, there's just a difference between that and metered black cabs.


I never said the entranced threatened industry would tell the truth. :P




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