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55 - Retired - Former R.O.C /👮‍♂️/🧑‍🚒 /🚕 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

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@GBC_TFP
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5 years
Absolute fucking morons. Period.
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@Alfiebubbles Might have to eat more scotch pies 🥧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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@acabbie Trying to find an image to console you, that it’s not just you 📏
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2 years
@zaktivist @JustStop_Oil Good. Let’s hope she’s got a loving cell mate #ecofreaks
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4 months
11 million. Wtf Who knew small willys were so popular. Apart from my other half.
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4 months
I appear to have gone viral. #micropenis 🤭
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2 years
@zaktivist @JustStop_Oil Mainly because the majority of the public despise you. So it’s one less to worry about. Just think, in 30 yrs you’ll look back and realise you were behaving like 10yr olds having a tantrum. Send my regards to her 👍
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2 years
@theJeremyVine I’ve ridden in and around North & Central Ldn for +33yrs, usually 5 days a week in the 90s / 00s , yet I never had half the dramas over these years that you seem to find in the space of 6 months.
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7 months
Sad to hear that @taximanpaul has passed away. A nice guy and gentleman cabbie. Known to many through Tweetalondoncab days. RIP
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2 years
@PoliticsJOE_UK The white middle classes march again. Is it half term again?
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5 years
Butters …. In their 20’s …. who wear flat caps ‘cause they think they’re Sid James …. you look daft
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3 years
@NHSEastEngland ‘Birthing people’. More woke shit. Women give birth.
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7 years
Congratulations to @acabbie who’s off tonight to receive an award for resuscitating, and saving the life of a guy last year. Well done 👏
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5 years
The media won’t be satisfied until the UK goes into lockdown, because 40 people out of 68 million have a virus.
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2 years
@PaulEmbery Camden. The fruitcake borough since time began.
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3 years
@NHSEastEngland She means Women? Men can’t get pregnant
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@GBC_TFP
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6 years
Drivers still arguing with a fake Camden council twitter acc 😂
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2 months
@kingkapoor72 @ukrealnewss @gmpolice I don’t think some got your sarcasm 😂
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@GBC_TFP
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4 years
Watching the beards go into major twitter meltdown, over some cones being removed from an area where they mainly don’t live. Vicious beards as far as the eyes can see. Lolz x 8 😀
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@GBC_TFP
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4 months
My little humorous tweet from the other day is now on 38 million interactions. 😳 Shame I didn’t have some form of monetized account 😂
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@GBC_TFP
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10 years
Uber say meter, we say meter, Daniels says bung . . I mean, no! http://t.co/q1fMh16EuA
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8 months
Well that my shiny Go Kart of to its new owner in West London. Loved it, but living north of Luton (NOT Luton!) it was probably a tad too far out. Not certain if I’ll be back now, license up for renewal in November, I’ll decide then. Meanwhile, peace.
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4 years
Remembering ...
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1 year
‘Toilet gate’ : If you’re ever out at Heathrow, have a look at the feeder park male toilets. That’s why we get refused entry. That simple.
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5 months
@hwallop Same with driving a cab. Always those with the least that tip the most. And are generally nicer punters.
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3 years
Who knew? Wow.
@yusai00
ヤギの人🐐
3 years
「ラッセル広場近くのホテル」 This was in the Fitzroy hotel near Russell Square. ロンドンのキンプトン・フィッツロイというホテルだそう。 Alex Vásquezさんの各種リンクはこちら
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4 years
Wasn’t that long ago the nasty editor of the Jewish Chronicle was quite literally wishing the end of the London taxi trade through his twitter acc. Funny how things work out ..... 😎
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@GBC_TFP
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3 years
So Lambeth look set to allow taxis through lots of the LTN bus gates. Always said their a great council …. 😎
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@GBC_TFP
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7 years
Boris said we don’t have fires anymore ….. and Londoners stood by and let him close 10 fire stations. 1700 protested out of 7 million 👏
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5 years
The amount of shit people are coming out with about how tbe brigade ‘should’ have tackled a 24 storey fuel coated building is laughable. Not a clue. They watch telly and think you put a wet towel over your head and walk down 24 floors via a single stairwell in 700 degrees 👏 💀
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5 years
Lots of rich white bearded men who work in architecture, live in hackney, all going into twitter meltdown because local people and local councillors have rejected their cycle superhighway in west London 😂 #democracy
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@GBC_TFP
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2 years
You know you’re home when there’s a whole isle dedicated to Irn Bru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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7 years
Why do drivers still insist on communicating with Donna McCarthy? He’s an environmental fruit loop, and as you’ve probably worked out, quite lonely and a few pence short. Just ignore him. His influence is well overstated
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@GBC_TFP
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4 years
‘Royal Albert Hall in favour of Ken High St bike lanes’ (translates into a person in their press office likes them) I’ve been at the Albert burst on many occasions, That person clearly doesn’t grasp the demographic of their punters
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4 years
I love this newly found ‘(insert %) of vehicles are only passing through Hackney’ That tends to happen when your borough sits in between Central London / The City and North and North East London. How else would they get from outer to inner London? Fly?
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@GBC_TFP
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6 years
Maybe it’s just me, but I look at most of the chavs using Uber, and don’t for one minute want them in the back of mine again.
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1 year
@AgentP22 She’ll be another member of the hashtag Be Kind Brigade. You have to love the vicious left and their bile.
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@GBC_TFP
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2 years
@fullback03 Well there was about 2 yrs ago in High Wycombe
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@GBC_TFP
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3 years
@TheLTDA I disagree. They DO need a £65 pcn. Perhaps it will stop them stealing work from the drivers who rank properly on the official rank.
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@PaulEmbery Andrew lives in a nice quiet street in East Sheen, where a 3 bed goes for over a million. That’s his world with the occasional Ocado delivery or a nice bottle of wine at The Plough.
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1 year
New Euston rank
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5 years
If Notre-Dame happened at St Paul’s, it would take LFB appliances an eternity to get there after they closed 50% of the local stations and then, just to help the few that are left, narrowed all the main routes into the area 👏
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4 years
I can now see delivery firms just refusing to service central London. In a way I can’t wait. Lets see the activists arrive at an empty shop or two for their fair trade wine and lentil supply.
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4 years
UK Economy virtuality collapsed, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions out of work, thousands of businesses folding ……… But the airs nice 👏🏼
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3 years
Woman asks Twitter about taking her bike in a taxi. 95% positive replies from cabbies, spoilt with the usual ‘not in my faacking cab, use the faacking bike lanes’ few. #tradementalists
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2 years
Put to bed until after Christmas 🎄
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2 years
@awaleolad My colleagues from Euston Fire Stn will be relieved. But then like most ‘politicians’ you probably haven’t even bothered speaking to them?
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6 years
So that’s Tottenham ct Rd, Oxford st, stoke newingtons new bus lane, tooley st, bank, lev streets, basically the whole of Bloomsbury, all no go areas for licensed taxis very soon. Wonder when we’ll ever fight back
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5 years
Brian Hall. London taxi driver.
@Classicbritcom
🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧
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Remembering the late Actor, Brian Hall (20 November 1937 – 17 September 1997)
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3 years
@acabbie @IsSaddleThereIs @MPSStamfordHill White✅ Beard ✅ Tweets about nothing else apart from cycling ✅ Works in Architecture/software development ✅ Always angry ✅ Full house. Just missing #fbpe and 🚲
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6 years
Ffs. Friutloop spongebob strikes again
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5 years
Woman in a northern town complains about Uber surge charge. She says never again. 6 trade half wits, the usual names, start telling her she should be using the Ldn taxi app and how’s she should hail a black cab etc. Thick as fuck.
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1 year
@AgentP22 Always bearded, always. And lovers of Fish suppers. Every night.
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6 years
Well quick work by RBS. I got my 600 quid back via visa debit clawback within a week from the collapsed alpha insurance. 👏
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6 years
Always amuses me when I see the first tweets about the new no right turn from bath street to city Rd. I tweeted that consultation 30 times, in total a tiny 900 people replied, majority in favour(500 London cycle campaign members) 23000 cabbies 👍👏
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6 years
Cab drivers criticise Uber for their tax avoidance as they base themselves in countries with favourable arrangements, but are quite happy to use amazon, Starbucks etc who pay sfa to the treasury 👏
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3 years
15 yrs ago today, 52 people died during the London attacks. Very little on the news remembering it today, only footballers and covid.
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5 years
Just applied a graphic to my mates cab. Wonder if he’ll notice before he drives about London with it on 😂
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7 years
Its started. Hackney consultation on closing several streets around Shoreditch to all but electric vehicles. You really need to respond or more will follow.
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5 years
When you make the final payment on the cab 🤗 #freehold
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4 years
Unlike many, I’m always glad when media have the Donnachadh McCarthys of the world on. Nothing does more to alienate the man on the street than a fanatic, regardless of the subject at hand.
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3 years
My daughter, the future traffic planner at 16 😳
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3 years
Young professional lad promotes our trade on a YouTube channel, with a brilliantly delivered series of videos. Tfl complain and ask him to stop. Nice to see they prioritise the important stuff.
@TomTaxiDriver
Tom the Taxi Driver
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I took the decision to remove my drive with me and POV videos due to potential licensing action from TfL. It is an oversight on my part, and I respect their communication and bringing this to my attention. This was largely a priv…
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4 years
‼️Tfl are now consulting on their road narrowing / closure streetspace schemes. Now is the time to submit your opinion. You can comment on one or all of them. Takes a few mins to tick a few boxes‼️
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1 year
Cab rd at Waterloo. One way in, and a fuel station for taxis.
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5 years
The more you look through the tax avoiding apps supporters on twitter, you discover that 80% are 1️⃣aged about 192️⃣work in nothing jobs 3️⃣100% clueless as to why tfl have revoked their licence4️⃣seem to think their shallow lives will end because a ph firm may close 👏
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4 years
These are the sort of fruitcakes London has to contend with nowadays. If only there was a park nearby ......
@BrendaPuech
Streets for people
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What can you do in car parking space? Play hopscotch of course. Until an entitled driver comes along and pushes you off at cost to them of 33p for a day's parking. If only you could hire a parking space to play hopscotch.
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9 years
The abusive rickshaw rider at the waterloo roundabout now knows all about lenor bottle contents.
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5 years
October’s going to be busy. Every other cab I’m behind is a TX2 coming off the road that month 💰💰💰
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11 months
Someone’s 18. Where did that go? Where did my healthy bank acc balance go?! 😎
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8 years
Cheers cash only butter at st p 👍
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4 months
4.4 million views. Well I beat Wisey cabbie. 😂
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9 months
Years and years and years of video footage showing drivers holding phones. Years and years and years of knowing the consequences and STILL some cabbies do it. Genuinely thick? It’s the only feasible explanation. Just stop holding your phone and buy a cradle.
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4 years
Pimlico plumbers are inundated with work, probably one of the best known plumbers in London. So 53 beards and 17 looney left momentum types squealing that they won’t use them (in upper case with lots of exclamation marks) will make about zero difference to their profits.
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5 years
400 tragic cancer deaths a day in the uk. We nearly all know a friend or loved one who’s been taken, Yet the government pulls out every stop and commits billions for a flu bug that takes 40 in 3 weeks. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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2 years
‘3 car smash Euston Underpass’ How the fck can they manage a crash there, it moves at about 3mph especially today of all days 😂
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5 years
Drivers who eat at Camley St must surely be immune to most viruses? Can’t they get involved in some sort of vaccine trials?
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1 year
@GuyCharmed @EssexPR A man allows other men into female spaces. That’s nice of you.
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10 months
Wow. Dropped Gatwick, and because I’m electric I’m off on my second roader! 💰💰💰🪴⚡️
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4 years
Reading ucgup, I often wonder how some drivers manage to get dressed in the morning without someone telling them how to do it.
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11 months
My new AL cab advert is proving popular 👍💰
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2 years
I don’t rent, but if I did this would be straight back to the proprietor
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3 years
I see the Tfl funding claim is starting to go down the brexit route with operation fear back in play. Westway collapsing, every bridge shut, bubonic plague etc. I’d suffer that for 2.5 yrs if it meant Khan ends up leaving city hall. Can’t be much worse than it is currently.
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Cabbies discussing earlier about not leaving more than £85 grand in any one bank or building society in case they fold. That’s never been a concern of mine. £85 grand? I’d be off round the world next week! 💰😎
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4 years
Good luck to @SW7_Cab on his first shift driving a cab since 2012 👍👏
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2 years
When you transport visitors who haven’t visited in …. Well, a while!
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6 years
Isn’t it amazing. Road closure / changes Consultations attract about 2000 responses, 70% are from the anti car lobby and cycle lane campaigners from stoke on Trent. Yet 24 hours after this petition for Tottenham ct Rd is launched, we have nearly 6000 responses …. not hard is it?
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5 years
😂
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4 years
Again, Andy Burnham goes up in my estimation by sticking two fingers up at Matt Wancock 👏
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3 years
@LTDAForum Good effort. And it all started with a random tweet from @acabbie 👏
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4 months
@PGSMurray @citypolicychair He’s one of our local councillors in Bedford. Can you ask him when he’s finished dicking about with your central London cause, to get back to answering an email I sent him over a month ago about a local issue?
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1 year
Don’t buy a Nissan. You can’t do roaders.
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5 years
Reasons I can’t vote Labour day two ....
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8 years
If drivers don’t like getts business model, why not delete the thing opposed to going on and on and on about it? 💤
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3 years
That’s them all gone now.
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8 years
I often complain about work levels traffic etc, and then a colleague looses his only son in an rtc. Brings things into perspective 🙁
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