Transport minister Norman Baker (lib dem) has instituted an inquiry....
Into what you might ask...well I'll give you a clue ..it's transport related....
In Liverpool for the LibDem gathering a tired and hungry Mr Baker left conference and went to seek sustenance at Liverpools landmark restaurant atop the highest building in the town...
The Panoramic is the highest restaurant in the UK and you would think relatively easy to spot being 34 stories up in the air, but a tired out Mr Baker could not summon the energy to walk the 1,200 yds to get there and so he hailed a cab...nothing unusual in that eh!
Mr Baker climbed in and stated his destination... and the cabbie set off...half an hour later Mr Baker's hunger pangs were getting the better of him, why had he not reached his destination?
He explained to the cabbie that the restaurant he wanted was on the 34th floor of the highest skyskraper in Liverpool...cabbie nods wisely and drives him to a two story building....
Eventually fed up Mr Baker gets out of the cab and REFUSES to PAY (shock, horror)
He then attempts to hail another cab, which darts up to him and he gets in ...
..but the taxi rank has a waiting system wherein the first in the queue gets the fare...and the cab he is in is not the first in the queue.
That honour should have fallen to the man who has now parked across the front of the cab Mr Baker is in and this man steadfastly refuses to move his cab until Mr Baker decamps from the queue jumper and rides with him...
Mr Baker does so decide and eventually gets to his destination (we presume, how long it took we are not informed)
Now Mr Baker has set up an inquiry to look into the fact that cabbies in Liverpool obviously do not know their arse from their elbow , let alone how to find the tallest building that graces the skyline...
You cannot make stuff like this up can you, we ordinary people put up with stuff like this all the time but Mr Baker well he gets an inquiry...he should have walked the lazy git!
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These guys were waiting for fares!
http://subrosa-blonde.blogspot.com/2010/09/irish-garden-recliners.html
So they were CH and presumably you could also smoke whilst being chauffered to your destination...
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