Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

http://news.sky.com/story/lily-allen...river-10635590

I don't like to say this, but this is a long time coming. There is a bitter war between Black Cabs, Mini Cab and Uber drivers. And it wont end here.

We have seen through the problems in the London area, where Black Cabs are concerned that some Mini Cabs and Uber may NOT be properly assessed properly.

And yes, the Black Cabs Association have come out to say that this was Inappropriate. But this will continue. As some stars wont say what happens to them. They just want to go from A - B at the cheapest rate possible.

In fact a 'war 'was happening at Heathrow where Black Cabs have to pay a rate to go onto the Cab rank where Mini Cabs don't

Behaviour which was said, is not very nice. But it won't be the last it is said:(

Re: The bitter war with Cabbies
 

What has this got to do with any "war" between black/mini/uber cabs ?

Clearly some driver simply decided to get back at her for the comments she made the other week.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

This is not a war???

This is just a driver that was being a bit of an asshat.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

That black cab driver should lose his licence.

NOT because she is Lily Allen, but because she was a female with 2 kids.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

So it would have been fine if she had 1 kid, or none, or was male ?

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Actions have consequences, now Miss Allen (Mrs?) knows that there are people who also make statements.

Maybe she'll take a moment of quiet reflection...

Nah, she won't she'll be a 'victim'

I'd buy the taxi driver a pint personally, and spare me the PC platitudes, not interested.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

I'd buy him a pint too. What gives her the right to apologise on my or anyone else's behalf?

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Yep I'd buy the guy a drink as well this prissey little girl apologising on behalf of the UK was completely ridiculous.

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Me too. Yet another rich and morally superior star who rather likes supporting causes which won't directly affect them or their equally rich mates.

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:clap:

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I dare say there'll be Allen supporters (and others) calling for the guy to lose his job for daring to offend. No doubt they'll have a lot more sympathy for the plight of the 'children' in Calais than the taxi driver's...

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

What about the offence she caused to citizens of this country without their permission? Who does she think she is????

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

I can't see anything in her comments deserving of being refused a taxi.

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She made a statement, the taxi driver made another, don't make it sound like it was the only taxi in the World, at worst she was mildly inconvenienced.

Maybe the taxi driver like many others is sick to the back teeth of luvvies warbling about how they're ashamed of our country, apologizing for it and bleating endlessly about the 'poor refugees' and how we should all adopt a family.

Maybe I'll change my viewpoint when I see the nice shiny new refugee shelters the likes of Bono, Geldof & Allen build.

Until then, I'll consider them twunts.

Oh & I don't care if you feel I'm being 'nasty' I have my big boy pants on.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

:clap::clap:

Yep this is still a country of free speech.

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She made it sound as if all the immigrants had rocked at up Calais because of you and me and we personally treated them badly ,i don't know about you but i never asked any immigrants to come here .She's a pratt and needs to keep her gob shut



Yes it is Maggie and the taxi driver used it

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

And I am sure the cab driver would have been equally supported by CF members if he had said to Nigel Farage ''Find an right-winger to drive you, you stupid prat.'"

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

Nigel Farage hasn't taken it upon himself to apologize on behalf of the entire nation for some perceived injustice though has he.

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Correct.

I dare say Farage receives a whole lot more serious threats and abuse in a week than Lily Allen has in her entire life. He's long been considered by many as fair game for far far worse treatment than happened in this case. A taxi driver turned her away - big deal.

Allen's entitled to her opinion but she doesn't speak for me and I'm just as entitled to mine.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

Has Nigel Farage taken it upon himself to apologise on behalf of the country ?
I guess I must have missed that, do you have a link ?

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Surely the point is that if you start thinking it's acceptable to behave like that to someone with whom you disagree or for comments with which you disagree then it's going to happen in other cases as well.

I think the whole thing is disproportionate to be honest. She said something which I felt was pretty silly but it's of little consequence. She isn't a politician, she doesn't have power and she isn't really that influential. I find the subsequent level of venom directed at her bemusing as a result. People are far too quick to anger.

A better comparison would be if this was acceptable had it happened to Katie Hopkins whose said far more inflammatory things? If a liberal taxi driver had refused her and any children with her service because she describe migrants as cockroaches?

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I think it was fine,the taxi driver couldn't compete say by responding on Twitter as he'd have been jumped on by so many lefty luvvies it wouldn't have been funny, so he brought the issue to a level where his will was effective.

I don't agree with the bs 'it's acceptable to behave like that' either, he didn't turn off her life support machine, he declined her custom so actually it cost him money so if you think about it, his convictions had substance which is a damn sight more than the mealy mouthed platitudes coming from the luvvies do.
Talk is cheap, actions count.
Btw I've still yet to see Bono-bob's- Allen refugee centre open ,make sure you tell me when it does, perhaps then I'll be less hard on these merchants of bs.

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Technically it's something he isn't allowed to do. The TFL licence doesn't allow them to refuse a fare unless the passenger is violent/drunk/disorderly or the passenger is asking them to go beyond a certain distance (i.e out of London). I am not sure if Allen got the licence plate.

Why do we need to be hard on people? Just shrug it off.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

there's no chance of them spending their own money or donating living space .

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And whether some like it or not lets hope we can all still have a opinion even if some are offended by it as free speech should be treasured as there are still many countries out there where free speech is still a distant dream sadly.

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What she did in apologising on behalf of the UK was demonstrate her own stupidity but if your gonna go around doing that you have to accept your going to annoy people and make them hostile towards you. Lot of people talking about freedom of speech but what about the driver's right to choose who he does or doesn't want to provide a service to does one right cancel out another?.

Given the glaring abuse of the UK's hospitality shown by the last lot of child refugees we let in and the fact that we have zero obligation to take a single one of them her comments were even more stupid and if i were a driver of a taxi i wouldn't accept her as a fare either.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

The driver should have squashed that gay cake in her face killing 2 birds with one stone :).

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The driver doesn't have a right to do it. It's part of the TFL conditions of getting a licence. We don't have a right to refuse service in many circumstances either, see the previous thread about the cake shop.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

Your perception of the national mood is different to mine.

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Wouldn't be the first time I've read it wrong ;) Although thankfully somethings are immune from the national mood. I.E TFL Taxi Driver regulations.

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but if she's on the black list she better get a bus pass ;)

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Whilst I'm certain she'd be happy to jump on a bus full of migrants/refugees, I'm not sure she'd feel comfortable travelling with the rest of us ordinary folk she's clearly so ashamed of... :rolleyes:

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So TFL have decided that taxi drivers have to give the service unless they are drunk or violent but that doesn't make it right and it shouldn't remove the right of a service provider to provide that service to whom they choose. She's a stupid jumped up little girl and needs to understand that she can't go around saying ridiculous stuff like she did with no consequences. Yes we have freedom of speech but that freedom doesn't mean you get a free pass for what you say and that freedom extends to those who disagree with what you say. He showed his dislike for what she said in a completely non violent way in the best way he could express his dislike for her and knowing his refusal wouldn't prevent her getting another taxi. All things considered his way was a lot better then the way a lot would choose in this day and age she needs to grow up and get over herself.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

i feel absolved of all guilt since she apologised on my behalf for that which i had no part in ;)

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

Well they don't currently. I think allowing people to refuse service based on their political beliefs is a slippery slope. I don't like it. This cab driver probably equally uses many services from other people whose political opinions differ from his.

And Katie Hopkins has said horrible stuff about migrants and been defended on here. Why is 'apologizing on behalf of the country' so much worse?

Freedom of speech is different from the TFL regulations imposed on black cab drivers.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

I wouldn't bet on that!

Because we've nothing to apologise for; and when and if we do, we won't ask a little girl to get her nails done and cry like a baby about it to some bemused kid in a tent.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

So what? I am at a lost at people's ability to take offense on this. Someone with no power says something silly. Big deal. When I saw the story I felt it was a bit arrogant for her to apologise and promptly got over it.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

The difference being that her apology for 'our wrong doing' was broadcast to millions of people not all of whom will have dismissed it so casually.

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

pretty much sums up all members on cable forum :)

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If a taxi driver refused to take katie hopkins as a fare I'd be ok with that as well given her unpleasant stance on a few issue's, if tfl paid for the taxi the guy is driving then they have a right to impose whatever conditions they want. If as i suspect the case is this guy owns the taxi and pay's tfl for a licence to operate then i think it's right he has the final say in who he drives unless his objection was based on racial grounds. It's a bigger deal because her stupidity got air time because of who she is and if she at least had the remotest clue what she was on about that would be something, though of course if she had a clue she'd never have apologised on my behalf or anyone elses.

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I lmao when I read this story and I'd also buy him a pint.
As has already been said here, he's probably had enough of luvvies mouthing off on our behalf, she was mildly inconvinienced and he lost money to make his point :shrug:

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

Look mate, one man's "mild inconvenience" could easily be one "luvvy's" traumatic incident...
Imagine having to hail another cab FGS, she must have been terrified that she'd have to resort to mingling with all the plebs on public transport. Can you imagine that??!!

:D

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

What like this chap?

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mar...standing-rock/

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

"Btw I've still yet to see Bono-bob's- Allen refugee centre open ,make sure you tell me when it does, perhaps then I'll be less hard on these merchants of bs."


we were discussing Bono/ Geldof /lilly allen ie ["luvies" ] in this country that dont spend their own money .

Re: Lily Allen told to 'find an immigrant' to give her a ride by cab driver
 

Yes talking about Mericans helping out their indigenous isn't really the same.

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Yes, the usual suspects who talk the talk but invariably don't walk the walk. The likes of Bono who preach about poverty, hunger and homelessness but are multi-millionaires who own luxury properties all around the globe. The sort of people whose idea of charity for the needy is to boost their own PR by attending lavish fundraisers asking the public to donate their money to good causes. The sort of people whose lives and children won't be at all affected by the decisions they're demanding our govt. makes on our behalf. The sort of people who talk about compassion but spend most of their lives just acquiring more wealth and land to exclude us from whilst preaching to the rest of us about how generous we should be.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sir...-1111118041648

Well it was 2008 so maybe he wasn't rich enough then eh and let's face it luxury hotels are one of life's necessities aren't they? Or maybe it was just like Sir Terry who was so busy doing good works for everyone that he apparently didn't realise he was getting paid by the BBC for hosting 'Children in Need'. Well it's tough work being a saint isn't it...

In his typical sanctimonious style, Geldof proclaimed to us all that he was so upset at the plight of refugees, he'd happily house several families. Remind us how many he and all his uber rich mates have put up again? :rolleyes:

It's up to these people to decide how/where they spend their money and even how much tax they try to avoid but please don't go around telling the rest of us we're not doing enough for the world's needy.