This one was pretty upset with me! It’s a pity he got off, because if anyone deserves his 6 points, it’s him. Ah well, it doesn’t matter very much to me – all the bad words are mostly just water off a duck’s back for me. It’s a never ending human tale of wrongdoers getting like this when caught out.

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    1. This driver has no place driving a taxi. He either is willfully breaking the law or does not know it . Both reason's are inexcusable as someone who makes their livelihood feom driving .

    2. If I was in that taxi, I would leave the driver in no doubt about what I thought of him, got out and then I'd have reported him to his bosses. It's unacceptable. I do wonder, though, if the passengers were family members and used to his arsery!

    3. More shocking behaviour when being caught.
      Condition in the front cab was shocking (maybe no self respect), I always question myself when I see a cab without their badge displayed in the rear window.

    4. Remember the guy who chased @CyclingMikey down the street begging him not to report it? That’s what this should have been doing rather than his foul-mouthed abuse. I really hope this video went to the Taxi Licensing as well..

    5. Should send this video to the company he's driving for. Fair enough he got away with it because of an error with the Met, but it might still be an eye-opener for his boss, especially his hostile attitude and the state his cab was in?

    6. So, yet again a mistake by the Met has allowed this dangerous driver to escape punishment. Never mind the disgusting state of his cab.. but the way that his stupid passengers defended him when he was putting their lives in danger makes you think is it worth the effort ? …Of course it is ! For the protection of innocent law abiding citizens. Keep it up Mikey !

    7. TFL are too busy trying to work out where all their expensive ULEZ cameras have gone at the minute to put any effort into enforcing against so called Professional Drivers such as this guy but keep at it

    8. It's guys like this who let our side down given we are the best and most regulated licensed taxi driver's in the World. It usually takes (although I did it in sixteen months, yeah, yeah i'm being a bit solipsistic here) several years to pass the green badge "KOL"… "Knowledge Of London", there is also the yellow badge knowledge which is a suburban license only by the way. Nobody fails it they simply give up so only a very small minority get through to the bitter end and he's putting his license at risk which he worked hard for by illegally holding his mobile, very stupid and silly. His language was completely unnecessary, and the front of his very expensive hybrid TXE looked like a rubbish tip. By the way CM a couple of weeks ago I called you Mr Van Burp when I saw you along Holland Park Avenue which you took in the polite and amusing manner it was meant and said.

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