[Lucysgirl]

I'm from the era when taxi drivers wore a uniform livery and taxi cabs were easily identified by both the style of vehicle and a permanently affixed Official Taxi Licence Plate, unlike the vehicles I sometimes follow which have the Licence Plate rattling on the rear of the cars fastened with a few bits of wire.

Currently Graham Jones is debating on the Deregulation Bill in the House of Commons, which seeks to ease the rules of who can and can't drive a taxi cab and who can and who can't License them.

He's doing a sterling job of opposing the proposal. Another MP objecting to the deregulation pointed out the number of rapes in a year. It wasn't clear whether this was by taxi cab or hire car drivers or persons posing as the former. If official drivers had to fork out money for a recognised uniform livery it could be that the number of attacks would decrease.