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LAST UPDATE | 29 Oct 2019
MPS IN THE House of Commons have voted to hold a general election.
The British public will go the polls on Thursday 12 December.
A late amendment from Labour had sought to change the date to Monday 9 December but that failed by 315 votes to 295.
In the end, MPs voted for an election by 438 votes to 20.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to regain the Conservative majority in the Commons that was lost after an election called by his predecessor Theresa May in 2017.
He had previously said he’d rather be “dead in a ditch” than the UK not leave the EU on 31 October.
Johnson secured a last-ditch deal with the EU that involved compromise on the Northern Irish backstop, but this deal was defeated by MPs in the Commons.
Legislation passed by the opposition with the help of rebel Tories forced Johnson to seek an extension in lieu of a deal passing through parliament.
The EU has formally accepted this request for an extension and the new date set for Brexit is 31 January 2020.
How that will proceed will depend greatly on who’s in government by then and who – if anyone – has a majority.
If Johnson wins a majority, he’ll seek to push through his Brexit deal and should be successful in doing so.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats have repeatedly said they would seek a second public vote on Brexit with the latter party totally opposed to the UK leaving the EU.
If one or both of these parties win power, then Brexit may be cast in doubt altogether.
Reaction
With the election now on the horizon, Johnson told reporters this evening that it’s time for the country to “come together to get Brexit done”.
Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn has called the election a “once-in-a-generation” chance to “transform” the country. He also doesn’t mention Brexit in his statement.
“We will now launch the most ambitious and radical campaign for real change that our country has ever seen,” he said.
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said the election is the “best chance to elect a government to stop Brexit”.
She added: “This country deserves better than Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.”
Also reacting to the news early, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the election would be an opportunity to defend the interests of people, businesses and communities in the North.
He said: “This island’s destiny is being decided at Westminster. Like it or not, the only way to prevent the kind of outcome that would devastate our communities is to show up and vote it down… Bring it on.”
DUP leader Arlene Foster said that it’s right that people “have their say through the ballot box” and added that her party have a “record of speaking up for Northern Ireland in Westminster.
“Unionists need their strongest team returned to so that Northern Ireland’s interests are protected in the next parliament,” she said. “That team is the DUP.”
The December vote will be the first time since Britons have gone to the polls in a general election in that month since 1923, the second such election to not include MPs across most of the island of Ireland following the creation of the Irish Free State.
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Hailo raised it percentage take and lost taxi drivers.
When was that?just curious
Hailo charge 12% commisssion, that’s it. No €79.00 or €99.00 a week with Citycabs/Global/Lynk.
Still has over half the Dublin fleet at 7,000+
Hailo will lose more drivers if they keep uping the aunty with price and rules silly rules !
You can’t up an “Aunty”, well maybe you can. Upping the ante is another thing. lol
They do take credit card but yes you do have to sign up first
They lost me when they stooped the use of their credit card facilities for non bailout jobs/customers it was extremely handy
What is a non bailout job or customer
I think he misspelled it ……..its meant to read non hailo jobs as in you used to be able to take credit card jobs of the street now the customer has to download the app if they want to pay by card…….stupid idea from hailo…
Hailo have added the option to pre book now so that’s not a unique feature for lynk
Hailo had to add that feature because it was the next step …….and to keep up with other apps that have that feature before them ….e.g…cab:app
My husband left a cab company recently. The company sold the controlling share to the guy named above. They thought that they could sell the drivers rent as part of the business package, (Approx’ €5K per year),forgetting that the drivers hire the cab company to supply them with work, and they work for the driver. Not wanting any association withthe new owners, he fired them.
He wondered why, as he calls it “the Weakest Lynk”, chose the exact same colour branding as Hailo? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I suppose.
Lynk taxis. €25 free sign up. €5 per journey if you pay by card but wait there’s a €3 booking fee before you sit in the taxi. It is removed after you use your “free” €25. So, free €10 sign up.
They can’t charge €3 for booking ! €2 is max Hailo don’t charge for booking
They do. I got a taxi that usually costs less than €5 and cost me over €8. Minus the “five” free. When you contact them they say that is taken off when your €25 is up.
I always use the lynk app ( Irish owned company)
To be fair Hailo was set up by 3 guys one Irish
it was set up back 3 London black cab drivers
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