Yesterday In Parliament : Doing Our Bit For The Best Taxi Service In The World.... by Andy Scott

I'm not asking for any praise as many of you know, I work with Lee for London Taxi PR. But let me just tell you about my Wednesday routine. I leave Mile End after 11am. 

I normally get to Westminster a bit before noon, depending on the tubes. I'm not a taxi driver so public transport is my route in. 

I have a wander round by the media haunts, to see if I can badger any journos or bump into any MPs. 

I'll wander up to the square for 12.30ish and then see who is there and again any camera crews/journos, try and do the same. 

Then obviously wait until those on the protest start arriving. 

Yesterday given the rain, we decided to see first if we could get into the public gallery in Parliament but given it would be a long wait and having chatted with security we went for the lobby MPs route. We bumped into Guide dogs for the blind once inside and engaged with them telling them about the demo and why we are there every week. 

Four of us filled out lobby forms for our MPs. Whilst waiting we saw other individuals useful to our campaign for engagement as well. 

Joe Johnson MP came out and listened to all 4 of us, not just his respective constituent which he could have done so fair play. 

By this time it's nearing 3.30pm so with job done out we come to tell others. A few pics of the demo for social media then a few tweets and we were on our way to the cafe for a well deserved cuppa and a chat. 

We finish up and Lee kindly drops me back at the Barbican around 5.20 then I'm back indoors in Mile End after 6pm. That's me done and I tell my Linda how it went. 

That's about 7 hours every week I devote to being in the square. Like I say I'm not asking for praise I'm just telling it like it is. What frustrates me is somewhere out there there's what 19,000 or so not giving up a few hours on one day a week to do the same for their profession. 17k on a site also not giving up a few hours in whatever numbers. Why? If I can do that why can't they? 

At least I feel we are doing something and yesterday we took it inside as they won't come out. I urge everyone to do the same.  

   

And those that are there week in week out well done again. 

Those that aren't well shame on you. Give me one good reason why? Cos I can demonstrate where 7 hours of my time goes every Wednesday. 

Sorry for the long rant but I felt it needed to be said. Keep the faith.

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