Guy Adams (Daily Mail journalist who unveiled the alleged Uber/Osborne story) greeted and thanked by the protesters.
London, 02/05/2017. Today, members of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA), Daily Mail's readers and members of the public protested outside the Evening Standard office in Kensington High Street to mark the first day of George Osborne (Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 2010 to 2016) as the new editor of the famous London's evening free...
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Guy Adams (Daily Mail journalist who unveiled the alleged Uber/Osborne story) greeted and thanked by the protesters.
London, 02/05/2017. Today, members of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA), Daily Mail's readers and members of the public protested outside the Evening Standard office in Kensington High Street to mark the first day of George Osborne (Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 2010 to 2016) as the new editor of the famous London's evening free newspaper. The aim of the protest was to highlight the recent media allegations which showed Osborne allegedly lobbying on behalf of Uber when he was chancellor. <<[…] Steve McNamara, the LTDA's general secretary, also pointed to Osborne's role at BlackRock, "a firm that has invested millions of pounds in Uber - a £50bn company that paid just £400,000 in tax in the UK last year". "This lack of transparency means taxi drivers fear for the Evening Standard's future as the impartial voice of London with George Osborne as editor," McNamara said […]>> (Source - City AM online, 02/05/2017,
http://www.cityam.com/263896/taxi-drivers-protest-outside-evening-standards-offices-over). <<Uber Technologies Inc. is a transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, operating in 570 cities worldwide. It develops, markets and operates the Uber car transportation and food delivery mobile apps. Uber drivers use their own cars, although drivers can rent a car to drive with Uber. […] Uber has been a pioneer in the sharing economy and the changes in industries as a result of the sharing economy have been referred to as "Uberification" or "Uberisation". Uber has also been the subject of protests and legal actions […]>> (Source - Wikipedia.org).
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