Come To Britain And Travel In Style.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3271045/Pictured-50-000-luxury-stretch-Hummer-used-ferry-asylum-seekers-London-Manchester-village-complained-deluged.html

Why the need to transport seven young African males, at a cost of £3,000, all the way from London to Manchester, in such luxurious transport?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

One would know straight away that wasn't true, because Unicorns enchanted or otherwise, don't really exist.

[EDDIE51]

Just out of interest, do any taxi drivers on here know what the fare would be for taking 7 passengers from London to Manchester?
Or are there any 'stretch limo' operators who would tell us how much a 16 seat limo would cost for the same journey? ( it has 16 seats so a PSV licence is needed to drive it)

[SirOracle]

Somewhere around £2.50 - £3.00 per mile for a taxi, Eddie. No idea of price of a limo.or a minibus.

[EDDIE51]

^^ Your prices seem a bit too cheap
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/taxi-fares
Up to £9 a mile for a London cab ! and you would need 2 for 7 passengers.

[retrocop]

Bonkers
Why. Were Taxi/Private Hire fares cheaper under the Labour government?
:-)

[SirOracle]

Retrocop.....Please don't ask Bouncer these sort of difficult questions. He doesn't seem to know that Taxi fares have nothing to do with Westminster.

[Hypognosis]

Shades of Paul Verhoeven in this story

https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FY6v_nrf9nFQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg

The weight of the Hummer limo, and its 8mpg compared to the weight and mpg of a double-decker bus or a coach would be relevant to the story. I sometimes feel cheated by newspaper articles which skimp on precisely the facts that spring to mind when astronomical costs are bandied about, like this.

Serco must have lost a packet on the trip. Why not furnish them with coach tickets?

Were their thought that they'd abscond if allowed to travel under their own initiative?

Was it that they weren't permitted any cash or means of independent travel choices?

Were they, in any sense, being 'escorted' up north by Serco, a prisoner transport contractor?


@aog

You should be able to select retrocop's later best answer, should you wish.

[Hypognosis]

I messed up the link. Try here.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_4112-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Supreme-1977.html

[Togo]

Todays instalment. It now transpires that when we do finally send an illegal immigrant back home, the chances are that we supply a private luxury jet. Whoever makes these deliberately contentious decisions should be made to reimburse the taxpayer, fired, and if possible prosecuted.