DAC Credit Union AGM
Well what can I say, yet another blinding turn out on 19 April and I must say that I’m impressed all our members are so trusting with their money to us! So I’ll endeavour to tell you what happened at the Finsbury Leisure Centre for the Dial-a-Cab Credit Union AGM.
   First on the list was the urn for the water that they had forgotten to turn on, so cold tea! Lucky only 18 members turned up! The meeting began late because we had to wait for enough members to turn up to form a quorum, a message was put onto DaC terminals asking any member in the vicinity to help out - which a few people did - and I am grateful to all those who put in the effort to come.
   The meeting started with President Terry Dodd giving his report on how well the Credit Union is doing with our Auditor confirming the strong financial position we are in. The loans and supervisory committee representatives reported that they were satisfied with the smooth 
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running of the Credit Union. Next was the re-election of the President and myself and we were both were returned unopposed. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members for their confidence in us.
   Next was the election of members to the loans and supervisory committees and they were duly elected and again I would like to thank them for their time.
   After the meeting had ended, I was asked about getting new members to join the DACCU. One of the ideas we are kicking about is to run an in-house lottery, our computer system is set up to do this so at the next Board meeting we’ll see if it is viable. 

Before signing off, I’ll ask you all to get just one more member each to join the Credit Union so we can be even more successful in the future. Regular users of the CU know how easy it is to come in and either sort out a loan (roughly 10 minutes start to finish) or a cheque for your savings (2 minutes). Those who come in can’t believe we have only a third of the DaC drivers on board. So in the words of Delia Smith "come on you lot, let’s be having you!" Join one of the most successful Credit Unions in England and support the name of your radio circuit.
   Thank you all for your support and I look forward to meeting some new members in the not-too distant future. Be lucky, but above all, be very careful out there.

John Riley (K38)
Vice-President DACCU.

DACCU: 0207 490 5206
Unit 6, 22/24 Corsham St, round the corner from Brunswick Place…

Views on life, love and the laundry basket from the lady behind a DaC driver…

BACK SEAT DRIVER

Election time!
I saw a survey showing only one in nine wives votes differently from her husband. Surely it
is the wrong way around - only one man in nine voting against his wife! It is a deep mystery to our rulers why millions of people will pay 25p or more to cast a telephone vote for celebrities to be evicted from the jungle, or to tell the Daily Express if it’s YES or NO to Camilla as our next queen, yet only 30% of us will walk 200 yards or so down the road to elect our government - free of charge.
Glen admires Boris Johnson, described as "…that rarity, a natural blond in show business." But we don’t live in Henley. The Yogic Flyers and Monster Raving Loonies have gone quiet this time and the ‘colourful’ (read alcohol-soaked incompetent) MPs like Alan Clark and George Brown are mostly dead. So Glen probably won’t vote. Our MP is a Blair ‘babe’ who has sent him robotic party-line replies to his sharp queries over the years, so why should we bolster her career? Everyone wants to teach Tony Blair a lesson, but most of us think electing the Tories is too high a price to pay. As for Kennedy, I am I admit, really charmed by that adorable baby...
   And I can’t help voting - twice this time as I have a proxy vote for my son who is in India with his girlfriend. I became a UK citizen only after about 25 years in this country and I am always first in the queue at 7:30 am, proud of the suffragettes, proud to be British and delighted to be asked who I want? I can’t explain it, but voting always brings a tear to my eye. I know my MP will end up braying like a hyena with the rest of them in the Commons, jeering and catcalling and shouting like a schoolboy on amphetamines, but somehow they pass humane and progressive laws that make this country the best place to live in the world.

BACK SEAT
DRIVER


Immigration to the UK?
When you advise your passengers on the issues of the day, as I suspect you do, I hope fear of immigration doesn’t get an airing? How would Dial-a-Cab drivers get served at fuel stations or get their taxis washed, without foreigners working for practically nothing? Places with the most immigrants like Vancouver, New York and London, are always the most prosperous - and have the best restaurants!

Call Sign Prize TV…
Once we’ve recovered from staying up all of election night and I’ve collected my winnings from the betting shop, we’ll settle down to work on the Call Sign prize crossword. I MUST have that 42-inch plasma TV, even though the flat is not large enough to house it! This time it’s GOT to be us, so please readers, don’t enter! My greed – sorry, I mean need - is greater than yours. Editor Alan won’t take bribes, so help me out on this one - don’t enter.  Thanks…

Till next time…

Love Poppy x x x

 


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