Policy tsarina Rachel 'baby GIF' Whetstone dumps Google for Uber Google’s comms and policy chief Rachel Whetstone is leaving the company, just weeks after a bizarre, GIF-laden blog post – and her former team has had its wings clipped. Whetstone has been at Google for a decade and was its US policy chief for seven years. In a sign that Google needs to look more grown up, Whetstone’s team …
Given Uber's propensity for PR gaffes, such as the recent example where a journalist was tracked in a rather threatening manner, the addition of an upper class twit with a poor grasp of business etiquette and acceptable behaviour sounds like the ideal hire.
No doubt our government will acquiesce to whatever requirements Uber has in order to finish off our native taxi industry now that they have one of their own working for Uber.
"No doubt our government will acquiesce to whatever requirements Uber has in order to finish off our native taxi industry now that they have one of their own working for Uber."
Gonna finish off whatever remnants of "democracy" you have too. But fret not - your political class is getting a good price for it.
remember, kids: Uber is an "app" not a taxi service....so their legal defense goes. the ultimate capitalist exploiter's wet dream: ALL of the operating expense and liability on the ones doing the work, nothing but profit at their end. Since it's an "app" that people "choose" after all.
Though a few centuries (millenia) of prostitutes and pimps have Prior Art on this "disruptive" business model, after all.
the "but we're only an app!" will be the Silicon Valley Pirate's choice of defense for the next decade, I wager. Since "think of the children!" has been snaffled up and locked tight by the polticians.
Mr Cameron was not "elected Prime Minister".
He was leader of a coalition in 2010 that commanded a majority in the House of Commons and was thus asked by the Queen to form a Government and became Prime Minister. He did not resign in 2015, all ministers remained in office until the election was over. As the leader of the party with a majority in the House of Commons after the 2015 election the Queen asked him to form a Government and he continued as Prime Minister.
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