Banned - For Wearing a T-Shirt
A TAXI driver has been banned from the road – for wearing a t-shirt showing the cross of St George.
Steve Buckley, 42, was waiting for a fare at the taxi rank at Blackpool Victoria Hospital when he was slapped with the shock prohibiiton order.
Council taxi bosses said he was decked out in a football strip which cabbies are banned from wearing.
But a furious Mr Buckley – who has been behind the wheel in Blackpool for 22 years – branded the ban a "farce" and insisted he has done nothing wrong.
The father-of-two, of Willowbank Avenue, South Shore, said: "It is a white t-shirt with no collar with the cross of St George on one corner and the word England written on the bottom left.
"It is nothing like a replica football shirt.
"I’m very patriotic and I feel proud to be English. But this council is making me feel ashamed to be English."
In September last year, taxi bosses and council chiefs agreed a dress code for the resort’s taxi drivers.
