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by londoncommuter0000
31 Mar 2019, 10:55am
Forum: On the road
Topic: Traffic cop fined £485 after pleading guilty to careless driving after putting cyclist in coma
Replies: 13
Views: 1977

Re: Traffic cop fined £485 after pleading guilty to careless driving after putting cyclist in coma

thelawnet wrote:https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/motorist-who-left-cyclist-coma-16044345


Surprised the cyclist didn't get nicked for assaulting a police officer.
by londoncommuter0000
21 Mar 2019, 8:24am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Anyone else putting off touring decisions due to Br***t?
Replies: 89
Views: 13275

Re: Anyone else putting off touring decisions due to Br***t?

Oh, and to get back on-topic: no, i'm not putting off touring decisions. But then, I have dual nationality anyway, so Brexit won't really affect me. :-)
by londoncommuter0000
21 Mar 2019, 8:24am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'
Replies: 21765
Views: 848434

Re: Anyone else putting off touring decisions due to Br***t?

willem jongman wrote:That I find a sickening post. As a historian I could go on explaining that most of western European urban culture and society owes a lot to immigrants, but that is unlikely to persuade the supporters of brexit. But sick of fellow humans? Instead I treassure the memory of my grandfather being received with great hospitality in 1940 when his merchant ship was roped into the allied war effort and a friendly family in Newcastle became a home for him when his ship was not at sea sailing allied conveys. That is the England I admire, just like I admire Churchill's vision that the UK needed Europe for our joint peaceful future. Also, I will not forget that my town was liberated by Canadian and Polish soldiers who fought man to man street battles to clear out an SS regiment. Yes the Poles that you are apparently sick of, and of whom after the war many stayed behind in the UK because they could not go back to their Poland overrun by communism. I admire them just as much as I admire our British friends. And many made a great contribution to modern British culture and society.
Apart from our historical ties, just contemplate the current impact on your economy: the financial and manufacturing sectors are abandoning the UK ship. The same applies to academics (I know). We need each other ( I know - I am an economic historian: on your own you are doomed).


Well said. Considering my distaste for what I consider to be the over-the-top censorship of even mild 'swearing' on this forum, I do not often 'flag' posts for moderators, but had no choice in this context.

The UK has benefited vastly from immigration. Our public services, our cultural and historical legacy, families up and down the country... Immigrants contribute more to the UK purse than they take out, use the NHS and ancillary services lower than do the 'natives', and contrary to the odious nonsense spouted by the Daily Mail and its like, they commit crime at rates lower than do the so-called 'native Brits' (what does that even mean?).

Brexit makes me ashamed to be British.

But now, this is very off-topic so unless I'm addressed directly, I shall do my best not to add fuel to the fire in this topic.

Oh, and to get back on-topic: no, i'm not putting off touring decisions. But then, I have dual nationality anyway, so Brexit won't really affect me. :-)
by londoncommuter0000
20 Mar 2019, 6:49pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'
Replies: 21765
Views: 848434

Re: Anyone else putting off touring decisions due to Br***t?

ANTONISH wrote:
londoncommuter0000 wrote:
durhambiker wrote:Disproven? How...you mean disagreed with!!.


No, disproven. Or rather - proven to be abject lies. The UK has never 'lost control' either of our borders or of our country. The EU does not and never has 'ruled' Britain, and has never had any desire to do so. The UK does not require the approval of the EU to police our borders, and has never had to seek such approval.


While we maintained nominal control of immigration external to the EU


No, we did not 'maintain nominal control of immigration external to the EU'. We maintained full control.

ANTONISH wrote:
londoncommuter0000 wrote:
durhambiker wrote:we did surrender control of immigration from within the EU.


Obvious nonsense.

Article 45(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union sets out derogations to the principles of free movement of people, which the UK can - and always has been able to - invoke to 'control our borders'.

The fantasy that Britain in some way 'surrendered' control of immigration is just that: a fantasy, spun by racists to whip up anti-immigrant feeling.
by londoncommuter0000
19 Mar 2019, 2:13pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'
Replies: 21765
Views: 848434

Re: Anyone else putting off touring decisions due to Br***t?

durhambiker wrote:
reohn2 wrote:
ANTONISH wrote: .....Not everybody who voted out expected an economic benefit - I think there was an acceptance that some fall in living standards may have to be accepted.....

So what's the upside for the common wo/man?
Please dont say taking back control,that's a fallacy disproven elsewhere on the forum.

Disproven? How...you mean disagreed with!!.


No, disproven. Or rather - proven to be abject lies. The UK has never 'lost control' either of our borders or of our country. The EU does not and never has 'ruled' Britain, and has never had any desire to do so. The UK does not require the approval of the EU to police our borders, and has never had to seek such approval.
by londoncommuter0000
19 Mar 2019, 9:55am
Forum: On the road
Topic: Not all mayhem caused by motorists.
Replies: 20
Views: 3857

Re: Not all mayhem caused by motorists.

Oldjohnw wrote:
londoncommuter0000 wrote:
I am just well aware that when it comes to selfishness, arrogance and psychopathy, we cannot ever hope to hold a candle to the most selfish, brutal, arrogant thug the world has ever seen. The British car driver.


As a British car driver......... :)


Well, it's like that old truism... not all tories are stupid, but all stupid people are tories.
by londoncommuter0000
19 Mar 2019, 8:20am
Forum: On the road
Topic: Not all mayhem caused by motorists.
Replies: 20
Views: 3857

Re: Not all mayhem caused by motorists.

Oldjohnw wrote:
richardfm wrote:
londoncommuter0000 wrote:
It all depends on your definition of 'cyclist'. I'm willing to bet that 10 March was the first time that the assailant had been on a bicycle for years, and it's probably the last (unless he decides to go out and repeat his actions).

At a guess
: a driver who got fined and/or lost his licence after helmet bicycle cam footage was used against him. Plod could start by looking back at the past two years to see anyone within a two-mile radius of the attack, who was recently banned due to this.
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That's an awful lot of guessing with nothing to base it on.


We should probably move on from the idea that per se cyclists never do wrong. Even in the august company on these pages there are some who have lesser levels of kindness and tolerance than others.


Believe me, I have as many prejudices and idiotic thoughts as the next bloke, but one I don't have, is the idea that cyclists 'never do wrong'.

I am just well aware that when it comes to selfishness, arrogance and psychopathy, we cannot ever hope to hold a candle to the most selfish, brutal, arrogant thug the world has ever seen. The British car driver.
by londoncommuter0000
18 Mar 2019, 3:43pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Not all mayhem caused by motorists.
Replies: 20
Views: 3857

Re: Not all mayhem caused by motorists.



It all depends on your definition of 'cyclist'. I'm willing to bet that 10 March was the first time that the assailant had been on a bicycle for years, and it's probably the last (unless he decides to go out and repeat his actions).

At a guess: a driver who got fined and/or lost his licence after helmet bicycle cam footage was used against him. Plod could start by looking back at the past two years to see anyone within a two-mile radius of the attack, who was recently banned due to this.
by londoncommuter0000
18 Mar 2019, 8:15am
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Victim of close pass sends video to police; they reply with threat of prosecution
Replies: 25
Views: 4996

Re: Victim of close pass sends video to police; they reply with threat of prosecution

thirdcrank wrote:Incidentally, I mentioned this in response to a suggestion that increased police powers more generally were all introduced by Tory governments. In the context of pavement cycling IIRC, the power of arrest for any offence - including summary offences such as this - was introduced in 2005.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/15/section/110


There was a tory government in 2005. In fact, we have had tory governments since 1979.
by londoncommuter0000
17 Mar 2019, 10:05am
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Victim of close pass sends video to police; they reply with threat of prosecution
Replies: 25
Views: 4996

Re: Victim of close pass sends video to police; they reply with threat of prosecution

reohn2 wrote:I watched the video and can't see what the cyclist did wrong :?
Have I missed something?


Well, you know that kerfuffle about 'driving while black'..?
by londoncommuter0000
16 Mar 2019, 8:50pm
Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
Topic: Iain's 2019 LeJog
Replies: 56
Views: 16359

Re: Iain's 2019 LeJog

I wish I had the courage to do this.

I keep thinking that my route would end when I was either deliberately pushed off my bike by the passenger of a passing car, or else wiped out by a BMW driver as he checks Facebook whilst overtaking me at 95 mph.
by londoncommuter0000
16 Mar 2019, 6:49pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: How do you look behind with falling off your bike
Replies: 51
Views: 6840

Re: How do you look behind with falling off your bike

ndwgolf wrote:I’ve now been riding ~3 years. 2 1/2 of that on a mountain bike the last 6 months on a road bike. One thing I really struggle with is looking behind and not being able to stay in a straight line.
I bought some TriEye glasses and like those but because I have a prescription in my glasses the TriEye just don’t cut it.
So my question is this. Is there a nack to looking back without potentially falling off your bike?


I personally don't actually look behind. I turn my head to direct my gaze about 90° to one side, and my peripheral vision deals with the rest.

YMMV.
by londoncommuter0000
16 Mar 2019, 1:35pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Windy
Replies: 42
Views: 6657

Re: Windy

Bonefishblues wrote:
londoncommuter0000 wrote:
This weather makes me particularly cross, because I did not do anything to cause this. These extreme weather events are the result of the abject abuse of the planet by those for whom profit is the only aim in life. Capitalists. I would hang the lot of them.

Who would hang the lawyers then? :D


We'd do it ourselves.
by londoncommuter0000
16 Mar 2019, 1:34pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Victim of close pass sends video to police; they reply with threat of prosecution
Replies: 25
Views: 4996

Re: Police tell cyclist they will prosecute him for reporting bad driving to them

Tangled Metal wrote:they're all corrupt at one time or another


The whole romantic notion of 'policing with consent' went out the door with the Miners' Strike, and aside from politicians and senior police officers who want to hoodwink the public into believing that we have even the slightest control over what happens, or that we're not actually ruled by violence, no one actually spouts this nonsense anymore.

At any time, giving power to someone and expecting him or her to exercise that power in a restrained, responsible manner is pretty unrealistic and - I have to say - hopelessly naive. The massive expansion in the powers given to the police by the Tory governments of 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 2010, 2015, 2017 and by the tory governments of 1997, 2001 and 2005 has resulted de facto and often de jure unlimited powers enjoyed by the police, as well as actual impunity before the courts.
by londoncommuter0000
16 Mar 2019, 1:28pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Windy
Replies: 42
Views: 6657

Re: Windy

peetee wrote:
londoncommuter0000 wrote:My wife and I were just sitting chatting, as you do.


Hardly. As far as I am aware I have never met your wife.


Ta boom-tisch!