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.
thelawnet wrote:https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/motorist-who-left-cyclist-coma-16044345
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).
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
ANTONISH wrote:londoncommuter0000 wrote:durhambiker wrote:we did surrender control of immigration from within the EU.
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!!.
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.........
Oldjohnw wrote:richardfm wrote:jlondoncommuter0000 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.
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.
Oldjohnw wrote:As ever, it is largely bad people who make life miserable.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/18/london-cyclist-critical-condition-kicked-off-bike-hackney?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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
reohn2 wrote:I watched the video and can't see what the cyclist did wrong
Have I missed something?
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?
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?
Tangled Metal wrote:they're all corrupt at one time or another
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.