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Nothing odd about this, in all out war all persons and resources have to be directed to the war effort in whatever way they can be used, Butlins no exception. My father, a waiter, had immediately volunteered for the army on the 1939 outbreak of WW2 but was rejected due to a damaged ankle from a...

Mimicking Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region of Russia. .

Government website advice has long been nonsense, as you well well know. The basis for kit bike illegality is that no motorised vehicle is legal if not an accepted type or exempted in law. The laws for EAPCs are entirely for manufactured machines, and it is in those laws, such as the 1983...

But that is never how it works out in practice. We repeated see the genuine suffer in case after case while the scroungers continue as ever. Government never works well, the less a government does, the better, the more it micro manages, the worse things get. As Rachel Reeves is discovering...

The DfT have been ducking and diving for years on the EAPC issues, trying to hide the mistakes they've made a number of times. The advice to HelenJ was clearly wrong, to use an EAPC with a fully acting throttle one must take the bike through SVA ( the single vehicle method of getting type...

Show me where the voters are in favour of cutting disability and other benefits to provide more arms for Ukraine and a bigger stockpile of arms for Europe. Nobody wants that or ever voted for it and it certainly isn't centrist. .

It was always going to happen at some time. Self built bikes and modified e-bikes which had always been illegal and still are, had benefitted from an official "blind eye," so long as they conformed to the basic rules of permitted power rating and assist speed and caused no problems. But now...

Technically they always have been, I've been warning about this for many years. When a motor is added to a bicycle a motor vehicle has been created which has to be type approved by the manufacturer unless qualifying for exemption (h) in the Two and Three wheeled vehicle Type Approval Regulation...

Fully agreed. No different from any other group of people, like the opinion expressing members here. At least the entertainers are mostly good at what they do, unlike the cyclists here who apparently need assistance. Gary Lineker is the best presenter by far in his field. "With 33 million...

The charges the police have preferred clearly indicate that in their view it wasn't a legal EAPC and was therefore automatically a motorcycle. Not unusual these days, a high proportion of e-bikes in use breach the EAPC rules, their riders at risk of a number of potential charges just for using...

They eventually changed to the Bosch motors which were ok, but by then Kalkhoff's damaged reputation here had wrecked their sales in Britain. .

Ministerial permissions add layers of complexity: A rider of a legal EAPC is a cyclist, and the DfT (in the person of Minister Clare Perry) consider SVA type approved EAPCs with throttles to still be EAPCs in Great Britain and therefore bicycles ridden by cyclists. BUT, in law they are then...

Not in the post I replied to and quoted, since it was once again trying to hide the fact that it is the USA who is by far the worst aggressor in today's world and has been ever since WW2. Russia doesn't even begin to rank in that context. .

Conveniently forgetting many other NATO members in Afghanistan and Syria. .

Good, why should we interfere their elections? They wouldn't be able to interfere with ours if we stopped encouraging them to with inadequate protections, due to such as postal voting and electoral colleges.. The reality is that the west is just as bad but with different methods. Remember D...

Equally bad. .

You're in Baz, riding on the A407 Cricklewood Lane: Map Link .

As previously said, reform it under the World name to perform all its other functions, minus the USA which doesn't want to pay anyway. Europe and worldwide allies, essentially the original North Atlantic Treaty Organisation less the USA. Isolated as I've long proposed, they wouldn't dare...

I was only speaking of the UN central chamber and its powers, not the charitable organisations which are often harmed by the centre, such as the USA not paying UNESCO dues for decades, though some paid back now. Trump for example was very anti UNESCO and could well stop that funding again...

I've no idea what prompted Trump to say this, perhaps he is becoming envious of the way Russia might gain economically in Ukraine and China might gain from taking Taiwan, so wants to be one of a triumvirate of thieving bullies. One thing is certain, the USA "acquiring" them would nullify all...