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To enlarge on my previous answer, these are on the same lines as my thinking. I would enforce personal responsibility much more strongly instead of the current removals of that. As well as your two suggestions which I think can both be implemented rather than just be alternatives, there are...

No, and that is why I am so despairing for the future of this country. The obvious answers to our problems lay in the past and by not implementing them when they could have worked, we've allowed the situation to get beyond any easy correction. What can one say of a people who are not employed...

Nonsense. We were already bankrupt and our industries collapsing long before joining the EU, that is why the IMF took over the running of our economy through the 1970s. I know all this because I was out at work from 1950 and watched it all happening at first hand as we failed to compete in the...

The problem with cycling is historical, in that we've always allowed children of any age to cycle on the roads. Since they mostly cannot be held legally liable, they cannot be licenced or insured. ,

Perhaps not all, not for a very long time anyway. Yesterday as I drove out of my usual Sainsburys car park in a privileged area I was following another regular customer there. Myself driving in silence and comfort in my shiny black Nissan Leaf electric car, he and his wife in silence and...

It wouldn't actually cost anything since e-vehicles currently dont have to pay the Vehicle Excise Duty, even though liable to register for it. So each year I have to apply to renew it on my electric car, but it costs nothing. .

You must be too young to not know the truth at the time, that we were bankrupt and joining the Common Market saved us, bringing the necessary gradual upturn. If so you may be around to get very upset when we rejoin, probably by the back door with EEC membership. That is why we left the door...

No, it is payment for historic offences from 2011 to 2017 and the government does want this cleared up. .

Which would be fine if we lived in a post consumerist green world where all countries were similarly affected and all accepting that is the new reality. But of course there is no acceptance of that anywhere and the world is as unequal as ever. We are still living in a competitive world...

Many homes, including mine, are very costly to heat, so energy cost now dominates a large proportion of household budgets. The cost of my sole fuel of electricity use to be 9.3% of total income but from April will be at least 20.6%. Add a similar proportional increase in supermarket cost...

That's 17%. The public could have swallowed a 17 % increase in fuel costs, not the over 130%** they've suffered. And individual food costs have increased far more than 17%, hidden by burying that in the overall inflation figure of 10.1% that mostly consists of irrelevancies. Duck and dive...

Tell that to all the suffering individuals paying the huge increase in costs. Tell it to all the nations suffering without the Russo-Ukrainian food supplies. That is the other side of Russia's falling revenues, severe hardship on our side. The preceding paragraph is the answer, it's the...

It's everything to do with propaganda, what they want you to believe, hence the updating ceasing. It was assumed both sides would be static due to winter, but Russia isn't playing ball and with the reinforcements have the upper hand now. Agreed, but this current ground war isn't about air...

Not to mention the American geriatric who thinks he's a tough guy. It isn't our war and as ever we should stay out of it. From the beginning the West should have let Russia try to take Ukraine and suffer the consequences that brings. Remember Chechnya, a tiny nation of just over 1% of...

That is actually quite apt . In "Alice in Wonderland", Humpty Dumpty was Red Rook, which is of course an attacking piece which only attacks in obvious straight lines. Very Starmer like. .

Yes. A normal brief press shows the state of charge. A sustained press of over 10 seconds displays the capacity. BMZ are a long established German battery manufacturer. They used to make all the batteries for BionX. A Kalkhoff battery innards below: I don't know if the Bosch batteries...

Your battery, made by BMZ for Kalkhoff, already has a capacity meter built into the charge state button circuit. After fully charging the battery, hold the button down for more than ten seconds for it to show the capacity on the five LED indicator. .

In a January 2020 interview, Starmer described himself as a socialist. Link In an interview with Francis Elliott in December 2021, Starmer refused to characterise himself as a socialist as he sought to move Labour closer to the political centre. So he is whatever he says he is at any one...

Which since that is temperature dependent will only happen at a certain ambient temperature, perhaps only one day in a year. So it is all a bit silly really. The most sensible thing said on this subject came from the European Parliament who, after debating it, suggested to the EU Commission...

They don't and won't test this. It only depends on what the specification of the pedelec or kit motor was rated at by the manufacturer and whether it has been modified beyond the original specification. That's why new e-bikes should have plating. though kit bikes don't have to: "As part of...