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Just to ensure your post isn't misunderstood, four wheeled pedelecs are also legal on the roads, cyclepaths and shared use footpaths, only barred on bridleways at present. .

Yes e-trikes can use bridleways legally if they have legal ratings, 250 watts and maximum assist of 15.5 mph. HOWEVER, you need to be aware of the legal position if challenged. The original law permitting bicycles on bridleways is the Countryside Act 1968, but that only permitted bicycles, not...

Indeed, the Labour name is no longer appropriate. In today's world and with our welfare state we are in truth both a socialist and a small "c" conservative country. The Conservative party represent the latter interest and we need a Socialist Party to represent the former. But of course...

He'll have to be another pseudo Tory like Blair to achieve that, so not socialist Labour. .

All true, these are arguments that work for those like you and I who have an interest in the subject. To most of the public they might just have well have been in Chinese. They are influenced more by what they have most recently heard than by experiences and opinions shortly before, as the...

But in truth it isn't at all clear. It takes weeks to organise a GE and polls are notoriously unreliable over time. Given the public's short attention span and once the Tories wheel out their lie machine, things will change very rapidly: We are at a good point on Covid at present so the Tory...

We actually did at the time, very thoroughly and free. Our research showed that the depth of the sea trench across the obvious route was so great that it ruled out any feasability of either a tunnel or a bridge. .

I hope he survives for the following reasons: 1) A replacement will give this government a chance to straighten out enough over the next two years to win again, given the huge electoral imbalance in the UK. That would mean 7 more years of them. 2) Without a clear winner we could be back to...

As the self appointed translator for this thread, I believe Zlatan is saying that BJ isn't going anywhere, So the next PM will be whoever wins the next GE, and given it's primarily the English who will decide that, it could even be BJ again, because they really can be that stupid. .

Of course I had in mind the extreme unlikelyhood of such an event, but included the possibility as an expression of just how much I hate the current Tory government. .

I think the country has the PM they richly deserve. If they really deserved better they wouldn't have voted in Boris Johnson in 2019, Theresa May in 2017 or even this Tory government after their decade of unnecessary austerity. Let Boris Johnson and his appalling government that they've...

That was his dirt cheap bargain one. His Thames Garden Bridge one cost £53 millions without building it ever starting. And there's an inherent loss of at least £200 millions in his daft new routemaster bus scheme. .

Yes it would. Or you could just rig or cover the switch that changes to the throttle mode so you couldn't operate it while riding. But as said, you are making a fuss about nothing. During over a decade a number of our police forces tried out pedelecs for some years. Every single one of those...

As I've explained now in your other thread Steve, there will not be lots of convictions for this. This issue and the sale of e-bikes illegal inthis respect has existed since 1st January 2016, and in those five years there has not been a single conviction in th UK for having an illegal throttle...

I understand your concern Steve, but it is unfounded, there will not be lots of convictions of bikes for having throttles. The police have shown concern on rare occasions for only two things, high powered motors 1000 watts upwards and bikes able to be motor propelled at speeds far in excess of...

At least the Metropolitan Police have had the good sense so far to ignore all the ridiculous fuss so, other than saying they don't intend to investigate historic alleged Covid offences. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see all this blow over and Johnson fighting the next general election. .

Hi Steve. There are numerous throttles in use and the police take no notice since it's too difficult to act as all e-bikes created before 1st January 2016 have grandfather rights to keep their throttles. For the fuller picture see my article on the full details of the law and in particular...

That was back in April 2020, nearly two years ago !!! I posted about it when it first happened. .

You really are naive if you think there is anything new about that. I'm old enough to remember when a party leader's choice of chief whip was a well built thug who didn't hesitate to enforce the party will by all manner of highly illegal means, including violence, humiliation and extremes of...

It's the main qualification. The worst PMs have often been those who interfere and do things themselves rather than let ministers run their departments, Margaret Thatcher for example. A PM is like the captain of a ship, he doesn't take the helm, he doesn't ring commands to the engine room, he...