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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hochhausbrand.. high house fire . .. what can you find to disagree with in that analysis?.. I liked "concrete mind" to describe some politicians.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. Woosh could I rephrase your opening sentence as .. The perception of taking back control.....
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    Grenfell Tower

    ... Think about it a while.. if you start with an assumption that 600 people were murdered, you have a starting estimate and work down. Street CCTV for a number of streets around can would indicate whether more people left the area than arrived . If the police were investigating a single...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... Unless you have a written consitution, and the referendum is to change the wording of it. It may seem quaint to be the only "democracy" , which does not have a written document, detailing the rights, obligations, and aspirations of both the governed and the government, but it is a...
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    Grenfell Tower

    .. what an extraordinary response. To suggest that it is being obsessive to want basic fundamental facts. Here was a building designed to hold 500 to 600 people . A full week later there is not even any ballpark figure on the number of survivors ie people who were in the building and suceeded...
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    ABS braking for e-bikes

    Yep ... My students used to say my jokes were no laughting matter.
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    Longevity of electric bikes in general - A bit sceptical.

    .. hang on that ebike of today is a completely different bike than the one I purchased in 2007\8 Different battery technology, different power motor, different sized wheels .. mine is a folder with 20 inch wheels. The only thing in common is that the company logo and colour scheme is the same.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... Was that NI or the EU you had in mind?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. j.donaldsons argument that the subvention to the NI area went into security matters is actually valid.. Whenever I would visit schools colleges universities in NI over those decades, there was an inevitable security presence in every building. .. usually a portly ex serviceman in uniform...
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    ABS braking for e-bikes

    Dono.. I don't do humour well
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    Longevity of electric bikes in general - A bit sceptical.

    I have a working ebike UrbanMover um20 going on 10 years, mind you did not get much use since last September, as I treated myself to a new one as it's second battery was knackered. For 8 of those years it was used for daily commuting. up to15km round trip. My opinion, for what it's worth is...
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    ABS braking for e-bikes

    .. cannot see how that would help, cyclists are as likely to get a rear end collision from a faster moving vehicle. So automatic speeding up might have value. Cyclists tend to have eyes in their heads looking forward, and not to be traveling fast.. 25 km HR is not fast!, I was assuming that...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Tilson, have you been taking lessons from another poster in deliberately misrepresentation of the role and functions of the EU? The EU cannot and does not act to insert specific industries into specific countries, what it does is regulate the market so that countries cannot gain unfair...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .... You would almost feel sorry for him. He is trying to bat , in a game, where he has no idea what a good score will be. He does not know whether he will be in a job , when parliament next meets, whether he has a leader, or what principles he should be demanding . On one level it's delicious!
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. we can agree on this point also Tommie. I think the English Tory party thought they were dealing with the old unionist party , if they thought at all, with which they would have had an established relationship , the DUP is a different kettle of fish. Any deal that the DUP might accept...
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    Grenfell Tower

    .. the refrigerant gas was probably pentane or butane .. used very commonly now and it would have leaked, ignited , burnt and been the cause of the initial fire. Theres maybe 50 grams of butane . plastics in the fridge then melted, including the polyurethane foam, that would have produced a...
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    Grenfell Tower

    Warm night open window reduce fumes in room , . Look speculation gets one only so far, ..
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    Grenfell Tower

    . The evidence seems overwhelmingly in favour of those in power being complicit in facilitating bad shoddy practices,. Court cases with the official sanction of prison sentences, properly recorded verdicts and the public embarrassment and humiliation which goes with that. Politicians who have...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    . I agree that The timetable will not change unless 1. Either the EU or the UK petition the ECJ to set aside the letter for article 50 or 2. There is a legal injunction in the UK courts forbidding the current executive, which is in a caretaker capacity from making decisions. Remember a...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... No not legal.... It is not the possibility of rejoining it is the possibility of joining. You need to read the other articles surrounding article 50 . All previous arrangements are sundered. The UK would then be a supplicant nation similar to Turkey, ( although it would have I suspect an...